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Aplets & Cotlets? Washington’s Best?

Posted by DFO

Feb. 12, 2009 5:35 p.m. • 17 comments

Washington state legislators have a $6 billion budget shortfall to fix, but it’s nice to know they’re still seeing the Big Picture. Earlier in the legislative session, Rep. Mike Armstrong (R-Wenatchee) introduced a bill (HB 1024) to declare Aplets & Cotlets (manufactured in Cashmere) as the Official State Candy of Washington. The bill quickly became one of the most talked about of the session. Late last month, The Stranger mocked Aplets & Cotlets as “the square dancing of candy” and suggested instead Fran’s smoked salt caramels instead. Plus, The Stranger did some lefty big-city name-dropping that Michelle and Barack Obama say Fran’s caramels are the First Couple’s fave/Kevin Taylor, Inlander. More here.

Question: (for Washingtonians) Do you support naming Aplets & Cotlets as the Washington state candy? (For Idahoans) Which candy would you name as Idaho’s state confectionary?

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.