TNT Diner » Johnson Candy Store Tacoma http://blog.thenewstribune.com/tntdiner Good eats and drinks around Tacoma, Pierce County and South Puget Sound Fri, 17 May 2013 07:00:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Tacoma treasure: Johnson candy for your Easter basket http://blog.thenewstribune.com/tntdiner/2011/04/22/tacoma-treasure-johnson-candy-for-your-easter-basket/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/tntdiner/2011/04/22/tacoma-treasure-johnson-candy-for-your-easter-basket/#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:42:38 +0000 Sue Kidd http://blog.thenewstribune.com/tntdiner/?p=8081

The good news: The Johnson Candy Co. had nougat filled chocolate eggs.
The bad news: They were out of peanut butter bunny smidgens.

Johnson Candy Co was in a full throttle candy frenzy today. Johnson Candy Co, a Tacoma tradition since 1949,  does brisk business during the week leading up to Easter. The nougat-filled chocolate eggs come in more than a dozen flavors, and sweet nibbles of truffles and dozens of other handmade candies and fudge can be bought at the Hilltop neighborhood chocolate shop. They even have sugar free candy.

I bought candy corn in pretty pastels, …

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]]> http://blog.thenewstribune.com/tntdiner/2011/04/22/tacoma-treasure-johnson-candy-for-your-easter-basket/feed/ 2 Last-minute gift giving gets easy with sweet treats. Tacoma’s Johnson Candy Company, Brown & Haley and Great Northwest Popcorn deliver the Christmas goods http://blog.thenewstribune.com/tntdiner/2010/12/20/last-minute-gift-giving-gets-easy-with-sweet-treats-tacomas-johnson-candy-company-brown-haley-and-great-northwest-popcorn-deliver-the-christmas-goods/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/tntdiner/2010/12/20/last-minute-gift-giving-gets-easy-with-sweet-treats-tacomas-johnson-candy-company-brown-haley-and-great-northwest-popcorn-deliver-the-christmas-goods/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:00:30 +0000 Sue Kidd http://blog.thenewstribune.com/tntdiner/?p=7176

Forget Hershey’s and M&Ms. Tacoma’s got the Johnsons, Brown & Haley and Great Northwest Popcorn – all locally grown businesses that dabble in sweet eats and Christmas treats.

At the Johnson Candy Company, which has operated since 1918 in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood, the popular turtles, peanut butter smidgens, Christmas-colored candy corn and those famous handmade truffles are ready for the taking. They’ve even got gift-wrapped boxes for the purely lazy Christmas giver. (You know who you are.)

At the factory outlet stores for Brown & Haley, bargains abound in the form of 99 cent boxes of Candy Cane Roca (can …

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