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| - I really have no business making (what's turning into) weekly visits to Biscuiterie Oscar with all the weight I need to lose, but you know how it goes...especially when the scale is tilting in your favor.
But even if you don't have an uber-sweet tooth, this little shop is worth walking through, because the closest thing to it in the states is that ground-floor, overpriced bulk candy shop at the mall that has too many jelly beans and gummy candy. Blech.
Enter Oscar's, and you'll see a partial wall of bulk wrapped/unwrapped candies (Think Brach's.) and truffles; another of bulk cookies (Remember Mother's Cookies?) cased in neat, little rows; shelves of pre-packaged cheap and quality commercial candies and chocolates; and several small islands heaped with loose and pre-packed bulk goodies, pre-packed cookies, what looks like homemade candy (like nut cluster logs, I think) packaged/weighed like pre-cut meat at the grocer's, and then more commercial candy/chocolate...including a few jelly beans.
There are even loaf-pan sized molds of fudge (above the truffles) on little platters that I believe a clerk may need to cut for you.
Aside from feeling like I've died and gone to heaven because of the sheer number and variety of sweets that they've managed to stuff into a rather small space, the prices help keep you on cloud 9 too.
Biscuiterie Oscar alone is enough to make me consider permanent residency in Québec.
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