{"id":3190,"date":"2008-02-09T12:53:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2008-02-09T12:53:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T12:53:36","slug":"wisconsins_choc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3190","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin&#8217;s Chocolate Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/08\/travel\/escapes\/08candy.html\">Kit Kiefer<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>OAKS Candy Corner in Oshkosh is a chocolate mirage.<br \/>\nIts gingerbread exterior yields to an interior that in winter is as sugary warm as the inside of a circus peanut and in summer is as refreshing as a wax Coke bottle. It smells like caramel corn and cocoa butter rubbed into the floorboards with a pair of Red Wing boots. It\u2019s the shop just around the corner in an unremittingly blue-collar part of an unremittingly blue-collar town. It shouldn\u2019t still be there, but there it is.<br \/>\nIf Oaks Candy is a mirage, then the Hughes Homaid Chocolate Shop, less than half a mile away, is a figment of Wisconsin\u2019s imagination. An 80-year-old bungalow two blocks from Lake Winnebago, it has only a small neon sign to state its trade and a full-blown candy-making operation in its basement.<br \/>\nBut Oshkosh isn\u2019t the only caretaker of these unlikely sweet dreams. There\u2019s Beerntsen\u2019s in Manitowoc, with its plate lunches and ice cream sodas; Wilmar Chocolates in Appleton, with its old-time awnings and row of state-fair prizes on the south wall; Kaap\u2019s in Green Bay, with its jar of jawbreakers on the counter; Seroogy\u2019s in De Pere, with its magical whipped-chocolate-filled \u201cmeltaways\u201d; and more, much more.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/08\/travel\/escapes\/08candy.html\">Kit Kiefer<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>OAKS Candy Corner in Oshkosh is a chocolate mirage.<br \/>\nIts gingerbread exterior yields to an interior that in winter is as sugary warm as the inside of a circus peanut and in summer is as refreshing as a wax Coke bottle. It smells like caramel corn and cocoa butter rubbed into the floorboards with a pair of Red Wing boots. It\u2019s the shop just around the corner in an unremittingly blue-collar part of an unremittingly blue-collar town. It shouldn\u2019t still be there, but there it is.<br \/>\nIf Oaks Candy is a mirage, then the Hughes Homaid Chocolate Shop, less than half a mile away, is a figment of Wisconsin\u2019s imagination. An 80-year-old bungalow two blocks from Lake Winnebago, it has only a small neon sign to state its trade and a full-blown candy-making operation in its basement.<br \/>\nBut Oshkosh isn\u2019t the only caretaker of these unlikely sweet dreams. There\u2019s Beerntsen\u2019s in Manitowoc, with its plate lunches and ice cream sodas; Wilmar Chocolates in Appleton, with its old-time awnings and row of state-fair prizes on the south wall; Kaap\u2019s in Green Bay, with its jar of jawbreakers on the counter; Seroogy\u2019s in De Pere, with its magical whipped-chocolate-filled \u201cmeltaways\u201d; and more, much more.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,24,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}