> Mom is behind the camera, filming her chocolate-smeared toddler

...thus proving herself a true American Mom by referring to chocolate as candy without being embarassed ('cause that's the way she speaks)

1. Crystallized sugar, made by repeated boiling and slow evaporation, more fully called sugar candy; also any confection made of, or incrusted with this. (In U.S. used more widely than in Great Britain, including toffee, and the like.)

OED2

Last edited by maverick; 01/27/06 01:43 PM.