Candy

From WoWWiki

Candy is sweet treat food item (using the term 'food' loosely, although in WoW, unlike real life, candy is good for you.) Candy is odd because it is not one of the six main types of food in WoW, but there are quite a few examples of candy and it is available from vendors. Candy is most often encountered at holiday events.

Presumably, since candy is not one of the food types that are referenced as being able to be eaten by hunter pets, hunters cannot feed candy to their pets.

In WoW, candy is defined by real world analogy and flavor text, who vends it, and the holiday contexts where it is used. It seems that WoW uses a broader definition of sweets than just candy, so ice cream cones are candy in WoW.

Uses

Player Characters can eat candy to recover health.
Some candy provides a Well Fed buff as well.
(These are the same uses as other types of food.)

Some candy items are quest objects.

Buying a [Tigule and Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream] for your orphan is an object of [60] You Scream, I Scream...

Sources

Players can often loot candy during holiday events.
Candy can be gotten as quest rewards during holiday events.
Players can purchase candy from candy vendors during holiday events.
- [Tigule and Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream] is vended all year round
Candy type foods can be created by cooks using seasonal recipes obtained during holiday events.
- These can be made any time, but some of the ingredients are only available during the holiday event.

[Tigule and Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream] is available all year round from Brivelthwerp <Ice Cream Vendor> at the Mirage Raceway in Thousand Needles, and from Caregiver Isel <Innkeeper> and Matron Tikkit <Innkeeper> in Nagrand for 5 .

During Children's Week, Emmithue Smails <Sweet Treats> in Stormwind City and Alowicious Czervik <Sweet Treats> in Orgrimmar vend candy.

[Styleen's Sour Suckerpop] for 1 25
[Tigule and Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream] for 5
[Moonbrook Riot Taffy] for 10
[Bellara's Nutterbar] for 20

During Hallow's End, Katrina Shimmerstar <Hallow's End Treats> in Ironforge and Rachelle Gothena <Hallow's End Treats> in Orgrimmar vend candy.

[Styleen's Sour Suckerpop] for 1 25
[Tigule and Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream] for 5
[Moonbrook Riot Taffy] for 10
[Bellara's Nutterbar] for 20

(also see Non-food candy below)

During Hallow's End, candy may be looted from [Treat Bags] given out by innkeepers in Azeroth.

During Hallow's End, you can battle the Shade of the Horseman in villages around the world of Azeroth, then loot his large pumpkin head for [Smashed Pumpkin Loot] which can in turn be looted for Hallow's End treats, including candy.

In 2008, the reward mechanism for the Shade of the Horseman was changed. You now loot a [Scorched Holy Symbol] quest item from his large pumpkin head and turn it in to the Costumed Orphan Matron for the [70] Smash the Pumpkin daily quest. She rewards you with a [Crudely Wrapped Gift] containing event goodies, including candy.

During Feast of Winter Veil, the Smokywood Pastures vendors in major cities vend candy canes, candy recipes, and other non-candy items.

[Candy Cane] for 25
[Recipe: Gingerbread Cookie] for 25 , teaches a cook how to make

[Gingerbread Cookie]

[Recipe: Egg Nog] for 2 40 , teaches a cook how to make

[Egg Nog]

Though you would 'drink' Egg Nog, it has the health benefits of a food, not the mana benefits of a drink.

But, like many drinks, Egg Nog is alcoholic.

Game-wise, both eat and drink are use actions.

Only real-world concept, flavor text, and benefit type distinguish food and drinks.

During Feast of Winter Veil, you may receive candy as loot from a [Carefully Wrapped Present] gift.

[Winter Veil Cookie] (has a well-fed buff)

During Noblegarden, you can find and loot Brightly Colored Eggs. Most of these will contain one of:

[Lollipop] (has a well-fed buff)
[Candy Bar] (has a well-fed buff)
[Chocolate Square] (has a well-fed buff)

Non-food candy

Some candy is not food (no health recovery over time) but is a buffing consumable like an elixir.

During Love is in the Air, you may receive:

[Box of Chocolates]: Contains a random assortment of six chocolates with a variety of powerful buffs:

[Buttermilk Delight] - Increase Defense Rating by 20.
[Dark Desire] - Increase Hit Rating by 20.
[Sweet Surprise] - Increase Healing by 44.
[Very Berry Cream] - Increase Spell Damage by 23.

During Hallow's End, Katrina Shimmerstar <Hallow's End Treats> in Dun Morogh and Rachelle Gothena <Hallow's End Treats> in Orgrimmar vend a non-food candy item.

[Hallow's End Pumpkin Treat] for 35 provides random form changes that have in-game effects.

During Hallow's End, [Hallow's End Pumpkin Treat] is also a quest reward from the following quests:

During Hallow's End, if you defeat the Headless Horseman, small pumpkin 'meteors' fall from the sky, landing on the party members. Each of these contains a small random number of:

[Tricky Treat] - provides a speed buff.

During Hallow's End, each Inn has a candy bucket on the floor that can be looted once per character for a [Handful of Candy]. Looting the candy bucket at each inn is a separate Candy Bucket quest.

[Crudely Wrapped Gift] can also contain a [Handful of Candy].

The [Handful of Candy] contains 0, 1, or 2 of each of the following:

[Chewy Fel Taffy] - Increase Hit Rating by 5 for 30 minutes.
[G.N.E.R.D.S.] - Increase Defense Rating by 5 for 30 minutes.
[Soothing Spearmint Candy] - Increases Healing by up to 11 for 30 minutes.
[Pyroblast Cinnamon Ball] - Increases Spell Damage by up to 6 for 30 minutes.

Cosmetic candy

Some candy is just cosmetic; you see a message when you 'eat' it.

During Love is in the Air, you may receive:

[Bag of Candies]: Binds on pickup. Has 10 charges and a cooldown of 10 minutes. When used, creates a [Heart Candy] with the player character's name stamped on it. Heart Candies are based on the real world Valentine's Day chalky confection. Each one bears an expression of affection such as "I'm all yours!" or "I'll follow you around Azeroth." Their only purpose is to give to other players.

Quest item candy

Quest items are items that are only quest objects. Quest items that look like food are not food, but food items can be quest objects.

Some candy is a quest item, and is not ingestible candy.

During Hallow's End, the quest objects of [60] Hallow's End Treats for Jesper!

and [60] Hallow's End Treats for Spoops!

look like candy and are talked about as if they were candy. They cannot be eaten.

Seasonal events

The candy schedule:

Azeroth Event	Candy ?	Time Period	Related Earth Event
New Year	No candy	Dec 31 - Jan 1	(Gregorian) New Year's Eve
Lunar Festival	No candy	Varies (Spring)	(Chinese) Lunar New Year
Love is in the Air	Quest candy	Feb 10th - Feb 15th	Valentine's Day
Noblegarden	Loot candy	Varies (Easter)	Easter
Children's Week	Vended candy	May 1st - May 7th	Children's Day - Japan Mother's Day - US, UK, and others
Midsummer Fire Festival	No candy	June 21st - July 5th	Midsummer Independence Day - US
Harvest Festival	No candy	Sept 8th - Sept 13th	Harvest festival
Pirates' Day	No candy	Sept 19th	International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Peon Day	No candy (please verify)	???	EU Closed Beta anniversary (EU only)^[1]
Brewfest	No candy	Sept 20th - Oct 4th	Oktoberfest - Germany
Hallow's End	Loot and vended candy	Oct 18th - Nov 1st	Halloween
Feast of Winter Veil	Loot and vended candy	Dec 15th - Jan 2nd	Christmas
The Spirit of Competition	No candy	Once every two years	Olympic Games

[1]