Chocolatier Sweetens Up State Budget Situation

A chocolatier has started offering a sweet twist on the state’s budget crisis -- the California “Budget Crunch” bar.

The candy’s wrapper features a yellow and blue cartoon character shaped like California with a belt cinched tightly around its waist, its eyes bulging.

The bar is clad in pink foil “symbolizing the pink slips so many California workers have been handed recently,” according to a company spokesman.