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Today I bring to you the perfect dessert candy:  The rum cordial by Russ & Daughters, located on Houston Street in Manhattan, not far from Katz’s Deli or Yonah Schimmel Knish bakery, two other locations that deserve individualized attention. 

Here, in all its glorious perfection is a one pound bag of rum cordials, with a few next to a standard unit of measure, the fortune cookie, for scale.

Do not confuse these with rum balls, a far inferior dessert.  These have a hard chocolate/candy shell and inside they contain a combination of virtue and loyalty intermixed with honesty, honor and raw brilliance, making them unmatched among their cordial brethren.  Also some rum.  Such a negligible amount of rum that you would die from diabetes long before you acquired a buzz.