Author Topic: Favorite Candy (Read 1067 times)

RedDg · « **Reply #30 on:** December 10, 2004, 07:55:12 AM »

It's not really a candy, but I love chocolate chip cookie dough straight from the mixing bowl.

Halo · « **Reply #31 on:** December 10, 2004, 07:39:03 PM »

>Necco Waffers<

These are great ecologically friendly targets for plinking.

>Heavenly Hash, by Elmers Chocolate in Ponchatoula, LA
Wonders if they are the same as yours Halo. Loves those things, only out for Easter.<

Dunno, Heavenly Hash seems more generic than trademark. For sure, that combination of milk chocolate and marshmallow is aptly named.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #32 on:** December 10, 2004, 07:59:14 PM »

1. NECCO Wafer rolls contain 8 flavors and colors: lemon (yellow); orange (orange); lime (green); clove (purple); cinnamon (white); wintergreen (pink); licorice (black); and chocolate (brown).

2. In very low humidity NECCO Wintergreen Wafers spark in the dark when broken.

3. NECCO Wafer Rolls have always been a naturally fat and sodium free product.

4. In excess of 4 billion NECCO Wafers are sold each year. This is enough to completely encircle the world twice if placed edge to edge.

5. Over 120 NECCO Wafers are consumed every second of every day throughout the entire year.

6. In the 1930's Admiral Byrd took 2 1/2 tons of NECCO Wafers to the South Pole, practically a pound a week for each of his men during their 2 year stay in the Antarctic.

7. In 1913 Donald MacMillan, explorer, takes NECCO Wafers on his Arctic expedition, using them for nutrition and as rewards to Eskimo children.

eskimo

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #33 on:** December 10, 2004, 08:04:59 PM »

I believe I read somewhere that Necco wafers has the second oldest brand name registered in the US, only Coca-Cola being older.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #34 on:** December 10, 2004, 08:06:11 PM »

eskimo

eskimo2 · « **Reply #35 on:** December 10, 2004, 08:07:12 PM »

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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I believe I read somewhere that Necco wafers has the second oldest brand name registered in the US, only Coca-Cola being older.

1847
Oliver R. Chase of Boston invents and patents the first American candy machine, a lozenge cutter. With his brother, Silas Edwin, he founds Chase and Company, the pioneer member of the NECCO family.

As the package says, 150 years old.

eskimo

Halo · « **Reply #36 on:** December 10, 2004, 08:19:45 PM »

Okay, Eskimo, which is it --

you own 51% of Necco?

you are corporate senior vp of Necco marketing?

you are William Edward Necco IV?

Footnote:

Only candies 150 years old make half the flavors in one roll clove, wintergreen, cinnamon, and licorice.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #37 on:** December 10, 2004, 08:26:20 PM »

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Originally posted by Halo
Okay, Eskimo, which is it --

you own 51% of Necco?

you are corporate senior vp of Necco marketing?

you are William Edward Necco IV?

Footnote:

Only candies 150 years old make half the flavors in one roll clove, wintergreen, cinnamon, and licorice.

7. In 1913 Donald MacMillan, explorer, takes NECCO Wafers on his Arctic expedition, using them for nutrition and as rewards to Eskimo children.

eskimo

Gixer · « **Reply #38 on:** December 10, 2004, 10:29:52 PM »

~~...-Gixer~~

SOB · « **Reply #39 on:** December 10, 2004, 11:17:48 PM »

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Originally posted by eskimo2
7. In 1913 Donald MacMillan, explorer, takes NECCO Wafers on his Arctic expedition, using them for nutrition and as rewards to Eskimo children.

eskimo

You left out the part where the children killed him due to his lies and trickery (telling them he would give them a treat, and then tossing them some NECCO Wafers), and then used his fat to light their lanterns.

Nefarious · « **Reply #40 on:** December 11, 2004, 12:29:38 AM »

Hersheys Symphony (Almonds and Toffee) Bar.

MwXX · « **Reply #41 on:** December 11, 2004, 12:40:54 AM »

Koochie Kookies:D

Dago · « **Reply #42 on:** December 11, 2004, 07:09:20 AM »

Rolo's.

dago

eskimo2 · « **Reply #43 on:** December 11, 2004, 09:27:41 AM »

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Originally posted by SOB
You left out the part where the children killed him due to his lies and trickery (telling them he would give them a treat, and then tossing them some NECCO Wafers), and then used his fat to light their lanterns.

The actual Eskimo stone lamp that burned Donald MacMillan’s fat in 1913. We really did like the Necco Wafers, but killed him anyway because we were low on lamp fat.

eskimo

SOB · « **Reply #44 on:** December 11, 2004, 01:16:13 PM »