Category Archives: Hershey

Wacky Wednesdays – Slayday!

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Jason Liebig

It’s time for another edition of Wacky Wednesdays, and once again I’m going to tap Topps’ most recent Halloween Postcard release for today’s subject.  We’re going to be taking a look at Slayday, one of the bonus parody offerings from … Continue reading →

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Happy Pi Day From CollectingCandy.com!

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Jason Liebig

Today is March 14th or 3/14, so it’s International Pi Day!  Pi Day is the celebration of mathematics (or 3.14… the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter).   But here at CollectingCandy.com, we figured we could best mark the day … Continue reading →

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CollectingCandy.com’s Anniversary Celebration – 15 Of My Favorite Posts!

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Jason Liebig

As I mentioned yesterday, on February 6th 2012, CollectingCandy.com officially launched.   To celebrate this first birthday, I’ve gone back over the site’s 293 entries posted so far and have selected fifteen of my favorites to highlight and discuss.   Let’s get … Continue reading →

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All Your King Size Hershey are Belong to Us!

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Jason Liebig

Last month I detailed my quest to track down and collect all of the current Hershey family King Size bar wrappers.   Over the course of the following weeks, and trips through half-a-dozen states, I think I’ve picked up all of … Continue reading →

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My Year in Collecting: 2012!

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Jason Liebig

Since 2009, I’ve had an annual tradition of taking a look back at my hobby by assembling a collage of some of my favorite pieces from the previous twelve months.  I’ve been sharing those collages on Flickr and today I’d … Continue reading →

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Christmas Countdown: Hershey’s 1982 Holiday Gift Catalog!

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Jason Liebig

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!  It’s December 25th – Christmas Day – so I wanted to share something a bit different and hopefully a bit special with you. For today’s topic, I picked my Hershey Holiday Gift catalog from … Continue reading →

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Milk Duds – 86 Years and 40 different packages!

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Jason Liebig

Milk Duds is a confectionery classic that was first sold in 1926 by the Holloway company of Chicago.  It’s a pretty simple bit of candy as so many classics are; a chewy nugget of caramel surrounded by a tasty chocolatey … Continue reading →

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Wacky Wednesdays – Milk Deads!

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Jason Liebig

I’ve been working on a big two-day Milk Duds posting which I’d intended to start yesterday, but it’s taken more work than expected so now it’ll start tomorrow.  Because of that Milk Duds theme, I decided to do something a … Continue reading →

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My Quest to Find all of Hershey’s Current King Size Bars!

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Jason Liebig

A few weeks ago, I set about to pick up examples of each of the current Hershey family “King Size” bars.  I figured it would be cool to have whatever few wrappers they produced with the unifying “King Size” wedge … Continue reading →

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Wacky Wednesdays – Mr. Goodbye!

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Jason Liebig

Hello everyone and welcome to our Thanksgiving-Eve edition of Wacky Wednesdays.  Today we will be looking at a sticker from 1974’s Wacky Packages Series 7 — Mr. Goodbye.

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