Category Archives: Hershey

Hershey’s Answer to M&M’s – Hershey-ets!

It’s always fun for me to discover some piece of candy history that I was never aware of before – and such was the case with Hershey’s M&M’s-like product, Hershey-ets.

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My Mid-70’s Halloween Photos – All That Great Candy!

I started my Countdown To Halloween thirty days ago with a personal recollection and a photo from my earliest Halloween.    I’d like to close out my month-long celebration in much the same way – with something fun and personal from … Continue reading

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A Few Spooky Kit Kat Goodies!

As we rapidly approach Halloween (it’s here tomorrow!), I realize that it’s been a pretty packed month on the site but it’s gone really fast.  I thought I would have trouble filling 31 posts with nothing but Halloween candy content, … Continue reading

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Vintage Candy Industry Halloween Trade Ads!

As a candy packaging historian, a resource I’ve found to be invaluable are vintage candy industry trade periodicals.  With names like National Candy Wholesaler and Candy Marketer, these magazines were subscribed to by people who worked inside the candy business … Continue reading

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Wacky Wednesdays – Ork!

For today’s edition of Wacky Wednesdays, we’re once again tapping the recent Halloween editions of the Wacky Packages Postcards series.  Up for today is Ork, an offering from the 2011 Halloween set.

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Reese’s New Peanut Butter Pumpkin Design!

As a candy packaging collector, it’s always fun when a standard brand undergoes a packaging redesign.  The evolution of packaging design is one of the aspects of collecting that I find the most fascinating.  So it was with a great … Continue reading

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Halloween Hershey’s Kisses!

Today is the start of New York Comic Con 2012, and I’ll be attending over the next three days, so I may introduce a bit of brevity into the next few posts… if I can.   With that bit of news … Continue reading

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Wacky Wednesdays – Stake 5!

For today’s edition of Wacky Wednesdays, we’re going to once again pull an entry from Topps’ recent Wacky Packages Halloween postcard releases:  From the 2010 edition is Stake 5, the parody of Hershey’s Take 5.

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The King of Rock ‘n Roll and The King of Pop – A Pair of Kings in Candy!

Some days I have trouble coming up with a topic for CollectingCandy, and some days it’s like the pieces just fall into place.  For today’s column, I was really drawing a blank. So, as I sometimes do, I took my … Continue reading

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Whoppers and Waffelos! Yum!

I only recently posted my extensive review of Whoppers history, so bringing up the brand again so soon might be a bit premature.   But this new addition to the collection deserves mention – a 1982 Ralston Waffelos box that features … Continue reading

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