Monthly Archives: December 2012

Wacky Wednesdays – Milk Deads!

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!

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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On the road in Toledo – Boyd’s Retro Candy Store!

The last couple of days I’ve been excitedly driving around the East Coast, partially in service of CollectingCandy.com (details to follow in the coming months). So when you are behind the wheel 12 hours in a day, I’ve found that … Continue reading

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Wacky Wednesdays – Bit-O-Money!

Hello everyone and welcome back to another quick and fun edition of CollectingCandy.com’s Wacky Wednesdays.  For today’s post I’m going to take a look at Bit-O-Money, from 1974’s Wacky Packages Series 6.

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CollectingCandy.com profiled for Narratively NYC!

Hi everyone.  If you were ever curious about the behind-the-scenes back story of CollectingCandy.com beyond the blurb on my About page, I’ve got just the post for you. Thanks to writer Dan Slotnick and photographer Brad Horrigan, I was the … Continue reading

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Sour Patch Kids’ New Packaging! Plus a little history…

Today I’m taking a crack at a big-time favorite among many of my readers – Sour Patch Kids.  I’d previously touched upon Sour Patch for my Halloween post on Sour Patch Zombie Kids (awesome bit of packaging there).  My reason … Continue reading

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