Once again it’s Super Bowl Sunday and today, February 2nd, 2014 – millions of football fans are waiting to see who comes away with the championship win between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. Here on CollectingCandy.com we’ll be marking the day with a celebration of all of the teams of the NFL by showcasing full sets of Snickers NFL team mini wrappers!
Plus we have info on the new Skittles Seattle Mix!
Today is January 31st, 2014 – so here on CollectingCandy.com we want to recognize the celebration of the Chinese New Year! For those that don’t know, in the 12-year cycle of animals that make up the Chinese Zodiac, today marks the beginning of the year of the Horse. But on the site today we’ll be marking the holiday with limited edition Chinese New Year Hershey Kisses from Canada along with an array of other related and super-cool goodies!
One of the more clever uses of cellophane in candy packaging had to be when confectioners started utilizing the protective wrapping as a kind of catch-all canvas for lollipops. By printing up a custom cellophane wrap, they could turn that lollipop into whatever design or fad they thought would sell best. Such was the case with Spangler’s Zodiac Pops.
I thought it would be fun to present another Wacky Wednesdays post, this time focusing on a contemporary candy bar offering. So I called upon the most recent Wacky Packages series and found a great title that is a parody of Hershey’s current Whatchamacallit bar – Whatchamakillit!
Today’s post is an especially fun one as I get to premiere the only known images and information for a candy product that would otherwise be forgotten to time. Not only is it something you’ve never seen before, but it just so happens that this vintage gem shares a good bit of heritage with the Wonka candy brand. So let’s get to it as I unveil, for the first time anywhere, Breaker Confections’ Great Goliath and his Giant Jawbreaker!
Back in 1998, Nestle UK introduced the Wonka Xploder bar to the world – at least the United Kingdom part of it. A chocolate bar infused with carbonated popping candy (ala Pop Rocks) – it seemed like a perfect kind of whimsy to sport the Wonka name.
The bar must have been a success because in the years that followed it would be released in Australia and the United States – with each country receiving a modified version of the original packaging. Today I’m featuring the trio of wrappers that came about via Wonka’s Xplosion around the globe!
As an enthusiast of confectionery brand-oddities, I love finding flavor spinoffs and unusual food crossovers. I recently became aware of one I never thought I’d see, a Bazooka bubblegum-flavored chocolate bar. Well, to be clear this is a Bazooka bubblegum-flavored bar made of white chocolate and sold by Bazooka’s Israel-based distributor – but it’s still amazing and today it’s my pleasure to share it!
Over the last two days I’ve covered the topics of 7-Eleven’s recent name brand private label releases as well as their launch of Slurpee-branded gum in the late 1990’s. Today I’m rounding out the 7-Eleven theme by presenting a great release that has, thus far, been the last in the Slurpee gum story – 2003’s Slurpee Infused Gum!
After posting about 7-Eleven’s name brand candy offerings yesterday, I thought it would be fun to follow-up with a showcase of the groovy Slurpee-branded gum products that were on shelves a little over a decade ago. Returning from a successful dig through my archives, I’m excited to present 7-Eleven’s original liquid-filled Slurpee gum!
Store brands or “private label” candy offerings are typically generic treats like jelly beans and gummy bears but sometimes they’re repackaged name brand candies. 7-Select, the private label brand from 7-Eleven recently offered up a few name brands within their candy offerings and I thought it would be a fun topic to cover.
