Featuring one of the more on-the-nose names of a candy product you’re likely to see, 1971’s “8 Gum balls” from Fleer appears to be just that, a package filled with 8 different flavored gumballs.
UK – Nestle – Little Notions – candy package – 2005
We’re extra-busy here at the offices of CollectingCandy.com for the next few days, with almost no time to research and write.
With that in mind, I may not be able to create any in-depth posts until next week. But I am committed to sharing something new and fun each day, by posting some quick bits and tasty nuggets.
Today, it’s Nestle UK’s “Little Notions”. An odd-yet-adorable foil-packaged treat from 2005. From here, I’ll let this unusual offering speak for itself. See you next time!
Welcome back to another edition of CollectingCandy.com’s Wacky Wednesdays! This week, we’ll be looking at an entry from 1974’s Wacky Packages Series 7 — Soggy Babies.
As a candy collector, Halloween stands head-and-shoulders above all others, because so much of it is about candy. Not only that, most companies release special Halloween-themed packaging for their products that tend to be pretty cool. In short, Halloween is an exciting time for collecting candy.
I plan to devote the entire month of October posts to the topic of collecting Halloween candy, and to Halloween. Not sure if I can pull it off, but that’s the goal. Today will be a bit of a preview of that Halloween-dedicated goodness.
Now that the back-to-school sections are being dismantled, it’s already time for Halloween product to start getting stocked. Today, I’d like to cover my first Halloween candy hunting outing of 2012 – at Target.
Today marks the 46th Anniversary of the original television broadcast of Gene Roddenberry’s creation, Star Trek. In honor on that entertainment milestone, I’ll be sharing a set of UK Nestle wrappers from 1975, and based on Star Trek the Animated Series.
Today I’d like to look at an old-fashioned treat that’s not easy to find these days, but one that’s had some groovy packaging along the way: Heide’s Chocolate Babies.
Today I get to share one of my favorite releases that came out of 1970’s Cadbury in the UK – Cadbury’s Monster Bars! Monster Bars were an imaginative and wonderfully-illustrated series of chocolate bar wrappers that received two different six-wrapper series, for a total of twelve awesome Monster Bar wrappers.
It’s the middle of the week, so it’s time for another edition of CollectingCandy.com’s Wacky Wednesdays! For today’s post, we’re going to look at one of my favorite Wacky Package stickers. It’s from 1974’s Wacky Packages series 6: Mold Rush.
Yesterday’s post on vending machine insert cards had me looking over some of my cool retail bubble gum pieces. One I recently added to my collection is a 1970’s Hip bubble gum cello pack wrapper from Leaf. Referred to as “color burst” bubble gum, it turns out its origins are a little more psychedelic…
Today I’m going to cover a fun topic, but one that I don’t spend too much time on as a collector – vending machine insert cards. These are illustrated and typically-colorful cardboard inserts that are put in the fronts of gumball machines to entice kids to part with their change, in exchange for the goodies they offer.
Though I don’t personally put much focus on vending cards, I believe a person could devote an entire hobby to the pursuit of them alone. These are wonderful and varied pieces that span decades and are awfully fun to examine.
Unlike so much of modern candy and gum packaging, vending cards are still rich with fun mascots and colorful creatures. For today, I’ll be focusing on the handful of vintage vending cards I’ve picked up as a collector.
