Tag Archives: 1970’s chocolate
A Groovy 1970’s Flashback: Ghirardelli’s Mother Nature Line!
Over the last decade, the business of artisanal and organic chocolate has exploded. With small manufacturers sourcing their own cocoa and adding all sorts of unusual and exotic ingredients to their bars, it’s a great time to be a chocolate … Continue reading
Pangburn’s Trog-Lo-Dytes Action Packs – The MAD Fold-In of Candy Packaging!
In the 1970’s, the Pangburn Company of Fort Worth Texas created a novel bit of pop art paper craft when they came up with the cardboard packaging for their Trog-Lo-Dytes chocolates. There’s never been anything quite like it in the … Continue reading
The Wombles! Cadbury’s Groovy 1970’s Chocolate Bars!
Today I’m taking a look at a series of wrappers released by Cadbury UK in the early-1970’s which featured characters from the classic children’s television show, The Wombles.
Wacky Wednesdays – Mr. Goodbye!
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.
The Brief Run of America’s Curly Wurly!
Cadbury’s Curly Wurly has been a staple of British confectionery since its introduction in 1970. But few people know that it was given a couple early shots at success here in the United States as well. Today, I’m going to … Continue reading
1970’s UK Cadbury Monster Bar Wrappers – My Complete Series 1 and 2!
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 … Continue reading