{"id":10753,"date":"2013-08-06T12:41:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=10753"},"modified":"2013-08-06T12:41:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:41:39","slug":"70s-flashback-with-licorice-snaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=10753","title":{"rendered":"70’s Flashback with Licorice Snaps!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During a recent candy hunt to a dollar store, I came across a box for “Original Snaps”, a classic treat from the American Licorice Company.\u00a0 I realized that this was the same company that had been making Snaps for decades and I thought a post that looked back at vintage box from my collection would be fun.<\/p>\n

American Licorice Company<\/a> is probably best-known for their classic Red Vines licorice, though today you’re as likely to identify them with their successful Sour Punch brand.<\/p>\n

Snaps were first introduced in the 1930’s and they’ve managed to stand the test of time as evidenced by their continued availability nearly a century later.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I don’t have a detailed timeline of vintage packaging to share with regard to Snaps, so today it’s just a flashback to the 1970’s box in my collection contrasted with the package I recently picked up.<\/p>\n

Here’s the 1970’s box:<\/p>\n

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American Licorice Company – Licorice Snaps – 1-1\/4 oz candy box – 1976<\/p><\/div>\n

In the process of looking for other Snaps material I did manage to find a 1977 trade ad in my archives featuring this same style of Snaps box along with a few other tasty American Licorice offerings:<\/p>\n

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American Licorice Company – candy trade magazine ad – March 1977<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, here’s the current colorful Snaps box I discovered at retail:<\/p>\n

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American Licorice Company – Snaps – original bit-size licorice pieces – candy box – July 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

And that’s everything for this fun 70’s Flashback.\u00a0 See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During a recent candy hunt to a dollar store, I came across a box for “Original Snaps”, a classic treat from the American Licorice Company.\u00a0 I realized that this was the same company that had been making Snaps for decades … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,47],"tags":[317,379,321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,805,21,15,348,11],"class_list":["post-10753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-boxed","tag-1970s-candy","tag-70s-candy","tag-candy-collecting","tag-candy-collection","tag-candy-collector","tag-candy-wrapper-collection","tag-candy-wrapper-collector","tag-collectible","tag-collecting-candy","tag-confectionery","tag-confections","tag-licorice","tag-packaging","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrapper","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-2Nr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10753"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10767,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753\/revisions\/10767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}