{"id":1144,"date":"2012-02-19T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T17:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2012-03-02T01:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T06:40:52","slug":"wigwag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"WigWag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After covering the US Marathon bar and its secret origins as well as its UK namesake and the bar that inspired it (CurlyWurly), I&#8217;m going to round it out with the WigWag.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Produced and sold by Mackintosh&#8217;s Canadian arm, the WigWag, like the US Marathon, appears to have largely been a 1970&#8217;s phenomenon.\u00a0 According to the trademark registration data on this, it was first filed in March of 1972 and registered in April of 1973.\u00a0 Using that as a kind of guide, I&#8217;d estimate that WigWag could have been on-sale by 1972.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to dig up any more details on WigWag, or any other wrapper variations.\u00a0 What I was able to determine is that WigWag is fondly remembered by many.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1145\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/joadhenry\/4290443501\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1145\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1145\" title=\"Mackintosh's WigWag bar wrapper\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CC_WigWag-bar-wrapper-1970s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CC_WigWag-bar-wrapper-1970s.jpg 800w, http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CC_WigWag-bar-wrapper-1970s-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WigWag wrapper - 1970&#39;s.  Courtesy Donald Hamm.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be back with a topic that is not tied into my love of chocolate-covered-caramel.<\/p>\n<p>Closing with a visual-review:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1147\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1147\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1147\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1147\" title=\"CC_All Four bars together\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CC_All-Four-bars-together.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CC_All-Four-bars-together.jpg 800w, http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CC_All-Four-bars-together-266x300.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marathon bar and all the places it&#39;s led me.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After covering the US Marathon bar and its secret origins as well as its UK namesake and the bar that inspired it (CurlyWurly), I&#8217;m going to round it out with the WigWag.<\/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":[24,56,1],"tags":[67,1210,18],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-chocolate-2","category-uncategorized","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-chocolate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2aFGk-wigwag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","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=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}