{"id":2707,"date":"2012-03-24T16:17:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T20:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2012-03-24T16:18:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T20:18:15","slug":"nestle-quik-in-bar-form-drink-up-some-1990s-chocolaty-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"Nestle Quik in bar form – Drink up some 1990’s chocolaty goodness."},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up loving Nestle Quik chocolate milk – the kind you made yourself with powder.\u00a0 The commercials featuring the Quik Bunny were tied into that experience and, just like the kids in those commercials, I could put away a tall glass of chocolate milk in seconds.\u00a0 These days, I’ll admit to the guilty pleasure of one of those pre-mixed Nestle Quik chocolate milk jugs.<\/p>\n

I don’t recall trying the Nestle Quik bar during its run in the mid-1990’s, but being a fan of the brand in general, I’ve been delighted to learn about its candy bar offshoot, and to pick up a couple of vintage pieces of packaging along the way.\u00a0 For those that aren’t familiar, the Nestle Quik Bar was a chocolate taffy-like item, and featured a wrapper that was in line with the Nestle Quik cans of the time, Bunny and all.<\/p>\n

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Concorde-Sunmark - Nestle Quik bar -NEW- chewy chocolaty candy bar wrapper - 1993<\/p><\/div>\n

Introduced in 1993, the Quik Bar was released from Concorde Brands, a division of Sunmark.\u00a0 Some time after this, the Concorde\/Sunmark company would be purchased by Nestle, so this may have been an early indication of what was to come.<\/p>\n

I have one other wrapper from the Nestle Quik bar run, this one from 1994.\u00a0 It’s a piece that was branded specifically for Easter:<\/p>\n

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Sunmark-Concorde Brands - Nestle Quik Bunny Bar - chocolate candy bar wrapper - 1994<\/p><\/div>\n

I can’t say how long the bar lasted on store shelves, but I do know that Concorde was still actively promoting the brand throughout 1995, so we can guess that these were in stores at least as late as 1996, possibly longer.\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s the one trade ad I have devoted to them:<\/p>\n

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Nestle Quik Bar trade ad - 1995<\/p><\/div>\n

That’s everything I’ve got on Concorde’s Nestle Quik Bar.\u00a0 I do have one other candy bar piece connected to Nestle Quik.\u00a0 This one dates back to the 1950’s or maybe the 1960’s.\u00a0 It’s a fun one and a way-back vintage way to close out this chocolaty post (boy, I really want some chocolate milk now):<\/p>\n

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Nestle's Crunch - Nestle's Quik - candy bar wrapper - 1950's 1960's<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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