{"id":3427,"date":"2012-04-18T08:47:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T12:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2012-04-18T08:47:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T12:47:02","slug":"wacky-wednesdays-baby-runt-and-bustedfinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=3427","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Wednesdays – Baby Runt and Bustedfinger!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After missing last week’s Wacky Wednesday’s column, partly due to the road trip we were on, today I’m making the post a bit of a double-feature.\u00a0 Today, I give you Bustedfinger and Baby Runt.<\/p>\n

I chose these two vintage Wackys, as they are both based on Curtiss bars from the era, and ones which I always felt were linked.<\/p>\n

Bustedfinger, based upon the timeless classic Butterfinger, is one of those Wacky Packages stickers that really comes out of left field.\u00a0 Rather than a character, we only see an appendage.<\/p>\n

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Wacky Packages Series 3 - 1973 - Bustedfinger<\/p><\/div>\n

And here is a wrapper that comes very close to matching the Wacky Package style:<\/p>\n

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Curtiss - Butterfinger 10-cent candy bar wrapper - 1970's<\/p><\/div>\n

The wrapper example I have shows a printed-on price that the Wacky does not appear to include.\u00a0 It was either an artist’s choice, or I may not have tracked down the right Butterfinger wrapper yet.<\/p>\n

Next up is Baby Runt:<\/p>\n

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Wacky Packages - Series 6 - 1974 - Baby Runt<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s the closest original Baby Ruth wrapper I have to the one parodied above.\u00a0 The Curtiss logo on my wrapper is blue, but the Wacky shows it to be red.\u00a0 It’s certainly possible that I don’t have the exact version parodied, but this one is pretty close.<\/p>\n

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Curtiss - Baby Ruth candy bar wrapper - no price - 1970's<\/p><\/div>\n

That’s all for today – come back tomorrow for a look back at a more sophisticated bit of confectionery goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After missing last week’s Wacky Wednesday’s column, partly due to the road trip we were on, today I’m making the post a bit of a double-feature.\u00a0 Today, I give you Bustedfinger and Baby Runt.<\/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":[24,56,34,91,1,89],"tags":[1206,27,233,18,14,20,77,16,21,142,232,15,12,231,1213,90,11,72],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-chocolate-2","category-gum-2","category-topps","category-uncategorized","category-wacky-packages","tag-1970s","tag-70s","tag-brands","tag-chocolate","tag-collectible","tag-collecting","tag-collection","tag-confection","tag-packaging","tag-parody","tag-product","tag-sweets","tag-vintage","tag-wacky","tag-wacky-packages","tag-wacky-packs","tag-wrapper","tag-wrappers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-Th","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","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=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}