{"id":4975,"date":"2012-07-02T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2012-07-02T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T17:01:22","slug":"celebrating-canada-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=4975","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Canada Day with Smarties and Necco Canada Mints!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada Day was yesterday, though most Canadians have the day off of work today due to the holiday, so this is for my Canadian friends on their extra day-off – I hope you’re having a great one!\u00a0\u00a0 While I’m getting to this a day late, I still wanted to acknowledge the day with a bit of Canada-themed candy packaging.<\/p>\n

First up is a great Canada-themed box for Smarties.\u00a0 This limited edition box actually gives the brand a special name which cracks me up; Smarties, Eh?<\/p>\n

The candies themselves are red and white with Canada’s maple leaf emblazoned upon them.\u00a0 Great stuff:<\/p>\n

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Canada – Nestle – Smarties eh – Special Edition – 2005<\/p><\/div>\n

The other packaging I’d like to share today is a bit of a stretch as it’s not actually a Canadian product, but one which takes the name: Necco’s Canada Mints and Wintergreens.\u00a0 These days, most of you will recognize these as something you’d find “at Grandma’s house”, but they used to be more of a candy isle staple.<\/p>\n

Here are a pair of boxes dating back to the 1950’s:<\/p>\n

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Necco – Canada Wintergreen candy box – 1950’s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Necco – Canada Mints candy box – 1950’s<\/p><\/div>\n

I love that blobby mid-century Necco logo on the 1950’s boxes – fun stuff.\u00a0 Here are a pair of boxes for the same products, from two decades later:<\/p>\n

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Necco – Canada Wintergreen – candy box – 1977<\/p><\/div>\n

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Necco – Canada Mints – candy box – 1977<\/p><\/div>\n

Those boxes look pretty old-fashioned these days, though the Necco brand logo they feature is the one we still have today.<\/p>\n

I tried to find current versions of Necco’s Canada box lineup, but I was unable to do so.\u00a0 I don’t think they’ve been sold in small-size boxes for some time (though I may just have not seen them).\u00a0 The Necco website only has images of their Canada product in larger poly bags:<\/p>\n

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Necco – Canada Mints and Canada Wintergreen packages – 2012 – Image source: Necco.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

And that’s everything for our humble acknowledgement of Canada Day. See you back here tomorrow!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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