{"id":6513,"date":"2012-09-18T19:24:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T23:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6513"},"modified":"2012-09-18T19:24:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T23:24:51","slug":"aw-root-beer-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6513","title":{"rendered":"A&W Root Beer Candy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I grew up with an A&W Drive-In in my hometown and it was a place I fondly remember. \u00a0 That drive-in was closed down by the time I entered junior high school, but I never forgot it.<\/p>\n

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Sugar Free A&W Root Beer, 1970’s & 1980’s – Image Courtesy Allen Sandquist<\/p><\/div>\n

Ironically, not long after my old hometown A&W was shuttered the A&W brand seemed to be at an all-time high, with the branded soda pop advertised all over the place.\u00a0 And there were a couple of A&W-branded confectionery treats that were sold around that time too.<\/p>\n

One that I have some recollections of was 1983’s A&W “liquid center” bubble gum.\u00a0 In the wake of the novel success of Freshen-Up, other companies were trying to find a way to grab some of that liquid-center gum market share.\u00a0 Amurol took a shot by licensing popular soda pop brands.\u00a0 Here’s my wrapper for A&W gum:<\/p>\n

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Amurol – A&W Root Beer liquid center bubble gum pack wrapper – 1983<\/p><\/div>\n

From right around this same time, Ferrara Pan released an A&W Root Beer flavored hard candy.\u00a0 It came in a great box.\u00a0 Here’s an example I acquired earlier this year as part of the L.M. Kallok Collection<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Ferrara Pan – A&W Root Beer candy box – early 1980’s<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s great that the A&W brand survived tougher times and exists to this day as both a consumer packaged soda and brand-flavor, as well as a nationwide chain of restaurants.<\/p>\n

Though I don’t have anything in my collection directly from that childhood A&W, I do have a great vintage A&W call-in menu from the early 1970’s.\u00a0 This one comes from a California A&W location and I think it’s a fun way to close out today’s A&W coverage:<\/p>\n

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A&W Root Beer Drive-in Restaraunt call-in menu – 1225 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove, California – 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

Check out those prices!<\/p>\n

And that’s everything for today’s post on A&W candy.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I grew up with an A&W Drive-In in my hometown and it was a place I fondly remember. \u00a0 That drive-in was closed down by the time I entered junior high school, but I never forgot it.<\/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":[24,6,5,34,46],"tags":[578,321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,580,21,581,579,15,348,11],"class_list":["post-6513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-1980s","category-bubble-gum","category-gum-2","category-hard-candy","tag-aw-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-fast-food","tag-packaging","tag-restaraunt-candy","tag-root-beer-candy","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrapper","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-1H3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513","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=6513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6523,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions\/6523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}