{"id":6846,"date":"2012-10-15T14:40:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2014-06-14T08:37:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T12:37:30","slug":"return-of-the-zombie-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6846","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Zombie Candy!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zombies have been a pop culture staple since the 1960’s, but in the last decade they’ve exploded in popularity.\u00a0 Just last night I enjoyed the season premiere of the breakout hit series, The Walking Dead.\u00a0\u00a0 So, it should come as no surprise that zombies have made their way into the confectionery biz.\u00a0 Today, I’m going to share a couple zombie-related candies that are out this Halloween season.<\/p>\n

Before I get to today’s topic, I should mention that back in April, I wrote up a post on Australia’s Zombie Chews – if you dig zombies check it out. <\/a><\/p>\n

First up today is a particularly creepy-cool offering from Necco, the SkyBar branded Halloween treat Zombie Food:<\/p>\n

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Necco – SkyBar Zombie Food – candy bar wrapper – Halloween – October 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

Zombie Food is a pretty inventive bit of fun.\u00a0 Each pack contains one of an assortment of “milk chocolate covered brains, feet, and hearts filled with oozy red caramel.”\u00a0 In the two packs I picked up, I got a brain and heart:<\/p>\n

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SkyBar Zombie Food examples<\/p><\/div>\n

Next up is Sour Patch Zombie Kids.\u00a0 I’ve only found them offered in one format; a large 80-count treat bag:<\/p>\n

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Sour Patch Zombie Kids – 80-count big candy bag – Halloween October 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s what the individual treat-size packs look like:<\/p>\n

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Kraft – Sour Patch Zombie Kids – 1\/2 oz treat-size pack – October 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

It was great to see the Sour Patch Zombie Kids this season, as three years ago, I passed on a similar product during an October trip up in Canada.\u00a0 I snapped a picture, but I wish I’d bought these:<\/p>\n

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Canada-Maynards-Zombie-Sour-Patch-Kids-100-count-Halloween-box-2009<\/p><\/div>\n

The Canadian version was a bit spookier than what we finally got here in the USA.<\/p>\n

And that’s everything I’ve got for today on the Return of the Zombie Candy!<\/p>\n

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The Walking Dead at New York Comic Con 2012 – October 13<\/p><\/div>\n

Boo!\u00a0 See you next time!<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s post has been part of CollectingCandy.com\u2019s Countdown to Halloween.\u00a0 To check out other sites celebrating Halloween all month long, check out the official Halloween Countdown site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zombies have been a pop culture staple since the 1960’s, but in the last decade they’ve exploded in popularity.\u00a0 Just last night I enjoyed the season premiere of the breakout hit series, The Walking Dead.\u00a0\u00a0 So, it should come as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":[589,252,127,514],"tags":[321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,415,21,15,348,605,11,604],"class_list":["post-6846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countdowntohalloween","category-halloween","category-novelty","category-sour-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-halloween-candy","tag-packaging","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrapper","tag-walking-dead","tag-wrapper","tag-zombies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-1Mq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846","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=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14516,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions\/14516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}