{"id":7414,"date":"2012-11-16T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T20:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=7414"},"modified":"2015-02-05T01:01:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T06:01:04","slug":"a-different-kind-of-confection-harmons-flavored-toothpix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=7414","title":{"rendered":"A Different Kind of Confection – Harmon’s Flavored Toothpix!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today I’m going to step a little sideways and cover a topic of confection that is just on the edge of candy – Harmon’s flavored toothpix.<\/p>\n

Some of you may be old enough to remember the happy toothpick mascot on the small wax-paper packets that contained Harmon’s Fire Pix.\u00a0 Produced in McCook, Nebraska for nearly half a century, Bob Harmon ran the business until his retirement.\u00a0 A few years later, he would briefly return to selling flavored toothpicks, before his passing in 2008.\u00a0\u00a0 The Harmon’s Webstore is no longer selling product, though the website remains here.<\/a>\u00a0 [Edit: I’m told that Bud was Mr. Harmon’s first name, not Bob.]<\/p>\n

I’ve talked about my love of cinnamon-flavored candy here on the site many times, so it should come as no surprise that I was a longtime fan of Harmon’s Hot Cinnamon Fire Pix.\u00a0 Since I grew up in Nebraska, they were always readily available at just about every sales counter in town.<\/p>\n

I’ve always had fond recollections of them, but as a collector I learned that Harmon’s produced more than just the cinnamon-flavored Fire Pix – so I set out to get them all.\u00a0 After years of collecting I finally completed my set of Harmon’s flavors, and now I’m going to share them all with you.\u00a0\u00a0 Here we go:<\/p>\n

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Harmon’s – Hot Cinnamon Fire-Pix – Cinnamon Flavored Tooth Picks – package – 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Harmon’s – Hot Cinnamon Fire-Pix – smiley face – package – 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Harmon’s Sweet & Sour Lemon-Pix – Lemon Flavored Tooth Picks package – 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Harmon’s – Cinn-O-Mint Pix – Cinnamon and Mint Flavored Tooth Picks – package – 1970’s<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Harmon’s – Sweet Anise-Pix – Anise Flavored Tooth Picks – package – 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

From everything I’ve been able to turn up in my research, those are all of the flavors of pix that Harmons ever produced.<\/p>\n

I have one other piece related to Harmon’s flavored pix – a vintage candy trade ad.\u00a0 This showcases all of the flavors that were sold at the time [It would seem that the Lemon and Anise pix were introduced in 1973]:<\/p>\n

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Harmon’s Flavored Pix – Candy Industry Trade Ad – August 1973<\/p><\/div>\n

And that’s everything I’ve got for today.\u00a0 See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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