{"id":7699,"date":"2012-12-05T09:56:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T14:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=7699"},"modified":"2012-12-05T09:56:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T14:56:53","slug":"wacky-wednesdays-bit-o-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=7699","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Wednesdays – Bit-O-Money!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another quick and fun edition of CollectingCandy.com’s Wacky Wednesdays.\u00a0 For today’s post I’m going to take a look at Bit-O-Money, from 1974’s Wacky Packages Series 6.<\/p>\n

Bit-O-Money is of course a parody of the classic candy treat, Bit-O-Honey.\u00a0\u00a0 The parody for this one is quite a lot of fun, and the whole thing works quite well.\u00a0 Here’s a closer look at the sticker:<\/p>\n

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Wacky Packages Series 6 – 1974 – Bit-O-Money<\/p><\/div>\n

Everything about this one works pretty darned good.\u00a0 Even the visual of $100 bills inside the wrapper makes sense, as a Bit-O-Honey bar was awfully close to the rectangular dimensions of a dollar bill.<\/p>\n

I went through my collection and was able to find only one Bit-O-Honey wrapper that matched up well with the Bit-O-Money parody.\u00a0 Here it is:<\/p>\n

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Ward Candy Company – Bit-O-Honey 15-cent candy wrapper – early 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

As you can see, it’s a pretty close match, and may well be the exact style of wrapper that was originally referenced for the Bit-O-Money parody.<\/p>\n

And with that, I’ll wrap up this week’s edition of Wacky Wednesdays.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed today’s selection, and I’ll see you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone and welcome back to another quick and fun edition of CollectingCandy.com’s Wacky Wednesdays.\u00a0 For today’s post I’m going to take a look at Bit-O-Money, from 1974’s Wacky Packages Series 6.<\/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":[24,91,89],"tags":[1206,317,27,379,671,321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,21,15,1214,348,1213,90,121,672,11],"class_list":["post-7699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-topps","category-wacky-packages","tag-1970s","tag-1970s-candy","tag-70s","tag-70s-candy","tag-bit-o-honey","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-packaging","tag-sweets","tag-topps","tag-vintage-candy-wrapper","tag-wacky-packages","tag-wacky-packs","tag-wackys","tag-ward-candy","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-20b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699","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=7699"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7709,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions\/7709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}