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Category Archives: Christmas
Twelve Days of Christmas: Whitman’s new Peanuts Christmas Chocolate Bars!
Every year Whitman’s releases their standard chocolate bars with all kinds of holiday-themed package designs. Occasionally, they’ll utilize licensed characters or content for those designs and for 2013 they tapped the Peanuts holiday classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas, as their … Continue reading
Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, Holiday
Tagged candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, Charlie Brown, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, licensed, packaging, peanuts, Snoopy, sweets, vintage candy wrapper, Whitmans, wrapper
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Twelve Days of Christmas: M&M’s Christmas Theater Boxes!
Always an enjoyable topic to address are the holiday releases for M&M’s. Just a few days ago I mentioned the new holiday flavor release of M&M’s Gingerbread and today I’d like to showcase the new Christmas-themed theater-sized boxes for a pair of … Continue reading
Posted in Boxed, Christmas, Holiday, M&M's, Mars
Tagged candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, Christmas, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, holiday, M&M's, mascot, packaging, sweets, vintage candy wrapper, wrapper
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Twelve Days of Christmas: Uncovering Wonka’s 1991 Christmas Boxes!
I’ve often pointed out that where candy packaging is concerned sometimes tracking down a specific piece can be much like archaeology. Oftentimes you start without any hard evidence that a piece existed at all. Sometimes that first evidence is a … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Holiday, Nestle, Wonka
Tagged candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, packaging, Runts, Sunmark, sweets, vintage candy wrapper, Wacky Wafers, Willy Wonka, Wonka, wrapper
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Twelve Days of Christmas: Hershey’s New Candy Cane Bar!
Every year there are always new candy packages and products released for the Christmas holiday season. One brand new item that I found particularly striking from the packaging standpoint was Hershey’s Candy Cane bar.
Posted in Christmas, Hershey, Holiday
Tagged candy cane, candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, Christmas, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, Hershey, packaging, sweets, vintage candy wrapper, wrapper
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Twelve Days of Christmas: Jelly Belly’s Disney Christmas Packs!
Over the last couple of years Jelly Belly has made an entry into the checkout isle size packaged candy market with 1.2 oz jelly bean packs – including holiday releases. I first took note of them with their 2013 Halloween … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Holiday
Tagged candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, Cars, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, Disney, Disneyana, Jelly Belly, licensed, Little Mermaid, Mickey Moust, packaging, Pixar, sweets, vintage candy wrapper, wrapper
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Twelve Days of Christmas: A Quartet of Christmas Tootsie Roll Two-Packs!
It’s always great to find a new holiday edition package for a classic brand, and I’m pretty sure I’d never seen any kind of Christmas package for Tootsie Roll two-packs before this year. So today I’m going to take a … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Halloween
Tagged candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, Chicago, Christmas, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, elf, foil, holiday, packaging, Santa, Santa Claus, snow, snow man, snowman, sweets, Tootsie, vintage candy wrapper, wrapper
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Twelve Days of Christmas: Gingerbread for 2013!
Today we’re kicking off our 2013 Twelve Days of Christmas series with a look at some new gingerbread-flavored candy. Today’s post will showcase the great new limited edition releases of 2013 that all bring gingerbread flavoring into the mix. Including … Continue reading
Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, cookies, Holiday, M&M's, Mars, Uncategorized, Wonka
Tagged candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, Christmas, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, gingerbread, holiday, Just Born, M&M's, packaging, Peeps, sweets, vintage candy wrapper, wrapper
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It’s November 1st and Halloween 2013 Gives Way to the Next Holiday!
Yesterday we celebrated Halloween 2013 and today it becomes yet another day from our past, relegated to what one hopes is fond memory. Here on this site, we celebrated the lead-up to the spooky holiday all month long by looking … Continue reading
Hot Week: Digging Hot Tamales Through the Decades!
For the final day of Cinnamon Hot Week, I wanted to dig deep into a brand that has always been a favorite of mine, Just Born’s Hot Tamales! This will be the final post in our week-long coverage of all … Continue reading
Posted in 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, Boxed, Canadian, Christmas
Tagged candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, cinnamon, cinnamon candy, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, hot cinnamon, Hot Tamales, Just Born, JustBorn, packaging, sweets, vintage candy wrapper, wrapper
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A Trio of Super Mario Bros 3 Chocolate Bars from 1990!
The characters from Super Mario Brothers have received a number of licensed confectionery treatments over the years. I had the pleasure of covering one of the earliest back in May when I discussed Candy USA’s Super Mario Bros. bar from … Continue reading
Posted in 1990's, Boxed, Christmas, Gummies
Tagged 1990's, 90's, 90's candy, 90's chocolate, candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, licensed, Mario Brothers, Nintendo, packaging, Super Mario, sweets, video games, vintage candy wrapper, wrapper
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