Candy-Alert!! — Hershey’s Rally Bar Returns!

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I’m excited to announce that Hershey’s classic 1970’s Rally bar has returned to shelves across the nation!  Because of this unexpected-and-groovy news, I’m preempting the start of our Halloween Countdown coverage today to look back at the history of the Hershey Rally bar!

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Hot Week: Digging Hot Tamales Through the Decades!

CC_Hot Week Hot Tamales TITLE PLATEFor 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 things “hot” and it’s also going to be the biggest post of the week – with over 50 different Hot Tamales packages presented.  Whew!

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Hot Week: The Search for Nerds Hot N’ Cold!

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For today’s Cinnamon Hot Week entry I’m going to do something a little different and discuss a product I’ve yet to find much information on and one that remains a delicious and elusive mystery; Nerds Hot N’ Cold!

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Hot Week: Cinnamon Teddy Bears!

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For today’s Hot Cinnamon Week post, I wanted to cover a childhood favorite of mine: Stark’s Cinnamon Teddy Bears!

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Hot Week: Mason’s HOT Cinnamon DOTS from the 80’s!

CC_Hot Dots TITLE PLATEAs we hit day four of our Cinnamon Hot Week, it’s time to share another hot flavor of a classic brand you’ve probably never heard of:  Mason’s Hot Cinnamon DOTS!

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Hot Week: Bazooka Hot Bubble Gum from 1973!

CC_Bazooka HOT Title PlateBDuring the initial two days of Cinnamon Hot Week I looked at unusual items from the 1960’s and the 1990’s – so today I’m hitting the 1970’s with a dynamite-yet-mysterious release from Topps Chewing Gum:  Bazooka Hot Bubble Gum!

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Hot Week: Willy Wonka’s Everlasting Hot Gobstoppers!!

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Welcome back to the second day of our Cinnamon Hot Week!  Today we’ll be shining a delicious light on a treat from the early 1990’s; Willy Wonka’s Everlasting HOT Gobstoppers!

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Hot Week: PEZ Hot Cinnamon Candy from the 1960’s!

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Our first Cinnamon Hot Week posting is a wild one as it features a cinnamon hot flavor of a candy I never would have expected and had never heard of until recently:  Hot Cinnamon Pez!

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Kicking off Cinnamon Hot Week!

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Although we’re rapidly coming up on October when our second annual participation in CountdownToHalloween will be going on, I wanted to squeeze in something I’d been planning since June – a Hot Week, or more specifically a Cinnamon Hot Week.

Originally planned for the hottest days of Summer, I wasn’t able to make the time to get a full week of consecutive posts generated back then so I’m going to squeeze it in now during the first full week of Autumn.  It might not tie into our current cooler season as well as it would have in June, but what the heck, right?

Hot Cinnamon is one of my favorite confectionery flavors, and by devoting a CollectingCandy.com theme week to it, I hope to showcase some of the most well-known as well as some of the more obscure cases of its use in popular confection.   This is my first creation of a themed week here on the site so I hope you dig it.

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Artist Paul Rousso Transforms my Collection into Giant Art!

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Paul Rousso is an artist and gentleman.  He’s also a madman and an evil genius who has transformed some of the pieces from my collection into an amazing giant work of art entitled “November 1st” — currently in consideration for the prestigious 2013 ArtPrize.

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