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Easter Week 2014: Easter Nerds Through the Years – Featuring Doc Hinkles Nerds Shrinkles!
Willy Wonka’s Nerds are one of my all-time favorites and that certainly includes their holiday releases. In recent years Easter-themed Nerds have taken on the moniker of “Hoppin’” Nerds but that wasn’t always the case. Today we’re going to look … Continue reading
Posted in 1980's, 1990's, Boxed, Easter, Holiday, Nestle, Wonka
Tagged 1980's, 1990's, 80's, 80's candy, 90's, 90's candy, candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, Easter, Easter candy, Nerds, packaging, sweets, vintage candy wrapper, Willy Wonka, Wonka, Wonka Nerds, wrapper
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Meet Mark Sweet: The Real-Life Willy Wonka!
Today marks CollectingCandy.com’s second anniversary (launched on February 6th, 2012 with our Retrospective of Big League Chew) – and it’s also our 450th post! With so much to celebrate, we wanted to bring you a great feature as well as … Continue reading
Posted in 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, Nestle, Wonka
Tagged 1970's, 1970's Wonka, 70's, 70's candy, Big Bang Theory, Breaker, Breaker Confections, candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, CBS, Chuck Lorre, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, Nestle, packaging, Sunline, Sunmark, sweets, television, vintage candy wrapper, Willy Wonka, Wonka, wrapper
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Breaker Confections’ Great Goliath and his Giant Jawbreaker!
Today’s post is an especially fun one as I get to premiere the only known images and information for a candy product that would otherwise be forgotten to time. Not only is it something you’ve never seen before, but it … Continue reading
Posted in 1970's, Nestle, Wonka
Tagged 70's candy, Breaker, Breaker Confections, candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, jawbreaker, mascot 1970's candy, packaging, Sunmark, sweets, vintage candy wrapper, Willy Wonka, Wonka, wrapper
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Willy Wonka’s Xploders — From Around the Globe!
Back in 1998, Nestle UK introduced the Wonka Xploder bar to the world – at least the United Kingdom part of it. A chocolate bar infused with carbonated popping candy (ala Pop Rocks) – it seemed like a perfect kind … Continue reading
Posted in British, Chocolate, Nestle, Wonka
Tagged Australia, candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, carbonated, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, England, mascot, Nestle, New Zealand, packaging, Pop Rocks, sweets, United Kingdom, vintage candy wrapper, Willy Wonka, Wonka, wrapper
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7-Eleven’s Name Brand 7-Select Candy!
Store brands or “private label” candy offerings are typically generic treats like jelly beans and gummy bears but sometimes they’re repackaged name brand candies. 7-Select, the private label brand from 7-Eleven recently offered up a few name brands within their … Continue reading
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Tagged 7-11, 7-Eleven, candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, Ferrara, Ferrara Pan, Hot Tamales, Just Born, Nestle, packaging, Runts, Seven Eleven, sweets, vintage candy wrapper, Wonka, 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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Australia’s Awesome New Wonka Bars for 2013!
Wonka is one of my favorite brands so I take notice even when they release something really neat on the other side of the planet. Such was the case when the Australia-New Zealand arm of Nestle released a quartet of … Continue reading
Willy Wonka’s Halloween Bag Line Brochure from 1984!
Willy Wonka is a huge brand name in the candy business today but it might be the 1980’s when the brand experienced its first golden age of success with new introductions like Nerds. The 80’s are also when non-Wonka products … Continue reading
Posted in 1980's, CountdownToHalloween, Halloween, Holiday, Nestle, Wonka
Tagged 1980's, 1980's candy, 80's, 80's candy, candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, Halloween candy, packaging, sweets, vintage candy wrapper, Willy Wonka, Wonka, Wonka candy, wrapper
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Hot Week: The Search for Nerds Hot N’ Cold!
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!
Hot Week: Willy Wonka’s Everlasting Hot Gobstoppers!!
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!
Posted in 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, Boxed, Wonka
Tagged 60's candy, 70's candy, 80's candy, 90's candy, candy collecting, candy collection, candy collector, candy wrapper collection, candy wrapper collector, cinnamon, collectible, collecting candy, confectionery, confections, Gobstopper, Gobstoppers, hot cinnamon, mascot, packaging, sweets, vintage candy wrapper, Willy Wonka, Wonka, wrapper
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