Almost 150 years ago, Necco Wafers began their birth!

Welcome back..as anyone who reads this knows, I have had a longtime love affair with Necco Wafers,started way,way,way,way,WAY back in 1847, by the original Willy Wonka (LOLOL)_ O.M.Chase, who'd started his company in a very simple way back east, with great success, though,again, NECCO' as we know them,with multicolored/mulktiflavored format,wouldn't be around bhack that long. The real story began in 1901,with the colors and flavors listed before. I've recently started enjoying these again as of 2015 as noted..I have to go,more later

Necco's Flavors that NEVER were!

 Well, back agaiin 2022, and I AM back now on all my blogs permanently.

Okay, mt longtime passion..superpassion, Necco Wafers

Everyone knows these are

Chocolate-brown

Licorice-black

Cinnamon-white

Clove-purple

Orange, Lemon, and Lime, obvious

But I have always--O-kay, recently-lol-wished for these to be these..

these flavors:

Ginger-gray

Nutmeg-deep brown

Violet-deep purple (hell, if Choward's ®can have it, why not Necco ®®)

Rose-pink

They could each easily be mixed with the eight others-hell, there's room enough in an average Spangler/Necco roll.

And they taste hella good as always (even though they ARE now made outside US, in Mexico,..)

Yep, Necco (turn on dream world mode of mine at this moment:)

Licorice!

Chocolate!

Wintergreen!

Orange!

Cinnamon!

Clove!

Lemon!

Lime!

Nutmeg!

Ginger!

Violet!

Clove!

So, Spangler of Bryan, Ohio, if you ARE reading, please take notice.

Thank you.

Meanwhilst, I'll keep on enjoying them as is until the even better suggesiton is done.

Haters, they're back!

Just when you thought it was safe to  got in the store again, NeccoTM Wafers (Manufavtured by Spangler Candies,Inc.,Byran, Ohio), are bakc.

The samce
licorice
chocolate
cinnamon
clove
wintergreen
lemon
lime
orange
flavors are back, and colored the very exact same way:
(in order)
black
brown
white
purple
pink
yellow
green
orange

With the famous NECCO(r) stamp and shaped exactly, the same weay, in the exact same wrapper types, these classic old style wafers are back for good and here to stay, baby, yeah!

Alright, SpanglerTM's "Sweetjheasrts"TM (nee: "Necco") back in stores!

Well, it's happened. A few days before, on Saturday, February 1, 2020, I found Splanger NeccoTM Sweethearts! In CVS/Pharmacy/La marcary, while waiting tos ee at the LA MIRADA THEATRE, the classic ARSENIC & OLD LACE, a box of Necco Sweethearts by Spangler, and noted the SPANGLER name..! I looked for its sisters and brothers. and then, after five minutes, there it WAS! A whole BOX of Spangler Sweethearts, following in Necco's candy steps.

Sadly, as of March 13, the stupid Covid 19 virus has closed many theatres, but as of mid June, things are opening again..

Delish.

I know I will HAVE some soon..


NOW. Could other Necco revivals from Spangler be far behind...INCLUDING (Necco) WAFERS? Clearly..

And now the NECCO WAFERS ARE BACCCCCK!

SO....any sign of Necco (by way of "Spangler") Wafers retuning? :-)

Hi, it's now 11/19, 5 months after my last post...starting now I present, # hashtags..to make reference a lot easier. (Awwww....:) It almost should be time that the famous #lollipop , #circuspeanut and #candycane maker Spangler releases the classic Necco wafers, just as before.

The flavors/colors should be as before
Brown - Chocolate
Pink - Pepto Bismol - I mean - Wintergreen :D
White - Cinnamon
Orange - (Cue the Trix Rabbit)-Orange
Purple - Clove
Green - Lime
Yellow - Lemon
  If everything goes according to plan.

At the latest. Necco/Spangler will have them out in February 2020. I can hardly wait. (So where are those long-lasting, already out Neccos..a store I know has their MARY JANES, MADE alrteady by Neccp (even though DEFUNCT!!@ ha ha) talk about a company whose products last a long time./)

Necco Keeps Right On!

Many of you no doubt like the much hated NECCO(TM) candy, whcih must rank with Boston Baked BeansTM, CANDY CORN(NO TM, unless BRACH'S has a final word, heh hee) and Circus PEANUTS (NO TM AT ALL!)
as worst opinion-garnering candy, though I lvoe all of these. Y'all no doubt heard ALSO of the notorious DEMISE of the wafers, not counting the  ones still left ot please us..WELL.. HAPPY DAYS!

Spangler of Bryan, Ohio--remember them?----has continued the beloved treats.

Far as I know, it'll be the same package format/flavors


(recap. on colors and flavors for the reader convience)

Color: BROWN   flavor: CHOCOLATE
Color and Flavor: ORANGE
Color: PINK          Flavor:WINTERGEEN
Color:WHITE        Flavor:CINNAMON!!! (NOW it STARTS to get INTERESTING..)
Color:LAVENDER BLUE              Flavor:CLOVE(!)
Color: YELLOW             Flavor: LEMON
Color: GREEN                   Flavor: LIME


Color and Flavor: ORANGE


Sadly, not used in that thankfully discontinued 2009-2011 take with natural flavors. The green color for lime was not an easy onne to copy, to say the least. Good riddance. There's already haters for Neccos..


Anyhow, I bought some today for the movies. Here's hopin' for a revival and a tremendous successful; to say the least of all of the flavors/colors, of those
old-timel, delicious, curious, Norman Rockwellian candies!

Circus Peanuts for a birthday..

How'd you like to have those nice, foamy, marshmallows. Yes, those things...as this nears its second birthday (and thanks,specifically, to Cybele May, who runs Candyblog who sort of inspired this in the first place... Nice peanuts,huh?

Anyhow, December 8 was my birthday..we went to the local La Mirada,Calif. bar/grill and I got, among others, /Spangler Circus Peanuts,(Gold Medal "off brand" from CVS) two bags, and I enjoyed them, saved, saw, came, and ate them within a week,,though Melster's (sold in its own bags) are by all means even better and the bes,t

Rainbow Colored Peanut marshamllows

On Sunday, April 19, 2015, I went to Unviersal Studios Hollywood and went to the CityWalk to It's Sugar candy store. I found the It's Sugar-rebranded-Spangler assorted Circus peanut marshmallows.

Even with the classic orange color/banana flavor pairing it was nice to get some color/flavor variety:
White......vanilla/marshmallow
Pink.........punch(?)
Yellow......lemon (yeah.....I know: why not ORANGE? Orange colored standard circus peanuts are flavored like the yellow fruit banana..)

The Spangler stamp imprint was all over them. These candies get repackaged and resold since 1911..oh, wait..that was Lewis Black's very well known candy corn comment.

Anyway, if you stop by a mall or anything like that or like Universal (and Vegas's Venetian has this but I didn't buy them then) that has It's Sugar check the four colored Circus peanuts. But don't tell 'em I sent ya!:)

A Tale of two Circus Peanut brands

The public domain status of CIRCUS PEANUTS (TM-NOT) has resulted in many companies (and packagers for stores!) offering the famed marshmallows. The two most frequently seen where I am, are Melster, especially in Dollar tree where any size (6 Peanuts per serving of 4, x 4, 24 or 7x4 for 28) can be bought for the nice, comfy price of $1.00, (and Family Dollar has in larger bags what seem to be that brand packed for them, that or Brachs, Farley or Sathers, certainly NOT Spangler), and Spangler, which is the brand that dominates (generally masquerading as instore drugstore brands). I went to Dollar Tree and one of those offering
the Spangler brands (Rite Aid, yeah, it doesn't SAY Spangler but it HAS the name on the candies!) and bought and mixed the candies in a bag.

Spangler is squishy due to the gelatin, and not only looking orange, but the usual mismatching banana flavor seems mixed in with orange flavor...

Melster has a more larger, "gummy" "peanut" with a banana bubblegum flavor (Banana Splits, one banana two banana anyone..?)

Mixing them in one bag (on my way to see the current animation movie "Home") was very odd..given that the two brands of Circus Peanuts are so different as described.....

Still, all in all, very interesting having both, and I've had both individually before.

CIRCUS PEANUTS REVIEW

CIRCUS PEANUTS
One of the oldest, most controversial, most sweetest, and most mysterious candies ever has to be the non-copyrighted, multiple-company
produced, inconsistent flavor/shape/taste Circus Peanut, which first showed up (as a Christmas type or years end candy) in the early 1800s,
maybe even before Necco (then Chase and Co.) Candy Wafers showed up in 1847, eventually by the 1940s winding up as an all year round bagged candy.
They're peanut shell in shape.
Orange in color.
Banana in Flavor.
Made by multiple companies.
And like dirty comic Louis Black might say as he did of candy corn, it's been recycled since 1910.

Even sold by THOSE VERY SAME COMPANIES to other packagers to MANY stores (ergo, Type A, Type X, etc. will be commonly and naively associated by us
average shopper as additional makers of Circus peanuts, yet one of the longest makers in the 20th century still making them, Spanglers, since 1941, has
their name on the candies, literally..I saw those in the Queen City brand in Big Lots(nee Pic and Save) stores. MIXED with some other brand.
The "peanuts", containing pig skin gelatin, corn syrup, natural or artificial flavor, color, are also made by Melster which also, like Spangler (best known for their
own trademakred lollipops, Dum-Dums), also has a working deal with store and indie brands that outsource them from Melster, as well as Farley and Sathers, and
Brach's, and no doubt they also have "peanuts" winding up repackaged. Kind of like, much like, Candy Corn, and in fact, comic Louis C.K.Black has said that all
candy corn was made in 1914, which some wags might just also say of Circus Peanuts.

Here's what a typical CIRCUS PEANUTS package might look like:

(OKAY, OKAY, if *I* made the candy.:))

Spangler, for one, has done Peppermint white Circus Peanuts and other flavors in addition to the orange color/banana flavor (maybe even Finger Nail Polish Remover flavor!:)) that
we would naturally normally associate with Circus Peanuts normally.

The strane delights can be found in everything from small bags to bulky ones...

Basic RECIPE
Sugar
Gelatin
Corn Syrup
Flavor
Color
(last two of choices)