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How our VALOMILK Candy Cups ended up at Economy Candy in NYC is beyond me but I hope you New Yorkers enjoy them.
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VALOMILKS have been a favorite throughout the Midwest for over 75 years. Thanks to Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurants we are in more parts of our country now than ever before.
We consider our VALOMILKS to be the messiest candy in the country, but that makes it fun and candy should be fun. "When it runs down your chin you know its a VALOMILK."
Thanks for including our VALOMILKS on your list.
Russ Sifers
PS - Esmeralda might be thinking of the 7-Up Bar.
Dried Cantaloupe from Economy Candy
How our VALOMILK Candy Cups ended up at Economy Candy in NYC is beyond me but I hope you New Yorkers enjoy them.
Russ Sifers
Dried Cantaloupe from Economy Candy
If youre like me and can't make it over to economy candy, you can find dried cantaloupe at this site Gourmet Nut they are well worth trying.
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I'm with the Gold Brick guy, but Gold Bricks were literally that...little bars of milk chocolate studded with toasted pecans, wrapped in gold paper...when I was a kid. D.H. Holmes (immortalized in "A Confederacy of Dunces") and other shops sold Elmer's candies including the Gold Brick, Heavenly Hash (a variation on Rocky Road) cut into big sticky squares, and something the company no longer makes, Mint Bubblettes. They were big red and white peppermint rounds the size of jaw-breakers, but they melted away to nothing you your mouth. The family moved the company to Pontchatoula, La. -- back in the '60s, I think -- and they still make Gold Bricks and Heavenly Hash. Great candy.
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I spent my undergrad years at MIT, just a few blocks downwind of the New England Confectionery Company. Every morning's walk to classes was scented with the smell of Necco Wafers.
The company relocated to Everett because the building and property had become so valuable they decided to sell. A condition of the sale was that the new owners had to preserve the water tank at the top of the building, which was painted to resemble a roll of wafers. The new occupants, Novartis, repainted the tank with a DNA double helix - with base pairs colored like the wafers: pink, purple, orange, and green.
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How about Coffee Crisp? I never really appreciated it until I moved to the States and couldn't get it...
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Erin.........I stand corrected. I checked for myself, and you are right. Unfortunately, most people in the Boston area, and many in the confectionary industry, were and still are under the impression that Nate Sloane had started the company in Everett, MA, since his purchase and relocation of this enterprise was for some reason never publicly mentioned. I too had been mislead all these many years. Sorry about that, and thanks for setting the record straight.
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I've also never seen one of the "cup-o-gold" things, and I've lived here for all but 5 years of my life. We did have neighbors who always gave us full sized "Abba Zabba" bars for halloween (they only gave a few of the neighborhood kids candy, and we had to call for them through the mailbox or they wouldn't answer the door.).
You missed a midwestern specialty, the Cherry Mash, that was common where I lived in Kansas.
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I'm from California and have never ever seen one of those gold nugget things. I've seen plenty of Chic-o-sticks, though, and I think they're nasty.
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I can't vouch for the smell near Ferrara Pan, but the factory store that sells all of their candy cheap and in bulk is a treat to visit.
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In addition to being the home of the rugged Mountain Bar, the sumptuos Almond Roca and its high-strung cousin- Mocha Roca, the NW has also produced the Washington intrafamous Applets & Cotlets. As far as I can tell, they never escaped the border, but are known to most Washingtonians as a symbol of our state produce. Too bad I don't really care for them...
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Mr. Sifers -- Thank you for verifying the name of the "7-Up" bar. The 7-Up bar, the Marathon bar (a chocolate-covered caramel braid), and Fruit-Stripe gum are sweet memories of my childhood.
I am ashamed to say that I have never tried a VALOMILK. I am currently living in the United Kingdom so I doubt I can find one here. As soon as I move back home to Texas, I will head to the nearest Cracker Barrel to enjoy my first VALOMILK.
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@Russ--I sure do!
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VALOMILKS have been a favorite throughout the Midwest for over 75 years. Thanks to Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurants we are in more parts of our country now than ever before.
We consider our VALOMILKS to be the messiest candy in the country, but that makes it fun and candy should be fun. "When it runs down your chin you know its a VALOMILK."
Thanks for including our VALOMILKS on your list.
Russ Sifers
PS - Esmeralda might be thinking of the 7-Up Bar.