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Man, what's the connection between Neccos and church? My mom and I used to eat them in church all the time when I was a kid. As far as I can remember, that's really the only time I remember eating them. Weird.

maryg and lo beat me to the punch. You couldn't play Mass without Necco wafers, and I -- we -- did it long enough ago that the nuns and priests were freaked by it. Told us we would burn in hell. We won't. And I still love the things when I can find them.

Will anyone here take my green, orange and yellow Wafers in exchange for the black and white ones? ;-)

I had no idea the purple were clove either! Interesting. Although they all taste pretty similar, apart from the chocolate, if you ask me.

I used to (my cousins still do) use these as the shingles on our gingerbread houses every year. Using two or three colors in diagonal lines or a checkerboard pattern looks very sophisticated, for a house made of candy. Granted we ate almost as many neccos as we stuck to the roofs, I remember my grandfather making several emergency trips to the store for more.

I've been struggling with health issues for the last ten years and am hospitalized about 6 times a year. One day about a year ago, I snuck out of my hospital room and made it down to the gift shop (complete with IV pole) and saw Necco Wafers on the candy rack. I wanted to jump up and down in glee! They were a favorite as a kid, and I hadn't seen them around for quite some time. I bought 4 rolls (all the money I had on me) and smuggled them back to my room. (You have to get the mental picture of me strolling through the hospital lobby with my backside exposed clutching my IV pole in one hand and my Neccos in the other.) I swear, the Neccos were better medicine than anything the doctors were giving me! Plus, I provided a free show of my droopy butt to all the old geezers on my wing. A good time was had by all!

Has anyone found the "tart" or "smoothie" varieties?

My mom would always give me a small roll during church in order to keep me quiet. I would eat the purple and pink ones first, and they yellow ones were always last. NO GREEN OR BLACK ONES, GROSS.

I don't actually like Necco wafers...so my memories consist of being unhappy with the people who passed them out at Halloween.

Also, I've walked passed the Necco factory in Cambridge all the time. Though, a few years ago Novartis bought it and converted it into a lab. There's still that other candy factory on Main St that makes the area smell like Junior Mints. Delicious.

i did the plastic wrap method as instructed but the eggwhite kind of stuck to the wrap so i sprayed it the next time with some olive oil. it works very well. no clean up.

i own the 4 cup egg poacher - cute little gizmo but a pain to clean the pan, the lid, and the cups every time...

I bought a set of "Poach Pods" at Sur La Table and find that they make a perfect poached egg. I tried the cling wrap method before as well and I felt that the egg looked weird and I found cooking in cling wrap kind of creepy. Most makers of cling wrap recommend that you not allow the plastic film to touch your food while microwaving it.

I seem to recall the first time I saw a TV chef prepare poached eggs (Martha?) She gently took a pair of kitchen shears and trimmed off all the egg white that took away from the symmetry of the poached egg. After that she poured hollandaise all over it a la eggs benedict. I'll never forget that and I always think of it now when eating them!

Plastic wrap and ziplocs bags are not designed to be safe in contact with food at the temperatures needed to poach eggs, DO NOT USE PLASTIC unless you want cancer.

I poach eggs the same way Loco and BostonFoodMan (and other people) do. Worked on my first try! If I can do it, anyone can. :P