Tuesday, December 24, 2013

15 Old-Timey Candies You Never Knew Existed

In the 1920s, there was a candy bar called Chicken Dinner. Not making this up.


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Popular in the '30s and '40s, this candy bar included a mix of peanuts, marshmallow, and fudge covered in milk chocolate.


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Chicken Dinner Candy Bar


Pearson's Candy Company put out these oddly-named bars during the Great Depression, the name being a reference to Hoover's presidential campaign slogan, "A chicken in every pot." The bar did not contain chicken — it was a nut roll covered in chocolate.


Chicken Dinner Candy Bar


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Pecan Pete


A choice for candy lovers of the 1940s, Pecan Pete bars included clusters of pecans stuffed in with nougat and covered in bittersweet dark chocolate.


Pecan Pete


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Nickel Naks


These 1940s candies varied in flavor from box to box — think lemon drops, jelly beans, candy corn, or candy cherries.


Nickel Naks


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