NECCO love
By adamg - Tue, 09/02/2008 - 8:11am.
Maureen Rogers fondly recalls each and every NECCO product, from Sky Bars to the Candy Cupboard assortment:
... NECCO Wafers also gave you variety, and even more share-ability than a Sky Bar, but they were primarily useful as the source of fake communion wafers when you played Mass. You just separated out the white ones, and away you went. Sure, they had a different flavor than an actual communion wafer. And they were a lot more brittle. But it's not as if anyone were going to give us real communion wafers to play with - especially in those heretical scenarios in which a girl played the priest. ...
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She wrote: (Not to mention
She wrote:
(Not to mention Mary Janes and Squirrel Nuts, which I think they acquired from the buy-out of another Cambridge candy company.)
Yeah, that was the Squirrel Brand Company; the building's still there (on Broadway, I think, near Windsor), and now in front is the aptly named Squirrel Brand Park.
One Cambridge candy factory remains
down from four just a few years ago.
The remaining one is on Main Street. It's currently owned by Tootsie Roll, but I recall when it was Nabisco.
RIP: Squirrel Brand (now the park mentioned above), Haviland (now condos), Necco (now Novartis)
Great Candy Memories
The Sky Bar was (still is, really) one of my all-time favorite candy bars. And I buy a tube of NECCO Wafers once every year or so, just for nostalgia's sake. The chalky taste, the unique aroma, the crack-crunch as you chew them - all worth the price of admission.
I recall often getting Candy Cupboard boxed chocolates as a prize from Kelly The Candy Man at the Brockton Fair. Anyone else remember him?
Suldog
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I never went to the Brockton
I never went to the Brockton Fair, but we had Dan the Candy Man at the fair where I grew up, and I remember winning those boxed chocolates after probably spending twice the cost on tickets. It was gambling for kids, and we loved it.
They sell Necco Wafers at the Somerville Theatre and every now and then I enjoy a roll when I go see a film. Faux transubstantiation now tastes like licorice to me. Good stuff!
Dan The Candy Man
I recall Dan, too. One replaced the other at some point, I believe. That game made the rounds to Marshfield, Topsfield, Weymouth, and every other fair in the area.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
I remember the nuns handing
I remember the nuns handing out unblessed Communion wafers at summer bible camp when I was a kid; I guess you'd call them seconds, but us kids gobbled them up like Pez. Aside from some surface differences we could never figure out why they'd made the reject pile instead of being used for Mass.
I hope you didn't chew them.
I hope you didn't chew them. If you did, you're going to hell for sure. Or is that only if they're consecrated?
No Chew Rule?
You mean you're not supposed to? Guess I missed that in CCD class. Not being snarky; just never heard that and my mother is so Catholic it hurts.
According to the Sisters of
According to the Sisters of St Joseph - and they held the stick in their hands.
Ahhhh, yes!
I still remember that sweet, homey aroma of the Necco wafers wafting from what was the Necco wafer factory down near MIT. Too bad it's not there anymore. The aroma of Necco wafers was an aroma to cheer and clear the pallet, if one gets the drift.