Hey man, this is important! We’re talking about no more necco wafers!
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But…he ate 20 year-old-gum…that he FOUND! That means he rejected it once, waited 5 presidencies, then changed his mind and willingly ATE THAT GUM!
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I am eating licorice right now. Shamelessly.
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Without Beemans’, a considerable amount of aviation history would have happened in a different way, or even not at all, maybe.
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It couldn’t be any worse than the gum that comes with Topp’s baseball cards. I think they’re still selling gum that was produced for the war effort in the 40’s.
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OK then. Lend me a stick?
The late Levon Helm is so damn great here, I can barely stand to watch knowin’ he’s gone.
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Also… I’m surprised no one posted this:
I just remember him talking about eating necco wafers at some point.
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I don’t swallow.
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How to cope when candy snacks are discontinued:
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I happen to love them. To each there own I guess.
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A puppet gave a mutant the finger…
Why did they sell a competitor’s candy at NECCO?
I think of NECCO as archetypically “old” American, while Tootsie Rolls are all about the fin de siècle immigrant story.
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Canada Mints taste like when I was little, really little, my mom volunteered at the hospital once a month on Saturday mornings, taking the cart of magazines and candy around to the patients’ rooms, and she would always bring me home a box of Canada Mints, and sometimes it would be a green box of white peppermint mints, and sometimes it would be a red box of pink wintergreen mints, and they were mysterious and came from the outside world, because you see I was too little to get them for myself, everything depended on grownups bringing it into your world at home, and my mom had been gone for a whole morning doing who knew what and when she came back she had something for me.
After some time, Canada Mints tasted like being big enough to walk to the little neighborhood store a few blocks from home to buy candy, and discovering there were Canada Mints there too! And you could procure them by yourself for yourself, no grownups needed except for having to ask them for money so you could go to the store. Peppermint or wintergreen?…Peppermint or wintergreen? The taste—opening the box on the way home, putting the first one into your mouth—was the taste of being big enough to make the choice yourself, and the taste of having made a commitment…a little regret at not getting the other one this time…and quickly making the decision to be happy with the one you got.
Does that help? Of course your mileage may vary.
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That’s because Licorice is also delicious.
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When the last case leaves the Necco loading dock, Hell’s candy stores will be reduced to carrying only Bit-O-Honey, circus peanuts, and red licorice whips.
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you may send any and all bit-o-honeys to me. PM for the address.
I even liked the hard old-school ones better than the reformulated soft ones.
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