Necco Wafers | The Return of an American Candy Classic
First made in New England in 1847, Necco Wafers are an American candy classic. Learn more about Necco’s history, including an update on candy’s recent comeback.
By Aimee Tucker|Sep 26 2022|
Packaging updates include the "Since 1847" band to the left of the logo, and updated type for "The Original Candy Wafer."
Photo Credit: Aimee TuckerIf taste is linked to memory, then one of the easiest ways to jump back to childhood is to eat Necco Wafers.
Even tearing the paper to unroll the tube does it—the puff of powdered sugar and mingling flavor-scents, both sweet and spicy, hitting your nose. Lemon? Wintergreen? Chocolate? Yes, the combination can seem odd by today’s candy standards, but the flavor blend is a familiar one if you grew up eating Necco Wafers, and just one bite (which is more of a “SNAP”) makes the time-travel complete.
For your tastebuds, anyway.
Necco Wafers, it must be said, taste like a candy invented in 1847, but despite the 19th-century approach to texture and flavor they’ve held on to their place at the checkout next to richer, fattier, and fruitier candies. Nostalgia aside, I suspect that the wafers’ exceptional use as gingerbread house shingles, edible poker chips, or practice hosts for a first communion are what kept these wafers popular for so long.
Curious about Necco Wafers history? The candies have been around since 1847, but the New England Confectionery Company (NECCO … see that?) in Revere, Massachusetts, made them for more than a century. During the early 20th century explorers took them to the Arctic and the South Pole, while the army sent them to soldiers overseas during WWII because the wafers didn’t melt or spoil.
The original flavors of Necco Wafers were orange, lemon, lime, clove, chocolate, cinnamon, licorice, and wintergreen. Over time, Necco also marketed rolls of only chocolate Necco wafers, and even Tropical Necco Wafers, with coconut, passion fruit, strawberry, lime, banana, and mango flavors.
While it’s true there are many folks who find Necco Wafers chalky and bland (the candy routinely come in last alongside the marshmallow circus peanut on the annual list of “What’s the worst Halloween candy?”), Necco wafers continued to sell, to the tune of about 4 billion wafers a year. In 2018, as Necco was suddenly sold and production halted (see below), Necco Wafers became one of the year’s most popular web searches, according to Google. Not bad for a candy recipe from the days of the Mexican–American War.
The Fall (and Return) of Necco Wafers
For a year or two, the world was without Necco wafers, but I am happy to report that Necco Wafers are back! So what happened? In 2007, the Necco company fell on hard times and was sold to an investment firm. Financial losses continued, and in 2017 another company took ownership, then another in 2018, but hopes for Necco’s survival were dashed (seemingly for good) on July 24, 2018, when the Necco Revere facility closed. The company’s approximately 230 workers and executives were laid off, and production of all candy lines stopped, ending the Necco Wafer’s reign as the country’s longest-running, continuously produced candy.
Necco’s long-running candy lines were sold to other manufacturers, with the Necco Wafer, Sweethearts conversation hearts, and Canada Mints going to the Spangler Candy Company of Ohio, best known for its Dum Dums lollipops, in late 2018. Spangler quickly announced plans for both Necco Wafers and Sweethearts to return to store shelves. I caught my first glimpse of the Spangler Necco Wafers in summer 2020, and was pleased to see the familiar logo and packaging.
Photo Credit : Aimee Tucker
Photo Credit : Aimee Tucker
So which camp do you belong to? Necco Wafers lover or not? Personally, I can’t get enough of the clove wafers.
This post was first published in 2014 and has been updated.
My great aunt (who passed away in 2001) worked there for years. Not quite sure what she did, but I know she liked it. If you can believe it, when I was going through preparation for my First Communion back in 1978, the nun used NECCO wafers as the “host” because they’re the same size and shape 🙂
Great piece!
When I was young the sweets did not come often but every so often we were allowed to pick a candy we liked when we went to the local grocery. Necco wafers were always my favorite. I could make them last for a very long time enjoying them a little wafer at a time. I think my favorite was the green wafer and the least favorite the white. Have not had them for a very long time but after seeing this I may pick some up just to see if my taste buds have changed!
I have been eating these since I was little! Always liked pink, white and purple best! Unfortunately the conversation hearts dont have the same spicy flavors anymore. Thank goodness I can still get the wafers. Have 2 rolls sitting next to me right now! Lol!!!
I love them still…the licorice is my favorite…and I’ll buy them fairly frequently to keep in the center console of my car for a midafternoon pick-me-up on the way home…
PS-I love circus peanuts too, don’t care if they’re the least liked Halloween candy ever….
Necco wafers! I always saw them in my neighborhood 7-11 as a kid but never picked any up. Lack of fancy packaging I guess. Had I known they were made by the makers of Sweethearts I would have picked some up! Will be on the lookout next time I’m at the grocery store. Great article!
My Dad, K E Lumbert, worked for NECCO before he met & married my Mother. I am there only daughter, & now live in Venice, FL. Interestingly, I have found & bought the NECCO Wafers at a restuarant in Sarasota, FL called Der Dutchman (Troyers). I’m eating one now. YUM!!!!!!
I visit Sarasota frequently and have gone to Der Dutchman,I ‘ll look for Necco wafers,I liked the clove,but my mom chewed clove gum!
So many memories of necco wafers. My mother and grandmother always had them in their purses. They were a great treat to keep the kids from fidgeting during something “adult” but then my sisters and I would fight over the colors. I honestly never knew which flavor was which other than the chocolate
I always bought Necco Wafers when I went to the movies as a kid. They lasted the whole movie and I even had some to take home. I don’t go to the movies very often now, but will buy some the next time I do.
LICORICE was and is my favorite! Got hooked on them when 6 years old ~ am now 83! ” I’d walk a mile for a roll of Licorice flavored wafers” BUT the only place I can get them now is at the Dollar Store where they now cost .79 cents ~ then also at ‘Cracker Barrel’ where they sell for over a dollar!!! Wonder why they never made them in COFFEE flavor?!
I love Necco wafers, I just finished off a roll yesterday.
Love this story …. Had Necco wafers growing up … they are the best …
Can never pass them up …
Thank you for all the info … did not know they were that old.
One of my favorite trivia questions while driving by the warehouse (I-90?) is: “What does NECCO stand for?” Always a goodie (pun intended).
I’m the eldest of 8 children. My mom would buy us Necco Wafers on grocery day. We all opened them up and began trading with each other for our favorite flavors. It was a lot of fun. I always traded for the licorice, that being my favorite.
…while I’ve never been the BIGGEST fan..I’ve liked them (Sweet Hearts included) off and on…this oldest US brand’s only older counterpart in US is Britain’s Altoids, since 1780, now available just like US brands, straight at any store near you…..I didn’t know that Necco made so many other candies (Mary janes….some cynics will say “yeah…it figures since they made the wafers”..I’ll leave those peanut butter candy named after a show brand to others..)
I recall the Clark Bars (their answer to Butterfinger’s type of candy from a major competitor. Can you imagine Lisa Simpson switching Bart Simpson’s Butterfinger that he used to shill on TV for a Clark Bar..:))
Yeah…I remember the buttons too…When I used to eat the Necco Wafers, I did like the chocolate and cloves..
(raised hand)..had 21 wafers over the last 5 weeks (incl.one every day in last week’s Vegas vacation!:))
I’m 83, and had lots of Neccos — never knew a out the static elec. ????
I used to eat them in bed under the covers. If you snap them in half static electricity makes a little lightening bolt!!!!
OMG! Coffee would be SPECTACULAR. Rhode Islanders (even expat RIslanders like me) grow up on coffee syrup!
and they make great target for kids with a BB gun or pellet gun
Still one of my favorites. Licorice get tosed thou
My dad also worked there in the 30’s but today us in a nursing home and one of his favorite treats are rolls of NECCO wafers. Note* Market Basket has them for $.50 ea. Which is much less than those that sell them as “classic” candies.
You know you’re a New Englander if you know that Wednesday is “Prince Spaghetti Day”
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…if you know “how many cookies did Andrew eat?” Answer “Andrew ate 8000” (AN8-8000)
Favorite candy, ever….when my son was young (now 60 yrs.) he used to take all the white ones and play “priest” giving communion…..he will kill me for telling this story !!!!!
My father and his brothers owned a trucking company they worked along with other candy companys in Mass area.
They also worked with the NECCO family. All the candy company’s new everyone’s family one time or another. Dad would always bring home the Necco wafers to me all the time.
Now my brother owns our family company I do think he still works along side them up to this very day.
Deb
Licorice, clove and orange were always my favorite flavors. My Mom and Dad gave out rolls of NECCO wafers every Halloween to the trick or treaters. Those wafers are still a favorite treat.
If you take a roll of Necco wafers under the bedcovers in complete darkness, hold one wafer between your two hands and snap it.
And that is how early man discovered fire 🙂
I have always loved them. Also use them for targets if you miss they eat good then too. also wount harm the envoriment.
When my kids were young and money was tight, I would buy them Necco wafers on grocery day. My house is where all the neighborhood kids played. One day I was working in the bedrooms and I could hear the kids playing in the living room. My oldest son about six, had a very solemn voice so I tiptoed out to investigate. He was playing Mass on the coffee table and the kids, my other three and several other kids were solemnly sitting on the couch. He blessed the neccos then the kids lined up and he ceremoniously put a wafer on the tongue of each kid. I hope this doesn’t sound sacrilegious to practicing Catholics. I was pleased that it was so solemnly done.
Use to eat Necco Wafers as a small child, still do and I am seventy six.
Spent forty two years working and running NECCO (New England Confectionery Co.) Built New Plant in Revere, Ma. in 2000. Wonderful plant associates, great spirit and the makers of aprox. 704 different types of Candy. Most famous Necco Wafers, Sweethearts, Skybar, Mary Jane, Clark Bar, Sqirrel, Haviland Thin Mints, Mighty Malts, Candy Cupboard Chocolates. Special Company and People.
When I was little, I remember my Dad always LOVING these candies. Now, when I’m in a store and see them, I will buy them and remember Dad. They last a long time and have so many great flavors! Now I know why my Dad loved them – and I do too!
I love Necco wafers too, but my favorite candy by far that NECCO produces is the Skybar. Have lived south of the Mason Dixon line since 1992, and Skybars are as scarce as hen’s teeth here in TX. Every time I’m back in NE I always make a point of picking one up….heaven in a candy bar!!!
My mom loved NECCO wafers and ate them all the time. I preferred the chocolate ones and she was a die-hard licorice fan. When she passed away in 2009, We had her buried with a roll of NECCO wafers in her hand.
I am not the biggest fan of NECCO wafers, but always used them to make a pretty tiled roof on gingerbread houses for Christmas. I would love to try the tropical flavors, though and am going to have to track them down. Skybar, on the other hand, is fabulous. Can be tough to find, but someone told me the company doesn’t make/ship them in the summer, as the fillings would melt out of the bars. I always look for them at Stop&Shop when cooler weather sets in!
Oh, WOW! I haven’t had Necco wafers is years! They were always one of my mom’s favorites, so she lets us have them a lot! Her favorite flavors were the chocolate & Licorice. I always gave her all my licorice wafers! I have not seen them anywhere recently, but now I am craving them after reading the article & comments! I have bought the All-Chocolate rolls for my Mom from The Vermont Country Store before. I will have to find some regular Neccos for me soon! Thanks for the walk down Memory Lane!
While a student at MIT in the late 1937-1941 when NECCO was just across Mass Ave from MIT, my father invented special drying equipment for the chocolate wafers. Instead of heat, it used waves generated by a electronic coil. When I was in graduate school in Cambridge in the 1970’s, NECCO was still across the street from MIT. The sweet fragrance of the candy filled the neighborhood.
Many years ago my first job after retirement and the (main reason) for retiring was to care for my young grandsons, Did not want to go back to day care (two many girls). He knew I kept chocolate Necco wafers in the consule. He would ask me what my favorite color was and pass them to me AND then eat the rest of the roll himself.
In my late 20’s and Necco Wafers are my favorite candy. I especially adore the clove flavor and am slightly stingy with them. Great piece!
We vacationed on Cape Cod every summer and the drive there from New Jersey was a long one in the 1950’s. Dad always brought a roll of Necco Wafers along and we would have a contest to see who could keep a wafer in their mouths the longest without it disolving. I seldom won as I liked to eat them too much !
Would like to find only Licorice packs
Thought I was the only one 🙂
Chocolate! Wintergreen! Orange!
I don’t live in the States but the first time I remember Necco Wafer being mentioned was from an episode of Night Court back in the 80’s. It took years before we figured out what they were. Still never had them as I have never seen them in a store.
My great grandfather , Rev. William T Johnson, was a Methodist minister in New Englandin the mid to late 1800s. He was visiting a distraught parishioner who was out of work and despairing of how to survive. “WT” asked ” what can you do?”. “I make these candies.” Great grandfather urged him to make more of the candy wafers and sell them door to door. He did; they were a great success and led to the Necco wafer, made by the New England Candy Company.
I am looking for WAFER BAR to market in JAPAN can you supply
While working Kendall Square in the 1990’s, one could visit the Necco Factory Store at the Mass Ave. factory. Big hit was the one-pound box of NEAREGULARS chocolates, those which did not pass QC. Other favorites were available, too. Mass. Ave between Central Square and MIT always had a sweet odor in the air depending what product was being produced that day!!
Growing up in Cambridge, MA, I can still smell the sweet candy smell of the NECCO factory where you could buy either a one pound or a five pound box of irregular chocolates. NECCO wafers, Canada mints, peach blossoms, Sky bars, and squirrel nut candies were always on display in the “penny candy” counter at Tony’s corner store (corner of Bristol Street and Webster Ave in Cambridge, MA)!
Friday was television night. Mom gave a package of Necco Wafers to each of us kids. My twin sisters and I sprawled on the living room floor and watched “I Remember Mama.” There is a bulk foods store near home that carries Neck Wafers (at least it still did last summer). I took a roll to the movies last weekend.
I’ve eaten NECCO wafers and conversation hearts for as long as I can remember, and I’m 82 now. I started buying the hearts as soon as they were on the shelves and bought them every week until Valentine’s Day. Loved the wafers as well and ate them a lot when I was growing up. My favorites were licorice and chocolate wafers, and I loved ALL of the hearts. I didn’t care what color or flavor as long as I had a few in hand to eat while studying or reading. I look forward to their return in 2020.
Today is Feb 17th 2019. I just bought rolls of Neccos regular and chocolate at Atwoods farm and ranch in north Texas. They had tons of them so I think they are already available
Yep, just another victim of hedge fund predatory capitalism.
What happened to my pink, Canada Mint Wintergreen sold at CVS? I can’t find them anyway. HELP!
Trudy, I found wintergreen Canada mints at CVS just a month ago (and bought two bags). Your CVS should have them or can get them for you.
My grandma always had a bag of those big, white Canada mints (peppermint flavor) in her kitchen cabinet. I really had to stop myself from eating them all each time we visited. They were usually Brach’s, but I discovered Necco’s version when I went to college in Boston. Now I’m retired, back in the Midwest & can’t find them anywhere! Had no idea Necco had gone under! I can only pray that Spangler will reissue them soon along with the Wafers & Sweethearts. I’m in serious withdrawal! Oh, I’m also a big fan of Skybars – 4 chocolate bars in one!
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Ditto…My grandmother always had Canada mints available in a glass chicken, where you lifted the top off by grabbing the head. Presto, a load of mints!
Please Spangler, bring back the Necco wafers and conversation hearts and don’t do a name change!
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I discovered these at the old Biograph Theater in Chicago back in 1962. Fifty years later I was still eating. Where are they? No I don’t want to screw around with EBAY. I want to run down to Walgreens or Safeway and pick them up.
I love Necco wafers! I remember walking down to a corner store when I was a kid and buying them, I was instantly hooked on them. I have bought them throughout my life because I enjoy them and now they are gone. Please bring Necco wafers back, that is a novelty candy that will never be forgotten!
PLEASE BRING THE NECCO WAFERS BACK SOON!
Jan. Vermont
I loved Necco Wafers and am very sad to hear that you can’t get them anymore!!!
Is there any other company that sells them?? Thank you.
Sincerely,
Necco. Lover in Vermont
Did you read the article?! It says clearly that they are being made by Spangler and are available.
Please please please start making and selling necco wafers and sweetheart candy hearts again???? amd don’t change the name. I miss them sooooooo much. My favorite candy ever! You have no idea I want them back so bad. If I see them on the shelves I will buy ALL of them???? no joke I miss them! Come back already. I can’t believe the company went out of business this things are so delicious and so hard to find it makes me sad actually. Any plans to make them again from the new company that bought them out? I need answers? I don’t want to buy them in Amazon or Ebay for the ridiculous prices people are charging. I just want them back in the stores like Kingsoopers and Walgreens damn it! Please❤????????????????????????????
Sweetheart Candy Hearts were the very best candies and always popular around St. Valentine’s Day. The popular “Luv You” was always in demand.
Please bring Necco’s back soon. Prices of old ones are outrageous. Amazon finally took several of them off the market due to price gouging.
They are back. Just bought some today at a Walgreens.
What Walgreens please. Thanks
No wonder they taste so bad!!! I’m talking about the new ones not the original ones made in Revere USA. They knew how to make a great tasting Necco Wafer there, How come I love Mexican Beer but I hate their Necco wafers?
my favorite candy is Necco wafers and the sweethearts please dont change the name we found the sweethearts at walgreens in 2020 thanks spangler. i also got 6 rolls of Necco wafers on eBay for $24 in march of 2019. the eBay prices are unexceptible so please bring theme back soon.
Will the Necco Sky Bar be next? MMMMMMMmmm Dood!!
The sky bar recipe was sold to a company in Sudbury mass and they have been manufacturing for several months
sky bars are available right now
There is a candy store that is making the skybar. Just put in skybar on your computer.
You can order them direct from Spangler Candy Co. I have several “original” rolls on hand still. Plan to order some of the new ones and do a taste comparison.
As another comment indicated the original NECCO factory was in Cambridge, MA, not Revere. It was on a corner in the heart of the MIT campus and I too remember the constant smell of sweet candy that permeated the air. Now the entire area is part of the high tech/military/industrial complex. NECCO represents nostalgia for a less complicated time.
Yup. Cambridge. My first job out of college was at the MIT Graphic Arts department. I could see the building where they were being made, and of course smell, the wafers.
I didnt read this article yet , but i have bought two rolls of the “they’re back ” NECCO wafer. The new ones on the market are smaller in diameter than the originals. So it is kind of a ripoff that they took a famous trade name and made a smaller version of a well known confection. Secondly I looked on the roll and it appears they are now made in OHIO . So the people who lost their jobs in the Boston area are to my knowledge not on the assembly line in Boston. Just like everything that was good and enjoyable when you were younger is now cloned into something that does not even come close to the original. Another staple in New Englander’s breakfast list is MAYPO. The company that originally made that , got sold off to another company that messed with the recipe of ingredients and made a cheaper product that is kind of icky compared to the MAYPO made in the 60’s and 70’s. I am not happy with either product and will NEVER buy either one again. Charge more for an old product but cheapen it up seems to be the motto of this generation.
Love them and they recently were featured on the TV show “Chopped” as one of the ingredients to be used in the main course. I usually find them at BigLots or Sheetz here in Virginia for 99 cents.
As kids, we used to crawl under our beds and snap the white ones to see them spark. So much fun!
We hid behind the kitchen door for the same purpose. It was our mother, who was from Maine, who taught us to do that. I always loved Necco Wafers.
I bought some the other day at the grocery store or someplace.. they were smaller, thinner and bland tasting. Very disappointed.
Just bought some and have to disagree. IMO they taste the same. They tried making them briefly in Mexico and they were simply awful. I did not find them smaller, bland, or thinner and I have bought them beyond counting right at the outlet in Revere. I have to say “Well done Spangler!”
Necco Wafers make me happy! ????
When going to a Saturday matinee at the movies, Id buy the wafers because you got a lot of pieces of candy for the money, maybe they were $.05!
Glad somebody came to their senses and realised NECCO Wafers must continue.
My dad worked for NECCO in the 50s. He used to bring home all kinds of goodies, including the Boston Baked Beans. Over the years, I have found NECCO wafers, along with 1-2-3-4 SkyBar (it’s the 4-in-1 bar!) in the gift shop at Cracker Barrel restaurants.
Love Necco wafers . Chocolate, clove, orange and licorice my favs. Also lived skybars!
I like these to.
Skybars live in Sudbury Massachusetts. The recipe was bought by Duck Soup and sold there in their shop plus at the Wayside Inn (famous Longfellow story)
I was so sad when the closed Necco in Revere. We’ll they are back on the shelves, but beware! I bought two rolls and both were stale. But so you know they are not even made in USA. They make them in Mexico and ship to a company called Spangler is Bryan OH. TERRIBLE!
We’ll = we will
well is the word you want.
where can I order necco candy
I have purchased them at The Vermont Country Store in Vermont and also available online at their Web page!
You can order them from Walmart, Amazon, or eBay.
one of my favorite necco candys is the wafers , espically cloves the purple one. just found a source at bi-mart only 85 cents!
I loved the chocolate ones. You could buy packs that were all chocolate, Yum.
My fave too
that would be Sweettarts, not Sweethearts.. both Necco wafers & sweettarts are American made candies from my childhood…
Similar names, but different candies! Sweethearts, the little Valentine’s Day hearts, were part of the Necco line. SweeTarts, the rolls of tart concave discs (and spinoff products), are produced by a different company.
I grew up with the Necco wafer candy and still purchase the rolls today! I make sure I buy at least ten rolls of this fabulous candy at a time because I love munching on them so much. I even have opening the paper wrap mastered; starting at the tippy top and angling the tear down continuously until the very end. This becomes useful too for saving the candy until the next time. Call me “old-school “ ! Thank you Necco!
I recently bought some at Dollar Tree in Old Saybrook, CT and they tasted the same to me. I separate them by color first, throw out the black licorice ones then eat them from least liked to favorite. Purple first, orange second, white third, green fourth, yellow fifth, brown sixth and saving the pink for last.
I LOVE this comment!!! So ME years ago…
Stephanie A. Save the licorice wafers and send them to me! 🙂
Even though I no longer live in New England, I can evoke memories of summer in the canoe, walking to the store in feet of snow, and NECCO Wafers. My first three years of life were spent in Dayton, Ohio, so I feel some connection to the new NECCOs, and my mind remembers them from my years in Vermont.
Would love for someone to bring back Squirrel Nut Zippers!! Great candy!’
I read online in a story about Squirrel Nut Zippers that the last time they were made was in 2018. Darn!
The price posted on the box shown is 99 cents. That is laughable as in this area they are 1.99 or more. The roll I bought was NOTHING like the original candy. It was a favorite candy of mine will not buy anymore. NGE
Not sure where you are paying $1.99. I can buy them for $1.25 at the Dollar Tree.
The sign that had 99 cents was from Market Basket grocery store. They are all over New England. I buy mine for that at Reny’s (a Great Maine Adventure) in Ellsworth, Maine, but there are many Reny’s stores all over Maine.
Will we ever see Peach Blossoms again? Made by the same co that made NECCO wafers. They were a Christmas staple for decades, and I miss them!!!!!!!!
While there are lots of other candies to choose from for the Gingerbread Hobbiest, the Necco Wafer Shingled Roof is Iconic!!! and WOW- a serious dash of color to be experienced!!
I found the all chocolate one’s! Not going to tell you where, bought them all, sorry I love them soooo Much I can’t share. My little black heart, is selfish LOL
Necco wafers make great Roofing tiles for the Gingerbread house.
Bob
Good news…but I want CANADA MINTS please!!!!!
Wish they made packs that were all pink, white and purple and another pack that were all licorice. The fruit flavored ones are my least favorite and it seems like the rolls are two thirds fruit flavors. Not buying them anymore since the price is high and the rolls are mainly all fruit.
I, too, want Canada Mints! Let’s write in mass to Spangler and ask them to bring them back!!
I’m with you!!!
I did send them a message that I’d like to see the Canada mints back, please do as well! The wintergreen (pink) ones are my favorite.
I want a full roll of purple clove wafers.
Whether the taste or size changed they are not made in new England that saddens me deeply
Now made in Mexico, but still taste the same. Glad to see them back, but no longer made in USA, and many US jobs lost.
My parents took me to visit grandma and grandpa on the weekends, and grandpa would give me a roll of NECCO wafers and secretly give me $.25. This went on for years from a very young age until I was a teen. He taught me to draw, and eventually I became an artist. When he died, I had the florist make up a bouquet that looked like Cat and Nine Tails using NECCO rolls for the distinctive grass tops. I was born in 1943. I have a package in my pantry now 🙂
Great story. Thank You!
I want my Squirrel Nut Zippers back! Somebody needs to make this happen– maybe Elon Musk can buy and re-boot this company too… Just right for treats on SpaceX flights– Squirrel Nuts on the Moon! 🙂
Saw them at Cracker Barrel Restaurant!
You might try Vermont Country Store (mailorder or in Manchester Center, Vermont). I believe they still carry those. They aren’t listed on their website but I’ve seen them in their catalogue.
Saw them for the first time in Florida at the dollar store. Didn’t buy them. They were made in China and not on my diet. Lol.
I just bought a couple rolls of them and absolutely love them. I’m so glad they are here to stay. I am diabetic but pop one or two when my sugar starts to go low and they level me off. Such a treat. ❤️❤️❤️
I’ve been buying Necco wafers at Reny’s (a Great Maine Adventure) around the state of Maine for decades. They must have bought a lot of them before the company went defunct because I’ve never been without them, even when the original company went bankrupt. I love these wafers. I hope the company that bought the Canada Mints recipe, the Spangler Candy Company of Ohio, would make those again, they were my favorite candy, especially the pink ones, the white ones, not so much.
Strange as this may seem, my sense of smell and taste overlap when it comes to chocolate NECCO Wafers and Russian Olive blossoms which grow wild in the median between north and southbound I-95 in Mystic, CT and explode with their distinctive scent every May.
Just purchased from Cracker Barrell, $2.49 a roll! Like their bad food a real ripoff