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Hey Wade--maybe you can find someone who knows how to make candy and is creative and they could create a recipe for you. And if you're adventurous here's an online recipe for a 3 layer ganache--milk, white and dark chocolate. No baking. It's frozen. I know it's not the same but perhaps it will satisfy your cravings.
https://www.tastesoflizzyt.com/tripl...essert-recipe/ Or like the song "Gone" by Mongtomery Gentry says: Gone like a freight-train, gone like yesterday Gone like a soldier in the civil war, bang bang Gone like a '59 Cadillac Like all the good things that ain't never coming back
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I am just a little older than you are Wade. I too, have thoughts about the candies of my youth.
A lot of them disappeared because the companies that made them went away. Either they went out of business or were absorbed and discontinued by other companies. It is kind of a shame that the American business model is so geared to "bigger is better" because it often, isn't. Anyway, there was a midwestern made candy bar that was a favorite that was similar to Hershey's Mr. Goodbar. Anybody remember what it was called? |
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If you're ever in the U.K. try a Glacier Mint. They're not bad. Just remember to call it a "glassier" mint. They talk funny over there.
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Good guess, but no. I think O'Henry is still made. I am not sure where or by who, however.
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Hey Wade, if you are really jonesing, maybe approach Peter (the owner) of the Alaska Wild Berry Company and see if he will make them.
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I’m pretty certain she was born in the early 1880’s, and when she was there was fad for Baby Ruth merchandise of all sorts across the entire country. The candy bars named for her happen to be the only product still being made under the name. Earl, thanks for the suggestion, but I won’t be pestering anyone to make those Triple Decker candy bars. I had simply always wondered what had happened to them. whm |
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Okay, I went and checked the facts, and it turns out that I got many of them wrong. The company that renamed its “Kandy Kake” candy bar as “Baby Ruth” did so at the height of Babe Ruth’s career and national popularity. It was the company’s CLAIM that the candy bar had been named for Grover Cleveland’s daughter, even though the unfortunate child had died of diphtheria in 1904 and any national mania surrounding her had long since subsided.
But by claiming that they’d named the candy bar after President Cleveland’s daughter the company got the best of both worlds: they benefited from Babe Ruth’s popularity without having to pay him any compensation or royalties. Pretty sneaky, eh? As for Baby Ruth Cleveland herself, she was born in 1891 during the hiatus between her father’s two terms of office, and was not born in the White House. She lived there as a small child a few years later. The poor kid was always sickly, and didn’t survive into adulthood. Sorry to conclude with such a downer story, but I always prefer to correct my own errors rather that have someone else correct me. Anyway, the Baby Ruth candy bar under its original name was first produced in the very early 1900’s, so it’s been around for more than a century. whm |
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Dublin, TX. My grandparents lived near there and always had on hand cold bottles of Dr. Pepper for those hot summer days without A/C. They lived in the country on a small lake with no names for the dirt roads used to get there, but the first turn off the highway was made at the "10-2-4" Dr. Pepper sign with bullet holes in it. Us kids had a contest to see who could spot the Dr. Pepper sign first. Good memories.
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https://www.mitchellschocolates.com
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The Mr. Goodbar like, midwestern made candy bar was called a "Giant" bar. It was made by the Ziegler company. When I was in grade school, the company would donate enough candy bars to the public schools that each child got 2 on Halloween. The company disappeared in the 60's, I think. |