There's only one little country store in NH that sells the chocolate ones....a whole sleeve of chocolate!
We squirrel them away...until we can go north again. I think a mascot is a good idea.
Posted on 07/26/2012 5:32:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Local geezers could go on at great length about Necco Wafers, a candy invented hereabouts in the mid 1800s. Now the candy’s maker, the New England Confectionary Co. of Revere, wants its sweets to be equally esteemed by young consumers.
So, following an ad agency review, the company selected the Noonan Creative Group of Framingham to design a website that might beguile a younger demographic of candy lovers and to alert them that Necco doesn’t just make its eponymous Wafers, but that its candy line-up also includes such classics as the vintage peanut-butter chew known as the Mary Jane, not to mention the Clark Bar, and Haviland Thin Mints.
In sizing up its assignment, Noonan saw great potential in a brand that Necco licensed to manufacture in 2004 --- Squirrel Nut Zippers. (Not to be confused with a rock band with the same name, Squirrel Nut Zippers are candy chews whose chief ingredients include caramel and peanuts.)
According to Necco’s website, the Squirrel candy brand dates back to 1888 and has Boston and Cambridge roots. The brand also had a mascot --- a mischievous squirrel.
Noonan decided to animate this mascot, dubbed Zipper, and post a video about his antics on Youtube. In one video, Zipper tries to destroy other candies and in doing so, accidentally creates new ones. Besides the Youtube star treatment, Zipper also has his own website, brand.”www.whereszipper.com.
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There's only one little country store in NH that sells the chocolate ones....a whole sleeve of chocolate!
We squirrel them away...until we can go north again. I think a mascot is a good idea.
My late father was partial to Necco wafers (as am I, for that matter). Many a Christmas he would receive an entire box from one of us.
Here’s an interesting bit of trivia- according to an American Heritage article I read some years ago, Necco Wafers are the oldest continuously manufactured product in the country!
“My late father was partial to Necco wafers... Necco Wafers are the oldest continuously manufactured product in the country!”
My dad (a Worcester boy!) loved them too. They were one of the few candies he approved of. He also probably already knew about them being the oldest continuously manufactured product, he always strove to keep up with obscure facts like that!
My grandma (father’s mother-in-law) really only approved of York Peppermint patties.
I don’t know why these two were such candy snobs/puritans, but they were.
Me, I’m partial to Hershey’s chocolate (even though my mother told me Hershey’s was rather anti-Catholic) and Mounds Bars (which my friend told me are actually kind of healthy).
But let’s face it, if you want to play “Mass” you need the Necco wafers, made, as fate would have it, in Mass.
Cue Jonathan Richman! (Jewish? Maybe? No?)
Rock on New England, we’ll get you back in the right wing EVENTUALLY!
Happy Birthday...now have another Necco!
Leggo my Necco!
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I love the chocolate ones.
Always threw away the black ones. LOL
Have you tried Haviland Thin Mints?
Best chocolate mints ever made.
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