WigWag Bar from the Tuck Shop
While we are speaking of candy and cultural touchstones: does anyone else remember the WigWag bar? It was a long, thin chocolate bar that consisted of caramel shaped in a lattice pattern, covered with chocolate. I used to buy them at the tuck shop at the Hamilton YMCA.
The tuck shop is something that Catherine and I share: we both had tuck shops figure prominently in our childhoods, hers at summer camp, and mine at both summer camp and at the YMCA. I’ve met a lot of people, though, who look at me strangely when I start talking about tuck shops (or about “tuck,” the products they sell), so I gather the term is not universal.
Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 10:30pm
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Four flavours was a great...the best!
totally remember that commercial, no one else here does!!!
Four Flavour bar and Treasure bar were two of my favourites, like getting a little package of chocolates. I remember the Cinnamon Danish bar too. I think I was the only kid in my neighbourhood that bought them. Was any one else disappointed when the plastic window on boxes like Bridge Mixture and Glossettes were replace by a picture? We used to use the boxes as a kazoos before they made that change.
Chew Chew cookies, I still dream of them and always find myself looking and hoping they will bring them back. They were the best ever. Why do they have to stop making such great successful things. If Only I knew the ingrediants, I'd personally start marketing them to the masses again. I'm rushing out to Superstore to see if I can find these no name Caramel coconut cookies. Thanks for the info and for triggering my cravings of Chew Chew cookies again. LOL!
does anyone remember the name of the white chocolate, drizzelled with cinnamon over layers of wafers seperated by more cinnamon flavored icing, sort of like a coffee mate.
they were really really awful if you got one that had been on the shelf a long time, but every so often you might get a really fresh one, and then it was heaven. i don't think they were ever popular enough for the fresh to outlive the stale, so they were pretty short lived.......mid 70'S i think.
The wig wag bars, I remember those! I thought they were called wig wam bars. None the less, they were so good. Does anyone remembere the Lolas? A frozen treat, like a huge triangular shaped freezee. We could never finish them, at least I couldnt, anyway. They were huge!
Thanks! The second best thing (first of course would be bringing it back ) next to knowing that I'm not the only person in the world who remembers the Danish bar is seeing a pic of it!
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