WigWag Bar from the Tuck Shop

Wig-wags were good but a hazard to anyone with a mouthful of fillings. I was more of the butterfingers and crispy crunch addicted set, the latter by honest means. My mom’s little sister came over to Mississaguga and lived with us when I was a little kid and worked in the Neilsons factory in Toronto. Every Friday she came home with a box of broken chocolate bars. We had tuck shops in Ontario (where I lived until 7) and I think it was definately the folks nkew growing up in Scotland if only proven by the Tuck cracker which has a pound of butter and a pound of sulphites in each little biscuit.

I would be remiss if I didn’t include a mention of the MoJo here. As I recall, the MoJo was a small non-gum candy, more like a “chew” than anything, about the size of a small pencil eraser. Many flavours. They used to sell for a penny. My swimming instructor at the YMCA, Cam, taught us to tread water for a long time by offering to buy us a MoJo for every extra minute we treaded. I think I made it to 9 MoJos.

“Tuck Time” is a very happy memory for me from camp as a kid. Does the word originate from prison?

I have not thought about the wig wag bar in over 20 years. I used to love them! The girl guide camp near Murray River had/has a tuck shop. As I was a sugaraholic I think that was my favorite time at camp, “tuck time”. Pop rocks and four flavours were also favorites of mine.

“It’s three hands high, wigwag wigwag It’s three hands high, wigway wigwag. wig wig wig wigwig wag!”

Could it be this WigWag is what in the states was sold as the “Marathon” Bar?

Re: Moirs Graham Sandwich Bar This product passed through several corporate owners, including Nabisco, Lowney and finally??? Hershey’s. It seems to have been withdrawn from the market some time in the mid to late 1980’s. It was definitely gone by 2000. As I recall it, the bar’s two sections were packaged in a cardboard backed flatpack using amber or brown coloured cello wrap. The wrapping was heavily imprinted with very dark graphics and text having highlights in gold I believe.

I remember Butter Bars!! They were so good - 3 cents - and they were delish! I bought them at Rutherford’s Dairy store on Queen St E at Alton on the way to school sometimes. What ever happened to them??

Here is a link they may have some of the candy and bars you are talking about And i sure do remember the Molly o Bars my absolute favorite Honeymoooners were just honeymoons thin chocolate candy with taffy inside Treasure bars were another favorite http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/pages/Sydney-NS/Time-Machine-Candy-Works/95343520484?ref=mf

We sell curly wurlys at our store and yes they are the wig wag bars. Different name and wrapper but same great taste

Woke up craving a Cuban Lunch, realized that I couldn’t recall seeing them for sale in a while, ended up here like the rest of you LOL. My recollection of them was a pretty basic recipe - just a bar of chocolate with some peanuts mixed in, poured into the red wax-paper tray (poured, because the corners of the chocolate were wrinkled into the paper, and you had to pull the paper out of the bar), wrapped in clear plastic with red writing. A modern alternative is the Cadbury Dairy Milk Hazelnut. Not exactly the same, but TBH, I think I prefer hazelnuts (these days) anyway. I used to eat Wig Wags as a kid, I recall that the chocolate dried out really easily, they were very chewy, and when you bit them, a lot of the chocolate on the uneaten part of the bar would break off and fall down. But they were so much bigger than anything else on the shelf! HAHA. On warm days they tended to sag over if you pulled them too far from the package

Holy Karumba Batman!!! I have told almost everyone i know about a chocolate bar that i remember eating as a kid that was like a Mr. Big but only in white chocolate. I explained about the cinnamon flavor and the clear cellophane wrapper and everyone thought i was hallucinating. Its been years that i have tried to remember the name of this chocolate bar. Its nice to know that my memory is still intact and that other candy lovers remember the great taste of that bar. Can someone now tell me if what i am describing is the Cinnamon Danish Bar or simply Danish ? My dad had a fleet of catering trucks (Joe’s Snack Service) and i can remember eating these white candy bars and many other candy bars in my dad’s warehouse. I just wish my Dad had saved a few of those cases of now ” long gone” chocolates from the 70’s and 80’s.

OMG…I miss the Four Flavors. That was my all-time favorite treat. I remember the Cuban Lunch, Mojos, shoelace licorice and the Danish. There is a couple others I remember…the Icebreaker…chocolate with little mint chips in it but the other one I can’t remember the name of it. It was shaped like a regular chocolate bar but not chocolate..it was caramel or butterscotch flavor. Delicious!

This store in Calgary [warning: hideously complicated HTML] sells a Curly Wurly, formerly Wig Wag. And this page contains a photo of a Curly Wurly, which looks pretty much like a Wig Wag. And Pete’s Frootique sells Curly Wurly bars. So close I can almost taste them.

Was the Wig Wag made by Cadbury?

Cadbury Flake bar was a loser for Cadbury-Schweppes. (Later Neilson-Cadbury) Anybody remember the Molly-O bar? Malted Milk was big 40 years ago. Never liked Big Turk bar. Lace Licorice was available in my day in Red, Black and Green. Ganong Nougatine chocolates are still my favourite.

All I’m saying about nostalgic candy is, giant sweet tarts used to make my tongue bleed.

“What would you do-o-o for a Klondike Bar!” What a great commercial!

I was hitchhiking along Highway 401 from Toronto to Peterborough once with a friend, and we got dropped off, in the rain, in front of the Cadbury plant in Oshawa. Because it was raining, and because we were hungry, we went in the front door and into the receiption area to see if they offered free samples. They did: Rum and Butter chocolate bars. I think we had two or three each. That was the only time I ever had that product. I imagine in todays Puritan times it wouldn’t pass muster as a chocolate bar. An old girlfriend of mine was a big fan of chocolate covered cherries. Once, when she was feeling down, I went out and bought her a Cherry Blossom. She almost had a nervous breakdown as a result: it turns out she didn’t consider Cherry Blossoms to qualify as bona fide chocolate covered cherries, and, what’s worse, her recently-ex-boyfriend had made the same mistake at a particularly difficult time in their relationship. I didn’t make that same mistake twice. But in a way it was the begining of the end for us.

I stopped at Smith’s Falls yesterday and took the familial chocoholics to the Hersey’s factory where they went nuts. The only thing I was looking for was the Lowney’s Cherry Blossom four-pack ($2.15 at the outlet). The chocolate is amazingly good when it is fresh. Anyway, as I think I have said here before, the best brand no longer in production must be the Peach Blossom, the 1950’s package for which which they have on display. I am sure it was discontinued before I was born but I cannot imagine why.

Thanks for the information on the Curly Wurly. This past summer a bunch of us were reflecting on our youthful glory days and Wig Wags came up with mouth watering results. As there were none about at the time we had to make do with 18 year old Scotch.

I came across this site because I have had a craving for a four flavours chocolate bar for a few years now. Finally decided to search the net and see if I could find any information on them, if they are still made or not? But I guess not by the sounds of things. They were my favourite chocolate bar. I always loved the mojo’s that someone was talking about. Does anyone remember a frozen popsicle that was actually made of orange juice?

I forgot to mention Maple Buds-yummy..and yes,I totally remember Rum and Butter,Treasure Chest and pixie stix for sure!How about candy wax with liquid inside!

Does anyone remember the “Danish” chocolate bar? I think it was made by Neilson in the 1970’s. It was like a Sweet Marie (wafer, surrounded by caramel & nuts), but instead of a chocolate coating, it had this psychadelic pink coating.

It was long flat chewy sweet caramel with a pattern to it… about 8 inces long and very very thin but very very yummy…….. i ate them lots as a kid.

ok,that’s hilarious..love the skating rink/kitchen table bar comment shannon!

If anyone from either of the BIG 4 chocolate bar companies ever reads this site, have you considered joining in on the ‘retro’ and ‘vintage’ marketing success ? Bring back the Wig Wag, etc. and target to both kids AND their parents as a limited edition and see how they sell.

Speaking of flaorful things long lost - Peake Freens used to make a hard bisquit in different shapes and was iced in different pastel colours. I believe they were called Playbox, I’m sure there are still some cookie tins around at the cottage from 40 years ago. I can still remember the flavour and snap.

I was wondering if anyone knows who made the wigwag bar?? This bar has been a childhood favorite and comes up in many conversations from time to time.. They really need to bring this back for all of us die hard fans!!! So glad to read that others enjoyed this wonderful bar.. Kelly

Just came back from a trip to a wonderful retro candy store in Burlington Ontario. It has all your retro fav’s from the 60’s and 70’s as well as a huge assortement of imported candy from the U.K. there website is just in process of being constructed but its called bigsweet.com they will ship orders in Canada. I loaded up on curly-wurly(wig-wam)pixie stix, pop rocks(the original ones) wax lips, klondike gum,lemon heads, bassets jelly babies from england,likamade,the chocolate ciggies in the realistic packs,but alas….no mojo’s!! they had tons of other stuff including chocholate bars i havent seen in years. check it out. I have also discovered many online retro candy distributors that have old fav’s, just do a google search on retro candy. Happy hunting, im off to reminisce…

If anyone out there knows where you can buy Cuban Lunch bars please post the name where they may be purchased, thank you..

Pam The bar six was a work of art. So much gentler than a Kit Kat….sigh The only detrimental memory was that the paper wrapper was an odd colour.

Does anyone remember the marathon bar -chocolate covered braided caramel strip- or the “star” bar

Ok,totally sounds familiar,like Neopolitan…I do remember this but my search turned up “Kookoo Taffy” for its name which doesn’t really seem familiar itself but thanks for the candy flashback..

The tri colored taffy was sold a a KOOKOO BAR here in the Maritimes. On the subject of Cadburys Danish bar, my husbnd almost had me convinced that I had imagined the whole Danish thing ! Thank you so much for reinstating my sanity ! And if anyone else thinks they are losing their minds , I also remember the treasure bar, rum and butter bar and bar six. Does anyone remember the Graham Sandwich ? It was 2 squares packaged in what I remember being a black wrapper with red writing . And what about the Caravan bar or the Pal-O-Mine ?

I used to like Four Flavour bars too. Shauna on 15 Dec 03 got the breakdown correct. The “bordeaux” flavour, I think, is just brown sugar. There used to be a “Bordeaux Pattie”, a circular thing like the mint flavoured one you can still get. Anybody remember a chocolate confection that had five pieces in it, the central one was a cherry (like what is now called “Cerise”), two were chocolate with peanut chunks and the other two escape me completely (they’d both be the same thing). This is in Southern Ontario, 1960s and maybe 1970s.

I like to know if they still make Pep Chew, or where I could find some…I’m not sure if the brand name was Neilson’s. Please email me if you find this bar!!!

Hey, does anyone remember, the chocolate bar, called Bar Six?……And then there was a creation… Exactly like a cherry blossom, except it had caramel inside, instead of the cherry center. does anyone remember this? And MALT BALLS

Pal-o-mine’s are still sold in New Brunswick. :) Koo Koo Bars were my absolute favorite! 10 cents each when i was a kid (1978) I do remember those horrible fruit flavoured hostess chips they really were a one time buy for most of the kids i hung with (remember the old fashion foil chip bags??? and if you one a free bag they printed it on the inside and you had to tear it open ???) I also remember these long strips of wax paper with dried dots of hard frosting all different colours you could peel off and eat…but sometimes you ended up eating a little of the paper too. oh yeah remember thrills gum??? mauve/purple & chiclet-like…tasted like soap? hah todd :)

I grew up in Toronto and my boyfriend grew up in Cape Breton. He insists that there was a chocolate candy called “honeymooners”. If anyone remembers these, can they please tell me if there is another name for them.

just reading some of the posts here, as i was looking for what happened to the wig-wag bar. all i remember is all the chocolate exploding off of it into your lap as soon as you took a bite. anyway, i think it was originally made by lowney, just like cherry blossom (anyone remember the crazy animated commercial for cherry blossom?).

Does anyone remember the “Virginia” chocolate bar? The closest I could compare it to is Mr. Goodbar. Might have been made by Nielsen’s.

order page claiming to sell cuban lunch bars, among others here: http://www.trecartinwholesale.com/confectionary.htm

Regarding the chocolate bar “4 Flavors” by Neilson, the flavors included vanilla, bordeaux, chocolate and caramel. The last time I saw one was about 7 years ago. “Virginia” was made by Neilson and was milk chocolate with peanuts. The “Fudge” bar was by Neilson and can still be found in the UK by Cadbury. The “Graham Sandwich” and “Caravan” bar were both made by Lowney and both came in a white wrapper with blue lettering. I would love to see “Bar Six” and “Snack Bar” make a comeback. “Danish” too.

I was at my usual “wings” night out with friends, when suddenly I remembered the Wigwag chocolate bar. I sang the song, did the actions, and my friends thought I was nuts!!! Luckily, another guy that was the same age as me remembered them too. Well, the song wouldn’t leave my head, and the Wigwag bar (‘three hands high’) was the topic of conversation all night. I knew I had to check the internet to see if I could find any kind of proof that this chocolate bar ever existed, and so was very happy to find this sight. Does anyone know where I can either purchase a wigwag bar in southern Ontario, or obtain a picture of one?

I stumbled across this site while looking for Wig Wag and Koo Koo bars and I gotta say…I am so glad I’m not nuts! lol I also wondered about the Danish and thought I was dreaming it up in my imagination, but am glad to know they do exist. They were so good! But I thought they had a white coating with pink frosting on top. Doesn’t matter, they existed and I’m not crazy so I’m glad! lol I miss those bars and candy from my childhood. I live in Toronto but I’m from NFLD, and as kids we used to live off of that stuff! It brings back so many fond memories…and yeah I remember having to eat Wig Wag outside because the chocolate would flake off. I remember MoJo’s too. And Sugar Daddy Toffee pops. I remember all of the candies and chocolate bars mentioned here. And yes, Christie did have a Favorite Cookies collection Collin. My Mom used to buy it because us kids would fight over what kind of cookie we wanted. …Sigh…gone are those wonderful days…thank God for memories! Thanks, everyone, for sharing yours.

To all of you who are reminiscing about Wigwag(Curly Wurly), Mojo, Giant Taffy, please visit Ye Olde Sweet Shoppe, 732 12th St., New Westminster, BC, 604 515 8839 or email yossbrit@yahoo.ca This store sells old time candy from your childhood era, domestic or imports. Pep Chew is no longer made, so is Cuban Lunch, as well as Treasure Chest. Many small companies are taken over/bought by Cadbury, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Nestle, etc. Then their popular products are discontinued to clear the market for the Big companies own main lines. Sighhhh….

omg !!!! There have been a couple of us talking about MoJo’s at work over the past year & I have been checking to see where, if anywhere, you could get these things anymore … there are so many other bars mentioned here that I think I am in heaven with all the good memories !!!! Oh the sweets we had when we were younger were TRUE SWEETS ….. not the crap you get today, althout I got to admit, I like kit kat !!! ha ha ha Glad I stumbled on this site !

What a trip stumbling across this site! Playbox cookies, Bar Six, Liquid 4 Flavours.. I ‘member ‘em all! One oddity to add Barrat’s We called it kid-cocaine. Contained white crystalized/powdered sugar that was sucked through a black licorice “straw”. No wonder I only have about three of my own teeth left in my head.

My brother (born 1955) has been searching unsuccessfully for a Molly-O Bar. His 50th birthday is coming up, and I would love to be able to find some of these for him. Does anyone know if this is available anywhere? Thanks.

I have a few things to comment on: I remember wink; you could buy it in Nova Scotia up until the early 1990’s. I think they only brought it back for a few years at the time. However, does anyone remember a pop called “Razcal”? It was a silver can with a picture of a pink rabbit in a field on the front, and it was sold in NS Co-ops in the early 90’s as well. It was sweet and tasted like raspberries. Kookoo bars were excellent. We bought them in Sydney, NS in the early 80’s, along with treasure bars. A similar bar is still sold in the US and import stores, but I can’t think of the name. It comes in a yellow package with a picture of the bar on the front. IMPORTANT QUESTION—Does anyone remember green cookies that would have been sold in Cape Breton in the early to mid 80’s? They were a sugar cookie, I can’t remember if they were minty or not. They were green on top, sugar cookie shade on bottom. The green may have been a light green glaze, or a dye. I also miss O’Ryan’s sour cream and onion ripple chips with the leprechauns on the bag, the pizza chips shaped like scoops, and the 80’s box of pot of gold chocolates that had lemon flavoured ones in it. Mmmmmm… I’m hungry.

There are recipes on the internet tomake cuban lunch bars at home. I think they use a combination of chocolate and butterscotch chips with peanuts. I too, miss the caravan, bar six, cuban lunch, snack bar and —anyone else remember — pie face bars? I’d love to have a recipe to make the caravan bar .

LOVE Pep Chews ! everywhere I have worked somebody always brings up Pep Chews and then we start a memory lane conversation. if so many people loved Pep Chews why did they discontinue them? one of the big candy companies should start making them again, does anybody know of a recipie? just like the movies of today, everything old is new again, might become a big seller.

I remember the animated Cherry Blossom commercial from the 70’s. Although I did not really dig the cherry thing I did dig the ad that ran during the half hour befor Hockey Night in Canada. I’m not sure if these were the lyrics but I think they are pretty close. Cherry…Cherry Blossom. With it’s thick chocolate on the outside….ummm…ummm… and when you get to the center it’s a very special center it’a cherry blossom peanut coated cholate flavored treat you know as cherry cherry blossom.

Hey everyone, I am also mystified by what you term the “danish” bar. I remember a white bar much like a Mr. Big but with a unique flavour. I thought it was called a Tiger something…. It came in a clear cellophane wrapper an had chocolare stripes… Anyone remember the exact name?

Wow, memory lane, Eating that sticky long mess of a WigWag in the back of the car, trying to lick off all the chocolate first! Yes I remember the Chew Chew - orange taffy/nougat. I haven’t seen anyone mention a white nougat bar I used to get. It was a white nougat with different colored ju jube like candies in it…… Aren’t there still Mojos around? I’m sure I have seen them. Spearmint was my fav! mmmmmmmm candy

hi Terri..you’re talking about a bar called ‘Roman Nougat’ by Ganong..they’re very popular here in New Brunswick[home of Ganong} http://www.ganong.com/retail/candy_bars.html

Holy Crap!, I almost cried. I have been looking for a picture of the old four flavors liquid chocolate bar and found not a trace that it even existed until found this site. The Danish was GREAT, the cuban lunch and a coke was a big thing for me when I was a kid in Edmonton, The WIG WAG!, I had almost forgot (NEVER freeze the damn things). The Bar six is still available, it is british I believe..I use to get it here in BC. The treasures were beautiful, I always thought of them as a mini box of chocolates!

I can’t believe I stumbled across this site. Everytime I talk about candy from the past the wig wag comes to mind. My favorite is the Koo Koo. I read on one of the other sites that they are coming back soon. I really hope so. If you ever visit Halifax, Nova Scotia you have to go to the Freak Lunchbox on Barrington Street. It’s like a blast from the past Oh I just remembered something else. Does anyone remember the buried treasure ice cream. It was white and orange ice cream on a plastic stick that was an animal figure

Hi Sue!Growing up in Dartmouth,NS Buried Treasures were one of my faves..I used to buy them at Dorey’s in Woodlawn..do you happen to remember a small tub of kind of peachy ice cream with a gumball or something at the bottom..clear plastic cup..ring any bells?

Dorey’s was on Day Avenue,across and down a bit from Woodlawn Mall..and yes,I’ve been to the Freak Lunchbox..very cool place!

hey,Todd..as I was writing my last post the goldrush gum was in my head..too funny!I don’t think we got those onion ring chips in Dartmouth back in the day but they sound like a good time..and cheers from Saint John.

Hey for any of you looking for the koo koo bar, Sugar Mountain are going to start making it….it says (coming soon) on their website so we can only hope. It had to be my all time favorite. I’ve also tried the other lookalikes but not the same at all. Does anyone remember the bags of chips. I think they were Schuler of something like that and some would have a coupon or whatever where you won a bag of chips

What a great site!! I was trying to remember the name of a bar (WigWag) and ended up on a lo-o-ong trip down memory lane. I can’t believe how many bars/candy I had forgotten about and was reminded of. My favourite memory of BarSix was sharing one with my Grandmother when she came over for Sunday dinner—there were 5 in our family, so we got 1 piece each! Not too many kids would be happy with a sixth of a chocolate bar now!! I was reminded of the Gold Rush gum a few weeks ago at the Bulk Barn. I was buying some chocolate gravel and the clerk said it reminded her of gum that she used to get as a kid. We couldn’t remember the name first, just that it had ‘gold’ or ‘nuggets’ and came in a drawstring bag (real cloth, originally), but my sisters and I reminisced and came up with the name. I also remember getting Thrills gum at Hallowe’en and trying to trade it for anything else!! Never a fan of eating soap! Goodies were another ‘treat’ I always tried to get rid of, but I don’t like any kind of licorice. I think these are both still available or, at least, were quite recently. Hard to believe that Thrills could outlast all the really good candy that used to be out there!! Note: A lot of the Ganong bars mentioned are still available—at least, here in the Maritimes. To KTELQUEEN, I remember Doreys very well—grew up within walking distance of it. Also, Lakeside Grocery on Main Street/No.7 Highway. I can remember walking there once a week or so through the summer, and usually finding enough small change on the walk there to buy a bar and a bag of chips. (That was when KitKat bars came in a 2-finger size for 10 cents.) Thanks for the memories.

Yes, yes, yes..thank u all for remembering the Cinnamon Danish Bar! That was just so great & I wish it was still being made— is Neilsons even in business? It has been so long since I even bought a candy/ chocie bar, but I sure would buy a Danish Bar if it was still being made. The white chocolate/ pink swirl and the waffer crunch was just so darn good. Talk ‘bout retro candy from the 70’s, anyone remember those great plastic garbage cans filled with candy pieces shaped like fish bones and stuff? There was also a coffin with candy bones that u could put together like a candy puzzle. Also I have been searching all over the net to find the name of those temporary sailor tattoos. They had a piece of flat, white, almost square shaped soft gum in each pack. The tats where water based ink— wet your arm; place the paper/ ink side down; put a bit of water on the back of the paper; and presto a temporary tattoo! Does anyone remember these and what the product was officially called, the company that made them? Thanks one & all for the memories! Cheers, Shayne T.

Wow…this site has been such a trip down memory lane. I had forgotten about so many of these bars…Bar 6, WigWag, Danish. Soooo good. Nothing they make now compares to these. My all-time favourite was the Graham Sandwich bar. A couple of people mentioned it in earlier postings but there were differing opinions on who made it…one cited Moirs (Ganong) and another claimed it was made by Lowney. Does anyone know which one is correct? I have been searching for this bar for years. Every time I pass a retro candy store, I pop in just to check. I would love to find it again…it was my favourite bar then and I have never found anything to replace it. Please let me know if it’s still available anywhere!!!

My husband and I have found memeories talking about corner store memories on the east coast. We bought a case of curly wurly’s when we heard they were like wig wag. Expensive, but a close subsitute. Some of the few things I remember that no one has mentioned is Peter Puck candy, Astro pop (lost a tooth biting it once), black cat gum, and I don’t know what I do for Snow White Cream Soda or a Frosty Rootbeer. Oh yeah, and remeber The Pop Shop?!