WigWag Bar from the Tuck Shop

To me, the WigWag always seemed to be stale. Too dry, too hard and too thin. I never heard of ‘tuck’ until my son went to camp two years ago. When I was young, the camping I did involved Scouts, and I believe they used a different term for the tuck shop. I believe we bought our Scout camp treats at the Quartermaster Store.

On special days in the summer vacation, I used to ride my bike over to the Tally Ho and buy a bag of chips, a drink, and a “Four Flavours” chocolate bar. The Four Flavours was the best chocolate bar ever; that said, I can’t for the life of me remember what the four flavours involved were. Basically it was like a Caramilk bar, but with four different fillings. It was on those trips to the Tally Ho that I also experienced “Pop Rocks” and the Grape and Orange flavours of potato chips, perhaps the most ill-conceived, short-lived snack products ever.

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!”

Wheren’t they shoelaces or something like that. Stung like hell when someone whipped your are with them.

I would like to get as much info on the Molly-O bar. Also if you know where to buy them please respond!

I love reading the comments on this site. I too miss Rum & Butter, Bar 6, and Four Flavors. To answer the question regarding Four Flavors, the flavors are as follows; Chocolate, Vanilla, Caramel & Bordeaux. Another earlier Neilson bar called Jersey Milk Treasures included 6 different flavors, Nougat, Strawberry cream, bordeaux, caramel, praline, and turkish delight.

I remember Butter Bars :) They were delish! I bought them at Rutherford’s Dairy (variety store) at Alton and and Queen in Toronto. What ever happened to them?

I’d like to walk down memory lane with those who remember Chew Chews. They were more like thin, square, caramel chocolate bars than cookies. We used to buy them where we lived, in Montreal. I loved and sorely miss them.

I am desperate to find McIntosh bars for a Christmas recipe. Does anyone know where I can find them.

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!! defensive driving course

I recently found out that the “Treasure Chest” candy bar is no longer made in Canada! I used to buy it when I had swimming lessons in Canada in the 1970’s. Is there any company that has a similar candy bar? Why did Canada stop making them? Someone needs to bring them back!

I found alot of the retro candy on a google search. The Curly Wurly (use to be the Wig Wag) can be purchased from Ontario. Check out the website called The Big Sweet.com Cadbury makes them. I just bought a case to hand out to some of my OLD TIMER friends….lol Good Luck.

Ice cream cups shaped like an upside down dunce cap and with a gum ball at the bottom, kind of a sweet syrupy goo in swirls within the ice cream, different gumball at the bottom and I used to pick diff. ones, WAS called a SCREWBALL. I remember the Danish, the Cuban Lunch returned from some offshore company-probably Asia I’d think but only for awhile. Used to love jawbreakers (black balls), Popeye Cigs, black licorice pipes with small red candies for the cinder/ash, Triclets-one of my all time favs from the 70’s I do believe. The KooKoo bar-actually a pretty strange tasting taffy in the Neopolitan stripe pattern. Black Cat gum and of course firecrackers (explosives, NOT candy) we’d buy at this truck stop in Winnipeg called the Spud Stop. Ah, chewing on sugary candies and holding onto a 2-inch’er that just about blew off our fingers. This all brings back too many memories, used to be “royalty” in elementary school-would go to Jack’s Corner Store with a dollar, buy a small paper bag of penny candy, the whole school loved me. Yes you youngsters, we COULD buy candies at 2 for a penny back in the day. Can’t believe the crap we bought and consumed back then, all that sugar and we’d be talking well past a few hundred pounds of it by the time we hit adulthood. Wine gums were great. Lik-A-Maid, wax straws with really lame watery juice and giant red hot jawbreakers etc. Today some candies have returned but not the same and funny how one so old can remember the distinct flavours from then and for which are not the same today huh? Caution IS in order too, many off shore companies have picked up on some the expired patents for all things consumable from back then, candy is no exception and one must question if it’s good for you this time around. My example: Dollarama Stores in Canada now carry FRUTTINO SOFT CANDY, 45 gram package made by Rotopak in Istanbul. Dollarama sells for 3 /$1 and one wonders why. Bigger version of some mojo flavours. Please be careful with some of the products as sadly, far too many candies and other products tend to be knock-offs but extremely questionable and best advice is to buy from places like Nostalgia stores-Sugar Mountain etc. I’m just about 50 now, in good shape but still like candy. Don’t drink or smoke so it’s a vice I can live with. Lastly, no matter how many candies have come and gone, one in particular has never seemed to have changed-Spearmint Leaves-those chewy ju-jube type leaf shaped spearmint flavoured candies with sugar on them. Oh yeah, Halloween and those kisses we used to get (and chuck)? I liked those awhile ago-molasses anyway, but now anything you’d ever find would be a cheap imitation and probably really bad for you. And to those who are crying about McKintosh Toffee if large bars? A few times the company came out with collector tins around Christmas time. I know this because we used to have a Scottish neighbour who has now passed on (would be 85 today), I have the/her tins and even some of the mini hatchet/hammers for busting up the hard candy-my fav was freezing it and throwing down the stairs to the cold hard cement floor and watching it explode. I will advise now that since the world is such a changing place, some candies from yesteryear would need a re-tooling for packaging considering some of it wasn’t that tamper resistant back then but at least nobody did much to it anyway. Yes, Sponge Toffee every Saturday at the canteen for hockey games-think it was really corn syrup and cream of tartar or something and pretty good. Today, no comparison and often tastes too burnt. Happy snackin’ and thanks for the return to the good old days!

oldtimeconfection.com/ for some of what we’ve been talking about here…..

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!

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.

Does anyone know when or why the “Four Flavours” went out of production.I have visited sites where people have massive candy bar wrapper collections,but they don’t have that gem…

I miss the four flavours bar as well remember the Cuban lunch as well -it seemed to slowly disappear I remember buying a Five Star bar which was kind of chewy in an Eat More sort of way except it may have also had rice crisps and was wrapped in chocolate -remember buying it around 1970 or so at Roy White’s store in Souris Chocolate companies take note they should bring back some classics and see what happens — Treasure chest was also great except for the Turkish jelly part

Five Star was my absolute favorite bar growing up - every Saturday I would buy one with my allowance! No one I talk to seems to remember it, so nice to see that I wasn’t crazy - it really did exist. Would LOVE to have one of those again!

Oh, man, I had totally forgotten the Wig Wag - and it was sooooo good! I found this site while searching for the Bar Six, which I have been craving lately for some strange reason - haven’t had one in like 20 years!!! I was starting to wonder if I had made the whole thing up, because a bunch of peope that I mentioned it to didn’t even remember the Bar Six. Glad to see the retro candy craving is alive and well (and that it’s not just me!!). Pam.

I found a new bar called “CURLYWURLY” by Cadbury!!!!! It is the same as a “WIGWAG”bar!!!!!!! The shape is the same ….. just a little narrower and longer…..but same pattern!!!!! MMMMMMM….I’m eating one right now. I found it at “The Real Canadian Superstore” here in Calgary! If you’ve been craving that WIGWAG taste…..but couldn’t seem to find the bar…..this is as close as it gets!!!!! MMMMMMMMM…..sorry but it tastes really good. (memories)

HELLO!! I’m out in left field…duh! Doesn’t ANYONE …..remember “THE TREASURE BAR”? Lowney’s …I believe,,, 6 BIG flavors. Marachino cherry..turkish delite…dark chocolate …vanilla cream..coffee cream and (my favorite) orange cream…??? It would be nice to express the nostalgia ..if I could ..just remember.siogned cindstr.

HELLO!! I’m out in left field…duh! Doesn’t ANYONE …..remember “THE TREASURE BAR”? Lowney’s …I believe,,, 6 BIG flavors. Marachino cherry..turkish delite…dark chocolate …vanilla cream..coffee cream and (my favorite) orange cream…??? It would be nice to express the nostalgia ..if I could ..just remember.signed cindstr.

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE TRI COLORED TAFFY RIBBONS OF THE EARLY 70’S? THEY WERE BROWN(CHOCOLATE) WHITE(VANILLA) AND PINK(STRAWBERRY) AND THEY WERE WRAPPED IN WAX PAPER BUT NOT SEALED UP AT THE ENDS.

“DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE TRI COLORED TAFFY RIBBONS OF THE EARLY 70’S? THEY WERE BROWN(CHOCOLATE) WHITE(VANILLA) AND PINK(STRAWBERRY) AND THEY WERE WRAPPED IN WAX PAPER BUT NOT SEALED UP AT THE ENDS.” Those were called Koo-Koo bars. I thought I was the only one who remembered those!

Growing up in a PEI general store, I remember all of those. The Pal-O-Mine, of course, was a Maritime product, from Ganong’s (Canada’s oldest candy company) in St. Stephen NB, and claims to be the first North American chocolate bar, and the first bar to be wrapped in a new invention, cellophane. The “Pal-o-Mine” Story, from ganong.com: In 1920, an old candy maker was asked to produce a chocolate bar to take along on fishing trips. The result was a centre of yellow fudge and coconut covered with Ganong’s Best chocolate and peanuts. The company’s intention was to keep the bar in production long enough to pay for the development. In fact, they didn’t even bother to go to the expense of printing a wrap for it; the new see-through wrap, cellophane, that had arrived from France would be fine. Little did they realize the bar’s success… The company believed the name contributed to its success… It implied loyalty, faithfulness. Almost 83 years later, Pal-o-mine is still a favorite!

I have been hunting high and low for Neilson’s Pep Chew. Does anyone know where I can get them?

I would really like to know WHO made Cuban Lunch Bars!!! Does anyone know? Please e-mail me the answer. Thanks Deb

My Girlfriend and I would love to know if anyone, can tell me where I can get, a Four Flavours Chocolate Bar, these days?

THANK YOU! I’ve been trying to remember the name of the Treasure Chest bars for years. I remembered “Treasure” and that was it - I just accidentally came across this site when I searched under “treasure bar +chocolate.” Of course, not that finding the name helps me find out if anyone makes it, but I’m guessing by the reminiscing posts that it’s not being made anymore. *sniff* It was my favourite bar. Does anyone know if it was ever available in the U.S.? (none of my American friends has ever heard of it)

i remembered we had neilson “treasure”chocolate bar that contained 5or 6 flavors. it was one of our favorite bar in the 70s and 80s. it had vanilla chocolate cherry caramel and i think butterscotch in each pocket please let me know and i want the photo of that bar…

I’m trying to remember the name of a chocolate bar that was my favourite but only lasted a couple of years in the mid 70s. It was NOT coffee crisp, but had a coffee filling, covered in chocolate and had two mountain-like (rounded) fingers stuck together. I’m sure this will stump everyone, but except for the name, I remember it well - it cam in a brown wrapper with yellow lettering, I think.

Note to Debbie Whitehouse - the treasure”chocolate bar” she refers to was calley Jersey Milk Treasures and was sold by Neilson in Canada, as I recall. BTW, does anyone recall a small dark chocolate bar (verry sweet)? I think it was called, appropriately enough Fudge - and was also sold by Neilson.

“Thank you” to the ones who remember the mint mojos and 4 flavour candy bars. It seems these items have fallen off the face of the earth. No one sells them or even wants to admit they existed. I was doubting my memory for a while. Thanks for writing about your memories. I have fond memories myself of these childhood delights from long ago.

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?