HudsonHawk
I'll Lock Up
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So all this talk inspired me. Picked up sixers of both today:
^^^ Great advertising art - especially the Coconut Grove bar.
That bar sounds very much like a Mounds candy bar today (especially, the dark chocolate coating, when milk chocolate seemed dominant, and the "twin" bars which is what Mounds still does today). Does anyone know if they were competitors / did one buy the other and take the Mounds name?
Mounds were introduced in 1920, even before Baby Ruth came out in 1921. I'm not sure when Curtiss first made the Coconut Grove, but I think it was much later, 1950s maybe?. At any rate, Mounds is now owned by Hershey and Curtiss (Baby Ruth, Butterfinger, etc) is owned by Nestle. Not sure if they were ever owned by the same, but I don't think so.
Thank you. Is the Coconut Grove bar still in production?
Dextrose was a big thing in the early 1940s -- it was recommended in federal food standards as a "quick energy" food for war workers. Every major candy bar that used it trumpeted its presence in advertisements.
We could talk about when you eat dinner and when you eat supper, if you want.
And those people from the city that "lunch" and "flush the toilet all day." (My parents nice way of saying "city slicker.")
So, I have a confession: I have never had Nutella.
I grew up on a farm and mainly ate whole foods (that came out of said farm) growing up. I never ate ramen until college and was about 25 when I had my first mac and cheese in a box. I had my first "frozen dinner" (a hot pocket) at 23. So processed foods are pretty foreign to me.
I am sometime tempted to buy some Nutella to try but darn it's expensive.