Necco Wafers! The Candy Nobody Likes!

commanderteddog has returned from her remarkable sojourn amongst the Yangs (E plebista!) Like most world explorers, she has returned to her native land bearing the exotic bounty of foreign realms. In my specific case, she returned bearing candy.


The Sky Bar, and Chocolate Necco Wafers! Both products of Necco, the oldest candy maker in the Western Hemisphere, founded at a time when wig powder was still being sold at Ye Olde General Store. Their candies do have the feel of a simpler time, and it's not just the retro packaging.

The Sky Bar was introduced in 1938, and it definitely has a sort of pre-War feel to it. It's not a half-pound of wax for one thing, but a small sticky bar, filled with gooey pockets. It's the candy bar you can imagine one of the younger Little Rascals eating, and getting all sticky-faced, then swallowing soap powder when they try to clean him in the wash tub, and hiccuping bubbles.

As for Necco Chocolate Wafers...


I poured some out on the stovetop for the photo, and they made a sound like poker chips, a sort of hollow rattle. They're covered in a dusting of sugar that comes off in your hands. They feel light and slippery, and when you eat them they shatter like bits of chalk. They also taste like chalk. Chalklate!

Necco wafers were invented in 1847, and it shows. They're like some kind of patent medicine that ended up just being eaten because it had a dusting of sugar - "Yes, Doctor Isambard Necco's Patented Wafers! For treatment of Female Hysteria and Colic! (Medicinal use only, not to be taken internally)"

Also, they are horrid. Also, I seem to have eaten them all, and want more.