found this candy today!

davek · Post by **davek** » Sat May 03, 2008 5:51 pm

That Hershey bar at least is probably very valuable. Those were produced all the way back to WWII. I've been told that it wasn't very good when brand-new, so I'm sure it's awful now. It was hard and crumbly, and didn't melt in your mouth or even feel or taste much like chocolate. The same factors that made it survive well in tropical climate made it a lousy candy bar. I believe that the caloric content was made very high-everyone knows that anything with either too many or too few calories tastes bad. Definite keeper.

That other thing is, I suppose the gummies pictured above. It was probably much better than the chocolate when new, but also inedible now. Cool find!

Mkim340518 · Post by **Mkim340518** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:00 pm

DangerousDave wrote:Heres some type of weird Virginia Candy. It has peanuts all over it. I can't figure this one out. Must be from Smithfield.

Hey, I remeber these!!!! My parents and I have a small grocery store in Philadelphia and these Snickers bars came out around when I was a softmore in highschool so that would be around 1997-1998.

hope this helps a little

M. Kim

dirtbag · Post by **dirtbag** » Sat May 03, 2008 11:35 pm

davek wrote:That Hershey bar at least is probably very valuable. Those were produced all the way back to WWII. I've been told that it wasn't very good when brand-new, so I'm sure it's awful now. It was hard and crumbly, and didn't melt in your mouth or even feel or taste much like chocolate. The same factors that made it survive well in tropical climate made it a lousy candy bar. I believe that the caloric content was made very high-everyone knows that anything with either too many or too few calories tastes bad. Definite keeper.

That other thing is, I suppose the gummies pictured above. It was probably much better than the chocolate when new, but also inedible now. Cool find!

This was the famous (or infamous) D Ration, repackaged for the unsuspecting civilians

Baldy · Post by **Baldy** » Sun May 04, 2008 1:04 pm

Yep, I think it was bound together with oat flour, much like current Aussie military chocolate. One source states it was deliberately made as bland-tasting as possible - like a 'boiled potato' - in order to prevent troops scoffing them as a treat instead of keeping them for emergencies. I'd say this would also make them less attractive as a black market item.

http://www.olive-drab.com/od_rations_d.php

Treesuit · Post by **Treesuit** » Sun May 04, 2008 3:24 pm

Dave,
Yep, I remember that candy bar in the MRE's back in the early to mid 90's. It was pretty unpopular and didn't taste very well. I'm glad Snickers got rid of it and so did the Gov't.

Richard w. · Post by **Richard w.** » Mon May 05, 2008 9:08 am

The "Munch" bar is nothing too exotic. Just peanut brittle.

Here's something I found in a 2006 No. 1 menu the other day.

I know they don't ever put trademarked names on the candy pouches, but I think they might be wrong in the label they put on these Tootsie Rolls. I've never considered a TR to be "toffee", but then again, I'm not certain what else they could have called it.

"Fudge bars"? "Chocolate flavored candy"?