08/31/2026
1900's Commercial Halloween Candy:
Sure you would have plenty of home made treat that were probably tastier, better, and heck just gosh darn better for you.
But the Commercial Candy?
1847: Necco Wafers, a candy that’s basically chalk dusted in confectioner’s sugar.
1864: Cella’s Chocolate Covered Cherries, a candy entirely too sexual to in good faith give to children.
1880: Candy Corn, which never doesn’t feel like you’re eating a gnome’s sweet little tooth.
1893: Good & Plenty, which are coated in pink and white candy to fool you into finding out they’re filled with black licorice.
1896: Tootsie Rolls, which, credit where credit’s due, held up better than most other things on this list.
1900: Hershey Chocolate Bar, which is good, but the fact that Hershey just showed up and we only have 28 years left is dark.
1906: Hershey’s Kisses, as we start to enter the age of Palatable Candy.
1908: Hershey’s with Almonds, because apparently going “almonds?” takes eight years.
1912: Life Savers, but only the mint ones you usually get in a dish by the door of a Chinese restaurant.
1912: Goo Goo Clusters, something that sounds like a galaxy where only babies live, but is apparently milk chocolate, caramel, marshmallow and peanuts, and honestly, sound good as hell.
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1914: We get some Actual Candy Bars, but not good ones. They’re still the kind of thing you find in your aunt’s old roll-top desk, like Heath bars, Clark bars, Charleston Chew, Baby Ruths and whatever an O! Henry is.
1920: Jujyfruits, a candy made famous by Elaine from Seinfeld for being dogsh*t.
1923: Mounds, the number one candy bar that your mom asks if you’re going to eat.
1923: Milky Way, the first candy on this list that I’ve ever happily purchased.
Origin: Cracked.com
From Newspapers
1900s Pittsburgh Press, 1905
Buttercups, molasses kisses, chocolate-covered marshmallows, Scotch kisses, peanut bars.
1910s Minneapolis Journal, 1916
Chocolate Tinagling (??), nougats, butterscotch, marshmallows.
1920s Baltimore Sun, 1924
Candy corn, candy witches, candy pumpkins, chocolate novelties, coconut strips.
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