Most erotic candybar ad ever?
Source:
The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts)04 Apr 1928, Wed Page 16
Our candy is the only thing that offers solace to this hideous cyborg who lives a life of eternal anguish and pain.
1979: James Mack, a candy manufacturer representative, told government officials that banning candy sales from schools could lead to "injury, drug abuse and drinking." His reasoning was that candy provided children with an "island of pleasure," and if denied this they might seek out worse things such as drugs. They might even "leave the school premises [to seek out candy] and encounter traffic hazards".
Wisconsin State Journal - Jan 31, 1979
Candy is a food! That's the first thing to know about it. Candy supplies definite needs of the body, just like milk, fruit, vegetables, cereals. Candy, in fact, furnishes several vital elements of the diet, without which you couldn't keep well!
... Caroline Hunt, noted specialist in Home Economics, has therefore recommended that candy be made a part of the "sweets" ration, which consists of about five pounds a week for the family of five. Candy may constitute whatever part of this is desired.
So they were recommending that everyone eat a pound of candy a week!
Saturday Evening Post - Oct 27, 1928. Source: atticpaper.com
I must confess that the notion of a vehicle that brings candy directly to you had never occurred to me before. But what a great idea!
Here's the tale of a modern incarnation.
Here's their website, with an itinerary.
And here's the tale of someone who had the idea 100 years ago! (Scroll up.)
The
New England Journal of Medicine recently reported on a case of a 54-year-old man who died by eating too much licorice:
On the basis of additional history obtained from his family, the patient was eating one or two large packages of soft candy daily. Three weeks before presentation, he had switched from eating fruit-flavored soft candy to eating licorice-flavored soft candy that contained glycyrrhizic acid, which is converted to glycyrrhetinic acid after it is consumed.
The glycyrrhetinic acid caused his potassium levels to drop, which then caused his heart to stop.
It would have been weirder if he had been
crushed by 16 tons of licorice. But licorice overdose is a weird way to die nevertheless.
Created in 1991 by Australian philosophy student Richard Manderson. They were Jesus-shaped chocolates filled with raspberry jam so they would "bleed" when bitten.
Weekly World News - May 21, 1991
More info from
wikipedia:
Richard Manderson first created a series of small raspberry fondant filled chocolate Jesuses that were sold for consumption to visitors of Gorman House Arts Centre in Canberra, an Australian cultural centre and heritage site that runs theatres, workshops, exhibition space, artists' studios, offices and a café.
When a US newspaper condemned his act of depicting Jesus on a chocolate, Manderson decided in answer to create an actual life-size chocolate Jesus he called Trans-substantiation 2. He did so by filling a plaster mold with fifty-five pounds of melted chocolate. He used chocolate-dipped strings for hair and plastic Easter wrap for a loincloth. Manderson's work was exhibited in public around Easter in 1994, with Manderson inviting the public to come and eat his chocolate Jesus work after the exhibition.
The Jesus Question blog delves more deeply into
the history of chocolate Jesuses.