Supposedly the Slo Poke got its name from the fact the thick, fudgy caramel lasted practically all day long. I’m not sure about this fact, online information on Pokes is scarce at best. I remember regularly getting them in my Halloween haul and they wound up being left among the candy chum with the Tootsie Rolls, Candy Corn, and odd piece of fruit. The thing I remember most was the tooth-sucking stickiness of the Slo Poke. If you bit into one you likely came up missing two or three molars. I’ve never been a fan of candies that include dental work as a premium.
The Slo Poke was introduced in 1926 by the Holloway Candy Company, but the sucker version has been discontinued. For a brief period you actually couldn’t get a Slo Poke anywhere, but eventually the brand and recipe were acquired by the Warrell Corporation which began making Slo Pokes in bar form under their new Classic Caramel Company if you have a tooth in need of pulling and don’t want to bother with Novocain.
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