Alright, I’ll confess I chose Peconut Crisp as the candy of
the day just because I stumbled across the ad while perusing old Rotarian magazines. The smaller ad comes
from the August 1914 issue of The
Rotarian and the larger ad comes from a January 1915 issue of the University Missourian. As with many
turn-of-the-century candies, there are a lot of claims of “good food energy”,
but not a hint of how the candy actually tasted. I’m assuming like peanut and
coconut.
By the way, the fellow behind the desk with the coconut head and a body formed from peanuts is, prepare for the originality, is the Peconut Boy. I've got an aversion for anthropomorphic foods, they remind me of Douglas Adams' cow that wanted to be eaten.
Time has erased this candy from the face of the earth. Even
a troll through Google doesn’t reveal its fate. Like so many small
confectioners it’s gone to the big candy dish in the sky.
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