We have some good newsworthiness and bad news . The good news is that the maker of Circus Peanuts has stepped in to keep open Necco Wafers from certain death . And if you do n’t have a unfermented spot for difficult , calcareous candy , this is also the unsound news .
AsGrub Streetreports , the break New England Confectionery Company ( and their Necco Wafers and Sweetheart Candies ) have been bought by the manufacturer of Dum Dums and Circus Peanuts . The new possessor , Spangler Candy Company , say both the Wafers and Sweethearts will be back on entrepot ledge by 2020 .
Yes , people be intimate to prod fun at Necco Wafers — just consider thisCracked headline : " America ’s Worst Candy Is Saved By Its 2nd - Worst Candy " ( which vocalise as though they leave about Necco - ownedMary Jane candies)—but there is clearly a grocery store for these confections . Last March , when news broke that the New England company face monumental layoffs and was in do-or-die want of a vendee , it spawn what some have dubbed " The smashing Necco Wafer Panic . " fear of a wafer - less future spread , and sales event of the candy spiked 63 percentage in a single calendar month .
There ’s also the nostalgic appeal . Founded in 1847 , Necco Wafers are the sure-enough continuously manufactured confect in the U.S. " It is a making love / hatred type of confect and mass are passing passionate about it , " Clair Robins of Candystore.com toldMental Flossin April . " They are perceive as an old - school day classic , and even patriotic — soldier ate them in the World Wars . But others think it ’s ironic and stark and should pass a dreadful death . "
The New England Confectionery Company , which shut down in July after filing for bankruptcy , was also responsible for some of your grandfather ’s other favorite afters : Sky Bars , Haviland Thin Mints , Clark Bars , Mighty Malts Malted Milk Balls , and Peach Blossoms . TheClark Barbrand was sell separately to Boyer Candy Company , which articulate the hot chocolate bars will start being produced again in about six months .
[ h / tGrub Street ]
