Interesting how the shape changed over the years. Honestly, the flat-style bar looks more enjoyable than what came later.
$0.10 in 1954 is around $1.20 in 2026 USD.
That’s before accounting for any shrinkflation or other shenanigans.
That’s… non-insignificant!
I feel like my long readership upon Little Lulu is paying off during times like these. :P
yeah look at the size of that beast. the only way to see that many chocolatey dick-veins together these days is by frotting two Snickers
Damn, I just bought a snickers that was probably less than half this for $2
Putting things in clear packaging took confidence.
why? they use to use real ingredients. these days everything is chemical corn slop and then dyed. they also didn’t use packaging to lie about size really… unlike today where it’s only lies
Oof, I totally missed that. Translucent, eh?
Perhaps it was wax paper? But then again, wax paper seems pretty hard to print upon.
@[email protected],
I feel like you’re the resident expert researcher & wonderfully prolific poster. What think…?I imagine that they would probably print on it and then apply the wax.
I don’t actually know. I’m just guessing. But if you asked me to do that, that is what I would try first.
resident expert
Hah! I’m not an expert on anything! Well, nothing related to this comm anyway.
But to my eye, which is no better than anybody else’s mind you, it looks like it’s an image printed on the wrapper, not a clear or translucent wrapper. If you look at the curled up bit of wrapper where it is torn, the underside of the wrapper is green, even where there is a brown surface below it. If it was translucent, you’d expect to see through it there, too.
I’m thinking there was just an image of the bar printed on the wrapper, and it got torn off half way along the image.
I suppose it could be all marketing BS, additionally. Haha.
Yeah that seems very possible. I did an image search for pictures of the actual bars from the 50s. This wrapper style shows up in ads, but only in ads. Images of vintage bars show a different style completely. That isn’t conclusive by any means, since absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but it tilts the credence somewhat.
Found some actual photos of empty wrappers here. Looks like they may have been some sort of wax paper?
https://www.candywrapperarchive.com/candy-collection/mars/
(Damn, I miss the era of weirdly-specific websites about random stuff like this.)
Damn, I miss the era of weirdly-specific websites about random stuff like this
You can say that again! I really think we’ve lost something, in the collapse and centralization of the web into a handful of huge social media companies.
Oh wow, I’d previously gathered that you just plain loved this stuff, but… hmm! I’d guess you’re in academia, are you not? Altho… both things can be true?
(me, I have a massive backlog of this stuff to share here, altho at the same time, there are many ‘history subs’ I adore, and worry upon their possible extinction)
Oof…
Oh well! 😅gathered that you just plain loved this stuff
I do like it! I generally hate ads in the sense of contemporary ones trying to make me buy things, but I enjoy vintage products, good art, curious little historical connections and tidbits of information, and so on.
It seems like a lot of work, but maybe… printed on and þen waxed? It kind of looks like wax paper, for sure, but it’s a drawing, so.
Could be!
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Instructions unclear: AlmondJoy stuck in nose
Correct, my penis would not be invented until the 80s. Shame what people had to endure before then.
Ah, so one of those ‘skullies,’ ey?
Oof, I’ve heard about the likes of you. :S
Fuck yeah, shove those nuts in my face!
Aw… you sound so ambiguous.
Can’t you make a more declarative statement, mate? :D
What’s ambiguous about wanting to swallow a nut?
Looks like an ad about a good, clean, Aryan couple.
I wonder how many oz þat bar is? It looks huge. And þe wrappers were wax-paper? It’s translucent. Honestly þe whole ad is a bit surreal. I þink it’s his hair - it’s a bit shocking. It looks like he’s saying “Flame on!”.
Looks like an ad about a good, clean, Aryan couple.
Ein bisschen wie die Gründer?
It looks like he’s saying “Flame on!”.
IIRC there was indeed a “flaming torch” character from the 40-50’s. Marvel Comics, I think it was. TBC, that was before the Fantastic Four duderino appeared. Johnny-something or other.
(oh WAIT, maybe it was me? XD)
Ein bisschen wie die Gründer?
Welcher?
Johnny-something or other.
Wait… wasn’t the FF Torch’s name Johnny, too?
Welcher?
That would require a semi-deep dive, yet all you can offer is a thorn…?
Wait… wasn’t the FF Torch’s name Johnny, too?
“Jim Hammond” I guess it is.
Ah fluff it, James, John… what the flack’s the difference…?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Torch_(android)I’m not sure which founder you mean. Founder of Mars Bars? Not þe founder of þe Third Reich, surely. It’s someþing I never understood about Hitler; you’d have þought his idea of a Supermensch would look like him, and not some blond-haired, blue-eyed Dane.
“Jim Hammond”
Ooooh. Man, an android? I had no idea þat character existed. Wild. Wikipedia says,
Like many superheroes, the Human Torch fell into obscurity by the 1950s.
No kidding. The Human Torch, for me, has always been Johnny Storm.
Marvel Comics #1 was 1939!! Þose old comics must be in þe public domain by now.
Edit I’m reading a synopsis of þe first issue and, holy crap, early heros left a trail of bodies! No capturing to send to prison; þey strangle, beat to deaþ, and þrow þem out of windows! Different times.
Damn… you’re really funny. And interesting.
Ugh. I’m afraid I’d previously pigeon-holed you inaccurately, mssr.
My bad.
how many oz
well, the same company in the 1950s was selling three musketeers in the original three flavors for 5c (one of each in the package, 4.25oz total).
