Candy
Hippy Sippy
Hippy Sippy consisted of tiny chocolate balls packaged in a container that looked like a hypodermic needle. The chocolate balls were sucked out through the "needle." The candy was introduced in 1968, but was pulled from shelves within a year because of popular outrage.It reminds me of the Chilly Bang! Bang! juice-filled squirt gun.
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Camden Courier-Post - Oct 19, 1968
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 30, 2017 -
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Category: Drugs, Candy
Candy Wrapper Archive
You can certainly pass some delightful hours at the Candy Wrapper Archive, marveling at the sometimes wacky candies of yore.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 11, 2016 -
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Category: Candy, Collectors
Its The Real Thing
Some think of a pool full of Coca Cola and Mentos and say, "Why?" These guys said, "Why not!"
Posted By: patty - Tue Jun 28, 2016 -
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Category: Drones, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Candy, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
Dulce Dolor
DULCE DOLOR from Filmaciones de la Ciudad on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 18, 2016 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Sexuality, Surrealism, Foreign Customs, Candy
Follies of the Madmen #232
Existential candybars, as only David Cronenberg could direct it.
For more weirdness, try his new novel.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 21, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Surrealism, Candy, 1990s
Spicy
Hot pepper gummies! Are you brave enough to try these fiery hot candies?
Posted By: patty - Sat Aug 09, 2014 -
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Category: Candy
Follies of the Madmen #217
Maybe I tend to overthink things. But I confess I am baffled by the situation depicted in this ad.
1) Assume the girl in blue is a child, not an adult. Let's call her 8-10 years old.
2) The thing in her lap could be a doll.
a) But if it is a doll, its eyes are directed at the cookie, and it's reaching for it. It is not drawn to resemble an artificial thing. It is drawn as real as the girl.
3) The thing in her lap could be another living child.
a) But the only living child bearing that proportion to a ten-year-old would be, oh, what, a six-month-old baby? And what six-month-old baby ever looked like that?
Alternate explanation.
The girl in blue is an adult woman, the creature in her lap is a midget, and the whole thing is a fetish setup.
Please provide other theories, if possible!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 05, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Comics, Candy, 1940s
Charley Says
In this dangerous world, God help all kids who don't have a child-sized cat friend with feline Tourette's Syndrome.
So popular, they have been collected on DVD.
Not to be confused with this other "Charlie says!"
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 27, 2013 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Death, Disasters, PSA's, Advertising, Candy, Cats, Europe
Candy and Women
Two WU essentials in one song!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 26, 2012 -
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Category: Music, Candy, 1940s, Women
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