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I posted a link a while back to a scanned 1949 candy salesman book that is just incredible to look through. While browsing the pages I noticed the above ad for Whiz “The best nickel candy there iz-z” which fits nicely into our growing collection of oddly-named candy.
Check out this awesome “commercial” for Whiz from 1938 that advertises a “Party and Magic Stunts” book you can get for just two Whiz wrappers and 6 cents in coins or stamps! It’s awesome in its classic black-and-white cheesiness. Take a look at the candy too – it looks like a chocolate hamburger patty. I guess they changed the shape and packaging by 1949.
Maybe back in the 30’s and 40’s Whiz wasn’t another word for liquid human waste, but nowadays a candy named Whiz definitely wouldn’t fly. Of course, I wouldn’t think Candy Scabs, White Chocolate Maggots, or Dr. Windbreakers Candy (chew one and do one) would sell either, so who knows?
This kinda reminds me of these bizarre candies that I used to see called Choward’s Violet Mints. They were not mint flavored; they tasted like flowers or something. Really gross.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:49 amEverything I’ve read about the Whiz bar ssays that stopped being made in the ’50s, but I swear I had one in the ’70s. My father always quoted the ad line, and one day we were in a Walgreens before a movie and we saw the candy bar. He bought one for me. My recollection was that taste-wise, it was nothing special. I know it didn’t taste 20 years old! Does anyone know when they stopped producing Whiz bars?
October 16th, 2006 at 2:43 pmHaven\’t seen nor tasted them since the 40s or early 50s. As I remember they were really good.
December 21st, 2006 at 11:16 pmI work at the McLean County Museum of History in Bloomington, IL, where Whiz was produced. I know there are wrappers with zip codes which put them after 1962, but I don’t think they lasted long after that. They were no longer popular by then. Beich’s big seller by then was Banana Bike caramels and Golden Crumbles. They still operate here as Nestle/Beich. Still making banana taffies.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:49 amWhen I was a kid back in the 40s & 50s, the Whiz bar for me was the best candy bar there Iz (waz). Now all they have is either the cubed marshmallow covered chocolates, which mostly are stale wherever you buy them, or the Charlestown Chews which is “faux” marshmallow covered with a thin layer of chocolate. The “Whiz” also had peanuts on top. Egads, bring them back, please. I’ll buy all of them.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:24 pmI loved the Whiz candy bars! I have been trying to make the Whiz candy bar here at home. I can’t find a recipe that helps me with the marshmallow part. The texture just won’t come out right. Plus it sticks to everything I try to shape it in. It’s a shame that some of the really good candy bars are no longer with us. Anyone remember the Tango bar? Almost like the Whiz, but with a little layer of caramel in it.
July 16th, 2008 at 7:11 pmMy favorite bar as a kid (born in 1942) was the Whiz. It disappeared for many years. While traveling in Southern CA in the early 90’s, I found them on sale in a Circle K. So excited I bought all they had. Tasted just like I remembered, but haven’t seen them since.
The marshmallow does stick, but they used a starch mold release. Probably works like rubbing a potato on the surface of glass or wood when applying gold foil. Will not adhere where the starch is layered. Food grad silicon may also work.
August 18th, 2008 at 5:46 pmMy grandmother just told me a story today that back in the late 40s/early 50s, she went on a radio quiz show and won a year’s supply of Whiz Candy bars. She said that every month she’d get a big box delivered and my uncle would yell from the front porch “The Whiz Bars are here!” and the neighborhood kids would come running!
I just had to look this up to see what she was talking about and I’m glad I found the site – I’ve passed it on to her.
:)
September 14th, 2008 at 11:02 pmI’m so glad to stumble onto this site.
September 15th, 2008 at 11:25 pmIn the 60s I used to purchase the Whiz bar at the movies and in the PX in Germany.
I’ve never found it again or anyone familiar with it.
The best ever. I wish they’d bring it back.
Katie O.
September 20th, 2008 at 10:00 amThe Tango Bar was my parents favorite. I’ve been trying to find info about it for years.
I have also been trying to find information on my Mom’s favorite candy bar The Tango Bar.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:41 amI am being told that elderberries have 3 times the VIT C as oranges. Really???
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