Comments on: Candy Review: Necco Old Fashioned Cream Drops

By: William Pickering

William Pickering — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:59:10 +0000

In all honest, I miss these! They where good then, and the bag I got, this year, for Christmas (after a decade and a half of unrelenting, and unsatisfied craving), and loved ‘em!

For those who doesn’t know what these where called, by some southern old timers, think n***r toes!

Sorry, it is a politically incorrect name, and I only supplied the first and last letter, for informational purposes only. I’m not racist, just remember my grandmother’s name for them!

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:36:41 +0000

Just wanted to say thank you to the person who suggested the Family Dollar store. I live in Michigan and have a hard time finding these locally. My Walgreens did not carry them and I haven’t seen them at any other grocery or drugstore. My local ACO hardware store carries them seasonally but they were gone early. I did finally find the Melster brand at Family Dollar, but I haven’t tried them yet so I hope they’re decent. My grandmother used to set Creme Drops out on a pretty festive dish every Christmas, so I was looking to recreate that experience for my mom who loves these candies.. Thanks for the helpful posts!

By: Steven Green

Steven Green — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:45:55 +0000

When I lived in Boston (1983-1984) I often visited the Necco company store in the Lechmere section of Cambridge, MA. My favorite purchase was a four pound box of these for $3.00! Oh my! It would take me about three weeks to go through them. I always bought a box to take out of town and another to give as a gift. I ate so many of these in the year that I was in Boston. After moving back to NYC, I would visit the store to get a box to go. Don’t know if the store is still there.

By: Peg Casacca

Peg Casacca — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:22:11 +0000

Daughter ordered the chocolate drops for me for my birthday last year. Was very disappointed. Although the flavors were good, they were expensive, smaller than the usual chocdrops and the chocolate outer layer was hard,not soft. Won’t be ordering from them again.

By: ERIC STEINER

ERIC STEINER — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:00:18 +0000

I found the Melsters brand creme drops at our local dollar store and like they said only during christmas. I started buying 3 or 4 bags at a time and then ended up buying the rest of the box ( the last 5 bags ). I then came across BRACH’s creme drops which werent too bad as well, those were at Walgreens, but again only during Christmas but cost $2.99 bag, but I was desperate and gave in

By: Sherry

Sherry — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:34:43 +0000

My husband doesn’t think he has had Christmas unless he has had several bags of drops. My son-in-law’s family has them Christmas morning in a “hot” homemade biscuit. Wish we could find them year round.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:50:18 +0000

I think that everyone is having trouble finding these on the internet because they’ve only recently become known as “Necco Old Fashioned Cream Drops”. They used to be known as “Zachary Old Fashioned Creme[sic] Drops.”

You can see the old bag here… http://i52.tinypic.com/2j4d3cm.jpg

I think that these are delicious, by the way, and I decided to search on the internet because my local Walgreens AND my local Dollar Tree stopped carrying them. They sell them at groovycandies.com but the Drops are seasonal, and it’s out of season, as ridiculous as that is.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:39:28 +0000

You need to melt these between saltine crackers in the microwave… numnumnummy… been eating them since I was a baby!

By: Jaimie

Jaimie — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:09:40 +0000

I am completely addicted to these as well. I thought they were gone forever until we found them in the 99 cent store at Christmas time. I should have bought more than 5 bags because now I cannot find them anywhere.
The search lead me online which is where I found this site, but there are actually lots of similar sites full of people expressing their love for these so why can’t they make them year round?
I will be looking at my local Walgreens tomorrow but I won’t be holding my breath! I certainly hope I don’t have to wait until next Christmas.

By: Ed Train

Ed Train — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:05:34 +0000

Well, well….

I’m delighted to see mention of my favorite candy. This is the only candy I care for and it goes beautifully with a mug of cold milk.

I used to eat the Zachary cream drops until they disappeared from the store shelves. Note: I just looked up Zachary’s website and they claim to still sell the cream drops. I’ll check it out. I’ve eaten Zachary’s happily in the past before they disappeared from the shelves of the “biggest retailer in the world (aka WalMart). Site: http://www.zacharyconfections.com

I have found the Necco cream drops in *some* Walgreens Stores. However it seems that Walgreens has dropped the line entirely. The Walgreens that used to carry them has stopped stocking them. I’ve contacted Walgreens to see if they would order a few bags for me and carry a small stock in my local store… No reply to date.

I was in New England this Fall, where Necco candy is made (New England Candy Company – NECCO). I stopped at any number of stores and could not find cream drops anywhere.. verrrrrrry interesting.

I used to buy these cream drops from candy specialty stores (at a *fancy* price). However several of my suppliers informed me that they could not get cream drops any more and that when their current stock is gone there would be no more cream drops.

For the record… I’m not the most discriminating of candy eaters but I do have certain preferences. Over the years I’ve eaten many types of chocolates. In recent years however, my tastes have focused on cream drops almost exclusively. You could call it an *addiction* to these cream drops. I admit it freely and feel no shame.

Of course I have to pick the one candy that has little appeal to the general public… thus making it hard to impossible to find. Shopkeepers don’t carry items that don’t turn quickly. Unsold items are not contributing to the bottom line of profits.

Reading these replies gives me renewed hope that I’ll find these cream drops somewhere and not have to buy them from Necco by the case. If any of you have any more ideas, please post or send me an email.