[SamAdams76]

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I don't know what part of the country you are talking about but Mounds was two pieces in the nineteen fifties in Texas!

[claptrap]

You havent noticed the poor quality of anything else yet?

[digger48]

Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut

Sometimes You don't

[SoCal Pubbie]

Snickers.

No, I'm not laughing. That was the candy bar I liked. Never cared for Almond Joy.

[martin_fierro]

Had a Bit 'O Honey the other day.

They sure aren't as good as they used to be.

[martin_fierro]

Not only did Peter Paul cut the weight of their candy bars by a solid ounce but to add insult to injury, they raised the price of these bars to fifteen cents!

Hillary knew.

[ml/nj]

I've been a Mounds fan for a long time. I don't remember when I started having them, but I do remember that they were a dime when all the other candy bars were a nickel. I don't remember them ever coming as a single bar in one of those dime packages.

ML/NJ

[snarks_when_bored]

The story of U.S. business in the last few decades is summed up in the question: "How can we make more while offering less?" The examples are endless...

[HungarianGypsy]

**Sweetie Ping** Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.

[varina davis]

Dark chocolate Milky Way rules.

[logician2u]

I've never been a Mounds or Almond Joy type. Butterfinger is more to my taste.

However, I do recall that candy bars went through a sea change in the 1970s, many being discontinued in favor of new concoctions (where did Mountain Bar disappear to?). Others were shrunk in size because of the increasing costs of sugar, cocoa and even the wrappers. What you got for a dime in 1970 was a lot more candy than that same dime bought you in 1975.

Nixon's wage and price controls may have played a role in the size of candy, also. One of the ways manufacturers were able to avoid running afoul of the law was to repackage the product as a "new" size and price it accordingly. I think the large size Snickers came out during the early 70s and may have cost a quarter. They're around 79 cents these days.

Perhaps one of our FReeper candy afficianados can fill in the details.

[Spunky]

"Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Almond Joys got nuts, Mounds don't."

I am as old as the hills almost :-) and they have always been two pieces as long as I can remember. Surely before the 70s

[snugs]

Our Marathon is now called Snickers which you describe as Marathon is called a Mars Bar which I thought you called Milky Way our Milky Way is similar to your Three Musketeers Bar.

Confused. LOL.

[A knight without armor]

I don't remember Mounds/Almond Joy being a single bar. I do remember my mother and I eating a candy bar called a 7 Up bar. It was a whole chocolate bar with 7 compartments containing 7 different fillings. There'd be like a nut in one perhaps, a jelly filling, etc. Nobody but me remembers that. We used to eat them at the laundry mat with RC Colas.

[MozartLover]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm..........Zagnut..............

Clark bars were great too.

[Silly]

Have one of these and I promise you'll feel better:

Best new candy bar, or variation of a candy bar, in a decade at least.

[Silly]

This Australian delight, "Violet Crumble," will make your eyeballs roll back. It's crispy honeycomb in dark chocolate. Melts like cotton candy....

When my band played in Oz for two summers (winters, there) the girls in the band gained a lot of weight eating these!

[Silly]

Now that you've got my mouth watering:

This new ad campaign is AWESOME. I'll bet Snickers sales are going through the roof.

My brother-in-law's brother works for M&M Mars. Joe says that a warm Snickers bar right off the assembly line is to die for.

[Grammy]

from post 30........They changed the format to two pieces in 1929 so the consumer got more product of same quality for the same 5 cent price. "

So, you must have been eating some Reeeeaallly old candy bars.

That said, if this is the worst thing that happens in your life this week, things are pretty sweet!

8-)