5:08 it wasn't just VCRs. They broadcast the film on TV once a year in the late 70s and early 80s and as kids we really looked forward to it. Same with The Wizard of Oz.
You and me both brother. I know it wasn't a super fancy candy bar, but I remember enjoying the Wonka Bars years ago, as it was something that was simple and unique. A milk chocolate bar with gram cracker pieces in it. I mean sure, I appreciate somewhat more fancy candy bars as much as anyone else, but I do feel like there's nothing wrong with keeping things simple at times.
@@infinidominion I know, I just think it's a shame that they stopped making those simple but good candy bars. The same goes for how stupid Heresy's stopped making the great Smores bar.
And here I was expecting Joe Firt to start calling off all of the abstract candy names around 7:25. You're gonna stand there, ownin' a fireworks stand, and tell me you don't have no whistlin' bungholes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistlin' kitty chaser?
Chocolate is pretty finicky, I worked with it a little professionally but I wasn't a chocolatier and even tempering it, getting it the right consistency for what you want to do with it, is hard enough, I have no idea what they do to keep it from melting, by it's nature, it should melt, I don't want to know what's in it if it doesn't
I was taught the art of working with chocolate from my mom growing up. She was a chocolatier for a local candy company here in Maryland, and I went on to be a chocolatier for Godiva. Chocolate is beyond finicky.... That's actually why Milton S. Hersey had such a hard time getting into chocolate production. It wasn't until he did some corporate espionage of his own while Cadbury had a display going at the World's Fair, that he began to understand what he was dealing with and how to make it work, so he wasn't just confined to selling caramel, which was what he was known for at first.
That whole list of random Wonka candies and the only one I recognized was the Wonka donuts...guess they made an impression on young me lol an impression that said "do not buy me"
I remember buying rolls of Bottlecaps back in the 80s. And getting bags of huge Sour Hearts at the local Walgreens, leading up to Valentine's Day. Only got to try Hot and Cold Nerds once. Hot was great, cold was less so.
How about Ferrara Pan for another company, who make Lemonheads, Nerds, Red Hots, Boston Baked Beans, and Atomic Fireballs? Another great candy company is Just Born, but no doubt you've covered Peeps and the other great products made there.
I'm 39 years old and I've never actually watched any of these movies. I've always liked the "Nerds" and the "Gobstoppers" candies. My older sister really loved the Gobstoppers when we were children I never put two and two together with regards to those two candies being products from that candy company. I'm sure I'd have noticed the branding on the Nerds boxes, but I don't think that I ever gave it a second thought. I definitely learned something new today. Thanks Weird History Food!
I think the last Wonka-branded thing I ate was Peel-a-Pops in 2014. It was an ice cream bar covered in a kind of gelatinous candy shell, which you could peel open like a banana. They were actually pretty good, but obviously, they didn't last long.
I always heard the reason the changed the name to Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory was of the civil rights movement and The Vietnam War. They didn’t want to be associated with them. Now hearing this, why not just say this in the first place.
"Because nobody was buying them.." I WAS BUYING THEM! I wanted to find the golden ticket so bad in 2005! I used to look in every corner and crack in my house for loose change as a little kid, and then when I finally thought I had enough, I filled my pockets with coins, and when my parents took me to the store I got a Wonka Bar and slapped a handful of coins from my pocket onto the checkout counter. I did not get the golden ticket, but it was the first thing I ever bought! 😢😂
Here in Britain, we’ve had a good few Wonka candies including Dweebs, Nerds, Xploder (a chocolate bar with exploding candy bits) and Oompas! Our Oompas had different flavors to the ones in the US, our Oompa flavors included Jam Donut, Popcorn, Mashed Potato and Cucumber! The latter 2, as disgusting as you think they might’ve been, were actually rather nice! When the Tom & Jerry Wonka movie came out on DVD here in the UK, they had a Golden Ticket contest for that: they hid a Golden Ticket each in 5 of the DVDs, each one granted the holder to a trip to KidZania! The 70s Wonka movie will always be a favorite of mine, I also get a joy out of how the story was parodied in an episode each of Futurama, Family Guy, Craig of The Creek and more recently Aldi’s Christmas commercial this past Christmas!
Love the candy and both Johnny Depp and Gene Wilder movies. Also just recently learned of that scam willy wonka event someone tried to do years ago. I saw a documentary on the disater and it was wild.
We don't want this Snozzberries to taste like snozzberries, because when you find out what a Snozzberry really is, you find out that it is X-rated and most adult women and a select men already know what it tastes like, and it does not belong in a candy
@@YourCommonSinner sorry if I only implied it. I had literally just come from an article where there was a heated debate, but the article clearly states from the author himself what Snozzberries was supposed to be. I personally always thought it meant boogers, but apparently that would make the word have to be schnozzberry
0:01 The Kelly Affair sing the song "'Sweet Talkin' Candy Man" on the film Beyond The Valley of the Dolls! That is the only time I have ever been to where there was a host introducing (and explaining) the film in front of the screen before it started! LOVE that film, think about it all the time!
There was a long standing rumor that the reason they changed the name was because the film made at the height of the Vietnam War and Charlie was the code name for the Viet Cong Army.
Bottle Caps are one of my very favorite candies... and goddamn IMPOSSIBLE to find around here. Hundreds of places in town sell candy, but I can only reliably find them at one, single Walgreens. None of the other half dozen Walgreens in town, no no, just that ONE.
Wasn't snozzberry determined to be a hidden reference to one of the writer's earlier books. If I remember correctly it was supposed to be a guys "part" lol.
5:09 Dylan Lauren was inspired to create a candy store after watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on her 6th birthday. She founded Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001. She even partnered up with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Musical in 2017!
Does anyone know anything about the actual WW factories that made the candies? I don't mean the factories from like the movies, I mean the real factories that made the real candies. I may be wrong, but it seems like when I was very young, my parents took me to the "Grand Opening" of one in Kentucky, maybe in the 60's?
4:03 There is a band called Veruca Salt. I share a birthday with co-founder Louise Post. Veruca Salt's hit "Volcano Girls" was "the opening theme for dark comedy film Jawbreaker." (wikipedia)
Lost it with the picture of the fake wonka experience in Glasgow...u guys just couldn't let that pass hahahah 😂😂😂
Yeah I wasn’t even expecting that.😆
5:08 it wasn't just VCRs. They broadcast the film on TV once a year in the late 70s and early 80s and as kids we really looked forward to it. Same with The Wizard of Oz.
When I was a kid my grandparents put it on Everytime I went to their house.
That or George of the Jungle. I love those movies.
"Tell me more about this nice little company..."
-Condescending Wonka
I enjoyed the Laffy Taffy for the absurd jokes on the wrappers. Those were sold under Wonka for a time.
Shame the Scrumdiddlyumptious Bar (Wait...that word isn't being pegged by spellcheck?!?) isn't still being sold. That was one of my favorites.
I miss and completely forgot about Shock Tarts, those were amazing
Those were one of my favorites!
I'm 38 years old and Gobstoppers are still one of my favorite candies
I grew up in the 90s, and Wonka had some amazing candy back then. I miss it!
You and me both brother.
I know it wasn't a super fancy candy bar, but I remember enjoying the Wonka Bars years ago, as it was something that was simple and unique. A milk chocolate bar with gram cracker pieces in it.
I mean sure, I appreciate somewhat more fancy candy bars as much as anyone else, but I do feel like there's nothing wrong with keeping things simple at times.
@@chubbyninja89he's probably talking about all the fruity stuff like nerds and runts, we never saw the chocolate bars until around 2000
@@infinidominion
I know, I just think it's a shame that they stopped making those simple but good candy bars.
The same goes for how stupid Heresy's stopped making the great Smores bar.
And here I was expecting Joe Firt to start calling off all of the abstract candy names around 7:25.
You're gonna stand there, ownin' a fireworks stand, and tell me you don't have no whistlin' bungholes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistlin' kitty chaser?
My takeaway from this video is: I miss shock tarts. So bad. I wanna burn another hole in the side of my mouth.
Yusss. Shock tarts. Spree. And that other sour thing that was basically a diff version of shock starts. So so good.
I'm very curious why that chocolate bar was so difficult to work with
Chocolate is pretty finicky, I worked with it a little professionally but I wasn't a chocolatier and even tempering it, getting it the right consistency for what you want to do with it, is hard enough, I have no idea what they do to keep it from melting, by it's nature, it should melt, I don't want to know what's in it if it doesn't
I was taught the art of working with chocolate from my mom growing up. She was a chocolatier for a local candy company here in Maryland, and I went on to be a chocolatier for Godiva. Chocolate is beyond finicky.... That's actually why Milton S. Hersey had such a hard time getting into chocolate production. It wasn't until he did some corporate espionage of his own while Cadbury had a display going at the World's Fair, that he began to understand what he was dealing with and how to make it work, so he wasn't just confined to selling caramel, which was what he was known for at first.
I want a food history on SOBE drinks, they were so popular and then they vanished.
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That weird dancing lizard commercial didn’t help them.
@@edwardleemiller-eo8jp haha truee
I used to love SHOCK TARTS
Great channel, great content. 🥂from NYC!
Roald Dahl and Milton Hershey both have the same birthday.
I loved Bottle Caps when I was a kid.
More and more each day I yearn for the Wonka brank to return
That whole list of random Wonka candies and the only one I recognized was the Wonka donuts...guess they made an impression on young me lol an impression that said "do not buy me"
I always loved those SweetTart candies and the occasional Nerds candies.
I miss Chewy Tart 'n Tinys, the originals in a box.
It was half peanut butter & half Chocolate ,I remember loving them and the Oompas ,and the Skrunch bar was a better butterfinger.
wonka and his hell minions are nightmare fuel
they did the golden tickets for wonka chocolate bars from 2002-2003 before the movie promotion, just wasnt publicized
I enjoyed eating chewy runts, bottle caps and chewy nerds. My daughters enjoyed eating gobstoppers, rope, nerds and a few others.🎉
Now, I'm jonesin' for Peanut Butter Oompas! Growl.....absolutely nothing available today comes close. (Insert fist-pounding screaming fit here.)
I remember buying rolls of Bottlecaps back in the 80s. And getting bags of huge Sour Hearts at the local Walgreens, leading up to Valentine's Day.
Only got to try Hot and Cold Nerds once. Hot was great, cold was less so.
Nerdz were my favorite candy. I still grab a box every now and then.
I completely forgot about Tart and Tinys! Now I miss them :(
The white grape squared gummies in the early 2000's were my favorite wonka candy.
This was a great video!
Thanks for this! 🍬
The Candy Man was Sammy Davis Jr.'s only number one hit song.
How about Ferrara Pan for another company, who make Lemonheads, Nerds, Red Hots, Boston Baked Beans, and Atomic Fireballs? Another great candy company is Just Born, but no doubt you've covered Peeps and the other great products made there.
i forgot about the wonka donuts, i loved those!
One day I will go to The Wonka factory and get all the chocolate 🍫. 😀👍
Tart n Tinys were my favorite candy as a kid! I could buy them in bulk from the local Ben Franklin store. Boy I’m getting old!
I'm 39 years old and I've never actually watched any of these movies. I've always liked the "Nerds" and the "Gobstoppers" candies. My older sister really loved the Gobstoppers when we were children I never put two and two together with regards to those two candies being products from that candy company. I'm sure I'd have noticed the branding on the Nerds boxes, but I don't think that I ever gave it a second thought. I definitely learned something new today. Thanks Weird History Food!
I think the last Wonka-branded thing I ate was Peel-a-Pops in 2014. It was an ice cream bar covered in a kind of gelatinous candy shell, which you could peel open like a banana. They were actually pretty good, but obviously, they didn't last long.
Where its the clip at 9:37 from? the awkward forward role. Cheers
I always heard the reason the changed the name to Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory was of the civil rights movement and The Vietnam War. They didn’t want to be associated with them.
Now hearing this, why not just say this in the first place.
"Because nobody was buying them.." I WAS BUYING THEM! I wanted to find the golden ticket so bad in 2005! I used to look in every corner and crack in my house for loose change as a little kid, and then when I finally thought I had enough, I filled my pockets with coins, and when my parents took me to the store I got a Wonka Bar and slapped a handful of coins from my pocket onto the checkout counter. I did not get the golden ticket, but it was the first thing I ever bought! 😢😂
Here in Britain, we’ve had a good few Wonka candies including Dweebs, Nerds, Xploder (a chocolate bar with exploding candy bits) and Oompas! Our Oompas had different flavors to the ones in the US, our Oompa flavors included Jam Donut, Popcorn, Mashed Potato and Cucumber! The latter 2, as disgusting as you think they might’ve been, were actually rather nice! When the Tom & Jerry Wonka movie came out on DVD here in the UK, they had a Golden Ticket contest for that: they hid a Golden Ticket each in 5 of the DVDs, each one granted the holder to a trip to KidZania! The 70s Wonka movie will always be a favorite of mine, I also get a joy out of how the story was parodied in an episode each of Futurama,
Family Guy, Craig of The Creek and more recently Aldi’s Christmas commercial this past Christmas!
I used to go Toy R Us stores regularly to buy more Lego and to buy more Wonka Bars. I loved them and miss them.
Always loved, and still love, the various Nerds products.
Wonka will forever be legendary
A+ video!
LOVE IT! What a candy adventure!
Love the candy and both Johnny Depp and Gene Wilder movies.
Also just recently learned of that scam willy wonka event someone tried to do years ago. I saw a documentary on the disater and it was wild.
We don't want this Snozzberries to taste like snozzberries, because when you find out what a Snozzberry really is, you find out that it is X-rated and most adult women and a select men already know what it tastes like, and it does not belong in a candy
I did the research for us guys it means shlong
@@YourCommonSinner sorry if I only implied it. I had literally just come from an article where there was a heated debate, but the article clearly states from the author himself what Snozzberries was supposed to be. I personally always thought it meant boogers, but apparently that would make the word have to be schnozzberry
@@crlaf1978 I don’t think you even implied it 😂 i thought it meant something else til I looked it up.
@@YourCommonSinner I'm sure I implied it by the "find out that it is X-rated and most adult women at a selectmen already know what it tastes like"
@@crlaf1978 yeah I was thinking the fun button on a woman’s hot pocket but nonetheless we’re on the same page now
I would always buy all the wonka candies at blockbuster the chocolate was actually really good idk why people didn't eat them
Anybody else think of Super Troopers at the end? 😂😂😂
Ive never been able to get my hands on a wonka bar for one reason or another
0:01 The Kelly Affair sing the song "'Sweet Talkin' Candy Man" on the film Beyond The Valley of the Dolls!
That is the only time I have ever been to where there was a host introducing (and explaining) the film in front of the screen before it started!
LOVE that film, think about it all the time!
Wow, I hadn't thought of Tart -n Tinys in years! They were good, so were the bottlecaps and everlasting gobstoppers.
good video
Wonka candy was great
Hey W.H.F., my first time commenting. Love the Channel, great videos. Keep up the great content
Readed both the books as a kid in the 70s yes there were two .
You...readed them?
It's nearly impossible to get gobstoppers. They're basically amazon order only
Chewy Runts and Ompas! Miss these!!
the purple bar with the pop rocks in was the best
There was a long standing rumor that the reason they changed the name was because the film made at the height of the Vietnam War and Charlie was the code name for the Viet Cong Army.
Gene Wilder was brilliantly creepy in that movie. No one else could be that great in that role
Believe it or not this is my introduction to Willy wonka films
I remember loving eating Nerds candy as a kid
2:50 "What do you like, Roald?"
Well, his Wikipedia page may have some answers depending on how much of an argument one wishes to start....
Bottle Caps are one of my very favorite candies... and goddamn IMPOSSIBLE to find around here.
Hundreds of places in town sell candy, but I can only reliably find them at one, single Walgreens. None of the other half dozen Walgreens in town, no no, just that ONE.
I sure wish the Wonka Bar could return again…😞🍫
The 2003 wonka movie?
As soon as I heard her say 2003 instead of 2023 xD
The original movie
@@alexhutcherson3191no 🤦
I bet Dahl liked Grandpa Joe in the film. Grandpa Joe was the true villain. Iykyk
I didn't realize the Wonka candy company doesn't exist anymore
Ooh I forgot about Punkys! I used to love those.
I miss the OG 2005 Wonka bars. Oohhhh my god they were good. So good.
Wasn't snozzberry determined to be a hidden reference to one of the writer's earlier books. If I remember correctly it was supposed to be a guys "part" lol.
It's crazy that it took so long for the movie to become popular!
Reminds me of the film Phenomena, such a great film that is not well-known!
I would love for you to do the history of Cheeze-It. One flavor I wish they would bring back is BBQ Cheddar.
I have always been a big fan of nerds candy.
Am I misremebering, or was there a peanut butter/chocolate candy coated item that predated Reeses Pieces?
"A little nonsense now and then...passed around by the wisest of men"
I'm the weirdo who liked all of the chocolate bars xD
That moment where the movies creator's daughter is actually Veruca Salt
The original movie was the best! Gene Wilder a great actor and Gemini just like Johnny Depp
1:53 that kid already got her percentage...she demanding her family make this movie...she was written into the script😂
2003? You mean 2023? 😂 9:44
Were most of those Wonka candies distributed in the UK? I don’t remember 3/4 of what was mentioned in the video being available in the USA.
2.8 billion for Wonka company?
10:11 - this outro music is clearly Michael McDonald’s 1982 classic “I Keep Forgettin’”
8:27 WHY IS IT MINECRAFT (cool build)
5:09 Dylan Lauren was inspired to create a candy store after watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on her 6th birthday.
She founded Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001.
She even partnered up with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Musical in 2017!
I always wanted to visit her store
@@hurtspublishing3906 From the videos, it looks amazing!
Close your eyes and imagine if WW's factory was actually real
Sounds illegal
Good thing Wonka gave the factory to Charlie Bucket then
Every darn confectionary company I know + Quaker owned it ☠️
Does anyone know anything about the actual WW factories that made the candies? I don't mean the factories from like the movies, I mean the real factories that made the real candies. I may be wrong, but it seems like when I was very young, my parents took me to the "Grand Opening" of one in Kentucky, maybe in the 60's?
I believe there was briefly a factory in Glasgow quite recently...
i remember the donutz, they were bad
Chewy Gobbstoppers. I miss thee.
People not buying wonks bars.
Company: ok we’re changing the name and halting the wonka bar production.
Also people: Booo!
I wish the other narrator would have done this one, I’m missing all the potential wonka puns and jokes.
Agree 1000%!
I thought it was always a subsidiary of Nestle…
Just glad i gen still get nerds, i love me some sweet/tangy aquarium geavel
6:48
What the hell is carmel?
2003 rabble rabble rabble
Still love Nerdz and chewy Nerdz.
4:03 There is a band called Veruca Salt.
I share a birthday with co-founder Louise Post.
Veruca Salt's hit "Volcano Girls" was "the opening theme for dark comedy film Jawbreaker." (wikipedia)