Nooooooooooo!!!! After 113 years, Clark Candy Bars shuts down

[Dunbar Plumbing]

http://www.post-gazette.com/business...larkcandy3.asp


I was just asking about how I'd like to have one recently before the holidays.


A very unique candy bar, and I know of few that I wish would of taken their same demise.


I can't find anything online that will take over production of the product either. Thanks economy, now you took my damn candy bars!!!

[Cookie]

I will have to send you some, that is my territory.

[Cass]

RUGGED...is this going to stress you to the point that you become a hack plumber???

[Dunbar Plumbing]

RUGGED...is this going to stress you to the point that you become a hack plumber???

Possibly. Low blood sugars, inability to cover my plumber's crack, potential for using push fit fittings and snap together drain lines.


Yes. Big possibility.




I just can't believe I was wondering about this before christmas not seeing any and then this.


They were the type of candy bar that you'd only eat maybe once a month, nothing more. They should toss Almond Joy or them Mallow Cups, Get rid of those!

[Cass]

The mallow cups should be sold to the talaban...they are worthless. My favorites when I was a kid used to be Zero bars but at some point they changed the ingredients and they stopped tasting the same...Necco Wafers, a product that comes from the same State as Ted Kennedy, should go with the Mallow cups.

Now I eat 70% cacao bars...I like the bitterness...but it must be the good stuff made with coco butter...the stuff made with hydrogenated fat is no where near as good tasting...the 70% bars also have a nice little caffeine lift.

[99k]

The mallow cups should be sold to the talaban...they are worthless. My favorites when I was a kid used to be Zero bars but at some point they changed the ingredients and they stopped tasting the same...Necco Wafers, a product that comes from the same State as Ted Kennedy, should go with the Mallow cups.

Now I eat 70% cacao bars...I like the bitterness...but it must be the good stuff made with coco butter...the stuff made with hydrogenated fat is no where near as good tasting...the 70% bars also have a nice little caffeine lift.

I now eat the 70% dark Chocolate too ... I cannot go back to milk chocolate (way to sweet). The Necco wafers are good for roof shingles on the kids gingerbread houses (that's the only time we buy them).

[Cookie]

I crave these at 2 am.

[Cookie]

Got 2 bags of Xmas M & M's at Giant eagle for a buck this afternoon. Now, they didn't have my peanuts, but, those are good, too.

Sorry, Rugged, I looked for Clarks, but, couldn't find one. I think, I know where I can though.

[frostnip]

zero bars are still pretty good to me.

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Anybody remember the penny squirrels?

bob...

[Cookie]

Not here... sorry Bob.

[Redwood]

Zagnutz! That was my favorite!

[Cass]

Anybody remember the penny squirrels?

bob...

Yes...Penny Squirrels...we had a penny candy store at the bottom of the hill I grew up on, Wilson's Candy Store, here is a pic of it...



as you can see it is now an appliance store but there are a lot of memories in there...the windowed front used to be a porch with long benches that we would sit on and eat some of what we bought...they some times had 5 for a penny this was back in the 50s...I remember paper ribbon with dots of candy on it...

[Scuba_Dave]

We had a penny candy store in Hull near an amusement park
The park is gone - condo's, as is the store

Maybe another company will take over production
Sounds like the interested Mfg is in no hurry to try to get a better deal

[Cookie]

We had penny candy at Kate's Grocery growing up, I just never had heard of it as Penny Squirrels. Bob, do you know why it was called that maybe?
Penny Squirrels?

We also had 10 cent snow cones. I loved those, especially the root beers or the blueberries.