Necco wafers are back! (Necropost)
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The wafers will begin to hit the shelves of major drugstores and pharmacies in early June, followed by shipments to other major retailers.
The original formula remains unchanged for seven of the eight original flavors.
- Lemon (yellow)
- Lime (green)
- Orange (orange)
- Clove (light purple)
- Cinnamon (white)
- Wintergreen (pink)
- Licorice (dark grey)
- Chocolate (brown) was modified to add a richer cocoa flavor.
What’s your favorite flavor and memory?
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It’s sad when this is the best news I’ve heard today. I’ve always liked the pink ones best.
@cinoclav
wintergreen ftw
me too
I didn’t like them, but my mom did. I’d always buy them when I ran across them and it brought a smile to her face.
So that’s my favorite memory.
You don’t want to know how much money I spent on ebay buying boxes of 24 packages for double the price.
@Felton10 Actually, now I do want to know.
@DrWorm Probably about 6 boxes for close to around $ 300 total.
@DrWorm @Felton10 It was DrWorm’s fault you paid that much.
@DrWorm has no idea why they’re being tagged here.
@Felton10 The price was good, but by volume my worst splurge was CASES of Cadbury Caramel Eggs. Did I mention the price was good?
Even giving them away for birthdays and any other possible excuse, they eventually started to go off before we finished them. It took years though.
@blaineg The good thing about Necco wafers is that it is very difficult to tell if they have expired. Think some of the ones I bought had been around since 1847.
I don’t remember which flavor I liked the best, but I do remember I disliked the dark gray.
@heartny licorice. Bleh.
Production moved from New England (The NE in NECCO) to Mexico.
MCCO just doesn’t the same ring.
@Comedian MEHCCO
Yummy! Flavoured chalk!
Lime/green, clove/purple (I had no idea that was supposed to be clove) and chocolate/brown - can hardly wait to taste the “richer” fake cocoa flavoring!
We used the licorice ones to see who could flip them the farthest.
@stolicat
oh yeah, clove
clove and wintergreen
yummmmmm
Yay! I can face Monday now!! I love Necco Wafers. Don’t ask me why I just do. They are up there with Bottlecaps, candy cigarettes and other crap I shouldn’t eat or love but do. Chocolate was my favorite, I would hoard them for last. I also thought yellow was banana and never would have guessed white was cinnamon but who cares they are not changing anything ( except my favorite). I can buy them and for 3 minutes pretend I’m a kid again. Thanks MCCO
@mehbee Bottlecaps are definitely a favorite of mine. Though I’m still not happy they changed the shape and consistency about ten years back.
We used to use these as shingles on gingerbread houses.
I still have two rolls left. As soon as I get some new ones I’ll try a side-by-side taste test.
Licorice was actually my favorite, but they’re all good. When Spangler stopped updating the web page last summer I started to get worried. They’re only about a year overdue.
Why?
Did someone run out of chalk?
@blaineg you hadn’t heard about the chalk hoarding?
Blecht!
White should be wintergreen and pink cinnamon. And making purple “candy” and putting clove in it is just cruel.
@katbyter Clove is the bestest flavor.
@katbyter @mike808 it’s the bestest flavor in the bestest color.
Favorite would be licorice. Least favorite was probably cinnamon, then clove (don’t like spiced jelly beans either). Always wondered how clove became a candy flavor. Did they run out of grapes and looked in the pantry and had 20 lbs of cloves just sitting there?
My candy memory isn’t related to NECCO wafers but pink CANADA mints (wintergreen). My grandmother always had a candy dish full of them waiting for me. I was the only kid or grandkid that ate them!
My Dad used to buy them so we could set them up on a board with a slit cut in it as air gun targets. The poofed really nicely with a fast enough pellet.
I would sneak out some of the yellow and orange ones though…
/image clove!
@ybmuG
Clove Balls!
@mike808 oh yes, those are fantastic!
These used to be ubiquitous at Halloween when I was young. Sort of like the peanutbutter gobs in orange or black wax wrappers… and just as popular.
FYI, if folks are in the STL area, … I know a guy. Whisper for the 411.
Necco dad joke:
Neccos are back after being a wafer so long.
Most people don’t know that the process of making these is called neccomancy
People who love Neccos are called Neccophiliacs.
@mike808 Sounds too much like necrophilia.
I love the black ones best but purple is second best
@CaptAmehrican I like the licorice one the best also. Pick the packs out that appear to have more of these.
/giphy licorice, baby!
Sorry, I just saw this thread.
I don’t think anyone mentioned the most remarkable thing about NECCO wafers, which I hope is true of the new ones. They make a spark of light when snapped in half!!!
In college biology, I think in 1962, we used them to determine the onset of night vision sensitivity. We were in groups of two and one would go in a light-proof closet with NECCOS and the other would stand outside and announce the passage of every ten seconds on a stop watch. At each announcement the one in the closet broke a wafer in half until they saw a spark of light and would tell the outside person who would record the time to acclimation. Then we switched places. You could eat your test instruments (not the stop watch). I’m not going to get the chemistry-physics right, but as I recall, snapping the wafer broke some bonds among the glucose molecules which released the energy as a dim spark. I don’t think it is enough to start a fire if you are desperate while camping and have NECCOs and no matches (entirely possible in my case).
BTW, the chocolate were the best and I hope the new ones are even better. Maybe I’ll repeat the experiment.
@andyw Wintergreen lifesavers to the same thing. It’s a property of the Wintergreen flavor molecule. It’s piezoelectric, meaning it turns mechanical energy (snapping two pieces together) into electrical, and thus, the spark.
@mike808 Thanks, the piezoelectric effect sounds correct. We were told it was the glucose, not a flavor, and we had packs of NECCOs with all the flavors in them, but I have no other evidence to offer. And don’t take it personally, but wintergreen is definitely not my favorite flavor. Now to find the new ones!
@andyw Did all the flavors spark? Or just the wintergreen (pink?)
@andyw Hmm. It’s not piezoelectric or wintergreen.
You’re onto something with the sugar crystals.
It’s called triboluminescence, apparently.
Thanks for this additional information and the video. It must have been all the flavors since we used rolls with random assortments of flavors. I didn’t know that chewing wintergreen Lifesavers did this, or that apparently a lot of people know about this. I don’t think when I’ve mentioned it to people that anyone said “Oh yeah, it happens with…” I really must try this again; nothing like repeating an experiment 55-60 years later!
Has anyone seen them in the stores yet?
@Felton10 The CVS next to my house sells them so they are coming back
@starscreamwar Been buying them at Walgreens for some time.
Necco’s are my most favorite candy and my mom hates them when I heard that they were not selling any more I begged my mom to get me some but she never did I am so glad they are coming back