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Vintage candy that is still on the shelves

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Machine-spun cotton candy was invented in 1897 by John C. Wharton, a confectioner, and William Morrison, a dentist. Joseph Lascaux, who patented the name "cotton candy", invented a similar machine in 1921; he was also a dentist. :suspicious:

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Gregg Axley

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Machine-spun cotton candy was invented in 1897 by John C. Wharton, a confectioner, and William Morrison, a dentist. Joseph Lascaux, who patented the name "cotton candy", invented a similar machine in 1921; he was also a dentist. :suspicious:
With repeat business, and no explaination as to what caused cavities...until right before he retired. :tongue1:
Ha! Two of those men were from just down the road...Nashville.
Morrison must have really been smart, because he wasn't only a Dentist.
He was also a lawyer, author, and a leader of civic and political affairs. [huh]
 
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With repeat business, and no explaination as to what caused cavities...until right before he retired. :tongue1:
Ha! Two of those men were from just down the road...Nashville.
Morrison must have really been smart, because he wasn't only a Dentist.
He was also a lawyer, author, and a leader of civic and political affairs. [huh]

A driller, a chiseler, a writer and a poll(cat). :p
 

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My home town was established in the 19th Century, before zoning laws had occurred to anyone. There were any number (well, seven in my childhood) small, neighborhood, family-operated grocery stores scattered through commercial and residential areas. The one relevant to this discussion was Josephine's Market, located across the street from my elementary school. It was a small town, as I said, and lunches weren't served in a cafeteria. We all walked home for lunch.

As we waited for the afternoon session to begin, hordes of us swarmed Josephine's. They had a candy counter in the front of the store, presided over by the eponymous Josephine, a lady who must have been in her seventh decade of life at that point. We bought Atomic Fireballs and other one-cent candies, packs of baseball cards with pink bubble gum, Boyer's Mallow Cups (mentioned earlier in this thread, and yes, I managed to get several boxes of free ones by collecting the paper coins printed on the cardboard stiffener wrapped in the package), Bonomo's Turkish Taffy was on offer, as were the usual candy bars selling for 5 cents, and one odd-ball candy bar, The Lunch Bar, which was a very thin chocolate bar with peanut pieces embedded which sold for 3 cents.

My favorite was the PayDay bar, salty peanuts stuck around a caramel core.
 

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