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Snickers was<\/strong><\/span> my candy bar. I also had a taste for Nestle Triple Deckers.\u00a0Long gone. My wife, in her youth, liked Valomilks. She bought one a few years ago at a specialty store and didn\u2019t like it. Too sweet.<\/p>\n My dad was big on Planter\u2019s Peanut and Mr. Goodbar.\u00a0I used to buy a Mr. Goodbar before visiting his grave.<\/p>\n Canada, that\u2019s a great candy vacation. Kit Kat, not bad.<\/p>\n Chunky . . . I miss the idea<\/em> of Chunky.\u00a0I liked the Arnold Stang Chunky commercials.<\/p>\n Anna\u00a0Soltzberg,<\/strong><\/span> my grandmother, ran a candy store at 15102 Kinsman Road, Cleveland, from 1927 to 1937.\u00a0Here\u2019s some of her the inventory: Mr. Goodbar, Sensen breath mints, Boston Wafer, halvah, Coca-Cola, peanut bars, chocolate-covered cherries, Uneeda biscuits, Dentyne, Lifesavers, Tootsie Rolls, Oh Henry, and cigars such as White Owl, Dutch Master, Websters, Cinco, Murad, John Ruskin and Charles the Great Pure Havana. (I got these brands from studying a photo of her store with a magnifying glass.) Candy stores were a common first business for immigrants.<\/p>\n When did Snickers first come out?<\/p>\n [Googled.] 1930. Frank Mars named the bar after his horse.<\/p>\n Reese. Who<\/strong> <\/span>was Reese?<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Here’s my <\/span>Sunday Plain Dealer <\/em><\/span>essay<\/a> about playing gigs and not playing gigs. “The gigs disappeared. Now it’s all just talk.”<\/a> Irwin Weinberger and I played a nursing home yesterday. It was our first indoor gig in front of a live audience in 14 months. Snickers was my candy bar. I also had a taste for Nestle Triple Deckers.\u00a0Long gone. My wife, in her youth, liked Valomilks. She bought one a few years ago at a specialty store and didn\u2019t like it. Too sweet. My dad was big on Planter\u2019s Peanut and Mr. Goodbar.\u00a0I used to buy a Mr. Goodbar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28843"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28854,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843\/revisions\/28854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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