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Post number 11983

pxe2000 — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:53:04 -0800

necco! call me provincal but one of my favourite candy companies is the new england confectionary company -- there's really nothing like riding the no 1 bus over smoot bridge and seeing the candy coloured smokestack rising from their roof. okay, so sweethearts taste like chalk and necco wafers are out and out disgusting; there's nothing quite like the sky bar.

By: msacheson

msacheson — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:59:08 -0800

hey, don't bag on my necco wafers! Reminds me of my Grandma and the corner store near her house.

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:04:28 -0800

Necco Wafers were my favorite for movies--they lasted!

By: emoeby

emoeby — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:06:37 -0800

When I was too young for communion, my brother and I would use Neccos and give each other the "body of christ".

By: phalkin

phalkin — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:07:00 -0800

That takes me back... Necco wafers. What an amazing candy. You could chew 'em, suck 'em, use them to jam coin-op machines, use the peices to cut almost anything, sell the powder from the bottom of the packet to highschool kids for $70 a gram... endless possibilities.

By: pxe2000

pxe2000 — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:10:26 -0800

wow, i was never quite so creative with the necco wafers. though i do use them to "buy" the local political satire rag; one must know what one's enemies are up to even if you don't want to line their pockets. ;)

By: arco

arco — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:18:07 -0800

When I was too young for communion, my brother and I would use Neccos and give each other the "body of christ". My father is a (retired) minister, and when I was a kid my mom would occassionally make the unleavened bread we used in church. Any leftovers we would eat with lunch. The body of Christ goes well with pot roast. As for Necco wafers, I don't think I'd ever heard of them until a few weeks ago, but they still seemed to stir fond childhood memories in me the first time I ate them. Hmm.

By: MonkeyMeat

MonkeyMeat — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:21:52 -0800

Hey, that's my neighborhood you're talking about! I just came back from dinner a block up Mass Ave from the Necco factory.

By: dayan

dayan — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:41:19 -0800

The Sky Bar is a four-flavored choco-gasm. That's probably the number one reason why I'm glad I moved to Boston.

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:47:12 -0800

Clark bars rock the llama's ass!

By: davros42

davros42 — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 19:46:33 -0800

I wish I'd never left Boston for Los Angeles... No more Skybars!!! Necco waifers, however, are the filthiest things ever.

By: bshort

bshort — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:46:01 -0800

Necco wafers rock my world.

By: turaho

turaho — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 07:03:59 -0800

Back in my drug-fueled college days, one of my favorites experiences was eating Necco wafers while on acid. Amazing texture, bright colors, and the green ones tasted exactly like dishwashing detergent. Or so we imagined. Ahhh, good times.

By: dwivian

dwivian — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 07:37:27 -0800

Necco Wafers come in a TART version that ROCKS! Walgreens used to carry them, but don't anymore. I've got to find a new supplier... Must order this SkyBar, too.... Damn, wish I was closer to Boston!

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Fri, 02 Nov 2001 13:16:04 -0800

Neccos are pretty good. What I could never figure out were those orange things that looked like outsized peanuts and had the consistency of stale cake icing.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Fri, 02 Nov 2001 13:27:51 -0800

I always found it odd how Necco was over by the MIT campus; as if there was some kind of candy Manhattan Project requiring this proximity... One of the funniest things I ever heard was Howard Stern claiming that Necco Wafers work as tokens in the Triboro Bridge toll baskets. No Necco EZ Passes, I suppose...