Interesting how the shape changed over the years. Honestly, the flat-style bar looks more enjoyable than what came later.

Putting things in clear packaging took confidence.

Oof, I totally missed that. Translucent, eh?

Perhaps it was wax paper? But then again, wax paper seems pretty hard to print upon.

@enmebaraguesser@piefed.ca,
I feel like you're the resident expert researcher & wonderfully prolific poster. What think..?

OBFGGL

why? they use to use real ingredients. these days everything is chemical corn slop and then dyed. they also didn't use packaging to lie about size really.. unlike today where it's only lies

Fuck yeah, shove those nuts in my face!

I imagine that they would probably print on it and then apply the wax.

I don't actually know. I'm just guessing. But if you asked me to do that, that is what I would try first.

Aw... you sound so ambiguous.

Can't you make a more declarative statement, mate? :D

Correct, my penis would not be invented until the 80s. Shame what people had to endure before then.

resident expert

Hah! I'm not an expert on anything! Well, nothing related to this comm anyway.

But to my eye, which is no better than anybody else's mind you, it looks like it's an image printed on the wrapper, not a clear or translucent wrapper. If you look at the curled up bit of wrapper where it is torn, the underside of the wrapper is green, even where there is a brown surface below it. If it was translucent, you'd expect to see through it there, too.

I'm thinking there was just an image of the bar printed on the wrapper, and it got torn off half way along the image.

Ah, so one of those 'skullies,' ey?

Oof, I've heard about the likes of you. :S

I suppose it could be all marketing BS, additionally. Haha.

$0.10 in 1954 is around $1.20 in 2026 USD.

That's before accounting for any shrinkflation or other shenanigans.

That's... non-insignificant!

I feel like my long readership upon Little Lulu is paying off during times like these. :P

Yeah that seems very possible. I did an image search for pictures of the actual bars from the 50s. This wrapper style shows up in ads, but only in ads. Images of vintage bars show a different style completely. That isn't conclusive by any means, since absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but it tilts the credence somewhat.

Oh wow, I'd previously gathered that you just plain loved this stuff, but... hmm! I'd guess you're in academia, are you not? Altho... both things can be true?

(me, I have a massive backlog of this stuff to share here, altho at the same time, there are many 'history subs' I adore, and worry upon their possible extinction)

Oof...
Oh well! 😅

gathered that you just plain loved this stuff

I do like it! I generally hate ads in the sense of contemporary ones trying to make me buy things, but I enjoy vintage products, good art, curious little historical connections and tidbits of information, and so on.

What's ambiguous about wanting to swallow a nut?

Instructions unclear: AlmondJoy stuck in nose

Damn, I just bought a snickers that was probably less than half this for $2

yeah look at the size of that beast. the only way to see that many chocolatey dick-veins together these days is by frotting two Snickers

Found some actual photos of empty wrappers here. Looks like they may have been some sort of wax paper?

https://www.candywrapperarchive.com/candy-collection/mars/

(Damn, I miss the era of weirdly-specific websites about random stuff like this.)

Damn, I miss the era of weirdly-specific websites about random stuff like this

You can say that again! I really think we've lost something, in the collapse and centralization of the web into a handful of huge social media companies.