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One day I was bored and I looked this up and I think they were actually called Wig Wag. They went great with PDQ Egg Nog flavored drink mix and Koo Koo taffy.
SKuD - 2.6.07 |
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aaaahhhhh Quebec!
volga - 1.18.07 |
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i can't say that i've had a wigwam either wonderwoman, but i am with you on the lunch thing...always the same, the vending machines, the lunch lady... remember fluoride mouthwash and milk every morning-nasty! oh and once we hit grade 8 we had a designated smoking room/area inside the school.... ah i miss those days... smoking on school grounds...lovely.
scion - 1.18.07 |
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Ise never ate one dem dar wigwamy bars. Den agen dat twas a little befer my time. I t'inks Ise recall eat'n dem laffy taffy doh.
spazzest - 1.18.07 |
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Sue me. No Wigwam for you!
volga - 1.17.07 |
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Yes I have had Wigwam's, I used to have them with a Koo Koo taffy and a carton of Super 2 banana-flavoured milk. Nice spelling of "passed". :-)
SKuD - 1.17.07 |
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Can't back you up on the Wig Wam but we took the same lunch to school! We didn't have a vending machine though... but every once in a while I woulf take $0.35 and get a muffin and a slice of buttered bread. You see the muffins were served warm and if you put your muffin on your piece of bread upside down you then had a steaming hot buttered muffin. Yeah - I was a geek. I fully assumed my geeky-ness though - really - the laughing didn't hurt....
Squidd - 1.17.07 |
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1.17.07
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Wigwam
There’s a girl at work who is really cool, but also infinitely younger than me. We have that bubble going on – she’ll talk about a few things that go on in her world with her peers, and I don’t get it, because now I am officially my mother, I guess, and just not understanding “what all those crazy young kids are doing”. And in return, I get my fair share of blank stares when I tell certain stories and she has no clue what the hell I am referring too, because for her, history started in 1988. So at times, the crickets chirp, as comments are cracked but then immediately relegated to some black hole where pop cultural knowledge that does not converge ends up.
So help me out here, because this one is getting to me. Ever heard, even better, ever *eaten* a Wigwam bar? I used to buy them out of the vending machine in the school gym (ironic?!) when I was in elementary school in the 70s. I brought the same thing to school every day for those 6 years: a sandwich (that alternated on a weekly basis between peanut butter, mock chicken or baloney), an apple, a little red box of Minute Maid raisins and 25 cents so that I could get a carton of milk from the lunch lady. Some days, I’d walk right passed that lady and straight to the vending machine and spend the money on a Wigwam instead. The Wigwam was three braids of caramel, covered in milk chocolate, and seemed to be as long as my arm. It was chewy and sticky and got stuck in my teeth, and I was lamenting the loss of said Wigwam to my friend at work because they don’t make them anymore, and what I WOULD NOT GIVE to have one again.
She made me go to google and look it up. Because *everything’s* on google, and she was dying to see what it looked like. But we googled and googled and googled some more, checked images, did advanced searches and…nothing. For a moment I started to doubt myself. Was it even called a Wigwam? I mean, I was 6 or 7 or 8, was it possible that I got the name wrong? We couldn’t find it, but I was sure that’s what it was called, I felt crushed and defeated and so alone! I went home. (It got dark, and started to rain and I had no umbrella).
I came into work today, and this e-mail was waiting for me:
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“ok, so yes I'm a big geek. Let's clear that up right off the bat :)
I found out that it was only a "Wig Wam" bar in Canada, and apparently was called a "Marathon Bar" in the States. It was called Wig Wam in Canada and the UK, because the UK already *had* a bar called a Marathon Bar, which was supposedly completely different.
They eventually changed the name to a Curly Wurly, and stopped making them in 1981. But then I saw someone posted that they actually found these "Curly Wurly" bars being sold at Sugar Mountain in the market here! (but if they stopped making them in '81......?)
http://www.oldtimecandy.com/curly-wurly.htm
Neat!
Well, I learned something new today.... :)”
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Oh joy! Not only has my beloved Wigwam been found, it’s available at Sugar Mountain! I’m not too sure of the name though. I mean, if you boast that you just ate a Curly Wurly, doesn’t it sort of sound like you’ve injested a pube?
So, anyone out there ever eaten a Wigwam? If you miss it as much as I do, I will pick one up for you, Sugar Mountain is only a 10 minute walk away.
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