GooGoo Cluster Old Time Tin

This new GooGoo retro tin takes its rightful place next to a few of our other classically packaged items, like the Necco tin, the Charms Sour Balls tin, and the Tootsie Roll bank. What, you've never heard of the GooGoo Cluster? It's a disk-shaped candy bar that contains marshmallow, caramel and roasted peanuts covered in milk chocolate, and was developed by Howell Campbell and the Standard Candy Company in 1912. It's considered the first combination candy bar, meaning it contained several types of candy rather than an all-chocolate bar. The name supposedly was suggested to its inventor while he was talking to a teacher about his new born son. The Goo Goo Cluster has a long association with the Grand Old Opry as one of its longest running sponsors, and some people thing that GOO stands for that (though that's not what the company says). During the Great Depression, Goo Goo Clusters were advertised as "a nourishing lunch for a nickel."

And to add a little more temptation to your M&M obsession, we've acquired a supply of official M&M plush lunchboxes. Wouldn't these make great gift boxes filled with M&Ms?


I tweeted about these a couple of weeks ago (that's got to be one of the dumbest new-age verbs) and posted it to the Village Candy Facebook page because I was so excited to get them. It was very difficult tracking down a supplier. They're real audio earbuds, sound fantastic, and come in four flavors (Sour Apple Blow Pop, Razzles, Tootsie Pop and Dubble Bubble) and each have their own color cords. Elliot says the Dubble Bubble one rocks!