Thursday, August 6, 2009
The Canadian Candy Conspiracy
I am one of those people who when he notices something change it drives you nuts. I grew up being a fan of candy, most people were, but I actually had favourite companies. You named a candy and I could name the maker. I used to have 2 favourite companies, and it's safe to say they are two most people like, Wonka and Allan's confectionery. There were times where my friend and I would sit around and debate which of those two are better. Wonka had Nerds and Allan's had Fuzzy Peaches. This debate was never settled, it was just too difficult although if you ask me now-a-days, the answer is the same, they both are just too damn good. a couple of years ago probably 2007 I noticed something about Fuzzy Peaches, Sour Patch Kids and Sour Cherry Blasters, not only did they have new packaging but the bunny like Allan's logo was no more, now it was Maynard's. This bugged me, it made me wonder would the gummy now be more of a Wine Gum and less of the Fuzzy Peach? To my satisfaction the candy tasted more or less the same. I just assumed that Maynard's bought Allan and that was that. Recently on Canada Day I was in a convenience store where I noticed something cause my head to turn, Allan was back, but with their less popular but equally awesome candies. A new line of Allan was now available in new packaging offering "Watermelon slices", "Big Foot" and "Peach Slices". I was left wondering what this meant? Did they re-open? What happened to Maynard's and is the factory in Mississauga still open? As far as I can figure The Allan Company has fully separated from Cadbury and is now trying to re-establish it's name. This will be a bit of an uphill climb seeing as it lost the names of it's popular products, so I really think I will take charge and advise you all to follow suite. DO NOT BUY Fuzzy Peaches, Sour Patch Kids or Cherry Blasters instead purchase the Allan's Peach Slices, Cherry Slices and Sour Fruit Slices. That way we could help the rebirth of one of Canada's greatest candy company, and most importantly support the true creators of Fuzzy Peaches!
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The problem is, it seems that the original recipes stayed with Maynard's - the new 'Peach Slices', at least, are an inferior recipe more similar to the knockoff generics. Such a shame, selling off our candy heritage to big multinational corporations. :(
It truly is sad. I feel Maynard's really just sucked the soul out of such a great brand, seeing that Gigantic "MAYNARD'S" logo just saddens me.
A number of years ago Kraft split its candy division into a separate company, Mondelez. It then seems they sold the brand name Allan and its manufacturing plants to a separate investor group but retained the names of the products and a couple other factories (this may have happened before the Kraft/Mondelez split). Currently Hershey owns the brand Allan and are trying to catch up in the market they used to have. I have bought both products and the Maynard’s brand almost certainly have the original recipes.
Also it seems Nestle is trying to get away from the Wonka branding, there’s a lot of products (Nerds, etc) that do not have a brand name on their package.
Great Blog!
On Instagram I am named under 'GummyWarz' - i spend all year buying gummies/jellies from around the world for a Christmas holiday showdown lol. Allan Candy in the 1990's was at its creative peak! I remember in addition to Sour Grape Blasters, Chery Blasters, and Fuzzy Peach, they had Sour pears, bananas, lemons, apples, oranges - incredible stuff.
2 Christmases ago during my first GummyWarz I had a box of Allan Peaches and a bag of Maynards - the Maynard flavor was superior...and very close to the original Allan flavor. Your blog is called the 'Candy Conspiracy' but at the time 2 yrs ago i called it the Great Heresy! lol. How dare my beloved Allan peaches be sold and altered so much.
KJ - i agree, I always thought Maynards shelved the original recipes. So disappointing too.
Thanks KJ - are you in BC? I am in Ontario and we don't have them from what I can tell.
Sour Bobcats!? sounds interesting!
If you are saying Allan's original is back, or near to the original - I am a VERY HAPPY man!
Thanks, I am on the hunt.
Mike
Hey again KJ. Just curious but what is your take on the Allan Grape Slices - i believe they came out around 1992/93 maybe. I get them at the local bulk store, but they are very sweet and artificial compared to the old very sour and VERY tasty 90s version. I would say it was one of the greatest gummies ever made.
Thanks,
mike
The old fuzzy peaches were amazing and since Maynard took over they are terrible. In recent years I have been loving Haribo brand candy (produced in Germany). They have just released "peaches" and they are very very similar to the original fuzzy peaches. I couldn't believe how good they are
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