For Chris Greaves: the candy bar strike

[HansV]

Historicist: The Candy Bar Strike

Sweet-toothed Toronto teens took a bite out of rising post-war candy prices in 1947, but the movement was quickly derailed by the Red Scare.

[BobArch2]

Chocolate bar price decrease! Had to dig through my archives and found an old Montreal Gazette photo announcing a price decrease in chocolate bars January 1st. I believe the date of January 1st was for 1947. Thus I would have just turned 6 years old in this photo. My 3 cousins are in the front row and that is me on the left, hat less with the big ears in the second row. The owner and his 2 sons are in the rear. My uncle was the chief photographer for the Montreal Gazette at the time and that is how my cousins and I were selected to be in that photo! I still have a sweet tooth for the 's.

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[HansV]

Great, thanks for sharing!

[BobH]

Great photo, Bob!

I remember the rabbit fur coat coallars but never had one as I grew up in the South (NC).

[PaulB]

Bob, your scrapbook collection must be phenomenal!

[Skitterbug]

Bob: That's a great pic and a wonderful story to share! You are a cutie in that pic!

[ChrisGreaves]

Chocolate bar price decrease! Had to dig through my archives and found an old Montreal Gazette photo announcing a price decrease in chocolate bars January 1st....

Bob, thanks for the memories.
I pretty well stopped buying sweets (Aust: "lollies", Amer: "Candies") when decimal currency came in, and all of a sudden instead of getting twelve penny sticks for a shilling we got only ten penny-sticks for the equivalent of a shilling - a ten-cent piece.

I recognized rip-offs at an early age.

That's why nowadays is stick to plasticized air-foam-filled gelatinous dairy products at (last time I looked) five dollars for a gallon tub.

Spoiler

Mainly because I like the containers with the snap-tight lids for storage

Chris

[BobArch2]

Hey Chris, you are of course thinking of your favourite tub.

[ChrisGreaves]

Hey Chris, you are of course thinking of your favourite tub.

You got it Bob!
And I got it last night, well, one of it.
FWIW last Wednesday I was up near Markdale. Donna's Place to be exact.
I was given a choice: We could go to a diner and pig out OR I could take a chance of there being a guided tour with free samples at the end.

I went to the diner and filled us up on Newfie Food!

Cheers
Chris