How the Necco Wafer Has Lasted This Long
" " Necco Wafer candies hit the market in 1847, and other than a short hiatus between 2018 and 2020, they've sold steadily ever since. Keith Beaty/Toronto Star via Getty Images Sugarplums — whatever the heck they are — positively dance through kids' heads at the end of the year. Figgy pudding — again, what? — is evidently, according to the somewhat beloved Christmas carol, high on some people's wish list. But Necco Wafers? They've been around for more than a century and a half, still wrapped in their familiar wax package, and nobody breaks out in song about them. At any time of...
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