Happy Birthday to Pearson’s Candy Company
Depending on where you live, either you know Pearson’s Candy Company very well or have never heard of them. Pearson’s is based in Minnesota and makes such goodies like Salted Nut Roll, Nut Goodie, and, since buying the rights from Clark Bar America in 1998, the Bun Bar which comes in three flavors — vanilla (wrapper to be added soon), caramel (wrapper to be added after I eat one!) and maple. They also made the famous Seven-Up bar, a candy bar with seven different segments (Brazil nut, coconut cream, caramel, maple walnut, chocolate pudding, fruit jelly and vanilla cream…see wrapper here). Like a Sky Bar, but with seven segments instead of four. They stopped making it because it was a nightmare to produce.
I like reading about these “smaller” candy companies that are still slugging it out with the Big Three. And rather than just repeating eveything I just read, there’s a great article on Pearson’s birthday (which unfortunately is no longer available for free) on Twincities.com. Good reading.