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"Banquet of Sweetmeats"    early 1600s candies & sweet pastries

         

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"Why we have the youngest customers in the business"    a 1955 magazine advertisement for a sweet carbonated soft drink

        

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Picasso's painting of a man eating ice cream

      

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a Ralph Goings realism painting       see full size

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a 1907 glass jar for restaurant ladyfinger biscuits

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1923 baked apples waiting for syrup ... beware the pits,  the apple skins may
prove tough,  and like our planet the center will never cool

        

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an Arthur Getz illustration, 1957:   spun candy upstages the circus high-wire performance

      

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1960 candy  "Fresh!"       see full size

        

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from the Confectionery and Chocolate Industries of Canada in 1919    "Eminent authorities on food state that about 4 ounces of sugar are required by an adult every twenty-four hours"

         

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from the 1947 USA National Confectioner's Association ... "Isn't it a break that the candy we all like to eat has so many of the good things our bodies call for?"

        

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a Ronald Searle illustration

      

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Marcel Van Eeden art
        

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Art Spiegelman's "Garbage Pail Kids" trading cards,  1980s    see full size

         

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a fancy candy store in 1958 ... unattended children were probably not allowed
         

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1963 children's candy:  "Pixy Stix"  paper tubes filled with citric acid & sugar
      

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an Eric Ravilious illustration
         

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a John Rae children's book illustration,  1925       see full size

         

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1967 Sugar Daddy candy
         

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1952 Spangles candy:  an assortment of cuboids dimpled on each side

      

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a scratchboard illustration for Nesbitt's orange soda
         

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a Bob Jones illustration

         

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sugar and poison:  a 1937 packaging industry illustration
         

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1965 chocolate  "I Love You"
      

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from a 1965 movie theater supply catalog,  a "Pepsi Cola" machine with a jug of "fountain syrup"
         

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1922 Canada ... a chilled gelatin dessert with submersed peach slices

 and whipped cream on a serving dish       see full size
         

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a Pierre Jean François illustration of a cocao plant,  destined to become pleasure
         

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"Marzipan Leper Ears 49 cents"   a Robert Williams painting see full size
      

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1970s British  "Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts"  candy
         

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1960s  "Monster Tatoo bubble gum",  an affordable entertainment package of sugar plus a toy

         

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fun donuts for everyone at the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair
         

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"Buy something for the one you love"     Ernie Bushmiller's 'Nancy',  1981