{"id":1011,"date":"2004-12-08T02:32:32","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T09:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2004-12-08T02:32:32","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T09:32:32","slug":"whatever-happened-to-my-cherry-chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/08\/whatever-happened-to-my-cherry-chan\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever happened to my Cherry Chan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure I can explain it, but there’s a grocery bag full of candy sitting on top of my fridge. Leftovers from Halloween, I think. So feeling the urge for some cheap candy, I open a bag and find a box of something called Cherryhead candy. Cherryhead? Hmm. Wait, this box says Ferrara Pan! This used be to be called Cherry Chan! Why’d they cha– oh… hey, I never thought of that. And I’m Asian, for Chrissake.<\/p>\n

For those of you who never spent a quarter with the neighborhood ice cream truck, here’s Cherry Chan:<\/p>\n

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Wow. The nostalgia. The borderline racism.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately when they changed the name to Cherryhead, I think they changed the formula, too. I recall these being chewier on the outside, with more sour on the inside. But maybe I’m confusing them with Lemonhead candies. And what’s this crap about Cherryhead being a “fat free food” and containing “real fruit juice?!” Seriously, who gives two shits about whether a twenty-five cent box of candy is healthy or has real ingredients?<\/p>\n

By the way, I found that image over at The Candy Wrapper Museum<\/a> (Don’t you just love the Internets?), which also has this great candy packaging image:<\/p>\n

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Wow. That’s not kosher by any standard. I wonder if Candy Crafters’ Inc ever had Darkie Licorice Chews or Spicy Spic Jumping Beans?<\/p>\n

Oh, and I just opened a box of Lemonhead candies, and they are exactly the way I remembered them. Thank God. Though they, too, apparently, are a fat free food made from real juice. Good Christ.<\/p>\n

Ooh, one more thing. A real life example of inflation at work. Notice the Cherry Chan box says 1.05 oz? Guess how much candy the Cherryhead box holds? You guessed it: 0.8 oz! Man, a quarter just doesn’t buy you much these days. Then again, I used to empty the whole box into my mouth sometimes, so this may be a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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