Ah, one of my favorite lines (lyrics, really) from the original movie: If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it (Bricusse and Newley). And my favorite song from the movie. But that's not where we're going today, kids. Today we talk about buying magic from the back of Cap'n Crunch.
Using my prodigious deductive reasonability, I was about eight years old when I ordered my Willy Wonka Candy Factory Kit (please wait six to eight agonizing weeks for delivery). As you'll note on the box above, it says "Don't miss WWatCF coming soon to a theatre near you." And since the movie came out in '71, that puts me around eight years of age. Unless they made the offer at different times, in which case, screw it. So after waiting nigh on an eternity, this showed up in the mailbox:
This ain't my box. Stole the image from the
Time Passages Nostalgia Company website
(click here to go there)
It came with molds. It came with wrappers. It came without packages, boxes, or bags! Sorry, wrong childhood memory. It also came with candy mixes (I vaguely remember silver things and multi-colored things).
It also came with a fairly thick plastic bag that you put the chocolate in to melt (placing the bag into warm water). Of course, I used boiling water and when the bag made contact with the side of the pot, the bag melted. That's when one of my parents (I assume or perhaps a sibling who had been through home-economics class) taught me the double-boiler trick of placing a smaller pot containing the chocolate into a larger pot containing the heated water. Alton Brown would be proud. I also assume that someone older than me taught me to add Rice Krispies to the chocolate to make a Crunch bar. I made a lot of Wonka Crunch bars.
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