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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Sky BarName: Sky Bar  I don’t know if this bar is sold at this little candy shop at the Pittsburgh airport because it’s called Sky Bar or because they carry a lot of other hard to find nostalgia candies (they didn’t have Valomilks, but they did have Cow Tales). I’d seen these when I was growing up, but was never really interested in them, as I’d always assumed that they were the candy bar version of Whitman’s Samplers. It turns out that it’s not far off from that. The bar is undeniably pretty. Four joined pieces of candy, with pretty domed tops, fluting up the sides and the Necco logo on top. Unlike Necco wafers, where you never know what you’ll get in the roll, the Sky Bar is consistent. The far left piece (if you set your bar like the package shows you) is caramel. Not a chewy caramel, it’s a sweet, sticky concoction with a nice salty hint and good carmelized sugar notes. The next one over is by far the least interesting to me, the vanilla cream. Slightly light, very sweet and rather bland, it simply brings out the rather cardboard notes in the milk chocolate. After that is peanut which I think is their masterpiece. This is not a peanut butter, like you’d think, it looks like caramel and is smooth but has the wonderful roasted taste of peanuts and a good hit of salt to balance out all the other sweets. The last section is fudge. Sweet and with that slightly cooling grain to it, the fudge is nice and not too sweet but suffers from the same blandness of the whole bar - too much sugar and not enough chocolate in the chocolate. I can see how this bar was so successful for so long. Steve Almond talks about the history of the bar in Candy Freak (chapter 2), that it was one of the most popular bars on the east coast and had a prominent billboard in Times Square which was re-lit at the end of WWII. As a bit of nostalgia, it’s fun. But it’s not my nostalgia, I have not particular affinity for it, so it’s merely an experience for me. It’s probably a great bar to share with friends (as long as there actually is something for everyone) and probably speaks to people who really like variety in their candy. Rating - 5 out of 10 POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:55 am
 
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could you put together an add-in for google maps with links to purchase in the new york area?
They have it in Pittsburgh because our Airport rocks. And we rock.
Cowtails are quite popular at a lot of the places around Pittburgh though; the restaurant that I worked at had a little thing of them at the checkout counter.
I found that Sky Bar is fairly popular and sold in most large drug stores in the Syracuse area. What is their area of distribution? Can not find it in the New York City or Philadelphia regions.
the attached URL explains the origin of the Skybar…
http://candy-crate.stores.yahoo.net/skybsevbar.html
I know this is not timely but Economy Candy on the Lower East Side always has this candy bar.
The Sky Bar is with out a doubt my favorite commercial candy bar of all time. It typifies the ‘60s and ‘70s in its melting pot approach to confections yet striving to integrate in one bar.
I recall there was briefly a 2nd style of the SKY BAR that had a red wrapper but I don’t recall the difference in flavors. Does anyone know the difference?
I saw these at a candy store on the boardwalk in Atlantic City called It’s Sugar. They also had the Wazoo bars!
And, they have cute candy-inspired t-shirts and a bunch of other nostalgic candy and a candy timeline. It’s a very cute place to visit, if you’re in the AC area.
PS: I love your blog!
Sky Bar is my all-time favorite, orig. from Mass., used to have them shipped to me in FLA, but they arrived melted one time too many. Now purchase them at Cracker Barrel, but price just went up from 99 cents to $1.49 each. Wrote Sky Bar to see if company or restaurant ordered this price hike. Have not heard back.
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I used to love this candy bar when I was kid in the 1950s and 60s, but when tasting it as an adult, it just didn’t match the memory.
I think Cow Tails are (or were) made here in Baltimore by Goetz’s, the caramel cream maker. The cow tails were the ends of the rolls that were cut for the caramel creams.
Where in Oregon can you buy Sky Bars
I found these the other day at my local Walmart, but a little differently packaged… it seems like Necco has a hold on producing Twilight branded candies.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/lissiechan/Mobile Uploads/IMG00029.jpg
It only comes in caramel, creme, and peanut butter it seems.
I’ve had Skybars since I was a little kid, and though they sound like an interesting idea.. they are awful. Yeah, one or two of the goo sections are pretty good, but the chocolate is gritty and the sections usually leak and stick to the cardboard insert. And the cardboard tastes awful too (Yes I’ve tried it for reasons unknown even to me.)
I have been eating skybars since I was a kid and was trying to find out what year they were made,,I after years of not finding them they showed up in my hardware store, and then Ben Franklin I buy them every week and I am 71yrs of age I love them,,,
Sky Bars used to be made in Cambridge, MA. Maybe they still are. I stopped buying them , as I wrote before, b/c price went from 99 cents to $1.49 at Cracker Barrel Restaurant here in FLA.
When relatives visited from MA, even they were unable to find them to bring down for me, in the usual grocery stores. We don’t have Ben Franklin store in FLA. But thanks for all your comments.
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