#brach's

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E.J. Brach & Sons, 1948

[20th-century-man]

Brach’s advertising illustration.

[lisamarie-vee]

[emeraldexplorer2]

1966

[comfortfoodcontent]

1993 Brach's Rocks Comic Ad

[summerof85]

🍬 Brach’s Halloween candy || 1985

[2othcentury]

Brach's Halloween Candies ad, 1960

[jhsharman]

underwater find

Funny thing. The reprints keep the container. New label, less specific company. I imagine the new bargain candy company has to find some other celebrities for their ad. Won't be able to afford --

A rejoinder to this candy selling in the very same issue --

[wildeschilde]

Want to know what hate tastes like? I'm not being cute (though I'm always cute), I've just tasted some of the most awful nonsense that has ever been in my mouth.

These are Brach's new "Tailgate Candy Corn", which are supposed to taste like things you'd have at a pre-game party ahead of an American football match.

Clockwise, starting at the pale yellow stuff top left, we have Popcorn, Hamburger, Vanilla Ice Cream, Fruit Punch, and Hot Dog there in the centre.

Vanilla Ice Cream tastes pretty much like regular candy corn. Fruit Punch has a very fruity flavour that gets stronger as you chew. Popcorn is sweet and corny; if you've ever had popcorn Jelly Bellys you know what this tastes like.

I did not eat Hamburger. Why? Because I ate Hot Dog and could not carry on. Hot Dog, as @psychicmayhem observed, tastes like a war crime. It is hate processed into confection. It tastes like hot dogs, you know, for some value thereof, but these aren't hotdogs safe for human consumption. I nearly got sick, I had to spit it out, and an hour on I still feel queasy. I cannot stress how bad this was. I don't think I missed out on Hamburger, as M'Colleague said it was only marginally better than Hot Dog. I prefer burgers over dogs, so it's probably for the best.

Never again.

[lyshasgf]

POPPY IS CANONICALLY TALLER THAN BRANCH OMGOMGOMGOMG9MGOMG

SHORT BRANCH AND TALL POPPY IS EVERYTHING TO ME!!!

[jaguardorado16]

[cerealkiller740]

1966 Brach’s Candy advertisement

[callmethehunter]

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.

Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

[lisamarie-vee]

[puttputtscribbs]

I just had a realization…

Branch and Prince D probably bonded and became buds over their shared experience of being the odd one out in their tribes. Branch being the gray troll who didn’t sing and just overall acts much different than the other Pop Trolls, and Darrell (that is his name lol) who, according to his bio, experimented with the Funk Trolls music out of rebellion and dubbed himself a Hip-Hop Troll.

The difference being that the Funk Trolls don’t seem to mind at all that Prince D is Hip-Hop, King Quincy even letting him rap the “History of Funk” in TWT, whereas Branch was treated as an outcast amongst his tribe and his lifestyle was something that “ruined” the fun of the other Pop Trolls.

I imagine after the Rock-Apocalypse, Prince D was just like, “Yo, Branch, right? Y’know, you got a different vibe than the other Pop Trolls. Ya got’cha own melody you sing to, I like that.”

And then Branch is just like, “Um, thanks. I… uhh, I like your hip-hop.” (Bc he’s awkward XD)

And they’ve been bros ever since anshxgsvbz

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E.J. Brach & Sons, 1963