Squirrel Nut Zippers

by Squirrel Brand

1926 – 2018 GONE FOREVER

Gone. Necco made it until the company shut its Revere plant abruptly in July 2018. Sweethearts and Necco Wafers found new makers; the Squirrel Nut candies never did. 1926 is Squirrel Brand's own date, though a trademark filing claims first use in 1935. The swing band of the same name is still touring.

A chewy vanilla nut caramel from a candy company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, sold for most of a century. It survived a move to Texas and a homecoming to New England, but not the collapse of Necco.

🧾 One more thingThe candy left Massachusetts in 1999, when Squirrel Brand was sold and moved to Texas; Necco licensed it in 2004 and brought it home. The old Cambridge factory on Boardman Street is now affordable housing, with Squirrel Brand Park next door.

Filed under: Candy & Gum · the ’70s & earlier

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