Talk:The Willy Wonka Candy Company

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Contents 1 possible addition 2 Template 3 Needs more history 4 General 5 Product line founding 6 Britain 7 What about Australia?

[edit] possible addition

Going to the Wonka Candy 1800 hotline, Maurice (Wonka voice actor) is the recorded anwering machine. Add?

Zidel333 03:09, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template

I've recently created and added a Willy Wonka Candy Company template to most of the Willy Wonka Candy Company-related articles. If you have any questions or comments please contact me on my talk page. --TBC^{??? ??? ???} 05:23, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Needs more history

The article lacks info on the company's history. The Wonka brand was owned by Sunmark in the '80s and was indeed sold to Nestle. There is no article for the Sunmark Capital Corp. so maybe someone could add something about it here?
My grandfather[1] was the president of Sunmark and he got the idea for SweeTarts while touring a Tums factory and saw how they compressed powdered medicine into tablet form. He applied the technology to powdered sugar to produce a variety of candies including Spree.
eelwerdna 14, March 2006 (EST)

[edit] General

isnt it great how this is word for word the same as what is on answers.com? -- the preceding comment is by 207.63.186.16

Yes. That is because answers.com uses wikipedia content under GFDL, as they correctly state at the bottom of the page. 82.32.65.149 23:19, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Product line founding

I'm told that PixyStix and maybe a couple other product (SweeTarts, BottleCaps) lines predate 1971. Probably they were existing products of Breaker or another company. knoodelhed 16:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Britain

The company used to sell "Exploding Chocolate" in Britain, maybe they still do. It was (or is) a bar of purple chocolate which had been carbonised, so when you bit into it it fizzed quite violently in your mouth. Did they never sell this in America? Rusty2005

[edit] What about Australia?

These candies / sweets are available over there, under the Wonka Name. They also have some other stuff like Redskins!

http://about-australia-shop.com/images/products/Nestle_Redskins_9300625171163.jpg

Is there an article about these "Red Skins?"