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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Sky BarName: Sky Bar
Brand: Necco Place Purchased: Candy Express, Pittsburgh Airport Price: $.79 Size: 1.5 oz Calories per ounce: 150 Type: Chocolate/Filled
 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 10:55 am 5-Pleasant • Necco • Caramels • Peanuts • Chocolate • United States • Candy • Review • 
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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
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