• tombruzzo
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    Anyone know why all lollies are Lifesaver branded these days? Did they acquire another company? Lifesavers used to just be those round hard lollies, now they’re everything

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      I noticed that too. I’m sure Pastilles and Fruit Tingles were Allen’s.

      I can remember 4 types of Lifesavers growing up. Fruit, pink, peppermint and spearmint in the roll. I only remember them because they were in Christmas stockings and the word Lifesaver was written on them. Now they’re all in packets.

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        fruit tingles were discs

        lifesavers were clear hard toroidal candy with many flavours. Orange, lemon, lime and strawberry are the ones i remember

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          I should clarify. Pastilles and fruit tingles were made by Allen’s. Now Darrell Lea make them under the Life Savers banner.

          The Life Savers you’re talking about were called 5 flavours. They are 1 of 4 rolls of Life Savers I can remember. Musk, Spearmint and Peppermint being the others. They had Lifesaver written on them and were as far as I know the only lollies with the hole in the middle.

          Now days you can get bananas and all kinds of lollies under the Life Savers banner.

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            this is like ancient memories, over 50 years ago

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              😂

              I’m not quite there yet but gee I can remember everything in that Christmas lolly stocking including the Groucho Marx glasses.

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      Life Savers is owned by Mars Inc, and is produced by Wrigley’s (in the US), Nestle (Canada), and Darrell Lea (Aus).

      I imagine ‘life savers’ has branched out to other kinds of candies, y know, for the profits

      Edit: here’s an infographic that shows who owns what lol it’s fucked

      If you click or tap the image you should be able to zoom in

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        It’s even worse if you expand it beyond confectionary. Good chance Mars makes your dog food.

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          Under Nestle there’s Fancy Feast and Purina. The infographic has quite a few non-food items. But yeah I haven’t spotted dog food, and quite a few items are missing