Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour

I like old people candy. There, I’ve said it. Don’t give me any sour flavored, blue colored, gummy candy treats. Instead give me black licorice or better yet some NECCO wafers.

What better to do, when in Boston, than go to the New England Confectionary Company – Home of the NECCO Wafer. NECCO Wafers are the longest produced candy (or confections as fancy people say) in the United States. This is all well and good, but they register pretty low on the excitement scale. The wafers are pretty simple, made out of sugar, starch, a little flavor and a little color. This is all compressed into a dry, hard, disc. None of this should be exciting to anyone under the age of 60. There are no bright colors, outrageous flavors or crazy gimmicks. Still, for some reason I like the dang things.

This brings us full circle to my visit to the NECCO HQ, located in beautiful Revere, MA. Unfortunately you can’t tour the factory floor, but they do have a Candy Shoppe (which is Shop in olden time speak) where they sell every type of candy NECCO makes and then some. We picked up a roll of regular NECCO Wafer, a roll of Smoothie Wafers, a SkyBar and a NECCO t-shirt. Since NECCO also makes/invented Conversation Hearts, this might be a good place to visit before Valentines day. Definitely worth the trip for any “NECCO Head” or someone simply looking for something to do in Revere who doesn’t like delicious Roast Beef sandwiches.