The Candy Wrapper Museum

Full Dinner Candy Bar

Tom's Candy was one of my favorites to collect in the 70s because it was almost always awful in some way. The "Full Dinner" bar was an early find. I was initially unsure as to how a fairly small peanut butter bar rated such a grandiose name, but as I continued collecting over the decades I came to learn that the Full Dinner is part of a rich history of candy bars touted as meal substitues or nourishing after-school lunches that began in the 1920s. I was also surprised to learn that this is not the strangest of these candy bars. Chicken Dinner, anybody?


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