After two months of scratching our heads over a long-defunct candy product brought to our attention by Jeanna B. - namely, Peter Paul's Smile-a-While - we finally have some information about when it was sold. This, thanks to reader David C.

According to Ray Broekel's "Great American Candy Bar Book," page 38, there is the following information - "Smile-a-While was a chocolate-covered coconut double bar that sold well for a while in the 1950s." There is also an illustration showing a boxful of these bars. Therefore, since the Mounds bar was changed from a single bar to a double bar during the Depression (page 37) The Mounds predates the Smile-a-While by roughly 20 years.

If you have any additional information regarding Smile-a-Whiles, please drop us a line. And thank you, David, for solving our latest snack mystery.

Snack on.

- WASAW

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