Long Lost Candies: The Marathon Bar
Posted by Ken Shenkman on Sep 11, 2012
Have you ever wondered what happened to the Marathon caramel chocolate bar?
The Mars Candy Company introduced it in 1973 and it was a full eight inches of braided caramel covered in milk chocolate. It was marketed as “the candy bar you can’t eat quickly” in commercials by some kind of a cowboy guy. The Marathon Bar came in a bright red wrapper that made it stand out from the other candy bars. There was actually a...
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