The name captured the zany modernity of the Roaring Twenties. When they asked him to explain himself, he said it must have been that ‘dang nut zipper.’Īnd so, the story goes, Squirrel Nut Zippers were born. The police had to talk him down from a tree. It reported the arrest of a Vermont man for public drunkenness. Then a local newspaper story caught a manager’s eye. In the 1920s, the company came up with a vanilla-and-nut version of the Chocolate Squirrel, but couldn’t find a name for it. Squirrel Brand moved to North Carolina, then came back to the Cambridgeport neighborhood of Cambridge, where the candy business boomed along Confectioner’s Row. Then Perley Gerrish bought the company, moved it to Cambridge and called it the Squirrel Brand Company. They were made for the first few years in Roxbury, Mass., by the Austin T. It was a chocolate taffy said to have chewed beautifully. ![]() ![]() The ancestor of the Squirrel Nut Zipper was a caramel nut chew, made since 1888, called the Chocolate Squirrel caramel (think Milk Dud). For a the company that produced candy for Civil War soldiers made them. Squirrel Nut Zippers survived into the 21st century like other old New England brands such as Charleston Chews and Junior Mints.
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