{"id":17689,"date":"2010-06-30T11:34:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T18:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=17689"},"modified":"2010-06-30T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T18:34:26","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-misprinted-hersheys-dark-chocolate-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-misprinted-hersheys-dark-chocolate-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day \u2013 Misprinted Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Hersheys-misprint_2262\"\n

This may not excite the average person as much as it excites me but when I bought this piece of Hershey’s Dark Chocolate for a penny on eBay I felt like I hit the Kitsch motherlode. With as much candy as I’ve seen in my lifetime I’ve never come across one made by a major manufacturer, let alone Hershey’s, that had a wrong wrapper.   Not only is the graphic not centered on the candy bar but it’s not even the right color.  Here is a non-mutant piece pictured with the orphan:<\/p>\n\"Hersheys-misprint_2263\"\n

I’ve been popping these things into my mouth for years. I can spot one miles away in the candy terrarium that greets visitors as they walk into my house and which I fill and art direct daily.<\/p>\n\"candy-bowl_3360\"\n

Upon acquiring the runt, I now guard it like it’s a gold bar. I have it sitting in a special place on a special shelf so no one mistakes it for an available piece to munch on. Last week when I saw someone pick it up I yelled ‘NOOOOOOO’ so loud you would have thought I was stopping someone from pressing the button to activate a nuclear bomb. This is one freak of candy nature I intend to be able to enjoy the rest of my life.<\/p>\n\"Hersheys-misprint_2264\"\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This may not excite the average person as much as it excites me but when I bought this piece of Hershey’s Dark Chocolate for a penny on eBay I felt like I hit the Kitsch motherlode. With as much candy as I’ve seen in my lifetime I’ve never come across one made by a major … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361,165,87,193],"tags":[61,1539,3232,3245,1537],"class_list":["post-17689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brands","category-food","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-hersheys-dark-chocolate","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-misprinted-label"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}