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[catdaddy]

My wife recently got cravings for mary jane candies. It is something she loved as a child so is a bit of a comfort snack to her. Amazon to the rescue as she could not find them in any local stores.

Upon eating the first one she declared " There's no peanut butter in the middle. The old ones had a center of sweet peanut butter."

Does anyone remember a luscious PB center back in the 70's?

[johannafin]

I don't recall Mary Janes having a peanut butter center. They are a chewy toffee like candy with chunks of nuts in it.

[baroness]

According to NECCO Click here!, the candy does contain peanut butter. I don't think I've ever tasted one...

[natasha1270]

Probably looking for the Mary Jane Peanut Butter Kisses that come out for Halloween in the orange & black wrappers. The regular ones have always been taffy-like.

Here is a link about them:
http://www.candyblog..._butter_kisses/

[Kim Shook]

These are one of my favorite candies - I eat them a lot! They do have a small tunnel of PB in them still, but I don't think that it is a much as there used to be when I was younger. If they are kind of cold and you can almost break them apart longways, you can see the tiny bit of PB.

[Toliver]

Here's a link to an online store that sells the black & orange "Peanut Butter Kisses"(click).

There's also a local ice cream & candy store here where I live called Dewar's that sells taffy chews. They have peanut butter chews (click here) that are wonderfully peanut butter-y. It's like a strip of peanut butter inside the oblong taffy chew.
They have some new flavors that rock, too (the Pistachio and the Caramel Pistachio are my new fav's).