Walnettos

{{Short description|American confectionary}}

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Walnettos are an American chewy caramel-walnut candy.{{cite web |url=http://www.walnettosinc.com/about.html |title=About |work=Walnettos website |publisher=Walnettos, Inc. |accessdate=July 4, 2014}}

Walnettos were introduced by the J. N. Collins Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1919.{{Cref2|A}} Although originally not available in the summer,{{cite journal |date=August 1922 |title=Full of Walnut Meats |journal=Confectioner's Journal |volume=48 |issue=571 |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GCAxAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA19 |accessdate=July 3, 2014}} Walnettos were one of America's most popular candies in the 1920s and 1930s.{{cite web |url=http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/10/how-about-a-walnetto-walnut-candy.html |title=Have You Tried Walnettos, the Walnut Candy? |author=Lee Zalben |date=October 20, 2011 |work=Serious Eats |accessdate=July 4, 2014}} Walnettos were later bought by Peter Paul and, as the candy declined in popularity,{{cite web |url=http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/store/jump/productDetail/Food_&_Candy/Candy_&_Desserts/Candy_Counter/Walnettos_Tin_24oz/64764 |title=Walnettos Tin 24oz |work=The Vermont Country Store website |quote=These matinee favorites seemed to disappear in the 1960s... |accessdate=July 4, 2014}} passed through several other hands before being bought and resurrected by candy entrepreneur Sandy Licht in the 1980s. Sandy Licht's daughter, Lisa Licht, is now running the company. They are currently made by Walnettos Incorporated of Valencia, California.

Comedian Arte Johnson's dirty-old-man character Tyrone Horneigh on the popular 1968-1973 television comedy Laugh-In used the tagline "Wanna Walnetto?",{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/35772/Arte-Johnson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107043331/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/35772/Arte-Johnson |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 7, 2013 |title=Arte Johnson |author=Hal Erickson |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2013 |accessdate=July 4, 2014}} which briefly entered popular culture as a minor comedic catchphrase{{cite book |last=Hopple |first=Edwards R. |title=Wise In The Road... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQMkNCpiFWIC&pg=PA117 |accessdate=July 4, 2014 |year=2009 |publisher=Xlibris |isbn=978-1-4415-0358-9 |page=117}}{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}} and spurred sales.{{cite web |url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/season-617557-abc-series.html |title=Are these shows TV's 10 greatest fad series? |author=Michael Hewitt |date=June 9, 2014 |work=Orange County Register |accessdate=July 4, 2014}}{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtoTAQAAMAAJ&q=walnettos |work=Investor's Reader, Volumes 52-53 |date=1969 |publisher=Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Beane |accessdate=July 4, 2014 |title=Investor's Reader }}