Vintage Candy Stash · Story-Filled Gift
Open a stash of vintage sweets built for sharing, comparing and discovering. Choose two Reading Soda Works flavors, then dig into a curated assortment of nostalgic American candies with plenty of history, personality and a few surprises along the way. A contraband ledger, candy stories and a rotating wild-card treat turn the box into a playful trip through the American candy counter.
The Story Behind the Stash
Sugarfoot is our fictional keeper of the sweet stuff—a backroom character inspired by the hidden deliveries, candy counters and bottling works of the Prohibition era. While everyone else worried about what was in the bottle, Sugarfoot knew where to find the candy.
His shipments were never quite the same twice: a couple of old-fashioned sodas, a stash of familiar sweets, a few candy-counter oddities and always something unexpected tucked inside.
Read Sugarfoot's Story →$69.00
At a Glance
From the Bottling Works Choice of First Reading Soda Works Flavor
Another Bottle for the Stash Choice of Second Reading Soda Works Flavor
From the Candy Counter Baby Ruth
From the Taffy Shelf Abba-Zaba
From Pennsylvania Goldenberg's Peanut Chews
From the Caramel Box Milk Duds
From the Oddities Shelf Idaho Spud
Another Candy Counter Curiosity Zero Bar
From Sugarfoot's Hidden Stash One Rotating Vintage Candy
Two Bottles. A Stash of Sweets. A Story Worth Unpacking. Every shipment includes a mix of recognizable classics, oddities and old-fashioned favorites, with the stories and introduction years behind the candies tucked inside.
Candy and product history cards · Sugarfoot's Contraband Ledger · Vintage candy timeline · Personalized occasion story
The Stories Behind the Stash
Sugarfoot's Sweet Contraband brings together an old-fashioned Pennsylvania bottler and a stash of American candies spanning generations of candy-counter history.
From the Bottling Works
Old-fashioned glass-bottle soda brings the fizz, color and nostalgia of the neighborhood bottling works. Two chosen flavors give every Sugarfoot shipment something cold and sweet to pour alongside the stash.
Meet Reading Soda Works →From the Candy Counter
From familiar classics to wonderfully unusual sweets, The Vintage Candy Counter brings together candies from different eras of American confectionery history. Baby Ruth, Abba-Zaba, Goldenberg's Peanut Chews, Milk Duds, Idaho Spud, Zero Bar and a rotating surprise each bring a different flavor—and a different story— to Sugarfoot's stash.
Explore The Vintage Candy Counter →Together, the bottling works and candy counter turn Sugarfoot's Sweet Contraband into more than soda and sweets. Every box becomes a little journey through American candy history—two bottles to choose, a stash of classics to discover and one unexpected treat tucked into the shipment.
More Than What's Inside the Box
The products are only part of it. We bring together American makers, the stories behind what they make, recipes and serving ideas, and a personalized occasion story chosen for the person receiving the gift.
What They Open
Thoughtfully chosen goods from makers, places and traditions with something worth discovering.
What They Discover
Product and maker history gives them something to read, remember and share long after the box is opened.
What They Do With It
Recipes, pairings and serving ideas turn what's inside into something to make, taste and enjoy.
Why You're Giving
Choose the occasion and we'll include a story created around the reason you're giving the gift.
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