The Candy Wrapper Museum

Lo and behold! Here's another welcome escape from the hollow chocolate foil turkey monopoly, maple sugar pilgrims.

I don't have a lot of corroborating evidence to back this theory, but I believe pilgrims in candy are deliberatly depicted as childlike... doll-like... Smurf-like... in order to soften the history of the pilgrims and the American Indians and make it seem more like a fairy tale than anything historical and therefore less vulnerable to any political or religious critique. It's sort of sad, but ultimately I'm fine with this... let's not allow all Thanksgiving iconography to be subsumed by the more generic imagery of fall. Do all our holidays ultimately have to be watered down?


	Thanksgiving Home Josh Early Big Bird Josh Early Mini Bird Josh Early Small Bird Russell Stover Bird See's Classic Bird All Natural Ugly Bird Pligrims & Indians Maple Pilgrims Thanksgiving Pops Return to Holidaze	Lo and behold! Here's another welcome escape from the hollow chocolate foil turkey monopoly, maple sugar pilgrims. I don't have a lot of corroborating evidence to back this theory, but I believe pilgrims in candy are deliberatly depicted as childlike... doll-like... Smurf-like... in order to soften the history of the pilgrims and the American Indians and make it seem more like a fairy tale than anything historical and therefore less vulnerable to any political or religious critique. It's sort of sad, but ultimately I'm fine with this... let's not allow all Thanksgiving iconography to be subsumed by the more generic imagery of fall. Do all our holidays ultimately have to be watered down?