When I was in 4th grade during the seventies I would walk past a drugstore on my way to and from school. On the way home my best friend Marilyn and I would stop almost every day to buy a Willie Wonka Super Scrunch bar. We'd hang out in front of the drugstore savoring each bite of our chocolate delight then we would take a short cut through the woods, go down to the creek and catch frogs, turtles and crawdads! We were quite the tomboys back then! Today as a full grown woman I still crave those Super Scrunch bars. It was my most favorite candy bar in the world and just the thought of that light, crispy, peanut buttery chocolate bar takes me back to that creek with my freckled faced friend laughing, wading barefoot and just being a carefree kid. Man I'd love to have another one of those candy bars right now!

the new butterfinger crisp candy bars are the same thing. :)

I worked at the factory in St. Louis where we produced the Willi Wonka candies for Quaker Oats. The factory, Concorde Confections, was latered purchased by Nestle and ultimately shut down sometime in the 90's. It was a great place to work, most all of us were in our early twenties. We were working to produce another bar when I left, it was going to be called the Scrumdelisious. Nestle sells a very similiar bar called "Whatchmacallit" I believe. However ours was a little differant with ours using chocolate rice crispys. Somedays we produced as much as 40,000 scruch bars a day.

Around 1972 I was 12 years old. These bars were no doubt my favorite candy of all times! We had a small strip mall about two blocks from my house that had a drugstore, grocery store, five and dime and a pizza place. Those days have far gone and the drugstore where I would buy these candy bars has also moved out but I still have the same desire to get some of these candy bars! Is there anything even close to these out there? I would love to find even a close substitute! Thanks! dave

It was probably around 1972 and I would have been 11 then. That summer, me and my younger brother would walk downtown almost every day on the way back from the beach or the harbor. We'd always stop at the paper store and I'd get as many super scrunches as I had money for from my paper route(usually 3 or 4) and a bottle of red cream soda. Then we'd walk home back up the hillside and as we'd go, I'd eat each scrunch bar and he'd ask for a "tidbit" so I'd break the end off of each bar and give it to him. We always opened the wrappers carefully and smoothed them out with our thumbnails. We shared a room and I wallpapered the entire inside of our closet door with row upon row of super scrunch wrappers all neatly taped up with scotch tape.

Wow...I'm glad I'm not the only one. Just got an email offering Modern Day Willie Wonka candies and I replied that "I'm looking for a Super Skrunch Bar, haven't had one since about '72". That seems to be THE YEAR reading the above. If I remember 36 years later it supports my vaguely remembering sense of the Super Skrunch was the BEST CANDY BAR OF ALL TIME. Help me remember though what exactly was in it!? (I never saw the movie)

I too worked at the factory in St. Louis from 1971 to 1973. During that time I remember the Skrunch bar being made from a peanut butter and Rice Krispie mix covered in chocolate. We also produced the Skrumdidleyumptious bar that was milk chocolate and chocolate Rice Krispies topped with caramel and covered in milk chocolate. Then there were Ompas which were like M&M's only bigger, half peanut butter and half chocolate with a hard candy shell. Nothing like the ompas sold today. I remember these ingredients well because I was the one who had to keep those hoppers full!! They used to call me Wally Wonka..... Those were fun days.