{"id":43883,"date":"2016-02-07T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=43883"},"modified":"2016-02-15T17:04:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:04:28","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-how-mad-can-a-kid-get-about-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-how-mad-can-a-kid-get-about-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: How Mad Can a Kid Get About Candy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"People Feeder | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/people-feeder?source=blog_uk_160207\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43967 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/uk_160207.png\" alt=\"People Feeder | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen you raise the price of a chocolate bar 3 cents? Super mad.<\/p>\n<p>On April 25, 1947 in British Columbia, a group of kids walked down to Wigwam Caf\u00e9, their local candy shop, and were shocked and dismayed to find that the nickel they\u2019d typically saved from their allowance would no longer buy them the chocolate they craved. Literally overnight, the shopkeepers had raised the price by 60%, making it a whopping 8 cents for a three-ounce candy bar.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than take this injustice lying down, the kids ran home and scrawled signs professing the injustice. The strike had begun. Singing a catchy protest song (\u201cWe want a 5-cent chocolate bar\/8 cents is going too darn far\u201d) and carrying pithy signs (\u201cCandy is dandy, but 8 cents isn\u2019t handy!\u201d), the little protesters marched up and down the street until almost all of the town\u2019s kids had joined the \u201cChocolate Bar Strike.\u201d The local paper snapped a picture and soon kids across Canada began picketing their own corner stores.<\/p>\n<p>On April 30, 200 kids marched on the British Colombia capitol building, effectively shutting down government business for the day. All in all, 3,000 kids were said to have signed pledge cards stating that they\u2019d boycott candy until the price went down. And their threats weren\u2019t empty\u2014candy sales went down 80%.<\/p>\n<p>They almost won, too, but critics began to suggest that the National Federation of Youth, an organization with members affiliated with the Communist Party, had orchestrated the strike. There was no validity to these claims, but boycott had now been painted Red and parents forbade their kids from taking part. The price remained as it was, and to this day, the remaining kiddos (now grown) maintain that they\u2019d only protested to let their voices be heard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"People Feeder | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/people-feeder?source=blog_uk_160207\" target=\"_blank\">People Feeder<\/a> |\u00a0$38.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you raise the price of a chocolate bar 3 cents? Super mad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":43969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[1110,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43883"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44234,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43883\/revisions\/44234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}