Mary Jane is an old fashioned taffy style candy made from peanut butter and molasses, giving it a softer texture than earlier molasses only candies. Charles N. Miller created the recipe in 1914, naming it after his favorite aunt and giving it a mascot resembling a character from the Buster Brown comic strip, and it was originally wrapped in yellow wax paper with a single red stripe and sold as a penny candy under the slogan Use your change for Mary Janes. Ownership passed from Miller to the Stark Candy Company in 1989, then to Necco in 2008, and after Necco's bankruptcy to the Atkinson Candy Company in 2020, which has produced it since under license from the Spangler Candy Company.
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Mary Jane is an old-fashioned taffy-type candy made from peanut butter and molasses.
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Mary Jane is an old-fashioned taffy-type candy made from peanut butter and molasses.
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