{{Short description|Round peg candy brand sold by NECCO}} thumb|Candy Buttons '''Candy Buttons''', '''Candy Dots''', or '''Pox''' are small rounded flat pegs of candy that are attached to a strip of paper. This classic sugar candy was originally introduced by the Cumberland Valley company and J Sudak and Son of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In 1977, Sudak, which changed its name to Uncle Nibbles Candy Factory, sold to a repackager in Manhattan named CeeDee Candy, they sold to NECCO. After that acquisition, Necco bought the Cumberland Valley Company in 1980, which made them the exclusive manufacturer of this product in the United States. Each strip of the candy includes three flavors: cherry (pink), lime (blue), and lemon (yellow). Candy Buttons come in two strip sizes: long and short. The long is 22{{fraction|1|2}} inches, while the short is 11{{fraction|1|4}} inches. NECCO made 750 million candy buttons in the course of a year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mynecco.com/index.php/product-types/candy.html |title=Necco Candy |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231103347/http://mynecco.com/index.php/product-types/candy.html |archivedate=2015-12-31 |accessdate=2016-01-11 |quote=We make approximately 750 million NECCO candy buttons each year.}}</ref> Following NECCO's 2018 bankruptcy, Candy Buttons were bought at auction by Cincinnati's Doscher's Candies.<ref>{{cite news|last=Brownfield|first=Andy|title=Cincinnati candy company acquires childhood favorite|publisher=Cincinnati Business Courier|date=27 September 2018|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/09/27/cincinnati-candy-company-acquires-childhood.html}}</ref> They were subsequently the first former Necco candy back to market.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.candystore.com/blog/candy-news/candy-buttons-doschers-new-home/|title=Candy Buttons Are First NECCO Candy to Return, Thanks to Doscher's|date=2019-03-06|website=CandyStore.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-20|archive-date=2019-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320192452/https://www.candystore.com/blog/candy-news/candy-buttons-doschers-new-home/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Engineer and inventor George Theofiel Dib is credited with the invention of the candy button machine.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rubino|first=Anthony|title=Why didn't I think of that? : 101 inventions that changed the world by hardly trying|year=2010|publisher=Adams Media|location=Avon, Mass.|isbn=978-1-4405-0010-7|page=61|url=https://www.amazon.com/Why-Didnt-Think-That-Inventions/dp/B004KAB6SG}}</ref>
==See also== * List of confectionery brands
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