Golden Pheasant Marshmallows Tin, Pacific Coast Candy Co., San Francisco. Ca. 1920

PHEASANT AND MARSHMALLOWS…AN ODD COMBINATION!

This particular Golden Pheasant Marshmallow can from the Pacific Coast Candy Company is an interesting combo to say the least.   How the use of the word “pheasant” and “marshmallow” came to be added together to form a product name is beyond my imagination.  However, it was approximately 100 years ago, and as a result, modern…