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Atomic Fireballs Red Hots Tootsie Rolls Starbursts Jolly Ranchers Old fashioned Christmas candy (hard candy poured into the shape of a ribbon, short sticks with a flower that went all the way through the center... does anyone else remember these?) Sour Fruit Balls
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Wait a minute! The gum cigarettes had thin paper around them, right? And the gum sort of slid out?
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Yup. And they even had some powdery substance in there so you could kind of puff them. Once or twice anyway. Fun for all ages. Damn, now I want a real cigarette.
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BORIS! That was the candy bar I WAS THINKING OF! It was really good too and now it doesn't exist anymore It tasted so good. All that chocolate. They also had fudge twixes too. I remember tart and tinies and sweet tarts. Gah. How could I have ate so much sugar?!?!?!
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Not really candy, except for the stick of gum in it, but... Wacky Pack cards.
(Fun trivia: I read that Art Spiegelman -- the guy who did Maus -- worked for Topps and worked on Wacky Packs...)
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You can still buy Charleston Chews, mack, but they are getting a lot harder to find. We were delighted to see some in a story not too long ago..
I grew up in the old days. I think my favorite candies during grade school years were those candy necklaces (we would suck/munch on them during class at school) and candy cigarettes, and Paydays. But I liked a variety and didn't always stay with one favorite candy.
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(edit: $100,000 Grand bars are my personal favorite, however my teeth don't allow me to tackle them much anymore....)
Elizabeth: I agree -- circus peanuts are evil and a crime against...nature, technology. society and culture
Others not mentioned:
Sixlets The sour analogue to atomic fire balls (they were green) Chik-o-stiks (like the inside of a Butterfinger plus coconut) Skor bars (toffee coated with chocolate) Jolly Rancher's bars Big Hunk (a big bar of vanilla nougat with peanuts) Gum that had a syrup in the middle (forgot name) -- it came in mint, but for awhile there were also soda flavors -- Dr. Pepper, root beer, and lemon lime Bottle Caps
-------- There's a funky Long's Drugs in Oakland that has also been a Payless and a Rite Aid, but the cool thing about it is that it never really changes -- it has a garden center, a fabric dept., housewares, really cheap shoes, clothes (including classic men's pj's from makers like Botany 500), AND a huge candy aisle with all sorts of funky things you can't find elsewhere like charleston chews and chik-o-stiks. And people wonder why we pay such high rent to live out here. Duh! It's the funky Long's and the cheap dim sum.
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I was in elementary school and loved them in my lunches. There were times whenever I was sick I would crave them. Posts: 1417 | Registered: Aug 1999
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Does anybody know if they've gotten rid of Whoppers or just cut back on them? Today I was craving some, but couldn't find them anywhere.
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But...who goes to Walgreens or Ace Hardware just to get candy? Jeez, what's next? Going to Blockbuster just to buy popcorn? Going to Del Taco for their fries?
quote: Does anybody know if they've gotten rid of Whoppers or just cut back on them?
As far as I know they're still standard ridiculously overpriced yet readily available at movie theatres across the US.
My favorites were: Root beer barrels Pop rocks with Coke (there was a boy named Billy in 1st grade who was the heartthrob on the playground because his record was 5 packs of pop rocks at once.) Blowpops Pixie Sticks Bazooka bubblegum (purely for the comic.) And those dots, on the wax paper. What on earth were those called?
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I liked those orange and black halloween candies that are twisted up in wax paper twists. You know the kind I mean?
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"Elizabeth: I agree -- circus peanuts are evil and a crime against...nature, technology. society and culture"
My daughter likes to do "experiments." She loves Circus Peanuts, and wanted to create a Circus Peanut-flavored drink. She soaked them in a bottle of water. I almost hurl just thinking about it. She even tasted it! Egads.
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on halloween, my sister and I traded candy. I gave her all my chocolate (except the reeses and the snickers) for all her blowpops. and we gave all the tootsie roll pops and various caramels to my mom.
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I was just kidding, Hobbes, to see if anyone was paying attention. Does anyone at all like those candies? They are the most nauseating things that ever tried to pass themselves off as candy, aren't they?
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My mom would sometimes bring home a sack of assorted candies from the Brachs bin at the supermarket. She always loaded up on the butterscotch candy, but my favorite were those neopolitan striped coconut candies.
My mom liked black licorice, but nobody else did. If she bought a bag, she'd pretty much have the whole thing to herself.
I love Big Hunks too, sticky enough to pull your fillings out.
Someday I'd like to drink a can of Bordon Sweetened Condensed Milk.
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York peppermint patties and chocolate twislers. One grandmother had one, the other had the other.
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quote: But...who goes to Walgreens or Ace Hardware just to get candy? Jeez, what's next? Going to Blockbuster just to buy popcorn? Going to Del Taco for their fries?
Actually, I used to work at an Ace Hardware and these old folks would come in just to buy candy. We had so many of the old kinds that they said they remembered having as a child, but couldn't find anywhere else. I hadn't even heard of half of them.
Oh and Walgreens is a must stop before going to the movies! The only thing I ever eat at theaters were Sour Patch Kids, and all the theaters around me stopped selling them. Plus walgreens is WAY cheaper and generally has a bigger selection.
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When I was little I was in love with, besides chocolate of course, the old fashioned dot candy that came on those trips of paper. They used to sell it at the Greenfield Village/Henry Ford museum... so cool. And they would be in rainbow patterns! You'd get a long strip of paper with little dots of rainbow candy goodness... and just rip those little suckers off with your teeth. The only problem is that you usually got a bit of paper with each dot.
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You know, I always thought that those dots should have been good, but they never were. There was a candy store where I used to buy them that made phosphates to order, and had the best English Toffee I've ever tasted. I can remember going down there and blowing my meager allowance on green river phosphates, toffee, and the occasional Dinosour egg. Wonder if they still make those?
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Rollos, because I when I was 7 believed a friend who said I'd like them even though I didn't like chocolate and wouldn't eat it voluntarily and she was right.
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Pear drops. Acid drops. Tropical Opal Fruits. Kendal Mint Cake. and last but not least... Fizzy Cola Bottles.
Of course, none of these are any good if they aren't weighed straight out of the jar and sold in small white paper bags.
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