I just went out searching for Charleston Chews. One of those candy bars you take for granted to be on the shelves.
I couldn't find any.
I used to get them when my mother sent me to the general store to pick up stuff for her. I'd get her groceries, then get a strawberry Charleston Chew and a pack of 50 cent Topps baseball card. Those were the days. I think the cards are at my father's house. Hmmm.
What others do you remember from your childhood?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
The candy that always reminds me of my childhood is Red Vines Red Ropes. My mom always kept them around. Mmmmmm. Sometimes when I was having a hard time at school (I was a social misfit) she'd let me stay up late with her to watch Mystery! and we'd eat air-popped popcorn and Red Ropes while she brushed and braided my hair.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Lik Maid Now and Laters Mambos Smarties
All of these I can no longer eat. They repulse me now.
Snickers Twix Three Muskateers
They have transfat so I am trying to cut down on that.
Reeces How I love Reeces...
Posted by Uhleeuh (Member # 6803) on :
Kings candy cigarettes.
I haven't been able to find those since I was 9. The only thing I remember about them is they tasted like white message hearts (valentine candy) and it had gum in it.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Were those the ones that you could blow through (take that out of context and die) and make the powdered sugar look like smoke?
Posted by Uhleeuh (Member # 6803) on :
I don't remember, it's been so long...well, 12 years, which is a long time to me. I just remember the taste and sitting around thinking I was cool because I had a fake cigarette.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Pop Rocks
Marathon Bars!! (teisted braid of caramel covered in chocolate)
Those gun cigars-best gun in the universe!( I saw some somewhere recently)
Those little wak things filled with sugary liquid that you chewed on after sucking out the juice.
Ice Cubes(they still have these)
Edit: You know you are over the hill when your favorite candy is extinct)
[ November 07, 2004, 07:45 AM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Jaw breakers the size of a cue ball.
Walnettos.
100,000 Dollar bar
Hershey bars in small segments.
Brick chocolate from Ghiradelli.
Starburst fruit chews
Adam's Sour Orange gum
Pixie Stix
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
Little pastel dots stuck to a long strip of white paper. You had to pry them off with your teeth, and there was always still a bit of paper stuck to them but you ate them anyway.
Regular-size Hershey bars for a nickel.
Candy necklaces.
Bazooka bubblegum, Beechnut fruit stripe gum, chicklets.
Wax bottles and wax lips.
Chuckles.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Bubble gums:
Hubba Bubba Bubble Yum and (great name) Sugar Loaf
Posted by dabbler (Member # 6443) on :
I used to eat banana now & laters, pixy stix, sugar daddies, and charleston chews.
Mmm. I also really liked Whatchamacallits.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
See, for me, pixy stix are a now candy, not a childhood candy.
None of the things I loved as a child are unavailable right now, but my favorites were candy corn and circus peanuts (you know, the bright orange marshmallow thingies).
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
BB Bats, all flavors, and Kits, which were the same thing, but in little squares rather than a strip on a popsicle stick. I see them occasionally in convenience stores, but they seem to be pretty rare.
Starbursts were a staple of my childhood.
I had a love hate relationship with root beer barrels.
2 cent superbubble was mainstay, but when I could afford it, I loved big league chew, more for the novelty of it than anything else, I think.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Tootsie Rolls - hands down over every other candy.
Tragic story really - hooked on them by the age of three. Many cavities found in my first dental exam at age four. Rationed out in small doses to me over the next 6 or 7 years. Then came the braces and they were totally forbidden.
The day the braces came off, one of the first things I did was to reach shakily for a Tootsie Roll. And another. And another.
I am in recovery from Tootsie Rolls right now, with intermittent relapses.
Remember this tale and take care with your kids!
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
Mmmmm, circus peanuts. I loved those things. Does anyone know where to find them? Do they still make them?
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I see them at CVS, and places that sell non-brand-name candy.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Circus peanuts are so wrong!
Bob, 100,000 dollar bars, YES! They changed them to Hundred Grand bars, and then dumped them. What were they THINKING?
I remember when candy bars were a dime, gum was a nickel, and a soda was a quarter. Holy crap!
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
I loved Charleston Chews when I was a kid. It sucked because they weren't available in Canada (at least in Vernon BC) back then. We would go down to Seattle or Kennewick once a year and we would buy a whole bunch of Charleston Chews to bring home. They are now available here but it has been a long time since I have had one.
I also have fond memories of Fizz candies and Chews gum as well as Big League Chew.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Boston Baked Beans and Lemon Drops at $0.05 a box. My sister and I would rummage through my dad's loose change drawer, run one block to the convenience store and make it home just in time to sustain a sugar rush all through You Can't Do That On Television.
Good times.
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
I also loved the gum cigarettes! My mom always was a bit nervous buying them for me, though. The ones I had you could blow the powdered sugar out of.
We still have a penny candy store in my hometown and one of my favorite childhood memories is going to the movie theater and stopping by to pick up a bag full of penny candies. It was always so hard to choose! I loved the cherry sours, the gummy soda bottles, bottlecaps, the weird "styrofoam" spaceships with the little balls inside...many more...
Big league chew -- we used to see how much of the package we could get in our mouth. Same with bubble tape. Bubblicious had the best flavor and made the best bubbles. Laffy taffy with the silly jokes. My mom's favorite was Bazooka Joe gum -- she worked at a pharmacy and would bring home the empty tubs to hold toys.
I know there are many more, but I can't think.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Tootsie Rolls
Butterfinger
Sugar Babies/Sugar Daddy
Of course, now that I can't eat chocolate anymore, I'm limited to Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddy. But it's hard to find either of them, except around Halloween, and this year I can't say that I saw either of them in the stores.
Oh, and caramel (which are pretty much what Sugar Babies/Sugar Daddy are) has become my chocolate.
[ November 07, 2004, 12:37 PM: Message edited by: littlemissattitude ]
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Zotts - Individually wrapped hard candies with a fizzing center. I liked lemon and orange.
Posted by whiskysunrise (Member # 6819) on :
We can get the circus peanuts at WalMart. If you have one you could try there down the candy isle.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
They still make 100,000 Dollar bars--I just had one a few weeks ago.
Come to think of it though, it was a little stale
When I was a kid I'd always try to get the 100,000 bar to pull away from my mouth the way it did the guy in the commercial--you know, the delicious looking rope of carmelly goodness that stretched between the piece in his mouth and the piece in his hand. Never worked though. I never liked the bars all that much, but I'd get them now and then just to try to get them to "work".
I also tried to pour softdrinks into my mouth the way they did in the commercials, holding the bottle a good 6 inches above their upturned faces, catching to flow of pop in their mouths. I made a lot of messes, but I never succeeded in pulling that one off either.
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
The Barnone bar...I miss that thing. It was like a a big KitKat with nothing but chocolate, and a layer with peanut... I want a Barnone bar....
Posted by ginette (Member # 852) on :
Strawberry bubble gum.
When I was four years old, I asked 'Mom, how do you spell chewing gum?' My mom, happy that I was practizing writing, spelled it for me. I wrote it on a small paper, got outside and went to the grocery. There I gave my 'shopping list' which only mentioned the chewing gum to the shopkeeper and said 'You write it in the book please'. I knew my mom always paid all the groceries on Saturdays, so he did as I asked for and gave me the bubble gum. I can't remember if I got punished for this....
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Tart n Tinys.
Teaberry Gum.
Not really a candy, but beef jerky and Slim-Jims...
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
You were a crafty child ginette!
Posted by Misha McBride (Member # 6578) on :
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
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Ginette, I love that story! it is something Scout would do. (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Noemon, too funny. I am thinking your 100,000 bar might be that many days old! Ha ha.
Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
Pop Rocks Bazooka Bubble Gum M&M's
Posted by esl (Member # 3143) on :
Mini M&M's! I think they still exist but they're not as popular. I haven't seen them anywhere, not that I've been really looking.
and Bazooka gum, with the Bazooka Joe comic. off topic: My nephew can plow a triple bubble. It's really cool.
[ November 07, 2004, 07:42 PM: Message edited by: esl ]
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
That was pretty crafty, ginette.
"Just put it on my bill."
Posted by Wussy Actor (Member # 5937) on :
Big League Chew and candy cigarettes. Is it any wonder I'm so messed up?
Posted by Wussy Actor (Member # 5937) on :
quote: Regular-size Hershey bars for a nickel.
Somebody is OLD.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
I found some! I found some Charleston Chews! *dance*
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
Candy corn. And those cigarettes.
When I was little, a bunch of angry parents got the drug store to stop stocking those.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
It was the candy cigars I loved. I remember candy cigs, but not gum cigs.
Ah, back in B.P.C.(Before P.C.) In those days, a candy was not only a candy, it was a model of an addictive substance.
[ November 07, 2004, 10:25 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Wait a minute! The gum cigarettes had thin paper around them, right? And the gum sort of slid out?
Posted by Wussy Actor (Member # 5937) on :
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.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
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?!?!?!
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
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...)
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
Still being in childhood, really, I suppose I'll just list my current favorite candies:
Pop Rocks Milky Way Reese's Anything with "See's" on it.
I would also say Altoids here, but, you know, they're not candy, so I won't.
[ November 08, 2004, 03:01 AM: Message edited by: Da_Goat ]
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
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.
Farmgirl
(edit: $100,000 Grand bars are my personal favorite, however my teeth don't allow me to tackle them much anymore....)
[ November 08, 2004, 10:38 AM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Bleep blips! They had some at a Cracker Barrel I went to I am suprised I even have TEETH
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Humm..
I guess they are actually properly called 100 Grand bars -- but I remember always calling them $100,000 dollar bars. Did the name change?
edit: oh Duh! Elizabeth already answered this! Guess I should read all posts.
[ November 08, 2004, 10:41 AM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
My favorite are Nutragous, but I can't find them anywhere except bags of small bite sized ones sometimes.
Oh, and pop rocks where cool too.
Oh, and gummy bears too,
[ November 08, 2004, 03:14 PM: Message edited by: MEC ]
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Necco Wafers
Posted by dread pirate romany (Member # 6869) on :
Toffifay KitKat Butterfinger Crunch Bar
None of which I eat now.
Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :
skillery: Zots are awesome.
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.
Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :
I forgot one: anybody else familiar with Uno bars?
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
I miss...
Quick Candy Bar (mmmmm)
Garfield Fruit Snacks (They REALLY need to bring those back!! Does anyone know who made them? I may send them a letter.)
Bonkers (they may still have these... not sure)
Betty Crocker's Fruit Wrinkles, Fruit Bars.. Chocolate Roll-ups
(sigh)
[ November 08, 2004, 11:31 PM: Message edited by: unicornwhisperer ]
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Fruit Wrinkles.
Bonkers.
*droool*
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
Chocolate Roll-ups? That sounds disgusting.
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
I was in elementary school and loved them in my lunches. There were times whenever I was sick I would crave them. Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
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.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
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?
[ November 09, 2004, 02:10 AM: Message edited by: Da_Goat ]
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Dunno, I don't generally buy candy by the case.
Posted by Lyraluthuen (Member # 6560) on :
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?
[edit for spelling]
[ November 09, 2004, 02:29 AM: Message edited by: Lyraluthuen ]
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Candy buttons
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
I liked caramels and butterscotches.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
I liked those orange and black halloween candies that are twisted up in wax paper twists. You know the kind I mean?
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"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.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
quote:I liked those orange and black halloween candies that are twisted up in wax paper twists.
In some ways, AK, we are two, very different people.
Hobbes Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
gummi bears smarties candy corn blowpops reese's.
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.
Ni!
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
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?
[ November 11, 2004, 09:06 PM: Message edited by: Tatiana ]
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
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.
Posted by newfoundlogic (Member # 3907) on :
York peppermint patties and chocolate twislers. One grandmother had one, the other had the other.
Posted by signal (Member # 6828) on :
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.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
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.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
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?
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
PEZ
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
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.
AJ
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
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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I don't remember, it's been so long...well, 12 years, which is a long time to me. I just remember the taste and sitting around thinking I was cool because I had a fake cigarette.
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I want a Barnone bar....
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