Kids today have candies that would even stretch the imagination of Willie Wonka. Sometimes oldies are still goodies.
What are your 10 favorite childhood candies?
Mine are:
1. Chic-a-sticks
2. Swedish Fish From Sears candy counter
3. Pixie Sticks
4. Fireballs
5. Bazooka Joe or Baseball Cards with gum (great for bartering)
6. don't kill me for this one....Candy Cigarettes!! bad Heather! I did like the way they tasted...the chalky and the gum ones.
7. Dip O Stick
8. Sixlettes
9. the little wax bottles with the liquid inside
10. the dots on paper. they were pastel colored little button looking dots.
mmmmm sweet memories! What are yours?
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Mary janes, too.
1: Drop (liquorice) sweet, or salty, soft or hard.
2: Droptoffee
3: Gomballen
4: Boterbabbelaars
5: Toverballen
Well, thats enough exotica!
i have never had a sky bar but they sure do sound nice.....and your mary janes reminded me if bit o honey and those bit o honey like lollipops mmmm
dinasaur.eggs.and.lets.not.forget.abazabas!Thanks.for
this.nostalgic.post!
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Sixlettes were these tiny little colored balls of chocolate? Only the chocolate had this different taste to it. They were wrapped by sixes but then the package got bigger.
I do not like necco wafers. They are only good for gingerbread houses.......but I know lots o folks like em!
Henry "Zeke" Zanella had a great assortment of penny candy at the Cascade Grocery in Ouray Colorado. Among the more popular ones:
licorice shoelaces
candy necklaces
concord grape bubble gum
little licorice people in a box (I'll skip what they were called - I can't believe there was ever a product by that name)
candy cigarettes - complete with the popular brand names of the day. I'd always ask for Pall Malls (hey, I was a kid, what did I know?)
pixie sticks
sweet pickle bubble gum (shaped like a pickle, of course)
I've featured this in the Top 10 Lists group. Excellent topic, Heather.
And then there were those nickel packs of gum. I think the manufacturer was Adams. Clove was great. Teaberry was a favorite too. Licorice, they had a good licorice version. None of those would pass a focus group today . . .
Its not a candy, but I miss "whistle stop" soda pop, the green kind...you bought it by the case of returnables, back when most pop bottles were returnables
7-up Bars (had seven sections that were different)
Abazaba (still buy)
Non Peripels(sp?) (chocolate drops with white dots)
Rocky Road (still around)
Chewing gum (the one with a cartoon and also came in orange sometimes)
Barrel shaped Root Beer (Hard candy)
Turkish Taffy
York Peppermint Patty (still get)
Tootsie Roll (but of course)
That's all I can think of now.
Thanks.
PS- I still like Mike and Ike, Hot Tamales, and Malted Milk Balls. Ha ha.
Another favorite of mine - Oompa Loompas. These days they are something else, but back then they were big M&M type things with half chocolate and half peanut butter. The peanut butter M&Ms just aren't as good!
I'd forgotten about Tart n Tinys! Those were yummy!
It's funny y'all mentioned Teaberry gum. I just saw some at our dollar store the other day! Ah, memories!
1 -Pixie Sticks
2 - Dip O Sticks
3 - Pop Rocks
4 - Candy cigarettes
5 - Tootise rolls - the flaovrs other than chocoloate
6 - Bazooka Joe gum
7 - candy buttons (that were on the paper)
8 - Peppermint Patties
9 - charleson chew
10 - whatcamicalit (SP?)
what are abadazabas?
Wax Lips
Mallo cups
1. Candy cigarettes (can you imagine that today?!?) - sticks of sweet white chalky sugar. The tip of each "cigarette" was painted red to simulate fire.
2. candy lipstick, that turned your entire mouth, lips and tongue bright red.
3. Wax lips (do they still make these?)
4. Pixie Sticks
5. Little wax cola bottles filled with sugary liquid in unrealistically bright colors
6. Neco wafers. You can still get 'em.
Grandpa owned an old-fashioned grocery store on Payne Ave. in St. Paul. He allowed his grandchildren to climb the high candy shelves and take whatever they (we!) wanted - much to my mother's chagrin! That's where my earliest memories of the candy lipstick and candy cigarettes comes from. He retired and sold the store when I was 9 or 10. [Sigh] If I could only climb those candy shelves once again...
I suppose I'd tip it over.
YOu know what else i like are those swizzle sticks with the sugar rock on them mmmm
Funny, Roxanne, I remember Sen-Sen. My ancient great-aunts used to have it when I was a small child. It came in a really neat little box and tasted terrible, like licorice that had been stored in a dirty tennis shoe for a long, long time.
Ohhhhh and I still love fruit stripe gum....not sure of the name....it was zebra gum to me!
Don't forget Violets gum and mints....
And Licorice All-Sorts. The nurse at my old job said that, growing up, they always got a box for Christmas. I used to get her a box every year....
And ribbon candy for Christmas. Always came in a tin, and the peppermint balls. I saw tins of both at the Dollar Tree on Saturday...brought back great memories!!!