Retro Candy

[wolf]

Jujubes. The real ones, not the poor gummy substitutes they sell now-adays. The ones that could rip out fillings.

Marathon Bars. Just caramel and chocolate, but excellent. No more chocolate than other bars, but the linked "O" shapes made it seem bigger. Not technically a "nostalgic" candy, since I was in high school when they came out.

I never liked the wax bottles. Or Wax Lips. Anything involving wax is not really a candy. It's a candle. Having the same first four letters doesn't count, in my book.

Necco wafers taste like cardboard. No go.

Good 'n Fruities seem to have disappeared. I don't like licorice, so I never had Good 'n Plenties.

Rock candy, candy buttons, those Hickory Farms hard strawberry candies with the gel inside that were in wrappers that looked like strawberries, Red Hots, jawbreakers, those huge lollypops that are a big swirl of fruity candy goodness, Jelly Babies (which are more a part of my young-adulthood too, but I had to get them at SciFi conventions and I do miss them).

[Griff]

Originally Posted by wolf

Marathon Bars. Just caramel and chocolate, but excellent. No more chocolate than other bars, but the linked "O" shapes made it seem bigger. Not technically a "nostalgic" candy, since I was in high school when they came out.

Oooo... I liked those. I'm thinking our high school time may well be approaching nostalgic.

[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by wolf

Jujubes. The real ones, not the poor gummy substitutes they sell now-adays. The ones that did rip out fillings.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by wolf

Marathon Bars. Just caramel and chocolate, but excellent.

THAT'S why they had to change the name of Marathon in the UK to Snickers! I did wonder. People of my age still slip up and say Marathon sometimes.

Jelly Babies (which are more a part of my young-adulthood too, but I had to get them at SciFi conventions and I do miss them).

I would be happy to supply any time you ask.

I miss having a sweet tooth. When I would divvy up any money I had into how many sweets it would buy instead of how much alcohol. The behaviour was similar though - we were only allowed sweets on Sundays after Mass. In the summer holidays I would sneak down to the shops, buy sweets and sit in the park to scoff them as I shared a bedroom with my saintly sister. When I was drinking heavily I'd do the same thing (the same shop!), except sneak the cans upstairs as I only share the room with Diz now. I used to pretend I'd put money into the charity tin to explain why I had none - or more recently that I'd paid a bill. Sigh.

Anyway, back from self-flagellation. I do miss old fashioned sweet shops. There was one in Leicester. They have all the sweets in jars behind the counter and they are sold by weight. The penny sweets are beneath a glass counter top - you select them individually. And the smell! It's like mainlining childhood.

Bought in quarters were Kola Kubes, Sherbet Lemons, BonBons (but I spat out the toffee in the middle) Pear Drops, Cola Balls (but I spat out the aniseed pip) Choc Limes, Rhubarb and Custard, Cola Pips.

Penny sweet favourites - candy cigars and cigarettes, beer bottles, milk teeth (not the foam ones - I hated foam sweets - the dusty ones) cola laces, white mice.

You can still buy most of these - as I say my sense of nostalgia comes from the fact that they no longer appeal to me.