Retro Candy

mmmmmm....I just had a Sugar Daddy sucker.

What's your childhood favorite?

rootbeer barrels

It changed. I loved the Sweet Tarts. At another point, the Charleston Chew was my favorite. Swedish Fish, but those were a real treat, I could only find them at a country store in Pennsylvania when I was a kid. A penny each.

Pixie stix are good too.

Goldbergs peanut chews
Dots
Jujubes
Mary Janes

Actually, the list would be shorter if I only named the ones I didn't like.

Sweet Tarts, Spree, and Lemonheads.

You know what I haven't had in a while?

No Flint what haven't you had in a while?

ask pooka - don't be bringing that to the candy thread. :P

I would kill for a snickers bar.

Goddamn diet.

i always liked the Star Bar, Whatchamacallit, and Charleston Chew

Mojo!

lumberjim;663656 wrote:

i always liked the Star Bar, Whatchamacallit, and Charleston Chew

Cock?

Candy cigarettes, whistle pops, cow tails, and the big chewy sweet tarts.

What were those lil wax bottles filled with syrup called?

Not sure what the wax bottles were called, but they sell them in the candy store here! As well as a package full of old treats called "I remember" or "remember when" its got all kinds of old favs in it. I think its somethng like $25 for the big bag full.

lil wax bottles filled with syrup :)

I loved Maryjane and yes it was candy first! LOL

None when I was a child execpt chocolate...

Now, my favorite is still chocolate, mostly black... and Fisherman's Friend Original

95% dark chocolate and Fisherman's Friend, now there's a taste combo not for the faint of heart!

Here is Mecca

speaking of mecca, I loved necco wafers too.

squirell nutkin;663814 wrote:

I loved necco wafers too.

I never understood how anyone could like those things. Somebody would be eating them and offer them to me, and I would know that they were no good, but think that maybe I just forgot or was wrong before. I'd try one and they still would taste like paste.

haha. I was never a paste eater in grade school. I liked the soft dissolving texture of neccos

Neccos have been around since the civil war. maybe they even caused the civil war...

Brianna;663827 wrote:

Neccos have been around since the civil war. maybe they even caused the civil war...

No, that was Negro Wafers

classicman;663709 wrote:

What were those lil wax bottles filled with syrup called?

Jaydaan;663716 wrote:

Not sure what the wax bottles were called, but they sell them in the candy store here! As well as a package full of old treats called "I remember" or "remember when" its got all kinds of old favs in it. I think its somethng like $25 for the big bag full.

Nirvana;663717 wrote:

lil wax bottles filled with syrup :)

I loved Maryjane and yes it was candy first! LOL

Nik-L-Nips ... which sounds vaguely dirty, and I don't recommend searching from your work computer when you only remember the "nips" part of the name.

Spexxvet;663850 wrote:

No, that was Negro Wafers

:D

I love Necco wafers. And root beer barrels.

And Werther's Originals.

I can't stand anything gummy, except black licorice or jellybeans.

I loved Zero bars when they first came out. Now I can't stomach one.

Juicy Fruit gum. It pisses me off now, it's all food-colored yellow. Why the hell does it have to be a color all of a sudden?

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).

Like candy much there wolf? ;)

wolf;663978 wrote:

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.

Cherry Lips.

wood eye! wood eye!

wolf;663978 wrote:

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.

Oh! I forgot: Tootsie rolls:)

wolf wrote:

Rock candy

I went over to a friend's house last night, and she had a necklace that looked like a big piece of rock candy. It was some quartz or something her husband found in a box o' stuff and she made it into a necklace. I told her it looked like rock candy, and everyone agreed. It was pretty cool. :)

Good that it was made of actual rocks, otherwise her neck would get pretty sticky, especially in the summer.

My friend's kids love those candy necklaces on the stretchy cord ... they wear them and chew the candy beads off them at the same time. I was too fastidious of a kid to do that.

I have one of those necklaces in my fridge at home...thanks for reminding me! I'll have it for dinner.

Grape Licorice Laces.

After searching fruitlessly for years, I finally found a couple sources.

I didn't care so much about the powdered candy, I just thought the sticks tasted really good, vanilla-y, I think.

It looks like a pregnancy test in this picture but I assure you it's a Lik-m-stix. Now they call them Fun Dip. Fun Dip, is that supposed to sound better than Lik-m-stix? :p:

Shawnee123;664179 wrote:

I have one of those necklaces in my fridge at home...thanks for reminding me! I'll have it for dinner.

:lol:

you slay me....

I always liked red hot dollars, which were red chewy candy discs that taste like cherry vanilla. Now they make them with cinnamin. Ugh. Also used to like edible lipstick. It was chalky cherry flavoed pure sugar, and it tasted wonderful. Had to eat it in private tho, and weash it off after, because eating it made it look like you had lipstick on. Good way to get your ass kicked. OK, I'm done.

monster;664298 wrote:

:lol:

you slay me....

I ate one of each color and put it back in the fridge. :3eye:

My older brother stops at the dollar store almost every sunday for little toys or things to give our nieces, and he usually remembers sis, too. :)

We used to get those as kids. I think they were called DibDabs here?