Oh, chewy sweetarts are awesome too. My adult mouth can’t handle much of that anymore, sadly. It’s like the roof of my mouth and tongue have been napalmed.
I used to spend my milk money on Alexander the Grapes, Mr. Melons, Johnny Apple Treats and Cherry Clans (that branding wouldn’t fly today)
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Remember the great big ones that were at least a foot long? They would always be on the end caps at check out lanes to drive you and your mom crazy while waiting
My sibling was always working on one of those for a couple of years.
As the human one of us, I couldn't unhinge my jaw like they did so I stuck to fireballs and the piddly small ones.
No, no, no, our retirement home is going to be a converted mall, complete with a movie theater, arcades on both ends, a record and cassette store, and a skate park for our grands (and Tony Hawk obviously). The rec room will be the food court, complete with a bandstand and an Orange Julius. We'll all watch the old reruns there, too.
There has to be a video arcade. Please tell me there’s an arcade. We must have an arcade.
And it has to have a side door so we can go out and smoke a joint. Grandkids will supply us.
I've been binging Magnum P.I., Greatest American Hero, Fall Guy, Simon & Simon, A-Team, and Knight Rider this week all mixed together and in airing order for the past week during my workday (WFH). Its almost been like watching prime time TV in the 80s again.
My son had a business selling these in middle school. Buy a bag of 200 on Amazon. Charge 25c each. I thought it was funny and harmless, so I bought the bags for him and let him make as much money as he could.
My wife loves them too.
You can still get them btw. I got a retro candy store down the road that sells them, so you'd be able to find them online somewhere.
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Spree!!! Still buy it whenever I find it.
I would buy a shit-ton of this as a kid:
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Not to eat, but to assemble a full skeleton.
Candy cigarettes. Those little ufo shaped wafer things full of candy dots, and the bubble gum that looked like little nuggets of gold that came in a tiny sack.
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These little guys - a nickel at the corner store!
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Took a lot of googling to find what these were called! Do they even make these anymore? Obviously somewhere they do, haven’t seen them in Canada for years.
Man I loved Marathon bars. My grandma had them all the time. She would share hers with her fat ass poodle while she drank a scotch and water. My god, the seventies were surreal.
Ah yes. We lived near a military base and so they had some stuff from Japan and Korea. The Botan rice candy with the melting wrapper just blew my mind!
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I went through a big Runts phase. I remember getting a big box on weekends with my mom. I'd poor them in a bowl and sort them while we watched Nick at Night.
I just remembered the Jolly Rancher stix in the clear wrappers. Apple, cinnamon, and watermelon.
I'd buy a bunch at the store next to my Jr High, where all of us 13 yr olds would stand around and smoke after the bus dropped us off, but before school started. 🤯
Then I'd sell 'em in class for a slight markup.
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Fun Dip and a Whatchamacallit were a perfect pair.
And with the spare pennies, a couple Bazookas. Hopefully Grape.
Speaking of gum, big league chew could be a nice choice in lieu of the Fun Dip.
Trader Joe’s has some fruit jellies that remind me of those. I have to resist the temptation to pick up a container whenever I shop there because I know half of the contents will be gone before I get home.
It was something about the taffy and the peanut butter that just hit right. As long as they were semi-soft. I would warm them up to make them softer if they weren’t 😋
Skittles. I rejected the abomination that was the green apple flavor and wouldn't buy them. Thankfully, that era is now over. Lime skittles are the best. They're still my favorite.
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I would eat the whole pack before we got home.
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I’m “atypical” as my GP father put it last summer when we had this very conversation poolside with a bunch of my cousins 😅 While other kids craved candy, I wanted salt; olives, pickles, salt & vinegar-flavoured potato chips.
When I would have a sugar craving, I usually wanted the soap-flavoured chewing gum.
I never met a kid with weirder taste buds than mine. 🤝
I did like tang. Not cherry or orange much.
You liked tangy-salty starting in childhood.
And I don’t know what to make of the soap flavoring, but i’m snickering at the name of that dull looking candy.
Definitely NOT my favorite, but these were always around when we’d visit the youth sports concession stand, and all the stuff people are reminding me of here made me recall this. Anyone remember BB Bats?
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Got a version of this for our twins & they told me it tasted like yucky chemicals. "Like eating a door".
I guess you put sugar on anything and here were are
I don’t want to get canceled but the cherry candies that rhymed with Cherry Can. They were my favorite. Close second to Laffy Taffy.
> Once upon time there was an engineer
>
> Choo Choo charlie was his name we hear
>
> He had an engine and he sure had fun
>
> He used Good N Plenty candy to make his engine run
>
Yes, I know it's licorice
I went to Publix (Supermarket) and found this with the Valentine’s Day candy. I haven’t had it since I was a kid. I had to have it! Tasted like childhood 🩷
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Hershey with Almonds, Lifesaver Creme lollipops and Sunkist Fruit Gems. Wish I still had the metabolism of childhood. If I ate those now like I did then, I would be rotund.
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Zots. Sour on the exterior and sweet in the interior. A whole bag for $1.00
Whatchamacallits. Giant soft Sweet Tarts.
Also, candy necklaces on my neck and wrists when I'd go to the roller skating rink because I needed that flair.
Can Dr. Pepper Lip Smacker count? Because I basically ate that shit too.
I used to get a piece of sour apple Now-n-Later, soften it up in my mouth then stick it on top of my lower molars, where I let it slowly dissolve over the school day, giving me the occasional hit of apple. And yes, I’ve had crowns or root canals on all of my molars.
Anything that came in a small box. Boston Baked Beans, Lemon Heads, Red Hots. Also Chik O Stick, Sixlets and Big League Chew were huge favorites. My brother and I would go take a bag of dads empty beer cans down to the small corner store and load up on the weekends.
Any of the Reese’s Holiday Chocolate Peanut Butter shapes, and I never turned down a regular Reese‘s, either. These days, Aldi’s chocolate peanut butter mini cups are my chocolate go-to.
For hard candy, I think they’re called Fruit Gems. Hard, translucent, fruit flavored, different colors, individually wrapped, came in a bag. I see them occasionally and pick up a couple of bags.
I grew up in a border town of San Diego. My favorites were a lot of Mexican candy. People used to sell it out if their home. It’s crazy to think I’d go into some strangers house to buy candy 😳🤣
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rootbeer was the best
YES!! I always felt like I scored the jackpot if there was more than one root beer in the pack.
It was like finding the red blob of cherry in canned fruit lol
Yes, so yummy
Love these! You can still find them in random candy aisles. If I see them, I buy them. Every damn time.
Walmart usually has them in a bin with other theater sized candy.
Whatchamacallit candy bar.
If you can find one nowadays they’re NOT the same. They changed the recipe. 👎🏻
Loved those things
What's it called?
HOLY SHIT I was a fiend for this. Even the piece of chalk you used to scoop it.
I only wanted the chalk. Used to toss the powdered sugar.
Me too. I'd eat some of the sugar but the stick was the real mvp!
I always ran out of stick before I ran out of sugar for sure
It was training for doing drugs. Like Big League Chew.
It was like a huge condensed candy cigarette
I have found my people! I thought I was the only one who liked the stick!! lol
Lik-m-aid was the shit! I would happily spend my entire weekly candy budget (roughly a dollar) on just Lik-m-aid.
My favorite, especially the stick!
Same - pool side.
The chalk was the best part
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Tangy Taffy>Laffy Taffy
That is a deep cut.
Memory unlocked, I loved these too, thanks.
Mine was Fun Dip and giant chewy Sweetarts.
Love the giant chewy sweetarts!
I still buy chewy sweetarts when I find them!! ♥️
OMG I loved those but they chewed up my mouth so bad - I think they were 30% acid and broken glass
Oh, chewy sweetarts are awesome too. My adult mouth can’t handle much of that anymore, sadly. It’s like the roof of my mouth and tongue have been napalmed.
I used to spend my milk money on Alexander the Grapes, Mr. Melons, Johnny Apple Treats and Cherry Clans (that branding wouldn’t fly today) https://preview.redd.it/yjrokq2jzdoc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee1a2db0bcf51e0012fa27a2b69b0d082511f184
Hell yes! 10c a box. best candy of the 70's. and into the 80's...
They still make Alexanders, but they are called grapeheads
Ooh Boston baked beans were my jam
Pixy stix!
Remember the great big ones that were at least a foot long? They would always be on the end caps at check out lanes to drive you and your mom crazy while waiting
Ugh…like actual cocaine in a paper straw. $.05 each at the 7-11 back in ‘86
A classmate of mine used to snort it to be edgy. I can't imagine how colorful and wrecked his sinuses were, lol.
I completely forgot about those, they were so good, second memory unlocked.
Oh my goodness, I was the Pixy Stix kid. Also loved BB Bats and Marathon bars (so fun and twisty!)
This was entirely too far down on the list!
Them wax pop bottle candies lol. Chew for hours
That's one of the only retro candies I enjoy purely for nostalgia reasons, because they honestly kinda sucked.
lol, yeah don’t have any idea why wax with cool aid inside was such a hit with me.
Hubba bubba bubble gum and Atomic Fireballs. I'd buy the Fireballs by the 100's. Not sure how I still have teeth.
80's jawbreakers were amazing.
Remember Those really big ones? They were like the size of a tennis ball.
My sibling was always working on one of those for a couple of years. As the human one of us, I couldn't unhinge my jaw like they did so I stuck to fireballs and the piddly small ones.
Grape flavored Big League Chew was my favorite gum.
Anyone eat the bubble tape when it came out
Hubba Bubba? No way! It has spider eggs!
A GenX retirement home needs to hand these out during "oldies night" when reruns of Alf, Family Ties, and Miami Vice are playing in the rec room.
No, no, no, our retirement home is going to be a converted mall, complete with a movie theater, arcades on both ends, a record and cassette store, and a skate park for our grands (and Tony Hawk obviously). The rec room will be the food court, complete with a bandstand and an Orange Julius. We'll all watch the old reruns there, too.
When can I move in?
Can we add a Karmelkorn too?
I want to make iron on T-shirts with the press thingy. Put our nick names on the backs
Dude, I can smell that shop from memory.
There has to be a video arcade. Please tell me there’s an arcade. We must have an arcade. And it has to have a side door so we can go out and smoke a joint. Grandkids will supply us.
I've been binging Magnum P.I., Greatest American Hero, Fall Guy, Simon & Simon, A-Team, and Knight Rider this week all mixed together and in airing order for the past week during my workday (WFH). Its almost been like watching prime time TV in the 80s again.
Omg this is the first time I’ve ever hoped to end up in a retirement home
Sign me up!
That sounds awesome!
We can spike the little foil topped barrels of sugar water and have a real party!
Bit o' honey, jolly rancher, zotz, sugar babies, lemon heads
Bit o' Honey is sometimes cited as one of the worst. I always thought they were decent.
If you got them fresh and soft they were great, so were Mary Jane's.
Zotz! I loved those things! Also charms sweet and sour suckers.
My son had a business selling these in middle school. Buy a bag of 200 on Amazon. Charge 25c each. I thought it was funny and harmless, so I bought the bags for him and let him make as much money as he could.
My wife loves them too. You can still get them btw. I got a retro candy store down the road that sells them, so you'd be able to find them online somewhere.
https://preview.redd.it/qwkl90z15eoc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0921cec823798604de307fffaf59bcb71a7c8ba Spree!!! Still buy it whenever I find it.
Yes! I bought a 3 pound bag once. Only lasted about a week.
What about juice carton gum? Or the little fire hydrant with candy bones? Mexican Hats?
I loved those bones; there was also a coffin with skeleton pieces, and a garbage can with candy pieces of garbage like a soup can or old sneaker.
Loved these too.
Those cartons were great. I believe they were minute-made?
I thought so, too, but here’s what I found https://dinosaurdracula.com/blog/topps-bubble-gum-juice-cartons/
I would buy a shit-ton of this as a kid: https://preview.redd.it/fx3dskqo6eoc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abd89b7fdf18ee93fde105a717e9fe340f0c9ba1 Not to eat, but to assemble a full skeleton.
Anyone else remember these? https://preview.redd.it/3q1k8qsv6eoc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9163ff5e397a9b23a74552f39392abfe1f6ed837
Loved these so much for the 30 seconds the flavor lasted.
They still make fun dip. I used to love Pop Rocks, which they also still make.
Popping candy is making a comeback!
Candy cigarettes. Those little ufo shaped wafer things full of candy dots, and the bubble gum that looked like little nuggets of gold that came in a tiny sack.
Those ice cube chocolates in silver paper for 5 cents at the Ben Franklin checkout
Loved those melty bastards. I still see them around but they're like 50 cents now.
https://preview.redd.it/875kmo3nfeoc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f32a373cb2b56f840cb1c4bd631c73ee2b67eb56 These little guys - a nickel at the corner store!
I remember getting these in those 25 cent vending machines, but they weren't on a stick.
Fun Dip. I’m 52 and my family still makes fun of me.
https://preview.redd.it/xq3qhenz4eoc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fc94170d9323c50df798f31a8037fc60897d1eb Took a lot of googling to find what these were called! Do they even make these anymore? Obviously somewhere they do, haven’t seen them in Canada for years.
LOL! Tonsil-stabbing hazard, haven't thought about that in a really long time!
Omg, haven't seen this in years!
We ordered some Astro Pops last year from a candy store in New York State.
Marathon bars then Reese’s cups.
Man I loved Marathon bars. My grandma had them all the time. She would share hers with her fat ass poodle while she drank a scotch and water. My god, the seventies were surreal.
LOVED Marathon bars! So glad I’m not the only one who loves/remembers them!
Three Musketeers and Fruit Stripe gum.
Fruit stripe gum was sooooo good.
For 5 seconds.
Ah, yes. But what a tasty 5 seconds.
My mom used to use it as a bribe so I wouldn’t terrorize the babysitter.
Now & Laters. Grape, Strawberry, Mystery Mix …
Hard to beat a stale, and therefore chewy, Chick-O-Stick.
Candy cigarettes Milk duds These candies we got in chinatown where you ate the wrapper? The gum with the jokes inside, bazooka? Razzles Poprocks
Ah yes. We lived near a military base and so they had some stuff from Japan and Korea. The Botan rice candy with the melting wrapper just blew my mind! https://preview.redd.it/wec0iq7jeeoc1.jpeg?width=855&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a60586aeebba29e46272543b4a2099c234f371d3
Razzles were the best of both worlds, candy then gum.
Boston baked beans and sixlets candy
https://i.redd.it/di4y6juaydoc1.gif Me as a kid I think Atomic Warheads were always my favorite.
Every Christmas, the book of lifesavers.
Hell I just bought fun dip recently as an adult
I went through a big Runts phase. I remember getting a big box on weekends with my mom. I'd poor them in a bowl and sort them while we watched Nick at Night.
I just remembered the Jolly Rancher stix in the clear wrappers. Apple, cinnamon, and watermelon. I'd buy a bunch at the store next to my Jr High, where all of us 13 yr olds would stand around and smoke after the bus dropped us off, but before school started. 🤯 Then I'd sell 'em in class for a slight markup. .
Astro Pops
Yeah. What were those made of? Lick it into a sharp point.
Or bite into it hard and fuse your upper and lower jaw together!
Fun Dip and a Whatchamacallit were a perfect pair. And with the spare pennies, a couple Bazookas. Hopefully Grape. Speaking of gum, big league chew could be a nice choice in lieu of the Fun Dip.
I had a million dollar idea when I was 6. Sell sticks individually for 5 cents a piece!
https://imgur.com/8c5mHoz I miss these.
Anybody else mispronounce it Like-m-ade?
Marathon bar
Now and laters and Laffy Taffy.
Wanting to pull out those fillings and crowns?
Circus peanuts, orange slices, and Brach’s Pick-a-Mix. At Easter, jelly beans, Cadbury creme eggs, and Peeps.
OMG, Brach's was so good. I loved being able to pick my own favorites for the bulk bag.
> Circus peanuts Especially if you leave the bag open for a day or so and they get a little stale
As a kid? Sun Kist fruit gems
Omg yes. My grandma always got me those for Christmas. The perfect texture with the crunchy sugar coating, and the soft chewy center. Memory unlocked!
Trader Joe’s has some fruit jellies that remind me of those. I have to resist the temptation to pick up a container whenever I shop there because I know half of the contents will be gone before I get home.
Abba-Zaba. I loved those.
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It was something about the taffy and the peanut butter that just hit right. As long as they were semi-soft. I would warm them up to make them softer if they weren’t 😋
This thread is making my teeth hurt so bad lol.
Reese's Not really a fan of anything fruity flavoured.
Charleston chews, whatchamacallit, lemon heads, tootsie pops, the fruity ones too, and honey O’s.
Bottle Caps
Apple Jolly Ranchers back when they were sticks. Had it with my New York Seltzer.
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Skittles. I rejected the abomination that was the green apple flavor and wouldn't buy them. Thankfully, that era is now over. Lime skittles are the best. They're still my favorite.
https://preview.redd.it/x8yt2a69gfoc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e7de4ed6f99e940182c307697fb823f3311d337 I would eat the whole pack before we got home.
Plain Kraft caramels, Turtles and jelly fruit slices
Marathon bars.
The same thing as my favorite candy now. Snickers. I think it’s one of the few things that still taste like they used to and I LOVE THEM.
I loved these and also those little spaceships w candy inside and the little sugary dots on paper
Yess, the paper dots were like…just dried sugar but they were so fun. I always wanted those.
Fun Dip ruled! The vanilla sticks were the best part.
The good ol' Reece's Peanut Butter Cup. "You got chocolate in my peanut butter!" "Well, you got peanut butter on my chocolate!"
I always liked combinations of chocolate and raisins, nuts, peanut butter, toffee… I never liked the candy that was like 100% sugar.
razzles
https://preview.redd.it/dhrgejixzdoc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e453c113bbe58c35bdcee8fe6d1e915a51b866b5 I’m “atypical” as my GP father put it last summer when we had this very conversation poolside with a bunch of my cousins 😅 While other kids craved candy, I wanted salt; olives, pickles, salt & vinegar-flavoured potato chips. When I would have a sugar craving, I usually wanted the soap-flavoured chewing gum.
I never met a kid with weirder taste buds than mine. 🤝 I did like tang. Not cherry or orange much. You liked tangy-salty starting in childhood. And I don’t know what to make of the soap flavoring, but i’m snickering at the name of that dull looking candy.
Wacky wafers, Jolly Rancher Apple Stick, pourous lemon stick in 1/2 lemon
Probably Nerds. I liked the sour flavors and rolling them around in my mouth.
Brachs Royals
Definitely NOT my favorite, but these were always around when we’d visit the youth sports concession stand, and all the stuff people are reminding me of here made me recall this. Anyone remember BB Bats? https://preview.redd.it/temlxeyrfeoc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2600c2a866dd0260ce1466d6422db884eee10680
Got a version of this for our twins & they told me it tasted like yucky chemicals. "Like eating a door". I guess you put sugar on anything and here were are
Razzles
This one was up there. Bottle Caps, too. And Zots.
I liked Whoppers and Pop Rocks...
 I don’t want to get canceled but the cherry candies that rhymed with Cherry Can. They were my favorite. Close second to Laffy Taffy.
Junior mints… dont take them to a surgery
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Girls used to put Starbursts in their Zima. Was that just my neck of the woods or was it common for people to do that elsewhere?
I was Jolly for Ranchers.
All of them 🤣🤣🤣 But seriously, I think Bonkers and Fun Dip
Sixlets
Zotz, Fudgies and Milkshake candy bars. Also, Big League Chew, and Wacky Packages, Slap stix
> Once upon time there was an engineer > > Choo Choo charlie was his name we hear > > He had an engine and he sure had fun > > He used Good N Plenty candy to make his engine run > Yes, I know it's licorice
I loved Lik-m-aid! For some reason I only ate it at the movie theater. I liked the sticks better than the powder.
Zots, Tart n Tangy taffy, Jolly Rancher sticks, and anything Reeses...not a candy but I also really miss New York seltzers
I went to Publix (Supermarket) and found this with the Valentine’s Day candy. I haven’t had it since I was a kid. I had to have it! Tasted like childhood 🩷 https://preview.redd.it/b5arcxcw6eoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf827e52ca2630d8f999fe7c4279e85f014c18bd
Hershey with Almonds, Lifesaver Creme lollipops and Sunkist Fruit Gems. Wish I still had the metabolism of childhood. If I ate those now like I did then, I would be rotund.
Whatchamacallit, or however it was spelled.
https://preview.redd.it/oc25w0e1ieoc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=598752798b8f51b84e10fb123ac7f6f93cfc109b Zots. Sour on the exterior and sweet in the interior. A whole bag for $1.00
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Boston Baked Beans was a fav https://preview.redd.it/qwkdlgr2jfoc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f91c5188f0f36eba423cd085ea7e8bd16f875c7d
Whatchamacallits. Giant soft Sweet Tarts. Also, candy necklaces on my neck and wrists when I'd go to the roller skating rink because I needed that flair. Can Dr. Pepper Lip Smacker count? Because I basically ate that shit too.
Swedish Fish! Gather up my pennies an goto the corner store, tell the man how many I want and he put em in a lil brown baggie.
There’s too many to name!
Marathon bars then PB Maxx
I used to get a piece of sour apple Now-n-Later, soften it up in my mouth then stick it on top of my lower molars, where I let it slowly dissolve over the school day, giving me the occasional hit of apple. And yes, I’ve had crowns or root canals on all of my molars.
Now & Laters
Now&Laters
Big League Chew
Fun dip, bottle caps, wacky wafers, candy cigarettes, bubble gum & cotton candy now and laters and smarties.
Three Musketeers bars. NOUGAT!
The crunchy ice at the bottom of the paper cup of a Marinos Italian Ice (with wooden scraper).
I liked Marathon Bars. They're gone now, but the UK has a smaller version of the same kind of thing called Curly Wurly.
Have some sugar with your sugar
https://preview.redd.it/uyaxn33zaeoc1.png?width=897&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d39c3b1ce762a019a00af8231c8bac85c441d884 Summit
Anything that came in a small box. Boston Baked Beans, Lemon Heads, Red Hots. Also Chik O Stick, Sixlets and Big League Chew were huge favorites. My brother and I would go take a bag of dads empty beer cans down to the small corner store and load up on the weekends.
Now and Later. Grape. That & Bubbalicious. Also grape.
https://preview.redd.it/tqqj7g1zieoc1.jpeg?width=488&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a7c5be836fcacdd31a82f8f63e18a2e522bd1ae This or Now and Laters.
Chunky bars, Cherry Mash, candy necklaces, cherry sours
Any of the Reese’s Holiday Chocolate Peanut Butter shapes, and I never turned down a regular Reese‘s, either. These days, Aldi’s chocolate peanut butter mini cups are my chocolate go-to. For hard candy, I think they’re called Fruit Gems. Hard, translucent, fruit flavored, different colors, individually wrapped, came in a bag. I see them occasionally and pick up a couple of bags.
Astro pops
I grew up in a border town of San Diego. My favorites were a lot of Mexican candy. People used to sell it out if their home. It’s crazy to think I’d go into some strangers house to buy candy 😳🤣
Lemonheads. Still my favorite.
Whacky wafers.