A puzzle I worked a few minutes ago got me thinking of all the old candy and stuff we used to get at the movies when I was little. That prompted me to do a web search on some of the items I could recall to see if anybody had attempted a definitive listing of such things.
I got one hit:
There there’s a featured article:
Candy Bars That I Have Known
by Tommy Towery
Class of '64
And here’s his list:
100 Grand Bar
Almond Joy
Baby Ruth
Bar None
Bit-O-Honey
Black Cow
Boston Baked Beans
Brach’s Coconut pink, white, brown (Coconut Grove?)
Bubble Gum Cigars
Butterfinger
Butternut
Candy Cigarettes
Charleston Chew
Charms
Cherry Mash
Chick-O-Stick
Chocolate Babies
Chuckles
Chunky
Clark Bar
Fifth Avenue Bar
Forever Yours
Good ‘n Plenty
Goo-Goo Clusters
Heath Bar
Hershey Bar
Hershey Bar with nuts
Hollywood Bar
JuJuBes
Junior Mints
Life Savers
Long Boy Kraut
M and M’s
Mallow Cup
Marathon Bar
Mars Bar
Mike & Ike
Milk Duds
Milkshake
Milky Way
Mounds
Mr. Goodbar
Necco Wafers
Nestle Chocolate Bar
Nestle Crunch
Now & Later
Oh Henry
Payday
Powerhouse
Raisinetes
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Rolo
Royal Flush
Seven-Up Bar
Skybar
Slow Poke
Snickers
Sno Caps
Sugar Babies
Sugar Daddy
Surprize Box
Three Musketeers
Tootsie Roll
Tootsie Roll Pops
Turkish Taffy
Valomilk Bars
Walnettos
Zagnut
Zero
What can you add to the list? Do you have another website that tries to itemize such treats from your past?
Here is a cover of singer Dave Mason’s New Crest on an Old Wave.
A while back, I was in a TGIF, one of many restaurant chains with various artifacts and relics of Americana adorning the walls, I look up and see this painting. However, it’s not touting Mason’s album, but a candy called “Chewy Fruit.” The wording said, “I’m ready to fight for my Chew Fruit chocolate.” Then there was something about “Allen Confections,” which could have been a local manufacturer.
I can’t be the ony one that remembers and loved PB Max, that was one GOOOOOD candy bar, just one and you go into peanut butter overload, the current Reeses Big Cup is close, but it can’t compare to the glory that was the PB Max!
That’s a pretty comprehensive list but how about gum… Anybody remember Teabury (sp?) and BlackJack gums? Teabury was clove flavored, BlackJack was black licorice.
Chunkys are still around, but only in the original with raisins flavor, which I don’t care for. For a while you could get them just with nuts, which were great
But my ultimate, only-time-travel-obtainable junk food would be the Toast’em Animals, of which the Peanut Butter Buffaloes were the supreme toaster pastry ever humanly devised.
Swee-Tarts. Not the things they market now under that name, which are hard as rocks, concave on both sides, come in a roll and taste completely different. I mean the original, smaller, lens-shaped Swee-Tarts, sold in a foil envelope.
Nik-L-Nip. Actually used to cost a nickel when I was a kid.
Chum gum. Can’t find a picture of what I remember, a blue wrapper with two sticks of bubble gum - one for you and one for your chum.
Klein Bar. Again no picture, maybe a regional thing. A “B” grade chocolate bar, not as well-regarded as Hershey’s or Nestle’s.
Rollos. Note the two L’s (it’s not Rolo chocolate covered caramel). Candy coated chocolate, like a giant M&M, maybe an inch in diameter and a quarter-inch thick. I only remember seeing them at a movie theater (damn near choked to death on one during “Ben Hur”).
