A.R., I’ll keep my eyes peeled for your Lemon Jumble cookies.
I found a Spudnut shop on the web, about 220 miles from my sister’s place - YEEHAW!
(I wonder if she even knows it’s there…and would she drive all day for the sake of her little bro?) Unfortunately they don’t offer them for sale over the internet.
There is a couple more items from my childhood that I must mention. The problem is, I can’t remember the exact names, but I can give a pretty good description.
Both are bubblegum cards.
They didn’t have sports figures on them though. The first had comical pictures of sort of Big-Daddy-Roth(ish) race cars/drivers.
The other ones were like something from MAD magazine, with product parodies on 'em. (Like Skimpy Peanut Butter, Gyppy-Pop popcorn, Crust toothpaste)
Any help out there?
Yep, the vanilla Turkish Taffy. NOT the chocolate or banana. That was only for when the drugstore was out of vanilla. Put it in the freezer til it’s hard. Take it outside and whack it on the sidewalk. Put the razor sharp shards in your mouth and work them around til they soften. Then lick your finger and mush it in the wrapper so you get every last little bit.
These are probably all still available, I just can’t get 'em easily.
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I’m only 14, but I miss the good, old BONKERS!. Those were the greatest things imaginable. The orange were the best, followed by the cherry/strawberry (I forget which) and then grape. Last was Watermelon, because for some reason watermelon ones were always rock hard, while the rest were nicer and taffylike. I would do anything to have a nice package of those. And you can’t forget the light outside ring with the dark center.
Oh, and welcome to the boards exchicagoan. I hope you enjoy your stay and make some new friends :). I’m kinda an unliked backround figure here, so don’t mind me too much.
There are many things in this thread I can find easily around here. That trading ring doesn’t sound half bad…
And Speaker, I loved Bonkers! The orange ones were the best! The grape ones always left a waxy feeling in my mouth, though!
Bonkers were a type of candy (obviously). They were rectangular cubes of chewy, almost taffy-like fruity goodness. They were lighter in color on the outside than on the inside–you could see because the ends were done like cross-sections. They came in a pack like Life-Savers but the pack was square/rectangular. These were popular in the early to mid-80s. In the commercials, huge fruits would fall from the sky and “bonk” old people on the head. I have no idea how else to explain them!
Name Droppers
Pixie Stix
Razzle Dazzle
Sweet Tarts
Gum Cigars
Fizzies(root beer was the worst!)
I ALSO knew that it was named after Reggie jckson
Scratch1300: I want my bonus points:
Those were called Chu Bops(albums gum)
And the Knack’s two songs were My Sharona dn Good Girls Don’t (But I Do)
Ta da!
candy cigs. Yep liked em. But I LOVED chocolate cigarettes!
Another mention of Buffalo, New York here, even though I don’t live there anymore. You can still get most Coke and Pepsi products in 16 ounce glass bottles there, for some reason.
Strangely, you don’t see Canadian Coke on supermarket shelves in Buffalo, although you see Mexican Coke in the supermarkets of El Paso and Las Cruces. What gives?
Walnetos, Mary Janes, and Necco Wafers. This last, I’ve seen but not when I’ve had time to stop, and then I forget where they are sold. I still make hard candy from boiled syrup every winter, but the youngsters don’t like it because I add coffee.
Something else I remembered, after seeing the mention of “Pixie Stix:” Our neighborhood store had a product called “Lik-m-Aid,” whose cover depicted a Peter Pan-like character pouring the envelope’s contents into his mouth. An evelope cost 1¢, and it was available in various flavors. I’d take it home and pour a glass of water in the kitchen, add the Lik-m-Aid envelope’s contents along with a teaspoon of sugar, stir it, and have my own personal serving of Kool-Aid. (Once my father came into the kitchen when I was doing this, saw me, and bellowed, "He is playing, He is PLAYING!!" Scared me out of the room. Good God, did he want me to drink beer or wine instead, like he did? I was about 8 at the time.)
I’ve forgotten how they’re spelled, it’s been so long, but Toffey-Fay. I see 'em occasionally. “Toffey-Fay, they’re too good for kids!”
And, not candy, but one other thing I DESPERATELY miss: Shedd’s sauce. They renamed it “Aunt Nellie’s Old Style Sauce” and you could find it around once in a while, but I haven’t seen it in years (even in the stores that used to carry it) so I must face the sad fact that it’s gone.
We haven’t kilt this thread yet have we?
I just wanted to say I found something today that a few of you might find interesting: candies they still make
I also saw ‘Laffy Taffy’ today, so the stuff I was talking about earlier, is something else. I seem to remember an affiliation with the Archies characters…but I might be getting that part wrong too.
Arden Ranger, I’m still watching for those Jackson’s Lemon Jumble cookies!
Last I heard, NECCO went bankrupt in 2018 and stopped making them, then someone bought the factory and said they’d bring them back. But now I see that Amazon has bought the factory for a warehouse/fulfillment center.
Glad I stocked up back in '18. My horde’s been getting me through the quarantine: “Geez, I really want something sweet… That’s it, I’m going to cheat and march into a convenience store and buy a dozen donuts!.. or, I could pop a chalky wafer and bliss out. And forget all about going to the store.”
Just curious if there is a record for longest gap between posts, because 19 years has to be up there. Meanwhile, I still miss Ghirardelli flicks in the cardboard tubes with the colored foil ( they resurrected them several years ago but they were made by a different company and were not at all the same).