Any Mike and Ike candy fans?

Cafe Society
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I admit that I love Mike & Ike too much.

Kroger has the boxes for a $1. I buy 4 or 5 and dump the candy into a zip lock bag. I like eating them separately. Two or three greens or reds etc. I generally don’t like mixing the flavors. I do the same thing with life savers.

I don’t eat many jelly beans but I like Mike & Ike.

Any one else a fan of this candy?

2

Love 'em. My favorite JustBorn candies of all-time are Cherri & Bubb, though, which I don’t think they make anymore.

3

I like them, but I’ve given up carbohydrates. Mrs. L.A. likes them, and I got her a big box from Cash & Carry a couple of months ago.

4

My kids would agree with you. We used to get them only at the mall out of those candy dispensers, but once I realized you could get them for $1 a box at the store, it has been our only way of getting them.

Great candy, should be more popular. What is it that makes them better/different than jelly beans?

5

No licorice flavor.

6

Liquorice is the best flavour!

7

They’re good. I get a box every now and then. The best thing about them is they still have LIME!

Does anyone know why the U.S. candy industry has by and large abandoned lime, the most awesome of the fruit flavors, for insipid apple and watermelon? Life Savers five flavor, SweetTarts, Skittles, Pixie Stix, tiny suckers from the bank- all gone!

8

I’ve noticed the Mike & Ike flavors are almost the same as the standard life saver fruit assortment. (Life savers has more variety than Mike Ike)

That’s a big reason that I buy those candies. I like those 5 flavors.

9

I stopped buying Skittles once they got rid of lime fir green apple. :face_vomiting::face_vomiting:

10

I don’t eat much candy these days but I liked Jolly Joes which were like Mike and Ikes but they were all purple. As I recall they also had Cool Kids which were mint and Hot Tamales which were hot cinnamon.

11

actually theres been dozens of mike& ike type of flavors sometimes they label them mike and ike and soemtimes they dont … …infact they even had a “banna split” edition… the effect was supposed to be that in you put all 5 flavors in your mouth at the same time it was supposed to taste like a nanna split … not quite …from wikipedia :

Varieties[edit]
Just Born produces several varieties of Mike and Ikes, including:[7][8]
Name
Package color
First available
Package type
Butter Popcorn
Yellow
2004
Box or Bag
Cherry Cola
Red
2004
Box or Bag
Original Fruits
Green
1940
Box, bag, or freezer pop
Berry Blast
Blue
1987
Box or bag
Tangy Twister
Orange
2005
Box or bag
Tropical Typhoon
Pink
1977
Box or bag
Italian Ice
Light blue
2008
Box or bag
Lemonade Blends
Yellow
2007
Box or bag
Jolly Joes
Purple
1973
Box
Zours
Yellow
1999
Box or bag
Red Rageous
Red
2009
Box or bag
Strawberry Reunion[9]
Black and pink
2013
Box
Sweet Paradise
Light Purple
2014
Box
Mega Mix
Light Blue with rainbow
2016
Box or bag
Mega Mix Sour
Light Green with rainbow
2018
Box or bag

Flavors for Mike and Ike
Retro/limited varieties include:[8][10]
Lem and Mel (Lemon and watermelon) flavor (launched 1991; reissued 2013)
Cherri and Bubb (Cherry and bubble gum) flavor (launched 1989; reissued 2013)
Strawbana (launched 1991)
Mike and Ike – Strawberries n’ Cream (launched 2000)
Mike and Ike – Oranges n’ Cream (launched 2000)
Cherry Cola (launched 2004, reissued 2016)
Buttered Popcorn (launched 2004, reissued 2016)
Mike and Ike Minion Mix – Blueberry and Banana flavors (launched 2014)
Mike and Ike Valentines Mix (Seasonal)
Mike and Ike Mummy’s Mix (Seasonal)
Mike and Ike Merry Mix (Seasonal) (launched 2015)
Mike and Ike Sundae Sweets (Limited edition)
Mike and Ike Cotton Candy (Limited edition)
Mike and Ike Rootbeer Float (Limited edition)
There are also seasonal packages for Easter in which the Mike and Ike flavors are formed as jelly beans.

right now they have a 10 flavor box … and the xmas mix on the official website and yes they still make hot tamales in various versions

12

Runts (hard candies shaped like their flavor, so banana flavor is a yellow banana shape, etc.) still has lime.

I’ll give you all of mine if I can have at least a few of your strawberry ones.

13

Yup. I don’t buy too many boxes of them. But I’ll drop a quarter in the machine at the grocery store for half a handful of them.

14

I had to have a box yesterday. Just the original ones, always great. These were a little stale, I suppose. :slight_smile: I really like the Lemonade ones, don’t see them as often when I have a craving.