Preach it. The original five flavor ones are good, but Butter Rum is divine.
And available from Amazon in a 20-pack. You’re welcome. Although order with caution; the comments say that these could be old. But does it matter? Does hard candy go bad?
I haven’t seen them at checkouts in a long time, but I just saw huge packages of five-flavor rolls at Sam’s Club. As other posters have observed, they ain’t the same five flavors they used to be.
I NEED Butter Rum! I have not been able to find them lately.
At an educated guess, they’ve been pushed aside by the legions of other breath-minty candy things. There is nothing so precious as a foot of grocery story shelf, and if tastes have turned away from grandpa’s pocket candies to New Kewl Hipster Breath-Blaster Beads in “Cosmos” flavor… that explains it.
But yeah, I’d knock down a grandma to get to some Butter Rums, myself.
Those things are so tasty!
Of course they are. They’re half sugar, half salt, half preservatives and half market-tested artificial flavorings. Utterly and literally irresistable. Truly, a wonder of food science.
The books are not the same - they are only half-full now. Bastids!
That reminds me, is there some switch in your head that automatically goes off when you turn 65 and makes you like Butter Rum Lifesavers, Werther’s Butterscotches, pink wintergreen drops, black licorice, and other “old man candies”? I swear my father had little to no interest in those candies until he hit his 60s. After that, he couldn’t get enough of them.
Well, I’ll let you know when I get there. I’ve always liked Butter Rum, licorice and good butterscotch candies, and my dad had a roll of pink wintergreens with him at all times, much younger than 65. Maybe it’s a generational thing we’re misperceiving. There are almost certainly a lot of marketing issues involved; the stuff that’s popular now didn’t exist a few years ago, and the turnover in that market is much faster.
Oh how I loved Clove lifesavers. Any truth to the rumor this flavor is still available in Canada?
It depends what you mean by “go bad”. I don’t see how age could make them unsafe, but they certainly can get crumbly, taste funny, and just generally be less enjoyable if they’re too old.
I had forgotten all about them until I read your comment. Remember the Tropical Fruit flavored rolls? They were the best, I loved the coconut and pineapple flavors best. Pastel pinks, creams & yellows. Yum! I haven’t seen them in YEARS! Now I have recently become addicted to the ButterRum flavor, after buying some at Five Below in their Retro Candy area. That’s when I realized that they no longer sell them in any other stores. I went back and bought the entire box of 10 rolls, but they never restocked them after that. So I guess I will be trying Amazon, or another online candy supplier. I’ve realized that no other candy tastes quite like ButterRum. I’ve tried butterscotch & caramels, but they are not as good. ButterRum is a unique flavor. Why don’t stores stock them anymore? I’d buy them instead of gum or TicTacs.
I’m not a big fan of the fruity Lifesavers, but Butter Rum and Pep-O-Mint are two of my absolute favorite “pocket candies.” I have definitely noticed how hard the rolls are to find; I bought a tin full of them as a Christmas clearance item just because the rolls are so hard to find.
Things went downhill fast after lime was replaced with (gag) watermelon.
Don’t forget those awful spearmint leaves.
Are those the green sugar-coated candies?
I think they’re those vaguely leaf-shaped jelly-candies that are green and covered in sugar.
http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/nice!-spearmint-leaves-candy/ID=prod6108479-product
Apparently everyone is chewing gum now. Yeech.
Another vote for clove candies! I also like anise and violet, though, so I’m weird.
They make nice survival food, since pure sugar more or less never goes bad. I think there’s a backlash vs sugar… so they just hide it as HFCS now.
Here in south eastern PA, we have them in all our grocery stores and Wal-marts.