# Candy and junk food from the good ole days **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718 "2009-02-20T14:41:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/1 "2009-02-20T14:41:30Z")
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: > **[Lee High School - Huntsville Alabama Alumni](http://leealumni.homestead.com/040216.html)** > > Lee High School, Huntsville, Alabama Alumni Web Site. 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? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/2 "2009-02-20T15:01:20Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Do you have another website that tries to itemize such treats from your past? I’ll go one better: [here’s a site that sells 'em!](http://www.oldtimecandy.com/) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/3 "2009-02-20T15:03:33Z")
Here’s [another site](http://www.hometownfavorites.com/shop/candy_store.asp) that sells the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/4 "2009-02-20T15:08:11Z")
Holy Shit! Space Food Sticks, peanut butter my favorite. Bummer $40.00 a box not so good. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/5 "2009-02-20T15:14:08Z")
Movie candy that I remember thaty isn’t on the list: [Dots](http://www.candyfavorites.com/pi/dot1.jpg) - they were gumdrops. [Cherry Sour balls](https://www.niftynuthouse.com/images/P/DSC_4523.jpg) - candy coated and soft on the inside [Jordan almonds](http://www.sandscripts.com/catalog/wedding/gif/jordan_almonds.jpg), and chocolate covered almonds After Willy Wonka came out in 1971, there were all the Wonka candies to choose from… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/6 "2009-02-20T15:18:36Z")
[Mary Janes](http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/images/devils_harvest2.jpg). Sorry. [Mary Janes](http://candyaddict.com/blog/candy_images/mary_jane_bag.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/7 "2009-02-20T15:28:11Z")
[Here](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VVPD1ADQL._SL500_AA240_.jpg) 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. Anyone familiar with these confectionary morsels? ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/8 "2009-02-20T16:12:16Z")
I used to luvs me some Fun-Dip. When I was kid, I could get it at the local theatres. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/9 "2009-02-20T16:14:39Z")
No love for the Reggie Bar? [http://www.candywrappermuseum.com/reggiejackson.html](http://www.candywrappermuseum.com/reggiejackson.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/10 "2009-02-20T16:16:02Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > 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. Was it the “Bazooka” clue in the New York Times crossword? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/11 "2009-02-20T16:40:09Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Was it the “Bazooka” clue in the New York Times crossword? No. It was today’s [DAILY POST - Unexpected Error](http://www.puzzability.com/cgi-bin/commonknowledge.pl) ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/12 "2009-02-20T17:49:09Z")
I can’t be the ony one that remembers and loved [PB Max](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbd-jzQU4EM), 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! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/13 "2009-02-20T17:51:15Z")
I picked up some fizzies at a specialty store a while back. They did not live up to my memory of them, by any means. Wish I could find some Danish-go-rounds or shake-a-pudding. ---
**Author:** ![HolyFreakingMoly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ba0ec/32.png) [@HolyFreakingMoly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HolyFreakingMoly)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/14 "2009-02-20T17:57:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/15 "2009-02-20T18:08:47Z")
> [@HolyFreakingMoly](#): > > 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. Good stuff! Beaman’s, too. Wasn’t there a Pepsin, or was that just plain Beaman’s? Clove was my favorite of that group. And how many bubblegums can you name after Fleer’s Dubble Bubble, Bazooka, Topps (baseball cards and such)? I know I ought to know at least two more. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/16 "2009-02-20T18:23:51Z")
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](http://www.flickr.com/photos/wafflewhiffer/3216678219/), of which the Peanut Butter Buffaloes were the supreme toaster pastry ever humanly devised. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/17 "2009-02-20T19:13:37Z")
> [@HolyFreakingMoly](#): > > Teabury was clove flavored I thought it was wintergreen. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/18 "2009-02-20T19:30:46Z")
[Nik-L-Nip](http://www.freewebs.com/bautista14/Nik%20l%20Nip.jpg). 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”). ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/19 "2009-02-20T19:49:44Z")
> [@HolyFreakingMoly](#): > > 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. > [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I thought [teaberry] was wintergreen. Actually it was teaberry flavored. Beemans was pepsin flavored, Black Jack was licorice flavored, and Clove was (surprise!) clove flavored. [Clark’s Teaberry.](http://www.oldtimeconfections.com/images/teaberry.jpg) [Beemans, Adam’s Black Jack, and Adam’s Clove.](http://www.oldtimeconfections.com/Gum/Nostalgia%20gum%20prepack.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/20 "2009-02-20T19:52:22Z")
> [@Gary\_T](#): > > Klein Bar. Again no picture, maybe a regional thing. Is that a candy bar where the inside and the outside are the same surface? 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718.md?page=2)