# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/61 "2009-02-22T14:46:40Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > I put some Smoothies in our stockings this past Christmas. How do I get on your Christmas list? Kowtows toward Altoona: “I’m not worthy! I’m not worthy!” ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/62 "2009-02-22T15:16:43Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > How do I get on your Christmas list? Send me your address. If I remember in December, I can send you some. However, there is a very good chance I’ll forget, since it’s so far away. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/63 "2009-02-22T15:33:25Z")
> [@HolyFreakingMoly](#): > > You are sure right! Now, for the life of me, I can’t call up that Teaberry flavor! I remember liking the flavor, but it was unique. I shared some with two classmates. One raved about it so much the other decided to try it. She chewed for a while, made a face and said “It’s like when you accidentally get Icy Hot in your mouth.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/64 "2009-02-22T15:59:33Z")
> [@Fionn](#): > > I remember liking the flavor, but it was unique. I shared some with two classmates. One raved about it so much the other decided to try it. She chewed for a while, made a face and said “It’s like when you accidentally get Icy Hot in your mouth.” Wow! What a thought! BenGay candy. Desenex cookies. Mentholatum chewing gum. Castor oil cake. Yummy! ---
**Author:** ![disaster503](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@disaster503](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/disaster503)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/65 "2014-10-13T18:53:41Z")
I did not see Eat More bars on any of the lists are they a Canadian product? They are still available up here in Canada ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/66 "2014-10-13T19:13:34Z")
Those candy bars from 2009 are likely to be pretty stale by now. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/67 "2014-10-13T19:42:37Z")
> [@disaster503](#): > > I did not see Eat More bars on any of the lists are they a Canadian product? > > They are still available up here in Canada Apropos of pretty much nothing, in the movie _A Clockwork Orange_, near the end, when Alex is in the hospital and his parents are coming to visit him, they bring a basket of fruit and candy. One of the candy bars is called **Eat Me** and is in the shape of a phallus. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/68 "2014-10-13T19:55:30Z")
Anyone remember Fiddle Faddle? Kind of like Cracker Jack, but bigger, and they used to have stickers in their bags. My favorite were of famous Indian chiefs, but they also did baseball players and the like. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/69 "2014-10-13T20:07:05Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Anyone remember Fiddle Faddle? > > Kind of like Cracker Jack, but bigger, and they used to have stickers in their bags. My favorite were of famous Indian chiefs, but they also did baseball players and the like. [Remember it? I see it all over the place.](http://www.conagrafoods.com/our-food/brands/fiddle-faddle-popped-popcorn) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/70 "2014-10-13T20:42:07Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Remember it? I see it all over the place.](http://www.conagrafoods.com/our-food/brands/fiddle-faddle-popped-popcorn) Hmm. Haven’t seen it in forever. (Of course I can’t eat it due to dental work so I haven’t looked, but assumed it was a relic of the Land Before Oprah.) ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/71 "2014-10-16T21:56:26Z")
Most of what I grew up with has already been mentioned. I’ll add some that I don’t think I’ve seen yet: Swedish Fish Button Strips Popcorn Balls Root Beer Barrels Popsicles in plastic tubes (there were many different brands) and here’s some that came out within my childhood (I grew up in the 70s) Hubba Bubba Big League Chew Jerky Stuff (shredded beef jerkey in a can designed to look like snuff, and yes, the 70’s were all about trying to introduce children to tobacco products) Whatchmacallit ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/72 "2014-10-17T15:57:21Z")
I don’t see Bun candy bars on the list. I liked the maple ones best. > **[Bun Bars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bun_Bars)** > > Bun Bars are a line of candy bars manufactured by Pearson's Candy Company of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and available in the United States. Despite the name, Bun Bars are not bars at all, but actually round and flat, containing a disc made of maple or vanilla-flavored creme, or caramel, coated in milk chocolate and topped with a roasted peanut-chocolate cluster. > The forerunners of Bun Bars were originally created in the 1920s by the Wayne Bun Candy Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Vanilla Cream... ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/73 "2014-10-18T10:01:47Z")
Big wax lips, wax bottles with some sweet liquid in them, and orange wax whistles. [Here they are.](http://playingintheworldgame.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/vintage-or-elusive-candy/) ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/74 "2014-10-18T12:52:44Z")
Two I noticed missing from the list: Idaho Spuds, which are regional and I can still get them now and then; and Rally Bars, which I don’t think are made anymore. Love both those! Oh, and I am NOT happy with the Mars Candy Company for discontinuing the best candy bar they ever made, the Dark Chocolate Snickers. I actually wrote to them about it to register my displeasure. So if it comes back, you can thank me then. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/75 "2014-10-18T14:18:15Z")
> [@Apocalypso](#): > > Big League Chew Immediately what I think of when it come to “candy from your childhood”. The stuff was hard to find as a kid and if someone brought it to school, he was the coolest. Bubble Tape was a passable, easier to obtain, but clearly inferior alternative. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/76 "2014-10-18T17:04:31Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Those candy bars from 2009 are likely to be pretty stale by now. zombie sweets or no not Slow Poke. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718/77 "2014-10-18T17:56:21Z")
I nearly replied to a 5-year-old post… (and Curly Wurlys predate Marathon bars - I remember when both were being sold simultaneously) Anyway, maybe I’m old school, but I remember when the 100 Grand bar was called the “$100,000” bar. Here’s one I didn’t see mentioned, although it didn’t last very long; No Jelly (later renamed Peanut Butter), from Peter Paul - I can’t remember if it was their version of Butterfinger or of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup in a shape closer to a bar. Also, Big League Chew reminded me of something from my childhood; Mouth Full bubble gum - it was a giant piece of gum (about the size of a trading card, and I remember it being about 1/3 inch thick), in various fruit flavors. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-and-junk-food-from-the-good-ole-days/486718.md?page=3)