They were called WigWags in Canada way back when. I’ve tried the Curly Wurly, but it’s not the same, somehow.
How Pop-Tarts survived with these on the market I’ll never understand.
They are. Also still around are the Canadian candy known as Smarties. Not made by the same company. they’re more like M&Ms.
Ah, yes. I remember those. Known as “come gum” in my youth.
What I miss the most is the kind of wrapper they used to package candy bars in, back in the days when you paid a nickel for a Milky Way. It was some kind of treated paper; it didn’t work as well as the new material. You used to sometimes get a stale candy bar, and it seemed like that stopped happening when they came out with the improved wrappers, I guess it was in the late 60’s sometime. But the old stuff had a certain feel to it, and the way it sounded as you tore the paper off the candy bar is something that I still regret losing.
A great place to buy old candy online is The Old Time Candy Company. I ordered their '60s mix for my mother’s 50th birthday and the whole family loved it. (This is not meant as an advertisement- it is just pointing out a website which is in line with the subject of this thread.)
Remember Sixlets?
Probably these are Canadian only, not sure:
Thrills gum - yes, they really did taste like soap. But we loved them for some reason.
Pep Chew candy bar
Horseshoe suckers
Macintosh toffee - still sold.
That’s for quickly squelching that rumor before it got out of hand.
It was Coke.
And it was a suicide.
Not really.
OP mentions (Boyer) Mallow Cups. I wasn’t a big fan of that much marshmallow but Boyer also made “Smoothies.”
http://www.rockofagescandy.com/HTFCandyBars/Products/SmoothieBar.html
It’s a PB cup but the shell is butterscotch. Doesn’t sound as good as chocolate? Trust me!
Were these Chicagoland faves? Other ppl don’t seem to remember either product.
BTW they also put cardboard squares in each, and they printed “coins” on them. Collect $10 worth, cut and tape onto paper, mail in…they’d mail you a free box! As connoisseurs we always stipulated that we wanted Smoothies instead of Mallow Cups.
You are sure right! Now, for the life of me, I can’t call up that Teaberry flavor!
Loved Smoothies! I’m actually from Altoona, where the Boyer factory is, and Smoothies are definitely my favorite.
Remind me to face Altoona and kneel in reverent prayer 5X a day! 
I lurvs PB. I lurvs PB with chocolate. Still I really believe that if you gave everybody a Smoothie to try, 80% would leave Reese’s in a heartbeat. Funny, mallow Cups were ubiquitous in Podunk, IL, but not Smoothies. I have no idea what brainiac came up with that distribution scheme.
And how cool was that idea of the coins?! “Buy our product faithfully and we will reward you.” The ones we “bought” with saved coins were the best. It was as though we could taste the love!
BTW the tragedy about that website is that the shipping will run you like $8 at least. Still you could get 24 packs for about $25. I’m tempted. Verrrry tempted. Man, give a pack at Christmas in a stocking to someone who had never had them! Problem is, get me started and I’d eat every last one of them.
You can still get both of them around here [WV]. All of the Cracker Barrels have them, and I think I’ve seen them at the local grocery stores. If all else fails, The Vermont Country Store http://www.vermontcountrystore.com has them.
Heh! There was a period in the mid-80s-to-mid-90s when Boyer was in a lot of financial trouble. The Boyer family sold it to a New York investor who consolidated something like 7 different candy companies and overextended himself. Then he bought the (very popular, well-treed and free) county park and tried to turn it into a theme park, cutting down most of the trees and putting in themed rides in a bid to become a second Hersheypark. He lost a LOT of money in that scheme and sold the park back to the county two years later…minus the shade trees, of course. There are still people in Blair County who curse the guy’s name because he ruined what was a well-loved park. It’s recovered somewhat now.
The Boyer factory had a fire in the mid-90s, then, and shut down for almost a year. I actually thought that they had shut down forever and weren’t making candy anymore (I haven’t been local to there for about 5 1/2 years now).
Violet Mints
Satelite Wafers
Candy Cigarettes
43 posts too late. 
These resided right next to the jar of Tang in our house.
We called the “cum gum” on account of we were classy fuckin’ kids!
I miss Choco-lite bars, which were whipped full of tiny air bubbles and just melted in your mouth.
Danish-Go-Rounds and Shake-A-Pudding—two lost favorites for me, too.
I put some Smoothies in our stockings this past Christmas.
Smoothies and Mallow Cups are readily available at convenience stores in my neighborhood, along with:
Sky Bars
Necco Wafers (I actually like these!)
Teaberry gum (now owned by Cadbury Adams)
Blackjack gum
Freshen Up gum
Clove gum
Mary Janes and Bit O Honeys (shudder - I hate these, but my husband likes them)
Have you all read Candy Freak by Steve Almond? I read it last summer and then was delighted to find myself at a candy store on the west coast that was selling a bunch of the candies mentioned in the book - Abba Zabbas, Big Hunks, and the divine Valomilk.
In that store I also discovered a new vice - Coconut Long Boys, which I now mail order. Others that I discovered there I can get at the Kittery Outlets - Walnettos, Valomilks, etc.