How do I get on your Christmas list?
Kowtows toward Altoona: “I’m not worthy! I’m not worthy!”
How do I get on your Christmas list?
Kowtows toward Altoona: “I’m not worthy! I’m not worthy!”
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.
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!
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
Those candy bars from 2009 are likely to be pretty stale by now.
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
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.
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.)
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
I don’t see Bun candy bars on the list. I liked the maple ones best.
Big wax lips, wax bottles with some sweet liquid in them, and orange wax whistles. Here they are.
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.
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.
zombie sweets or no
not Slow Poke.
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.