I have recently remembered Cherry Chalk, the divine centre of my candy universe. Or it was, ages ago. More specifically, 1987.
My father seemed to have some sort of job where he fixed these computers at malls across the country. It was all very vague to me, but Mom and I often went with him, and I was exposed to a lot of different varieties of candy.
Cherry Chalk looked like light pink chalk, but it was chewy and, of course, cherry flavoured. It was sort of powdery/chalky on the outside, and maybe the inside was a brighter cherry colour. Magnificent. I’ve been searching for it over the past month to no avail. All the candy websites have some sort of vile “Gum Chalk” concoction, but no Cherry Chalk.
Nearly everyone I know seems to have some sort of revered childhood candy. For my mom, it’s green, spearmint-flavoured shoestring liquorice (It’s a Canadian thing, apparently).
What was your childhood candy?
And more importantly, anyone remember Cherry Chalk? Know where I can get some?
Kiva, just a guess about finding your childhood favorite, since you remember the name, is type it in your search engine and see what comes up with + ‘candy’.
My old favorite was a draw between bubble gum cigars and those little bottles that you bit off the top, which was wax, and drank the sweet liquid on the inside. I’m not sure if they had a special name though. After drinking the liquid, if it was a hot enough day, you could make the wax into a little ball by bunching it together between your fingers! Made a cool weapon too!!
Does anyone else remember eating those wax lips? How about those dots on paper rolls? Then there was the old standby…the sugar junkies friend/parents bane…PIXIE STICKS!
1 ounce of pure unadulterated mind blowing sugar!
Ummm … Atomic Fireballs from the candy machines at the Fresh Value. (“Mom, can I have my allowance now, pleeease?”) They were too hot to hold in your mouth for more than ten seconds at a time, so by the time you got in the car your hands would be coated with pink sticky stuff. (“DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT TOUCHING THE UPHOLSTERY!”) After you licked away the outer layer, they either got milder or else your taste buds were shot; if it weren’t for this, I doubt that I would have survived my childhood.
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Back when I was a kid (WAY before 1987), we had something like this. But it was three-fourths wrapped in gold foil, so it looked like lipstick, and I remember it as “candy lipstick.”
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Oh yeah! Believe it or not, they were still selling them in '89. I think they disappeared very soon after that. They were sugar stick type things that were mint flavoured.
Fretful, ever tried Warheads? Pretty much the same effect as Atomic Fireballs. Nasty yet somehow addictive.
Arnold W. had a pack of chocolate cigarettes at the So. Cal. Doper get-together a couple of months ago. I think he bought them at the Universal City Walk.
This might be a false memory, but the ex-g/f remembered them too: Black licorice drops that looked like Buckwheat from The Little Rascals. They came in a yellow box. I don’t remember what they were called because I didn’t like them. If they existed, they must have been pulled long ago for obvious reasons.
When I was very young, I remember little tablets that you’d drop into a glass of whater to make a soft-drink (like root beer, cherry soda, etc.).
I’ve seen “classic” candy at sweets shops in malls.
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Dots on paper! Good memory! My favorites tended to be along the sour line: Lemonheads, hard sour balls, Tart-n-tiny’s, Nerds, those sour balls that were like a coated gum-drop, Lick-m-aid, and of course Jelly Belly’s(sp?). Anyone remember Reagan going through a jelly-bean scandel because some dentists thought it was a bad signal to kids that he had a big bowl of them on his desk? Now Pixie stixs were fine and dandy (especially in the lunch-time scene of The Breakfast Club) but the SUPER pixie stix ruled- plus the empty tube made a great blow-gun for Lemonheads…
Ahh, I remember Root Beer Barrels in the penny candy section of the corner store. And real licorice in the shape of a cigar or pipe, with red sprinkles to make it look like it was lit. I suddenly get the feeling I’m dating myself. But what the heck…no one else will date me!
>>>>When I was very young, I remember little tablets that you’d drop into a glass of whater to make a soft-drink (like root beer, cherry soda, etc.).<<<<<
FIZZIES!!!
My fave was always Hershey bar. Still is. I couldn’t have much candy as a kid ( diabetic) so I saved for Hersheys. I am boring, I know. As far as Pixie Stix, Daddy always kept those around in case my sugar went too low. I may have had them twice. Not sure.
We had the grandkids at a Logging Camp museum this summer - the gift shop had bubble gum cigarettes! Bubblegum was inside cigarette paper and even had a red tip! They came in boxes just like the old candy cigarettes came in. We bought our grandson a box and took a picture of him “smoking”! Just to be non-PC.
Some candy cigarettes were even hollow with some powdered sugar in the center and if you blew out when you first put them in your mouth they’d produce a puff of “smoke”.
SweeTarts. They’re still around, but they’re different from those in 1962. They were 5 cents a pack. We would buy two packs and then go back in and buy another pack, since tax started at 12 cents on a purchase and every penny was precious.