Do you have a favorite old-fashioned or otherwise uncommon candy? And any weird habits with eating them?
My favorites are Satellite Wafers and Skybars. Satellite Wafers are so much fun! Those are the communion-wafer things which are filled with jimmies. I like to bite off the tops and pour all the jimmies into one and eat it
For Skybars, I can never tell the difference between the peanut butter and caramel parts, so I save those two for last and try to figure it out. I swear they both taste the same!!
Have I lost my mind in the midst of my latest candy binge, or does everyone else have weird candy habits?
Zotz! Not just a candy, but a great practical joke!
Zotz had a baking soda center. If you bit into them, it would fizz in your mouth. We’d give them to people as a joke without telling them. But their actually good if you know what to expect.
I also love Milkshakes, which, alas, exist no more. They were pretty much a second rate Milky Way, with one difference: they froze much better. All the ice cream shops at the beaches near us sold the frozen Milkshakes.
Yeah! Those are hard to find. I had one not two months ago, though.
There’s this weird Scandinavian candy that I always have trouble getting hold of: Salt lakrids. It’s a bitter, salty black liquorice. I’ve never seen in in the States. I’ve also had a only slightly sweet but spicy red liquorice that was excellent from Denmark.
Anyone else hoping that this thread will evolve into another International Candy Exchange thread?
I’m guessing that they contain some kind of fat or protein that’s a by-product of animal processing. The gelatin in gummy bears contains horse and cow hooves, you know.
