Bub’s Daddy?
Elitist!
Born early 70s. Don’t remember penny anything, but then again I don’t remember much from that decade.
It was a placeholder decade. Not much to remember. We had some top-notch prog rock. That was just about all that can be said for the '70s.
Those look like what I remember, yes.
I didn’t know they’re still making them.
If a) gum counts as candy, and b) the OP is asking about the absolute cheapest candy I could get, then as recent as the late 1980s there was a gumball machine at the cash register of a restaurant in my hometown that dispensed Chiclets or some similar really small pieces of gum for a penny. Although I discovered that if you jiggled the lever a bit it would actually give you several pieces for a penny.
Technically half-penny not half-cent. But then they got rid of half pennies grrr.
Yes! And like @aceplace57 says, I’d get the sour apple (I think there was also a grape flavor) and try to get the whole wad in my mouth.
I’d need to change my answer from 10 cents then because while I was pretty sure I could get stuff for less than that your answer did jog my memory on penny gumballs.
I liked them all but was partial to the fruit flavor. The red hot was good too but I rarely saw it.
I think the wax tubes, they also came shaped as bottles were one or two cents when I was young. You’d suck out the juice from, then chew the wax for whatever remained.
Another side story. After we chewed them, we’d roll them into a ball and rub them on our shoes and slippers to slide across the classroom. It came to an abrupt stop when on of the teachers in heels slipped and fell! Awwww…good times and the blissful joy of childhood ignorance.
MoJo’s were one cent apiece. So were Kraft caramels IIRC.
For some guys in my neighborhood Brach’s candy was always free. They would take a bunch from the Pick-a-Mix stand at the store and drop nothing into the coin slot or drop something metal in and pretend it was a quarter (@ 3 cents each that got them 8 pieces for the price of a washer they found on the sidewalk).
The soda in the upright machines that sold 10 ounce bottles was free to them as well. They didn’t have the 10 cents but they did have an opener and a straw they brought from home. I’d see these guys with their face up to the skinny little door sucking the soda out of the bottle like a hummingbird.
Yeah, they were thieves but still pretty ingenious for 8 year olds!