I read that as “you can still get bonobos” and I’m like “that’s probably true depending on what you mean by ‘get’”.
DinoSour Eggs The giant jawbreakers with kind of a SweeTart center.
O’Grady’s Au Gratin potato chips.
But at least Planter’s Cheez Balls came back!
Took a look, and was surprised to see that Zotz are still available. These are hard candies that have baking powder at their center: you sucked on them until the hard candy shell was mostly gone, then you bit into them, creating a sweet bubbly fizz.
One of the few instances where looking them up on the Internet might be less raunchy than trying to say it out loud.
I loved those too but I never had them in rolls. When I had them they were in a bottle kind of like a medicine bottle.
Now that you mention it, I remember those.
“Lost cereals of your childhood” could probably be a whole thread of its own.
I remember a candy bar that had six different filled sections (thankfully, no coconut), but for the life of me I can’t remember what it was called.
They used to have candy and gum in the shape of cigarettes. But they stopped making them because people were worried that they were promoting smoking to kids.
It was delicious unfrozen too! And I actually remembered the song without the benefit of youtube!
For those of you who have forgotten the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEG0m8-TJS4
Merri-Mints!
Damn, those things were good.
I understand the Vermont Country Store makes a modern day knock-off, I’ll have to try it some time.
Anybody else miss Shake-A Pudd’n?
OK, I’ll stop for a while . . .
The Willy Wonka candy company still makes Nerds, Laffy Taffy, and Bottle Caps, but they discontinued for many decades my favorite candy growing up: Wacky Wafers.
Imagine my surprise when this past spring, I saw Wacky Wafers appear again in a specialty candy store! But that didn’t last long, and now you’d have to go to eBay to find them or buy them in bulk at the current owner, Leaf.
Yeah! I can’t quite recall the taste but I know I liked them.
As for Bit-O-Honey, I find it all over the place in the Cleveland area. Even Walmart at times. Only the individual wrapped pieces, not the row of them wrapped in paper.
Dennis
I had been looking for after dinner mints and have come up with a couple of good sources. The Walmart in Oberlin, Ohio, and only that one so far has them in a big bag as Howe Party Mints. In fact that store has a giant display pyramid of Howe products, they are all old fashioned candies. I also got some Wintergreen Lozenges.
Discount Drug Mart has real Butter Mints and my gosh, those things dissolve on your tongue in seconds. The ingredients are butter, sugar, mint flavor and I think corn starch.
Dennis
I remember these. Never saw them in a roll, the ones I had came in a Bayer aspirin type bottle. Didn’t really care for the taste, but loved the bottle! We’d play doctor (no not that kind of doctor <grin>) and these were the ‘pills’ we dispensed. A search brought up Horlicks Malties from Malaysia, but these are plain milk flavored, not chocolate. 
Which brings up a suggestion, check your local ethnic stores as some of these lost snacks either originated overseas or are still made there.
If you loved the old Marathon bars (that braided chocolate covered caramel ‘bar’), it’s supposedly still available as Curly Wurly from England (where it originated and changed to Marathon when it came to the US). I ordered a box and despite everyone saying it was the same as the US version, I ate a few bites out of two of the 20 bars I received and tossed the rest. I don’t know if it was an off batch or because of the delayed shipping, but it was the nastiest candy I ever tried to eat.
Not lost in that it could be recreated at home, but Sears used to sell warm cashews and pistachios (the red dyed ones!) at their snack counter. Oh, there was nothing like walking around the store eating those!
My parents would almost always get me popcorn, which I think was $0.15, $0.25 and $0.35 for small, medium or large. Remember those rectangular boxes? You’d be the envy of every other kid in the store if you walked around the with large. But the nuts were much more and were a special treat.
I remember the Shake-A Pudding commercials, but don’t think I ever tried it. How about Jello 1-2-3, that would separate into Jello on the bottom, foamy (milky?) Jello in the middle and foamy on the top.
Also Screaming Yellow Zonkers!. Loved them! Yeah, they were definitely much more buttery than Fiddle Faddle and would stick to your molars like nothing else.
Chick-o-stick and Cowtails. You can still get them, they just aren’t the same. As a young girl with diabetes the candy I got to choose was real important to me. Now my taste is not the same or something. Good ol’ Hershey bar is about as adventurous as I can get.
Funny I dream ( really, dream while sleeping) about eating the candy my sibs ate. My brother would put a whole pack of bubblelicious gum in his mouth at one time. He was a card.
Oompas, made by the Wonka company. They looked like large M&Ms with peanut butter in the middle, but they were way tastier than Reese’s Pieces.
Marathon bar, though you can still get Curly Wurly, which is the same thing but smaller.
Carnation Chocolate Breakfast Squares - I used to love coming home from school to have a pack of them (they came 2 to a pack) with ice-cold milk.
Sorry for the flood, everyone is bringing back such fond memorie!
Frosty Malt, bought and eaten only at the movies. The red and white cup by I think, Carnation. The last time I had one about 15 years ago and it wasn’t the same. Not by Carnation and not as chocolaty as I remember.
BTW, here’s a home recipe for Screaming Yellow Zonkers! Plus it’s low fat!
https://topsecretrecipes.com/sceaming-yellow-zonkers-screaming-yellow-zonkers-low-fat-copycat-recipe.html
(Born in 1950 here)
Milk Shake bars: YES. I loved those. Delicious at room temp too.
Lik-M-Aid was another one I’d get.
Anyone else remember AbbaZabba bars? Specifically, the older wrapper with the extremely racist cartoon?
Link to image: The Candy Wrapper Museum