Violet candy by CHoward
I remember those. There’s this place called “Economy Candy” in Manhattan I stop in from time to time that sells candy from yesteryear and still sells them. I’m surprised they’re legal as they promote smoking to children.
I don’t recall ever having cinnamon flavored toothpicks, but I still run into mint flavored ones now and again.
The chalky candy cigarettes were… and still are!.. wonderful.
The place I work out has too many gym rats that take their workouts SOOO seriously. So I often work the Nautilus machines with a candy cigarette* hanging from my lip.
*Or twizzlers work, too
i go back to the States every couple of years, and I’m often suprised to see anything from my childhood around.
Do they still make that pop candy what would pop in your mouth?
If you mean Pop Rocks, yup, it’s still made. And Rock Candy too.
I remember getting pissed off if the store didn’t have my brand of candy cigarettes.
The funny thing is, it didn’t matter what “brand” you got, because they were all the same flavor. lol
At my store we started selling those marshmallows not too long ago. They’re ridiculously popular. I don’t know if it’s the novelty or how cheap they are, but in the few weeks that we’ve had them, we’ve sold close to 150lbs of them.
And, while fruit slices and circus peanuts may seem nostalgic to many, they’ve never gone away. I think over the past 30-40 years, the shelves have been flooded with so much other candy they just got lost in the shuffle, but they were always there (especially if you were looking for them).
Orange slices and circus peanuts are nostalgia candy? They have them at my local CVS.
I was telling my son last night as his xBox was updating some game that I used to load my Atari 800 computer with games at dinner time. Put the cassette in the player, start loading the game, go eat dinner, then play the game. Someday I’ll have to explain the allure of the text adventure.
I remember the chocolate candy cigarettes – a tube of chocolate in a paper wrapper, making them look like a cigarette.
There was the Milk Shake candy bar, a rip off of a Milky Way. They were often sold frozen. You’d gnaw at the bar until you could get it to break into bites.
Sunny Daze, you are perhaps conflating two things. There were sweet cigarettes made from chocolate or hard candy, and there were (and still are) toy cigarettesthat blew powder smoke. I never heard of an edible cigarette that blew smoke.
If you want to talk candy bars, I still pine for the old Seven-Up bars. Seven different sections with separate fillings… and not always the same ones!
I grew up spending interminable hours waiting for my folks to finish curling (why, yes, I was raised in the frozen wastes). The vintage Curling Club didn’t have much, but they did have a candy machine from the 50s (still set at a nickel, with old rusty pull handles that were a feat of strength). The old custodian noticed that we quickly drained the Seven-Up bar slot, so he’d tell us when he was going to fill it, and later he changed the little window that showed rock-hard JuJuBes to a second Seven-Up window.
“Space Dust” was a competing brand that I remember. There’s a good Wikipedia page about this candy; it was patented in 1961, and making it involves CO2 delivered at 600 PSI. :eek:
There was also gum cigarettes as well as candy cigarettes (made with some inedible hard chunk of sugar). There was a bit of sugar between the gum and paper wrapper. I assume it was partly there to keep the gum from sticking to the paper, but if you blew through the cigarette a puff of ‘smoke’ would waft out the end of it.
ETA, here’s a short youtube video of someone ‘smoking’ one.
Interesting. I’ve never seen those before.
I wish I could forget those.
When I was little, in our small town there was a couple that passed them out. E.g., I’d go collecting with my sibling who had a paper route since people would give both of us stuff. But that couple … fie. Horrible stuff.
How about Wacky Packages? In the early 70s we were collecting and trading these with great enthusiasm. I seem to remember the ‘73 ones best- these take me back:
These were my favorite at every roadside rest.
There’s this candy I remember, not for its taste (orange, I think, but I won’t swear to it), or what it was (was it gum or was it crunchy sugar?) but for how it came.
Because it came in little fabric bags.
Looks like it was, or rather is called “Gold Mine Bubble Gum” No indication on the flavor though: Gold Mine Bubble Gum 2 oz cloth bag - OldTimeCandy.com
I remember those. Looks like there’s several similar products.