The only candy I still eat from childhood with any regularity are Jolly Ranchers when I can find the 5 lb bags at Costco. Unfortunately, they don’t have the fire ones anymore… they replaced them with Blue Raspberry… bleh!
Too bad I can’t find the sticks. Damn, that is two candies in a row in stick form. What would Freud say about me wanting to suck on sticks to relive my childhood?
Damn, now I want a Violet Crumble. They were a bar, sort of a spun toffee covered in milk chocolate. I think they were made in Australia. Anyway, I bought them in the old Woodards store in New Westminster.
I recently had some Fun Dip. It wasn’t nearly as good as I remembered. Nerds and Gobstoppers, however, pleased just as much as they always did. I really want a Sugar Daddy right now, but I always get them stuck to my teeth.
I used to be a freak of kid and stuff a full bag of Big League Chew into my mouth, and when that lost it’s flavor (like most cheap gum does: Bazooka Joe, etc), I would crunch Nerds into the gum to increase the sugar volume.
Damn, this is all bringing me back! Now if I can just find my Garbage Pail Kids cards (complete with crappy gum), I would be all set.
There were Sugar Mamas, Mockingbird. Sort of like a chocolate-covered Sugar Daddy, if I remember rightly. I never had one but I heard about them on the Food Network show “Unwrapped.” Here’s a cite. Down at the bottom.
Lik M Sticks was the old name, right? Why’d they change it?
Mockingbird, we are about the same age, so we were eating this candy around the same time. Now I don’t know what to believe! Your reason sounds plausible, so maybe that is why I don’t remember it correctly.
Then again, you did recently buy a package of them, so you might be right.