The Willy Wonka line of candies (ie. pure adulterated sugar) includes Nerds, Runts, Laffy Taffy, Gobstoppers, and the beloved Bottle Caps.
But the product I perhaps loved the most were Wacky Wafers–fruit flavors (Orange, Watermelon, Strawberry, Green Apple, Banana) that were very strong, in this thin quarter-sized disks.
Not that I should be eating candy anymore, mind you, but I haven’t seen these in the stores for at least 12 years.
They have it in sticks, will that work? I see them in stores all over the place up here, so I can vouch that they very much do make them.
I remember “Fun Dip” as “Lik-M-Aid” with two Lik-M-Stiks inside and a “Fun Dip!” bubble burst on the package - so maybe I was a transitional marketing strategy generation. It was also the first candy I thought at the OP. I’m going to go get some today!
TellMeI’mNotCrazy, I loved the bubblegum cigs too! Those were hard to find even when I was a kid, and got pretty impossible by the time I was about 12 or 13. All I could find after that was those awful thin chalk ones (with the very tip dyed red to look like an ember!)
Mockingbird, Pop Rocks and oral sex are a disappointing combo. For fellatio, they mostly tickle (or so I’m told) and are distracting. Cunnilingus-wise, they actually burn and feel real oogey. I much more highly recommend a simple glass of ice water by the bedside with frequent sips on the eater’s part. An ice cube in the mouth is a whole new world, without the sticky cleanup.
Most of my favorites have been mentioned already, except for red shoestring licorice and Smarties (especially the white ones.)
While I’ve had these relatively recently, it’s been a looong time since I’ve had Jujyfruits in their natural environment - a movie theater.
Growing up, movies and Jujyfruits went together like a hand and a glove. I would hold up the piece of candy up to the screen so I could tell which flavor I was about to eat (to avoid eating the evil green mint ones), and the darkness of the theater made it more socially acceptable to do the necessary rooting around in your mouth to free the ones that got stuck to your molars.
But just about no theaters carry them any more. Gummi bears are not proper substitutes. And, sadly, I actually really miss them.
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I love the synchronicity of the way things pop up here. Yesterday I was talking with someone at work about forgotten treats from our childhoods. There was a candy bar, chocolate coated peppermint nougat, that we could not remember the name of and neither of us had seen one in 20 years. On my way home I stopped at a little corner shop and when I went to pay, right at my elbow was a box of the very thing… White Knight. I have 2 to take to work on Thursday. Should get a laugh.
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I haven’t had an Abba-zaba since I was knee-high to a grasshopper.
Here’s a fun link I just found: the Candy Wrapper Museum . Brought back some memories for me.
For me, it was the green ones and the black ones. And what did we do with the ones we didn’t like? Of course, I always put them back in the box and gave them to my mother when I got home, (yeah, sure I did) but I understand that some children perfected a wicked sidearm, underhand throw that could launch those babies six or eight rows. Worked with popcorn, too, although popcorn lacked the heft to go as far. Or so I’m told. Not that I would know from personal experience. Nope. Not me.
I miss chocolate Jots–they were like M&M’s, but the candy coating was thicker and the chocolate inside was richer. They were made by Brach’s, which still makes Peanut Jots and Chocolate Mint Jots but they don’t make the plain ones any more.
I still eat Charleston Chews on a regular basis.
Funny you should bring it up but last night, on a whim, I bought a bag of circus peanuts. Hadn’t had those since high school. And I scarfed down the entire bag in one sitting. Though my heart would burst from my chest and go annoy the cats, I was so wired…
Yes, yes, I know everyone hates them and Cecil’s even done a column about their loathsomeness but I’m weird, okay?
I haven’t had “Thrills” gum in at least 25 years. They were purple, and tasted like, I dunno, soap? nail polish? There isn’t a flavor that occurs in nature that you can compare it to.
And Beeman’s licorice-flavored gum.
There was a kind of gum ball that came 5 in a wrapper. They were white with red spots, and tasted sort of like cream soda. It’s been so long, I can’t even remember what they were called. They were my favorite.
When I came to Florida, I was disappointed that I couldn’t get Caramilk, Oh! Henry or Crunchie chocolate bars in the US. I did find Crunchie at Epcot, in the England building, imported from England.
So far, I’ve only been able to find Dutch salted licorice in one place in Jacksonville. I was so happy! I gave one to my wife, but she had to spit it out - she said it tasted like salty rubber tires!
I probably haven’t had Zotz since the '70s.
Old Time Candy still has 'em.
That’s the candy I came here to mention. God, I loved those things. I used to pull apart the taffy and tongue out the peanut butter (which was much less sexual than the description I just gave).
I also miss Bottle Caps. And Wacky Wafers. And Fun Dips. Hell - I miss my youth!
Okay, okay with the reminiscing here.
I recall “Fun Dip” as “Lik M Aid.” The sticks were edible, but tasted like sugar-coated chalk.
“Zotz:” I haven’t thought of them for years! Yum! That tangy, frothy ooze!
“Abba Zabbas” are still readily available in So.Cal.
“Marathon Bar:” Wasn’t that some sort of braided, chocolate-covered caramel? Wasn’t it nearly a foot long? Great marketing, paying for the extra air.
“Beeman’s” licorice gum: I knew it as “Black Jack” and very rarely see it around, usually in specialty or gift shops.
Whatever happened to “Jujubes?” I recall them as movie-theater munchies, the ugly cousin of the Jujyfruits. Harder, less flavorful, causing more pain when thrown or spit across the auditorium.
My husband is from the UK and absolutely flipped when we came across some “flying saucers” at Cadbury World outside Brum. They were the stuff of his childhood, but I have yet to figure out why. They were like styrofoam silver-dollar sized saucers, filled with sour-candy powder. If you could get that far. I couldn’t stand the taste of the styrofoam!
I mourn the large-sided non-chewable SweeTarts. Chewy SweeTarts? Bleh! Give me the good ol’ sour crunchy ones!
Ooh, Lemonheads!
God, the number of those wax bottles with the sugar juice in them that I ate as a child - my mom volunteered at the hospital gift shop, and I’d go with her sometimes and suck out my weight in colored sugary water and then mold the wax into things.
But circuis peanuts are nasty, dude.
What was ever up with that coconut crap that was sold in the same packaging as the wax bottles and the circus peanuts - it was, um, yellow and red and white and looked vile? Did anybody actually like that?
Funny how, the way kids eat some things, it’s just gross, but if it’s Elizabeth Hurley or Antonio Banderas, you could make a million on pay-per-view…
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Mockingbird, Pop Rocks and oral sex are a disappointing combo. For fellatio, they mostly tickle (or so I’m told) and are distracting. Cunnilingus-wise, they actually burn and feel real oogey. I much more highly recommend a simple glass of ice water by the bedside with frequent sips on the eater’s part. An ice cube in the mouth is a whole new world, without the sticky cleanup.
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Yeah, it probably won’t add anything, but I like to experiment.
I’d think using Pop Rocks for going down on a woman could be grounds for divorce in some states.
Bottle Caps are still around. They have them at a few Circle K stores in my area.
iParty has Bottlecaps fairly regularly. Target gets big bags of them at Halloween.
That is, except for the stores in Rhode Island. If you’re looking for Bottlecaps, go somewhere else. They’re all mi…err…they’re all gone. Sold out.
stay away.
Curse you SolGrundy! It has been years since I’ve had a Chocodile, and now I would kill for one. Right now! droooooool
The candy I came into this thread to mention is Sky Bar. Haven’t had one of those in ages. They weren’t even all that tasty, but I remember them fondly nonetheless. (The chocolate filled segment was the best, and had to be saved for last.)
Thou shalt not mock the circus peanuts! 
Yeah, I know, that’s why the package I bought last night was on sale.
We were just talking about hose recently too! As part of a “candy you only find at truck stops” discussion. I liked those too (proving that our candy tastes are diametrically opposed)…