More by Pearson’s:
At Dollar Tree, I found the 2 in a pack Pearson’s Mints. I have never heard of Pearson’s other than at Dollar Tree, though the link has them at WalMart.
Kopiko Very strong coffee flavor! Perfect after a meal. I have seen them only in a couple of Vietnamese restaurants in Houston.
Not speculaas? That’s how I knew them. Grew up with Dutch sweets. These may be why I like ginger so much too.
Bob’s Sweet Stripes soft peppermint. The Sticksare really hard to find. My local grocery sells the nuggets.
Mallo Cups by Boyer are pretty tasty too! I indulge in them maybe once a year.
I loves me some pastel mints too, knockoffs of the old Merrimints.
Lots of great candies mentioned in this thread!
Why DO the dollar stores seem to get all the cool old, weird candy??
Trader Joe’s sells them as Speculoos.
Hell, come up here to the Mid-Atlantic! At least one grocer in the area carries milk chocolate Bounty bars in the British Import section.
Bounty does come in dark chocolate as well but I haven’t seen those around here since the '90s.
I was the only kid I knew who liked to chew wax lips, instead of playing with them, then throwing them out.
I remember Gummi Burgers! I never could recall their name, though. I’d separate all the pieces and eat the buns last. Once I figured out all the parts tasted the same, a little bit of the magic was lost . . .
Whoppers malted milk balls.
Trader Joe’s Chocolate Raspberry Sticks.
Not sure if Ritter Sport bars count as non-mainstream – they’re sort of available, though usually the variety is limited – but I could eat the dark chocolate with marzipan forever! Today I tried milk chocolate with cocoa mousse, which I’d never seen before, and frankly it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. I recently started working in a new building and the little deli here sells the dark chocolate with marzipan flavor. I really don’t need to be eating them, but I just can’t resist!
Those. Sound. Awesome. I’m a big fan of banana flavored things.
For me it’s banana flavored Laffy Taffy. Whenever someone brings in an assortment I always pick through and take out the banana ones!
For me it’s the chocolate-covered orange sticks. The raspberry ones are definitely yummy, but the orange ones are like crack. 
I haven’t tried Trader Joe’s orange sticks, but, I can definitely say that it is impossible that they were better than the orange sticks that one could get from Sears, Roebuck & Co. when they had candy counters.
The dark chocolate with hazelnuts are the best.
My favorite, usually available but not mainstream candy, Brachs Maple Nut Goodies.
Yes! My absolute favorites. I stock up when they show up at my local 99 cent store. I even love the licorice ones, and I normally hate licorice.
I also love Flicks, and they can be found at our local Northern California supermarket.
Without the slightest hesitation, Papas dark, milk, and white chocolate covered opera creme eggs (especially the white and dark chocolate varieties), available in the southwest Ohio, northern Kentucky area every year around Easter time.
And anything from Esther Price Candies, especially the cherry cordials.
I’m hungry now. For sweets.
The Firebug loves Laffy Taffy, and the ones with the yellow wrappers always seem to disappear first. So you’re not alone.
A coworker recently had a huge bag of tamarind candies that he had brought back from a trip to visit family in the Philippines. I ate as many as I could cajole him into giving away… 
Havilland Wintergreen patties.
Boy oh boy, I sure liked visiting my paternal grandparents every Sunday as a kid. Good ol’ pop-pop always had a stash of barley candy sticks available to quench my sweet tooth if I’d been a good boy during the week (and, I made it a point to always be a good boy…well, I at least-talked-the talk of being a good boy).
Later, I’d mosey on into the kitchen and partake of one of nana’s scrumdiddlyumptious nutmeg topped lemon junket parfaits (that woman knew how to enzymatically curdle milk, lemme tell ya). After dinner, it wasn’t unheard of for us to hightail it out the back door and walk the half block to the back of the frozen custard shop with the small sliding window opening to the back for apartment-dwelling customer access and order a chocolate jimmy encrusted vanilla cone or three.
After Ed Sullivan (that Topo Gigio was a rascal, no?), it was customary for pop-pop to sit us back down at the kitchen table and pour us each a big glass of coca cola over ice, then ad mix ~100cc or so of pure cola syrup into that, because, according to pop-pop, “that coca cola company doesn’t put enough cola in their cokes.“
Yeah, you’d think pop-pop was a big fat tub-o-lard with that voracious sweet tooth of his…but, you’d be wrong. He was a rail thin, muscular health nut his entire life, and was still cutting grass with a non-power hand mower into his mid-nineties.
…unfortunately, the rest of us didn’t inherit those particular genes.
Oh, back on topic…“barley sugar candy”, that’s my nostalgic candy love.