# What's your favourite childhood candy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 15, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257 "2000-09-15T01:49:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/1 "2000-09-15T01:49:29Z")
OK Slythe, the balls’ in your court! My fave as a kid were Cadbury Flake- The thing I missed most about Ireland! Here in the US it was the sour patch kids–I salivate just thinking of the concentrated citric acid at the bottom! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/2 "2000-09-15T02:25:37Z")
Zotz! Hard candy with some sort or fizzy stuff in the middle. Haven’t seen any in a while (of course, I haven’t tried). I did see a website that sells them though. ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/3 "2000-09-15T02:32:30Z")
As a kid, it was Butterfingers. As I’ve grown older, my tastes have become more sophisticated, my palette more discriminating. My _new_ favorite candy? Diane. mmmmmmmmmmmmm. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/4 "2000-09-15T02:46:06Z")
Gotta be either Hershey’s Kisses or Hershey’s Miniatures. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/5 "2000-09-15T03:34:00Z")
“A Finger of Fudge is just enough to give the kids a treat, A Finger of Fudge is just enough until it’s time to eat, Its full of Cadbury goodness…” Or Rountree’s Fruit Pastilles (sp?) Now that I’m all grown up, I’ll go with Godiva’s Strawberry Cheesecake Dessert Chocolate. Mmmmmmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Saturn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@Saturn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saturn)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/6 "2000-09-15T04:39:25Z")
NERDS…preferably Strawberry although almost any of them would do. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/7 "2000-09-15T05:18:53Z")
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. And in a pinch anything chocolate and peanut butter I can get my hands on. ---
**Author:** ![CandyMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@CandyMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandyMan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/8 "2000-09-15T12:45:57Z")
Wow, I feel old now. The candy I recall in my youth consisted of these favorites: Little wafer (for lack of a better word describing this plastic tasting material) flying saucers that had little pellets of pure sugar (in colors, of course) inside of them. Strips of paper about 2 or 3 inches wide with dots of flavored (and colored, of course) sugar that when you ate the dots you almost HAD to eat some paper with each one because it was stuck to it. Little wax bottles that looked like coke bottles. You ripped the top off to drink the different flavored (and colored) sugar water. The only name brand one I can recall being nuts over: Pez. CandyMan ---
**Author:** ![CandyMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@CandyMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandyMan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/9 "2000-09-15T12:56:47Z")
Oooooooooooooh!!! Pop Rocks! I forgot Pop Rocks! CandyMan ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/10 "2000-09-15T14:02:29Z")
Smarties - which are like plain M&Ms, only better tasting. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/11 "2000-09-15T14:09:03Z")
Candy Man sounds like you’re describing Necco Wafers in the first description. The second, we cleverly called “dots” and the third we called “wax coke bottles” all three are still currently and easily available. Sorry, I don’t recall a favorite candy from childhood. I lived a deprived life. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/12 "2000-09-15T14:18:02Z")
Pixie Stix! Especially the huge-plastic-tube variety. Definitely your best sugar rush for the buck. Paper Dots ruled of course. Candy necklaces were good if you were going for a sticky mess. You had to be careful with the wax bottles. Some had the good wax that you could chew into a disgusting yummy ball. The others had wax that disintegrated when chewed. Evil stuff ---
**Author:** ![tevya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/13 "2000-09-15T14:24:47Z")
Jolly Ranchers Candy Necklaces Lemon Drops Lix Stix (or Lick a stix?): Basically 3 “pouches” of different colored/flavored sugar powder with a nasty tasting candy stick that you used to spoon up the sugar. These $.05 lollipops that sat unrapped in a jar on the counter next to the register. They were 2 toned and had a very powdery consistency. Less like a Charms lollipop and more like a large 2 toned Smartie on a stick. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/14 "2000-09-15T14:26:37Z")
those carmel candies with the white filling. I still eat too many of those things if I buy them. great I may go buy some now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/15 "2000-09-15T14:28:14Z")
My favorite recent candy discovery (not a childhood candy…my favorite childhood candy was Clark Bars. They were like Butterfinger bars…only they tasted better) was when I was in England recently. It’s called a Cadbury “Crunchie” (or something similar). It’s this crunchy, vaguely honey flavored, styrofoam-like (in a good way) substance covered with chocolate. And you can’t get 'em over here, dammit. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Sea\_Sloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sloth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/16 "2000-09-15T14:43:52Z")
Yeah, I’m all about the Pop Rocks. Charleston Chews Alexander the Grapes Boston Baked Beans LemonHeads Rock Candy on a stick Hot Balls :eek: Other than the fact that most of these candies were only a dime a box, I have no idea what I saw in any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/17 "2000-09-15T14:44:50Z")
I’ve got your Crunchie connection [here](http://www.thebritishshoppe.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/18 "2000-09-15T14:45:51Z")
**Fenris:** Crunchie bars are widely available in Canada, if that helps you at all. ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Sea\_Sloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sloth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/19 "2000-09-15T14:46:07Z")
Ooh, I almost forgot about Mary Janes - a sort of peanut butter/carmel/say goodby to your fillings yumminess. Those I would still eat. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/20 "2000-09-15T14:46:30Z")
Those wax bottles with sugar water in them. They were great! They must’ve changed the formula, cause I tried some recently, and they sucked. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257.md?page=2)