# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sunglasses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Sunglasses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunglasses)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/41 "2000-09-15T20:32:43Z")
Oh yeah, Xanadu. Loved Mary Janes AND Chick-o-stix! ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/42 "2000-09-15T20:43:10Z")
No. I never liked Mary Janes. Lost a filling that way. Didn’t like Three Musketeer Bars. Found a cavity that way. (Chesiu kohanjes, it still hurts to think about it!) [Edited by slythe on 09-15-2000 at 06:17 PM] ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/43 "2000-09-15T20:47:34Z")
I second the nomination of **Zotz.** You can still find them, but not easily. How about **Royals**? They’re like M&M’s, only they come in brown and pale green colors only, are stamped with a crown instead of an M, and taste of mint chocolate. They don’t exist anymore AFAIK, and it’s a damn shame. **Cadbury Mini-eggs** are better than the cream ones. The one thing I ALWAYS used to munch on as a kid were **Brach’s** chocolate stars. No other brand will do. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/44 "2000-09-15T21:08:02Z")
**AnnieXmas** , Marks and Spencer sells a chocolate bar exactly like the Hershey Tripledecker–I had one just the other day. Of course, if you’re living in the States that’s not much help to you, unless you live somewhere near the Ontario border (there are at least three M&S in metropolitan Toronto). \*\* [/QUOTE] Oh man, I in New Jersey right outside of New York City. Do they have a website. Do they deliver? There’s also a spiced chocolate you only get in Germany at Christmastime that I love. ---
**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/45 "2000-09-15T21:44:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > 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. Oh, but yes I can Fenris! There’s a British food shop in my neighborhood that’s run by and for British expatriates here in North Texas. And they carry all kinds of Cadbury and (British) Nestle candy bars. The Crunchies are pretty good. However, my favorites are Fuse, which contains raisins, nuts, and Rice Krispie-like cereal covered in chocolate, and Golden Whispa, which is a kind of solid but airy chocolate with gooey caramel. Oh, and MikeG - I can also get Cadbury Flake there as well. Yummy! I know where I’m stopping on the way home from work today! ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/46 "2000-09-15T22:03:13Z")
I’d eat alot of drecky sugar bombs when I was a kid that I wouldn’t touch now, but my favorites then are my favorites today: Reese’s. Very fresh, though… they are terrible when they are dried out and old, and they are heaven on earth fresh and moist and flavorful. I also have a weakness for THICK Hersheys… I don’t really fully understand why, but I don’t care for the skinny bars. I like kisses, miniatures, giant bars, and the chunky ones they make now. I like a fat chunk of chocolate melting on my tongue. Yum! I also have the same prefs re: box candy. SEE’S, for those familiar, rocks. And the two flavors I’ve always loved are Bordeaux and Butterscotch squares, which aren’t really butterscotch, just a chunk of butter and brown sugar dipped in chocolate. And the Bordeaux are the same thing, only fluffier and whipped. Delish. ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/47 "2000-09-15T23:14:15Z")
I can’t believe so many people liked those candy dots on the strip of paper. Getting them as kids was like getting socks for Christmas. I had forgotten about Zots, one of my all-time favorites. Glad to know I can still get them. Lik-a-stix was like a drug. Also over-indulged in Bottle Caps, Spree, Swedish Fish, SweetTarts, Neccos (favorite color purple), and Gobstoppers. I used to avoid Chunky (it had _raisins_ in it), but once I tried one, it was actually pretty good. But for candy bars, my favorite was Bar None, which I don’t believe is made any more. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/48 "2000-09-15T23:19:48Z")
Chico-Stix and Jelly Babies! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/49 "2000-09-15T23:33:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > \*\*As someone who has eaten a Chunky and lived to tell about it, I can confirm that it is, yes just a large chunk of chocolate with raisins and peanuts, about 2 1/2" square and 1" thick. \*\* I think Chunky has cashews, not peanuts… but I wouldn’t bet the rent at this moment. Either way, it’s a mouthful of heaven… ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/50 "2000-09-15T23:45:38Z")
My baby sister, who is married and has three kids, says I have terrible taste in candy. I like the kind the kids like. But after reading this thread I feel better. I loved the following as a kid and still love em. For Christmas last year we each bought cheap gifts to put into everyones stocking and in mine I got 3 bags of **circus peanuts**. They had to pull me from the ceiling. Sugar high for a month. **Necco**. On a run to a convenience store got to stop in the candy aisle and pick up a role. The more chocolate ones in the pack the better. Don’t like the licorice flavor ones. Those are good though for throwing at people. **Candy Corn**. Save the white part for eating last. **Divinity**. Pure sugar. Although not a candy, it should be, those **Mother Frosted Animal Cookies** , with the sprinkles on top. Anyone know why the pink ones taste better than the white ones? ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/51 "2000-09-15T23:47:01Z")
Remember when trading cards (Wacky Packs, baseball cards etc.) used to contain a thin, long, cardboard-tasting rectangle of gum? I used to like that stuff, even though it really had no taste. **FairyChatMom** - I think you’re right: cashews in the Chunky. Anyone got an extra one on hand? (And thank you for the edit **slythe**. I thought it was a combo of coffee and hair-trigger nerves. :)) ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2000, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/52 "2000-09-16T00:27:53Z")
Junior Mints. Then. Now. Always and forever. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Mxyzptlk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Mr\_Mxyzptlk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Mxyzptlk)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2000, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/53 "2000-09-16T02:37:51Z")
I always loved Black Jacks…Anybody remember them? And Fireballs…My wife has introduced me to something from her childhood-Esther Price chocolates from the Esther Price Store in Dayton Ohio…The opera creams are out of this world ---
**Author:** ![Fanny\_May](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3be4f8/32.png) [@Fanny\_May](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fanny_May)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2000, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/54 "2000-09-16T06:54:33Z")
I has to be **Mary Janes** They could take your fillings out, but I never passed the drugstore or dimestore without buying some. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2000, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/55 "2000-09-16T13:01:17Z")
Sorry, all, for posting about Chunky twice. But by amazing coincidence, I’m about to make a posting about another “Chunky”… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \* > \*\ ***AnnieXmas** , Marks and Spencer sells a chocolate bar exactly like the Hershey Tripledecker–I had one just the other day. Of course, if you’re living in the States that’s not much help to you, unless you live somewhere near the Ontario border (there are at least three M&S in metropolitan Toronto). \*\* Oh man, I in New Jersey right outside of New York City. Do they have a website. Do they deliver? \*\* [/QUOTE] Unfortunately, **Annie** , the M&S website ([http://www.marksandspencer.com](http://www.marksandspencer.com)) appears to deal with UK deliveries only. I couldn’t find a part of the site which pertains to their Canadian operations. Out of curiosity, I bought another of their white/milk/dark chocolate bars today. Its full title? “CHUNKY Milk, Dark and White Layered Chocolate bar.” See, Chunky doesn’t have cashews at all…er, now I’m really confused. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257/56 "2000-09-16T17:55:09Z")
Here’s a place to find all those old favorites: [http://www.hometownfavorites.com](http://www.hometownfavorites.com) They have more than candy, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-childhood-candy/33257.md?page=2)