Paper dots (if you licked the BACK of the paper first, they came right off!)
Candy Necklaces
Boston Baked Beans
But, my all-time childhood favorite - Circus Peanuts!
Put me on the Candy Necklaces bandwagon. mmmmmmmm
Also, those little wax bottles of sugar water. mmmmmmmm
And pixie sticks and pop rocks and Lemon Heads and Alexander the Grape… starts convulsing: sugar high flashback
Anybody remember Bottle Caps? They were flavored like various kinds of soda-- root beer, grape, orange, etc. Yummmmmy!!!
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[li] Circus Peanuts - yes, Cecil’s favorite. I actually don’t remember liking these, but I do have a memory of going to see “Planet of the Apes” at the drive in and eating these.[/li][li]Charleston Chew - preferabley chocolate, though strawberry would do in a pinch. Best frozen - smack 'em against the counter and they break into several bite size pieces. I have not carried the predilection of smacking hard things on the counter before eating them into adulthood unless I am particularly pissed off. ;)[/li][li]I don’t remember what these were called, but they looked like little flying saucers. The outside had the consistency of a communion wafer, and it had little sugar beads in it.[/li][li]The best, by far, was sneaking Baker’s Chocolate out of the kitchen drawer. This led to my current affection for Lindt Extra Dark.[/li][li]And of course, the ubiquitous Candy Necklace.[/li][/ul]
I’ve mentioned this before, but needs repeating here. A site I found a while back sells a wide range of items that haven’t been around for a while. Find it here.
Their candy selection is outta hand. Hope this helps the nostalgic out there.
Mmmmmmmmm. . . BottleCaps. . .
About 25 cents for 10 or so. They still sell them at the local candy store. . .mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. . .
Hershey’s Triple Decker bar. It was on the market
for about 2 1/2 minutes. It had dark chocolate
on the bottem, white in the middle, and milk on
top. It was so good!
CandyMan’s description of “little wafers” didn’t sound to me like Neccos. Neccos doesn’t have plastic-y bits in them at all–they are just plain old flavored sugar. Of course, when I was little I would eat a roll of them in about 15 minutes (except for the chocolate flavored ones, which I passed on to my mom).
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).
Now ‘N’ Laters: $0.10 got you six hard, usually stale, taffy-like candies, in a wide variety of flavors. They were by far my favorite childhood candy, far superior to Jolly Rancher sticks. Sour apple was my favorite, although bubble gum was good too. I haven’t seen these in forever.
Sprees: Sour and fruity. Yum! They still exist, although they changed the grape flavor, which used to be the best. ::growl::
Lemonheads, Alexander the Grape, Cherry Clan, etc.: hard sour candy, surrounded by a softer outer layer of sugar. Hard to eat in class, since the box rattled so loudly. If you were musical, you could play the empty box like a kazoo.
Milk Duds: Still a classic.
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On a related note, there was no question what the least popular childhood candy was. Chunky. No doubt about it. I don’t think I’ve ever met a single person who has eaten a Chunky. It was the leper of the candy aisle. I don’t think the store we bought our candy from restocked the Chunkys even once. They just got older and older and older…
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Oh, man, I loved Chunky! Still do… But my all-time favorite was Goldenberg’s (Goldberg’s??) Net Chews <drool> Can’t get 'em where I live now - guess they’re a mid-Atlantic regional treat. Gotta ask mom to send me a crate of 'em…
uh - that was NUT chews… it’s been a LOOOOONG week…
Non Pareils
For the record, my favs were/are Malted Milk Balls, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (the small ones), Krackle Bars and PEZ (forget the dispenser, just give me the little candies!).
Oh, and Cadbury Creme Eggs (hurry up, Easter!), except when some #*&@$ at the store would poke their fingers in and crush them.
And chocolate bunnies at Easter, especially popping off the candy decorated parts (baskets, carrots, eyes).
Wow, a person who voluntarily eats Chunkys. You really can find anything on the Internet!
Well, I’m not going to waste this opportunity. I have a question – what exactly is a Chunky? (The commercials haven’t been on in about 15 years, and I’ve forgotten.) Isn’t it a big gob of nuts and fruit and miscellany, covered in chocolate? Sort of an Under The Fridge Dip?
I would just go buy and eat one myself, except for two reasons:
- I’m not sure where I would buy one.
- I’m not yet ready to lose my Chunky virginity. (About five different jokes, mostly unkind, popped into my head as soon as I finished typing this, and now I have the giggles.)
Sprees and SweetTarts, but IMO the old purple Sprees were icky.
Down here in the U.S., Smarties are small, round, solid sugar disks in pastel colors that come about a dozen to a pack, wrapped in clear cellophane with twist-ties at the ends. A roll is about as big as your pinkie. They’re sort of like SweetTarts, only more powdery. And they’re delish!
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. The reason I never ate one again was that when I bit into it, my front teeth got stuck in it and I had to wrench it out of my mouth. The only way I could eat it was to cut it into bits.
After that, straight back to the Neccos. So, count me as a, um, Chunky non-virgin.
My favorite - pixie sticks. Diabetes in a tube! Mmmmmmmmmmm.
I also liked those candy necklaces. It was really hard getting those damn things off of the string!> By the way, did anyone actually like “Mary Janes”?
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. The reason I never ate one again was that when I bit into it, my front teeth got stuck in it and I had to wrench it out of my mouth. The only way I could eat it was to cut it into bits.
After that, straight back to the Neccos. So, count me as a, um, Chunky non-virgin.
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“Under the Fridge Dip”? 
I don’t think I want to know.
Chunkys (Chunkies?) were an odd-shaped large chunk of chocolate with nuts and raisins. Odd-shaped, in that it was not just a cube of chocolate, but looked like somone had lopped off the top part of a pyramid (maybe a ziggurat?). They were wonderful (insert nostalgia dream-sequence here) in that you could either eat them almost all at once (normally two bites, though I knew a kid who could cram four whole Chunkys/Chunkies in his mouth at once), or scrape your teeth across them and make them last longer. Either way, they’d melt in your mouth and on your hand and in your pocket and all over everything else.
Sigh, another I forgot about. Bottle Caps. I would beat up my younger brother and sister KNOWING I would get in trouble from Mom for the Root Beer ones. sniff
I don’t think the flying Saucer candy was any brand at all actually. They were bought bulk like anything else I really could afford back then.
CandyMan
My favorite - pixie sticks. Diabetes in a tube! Mmmmmmmmmmm.
I also liked those candy necklaces. It was really hard getting those damn things off of the string!> By the way, did anyone actually like those “Mary Janes”?