Oh yeah, Xanadu. Loved Mary Janes AND Chick-o-stix!
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!)
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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.
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). **
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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.
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!
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.
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.
Chico-Stix and Jelly Babies!
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…
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?
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. :))
Junior Mints.
Then.
Now.
Always and forever.
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
I has to be Mary Janes They could take your fillings out, but I never passed the drugstore or dimestore without buying some.
Sorry, all, for posting about Chunky twice. But by amazing coincidence, I’m about to make a posting about another “Chunky”…
Oh man, I in New Jersey right outside of New York
City. Do they have a website. Do they deliver?
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Unfortunately, Annie, the M&S website (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.
Here’s a place to find all those old favorites:
http://www.hometownfavorites.com
They have more than candy, too.