As a child you are given money to buy penny candy at the corner store, The person takes the little brown paper bag

[debm55]

and you tell him to fill your bag with-----
lipsticks
satellites with the cand beads insides
red licorice
what is in your bag , ? . Edited to add whatever you wanted in no amounts.

[Walleye]

1. Mary Janes, tootsie rolls, Hershey kisses

[debm55]

2. Thank you Walleye. Good choices. and congratulations for reaching your 30,000 post milestone.

[hlthe2b]

3. I too would have had tootsie rolls and hershey's kisses...

I was once a fan of Cracker Jacks, too, but I don't think that was ever sold "bulk."

[debm55]

4. Thank you,hithe2b

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Bit O Honey and Chick-Of-Stick.

[debm55]

7. Thank you sinkingfeeling,

[Botany]

6. Root Beer Barrels, Hot tameles, gum drops,

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licorice, and some bracht's candies. Nestles
Crunch bars are nice too. I would eat that
crap as I drank a Coca-Cola in a glass bottle in
N.W. PA with my friends. I just found a letter from a childhood friend's older brother that my
folks never showed me because by the time it
got to our house he had been killed in Vietnam
when the NVA blew his legs off in an area close to the DMC and Laos.

[debm55]

8. I am so sorry for you Botany. May his memeories bring you peace.

[keithbvadu2]

9. When my mother was growing up, there was a neighbor lady who was blind.

When my mother was growing up, there was a neighbor lady who was blind. Her husband set her up with some penny candy and neighborhood kids would buy some from her. It wasn't to make money. It was to have people check on her several times a day while he was at work. Pretty ingenious, eh?

[debm55]

10. Yes that was ingenious,

[Wonder Why]

11. Diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, kidney failure? That's what I got from candy.

[debm55]

12. Sorry Wonder Why.

[maxrandb]

13. Charleston Chews, Smart Smarties, Chuckles

[debm55]

15. TY maxrandb, for listing your favorites.

[ificandream]

14. Tootsie Rolls.

[debm55]

16. Thank you ificandream. I liked toosie rolls too.

[rsdsharp]

17. Hmmm. Interesting question.

When I was a kid, the grocery store we frequented had Brachs candy in bulk. My father would buy some every week or two, and there was always a bag on top of the refrigerator. I don’t remember any of the specific candies, except a big, pink, circular one. It reminded me of the sulpha tablets the doctor prescribed. I hated it. The others were pretty good.

There was also an old time drug store in town that had candies in glass jars. You could get horehound drops, lemon drops, root beer barrels, and rock candy in little brown bags. That was cool.

[debm55]

18. TY rsdsharp, I think those big pink thing had ittle candy bits in them.

[rsdsharp]

19. No, this was just a solid pink candy. It was about t be he size of a nickel, and about a half inch high.

it was sickly sweet.

[Hela]

41. Was it this one?

Brach's called it a "Wintergreen Mint."

[rsdsharp]

46. That's what it looked like, but I don't recall it tasting like mint.

[sakabatou]

20. No idea, since I've never been in one, and I don't think there's one in my area

[debm55]

21. TY. I think I should of added as a child. Sorry

[Mr.Bill]

22. Baseball cards with bubble gum

and 12 cent comic books. I could have had a much better retirement if I still had them all.

[debm55]

23. Topps? I used to collect card too, Gum was very thin and hard.

[Mr.Bill]

24. Yeah, the gum was usually pretty stale.

My favorite gum was Bazooka with the little comics inside.

I actually can't remember the brand of the baseball cards, but it could have been Topps. That was the most common one where I lived.

[Cairycat]

25. Black licorice

(a lifelong favorite). My sister worked in a drugstore and would bring home this brand of black licorice pieces, the bag had a drawing of camels and palm trees, I remember. Sometimes she would bring home some cinnamon candies, very strong of cinnamon, but they had red dye that made them taste bitter too. The drugstore was run by the father of my home town's greatest movie star, Jean Seberg - if any of you know who that is.

Just down the alley from my house there was an old timey neighborhood grocery store, where my kids would get penny candy. I was glad that they were able to have that experience. (They are in their thirties and late twenties now.)

[debm55]

33. Ty Caiycat.

[Sneederbunk]

26. Today you need many, many pennies.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Snaps, Sweet Tarts, Milky Way, Charleston Chew, Red Licorice

My wife says she loved those flying saucer thingies. The little store by my house didn't have those, though.
Someone mentioned Mary Jane's. I liked those too!
Also, I like Good & Fruity. They were kind of like the Skittles of my youth!

[debm55]

34. TY ProfessorGAC, Loved the flying saucer candy

[Squaredeal]

28. When I was a kid, candy bars were 4 cents at the local drug store.

They were big bars too. Just about everything for us to choose from. My brother and I would mark them up to sell to other kids who were waiting in line at the movie theatre for the summer matinee.

[debm55]

35. TY Squaredeal. Good way to make a profit,

[AllaN01Bear]

29. bubble gum with archie , bettle baily. and richey $ and little orphan annie small cartoon strips and others .

[debm55]

36. Ty. I remember that.

[Hope22]

30. Candy pills and

Candy cigarettes🤣😂🤣

[debm55]

37. I remember those. TY Hope22

[AllaN01Bear]

31. when my mum was a little girl in sf

shed goto the matanee showing on sat for 5c and also get the pink popcorn. at a restraunt near here they sell that said same pink popcorn in a bag.

[debm55]

38. I naven't seen or heardof pink popcorn for a long time. TY

[yellowdogintexas]

32. Goobers, lemon drops, M & Ms Junior Mints

but not a large amount. I am not a big candy fan
I would rather have pie or cake

[debm55]

39. TY I remember those candies

[GoodRaisin]

40. Candy corn and orange slices or other assorted

gum drops. Also red licorice, and those wax things that looked like soda bottles you bite off the top and drink the colored sugar water inside it.

[debm55]

42. GoodRaisin. I remember them all, especially the wax soda bottles with flavored liquid inside.

Do you remember the wax teeth and lips???

[GoodRaisin]

45. I do remember those wax teeth and lips deb.

Kind of semi-sweet IIRC.

[LeftInTX]

43. As an adult, I would by Brach's nuggets in the grocery section- yum...

Most of my penny candy came from vending machines. They were basically sweet tarts, although I don't think that's what they were called.

I don't remember buying bags of penny candy. My mom did the buying. We weren't allowed to go to stores by ourselves.
She would give us a penny here and there and it was for the vending machines.

[debm55]

44. This was right on the corner, where I lived. It was a small market. But most of the customers were kids.