What was your favorite candy as a kid?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

I'm sitting here chowing down on a box of Sugar Babies and am waxing nostalgic. I even Googled "old time candy" and found this site. I'm planning to order a bunch of my favorites!

As for me, I loved Charms Sweet and Sour Pops, Chick-O-Stick, Jawbusters, salt water taffy, wax bottles, Slo-Pokes, Sugar Daddy, Pixie Sticks - it's a wonder I have any teeth left!


http://www.oldtimecandy.com/enter.htm

[Gormy Cuss]

1. For penny candy, SquirrelNuts, MaryJanes, Jawbreakers, and Sweettarts.

For boxes/ bars, Red Hots, Boston Baked Beans, Necco Wafers, Zagnuts, Clark bars, and PayDays.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

4. Ah, the memories!

I remember my friends liking the horehound candy too - SHUDDER!

[Gormy Cuss]

9. I remember BlackJack, Teaberry, and Clove gums too.

My father always had a few packs. He chewed them constantly during Lent when he gave up smoking. Every once in a while he'd share with the kids. He was amused that I liked the Clove gum but then I liked bold flavors even as a baby.

I bought these gums recently when they hit the market again. My too cool teen nephew loved them.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

10. Go to that link I listed

They have all of our favorites!

[grannylib]

37. Just checked it out and my favorite nostalgia candy is gone forever, it

seems...
Damn! Had my hopes up too.
No more Crown Regal Sours...:cry:

[smtpgirl]

31. Zero's, watermelon now/laters,

Mike & Ikes, Hot Tamales, bit-o-honey, vanilla & banana bb bats, atomic fireballs

[seemunkee]

2. Reggie bars and Baby Ruths

at least I can still get Baby Ruths

[seemunkee]

7. I forgot about Fizzies

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

11. I can't remember those

Maybe I'll order some to see what they were. Seems like I should know that!

[seemunkee]

20. Like an Alka Seltzer tablet but it makes soda

I've been looking for them for a while and was always told they weren't being made anymore. I'm ordering some, especially the root beer.

[terrya]

3. I loved Milk Duds when I was a kid.

I was probably the only kid I knew who liked those things...

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

5. Oh, I love them now!

Eat 'em all the time!

[terrya]

6. They're tasty

:-)

[WoodyTobiasJr]

8. Astro-Pops

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

12. Oh man! The memories are just flooding back!

We used to walk up to Stewart's Market for our candy in small town Kansas. WAAAHHH!!

[HughBeaumont]

13. Sno-Caps and Sky Bars!

Both of which are now bastardized and don't taste as good.

Out of Print candies like Wacky Wafers and Name Droppers were also great.

[malta blue]

14. M&M

plain only...no peanut.

I was a junkie for them as a kid...so much so that when I went to Israel in my teens for a summer, my grandmother sent me the pound bag and I had to pay $10 to clear it out of customs!

[KitchenWitch]

15. Pixie Stix and Swedish Fish

[Mz Pip]

16. Nik-L-Nips

I remember those. God knows what was in them - some sort of syrupy sweet artificially colored liquid. Then we would chew the wax.

Milk Duds and JuJuBees were my favorites for the movies. JuJuBees could pull out fillings.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[trackfan]

17. Necco wafers, Bit-o-honey, Big Hunk, Look, Sugar Daddy

Sugar Babies, Baby Ruth, Candy Cigarettes, Good N' Plenty, Spree Tarts, etc.

[Dangerously Amused]

18. All-time favorite = Licorice Snaps. But only if they're fresh and soft.

Cracker Jack (but mostly for the prize, which back in the day were pretty cool. Wait - does this count as "candy"?)

Lemon Drops.

Whistle Gum.

Charms Pops.


Although I think I tried everything at least once.

[Joe Fields]

19. I am the only one I know who liked Chick-O-Sticks.

Used to eat them all the time.

Checked the website out. Bookmarked it. Thanks.

[Avalux]

24. They sell them in the shop in my building. I love them.

:hi:

[Whoa_Nelly]

21. MMmmmmm Nut Goodie!

Cost 10 cents out of the vending machine at a local summer lodge where I used to live.




I must say, the picture of the Nut Goodie looks absolutely EVIL! :rofl:

[Dangerously Amused]

26. LOL! That's exactly what I thought when I first glanced at it.

It looks like a big scary monster mouth that eats YOU!


:scared:

[Avalux]

22. Bit-O-Honey's and Necco Wafers.

I also liked those mint things the same color as pepto bismol but can't remember what they're called. :hi:

[Rambis]

23. Sprees

marathon bars
pixie sticks
salt water taffey
sugar babies
boston baked beans
milk duds
Lollies

[Rude Horner]

25. I loved those candy necklackes

that had 50 or so individual pieces of chewable candy on a stretchable thread that you could wear as a necklace. Although your neck did tend to turn colors and get sticky. :D

Also, I loved Pop-Rocks, and I don't know if this qualifies as "Candy", but I used to love Wacky Packages.

[joneschick]

27. thank you for this site! Clark bars!

and OMG!

[chaska]

43. A local drug store still carries Clark Bars.

[Mutley]

28. Salt water taffy and M&Ms

:9

[Flaxbee]

29. Bit o'Honey. Still LOVE THEM

salt water taffy's great, too, as were those things that were in yellow and black wrapping, and were taffy filled with peanut butter. One long piece of taffy folded over peanut butter. Abba Zabbas! That's what they were! LOVE THOSE!

[martymar64]

30. Zotz!!!!!

Love that pop-rocks like buzz in the middle!

[grannylib]

36. Oh I loved those! The lemon ones especially.

[begin_within]

49. Best candy ever.

[Fox Mulder]

32. As a kid?

I still eat candy now!

Salt water taffy is my favorite. :)

[NewWaveChick1981]

33. I loved any and all kinds of candy. Big Mouthful bubble gum,

Marathon bars, Sugar Daddy and Sugar Mama (remember them) pops, and all that good 60s and 70s candy!

:hi:

[bigwillq]

34. M&M (nt)

[grannylib]

35. Pixie Stix and candy necklaces and Sour Lemon/Sour Cherry (I think they

were made by a company called either Crown or Regal or something like that...kind of like Life Savers but WAY better...incredible flavor and VERY tangy rather than sweet. My grandpa and I loved them...used to buy a roll of each when we'd go fishing and eat them all.)

[mainegreen]

38. Smarties nt

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. Cotton Candy

hot off the spinner!

[amitten]

51. Me too! Loooove that. n/t

[Karenca]

40. Bonomo's Banana Turkish Taffy.

Now you know I'm old . http://oldtimecandy.com/bonomo.htm

[crim son]

41. MacIntosh Toffee.

I can't believe I remember the name. I used to eat it constantly in Vancouver where I grew up.

[auntAgonist]

48. In the red tartan box ! yes!

I remember it too. I lived in Ontario Canada as a kid.

:hi:

aA

[crim son]

61. I wonder if we were there at the same time...

I was born in Toronto and lived there until I was eight or so. Then we moved to Vancouver. They had the toffee there, too! :hi:

[auntAgonist]

63. I lived in Ontario from 1966 until 1999

married and moved to the USA in 2000.

I didn't live in Toronto though. I lived west of TO, near Kitchener/Waterloo.


:hi:
:hug:

aA

[chaska]

42. Wax lips and wax whistles (remember those), & Jordan almonds at the movie.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

44. Jolly Rancher Apple Stix/Watermelon Stix (pretty much the same thing

as the current Jolly Rancher candies, but in a big stick).

Starburst.

Bubble Yum, but just for the bubble blowing, not the actual taste.

Zots for novelty. (fizzy carbonated stuff inside).

[Neoma]

45. Tarts.

[fishwax]

46. Bottle Caps

I remember buying them at my older brother's little league games when I was four or five years old. Then I stopped seeing them, only finding them once every few years. I haven't seen them now since a small convenience store near where I used to live stopped carrying them about five years ago.

[Fountain79]

47. PB Max

What the hell happened to those???

[Iniquitous Bunny]

50. Cherry Mash

Apparently, you can still buy them too. :woohoo:

http://www.cherrymash.com/

[NMMNG]

52. Pez

:9

[Broken_Hero]

53. butterscotch hard candies....nt

[deucemagnet]

54. Swedish fish.

The original food in gummy-form. :9

[enigmatic]

55. Zagnut

[Jamastiene]

56. M & M's always was/were my favorite candy.

Plain or with peanuts, didn't matter, and depending on my mood, it still is my favorite candy either way.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

57. These were the best!

Welch's Frappe Bar

[noonwitch]

58. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (still is my favorite)

I like Butterfingers and Clark bars, too.

[MissMillie]

59. All of them

except for stuff w/ raisins. :puke:

[Katina]

60. SweeTarts.. I couldn't eat chocolate

it made my teeth hurt so SweeTars became my favorite!

[BigMcLargehuge]

62. same as it is now

Hershey bar...

Lately I've been on a Good N Plenty kick though.

[tibbir]

64. Payday and Sugar Daddy

[Polly Hennessey]

65. Candy as a kid

Payday
Sugar Daddy
Bit O' Honey
Milk Duds

Yumm, Yumm

[SpeedwayDemocrat]

66. Pixie Sticks, with an insulin chaser...

Sure, Bart Simpson said there's no sugar in them, but...
What? TV lied to me again?
That's it - I'm calling Lionel Hutz, Attorney-at-Law...

[Sequoia]

67. Atomic Fire Balls.

[Xipe Totec]

68. Chamoy - salty dried plums

I've always preferred salt to sugar, so these were my favorite snacks as a kid growing up in Mexico.

Perhaps this is why, at age 50, I still have all my teeth including wisdom teeth.

Identical to the jars in which crack seed is merchandised in Hawaii, these are salty-sweet-anisey derivatives of the Cantonese snack food that Hawaiians call crack seed. In these same malls, often as not, there are stalls selling traditional Mexican sweets. Among the peanut marzipan, the amaranth brittle and the wafers filled with cajeta, a kind of condensed milk, are little plastic packets filled with salty dried plums. They are labelled chamoy. I looked up the word 'chamoy' in several dictionaries and asked Mexican friends what it meant, but to no avail. Then it dawned on me. 'Chamoy' is none other than the Mexican rendering of the Cantonese words see mui, the original term for crack seed. Whether crack seed came with the Acapulco Galleon, as E. N. Anderson has suggested, or with later Cantonese workers, it is now firmly ensconced as a traditional Mexican snack with its own hybrid name.

http://www.flavorandfortune.com/dataaccess/article.php?ID=138

[Roon]

69. Mr.goodbar took Mrs. Hershey

behind the powerhouse on fifth ave. There he stuck his butterfinger into her cherry mash and out came a babe ruth.