More candy, please!
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Remember when…you would scrape up some coinage and go to your local store and stand at the candy counter trying to make up your mind what to get? Do I try something new? Do I go with one of my favorites? So many things, so little money.
Or, the excitement you felt dumping out your Halloween bag to see what you scored.
Life was so less complicated then.
So, what were your favorites? What did you hate? What triggers some kind of memory for you? And why the fuck would anyone eat black licorice (@hollboll)?
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I started this because for some reason I had these on my mind. I loved these things.
@mfladd Last I looked those were expensive when you found them.
And, yes, I do remember.
Highlight of visiting Grandma was the little bit of money you could scrounge or beg. The corner store down the street had a big glass case you could press your nose against to choose. Then you wanted that one, no, no the red one next to it, no wait… I bet the employees hated us kids.
@mfladd I had quite a collection of those, plastered all around my bedroom door frame.
@speediedelivery the corner store/post office at my grandparents was owned by granmom’s sister. So we would head there and my mom would visit w her aunt after they let us kids blow up to $3 a piece on candy from the candy display, plus my great aunt would throw in a free piece. That was a ton of candy. I fondly remember those trips (I don’t think red licorice tastes as good now as it did when I got it from her) but am sad I was so young I didn’t really “visit” w my great aunt. She was the postmaster/store owner in that small town since the 30s or 40s (w hubby til he died in 70s then she died in 80s) and I think it would have been great to hear her stories. But we kids would just eat a piece or 2 of candy then run around, ignoring the adults talking.
@mollama I also wish I had listened more to my grandparents and other senior family and friends. My Mom did video her father answering some questions. She asked him about how he met his wife and their first date. He was trying to stay still like for a photo at the beginning then laughed when she told him it was ok to talk.
My brother likes the salty black licorice. My dad liked it too.
I did not get the gene from my dad on that one, which I find funny because a lot of things that he didn’t like, I didn’t like either.
@RiotDemon
I absolutely loved Kinder Eggs as a kid. I’m really sad they are banned here. I also think it’s a ridiculous ban because I’ve recently bought a chocolate egg with a plastic toy inside it.
Fun dip. Always ate the least liked flavor first, so I could savor the better ones after.
@RiotDemon Speaking of Kinder Eggs. Watch this.
@mfladd never been made before…
Ban has been lifted recently? Where the fuck are my kinder eggs!!
@RiotDemon A few years back I was with a friend who grew up overseas (AF brat). We ate lunch at a local Mediterranean restaurant with a market attached, where we browsed after lunch. She was very excited to see Kinder eggs and bought us some. I thought it was good, and only when trying to find more did I learn that they were illegal. We have some stupid laws.
My faves were chocolates (any kind of melty chocolate), nutty things (payday) or chewy stuff that might pull your fillings out (jujubes, dots).
Some more candy came to mind. We used to get a mixed bag of candies called Twist. Had a little bit for everyone. My favorites were a square of milk chocolate that had a whole hazelnut in the middle and the mini Daim bars.
Daim is like a Skor or Heath bar, but way better chocolate.
/image Norwegian twist candy bag
/image daim candy bar
@RiotDemon I have never had a Daim before.
@mfladd I think it’s Swedish. I’ve never seen it in a grocery store except for the Scandinavian importer that I used to go to before it closed. I really miss that store.
Importing stuff is so damn expensive.
Dark chocolate anything.
@f00l
I have a bar of dark chocolate with mint in my house. Have absolutely no use for it.
@ilovehollboll nooooooo!!! Mint and dark chocolate? There is only one use: consumption. I can’t have chocolate (I developed a caffeine intolerance -get migraines and shortness of breathe among other issues) but if I had such a thing I would give it to someone who can eat it and let it fulfill its life purpose.
/image candy cigarettes
@dalekjoe Those were the days
I love that ad!!! “Hey dad, can I bum a smoke?” LOL
@dalekjoe the ones we got had spoof brands on them.
I was just coming here to post this.
For some reason I have a craving for one of these.
@mfladd
Childhood fav.
@mfladd Just had one of these last week. Apparently we hit some milestone with zero falls or something at my hospital so administration gave them out to everyone. Hadn’t had one in ages and considering my diet I won’t likely have one again anytime soon. I savored it.
@cinoclav
I’m not supposed to, according to my master plan.
But sometimes do anyway.
@mfladd When I was a kid, the Hollywood Candy Company (original manufacturer of Zero bars) had a near monopoly on this 10-year old’s candy budget. I liked Zero, Payday, Butternut and the flagship Hollywood bar, but the MilkShake bar was my utter favorite, especially frozen MilkeShake bars served at the swimming pool on hot summer days. Alas when the company went out of business, Hershey only picked up production of Zero and Payday.
@mfladd Those are the only candy so far on this page I can’t stand and that includes black licorice.
I was eating sour patch kids last night mmmm
@CaptAmehrican Those are one of my kids favorites right now.
Not so much kids, unless a very lucky kid. Or perhaps someone who never quite started acting their age?
The Sweet Shop USA
http://www.sweetshopusa.com/
CUSTOMER SERVICE
1.888.95.SWEET
Mount Pleasant, TX
(east of Dallas)
These people make chocolates on-site. Most of their truffles are shipped to other chocolatiers who re-brand them.
Their truffles are insane-good. They make them in white, dark, and milk chocolate - the basic ones are either plain or with nuts, but they have many varieties.
They have an on-site shop, where they sell their own chocolates, and sell their own truffles under the name "Fudge Love.
The thing to do is call the shop during weekday biz hours and ask them to ship you bags of seconds in the chocolate flavor you desire. They may also have mixed flavor bags of seconds.
The so-called “seconds” are fine, and much cheaper. They’re just not so perfect in appearance that they can be sold for re-branding.
If you want to know how good they are, ask @Hollboll, who might possibly know.
They have to be careful shipping during the summer, but right now is fine. They will tell you what to expect with shipping.
The people who work there are so nice, you will think you stepped into an alternative universe. The chocolates are so good you won’t want to come back to this universe.
@f00l
PS I don’t think you can order the “seconds” off the website. But they always have them, so just call.
Love these!
@mfladd
But… That looks like chocolate. Not ice cubes…
@mfladd haven’t seen those in eons
@Cerridwyn Enjoy!
https://www.amazon.com/Alberts-Chocolate-Ice-Cubes-100/dp/B00A4BRAE4/ref=pd_sim_325_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=CW9ME4F63QDZA1RSZDNT
@mfladd wow, nice
might have to order some
but already found a couple places cheaper than amacrap and gasp even walmart online sells it
@mfladd We had some of these in our Christmas stockings this year! Made me feel like ten-year-old me again.
I love Junior Mints.
Hmm, Junior Mints are on sale at Walgreens or I could drive a little more and get a big box at Walmart. Dammit @mfladd, you made me hungry.
@Barney At Christmas they had Junior Mints with crushed peppermint candy stuck to the chocolate. They were good.
@sammydog01 I’m supposed to take the word of someone who likes marshmallow circus peanuts?
@Barney They make Junior Mint K-Cups now, in case you have a suitable coffee maker.
@dashcloud I’m not a coffee drinker, but that could definitely tempt me. I bet it smells wonderful. (I love the smell of coffee brewing.)
@dashcloud I had that once. Someone brought in their opened box from home to work. Apparently they didn’t think it was that great. I took a couple of sips and dumped it out.
@dashcloud we have2 boxes of the cups. It’s hot chocolate and the coffee drinkers will sometimes do 1 k-cup coffee + 1 of these in a big Meh-purchase Bubba mug.
@Barney I like Junior Caramels but they are very hard to find (fortunately for me). They are much easier on the teeth than the sister product Milk Duds.
@DrWorm I’ll have to keep an eye out for them.
They should bring these back.
/image Haribo ass with ears
I enjoyed the Flake chocolate bar/stick so much I kept the wrapper around to remind me about.
@dashcloud I highly recommend this trio. The Crunchie bars quickly became my favorite. I’m looking forward to my trip to Canada next month to stock up on them.
https://smile.amazon.com/Cadbury-Chocolates-Variety-Pack/dp/B00PG9GPRW
I hate, hate, hate these things.
@mfladd I love, love, love those things.
@sammydog01 I should have known.
@mfladd not my favorite. Aren’t they artificial banana flavor?
@RiotDemon They don’t stay down long enough for me to tell.
@RiotDemon Maybe. My favorite tic-tacs are artificial banana flavored.
@mfladd my Dad loved those things, I never could stomach them
@mfladd @sammydog01 I love them too. But I also like candy corn so there’s likely something wrong with me.
@cinoclav Yeah, I am not a fan of candy corn. Cotton candy, yes!
The thing about these is that enough paper came off with them that you didn’t need toilet paper.
@mfladd We made those at home once! Egg whites, sugar, and printer paper. Yum!
@mfladd I saw some of these at the checkout line at a store and said “wow I haven’t seen those in decades” and the person in front of me said “those have probably been there for decades”
/image zagnut
My candy bar of choice as a kid:
@pitamuffin Geez, I hadn’t thought about those in years! I wonder if they were phased out due to regulations regarding products using “lite” in their name. Or were they long gone by then?
@pitamuffin Those were good.
And my bubble gum of choice:
@pitamuffin omg, I had forgotten about that stuff.
@pitamuffin @mfladd This is the gum they sold at the concession stand at our Little League fields! Maybe 40yr ago?
@compunaut I also immediately associate Bub’s Daddy with my Little League concession stand.
@heartny so did you chew the wax when you were done. We used to.
@Kidsandliz Absolutely! The wax was the best part.
Chocolate bars. At halloween my sibs took advantage of the limited kinds of candy I liked and would only trade if they got like 3 or 4 candy bars to the one they were trading me.
Kickin’ it old-school
@huja Cadbury still makes a reasonable facsimile of the Marathon bar called “Curly Wurly”. Unfortunately you can’t get them in the U.S., but there are places online where you can order them and have them shipped.
@huja
The commercials were the best.
Also a staple of road trips
. . . in addition to the other major food groups, beef jerky and Big Gulps, to make a complete meal,
Yucky
@mfladd You got these two pictures backwards. It is the Mary Janes that are good not the ones with the icky center.
@speediedelivery
Yummy
@mfladd I hate the center of those.
@RiotDemon The center is the best part!
@sammydog01 Agreed. I think we have similar tastes. Nothing better than popping one in your mouth and poking the center out with your tongue. Savor it then eat the caramel.
Chocolate, any kind, of course.
And black licorice is awesome, you can’t tell me otherwise.
But sometimes I just gotta have…
@2many2no I have a bag of Atomic Fire Balls hidden away in the kitchen.
This was my favorite candy bar back in the day.
Milk chocolate, almonds, and malted milk. SO good.
http://www.oldtimecandy.com/
You can look for candy by the decade . I found something I was looking for there. (Bonomo Turkish Taffy)
@sgrazi Cracker Barrel sells that. I usually get it for the kids’ stockings at Christmas but one just got braces.
@sammydog01
Thanks, but the nearest one is at least an hour from here. I do try NOT to eat the candy, I was just reminiscing about it. (freeze it, then drop on the floor to break it up).
I did enjoy paging through the list for the candy from the decade when I used to be able to buy penny candy.
I bought two boxes of Junior Mints today. Thanks a lot @mfladd, I really didn’t need them. I hate you.
/giphy Junior Mints
@Barney
@Barney Guess what I found at Target? I would send them to you but I ate them. Happy Valentine’s Day!
@sammydog01 You are so mean!
/giphy don’t be cruel
(I still have a box left.)
How about candy hall of shame? Nestle Chunky with raisins -because yeah, what kids want with their chocolate is raisins. Pixie sticks - even as a kid I knew it was just sugar in a straw. Candy corn - to quote Nancy Kerrigan, Why, why why! Charleston Chew - you feel smart for getting the biggest bar for the money but then you bite into it. Heshey’s Special Dark - the kale of chocolate for a 7-year old.
@huja Hershey’s Special Dark is chocolate for adults. It’s superior flavor is wasted on children.
@huja I loved pixy stix. I do remember in high school, one of my classmates decided he would try to snort some up his nose. Apparently it was very painful.
@huja Chunky was the best! Also, I’d like to introduce you to…
@huja I can’t agree with the Charleston Chews. I like those.
@huja Those Chunkys were one of my very favorites! And Pixie Sticks make me think of Toddlers and Tiaras- a very popular pick-me-up. They call it pageant crack.
@sammydog01 Open wide for Chunky!
@DrWorm’s milk shake candy post reminded of this. As a kid, I loved them for some reason. Not actually candy, but does anyone else remember these?
@mfladd @mfladd Yep. I got sick eating too many of them at one time. Thanks again, @mfladd.
/giphy thanks for the memories
This thread made me stop at Walgreens on my way home.
I got the usual:
/image Cadbury dairy milk fruit and nut
Then I got something else to try:
/image Toffifay
They are ok. The idea is good. The caramel is crap though. It has a bleh texture.
@RiotDemon Oh man, haven’t seen those in ages!
These have become harder and harder to find at Easter. Definitely a love them or hate them candy. Obvious where I fall. They’ve also changed names over the year but Bunny Basket Eggs by Brach’s are the only name I’ve seen them as recently.
@cinoclav OMG, I haven’t seen or thought about those in ages.
@mfladd Well, Easter is coming!
@cinoclav yep. I’m in the Hate Them camp.
@cinoclav Love them! So soft on the inside. They come individually wrapped these days. Although they are pretty good stale too.
@sammydog01 You and I seriously need to meet up in a candy store.
@cinoclav Absolutely!
/image candy store
@cinoclav A vote for hate.
@cinoclav What the hell is in those things?
@compunaut Magic, love, and a little sparklyness.
I could eat these until I puked. I’m dead serious.
Looking for these mints over on the Bates website, I saw the Boston Baked Beans. Ya ever eaten those Boston Baked Beans candies?
Back in the 90s, I bought a bag of those up at Disneyland and we ate them on the way home. Between the two of us, we emptied the bag. Tasty candies, they were.
The red dye in the coating had a kind of alarming appearance when it left the body. Good thing we both partook of the candy, otherwise it would have been a needless trip to the ER.
@lisaviolet Somehow I knew precisely what the Boston Baked Beans were, though I don’t think I’ve ever had them. I have had French Burnt Peanuts, which I assume are very similar? Both of these items could use a rebranding, I think…
Also I had a similar experience once after eating a few ‘black’-iced cupcakes. The ‘black’ was just an extremely pigmented blue, and I definitely thought I was dying until I pieced it together…
@lisaviolet Blech. But I love Boston Baked beans.
I am having trouble with the concept of “bad candy” if one is younger than, say, 13 years old.
Ok, there’s always something one doesn’t like, or doesn’t like much. But secretly you know that all candy is great candy, even if some particular candy is only great in some alternate universe you haven’t visited yet.
I always loved this:
It’s prob crap.
Anyone else ever dip a spoon into a comtainer of granulated sugar and consume?
I should be in way worse shape than I am. I have decent blood glucose levels. I’m sure I sold my soul to the devil in exchange for candy at some point in my childhood.
Also Mom made great fudge and divinity. If she made it before supper, she had to lock it away or it would be gone long before time to set the table.
@f00l I dipped a spoon into this and ate it- last week.
@sammydog01
U baaaaad!
Ever put Gold Brick topping on ice cream? You heat it, then put it on the ice cream and it hardens into a candy layer on top of your ice cream. So insanely good and so much fun to eat!