Old School Candies

[Skip]

Remember Rock Candy? It was hard, clear crystalized sugar. Boy was that ever a cavity maker! It would last a long time and it had a string inside.

How about those awful little waxy bottles that had some kinda colored, sweet syrupy stuff in side. Hated those!

What were those thin, tiny chocolate circles with little white spreckles on top?

How about those thin, paper sticks about 8 inches long that contained flavored sugar? Yuck!

How many of these are still around?

I'm sure you guys can come up with dozens more...

[hippychickmommy]

Oh yes! I loved that rock candy! I thought it was the coolest thing!

I remember those waxy bottles. They made little waxy tubes too with that, well, whatever the heck kind of liquid it was in it!

I don't remember those chocolate circles though.

The paper sticks with colored sugar...oh yes, Pixie Sticks. I loved that stuff as a kid. Made me bounce off the walls!

How about that candy called Digits? I think they were grape flavored, hard shell on the outside, but chewy on the inside?

And Zappers. Remember those? They were gum balls with little bumps all over them, and in the inside it had sour crystals when you bit into them?

[Hacker]

Whatchamacallit?

[Boogabaah]

mmmmmmmmm candy..

[themnax]

i remember those chocklet circles with the white speckles on top, used to get them in movie houses all the time. they came in a cardboard tube, about the same size as a the one in the center of a roll of tolet paper.

i think the name was something that began with a 'd' but i can't remember it right off hand either.

but that reminded me of another thing that was also round but kind of a trunkated cone shape called rolos. it was a chocklet shell filled with caramel.

mostly i remember 3 musketeers for ten cents being the size that would cost a dollar or more now if they even still make any that big. and my parents saying a dime was too much and they used to get them when they were my age for a nickle and they were twice that big again!

by that reconing, as a guess, whenever they were first made, they must have cost one penny and been as big as your hand. back in the 1800 something or another's

rock candy i only remeber from carinval booths. but i do remember, looked like odd shaped quarts or glass crystals, sort of cubist, like lumps of transparent cubes the shapes, always unique. with a string through the middle, both to hang on to it with, but also an artifact of how they were made.

i think i've got a recipie book kicking arround somewhere that tells how.

i don't recall seeing any of these, other then the rolos in stores though.

there was some sort of a streatchy nuget thing that had peanuts in it and a chocklet coating. that was in stores and probably still is. used to be a real common name but at the moment i forget that too. may have been "look" like the magazene.

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[Skip]

Do they still make Milk Duds? They sound like rolos (which I've never had).

What was that little candy that fizzed when you put it in your mouth. Sorta fruit flavored.

Smith Brothers cough drops, anyone? With the two guys with big beards on the box!

I remember once I went into a little shop in Ocean Beach, San Diego which had every kind of treat from the old daze. But like those treats it too is just a memory...

[hippychickmommy]

Yes, they still make Milk Duds. My kids all got some just this past Halloween treat-or-treating.

I remember Rolos. Those were pretty good. http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Gh0sTiNnyc]

candy cigarettes.......those were great

[hippychickmommy]

I was never allowed to have those. I remember other kids having them though.

[Skip]

I bet those candy cigarettes were actually made by the tobacco companies. Can't start kids young enuf!

[MikeE]

Bubble gum cigars. (Do they still make rolls of caps?)

I hated those yellow pyramid candy corn things.

Screaming Yellow Zonkers were great. Absolutly pure junk!

[NoVictimNoCrime]

What were those thin, tiny chocolate circles with little white spreckles on top?snocaps!!

and i loved those syrup-filled wax bottles! i would just chew on them rather than bite off the necks, anyone else do that?

actually, most of those candies are still around today.

[Love Fest1969]

Candy buttons, candy necklace and the chocolate coins were my favorites.

[sugrmag]

Remember Big League gum? It was sold in a pouch in long spagetti type ribbons meant to resemble chewing tobacco!

Skip, the candy that fizzes in your mouth is called Pop Rocks. I loved those!

Also, fun dip! Sugar stick that you dip in different flavored sugar!

[Mrs.H]

I LOVED Big League Chew and Tubble Gum - the stuff that came in the tube like toothpaste.

mmmmm...

[fylthevoyd]

Yeah those chalky candy cigarettes....remember them well and the old wax bottles I remember in little 6 pack cartons

there was a much more intense fizzy candy before the popping rocks...they were "zotz"...they were like chewing on an akla-seltzer while eating acid...only real sour

Who remembers the pre-packaged cinnamon tooth-picks....that were like sticks coated in battery acid...they would burn your lips from the cinnamon oil.

[shaina]

all those candies are still around

[Skip]

Yeah those chalky candy cigarettes....remember them well and the old wax bottles I remember in little 6 pack cartons

there was a much more intense fizzy candy before the popping rocks...they were "zotz"...they were like chewing on an akla-seltzer while eating acid...only real sour

Who remembers the pre-packaged cinnamon tooth-picks....that were like sticks coated in battery acid...they would burn your lips from the cinnamon oil.
Yeah, I do remember those tooth picks! And the zotz too. Remember where the word "zotz" came from anyone?

[wyldwynd]

i remember we always went to this penny candy store and you would get a little brown paper bag and fill it with candy,,,root beer barrels,,necco wafers, chic-o sticks,,smarties, jujubees, the gold coins, sugar daddys, slo pokes, tootsie rolls,,bubble gum, my favortie was the piece of licorice which stuck out of the top of the bag,,as we skipped away with our candy,,,,,wish they still had those penny candy shops :)

[themnax]

zots came from a cartoon, i forget the name of the artist, about a bunch of little ants and an ant eather. and whenever the ant eater would catch an ant with his long sticky tongue the caption sound would be ZZZZZootttt or something like that. i think it was kind of a half way political cartoon too. i remember seeing it either in some kind of magazene like argosy or on the op ed page in newspapers, or maybe, you don't suppose it was aragones in mad? glach, i guess my mind can become hazey about some things after all.

as for smith brother's coff drops, licorich and cherry, my mom used to get those for us all the time.

and necco's, don't they still make those? and candy cigarets. have they stopped making them.

in the late 80s i remember retrosploytation 'penny' candy stores, generaly in 'historical (living musium revitalization) districts', like old town in sacramento. with the barrels of all sorts of different flavours of little toffies and stuff like that. wasn't anything like that in the 50s when i was actual a preeteen though.

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[denimstar]

Nonpareils (they were the choclate circles w/white beads), Wax Lips, Zagnuts, BB Bats, Wax Bottles, Sky Bars, Candy Cigarettes, Kits, Sugar Daddy candies from the 50s, 60s and 70 can all still be bought.

[SliceNDice]

I still remember jawbreakers (the real kind, not those punkass gobstoppers) and those little colored dots of candy on that roll of paper.

[cerridwen]

Whatchamacallit? LOVED those!

[nouronion]

does anybody remember those candys called "dots" i think, they were just little differnt colored dots that came on a piece of paper, and u pealed them off the paper and ate them, (and u also usually ate some paper that was still stuck to the backs of them)

[denimstar]

does anybody remember those candys called "dots" i think, they were just little differnt colored dots that came on a piece of paper, and u pealed them off the paper and ate them, (and u also usually ate some paper that was still stuck to the backs of them)
WOW I did forget about them. I wonder how they came to be? Was it the end of the day and leftovers that they threw on a piece of paper to just use it up?

[Orsino2]

Squirrel nut zippers.

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[passenger]

Mmm.. Rock Candy. I had like 5 of those a few weeks ago. =)

[Grapefruity]

man hersheys whoppers were awesome, havin a hard time findin some though

[hippietoad]

And I thought this post was going to be about Candies, the shoe company.
No I am dated.

[SageDreamer]

I remember Dots. The dot part wasn't so bad, but the paper tasted awful.

[Herbin' Cowboy]

I am old enough to recall ABBA-ZABBA bars and Hollywood bars. Oh...and Big Hunk as well. And Black Jack gum. Bubblegums, the big round barrel kind from I think Whammo, were two for a penny. Gasoline was like $0.12 to $0.15 per gallon and my mom could bring home more groceries than she could carry for a ten dollar bill.

Coca-Cola came in tiny, thick bottles hanging in icy cold, continually circulating water in bright red machines...they cost a dime each and would sweat like crazy on a hot summer's day. othing could ever cut through a real dry throat like an icy cold bottle of Coca-Cola!

I also remember the barber putting hot shaving cream on my sideburns and the back of my neck all throughout my childhood to shave the fine hairs there after a haircut. He would also ask if you wanted a little after shave, and he would pat your face and neck with his fragrant hands.

I remember the first seat belts, a single strap of maroon nylon across your lap like and airline restraint. And playing for hours with a broken piece of stick that we'd make from survey markers...throwing them just right so they make a loud motoring sound when you flipped them away from you. We called these things "Zoomers" and they kept us occupied for free.

Kool-aid was a favorite and Monster Pops were the sweet of the day when the Good Humor man came around. I also remember begging my mother for a nickle so I could by one of those gorgeous glazed donuts from the Helms Bakery truck that used to drive slowly down our street, blowing its three-note whistle dreamily to get my attention. I have never tasted their equal yet!

And what about TV? My Friend Flicka and Fury and The Rifleman on Saturdfay mornings? Sherry North and "Lambchop"? Sherrif John and Engineer Bill got me hooked on drinking milk.

Yeah...this post really sent me down memory lane, but there are far too many examples to post here. I'd be at it all day long and still never make a dent in it all!

I hope these recollections help to jog your memory and help you recall some great times in your life.

All the best

[Biida]

There used to be these awesome hard candies that looked like gumballs and fizzed uncontrollably in your mouth when you started sucking on them... And then they were discontinued. Apparently, according to urban legend, some kid choked on the foam and nearly died.

Which sucks. Those were my favourites. :\

[Brkonthru2daothersid]

I think they still make snocaps. I think that they are made by a company called Hickory Farms u know that stuff that they sell in the stores around Xmas time? LOL They call them something different and I still think they taste like crap. I remember the everlasting gobstoppers. Those babies were huge. I once got one stuck in my mouth. I like the candy corns though those were always one of my favorites. Pixie sticks they were just plain flavored sugar sure cavity maker there LOL. I just had a mixed drink the other day that tasted exactly like a dip stick, the little white sticks you used to dip in colored sugar stuff, that was funny sure brought back some memories. I still remember eating GOOBERS I know they still sell them. Used to have them when I went out to the movies all the time. Ahhhhh good memories.

[Big Bull]

POP ROCKS! Those were great! Yes you can still get the candy cigarettes and the bubble gum cigars. You might find them in hospital gift shops that say "Its a Boy or Its a Girl" for newborns!

[lucyinthesky]

Sour ball gum.

[Dylanchick0113]

They still make all of that junk here, Theyre still selling every single one of em,, The snow caps were the little chocolate drops with white things on top,, the wax bottles and candy cigs,, the rock candy,, Theyre all in the store on my street,, Dentist anyone?

[TheLizardQueen]

hmm found this page:

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/pop/sweets.htm

[smelltheroses]

Wax lips, LOL. My favorite was the Bun candy bar. They still sell the old time candy on the internet, but I try not to go to those websites... too tempting. :)

[wyldwynd]

are good N Plenty still around

[gesone]

JUNIOR MINTS! I love those fuckers!