Old School Candies

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?

 

Whatchamacallit?

 

mmmmmmmmm candy..

 

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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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.

 

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

 

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

 

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!

 

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.

 

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

 

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!

 

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

mmmmm...

 

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.

 

all those candies are still around

 

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

 

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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