for Candy Freeks

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Gator-Ade company used to make chewing gum and I loved it. I haven't seen it for years and miss it terribly, though I have a feeling I'd hate it now. My sister loved those chick-o-stix and I haven't seen those around in a long time either. I also love Lemonhead candy and they used to make a large version of the regular lemonhead that I liked but can't seem to find. The same company makes a similar candy called Cherryhead that I haven't seen in a bit. Must find out what Ferrarra Pan is up to, I think.

~lucky

They also make Orangeheads & Grapeheads. Mmmmm....various fruit heads

A craft store near here sells them. (the other craft store sells PEZ...what is it with craft stores & candy with cult followings??)

 

[lucky-E-leven]

They also make Orangeheads & Grapeheads. Mmmmm....various fruit heads

A craft store near here sells them. (the other craft store sells PEZ...what is it with craft stores & candy with cult followings??)

That's it! I'm moving to Arizona! At least my sweet tooth will be happy! Now if only you guys had more grass and trees then I'd be very happy.

~lucky

 

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Childhood candies are remembered as of two types:

1. Disappointments that I refused to give up on:

Tootsie Rolls always looked so chocolate-y, but they weren't.



I kept asking for them, hoping they'd someday taste as good as they looked.

Necco Wafers. Bland but better than no sugar at all.

Knock-offs of original Gummi Bears. Shameful parodies. Not sour enough.

Tootsie Roll Pops, the lollipop thing with a wad of Tootsie Roll non-chocolate in the center. Never really liked the taste, but loved the concept. So I ate a lot of them...Kids are nothing if not optimists!

Snickers. Wanted to like them, but the peanuts got in the way.

2. Euphoria:

Real Gummi Bears/ Little sparkly jewels of mouth-puckering sour/sweetness.

SweetTarts - the giant ones that could almost crack your jaw - were my favorite for years. Where are they now?

Almond Joy. An acquired taste, which I grew into at about age 8. Before that, the concept of coconut just seemed too wierd.

Milky Way. God knows how anyone could enjoy that many kinds of sweet goo sandwiched together. I tried one recently, out of nostalgia, and couldn't take a second bite.

Nestle's Crunch. Self-explanatory.

Chunky with nuts and raisins.

The ears of chocolate Easter bunnies. By the time I'd finished the ears and a few malted-milk chocolate eggs and some jelly beans, I was usually sick.

In the bong-smoking days of college, it was Pixie Stix. (Powdered SweetTarts in a paper straw. No chewing or other complicated procedures were necessary.

Ultimate bong food: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Ideally, alternated with a salty food, like pistachios. Washed down with Tab.



Remember Tab? It was like Diet Coke, with an aftertaste of used motor oil. If you were going to eat lots of Pixie Stix, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and pistachios, it was important to get used to diet soft drinks.

These days, I don't like candy very much. Desserts, yes. Candy, no...Except for Baci and the hazelnut praline Godivas.



Edited to add: There's a third category. Candy corn.]/i] Disgusting. Vile.

 

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Interesting article as a little girl I loved those hard candy dots that came on those peices of reciept like paper When I was 8 my mother banned them in our house because she's heard a rumor that they were laced with LSD. My mother is a smart woman but once she gets something in her head....

Are you saying they weren't laced with LSD?

 

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And don't get him started on white ingredients, be they white jellybeans, white chocolate, or shredded coconut--which he refuses to eat due to its "creepy dead-skin texture."

"Creepy dead skin texture" will be with me for a while. So much for Almond Joy.

 

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Who remembers the gum with the soft centres? I use to love the cinnamon ones you bite the centres and a gush of flavour filled your mouth.

My girlfriends called it "cum gum." I pretended I knew what they were talking about.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

My girlfriends called it "cum gum." I pretended I knew what they were talking about.

Nice try!

~lucky

 

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Sher, I loved all your responses above, esp. cum-gum, will not forget that one.

I love Chicklets gum, like sucking the sugar coating off before I start chewing. There are also teeny Chicklets that I chew one at a time until I've finished the packet, love that little taste with each tiny piece.

Perdita

 

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Sher, I loved all your responses above, esp. cum-gum, will not forget that one.

I love Chicklets gum, like sucking the sugar coating off before I start chewing. There are also teeny Chicklets that I chew one at a time until I've finished the packet, love that little taste with each tiny piece.

Perdita

I wish I could remember the name, but there's a gum from mexico that I used to get when I was a kid that was similar to the little tiny chicklets only better.

I miss the way Pixi Stix used to be packaged. Back when they didn't seal them I used to unfold both ends and then suck it in really quickly. I probably inhaled more than I ingested, but it was a great sugar rush!

 

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Lik-M-Aid was like pixie stix, it was basically sugared Kool-aid in a packet and you sucked if off your finger which then became dyed whatever color/flavor you ate.

I bought a pack of gum from Greece once. Awful taste and it stuck to my teeth.

Perdita

 

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Lik-M-Aid was like pixie stix, it was basically sugared Kool-aid in a packet and you sucked if off your finger which then became dyed whatever color/flavor you ate.

I bought a pack of gum from Greece once. Awful taste and it stuck to my teeth.

Perdita

I love Lik-M-Aid. Never cared for the candy stick that you were supposed to use, but the power was heavenly. My brother & I used to fight over who got which color. He usually won, of course, seeing as he's 6 years older than me and was twice my size for much of my childhood.

 

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Min, I have to say your current AV is like candy, looks very sweet and I just want to eat you up.

I also loved the photos with your face, you have a perfectly beautiful mouth. And you look like a teenager!

Perdita

 

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Min, I have to say your current AV is like candy, looks very sweet and I just want to eat you up.

I also loved the photos with your face, you have a perfectly beautiful mouth. And you look like a teenager!

Perdita

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It's like a bad movie........The Attack of the Giant Lemonhead!

 

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I don't remember Marathon Bars, but I do remember Whatchamacallit (mmmm) and Hundred-Thousand-Dollar-Bars (which I loved). They still have hundredthousanddollarbars, they call them Grands Where's the fun in that?

Does anyone remember Marathon Bars? The chocolate covered caramel braids,,,mmmm I'd kill any one of you now for a bite.

or Turkish taffy, you would freeze them and smack them off the sidewalk.

Blackjack gum? Hated it.
Clove gum? mmmm.

Happy candy memories......thanks P.

 

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My girlfriends called it "cum gum." I pretended I knew what they were talking about.

I heard that too, only just a couple of years ago. I guess it's not just around here after all! That reminds me, I had a manager that was so homophobic, he wouldn't eat ranch dip on a carrot stick! LOL, uptight people are so funny

 

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My little boy LOVES tootsie rolls. They never did that much for me, but I loved the tootsie roll comercials. (every where I look, I think I see, becomes a tootsie roll to me) and the Mr. Owl comercial for the tootsie roll totsie pops (how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop?- the world may never know) Of course the tootsie pops were just a pale immitation of the yummy suckers with the gum inside

Slightly off topic- not candy but treets and comercials. I always thought that when you got the feaver for the flavor of a Pringles, you should give Dr. Pepper a call

 

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Do they still make Canada mints? Fruit stripe gum?oh, oh, and those hot cinnamon toothpicks.,,mmmmmm.

Ben hurs and sen-sens made me gag, can't even stand the smell of them.....blechh!

~A~skipping off to get pixie sticks

 

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I havent seen Canada Mints in forever! As for the cinnamon toothpicks, they too are a thing of the past.

Isnt it crazy how we relate to different times in our lives by the type of candy we were into at the time?

I just spent 4 days with 84 , 12 ,13 and 14 yr olds in Quebec City, one girl in my group hit a gumball machine and came to ask if Id like one of her candies- they were the sour smartie shaped candies that turn into gum when chewed. I forgot how much I loved those little things! lol

Rgraham- I think Lolas were before my time- sorry! lol
Cealy