Just for fun: Favorite Old-Time Candies

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I loved these

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I don't think anyone has mentioned maple sugar candy? I buy that stuff whenever I see it. They sometimes had it at the LLBean in Tysons, but that is gone now.

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Anonymous wrote:I know and hate all of these candies LOL. I must have been an odd kid.

Maybe you were a stale gum in the baseball card pack, kinda kid.

Ah you remind me that I liked Big League Chew and the giant pixy stix

Would kids today know what a pixie stick was?

My kids were thrown some at our July 4th parade. It was a fun throwback teaching them how to not mess it up by getting the paper wet!

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Anonymous wrote:Spree

YES those were a childhood fave

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Hard lemon candies from Cracker Barrel

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Anonymous wrote:My grandmother used to put out those Sunkist fruit gummies in her candy dish, or the Brach’s pick-a-mix with cinnamon candy, those blue mint things, Starlight mints, and what have you.

She also used to serve After Eight mints after holiday dinners. They were very thin mint chocolates in little sleeves.

I can’t wait to be a grandmother and have a candy dish. My own grandmother’s is sitting n a cabinet just waiting for my moment. My mom is not a candy dish kind of grandma but you better believe I am going to be!

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Not too old, but more rare: Sixlets. Sometimes see them at Halloween.

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Anonymous wrote:Bottle caps and lemon heads

Bottle caps! Yesss!

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Are Rocket Fizz or Fuzziwigs stores not a thing on the east coast? Most of these candies can be found at one or the other.

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Anonymous wrote:Are Rocket Fizz or Fuzziwigs stores not a thing on the east coast? Most of these candies can be found at one or the other.

This thread is about what old-fashioned / old-school candies you like in 2023. What ones do you still like even if they aren’t still popular? Hubba Bubba? Maybe they are still popular a la Hershey bars?

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Gold Mine gold nugget gum
Chunky
Whachamacallit
Wacky Wafers

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I used to get chocolate covered shortbread-like cookies made by Cadbury's at a drug store (Drug Fair) back in the day. They were about 2" square and sold in little packets in the candy section. Haven't seen them in eons, but man they were good.

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Chicklets
Dentyne
Certs fruit mints

check out the Vermont country store for nostalgia

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Yes! I loved these so much. I felt sooooo sophisticated in 1997 carrying these in my purse.