Old People Candy

[Anonymous]

Queen Anne chocolate covered cherries
Kraft caramels

[Anonymous]

I think my fave candy of all time is peanut brittle. Pretty sure it qualifies as old people candy.

[Anonymous]

I'm making pralines tomorrow. My mother made them every year, huge batches to give as Christmas gifts. One year we went out and gathered pecans from the ground at some place that had a bunch of pecan trees.

I think they are more of a 20th century thing than not.

[Anonymous]

what an ageist thread! and non of you noticed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Black Jelly Beans
Horehound candy (yeck!)
Licorice Allsorts
cream drops
Candy fruit slices
Candy pebbles
Victorian Creams
Licorice shoestrings
Beeman's gum
Clove Gum
Blackjack Gum

Horehound is an aquired taste, I remember my parents buying it when we were kids and thought it was terrible, but we ate it anyway. Now I love the stuff.

Yep, exact same story

[Anonymous]

Almond Roca

[Anonymous]

PP here. Like After Eight, Almond Roca was supposed to be "fancy." It came wrapped in gold, and was sold in a pink and gold tin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Like After Eight, Almond Roca was supposed to be "fancy." It came wrapped in gold, and was sold in a pink and gold tin.

Awww I love Almond Roca! it was a fancy treat my mom always indulged in over the holidays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I associate Brach's candy, hard ribbon candy, and circus peanuts with old people. What candy do you associate with the older members of our society?

I associated hard ribbon candy with old people when I was a child in the 1970’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I associate Brach's candy, hard ribbon candy, and circus peanuts with old people. What candy do you associate with the older members of our society?

I associated hard ribbon candy with old people when I was a child in the 1970’s.

Same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aplets and Cotlets--does anyone remember those? From Liberty Orchards? Sort of like an American take on Turkish Delight? My grandmother loved those.

These are apricot flavored, right?

[Anonymous]

My grandmother always had nonpareils. I had to look up what they are called, lol.