Old People Candy

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Anonymous wrote:Really random, but today i visited the only historical candy shop in America. The owner was there and i spoke to her and she is a candy historian. I shit you not, they sold little grandma purses full of old fashioned grandma candy.

That sounds so awesome.

I love Russell Stovers, and I'm 50, but I think of it as "old person" candy too. Had some lately and it was delicious.

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Anonymous wrote:Really random, but today i visited the only historical candy shop in America. The owner was there and i spoke to her and she is a candy historian. I shit you not, they sold little grandma purses full of old fashioned grandma candy.

where is this?

both sets of my grandparents had various hard candies (butterscotch, the strawberry wrapped ones, just solid colored hard drops), nips (still love those!) and andes candies. i also associate bit o honey and those peanut butter taffies with older generations.

Harpers Ferry. The store is fascinating. They have all of the candy in sections based on the centuries, starting around 1600.

I learned today that Native Americans brought us corn sugar, but the slaves really brought into into mass production with sugar cane sugar. She speaks all around the country on the history of candy.

My kids could pick out any cady they wanted, but they first had to read the history and know the time period.

https://www.truetreatscandy.com/our-shops

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really random, but today i visited the only historical candy shop in America. The owner was there and i spoke to her and she is a candy historian. I shit you not, they sold little grandma purses full of old fashioned grandma candy.

That sounds so awesome.

I love Russell Stovers, and I'm 50, but I think of it as "old person" candy too. Had some lately and it was delicious.

They had old Russell Stover boxes on display! She also gave me the history of Halloween (as it relates to ro candy). Halloween was wayyyy cooler back 50years ago. She even showed me the real original truffles that people used to eat on Halloween.

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Anonymous wrote:Fisherman's Friend
Korean Red Ginseng
Necco's Wafers
Now&Laters

What?!? Now n Laters are NOT old peoples candies. No way. Blasphemy!

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Anonymous wrote:Awww this thread brings back warm memories of grandma's house. She also had those caramel rolls...kinda !like tootsie rolls but different flavors inside like raspberry etc.

Royals, or something like that? I'd forgotten about those, but loved them as a child!

Remember when there were always big open bins of brachs candies in the grocery store? There were always several bins of those caramel things.

Yes! Why don't they have those anymore? Or the red-dyed pistachios? You'd get a little bag of those, and then go with your mom to write a check for the groceries

I'm a PP. I was in the grocery store yesterday and the older, not ancient though, lady in front of me paid by check. I was very surprised but I guess I shouldn't be, checks still exist.

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Def. the strawberry candy--love those!

And after-dinner mints--I actually made some recently, and they were pretty easy.

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French Burnt Peanuts

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Stick candy (hard)
Gumdrops
Candy corn
Mallow cremes
Cracker Jack
Good n plenty
Chuckles
Chick lets gum

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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

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I'm a PP. Re: Russell Stover- I love most of it. My dad's company used to share a building with RS corporate, and they had a shop that was open to the public (seconds, expired chocolate, as well as brand-new stuff). My dad used to go there at least 6 times a year and send me huge care packages of discounted boxed chocolates (assorted creams are my fave), big Easter bunnies (marked down to $.25, so he sent 15)... very popular with my coworkers. He died 13 years ago, and I still think of him when I see the RS corner in the grocery store.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Awww this thread brings back warm memories of grandma's house. She also had those caramel rolls...kinda !like tootsie rolls but different flavors inside like raspberry etc.

Royals, or something like that? I'd forgotten about those, but loved them as a child!

Remember when there were always big open bins of brachs candies in the grocery store? There were always several bins of those caramel things.

Brach Milk Maids

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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.

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Those strawberry candies always freaked me out as a kid because it was always the candy used in kindnapping videos. Like, cautionary movies shown to children on how to not get abducted. The strawberry candy was always the one used to lure kids into the van. Therefore, I can't go near it!

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Anonymous wrote:Throat lozenges.

Ha, yes, Sucrets! I remember my Aunt offering me candy (yay!), only to find out it was a Sucrets (oh, man!)

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Anonymous wrote:Awww this thread brings back warm memories of grandma's house. She also had those caramel rolls...kinda !like tootsie rolls but different flavors inside like raspberry etc.

Royals, or something like that? I'd forgotten about those, but loved them as a child!

Remember when there were always big open bins of brachs candies in the grocery store? There were always several bins of those caramel things.

Yes! Why don't they have those anymore? Or the red-dyed pistachios? You'd get a little bag of those, and then go with your mom to write a check for the groceries

Why don't they have them? Because jerks like me stole the candy! I had to rebel somehow as a young teen.