Wether's originals

Mary Janes
Necco wafers
Circus peanuts
Mars bars
Bun

Licorice allsorts and creme drops

Anonymous wrote:Andes candies (chocolate with green mint line in the middle)

Also, After Eights (those flat tiles of chocolate covered mint candy).

Dude omg old people candy the stuff frfr

1. cow tail
2. worthers
3. Butterfinger (LOOK IT UP)
4. some butterscotch
5. thoes strawberry candies

Funny question OP ...brought back some old memories

Mike and Ike's hot tamales

Good n plenty

Anonymous wrote:super fancy old person candy-- After Eight! The whole packaging is like-- "This is ADULT candy-- not for children! Only for people whose bedtime is AFTER EIGHT!!" Just made me want them more as a kid!

After Eights were popular when I was growing up in England.

Necco Wafers. Mary Janes. Good and Plenty.

super fancy old person candy-- After Eight! The whole packaging is like-- "This is ADULT candy-- not for children! Only for people whose bedtime is AFTER EIGHT!!" Just made me want them more as a kid!

Does anyone remember cinnamon toothpicks? I loved those as a kid. Also loved dinosaur eggs and Marathon candy bars.

butterscotch

Liqourice Allsorts

What you all are labeling as old people candy was what was readily available to us in elementary school in the early 90s - even though I had young (age 22-35) teachers back then. This is back when kids would get candy at school bc obesity wasn't a real issue; you'd have some kind of chart where if you got 5 stars, you pick out a piece of candy, 15 was a gift from a grab bag etc.

I recall how terrible some of the candy was - ugh - those strawberry ones with the strawberry goo inside; root beer barrels; licorice shoestrings. Ugh.

My (immigrant) family considered Russell Stover fancy - maybe others did too back then; so we'd always get a box around the holidays. Still have a fondness for those. Rarely buy it but bought a bunch of the small (4 or 6 piece) Russell Stover hearts on sale after Valentines for like 50 cents.

Russell Stover. My grandma would always say "get the nice chocolates, get Russell Stover." Now that she's gone I sometimes buy a mini-box when I miss her.