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’m old and really miss Brach’s maple nut goodies. I’m currently nibbling on Boston baked beans which are a very distant substitute.

On that note, I love maple sugar candy. I rarely see it, but buy it when I do.

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’m old and really miss Brach’s maple nut goodies. I’m currently nibbling on Boston baked beans which are a very distant substitute.

Anonymous wrote:I remember when Jolly Ranchers came out with watermelon. And then green apple! The angels sang. My kids don’t even like green apple stuff now!!! Blue raspberry was their game changing flavor.

+1

I remember when Jolly Ranchers came out with watermelon. And then green apple! The angels sang. My kids don’t even like green apple stuff now!!! Blue raspberry was their game changing flavor.

I'm early 60's a have a soft spot for Necco wafers. So glad they came back after a brief disappearance. I also like:

- fruit slices (the sugared semicircle ones)
- salt water taffy
- marshmallow easter eggs (the ones with the hard sugar coating - very hard to find these days)
- candy corn

Other than that I don't like most of what's been listed - drugstore milk chocolate is basically inedible.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Werther's Originals

I've seen werther's referenced as old people candy so many times, and I don't get it! Werther's originals are AMAZING! I love them (I am 41.)

Agree, and if you ever go to Epcot - go in and try some of the stuff in the Werther's store. Also AMAZING!

My long deceased Grandma had a paper grocery bag full of candy at Christmas. I always disliked those chocolate covered maraschino type cherries in a creamy filling.

Whitman’s Sample and Russell stovers. Life savers, wrigleys gum, chiclets gum.

Tic tacs

Mary Jane’s
Sugar Daddy
Chuckles

Hard candy in general. I feel like old grandmas always had them in their pocket and would take them out and suck on them, loudly. And they'd have candy dishes full of them.

This does not include Jolly Ranchers though. Lol. Those are kid candy to my Gen X mind.

Anonymous wrote:Butterscotch

I’m in my 30s and just love a Werther’s! Reminds me of grandma.

Sour drops, spiced gum drops, charleston chews, butterscotch candy, these hard candies

https://www.wisconsincheeseman.com/p/old-fashioned-christmas-candy-013226.html?source=google&code=GoogleShop-PS-Green&medium=inhaus&link=mi-g-013226&cm_mmc=google-_-GoogleShop-PS-Green-_-All+Products-_-mi-g-013226&cm_mmca1=AHR&cm_mmca2=AHR&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA34S7BhAtEiwACZzv4b6UyAsAbOMEpJUUsI6-uKXqltMlc0uE43lOMZITFFbWxxIDyLwS1BoCZrUQAvD_BwE

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!

The capitalization really gave me a good laugh. I never thought about why the name contained a serving suggestion.

Those fudge eggs with the pastel icing flowers at Easter. And, around this time of year, those Swiss Colony petit fours.

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