Back when I was a kid I enjoyed a lot of candy. My mouth is half-filled with metal filings and crowns as a testament to that fact.
These were a few of my favorites:
Bit-O-Honey was not too terribly sweet and had an unobtrusive and mellow flavor that lent well to clearing the palate for a more potent candy after it.
These babies were the quintessential penny candy. Nutty and flavored with molasses, even in "my day", the 70's, they were considered old-fashioned classics.
Like their powdered cousins Pixie Straws, these super sour tablets were pure sugar! A handful of these babies and you were bouncing off the furniture! Zing!
We bought Wacky Packages not so much for the stale bubble gum, but for the collectible stickers inside. Mad Magazine-styled parodies of all sorts of familiar consumer products. We thought they were wicked cool!
The popularity of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" inspired a real chocolate factory to create these Wonka branded confections.
And these were absolutely Scrumdidilyumptious! No golden tickets though...shucks!
These crunchy wafers of mostly sucrose are blended with some kind of modifier so they aren't as sickningly sweet as say, Sun Tarts. The fun was in trying to guess what flavor the wafer would have before you tasted it.
A dentist's favorite to be sure, both Mike & Ike and Hot Tamales were sure to keep your tongue squirming around the nooks and crannies of your teeth trying to extract the stubborn sticky globs of pure sugar that'd be stuck in there. But they were yummy while you were chompin' on them!
Poor Pop Rocks got a bad rap following the urban legend about Mikey, the kid from the LIFE cereal commercials mixing Pop Rocks with Coke and having them blow up in his stomach, killing him. Um, not true, but I remember being warned in school that we should not eat Pop Rocks because they were hazardous to your health. Screw that, we ate them with abandon. What other candy jumps around in your mouth?
These were a few of my favorites:
Bit-O-Honey was not too terribly sweet and had an unobtrusive and mellow flavor that lent well to clearing the palate for a more potent candy after it.
These babies were the quintessential penny candy. Nutty and flavored with molasses, even in "my day", the 70's, they were considered old-fashioned classics.
Like their powdered cousins Pixie Straws, these super sour tablets were pure sugar! A handful of these babies and you were bouncing off the furniture! Zing!
We bought Wacky Packages not so much for the stale bubble gum, but for the collectible stickers inside. Mad Magazine-styled parodies of all sorts of familiar consumer products. We thought they were wicked cool!
The popularity of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" inspired a real chocolate factory to create these Wonka branded confections.
And these were absolutely Scrumdidilyumptious! No golden tickets though...shucks!
These crunchy wafers of mostly sucrose are blended with some kind of modifier so they aren't as sickningly sweet as say, Sun Tarts. The fun was in trying to guess what flavor the wafer would have before you tasted it.
A dentist's favorite to be sure, both Mike & Ike and Hot Tamales were sure to keep your tongue squirming around the nooks and crannies of your teeth trying to extract the stubborn sticky globs of pure sugar that'd be stuck in there. But they were yummy while you were chompin' on them!
Poor Pop Rocks got a bad rap following the urban legend about Mikey, the kid from the LIFE cereal commercials mixing Pop Rocks with Coke and having them blow up in his stomach, killing him. Um, not true, but I remember being warned in school that we should not eat Pop Rocks because they were hazardous to your health. Screw that, we ate them with abandon. What other candy jumps around in your mouth?