Childhood candies who else remembers .....

[Murrmurr]

I forgot about Sen-Sens.

According to my grandmother, they were very popular with the "Flappers" of the Roaring 20's, who chewed them to disguise alcohol on their breath. Every time I'd see a package, I'd think of rolled stocking and rouged knees and dancers doing the Charleston.

I've never tried them because I can't stand the taste of licorice.

That Sen-Sen was my introduction to licorice, and I was hooked. I was the kid everyone gave their black jellybeans to.

 

[Pinky]

They had a red candy in the middle, when we were kids.

 

[KSav]

Popeye cigarettes
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I found candy cigarettes online about 15 years ago and bought a bunch for my kids (and none of them turned into a smoker).

Then they got lost during one of our many moves. I never did find them.

My mother used to love Necco wafers. I could never stand them.

 

[dobielvr]

These were good frozen, along w/ the Snickers and Milky Way bars.

 

[Sunkist]

These were good frozen, along w/ the Snickers and Milky Way bars.

I have a carton of 36 3Musketeers (regular size) in my refrigerator's freezer..

 

[MACKTEXAS]

You beat me to it, Mack.

Bit-O-Honey was pretty good, but would pull off the crowns on my teeth now.

 

[ChiroDoc]

Now you're talking, RR! A box of those would rarely get me through a whole movie in the theater....

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Funny your first picture is of Sugar Babies. I couldn't believe I found them in Dollar Tree and my local supermarket a few months ago. I bought a box just for old time's sake. My favorite when I was young was

 

[TeePee]

Pixy Stix

 

[Jazzy1]

 

[Pinky]

I loved Jawbreakers.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I loved Jawbreakers.

and Atomic Fireballs!


The old man that used to pick up the cans of milk and take them to the creamery always had jaw breakers and fireballs for the kids along his route.

It was a real right of passage when you were old enough and tough enough to move up from a jawbreaker to a fireball.

 

[Jazzy1]

 

[RadishRose]

 

[Bella]

 

[jujube]

Does bubble gum count as a candy? I was a BIG bubble gum fan. I liked the kind that came with a hard candy shell with bubble gum inside or the lollypops that had bubble gum inside.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[Dr.Colosso]

Does bubble gum count as a candy? I was a BIG bubble gum fan. I liked the kind that came with a hard candy shell with bubble gum inside or the lollypops that had bubble gum inside.

My mom used peanut butter to get it out of my hair when I blew a big bubble.

 

[Sunkist]

My mom used peanut butter to get it out of my hair when I blew a big bubble.

Well that's a new one!!

 

[ChiroDoc]

Damn, folks! Just reading about all this candy is putting my pancreas into arrest!!...

 

[David777]

This webpage lists 10 each popular candies that were introduced each decade that I at least am familiar with eating, though I didn't like some. Rating 1 to 5 with 5 most liked and 1 not. One of my favorite candies are Malted Milk Balls that came out in the 1880s. Favorite chocolate bar were the 3 Musketeers Bar that during the 1950s were just one nickel in the coin machines. Worst have always been the caramels like Tootsie Rolls, Sugar Babies, Payday, and Baby Ruth, because they always leave pieces stuck between teeth that are not easily dislodged except with tooth brushing.

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1900s
#1. Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar 4
#5. Candy Corn 5
#7. NECCO Wafers 5
#9. Cherry Mash 4
#10. Tootsie Roll 1

1920s
#1. Oh Henry Chocolate Bar 2
#3. Baby Ruth Candy Bar 1
#5. Double Bubble Bubble Gum 2
#7. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups 5

1930s
#4. Boston Baked Beans 2
#5. 5th Avenue Candy Bar 3
#6. Sugar Babies Candy 1
#7. Red Hots Cinnamon Candy 1
#8. Payday Candy Bar 1
#9. 3 Musketeers Bar 5

1940s
#1. Almond Joy Candy Bar 5
#2. Jolly Ranchers Candy 2
#4. Bazooka Gum 2
#5. Junior Mints 5
#8. Smarties Candy-Rockets 3
#10. M&M's Chocolate Candy 4

1950s
#5. Hot Tamales Candy 1
#10. Dum-Dum Pops 1

1960s
#4. Now And Later Candy 2
#5. Sweetarts Candy 4
#8. Starburst Candy 4