What was your favorite candy or treat when you were a kid?

[FastTrax]

I don't know if anybody here was addicted to this bubble gum. Every Friday after elementary school I would buy as much of this certified ghetto treat that I could hide on me and sneak into my room. Most of the Double Dutch school girls would have Bazooka bubble gum blowing contest in the playgrounds.

On with the show:











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[Lewkat]

Black Jack chewing gum. Loved the stuff.

 

[Ruthanne]

Among other candies I loved the candy necklaces. I would chew on it while wearing it.

 

[mrstime]

If it was sweet I loved it, but chocolate was best.

 

[peppermint]

I still love bubble gum.....only when know one is around.....I love the smack.......

 

[Joe Smith]

Reggie Bars!

 

[Joe Smith]

Before that...

 

[Gary O']

I use to love eating a Mounds Bar.

Yeah, they were good.

But I liked the other one......Spunow

 

[CinnamonSugar]

 

[win231]

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I was at See's to get a few of those lollipops. The lady gave me one of those samples they always hand out.
When I bit into it, my knees got weak & I had to rush to my car to sit down.

 

[win231]

When I was a little kid, I couldn't figure out why I loved the almonds in an Almond Joy, but I didn't like almonds by themselves.

 

[Jules]

Cracker Jacks, Cadbury Caramilk bars, and red Lifesavers.

When I mentioned Cracker Jacks, I was thinking of the boxes and I haven’t seen them in years. Walked past a bag of these a couple of hours later. A speak of the devil kind of moment.

 

[Rah-Rah]

Fun Dip(Lik-M-Aid) Pure Sugar

 

[Autumn72]

Bit 'o Honey
Almond Joy
Big Hunk
M & M Peanut
Good & Plenty
Milk Duds
Life Savers
Snickers
Maple Syrup (right out of the bottle; no pancakes or waffles needed)

Lipsticks

 

[Autumn72]

Don't know about them...my Mom liked the sugar-coated spearmint leaves.

My mother too, her favorite

 

[Rah-Rah]

Goetze Caramel Creams.

 

[Robert59]

Square banana taffy wrapped in yellow paper.
Red hots

Yellow paper I think is Kitts Taffy that is square. I love anything that's Taffy. At one time you could buy them in a box from Amazon.

 

[Ruthanne]

Bit o honey

 

[Greenie]

A Choo Choo bar, ---------------------- bliss for about an hour and a half whilst consuming it.

 

[Butterfly]

When my mother made a pie, she always left aside a little still warm pie dough with sugar on for me.

My mom did that, too. She would take all the scraps left from cutting out the circles for the pie and bake them and sprinkle sugar or cinnamon and sugar on them!

 

[Fyrefox]

Jiffy Pop popcorn. Long before microwaves and microwave popcorn, Jiffy Pop was a convenience popcorn product that came in its own aluminum pan with a foil cover that expanded almost magically as the corn popped. Every Saturday night as a kid, I’d make one on the stovetop, then settle down with it to watch Chiller Theater on my parent’s black and white TV...I was in heaven then!

 

[Pappy]

Milky Way then. Milky Way now. Always been my favorite.

 

[Chris P Bacon]

Jiffy Pop popcorn. Long before microwaves and microwave popcorn, Jiffy Pop was a convenience popcorn product that came in its own aluminum pan with a foil cover that expanded almost magically as the corn popped. Every Saturday night as a kid, I’d make one on the stovetop, then settle down with it to watch Chiller Theater on my parent’s black and white TV...I was in heaven then!

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Jiffy Pop, Jiffy Pop, the magic treat.
As much fun to make as it is to eat!
Ah, memories!

 

[Furryanimal]

 

[spectratg]

Echoing some other comments, when I was a kid, in the 1950's, my mother would sometimes give me a quarter on a hot summer day and I would go to the local drug store. 10c for a comic book (usually Superman, and no we did not save any of them), 10c for a coke, and 5c for a candy bar (not sure which one, but all the chocolates were good)--I was in hog heaven! I would sit at the counter and eat my candy bar, drink my coke, and read my comic book! Saturday matinees were a quarter with another quarter for candy/ice cream/soda pops. Not every week mind you, money was tight back then.