Which sweets(candy) remind you of childhood?

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which sweets(candy) bring back the memories of childhood?There will probably be some difference here as we are all from different countries, and there will also be regional differences too, but it will be interesting to hear about them.I grew up in the North of England(Yorkshire) Wuthering Heights countryside near Haworth, and I bought things called gobstoppers(they really did the job as you couldn't speak with one in your mouth.)Also small round lolly pops called traffic lights, they were like hard boiled sweets with red orange and green in them.Other favourites were toffee arrows, narrow strips of toffee wrapped in paper and sherbet dips.I can taste all of them now and they evoke childhood, the walk home from school and rain.:)
 

M & M's, malted milk balls (Maltesers in the UK), licorice, Hershey bars but I wouldn't touch one of those now, toffee.
 
Kit Kat and Oh Henry bars were my favorites as a kid. I never eat them now, but would if I was starving and stuck somewhere and that was all that was available.
 

I like Baby Ruth as well. And Heath Bar. There was one called hundred thousand dollar bar(?) or something like that. My favourite in a box of assorted chocolates was always honeycomb or caramels.
 
My favorites from childhood make me sick now.....candy corn and circus peanuts. I loved the little wax bottles full of colored sugar water - Nik-L-Nips - and the candy cigarettes. When we'd go to the movies, we'd always get Bonomo's Turkish Taffy because it was only a nickel and it would last through the movie (in fact, I think it would survive a direct nuclear hit). And, of course, my grandfather would always give me some of his favorite candy - jujubes, which was his pet name for me because he said I was like a sweet little bee.
 
When I was a kid my allowance was 10 cents. It bought two candy bars. It would sometimes take me ages to figure out which ones I wanted that week. I loved candy as sweets were very limited at home.
 
Bull's Eyes.... and Li
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Pixie Sticks (filled with powder), buttons (on white strips of paper), Royal jellies, Ice Cubes, Sweet Tarts, Smartees, Salt Water Taffy, JuJubes, etc. I remember Charleston Chews, Bonomo Turkish Taffy, and these.

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We'd drive into town once a week on Saturday afternoon, and my dad would give me 25 or 50 cents and let me do whatever I wanted. The drug store/soda fountain had candy, and I'd spend a few cents on either a bubble gum cigar or a couple Jolly Ranchers, along with a root beer. Then I'd save the rest, even though I wanted to spend more and take a few home.
 
The sell Milk duds and tootsie tolls, Hershey bars and loads of sweets and candy bars with peanut butter in them in the American section in the International aisle of our local supermarket.. I was amazed that soooooooo many American childrens sweets (candy) had peanut butter in them..


Sweets that remind me of my childhood are Pacers...(like opal fruits but minty)...Mint chocolate cracknell... Spangles...Jap desserts ( they were little squares of coconut covered in icing )..

My aunty and uncle who lived in Toronto used to visit us every 4 years and they'd bring Canadian sweets for us...oooh we hated them, we thought ours was so much nicer.. :D
 
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hollydolly said:
The sell Milk duds and tootsie tolls, Hershey bars and loads of sweets and candy bars with peanut butter in them in the American section in the International aisle of our local supermarket.. I was amazed that soooooooo many American childrens sweets (candy) had peanut butter in them..


Sweets that remind me of my childhood are Pacers...(like opal fruits but minty)...Mint chocolate cracknell... Spangles...Jap desserts ( they were little squares of coconut covered in icing )..

My aunty and uncle who lived in Toronto used to visit us every 4 years and they'd bring Canadian sweets for us...oooh we hated them, we thought ours was so much nicer.. :D
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There are also at least two American Candy shops in Glasgow. I've yet been tempted to go in. It's been very easy for me to find sweets here - Galaxy, Cadbury, Kit Kat, and it's easy to find M & M's and Twix as well. Maltesers or Cadbury Buttons are my sweet of choice when we go to the cinema.

I seem to be in the minority as I don't like Reese's PB cups even though I love PB.
 
maryjanes candy, tootsie rolls, tootsie pops when I see those, I automatically think back to childhood. I remember many others that people posted, but, these ones just give me an auto reflex to days gone by. I don't particularly care for either all that much, but would eat them if in a pinch.
 
Many towns have Olde Worlde Sweet shops now where you can buy sweets of the past, also plenty of on line shops sell them.:)
 

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