Which sweets(candy) remind you of childhood?

All sorts and Beacon Sweets and Chocolates.
 

jujube said:
... 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) ...
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Wow - same exact favorites here, in addition to Mary Janes and bubble gum cigars. Pixie Stiks too, for when you needed that 100% sugar rush to drive Mom crazy. ;)
 
In the fifties, we had a little store, ran by an old couple, down on Silver St. This was in the front of their house and was one of those places with creaky wooden floors and not much light. They had a huge selection of penny candy, the ones in the big glass jars with the metal lids. 10 cents would go a long way there and these folks had so much patience to put up with us kids. If the old lady waited on you, she would always put one extra piece in the little paper bag.
 
just thinking of certain sweets takes you right back to when you were small, and the choosing of them felt such an important thing to do ( you could get it wrong)! I remember staff getting very impatient while I dithered.
Is taffy tofee by the way?
 
If it is toffee, what kind is it? there are some old fashioned sweet shops that stock the old time stuff, but I wouldn't be tempted by them now. the only time I buy boiled sweets is if we are going on a journey. Just to have a few in the car, and the only chocolate I eat would be something like Lindt.
 
oakapple said:
If it is toffee, what kind is it? there are some old fashioned sweet shops that stock the old time stuff, but I wouldn't be tempted by them now. the only time I buy boiled sweets is if we are going on a journey. Just to have a few in the car, and the only chocolate I eat would be something like Lindt.
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I've had both but thought there was a difference even though both are chewy. Googled it and they are basically the same.
 
I should have said that because I have lived in Hershey most of my life the Hershey Bar is still numero uno in my house.
 
Falcon said:
Licorice(anise) is a FLAVOR; NOT a SHAPE ! Those 'red vines' are NOT licorice !!
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that's very true, those red ropey things look disgusting.I used to buy licorice roots which we chewed, they were like twigs and when you had chewed them became as twigs with long yellow hair ! mind you, as a child I ate practically anything.
 
I always thought (for some reason] that Mary Janes were shoes! So they were sweets, or should I say candy of some kind.I remember posing with a sweet cigarette trying to look cool.:rolleyes:
 
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