What was your favourite (or favorite) candy store treat when you were little?
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Silksmoke

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 01:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I really liked Ju Ju Bees (sp?) or any fruit flavored gel candies.

Shakes

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 03:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll take Sweet-Tarts any day of the week.

Hermione69

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 03:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Fun-Dips. Those were the best. Chick-o-sticks were pretty great also.

(BTW, my sister's neighborhood is still visited by an ice cream truck in the spring, summer and early fall and it even sells the ice cream with the gumball at the bottom!)

Melfie1222

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 06:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Landi, Mountain Bars!! Yum! Peanut Butter Mountains and Cherry Mountains! Sounds like you liked the original (Vanilla) Mountains. I haven't had one in a while, I still see them in the stores around here, but I live in Washington where Brown & Haley is from. Maybe they are a "local" thing? B&H also makes Almond Roca - the best! Mountain Bars are sold on the Brown & Haley website - but in boxes of 24, that could be dangerous!

Brown & Haley Mountain Bars

Twinkie

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 06:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sugar Daddys and the wax bottles with liquid inside. YUMMMMM

Joyful

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 07:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I loved the wax lips, loved them
And of course the bubble gum with comics.

Landi

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 08:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i bought a case and it's shipping ASAP!! thank you thank you thank you <smooching melfie on the cheek>

landi

Jagger

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 01:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Man does this thread bring back old memories, the 2 for a penny candy, the 5 cent candy bars, and I would only buy the Baby Ruth's, Butter Fingers and 3 Muskateers because they were the biggest.

We use to search the entire town for pop bottles and beer bottles as Azriel did, well we use to actually sneak into the local ballgame and hide bottles so we could go back later and collect them, that was the only money we had. That's also why I loved Halloween so much, we got free candy. I always wonder what happened to half the candy they use to make, to me that stuff tasted better than the stuff you buy nowadays.

We never had an icecream truck, to this day I have never eaten an icecream bar from one of those trucks, geez what am I missing.

Yankee_In_Ca

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 02:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Big League Chew.

My brother and I used to stuff our cheeks FULL of the stuff!!!

Wiseolowl

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 02:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Glad to see that we have some posters who remember collecting pop bottles for candy money. And who said that recycling is a product of the '90s. 2cnts for a regular coke bottle (which are now collector items going for ten times that much ) and 5 to 10 cents for the big ones.
I'm curious though for our American friends to tell me about Bun Bars . I loved those things - we couldn't get them in Canada and always stocked up when visiting our American relatives. There were the peanut butter and chocolate varieties.
Also loved Vernors gingerale - bottled around the Michigan area and filtered into Southwestern Ont. but haven't seen it for years

Curiouscat

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 06:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember pop bottle hunting! My mom learned how to drive going down the dirt side roads around the hamlet we lived at. She'd drive slowly and we would yell out, "Pop bottle" and she'd stop and back up, so we could jump out and get the bottle in the ditch. At the time, small pop bottles were 5 cents, large ones 10 to 15 cents and beer bottles 5 cents. The floor in the back seat area was packed - we'd usually collect $5 worth in a single trip. Then it would be off to the store to load up on candies.

Wiseolowl, I'm surprised you haven't seen Vernors for years because I live in Southwestern Ontario and have no trouble finding it. I love that pop!

That reminds me of when my childhood friend and I would go to the baseball park and look for pop bottle caps. The plastic lining inside the caps had "Sorry, try again." most of the time, but once in a blue moon we'd get, "Free pop."

Mags

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 07:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I LOVED Marathon Bars. All that caramel and chocolate....

Wiseolowl

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 10:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Curious: glad to hear Vernors is still in business. Haved lived in Eastern Ontario for thirty years now and only saw it here once - about ten years ago. I think they must be a regional company selling around the Great Lake states and limit Canadian distribution to SW Ontario.For those who haven't grown up with it I think it's an acquired taste. You cant beat a Vernors float on a hot summers day!

Whoami

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 10:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Licorice Pipes!!