What are some of your favorite candies from childhood?

[Yeoman Randi]

So, last night we went to see Avatar. And being a mom i now make the family go to the stupormarket to buy their candy instead of buying it at the movie theater and paying $50 for some candy bars.

Anyway, i indulged in what may be my all time favorite candy from childhood.... Bit 'o Honey. I hadn't had this in a million or so years..and wow. Did i enjoy it!

The taste brought me back to childhood and it reminded me of some other candies that i use to love.... like Turkish Taffy and Sugar Daddys.

What are some of the candies you loved as a child yet haven't indulged in lately?

 

[JonathonWally]

After all these years, it's still Reese's Pieces

I blame E.T.

*shakes fist in air

 

[T'Bonz]

I used to like Dots and Chuckles. Both would pull out fillings now so I don't have them.

When I go to the movies, it's red Twizzlers and Junior Mints.

As a kid, I loved Mallo Cups. Still do.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Curly Wurlys.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Bonz, thats a gorgeous picture of you!!!
Red twizzlers weren't a childhood fav of mine, but they are an adult fav of mine now. I love that they have no fat in them. Never mind the sugar, but the no fat makes me do the snoopy dance!

I can't think of Junior Mints without thinking of Kramer....

 

[judge alba]

barley sugar, kola cubes, and aniseed balls were my faves. though walnut whips are a close second

 

[RoJoHen]

Fun Dip!

Best candy ever.

 

[AstroSmurf]

Grape Nerds. Loved them then and love them now.

I also loved candy cigarettes and those little wax bottles with the juice in them. Actually those wax bottles were loads of fun. I used to mash them together and make stuff out of them once I had slurped all the sugar water out. My Smurfs and GI Joes had plenty of props to play with after getting a packet of those.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Many of the lollies (candy) we have in Australia - and NZ and Britain - have different names from what they are called in the USA so I have included photos of the lollies I like. I would be interested if Americans can still what they are called there.

I liked Fruit Tingles, Jubes, Freckles, Jaffas, Smarties and Acid Drops.

 

[RoJoHen]

Smarties in the USA are totally different. Your Smarties look more like what we call Spree.

 

[auntiehill]

Those wonderful square lollipops from See's. We used to get them in our stockings every Christmas.

 

[Ruaidhri]

Goldenberg's Peanut Chews. God I love those things.

And this is a weird one. My friends and I used to buy those little boxes of Ludens cherry flavored chewy cough lozenges. Not supposed to be candy, but they tasted like it! A box of Ludens and a little styrofoam airplane from the corner pharmacy...good times.

 

[Ruaidhri]

Smarties in the USA are totally different. Your Smarties look more like what we call Spree.

They're actually more like M&Ms. But not as good. Weird hard candy covering.

 

[RoJoHen]

Smarties in the USA are totally different. Your Smarties look more like what we call Spree.

They're actually more like M&Ms. But not as good. Weird hard candy covering.

Ah, okay. Impossible to tell what was on the inside.

 

[Captain Shaw]

Penny Fizzy cola bottles and penny Teddy bears.

 

[Jadzia]

I did like chocolatey things, but my parents made chocolate available on a daily basis, so it wasn't much of a treat for me. I didn't always feel like it either.

I think the penny sweets were my favourites, as there was so much variety to enjoy with them, rather than one big homogenous lump. I liked the strawberry laces a lot too and the big sticks of licorice.

I think my all time favourite was something I found only once on holiday and never again, that was mixed blackberry and raspberry jellies. They were shaped and sized exactly like the fruits -- indistinguishable at any distance -- and the jelly was neither soft nor hard. The flavour was really rich and addictively fruity, but without being sickly or over sweet or over sour.

They were really top quality penny sweets.

 

[Jetfire]

When I was younger...sour jawbreakers. I also enjoy gummy bears & gummy worms.

Skittles are my favorite candy...Tropical Skittles are very good.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Flicks was my all-time favorite. Basically there chocolate kisses made with Ghiradelli instead of Hershey's chocolate. They stopped making them for years and just recently they returned to the market...just in time for me to get diabetes and have to cut out sugar.

I liked Marathon bars, chocolate covered caramel. You may remember the commercials of how even the fastest people in the world have to eat a Marthon slowly.

For some reason I liked Necco wafers although looking back I can't for the life of me see why. Also these fruit flavored discs that were like really big flat sweet-tarts.

 

[cardinal biggles]

My favorite childhood candy is Peanut Butter Twix, which are really hard to find.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Orange or Tropical Lemonade Now & Laters
Sour Apple Big League Chew
Grape Bubble Yum
Airheads
Lemonheads
Apple or Strawberry Sour Punch Straws
Rain-Blo Gumballs
Skittles
Starbursts
Sour Apple Jolly Ranchers