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View Poll Results: What kind of Candy do you like from 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, 1970's?
Big Hunk 14 10.77%
Boston Baked Beans 36 27.69%
Bubble Gum Cigarettes 21 16.15%
Candy Buttons 11 8.46%
Candy Cigarettes 37 28.46%
Cinnamon Toothpicks 18 13.85%
Gold Mine Gum 13 10.00%
Good and Plenty 28 21.54%
Wax Lips 22 16.92%
Atomic Fireballs 27 20.77%
Necco Wafers 42 32.31%
Now and Laters 23 17.69%
Tootsie Roll Midgees 29 22.31%
Rock Candy Crystal Stick 21 16.15%
Licorice Pipe 9 6.92%
Sour Pops 9 6.92%
Root Beer Barrels 31 23.85%
Salt Water Taffy 39 30.00%
Pearsons Salted Nut Roll 11 8.46%
Slap Stix Caramel Pop 1 0.77%
Laffy Taffy 21 16.15%
Lemon Heads 33 25.38%
Sweetarts 39 30.00%
Zotz 3 2.31%
100 Grand Bar 31 23.85%
Bit OHoney 44 33.85%
Beemans Gum 14 10.77%
Fun Dip 23 17.69%
Other candy 42 32.31%
Don't eat candy at all. 2 1.54%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 130. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-13-2019, 12:42 PM
 
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What is favorite candy from 1940's-1970's?

Here is some of my favorite candy Boston Baked Beans, Bubble Gum Cigarettes, Kits, Large Sugar Daddy, Salt Water Taffy, etc.
I couldn't vote...about the only candy I DON'T like would be Necco wafers and those nasty little Valentine hearts. I recall a line from Futurama concerning the same: “These candies are chalky and unpleasant!”
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Old 12-13-2019, 03:35 PM
 
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Nothing like a little paper bag of penny candy. I liked the licorice pipes, sixlets, peanut shaped hard candy filled with peanut butter, caramel squares and turkish taffy.
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Old 12-14-2019, 09:34 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Big Hunk
Fire Stix
Sugar Daddy
Rocky Road Bars
Reed's Root Beer or Cinnamon
Sour Balls
Mountain Bars
Cup o' Gold
Forever Yours Bars
Lik-M-Aid
Charms Pops
Pixy Stix
Rolo
Good 'n' Plenty
Hershey bars
M&Ms
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Old 12-15-2019, 10:22 AM
 
Location: Coastal Georgia
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It wasn’t my favorite, but ribbon candy meant it was almost Christmas. I have not seen ribbon candy in years.
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Old 12-15-2019, 07:30 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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It wasn’t my favorite, but ribbon candy meant it was almost Christmas. I have not seen ribbon candy in years.
Vermont Country Store sells it.
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Old 12-15-2019, 07:35 PM
 
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I still almost exclusively buy Good and Plenty when I buy candy, but I like Boston Baked beans a lot too. SweetTarts and Midgies go hand in hand with Halloween in our house.
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Old 12-16-2019, 10:49 AM
 
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It wasn’t my favorite, but ribbon candy meant it was almost Christmas. I have not seen ribbon candy in years.
I saw it at a Cracker Barrel a few weeks ago.
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Old 12-20-2019, 07:18 AM
 
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I grew up in the 80's but Boston bake beans, Lemonheads and FunDip for a quarter with a Faygo pop made a Michigan summer complete.
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Old 12-21-2019, 08:46 AM
 
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Never heard of most of those except Necco wafers, Sugar Daddy, Bit O Honey, and Good and Plenty. Didn't like them but I love a good chocolate bar. Never cared for M&Ms--when I want chocolate, I want chocolate, and a lot of it. Sky Bars are going to be coming back--those were pretty good too.
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Old 12-21-2019, 11:12 AM
 
Location: northern New England
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never liked any of those but being a dumb kid, I ate anything sweet, and have the fillings to prove it. Now I don't eat candy unless it is good chocolate.


Some of the ones I had as a kid - Pixie Stix, SweetTarts (including the giant one), Sugar Daddies and Babies. Never liked Good & Plenty or Dots. Also I hated spice drops, which masquerade as gum drops but with a horrible flavor.



Ribbon and pillow candy - our local school board gave each kid a small box of this every Christmas. I don't remember anyone liking it.
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