Boomers: What was your favorite candy or candies as a child? (restaurant, town)
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This is a love/hate thread for me. I love going down memory lane, about all our childhood candy.....but most of it I can`t have anymore...both sugar, and I am afraid of my teeth breaking, or falling out. LOL
Each Saturday my parents would give me my .25 cents allowance and we would go to town. It was eventually increased to .50 cents. I loved the Dime Store with their wonderful candy counter. The divinity candy, chocolate covered peanuts just delightful to see by a kid. Eye height to the counter moving down the counter slowly looking at all the selections.
A lady worked behind the counter and when you made your selection she would scoop it out and put it on the scales then tell you the price.Take some away or add more then into the little white paper bag.
At one time my allowance was also .25 cents. You could get a lot of candy for that. Sometimes I would buy a bottle of Orange Crush for 15 cents...from the cooler filled with chilled water....and a bag of BBQ chips for 10 cents. Drink the pop, the bottle had a 2 cent deposit on it, so turn that in for some 2 for 1 candy. Today that would cost??? Maybe 5 dollars???
We used to scour the neighbourhood looking for pop bottles. Regular ones worth 2 cents, bigger ones worth 5 cents! Jackpot!
At one time my allowance was also .25 cents. You could get a lot of candy for that. Sometimes I would buy a bottle of Orange Crush for 15 cents...from the cooler filled with chilled water....and a bag of BBQ chips for 10 cents. Drink the pop, the bottle had a 2 cent deposit on it, so turn that in for some 2 for 1 candy.
We used to scour the neighbourhood looking for pop bottles. Regular ones worth 2 cents, bigger ones worth 5 cents! Jackpot!
Yeah! Thanks for the reminder, my friends and I did the same thing.
Looking at the old time candy web site reminded me about the “little bag of gold” gum, filled with little gold nuggets of gum.
There was also a little cloth bag filled with “gold coins” that were gold wrapped chocolate coins.
I have an episode of F-Troop with original commercials on DVD that has Agarn, O"Rourke, Wild Eagle and Crazy Cat sitting around a campfire doing a commercial for that " Little Bag Of Gold " gum.
There's hardly a candy I didn't and don't like, but I leaned toward the long-lasting sticky candies... Kit Kats, BB Bats, Bit-o-Honey, Sugar Daddies, Mary Janes, PB kisses, etc. The ones that are bad for your teeth when you're young and even worse when you're older.
My friends and I would walk around picking up bottles, turn them in for the deposit at our local handy market, and leave with a bag of penny candy each. I have fond memories of taking that bag and a book to bed every night, and I'm still fond of that bedtime routine!
Maybe someone will start a new thread...boomers do you still eat candy?
I love candy. Have to be careful. Blood sugar has a tendency to rise, and some candy, Like Bit O Honey or sugar Daddy I will never be able to eat because it will yank off my crowns and implant bridge.
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