Boomers: What was your favorite candy or candies as a child? (senior, small)
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If this is now about candies our grandparents gave us as well as our favorites, my grandmother always carried hard candy around with her. I hated it. I wanted something you could eat, not just something to suck on. One other kind of candy she had was those fake orange or bright green soft circular things covered in granulated sugar. Horrible.
Looked them up and I think they were candy orange slices or some sort of gummy. Just "gummy" sounds disgusting to me. Who would eat them!
My dad was the cook; my mom was the baker. My dad made divinity at Christmas; to die for... My mom made some killer fudge. My dad's family (my aunts) made homemade fruit pastries (some German recipe -- never tasted anything like it since). My dad also made a killer homemade cake icing. OMG my dad could cook real food too. Some of us got that gene and some did not.
I was a straggler coming two decades after the oldest sibling (and the other four). I got an allowance that I mostly saved; but, once in a while I stopped into 7-11 to get a snack. That is when my heroine addiction started (I mean my sugar addiction). I'm over it now (really).
My dad was the cook; my mom was the baker. My dad made divinity at Christmas; to die for... My mom made some killer fudge. My dad's family (my aunts) made homemade fruit pastries (some German recipe -- never tasted anything like it since). My dad also made a killer homemade cake icing. OMG my dad could cook real food too. Some of us got that gene and some did not.
I was a straggler coming two decades after the oldest sibling (and the other four). I got an allowance that I mostly saved; but, once in a while I stopped into 7-11 to get a snack. That is when my heroine addiction started (I mean my sugar addiction). I'm over it now (really).
It's been years since I had divinity. Mmmm, I used to love that.
Zero bar, they had them at the swimming pool and I loved them.
Zero bars! I took a swim Lifesaving class one summer at the university pool - after class I'd go the machines and buy a Zero bar. I don't see them much anymore but I loved them too.
Rolos
Peanut Brittle
Bit O'Honey
Butterfinger
Necoo Wafers
Sugar Babies
Milk Duds
Big Hunk
Hershey's Kisses
Do the stale marshmallows in Lucky Charms count? How about Cotton Candy?
The day they invented Reese's p-nut butter cups, they were my favorite candy from then on. As in, addicting. To this day.
Last edited by Igor Blevin; 02-12-2022 at 06:50 PM..
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