Confessor
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Post by Confessor on May 13, 2022 1:09:33 GMT -5
Candy cigarettes were the first thing I thought of...  ...and they never did us kids any 'arm! *cough, cough* Excuse me while I sit down for a breather.  |
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Post by Cei-U! on May 13, 2022 4:42:55 GMT -5
My dad worked for a trucking company when I was a kid and would sometimes bring him home items refused by their intended recipients that were subsequently offered to the company's employees as salvage. Among the things he brought home were chipped or cracked statuary, whole encyclopedia sets rejected for a single scuffed cover, and occasionally candy. That was how my siblings and I spent a good three months daily chowing down on U-No bars. It's been fifty years since I last had one! Other treats I loved as a wee'un but haven't tasted in eons include Mountain Bars, Big Hunk, Charleston Chew, Sugar Babies, Sugar Daddy, Clark Bars, and Mallomars. But when I think of stuff I ate while reading comics, I go back to my immediate post-college days. Once a month, I would pick up my pull list items from O'Leary's Books, hit the KFC on the way home, then smoke a big ol' bowl of Mary Jane and settle down to read my purchases while devouring a 20-piece order of Kentucky Nuggets and slurping a 40-oz Coke. Heaven!
Cei-U! I summon the diabetic coma! |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 3, 2022 8:15:46 GMT -5
I can't think of anything I miss, but we had some bizarre candy when I was a kid. Those little wax bottles with a little bit of "juice" in them. Dots of candy stuck to paper (you usually got to enjoy a bit of paper with your sweet). Candy necklaces and bracelets. Candy bullets (!) And of course candy cigarettes. I remember all of those. Except the bullets. Some of my favorites which - according to Wikipedia - still exist, included Bottle Caps...
...although they apparently have different packaging now. This is how I remember getting them:
I also liked Runts, which were sold via vending machines:
Although I'm pretty sure they only cost a quarter when I used to buy them.
THe trick with bottle caps is GOOD bottle caps come in the original green package shown... the also sell then in movie candy style boxes, but the bottlecaps in those boxes are smaller and don't have the ridges on them (at least not as pronounced) and are not quite as good, IMO. They were a fave of mine as a kid for sure! Also a big fan of Razzles... which seem to come and go as an 'active' candy. |
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