When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.


http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx


Yours?


Becca

Becca said...

> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>
>
> Yours?
>
>
> Becca


Candy buttons?

Andy
--
Eat first, talk later.

Becca wrote:
> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>
>
> Yours?
>
>
> Becca

Without a doubt it was root beer barrels. Ran up on a sack of them at
the local Kroger store last Halloween. I thought I had died and gone to
heaven. My second favorite was and still is Whoppers malted milk balls.

Andy wrote:
> Becca said...
>
>> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
>> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>>
>>
>> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>>
>>
>> Yours?
>>
>>
>> Becca
>
>
> Candy buttons?
>
> Andy

Anyone old enough to remember wax babies, little hollow wax babies with
a sweet syrup inside and then you could chew the wax. Common
misconception was that you always tried to pick out the boy wax babies,
they were supposed to have more wax on them. <G>

Andy wrote on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:15:16 -0500:

>> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary
>> Janes, Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>>
>> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>>
>> Yours?
>>
>> Becca

> Candy buttons?

Definitely OT I guess, but the post brought back the memory that I
detested the taste of butterscotch when I was a small child and I still
dislike it. Another memory was buying chocolate bars from *mechanical*
slot machines with a drawer that you pulled out after inserting a coin..
I grew up in Britain and the price was 3 pence (there was a coin for
that amount), about 5 cents in the US at that time, so that was hardly
"penny candy".
--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

George Shirley said...

> My second favorite was and still is Whoppers malted milk balls.


But... but... you only got those at the movies.

Or maybe I was deprived!??

Andy
--
Eat first, talk later.

James Silverton wrote:

>
>> Candy buttons?
>
> Definitely OT I guess, but the post brought back the memory that I
> detested the taste of butterscotch when I was a small child and I still
> dislike it.

I liked those candy buttons, and they were cheap, three or four for a
penny. We used to like the Black Balls and Jawbreakers.


> Another memory was buying chocolate bars from *mechanical*
> slot machines with a drawer that you pulled out after inserting a coin..
> I grew up in Britain and the price was 3 pence (there was a coin for
> that amount), about 5 cents in the US at that time, so that was hardly
> "penny candy".

I remember the different types of pop machines, the uprights with air
cooling and the deep chests with cold water. With the chest type you
had to slide the bottle along and over to the release dodad, and both
types required a good tug to get the bottle out.... without rippng the
ends off your fingers.

Becca wrote:
> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>
>
> Yours?
>
>
> Becca


Mary Jane, Bit o' Honey, Squirrel (I forget their whole name)...
Nut Zippers does NOT ring a bell though.

--
Jean B.

"Becca" > wrote in message
...
> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>
>
> Yours?
>
>
> Becca

Red Hots and tootsie rolls.

BTW, I order from these guys al least once a year. I usually order these:

http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...y-P384C34.aspx

They sell these bulk at a reasonable price. Pox on Costco for getting me
hooked on these then not selling them anymore.

Jon

Becca wrote:
> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx

Good-n-Plenty, Atomic Fireballs, Bit O Honey, Butterscotch and Cinnamon
buttons, Vanilla Caramels (the soft squares, not caramel creams), Anise
squares, Root Beer Barrels, Tootsie Rolls, Licorice Allsorts and
licorice whips, Bazooka bubble gum, Tootsie Pops, and some particularly
tart lollipops that I swear were Charms but not Blow Pops.

On Apr 21, 9:12*am, Becca > wrote:
> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>
> Yours?
>
> Becca

I remember water babies, maryjanes, and esp. those silly dots on the
strip of paper. I wonder how many hours I drove the woman crazy who
had to handpick these treats from a large glass case while a kid with
a nickel hemmed and hawed.......that wasn't ME, of course.

I think there was also something with a squirrel on the wrapper...?
Anyone?

Same store also sold icecream cones - 8 cents for one scoop, bargain
to get two scoops for 15, but who had that kind of money?
They had a real soda fountain with marble counter - but no stools -
these ppl did not want anyone taking up space over a period of time.

You could even buy potato chips in bulk - you'd go for a quarter's
worth, and they'd actually weigh it out and drop em into a small paper
bag. Legend had it that they were know to break a chip to make it
weigh.

Comics were a dime, greeting cards a nickel, dime or the Biggie for a
quarter. Had a wooden phone booth, replete with a light, bi-fold door
and tiny desk and directory on a chain.

Andy wrote:
> George Shirley said...
>
>> My second favorite was and still is Whoppers malted milk balls.
>
>
> But... but... you only got those at the movies.
>
> Or maybe I was deprived!??
>
> Andy
They were available at five and dimes, candy stores, and some grocery
stores when I was a kid. I first found them at the Saturday movies. My
folks would give me a quarter and I would ride my bike the five blocks
to the Lamar Theater in Beaumont, TX. Cost a dime to get in and then you
could get a cold drink and a bag of popcorn for fifteen cents or a cold
drink and two nickel boxes of Whoppers for the same fifteen cents. You
got to see a couple of cliff hangers and then either a western movie or
a Tarzan movie. Then there would be contests for prizes. Go at 8 am,
turn you loose at noon. Cheap baby sitting.

George Shirley said...

> Andy wrote:
>> George Shirley said...
>>
>>> My second favorite was and still is Whoppers malted milk balls.
>>
>>
>> But... but... you only got those at the movies.
>>
>> Or maybe I was deprived!??
>>
>> Andy
> They were available at five and dimes, candy stores, and some grocery
> stores when I was a kid. I first found them at the Saturday movies. My
> folks would give me a quarter and I would ride my bike the five blocks
> to the Lamar Theater in Beaumont, TX. Cost a dime to get in and then you
> could get a cold drink and a bag of popcorn for fifteen cents or a cold
> drink and two nickel boxes of Whoppers for the same fifteen cents. You
> got to see a couple of cliff hangers and then either a western movie or
> a Tarzan movie. Then there would be contests for prizes. Go at 8 am,
> turn you loose at noon. Cheap baby sitting.


George Shirley,

Great!!!

Thanks for the memories!

I'll smile all day now!

Best,

Andy
--
Eat first, talk later.

Jean B. wrote:
> Becca wrote:
>> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
>> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>>
>>
>> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>>
>>
>> Yours?
>>
>>
>> Becca
>
>
> Mary Jane, Bit o' Honey, Squirrel (I forget their whole name)... Nut
> Zippers does NOT ring a bell though.
>

It is squirrel nut zippers which is also the name of a band.

http://tinyurl.com/c77mkp


There was a corner store in the town where I grew up which had penny
candy. Nothing was a penny though - mostly 2 or 3 or 5 cents. I also
liked Mary Janes and Bit o'Honey and the nut zippers, as well as button
candy, pixie stix, Jolly Ranchers, Now or Laters, candy bracelets, ring
pops, fizz, fun dip, pop rocks. Ok some of these are not exactly penny
candy...

I never liked root beer barrels.

-Tracy

"Becca" > wrote in message
...
> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>
>
> Yours?
>
>
> Becca

Salt water taffy. Alas, now if just takes my caps off. <secretly, I think my
dentist WANTS me to eat it still>.

Andy wrote:
> George Shirley said...
>
>> Andy wrote:
>>> George Shirley said...
>>>
>>>> My second favorite was and still is Whoppers malted milk balls.
>>>
>>> But... but... you only got those at the movies.
>>>
>>> Or maybe I was deprived!??
>>>
>>> Andy
>> They were available at five and dimes, candy stores, and some grocery
>> stores when I was a kid. I first found them at the Saturday movies. My
>> folks would give me a quarter and I would ride my bike the five blocks
>> to the Lamar Theater in Beaumont, TX. Cost a dime to get in and then you
>> could get a cold drink and a bag of popcorn for fifteen cents or a cold
>> drink and two nickel boxes of Whoppers for the same fifteen cents. You
>> got to see a couple of cliff hangers and then either a western movie or
>> a Tarzan movie. Then there would be contests for prizes. Go at 8 am,
>> turn you loose at noon. Cheap baby sitting.
>
>
> George Shirley,
>
> Great!!!
>
> Thanks for the memories!
>
> I'll smile all day now!
>
> Best,
>
> Andy

I visited the old neighborhood in the late seventies, first time in many
years. Drove by the old Lamar Theater and it was an "Adult" movie house.
Probably didn't even sell Whoppers anymore.

George Shirley said...

> Andy wrote:
>> George Shirley said...
>>
>>> Andy wrote:
>>>> George Shirley said...
>>>>
>>>>> My second favorite was and still is Whoppers malted milk balls.
>>>>
>>>> But... but... you only got those at the movies.
>>>>
>>>> Or maybe I was deprived!??
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>> They were available at five and dimes, candy stores, and some grocery
>>> stores when I was a kid. I first found them at the Saturday movies. My
>>> folks would give me a quarter and I would ride my bike the five blocks
>>> to the Lamar Theater in Beaumont, TX. Cost a dime to get in and then
you
>>> could get a cold drink and a bag of popcorn for fifteen cents or a cold
>>> drink and two nickel boxes of Whoppers for the same fifteen cents. You
>>> got to see a couple of cliff hangers and then either a western movie or
>>> a Tarzan movie. Then there would be contests for prizes. Go at 8 am,
>>> turn you loose at noon. Cheap baby sitting.
>>
>>
>> George Shirley,
>>
>> Great!!!
>>
>> Thanks for the memories!
>>
>> I'll smile all day now!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Andy
>
> I visited the old neighborhood in the late seventies, first time in many
> years. Drove by the old Lamar Theater and it was an "Adult" movie house.
> Probably didn't even sell Whoppers anymore.


Ain't that a DARN shame too!!!

Probably R-rated stuff too, huh!??

Andy

"Becca" > wrote in message
...
> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>
>
> Yours?
>
>
> Becca

Anything licorice; licorice pipes.

> wrote in message
...
On Apr 21, 9:12 am, Becca > wrote:
> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>
> Yours?
>
> Becca

I remember water babies, maryjanes, and esp. those silly dots on the
strip of paper. I wonder how many hours I drove the woman crazy who
had to handpick these treats from a large glass case while a kid with
a nickel hemmed and hawed.......that wasn't ME, of course.

I think there was also something with a squirrel on the wrapper...?
Anyone?

Squirrel nut zippers! Man, they were great!

Jon

On Apr 21, 8:12*am, Becca > wrote:
> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>
> Yours?
>
> Becca

Kit Kats - NOT the chocolate bars - but four little postage sized
squares of individually wrapped taffy packaged in a cellophane
wrapper for a penny. BB Bats (taffy on a little stick) . Squirrel
Nut Chews. Black Jacks. Any kind of licorice - especially
black . . .
Lynn in Fargo
Now I need the dental work!

"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Becca" > wrote in message
> ...
>> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
>> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>>
>>
>> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>>
>>
>> Yours?
>>
>>
>> Becca
>
> Anything licorice; licorice pipes.
>

Licorice-yum

http://www.hometownfavorites.com/searchprods.asp

Kswck wrote:
> "brooklyn1" > wrote in message
> ...
>> "Becca" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
>>> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>>>
>>>
>>> Yours?
>>>
>>>
>>> Becca
>> Anything licorice; licorice pipes.
>>
>
> Licorice-yum
>
> http://www.hometownfavorites.com/searchprods.asp
>
>
Just not that atrocity called red licorice.

--
Jean B.

wrote:

>
> Same store also sold icecream cones - 8 cents for one scoop, bargain
> to get two scoops for 15, but who had that kind of money?
> They had a real soda fountain with marble counter - but no stools -
> these ppl did not want anyone taking up space over a period of time.


When I was a kid in the 50s convenience stores and some drug stores sold
ice cream cones... chocolate, vanilla or strawberry, and the ice cream
came in tubes. They ripped the wrapper off and stuck the ice cream in
the cone.

There was a Diana Sweets in the city where I spent my teen years. They
had a black and white ceramic tile floor and wooden booths. You could
get just about any kind of soft drink, all made from flavour syrups and
carbonated water. Milk shakes were made with real milk and ice cream.
That place was in business until the late 1980s.

Andy wrote:
> George Shirley said...
>
>> Andy wrote:
>>> George Shirley said...
>>>
>>>> Andy wrote:
>>>>> George Shirley said...
>>>>>
>>>>>> My second favorite was and still is Whoppers malted milk balls.
>>>>> But... but... you only got those at the movies.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or maybe I was deprived!??
>>>>>
>>>>> Andy
>>>> They were available at five and dimes, candy stores, and some grocery
>>>> stores when I was a kid. I first found them at the Saturday movies. My
>>>> folks would give me a quarter and I would ride my bike the five blocks
>>>> to the Lamar Theater in Beaumont, TX. Cost a dime to get in and then
> you
>>>> could get a cold drink and a bag of popcorn for fifteen cents or a cold
>>>> drink and two nickel boxes of Whoppers for the same fifteen cents. You
>>>> got to see a couple of cliff hangers and then either a western movie or
>>>> a Tarzan movie. Then there would be contests for prizes. Go at 8 am,
>>>> turn you loose at noon. Cheap baby sitting.
>>>
>>> George Shirley,
>>>
>>> Great!!!
>>>
>>> Thanks for the memories!
>>>
>>> I'll smile all day now!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Andy
>> I visited the old neighborhood in the late seventies, first time in many
>> years. Drove by the old Lamar Theater and it was an "Adult" movie house.
>> Probably didn't even sell Whoppers anymore.
>
>
> Ain't that a DARN shame too!!!
>
> Probably R-rated stuff too, huh!??
>
> Andy

From what I read in the paper when they closed it down it was more like
X-rated.

Dave wrote
(snip)
> There was a Diana Sweets in the city where I spent my teen years. They
> had a black and white ceramic tile floor and wooden booths. You could
> get just about any kind of soft drink, all made from flavour syrups and
> carbonated water. Milk shakes were made with real milk and ice cream.
> That place was in business until the late 1980s.
===================================

Finney Drug, Downtown Bismarck ND: 15 cents each. I loved Lime
Cokes with lime syrup. Cinnamon Cokes (Hot-n-Tots) cinnamon syrup,
Cherry Cokes - Grenadine, but I hated Chocolate Coke!
Lynn Gifford in Fargo
There's a funky store (Zandbroz) on my block that has Finney's
original (restored) soda fountain, stools and all. They call it
Dakota Soda. link to photos: http://www.yelp.com/biz/dakota-soda-fargo

Jean B. wrote:

>>>
>>
>> Licorice-yum
>>
>> http://www.hometownfavorites.com/searchprods.asp
>>
> Just not that atrocity called red licorice.
>
I like red licorice, but I agree that it isn't really licorice.

Dave Smith wrote:
>
> Jean B. wrote:
>
> >> Licorice-yum
> >>
> >> http://www.hometownfavorites.com/searchprods.asp
> >>
> > Just not that atrocity called red licorice.
> >
> I like red licorice, but I agree that it isn't really licorice.

Why not? Red is just as traditional a color as black.

Licorice itself (the root) is not black. If you
peel the skin off, it's pale yellow.

"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Same store also sold icecream cones - 8 cents for one scoop, bargain
>> to get two scoops for 15, but who had that kind of money?
>> They had a real soda fountain with marble counter - but no stools -
>> these ppl did not want anyone taking up space over a period of time.
>
>
> When I was a kid in the 50s convenience stores and some drug stores sold
> ice cream cones... chocolate, vanilla or strawberry, and the ice cream
> came in tubes. They ripped the wrapper off and stuck the ice cream in
> the cone.

I remember those..late forties....last fall we went to an agricultural
fair and one of the booths had square ones that were wrapped in paper and
fit into wider cones...reminded me of when I was a kid...we went to Grammas
and she sent to the corner store for enough cones and ice cream rolls for
everyone. We would sit out on her front lawn and assemble our own....Sharon
>
> There was a Diana Sweets in the city where I spent my teen years. They had
> a black and white ceramic tile floor and wooden booths. You could get just
> about any kind of soft drink, all made from flavour syrups and carbonated
> water. Milk shakes were made with real milk and ice cream. That place was
> in business until the late 1980s.

biig wrote:

>> When I was a kid in the 50s convenience stores and some drug stores sold
>> ice cream cones... chocolate, vanilla or strawberry, and the ice cream
>> came in tubes. They ripped the wrapper off and stuck the ice cream in
>> the cone.
>
> I remember those..late forties....last fall we went to an agricultural
> fair and one of the booths had square ones that were wrapped in paper and
> fit into wider cones...reminded me of when I was a kid...we went to Grammas
> and she sent to the corner store for enough cones and ice cream rolls for
> everyone. We would sit out on her front lawn and assemble our own....Sharon



They weren't very good were they. But it was ice cream. Not many people
had freezers back then, and the freezer compartment in refrigerators
were tiny. There wasn't much room for things like ice cream. There
weren't a lot of frozen foods either.

On Apr 21, 11:20*am, George Shirley > wrote:
> Andy wrote:
> > George Shirley said...
>
> >> My second favorite was and still is Whoppers malted milk balls.
>
> > But... but... you only got those at the movies.
>
> > Or maybe I was deprived!??
>
> > Andy
>
> They were available at five and dimes, candy stores, and some grocery
> stores when I was a kid. I first found them at the Saturday movies. My
> folks would give me a quarter and I would ride my bike the five blocks
> to the Lamar Theater in Beaumont, TX. Cost a dime to get in and then you
> could get a cold drink and a bag of popcorn for fifteen cents or a cold
> drink and two nickel boxes of Whoppers for the same fifteen cents. You
> got to see a couple of cliff hangers and then either a western movie or
> a Tarzan movie. Then there would be contests for prizes. Go at 8 am,
> turn you loose at noon. Cheap baby sitting.

Ya also got cartoons, a newsreel, serial, and our shows ended with a
Three Stooges episode.

Good and Plenty (white, and pink on black licorice)seemed to be the
candy of choice for tossing around in the dark or raining down from
the balcony.
A Sugar Daddy would last thru the whole show.

"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
...
> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> Jean B. wrote:
>>
>> >> Licorice-yum
>> >>
>> >> http://www.hometownfavorites.com/searchprods.asp
>> >>
>> > Just not that atrocity called red licorice.
>> >
>> I like red licorice, but I agree that it isn't really licorice.
>
> Why not? Red is just as traditional a color as black.
>
> Licorice itself (the root) is not black. If you
> peel the skin off, it's pale yellow.

You drug crazed brain dead pinhead... you're echoing by paraphrasing...
they're not refering to the color, only the flavor in relation to the
color.... all normal healthy brained individuals know that form of
confection is color coded acording to flavor... there are about eight
different flavors and each appropriately colored; chocolate/brown,
cherry/red, raspberry/medium red, strawberry/pale red, blueberry/blue,
lemon/yellow, lime/green, licorice/black.... same as like gum drops,
Chuckles brand candy, even jelly beans... all normal brained folks know that
black is reserved for licorice flavored confections, perhaps because so many
consider licorice is yukky, and black is the universal color for yukky
flavored... in fact there was once a Canadian brand of salty licorice called
Yuckys, each a round black disk chaped candy depicting different ugly
faces... it's been like 40 years ago when I bought them in Gananoqua,
Ontario (even got a wooden nickle in change) but I still remember the
ugliest one resembled the sqwartz! LOL

Heading off on a bit of tangent, one of the things that's been
disappearing around here has been Brach's "pick-a-mix". Those were the
bins of various wrapped hard and soft candies that you could mix and
pay by the pound. I always liked that because I could put together a
nice selection for a candy bowl for guests without buying a bunch of
packs (and I could get the toffee flavors I liked).

Used to be in all the grocery stores and Walgreens and such. Fairly
recently, the last place where I go that still had them (Schnucks) got
rid of their operation. They have some packages of the candy, if you
want a pound or so, which I don't.

Ah well.



Brian

--
Day 78 of the "no grouchy usenet posts" project

Mark Thorson wrote:

>>> Just not that atrocity called red licorice.
>>>
>> I like red licorice, but I agree that it isn't really licorice.
>
> Why not? Red is just as traditional a color as black.
>
> Licorice itself (the root) is not black. If you
> peel the skin off, it's pale yellow.

Why not? Because licorice is flavoured with the extract from the
licorice root. Red "licorice" is not licorice flavoured.

My husband feels the same way about red licorice. I like the red and He
likes the black. : )


Dena

said...

> On Apr 21, 11:20*am, George Shirley > wrote:
>> Andy wrote:
>> > George Shirley said...
>>
>> >> My second favorite was and still is Whoppers malted milk balls.
>>
>> > But... but... you only got those at the movies.
>>
>> > Or maybe I was deprived!??
>>
>> > Andy
>>
>> They were available at five and dimes, candy stores, and some grocery
>> stores when I was a kid. I first found them at the Saturday movies. My
>> folks would give me a quarter and I would ride my bike the five blocks
>> to the Lamar Theater in Beaumont, TX. Cost a dime to get in and then you
>> could get a cold drink and a bag of popcorn for fifteen cents or a cold
>> drink and two nickel boxes of Whoppers for the same fifteen cents. You
>> got to see a couple of cliff hangers and then either a western movie or
>> a Tarzan movie. Then there would be contests for prizes. Go at 8 am,
>> turn you loose at noon. Cheap baby sitting.
>
> Ya also got cartoons, a newsreel, serial, and our shows ended with a
> Three Stooges episode.
>
> Good and Plenty (white, and pink on black licorice)seemed to be the
> candy of choice for tossing around in the dark or raining down from
> the balcony.
> A Sugar Daddy would last thru the whole show.


Tweeny,

What movie theater did you learn to throw Good and Plenty candy? I sense a
Saturday movie matinee BUM!!! from my past.

MOM!!!

Andy
--
Eat first, talk later.

Becca wrote:
>
> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>
> Yours?
>
> Becca


Didn't grow up in the US so can't comment on most of those sorts of
things :P
However, my mother was reminiscing about my childhood, as parents are
wont to do. Said the local sweet shop owner though I was a smart
consumer even though a small child. Apparently I'd go in there, small
coin clutched in little paw and carefully consider my options.
Eventually the choices were made, the prizes bagged and clutched in
previously mentioned little paw and conveyed home.

Some things never change; still shop the same way LOL.

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:27:45 GMT, "James Silverton"
> fired up random neurons and synapses
to opine:

>Another memory was buying chocolate bars from *mechanical*
>slot machines with a drawer that you pulled out after inserting a coin..
>I grew up in Britain and the price was 3 pence (there was a coin for
>that amount), about 5 cents in the US at that time, so that was hardly
>"penny candy".

"Thrupenny bits," eh? I remember those from when we lived in England
in the 60s (US Air Force). US pennies were banned on the bases, in
that they rounded everything to the nearest nickel b/c a US penny was
the same size and weight as a six pence and worked in vending
machines. We "brats" used to oh, so innocently ask newbies from the
States to break our change in exchange for pennies. Worked just great,
until they caught on...which was usually after they had parted with
all their pennies!

As to penny *candy*, I remember in about 6th grade being told we could
bring any snacks we wanted to class b/c they were doing some sort of
statewide testing. I blew my entire allowance on candy, leaning
heavily on candy necklaces and button candy (pretty much the same
stuff). Ate myself sick on it. To this day, there are certain types of
hard candy I can't stand because of it.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"

George Shirley wrote:
> Andy wrote:
>> Becca said...
>>
>>> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
>>> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>>>
>>>
>>> Yours?
>>>
>>>
>>> Becca
>>
>>
>> Candy buttons?
>>
>> Andy
>
> Anyone old enough to remember wax babies, little hollow wax babies with
> a sweet syrup inside and then you could chew the wax. Common
> misconception was that you always tried to pick out the boy wax babies,
> they were supposed to have more wax on them. <G>

I remember then and the red, wax lips and the wax bottles that looked
like little Coke bottles.

--
Janet Wilder
way-the-heck-south Texas
spelling doesn't count
but cooking does

Becca wrote:
> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx

Mary Janes!

--
Janet Wilder
way-the-heck-south Texas
spelling doesn't count
but cooking does

Zeppo wrote:
> "Becca" > wrote in message
> ...
>> When I was a child, my favorites were Banana Splits, Mary Janes,
>> Chic-O-Sticks, butterscotch, root beer barrels.
>>
>>
>> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...Candy-C14.aspx
>>
>>
>> Yours?
>>
>>
>> Becca
>
> Red Hots and tootsie rolls.
>
> BTW, I order from these guys al least once a year. I usually order these:
>
> http://www.bulkcandystore.com/store/...y-P384C34.aspx
>
> They sell these bulk at a reasonable price. Pox on Costco for getting me
> hooked on these then not selling them anymore.
>
> Jon
>
>

My DH likes the mint chocolate chip ones. Have you tried WalMart, they
usually have them.

--
Janet Wilder
way-the-heck-south Texas
spelling doesn't count
but cooking does