What was your favorite candy/sweets as a kid?

Bit O'Honey and the original recipe Whatchamacallit bars.

I would chill this in the refrigerator. When it was hard, I’d crack it on the steps outside so that it broke into pieces.

The Marathon Bar - those TV ads!

Grape/Orange/Watermelon Now & Laters (hated Banana and Cherry)

Alexander Grape and Lemon Heads

Marathon Bars

Wine gums, and I still love them.

r5 Wine gums? I've never heard of them. Is it a European candy?

Anything chocolate...

R6 I'm in Canada, and they're quite common. They're also in the UK. They're wine-flavored, chewy, and various colors. They're much harder than gummies that the kids eat.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, preferably frozen.

I'd bite off the outer edge of chocolate entirely before eating the center.

Della, that is what I do to anything circular shaped- Oreos, Ding Dongs, cookies.

Frozen Milkshake bars. We had a candy store in town (Franklin Square, LI, NY), where they sold them frozen in the summer. Unfortunately, they were discontinued by the mid 1960s, so I only got to enjoy them for a few tears.

Heath Bar, 5th Avenue or Butterfinger

The Michfest version would have been called NOW and THEN.

As a kid, frozen Charleston Chews. Any flavor.

Zero bar. I liked that it was white.

Smoooches, r10.

I'm always feel relieved when a personal quirk ain't just me. I love the fudge covered Oreos.

Mackintosh’s toffee

If it was too hard, you could smack it against a wall and eat the pieces. My fillings ache (in a good way) just thinking about it.

I really liked Jolly Rancher Stix. My favorite flavors were Fire, Cherry, Watermelon, and Apple.

1. U-No bars

2. Bun.

their chocolates . . .

Those pieces of red licorice that were a yard long. I forget what they’re called. May be a licorice rope?

Good N’ Fruity! Who knew one day this would become my official nickname!

R22 - you reminded me of something else I Ioved; Good and Plenty

The nice thing about Now and Laters and Turkish Taffy was that they lasted much longer than chocolate.

Anything brightly colored and artificial. Funny enough, I never cared for chocolate as a child and didn't understand all the fuss. I loved Starbursts and Nerds though.

Oh Henry chocolate bars, butterfingers, Snicker, jolly rancher twin bars, chickosticks, bitohoney, Boston baked beans (candy coated peanut), Munch (a peanut brittle bar). I had a $12 a week candy habit.

Necco wafers. A thin, hard candy that came in rolls, either multi-colored/flavored, or chocolate, which was my favorite.

Starburst & Skittles. For kids on a budget, these were good. You had to chew them a long time & they were packed with flavor.

Starbursts

Skittles

Butterfingers

Warheads

Not a candy but I loved slurpees. I used to love to go to 7/11 near my house

I always used to get these in the movie theater. Also Big Hunk and Look.

Chick-o-stick

Wow it's fascinating see the difference between American and European candies and sweets. Did anyone like Lik M Aid Fun Dip? it basically was flavored sugar and a candy stick. I thought I would be thrifty and just eat straight Kool-Aid, but after eating 1/3 of a can, my throat closed up.

R3, I clicked on the thread already trying to figure out how to describe my favorite candy for not remembering the name - same as yours. I loved those things - that's some 70s shit right there! Close runner up for me was Laffy Taffy.

Haha

R32 , U.S. person here. I definitely liked Lik M Aid Fun Dip.

Only candy I never liked was KitKats...blech

Bun bars.

Large rounded area of vanilla creme, covered by peanuts and milk chocolate.

Cost a whopping 10c in the early 60’s. A quarter got me a comic book and one of these.

I remember in the '60s when I was a kid, Hershey Bars were a nickel, then they doubled to a dime (but got bigger, I think.) Some of the other candies stayed at a nickel, so I'd get those at the movies.

Mint Dream by Russell Stover are less fluffy and fun to eat than they used to be (did they cut expenses by cutting out gelatin?). Now, the filling is kinda runny and no longer sold in drug stores near me. Maybe that's a good thing.

Definitely Red Vines

I remember as a child going to Sears with my mom, and stopping by the candy counter inside the store for Swedish Fish. There was a huge bin full of them with a glass window right at my height.

Watermelon or apple jolly ranchers.

A violet crumble.

Clark Bars, 5th Avenue, O Henry, Black Crows, Candy Cigarettes. Does anyone remember the candy that was very much like Reese Cups, but was put out by the people who made Mallo Cups? I'm drawing a blank on their name, but they were good.

Payday, Alexander the Grape, Lemonheads, Chico Sticks, Whatchamacallit.

R44 Smoothies

R46, yes, thank you! I remember they had those little cardboard coins you could collect, and when you got 500, you sent them in and got a box of Smoothies or Mallo Cups.

R46, those Boyer's peanut butter cups look like Reese's.

Circus Peanuts

Eat some NOW, regurgitate LATER

Modjeskas!

When I was 4 or 5, I really liked Milk Duds. Then one day I somehow got hold of a family-sized box of them and ate the whole thing. I puked all night and well into the next morning. I never ate another one and never want to. Do they still even make Milk Duds?

Kiwi here, I loved pineapple lumps, whittakers peanut slabs and jubes!

R23, I also loved Good and Plenty. Just last week, my brother was telling me he had bought some at the dollar store, and how much he had enjoyed it.

Speaking of Marathon bars...how did Patrick Wayne not have a bigger career? Was there a better looking man in the 70s?

BIG HUNK. Maybe a foreshadowing of things to come?

Easter time is upon us. I still like these colorful robins' eggs Whopper-type (malted milk) candies.

R52 -RexofSB - I LOVED Milk Duds, too. I'm pretty sure they still make them

Chiclets gum--the little boxes which had 12 jewel-toned rectangles. I thought the colors were so pretty. You could also get them Tiny-sized. You could pour these into your mouth.

The necklaces with round pastel-colored buttons flavored like artificial banana extract.

Chick-O-Sticks bring me back to the summer swim club my family joined. Those and the hunky life guards who twirled their whistles around their fingers. In the locker room, I discovered auburn-haired Bernie had an enormous bush. I measure all others by it. Mel had a smoldering face and a hairy chest. I prayed I could see his bush (I imagined it to be comparable to Bernie's) one day.

Mary Jane's. Penny per piece; good times.

[quote][R52] -RexofSB - I LOVED Milk Duds, too. I'm pretty sure they still make them

It's funny how you can get so crazed about something, yet the first time it makes you sick to your stomach you throw a hate on it from that time on. For that reason, I'm glad I never got sick on Junior Mints. God, I love Junior Mints! They're one of the few things that tastes absolutely identical from when I was a kid in the 1950s.

Around 2003 a powder candy stick mania hit our town. I remember the floor in our school being super dirty, because you had to bite the top of the straw off to get to the delicious dextrose on the inside and naturally most kids spat it right out onto the floor. The headmaster soon had them banned. Now they weren't really my favorite candy but just thinking about us all being addicted to that stuff like it was crack for a few weeks makes me smile.

7 flavors in one candy bar.

Whatchamacallit. Nutrageous.

The Seven-Up bar. Callard & Bowser toffees, especially the licorice ones. Cadbury chocolate before it was ruined. Necco wafers.

Loved Bubilicious gum, especially raspberry flavor. Used to was the whole pack in my mouth then put it in freezer for a while. Intense. Also used to put Snickers bars on a plate in the microwave for thirty seconds, eaten with a fork. Again, intense!

Frozen Zero candy bar!

Charlie says...

r62, we had something like that in the U.S., much earlier though (70's), called Pixy Stix:

I still remember this Whatchamacallit jingle 30 years on...

A rock.

Razzles. Raspberry flavored. First it's a candy, then it's gum!

[quote]I had a love/hate relationship with Now and Laters, especially the Banana flavor:

Now and Laters were the scent of my youth. Anyone who grew up in Brooklyn and passed over the Gowanus, could smell them being made every day at the factory

Plain M&Ms, but they had to be from a big bag, not a small bag. To this day (thankfully) the ones from the big bags taste better than the ones from the small (vending machine, Halloween) bags. I hate to deliver this news, but it's true.

Ha r73, we had a bread factory and a candy factory by me in Chicago. I hated Tuesdays- it was butterscotch day. To this day, I can't stand butterscotch candy.

Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, Twinkies, Pop Tarts and Hostess Pies were also a big part of my youth.

Starburts, Skittles, and Sweet Tarts

As a kid, Clark bars and Zero bars. To this day, I enjoy Kit Kats and Reese's peanut butter cups.

Paydays ca. late 80's when they were much saltier than they are now.

Candy Samples

Another Canadian candy I loved was Aero bars, especially the mint ones. I've only started seeing them in U.S. stores in the last couple of years.

Have any of you been to Asia and seen all the crazy flavors of Kit Kats they have? This was at the Narita airport in Japan:

Churned Butter

This whole thread types fat.

Watermelon Jolly Rancher sticks you’d suck into a pointed shiv. Loved them even though the food coloring gave me a headache.

R3 omg I totally forgot about Marathon Bars. I loved those.

Although I generally wasn’t big on him, I did love Razzles, which started with the texture of slightly softer Sweet Tarts and then turned into gum. Speaking of Sweet Tarts, I also loved them.

In 6th grade, my friend Arthur, offered me his Clark Bar if I showed him my penis. Arthur was a cool, mysterious kid that smoked. I wanted candy so I dropped my pants. We moved shortly afterwards to the suburbs. I wonder were Arthur is now. I still like Clark bars.

Sky Bar! I loved the variety. I still don't understand why it's not the most popular candy bar of all time.

I remember corner stores in the 70s would sell these small candies for something like three for 10 cents. I think often you could get an extra piece of the lower quality Ice Cubes for the same price paid for a lesser number of Andes.

Wait a second, that Seven Up is even better than the Sky Bar! What country is that from?

This website is kind of cool. You can search for candy by decade during which it was popular. It even has a recommendation for a candy bar that is similar to the Now discontinued Marathon Bar — the Curly Wurly Bar.

Jujubees

Jordan Almonds

Black Crows

R89, best link ever. Many thanks.

Always been a twizzlers fan ALWAYS will be.

Smarties. I was born in Canada but my family moved to the US when I was 6. There were no Smarties anywhere in Colorado and it became an annual Christmas thing that grandma would send us all a box of them.

r89, that link is amazing. How could I forget Pop Rocks?!

Milk Duds are still around but softer and wimpier—more like Pom Poms crossed with Sugar Babies.

Krackel!

Mr. Goodbar

Regal Crown sour cherry candies were my favorite, but I could guzzle SweeTarts, NECCO wafers, and Smarties by the pound. Not especially keen on chocolate. Slave to sugar.

East coast had Twizzlers, never even heard of Red Vines until a few years ago, still never seen them in person..

Do they even make Jolly Rancher Stix or full size Tootsie Rolls anymore? I know they have small wrapped ones.

$100,000 Bar

I fucking hated "Now & Later".... how did anyone like that shit?

Allsorts Frozen 3 musketeers

"In 6th grade, my friend Arthur offered me his Clark Bar if I showed him my penis. I wanted candy so I dropped my pants. I wonder where Arthur is now."

I'm still asking 12 year-old boys to show me their penises for a Clark bar.

Why?

I think there's something wrong with anyone who doesn't choose chocolate. Smarties are gross! I cursed the party bags I used to get which had those shitty little candies.

My British grandmother always gets licorice all-sorts (in the bulk tubes) at the grocery. I grew up with them. Very foreign to many Americans.

[quote]In 6th grade, my friend Arthur offered me his Clark Bar if I showed him my penis.

Yeah, but what would you do for a Klondike Bar?

I love "smarties".... I love the white ones the best.

r105, also flavored nougats. One of my Australian friend's mom brought back a bag, and I'm obsessed.

OP needs to review our Halloween Candy threads.

And this:

[quote]I think there's something wrong with anyone who doesn't choose chocolate. Smarties are gross! I cursed the party bags I used to get which had those shitty little candies.

I love the end of Halloween and everyone at work tries to offload their candy and all that is left are Smarties and Tootsie Rolls. Heaven.

[quote]I fucking hated "Now & Later".... how did anyone like that shit?

Relax, they are just hard taffy.

I wonder if there will be any bargains on unsold Easter candy next week.

Saw a little feature on how all the French chocolatiers in France don't know what to do with all their Easter chocolates.

What's your favorite candy, Darfur Orphan?

The original "Summit" bar.

Not the remake that appeared like ten years later... it was a pale imitation.

The original "Summit" bar was two sticks, wafers with cream and topped with chopped peanuts and covered in chocolate (the top looked like a littel mountain range).

It was awesome. It didn't last long, sadly.

Daddy's foot

Maynard's Wine Gums