Senior Citizens, when you were lucky to get some money to buy candy, what did you buy the most?
Lynn asked:
Everyone has a favorite to curb their sweet tooth. I wonder what you
liked as a child, that you still love today and didn’t get tired of. I have
had a passion for Hershey’s chocolate with almonds. I could devour
one in no time. Or a Snickers bar with the caramel and nuts. I love
milk chocolate regardless.
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Everyone has a favorite to curb their sweet tooth. I wonder what you
liked as a child, that you still love today and didn’t get tired of. I have
had a passion for Hershey’s chocolate with almonds. I could devour
one in no time. Or a Snickers bar with the caramel and nuts. I love
milk chocolate regardless.
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August 8th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
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As a child, I spent some of my allowance or pop bottle money on black licorice sticks, Life Savers, or mini peanut butter cups. I don’t care much for black licorice now, but I do like the red licorice mini bites. I still love peanut butter cups, but I buy them once in a great while. As for the Life Savers, I don’t care for them anymore.
August 10th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
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sweet meats and still do.
August 10th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
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Almond Joy, or Mounds… depends if I felt like a NUT or not.
Have a Seasoned day.
August 13th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
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When I was a kid and had some spare money I bought treats for my younger brother as I thought he was just adorable, lollies of course - milk bottles, fizzies, musk sticks or sherbet.
Now I tend to go for dark chocolate which I share with my family. I don’t buy myself treats when out, but I do have a coffee when I do the grocery shopping.
August 13th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
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I used to buy penny candy as it was called back then like the gummy pop bottles and wax lips, and many types they don’t even make anymore like the candy cigarettes…can you believe it!
August 16th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
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Ah yes, the penny candy…sometimes two for a penny! When you had just spent a couple of hours on your bicycle looking for pop bottles to turn in for the deposit, you wanted as much for your money as possible.
As I got older I preferred caramels and then chocolate and if you could combine caramel and chocolate even better.
Now, I prefer just a good piece of either quality chocolate or just a plain flat Hershey’s bar.
August 18th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
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I distinctly remember buying Mars Bars for 5 cents. Mmm….
August 20th, 2011 at 12:57 am
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dainty sweets it was a large caramel and it was a penny or four mojos which were a sort of liquorice caramel for a penny . then we got sherbet dips, they were a penny also , but that was your pocket money for the week gone,so you thought about it a lot
August 22nd, 2011 at 10:14 am
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When I was growing up on the way home from school I use to stop at this drug store and buy pumpkin seeds they were 3 cents a box, then there were little wax bottles filled with this juice you would bite off the wax top, drink the juice and then chew the wax like gum, ick! and then there were Mary Janes. Now my choice of candy is a Hershey milk chocolate bar with almonds.
August 23rd, 2011 at 3:21 pm
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Hershey’s bar with almonds, but usually it was Tootsie Roll Pops, Tootsie Rolls or Lifesavers.
August 26th, 2011 at 4:58 am
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Sour balls.
August 28th, 2011 at 10:48 pm
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I liked snickers when i was a kid. And still do.
August 29th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
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flying saucers and sherbet dips
September 1st, 2011 at 1:11 am
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I could get 6 nickel candy bars for a quarter plus a penny tax in 1960 at our local grocer. I got Hershey, Mounds, Chuckles, Mars bar, Salted nut roll (in the yellow cellophane wrapper) and a Cherry Hump.
Today I still grab a Hershey if I’m having a sugar attack.
September 4th, 2011 at 8:40 am
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I always went for the penny candy, cause I always wanted to get the most for my money.
September 7th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
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Loved 2-Way pop (don’t make it anymore), Guy’s BBQ potato chips and corn candy!!!
September 8th, 2011 at 4:00 am
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I used to get Holloway suckers at the movie theatre. They were like hard caramel on a stick and would last through a whole movie.
I also loved licorice from the penny candy store.
September 8th, 2011 at 9:36 am
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My favorite was and is ice cream–should to watch and listen for the ice cream man in his little white truck making the rounds of our neighborhood.
September 9th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
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Ice cream has always been on the top of my list for something sweet .
September 12th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
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The one I got the most of my friend.
September 13th, 2011 at 9:24 am
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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups — used to cost a nickle and they were bigger than they are now, or else I was smaller and they seemed bigger.
They are still my favorite, only now I buy the little, tiny ones because I don’t want a whole big candy bar, then proceed to eat the whole bag! Well, at least my intentions are good. . . .
September 15th, 2011 at 9:48 am
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Mcintosh Toffee its a Canadian candy
September 17th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
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Charms suckers- they came in grape and cherry. I loved the cherry.
Penny candy. The dots on the paper, licorice, Kool Aid, we used to just each it out of the little bag. I loved and still do buy the 3 Musketeers bar. Of course Hershey’s chocolate bar, Charleston Chews, Milk Duds, Ju Ju Bees, Dots, Those wax red lips. and wax tubes filled with juice. Lots to pick from, too many to mention them all.