Not that I eat much candy anymore, but I was trying to recollect the
candies we had available as kids (when candy tasted better than now).

How many of you remember some of the names we chose from back then:

Bonamo's turkish taffy. You could slam it down on a hard surface and
it would shatter into pieces.

Necco wafers-a smorgasboard of fruit flavors. All tasted bad to me.

Mars bars with almonds. Now called Snickers almond bars.

Black Cow. Some kind of chewy thing.
Kits (little square things with fake flavor like banana)
Lik-M-Aid (tart stuff)
Oh Henry! peanut and chocolate
Park Avenue
Clark Bars-peanut butter crisp covered in chocolate
Raisenets-raisins with chocolate coating
Good and Plenty-pink and white coated licorice capsules
Mr. Goodbar-peanuts and chocolate
Tootsie Rolls-strange tasting chewy chocolate
Zero White Chocolate Bars-with almonds
Milk Shake candy bars
Switzer Licorice sticks-red or black
Kit Kat candy bars-crispy stuff covered with chocolate

I think my favorite was Mars bars. A close second was Zero bars.
My third ranked would be Bonamo's Turkish Taffy.

Some of these brands are still around I guess. Others have
disappeared or are just hard to find. They used to cost five or ten
cents back then.

What obscure brands do you remember and what was your favorite
back then?

The Weaselmeister

Lanny:

Talk about midwestern terms. Here in Texas "pop" is "sodas",
although I still call it "pop".

Was it Nehi, Norka (Akron spelled backwards) or Barq's
orange/strawberry pop? What other brands did we have back then with
those flavors? I remember scarfing down 6 or 7 ounce Grapette. That
stuff was sickeningly sweet. Also liked 10-2-4 Dr. Pepper (still do).
They still make the original Dr Pepper in Dublin, Texas in limited
quantities and it is made with cane sugar instead of corn syrup; it
sure tastes like it used to taste before they changed most Dr Pepper
to corn syrup sweeteners. I think there is also a Dr Pepper museum
in Waco, Tx. Big Whoopee! Never been there. I have been to Dublin
though. It's southwest of DFW. Close to Dinosaur State Park in
Granbury, Tx.

The Weaselmeister

---

In dalton59@yahoogroup s.com, Lanny and Judy Royer
wrote:
>
> I ate them all.? Talk about a sweet tooth, I ate them with
strawberry pop and orange pop.
> FYI - We will be San Diego 6/1-6/8 out of connection.
> Lanny
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: jhdouglas59
> To: dalton59@yahoogroup s.com
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:09:56 AM
> Subject: [dalton59] Candies I remember as a kid
>
>
> Not that I eat much candy anymore, but I was trying to recollect
the
> candies we had available as kids (when candy tasted better than
now).
>
> How many of you remember some of the names we chose from back then:
>
> Bonamo's turkish taffy. You could slam it down on a hard surface
and
> it would shatter into pieces.
>
> Necco wafers-a smorgasboard of fruit flavors. All tasted bad to me.
>
> Mars bars with almonds. Now called Snickers almond bars.
>
> Black Cow. Some kind of chewy thing.
> Kits (little square things with fake flavor like banana)
> Lik-M-Aid (tart stuff)
> Oh Henry! peanut and chocolate
> Park Avenue
> Clark Bars-peanut butter crisp covered in chocolate
> Raisenets-raisins with chocolate coating
> Good and Plenty-pink and white coated licorice capsules
> Mr. Goodbar-peanuts and chocolate
> Tootsie Rolls-strange tasting chewy chocolate
> Zero White Chocolate Bars-with almonds
> Milk Shake candy bars
> Switzer Licorice sticks-red or black
> Kit Kat candy bars-crispy stuff covered with chocolate
>
> I think my favorite was Mars bars. A close second was Zero bars.
> My third ranked would be Bonamo's Turkish Taffy.
>
> Some of these brands are still around I guess. Others have
> disappeared or are just hard to find. They used to cost five or ten
> cents back then.
>
> What obscure brands do you remember and what was your favorite
> back then?
>
> The Weaselmeister
>

--
Barb:

I found these caramels (maybe) on candyfavorites.com. They are
called Goetze's vanilla caramel creams (aka bulls eyes). Are these
the caramels you are talking about? I think they resemble what we
used to get when we were kids. I haven't gone to Cracker Barrel yet
to check out what they have there. That place kind of scares me--too
many old people (probably my age or even younger).

The Weaselmeister

- In dalton59@yahoogroups.com, "Barb" ..> wrote:
>
> John,
>
>
>
> No they weren't Werthers as Werthers are a hard caramel. These
were chewy
> and best when fresh, Cracker Barrel has these too.
>
>
>
> There were little wax bottles filled with a liquid and candy
cigarettes! We
> also used to have taffy pulls, wonder if anyone does that anymore?
>
>
>
> Barb
>