What Was Your Favorite Candy/Chocolate Treat When You Were A Kid

I loved those little Andes Creme de Menthe chocolate rectangles in the green foil.

When I was a little kid- I had a few obsessions-

Something called "Fortune Gum" It was Gum with a fortune and Chinese Writing.. This is the late 80's ,early 90's?

I loved those horrible white sticks that you dip in colored sugar?

I dug Twix Bars.

And I loved these mints because my grandma had them in her purse, and they were almost creamy? Velamints.

Brandy filled chocolates, often shaped like bottles, and Haribo peaches and frogs.

I definitely liked Reggie Bars. They were introduced in the spring or summer of 1979.

These. I remember going with my mother when she would buy these caramels at the original location in downtown DC in the late '50's/early '60's. The sugary caramels were absolutely to die for.

As a child, I received a collection of lifesavers in the form of a book every year on Christmas. Santa always remembered. 🎅🏻

Any, my mother forbade eating candy of any form so I had to take what I could get

Fancy Fruits - the first 'Gay' named candy circa 1965. Those were the days!

[quote] I LOVED Life Savers Fancy Fruits when I was a boy.

OP, was it around this time that you discovered you [italic]are[/italic] a fancy fruit? 😘

3 Musketeers but I wasn't picky when it came to chocolate, as long as it was milk chocolate.

My grandmother always had a Whitman's Sampler and I loved almost everything in it, but that was a treat.

I WAS a Fancy Fruit when I was a boy.

Jujubes

Mexican Hats

Chocolate Babies

Baby Ruth. Still is, with Snickers a close second.

Rollo's and Whatchamacallit, Oh, and Mars bars! I guess Jamie Farr did something to me.

I'm a Whatchamacallit fan too! I wish they made them with dark chocolate. Milk chocolate these days tastes like shit.

Baby Ruth, even though it looked like a doody.

And Butterfinger.

And $100,000 Bar.

Bonomo Vanilla Turkish Taffy. Chill it and then crack it on the curb or stairs to break the taffy into pieces.

Reese's Take 5s!

Bissinger's.

Period.

You have to make choose just one favourite? You monster! 🙃

Astropops. Thin cone shaped candy on a stick consisting of three flavours layered like a Stoplight shooter: red cherry on the bottom (with a thick seal of paraffin wax), yellow pineapple in the middle and green lime on top.

Stabbing oneself with the sharp point it melted down to was not pleasant yet strangely not that unpleasant.

[quote]I LOVED Life Savers Fancy Fruits when I was a boy.

Tell me you’re gay without telling me you’re gay

Smarties! Especially the bigger ones that were so sour you'd scrunch up your face!

R22- I was quite discerning about my sweets even as a child and yes I was no doubt even at the young age of 6 already a FANCY fruit.

I did not know I was gay until I was 12 years old however.

Who is a fruit?

Peppermint Patty, Junior Mints, Andes Creme De Menthe Thin Mints

LOL I had a mint fixation which lasts till today. Also love chocolate chip mint ice cream, and Mint Milano cookies.

Showering naked

Bauer's Modjeskas.

Mom was a freak for these and I loved them too.

Did the Fancy Fruits come in a round tin? My grandmother used to have hard candies that we would sneak that were in a gold, round flat tin. If so, Fancy Fruits were one.

Skor bars

Smarties. I liked mixing colors to get different “flavor” combinations. The white ones were the duds of the roll.

Cellas Clear Liquid chocolate covered cherries

Andes Mints

Luden’s Cherry cough drops

Pixie Stix

Peanut Brittle

Lik-A-Stix. I loved that powder, it was like cocaine for kids.

Snickers.

R29- I would buy them in a variety/gift store in a cylindrical wrapper just like regular Life Savers.

Milky Way

I always loved Baby Ruth bars - until I saw this!

Nestle's Crunch

Lik'M-Aid Fun Dup, like others have mentioned - the sticks were the best. I'd eat the powder with my finger and save the sticks for last. They tasted like fruity bubble gum.

Lemon Heads, esp. the big ones

Bottle Caps

Giant Sweet Tarts

Hot Tamales

Good N' Plenty (and other licorice all sorts, loved the candy coated ones)

Cheap butterscotch hard candies in the bright yellow cellophane wrapper

Dark Chocolate non pareils

Smooth and melty pastel mints that look like non pareils

Brachs Caramel Royals, Neopolitan Sundaes, and Nougat Jellies.

Big Hunk bars where I’d have to slam them on the edge of something to break them

Butterfinger

Caravelle candy bar

Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddy

Mint Frangos

Coffee Nips. My coffee addiction started at 6 years old.

Marathon Bars. All 8 inches.

Caramilk

See's Scotchmallows, which I still love.

I no longer live near a See's Candies store, sadly.

R36- Good N Fruity was also one of my favorites in addition too Life Savers Fancy Fruits.

I guess I was a POSH fruity little gay boy.

Wow! Good N Fruity and Fancy Fruits - you were really taking a walk on the 'Wild Side' you crazy girl - weren't you!

Datalounge people I also LOVED those cough drops you could only buy in your local pharmacy ca. 1975 ( Remember the local pharmacy before CVS sprouted like weeds everywhere). Smith Brothers Cherry Cough Drops- they were yummier than real candy.

I liked when they would give out cans of Hershey's chocolate syrup and you could just pour their contents straight down your throat.

No muss, no fuss.

Hubba Bubba or Bubble Yum or Bubblicious. For about 5 years Bubblicious made chocolate mint flavor and it was amazing. I miss it. For chocolate it was Kit Kat or Skor bars

Does anyone remember the hard candies that were completely clear with a pink bubble gum center? They were lozenge-shaped, and I thought it was so cool that you could see the pink bubble gum through the clear candy coating. I haven't seen them since I was a kid, and I think they may have only been around in Halloween candy mixes. Those were my favorite things to get while trick-or treating.

Shredded paper.

The giant chewy sweet tarts that you could smash into pieces in the wrapper were probably my ultimate favorite, but lemonheads come close, too.

Freshen Up gum, the gum that goes squirt. We called it cum gum.

R5 That candy looks amazing. The walnut sugary caramel looks like the fudge they sold (still possibly sell) in Kennebunkport, Maine. We’d visit a candy story in the port in summer and each choose something. It was delicious. There was a candle store, too, that smelled amazing.

MARY JANES and PEANUT CHEWS

And they don't make them like they used to.....

Clark bars - they crumble in your mouth in a most delightful way!

R44 is me- OP

Baby Ruth Bars, Heath Bars, Mounds & Almond Joy. I would trade 3 Musketeers, Sugar Daddies, Charleston Chews, Bit O Honey for these three.

As kids in the 1970’s suburban New Jersey, we collected pillowcases with Trick or Treat candy each Halloween. My brothers and sisters would sit on the living room floor and form a sort of mercantile exchange, and trade items. At that time, we were often given full-sized candy bars and larger boxes (perhaps 2” X 5”) of things like Good & Plenty, Junior Mints, Goobers and Raisinets. We gave the Rasinets to our Dad. We rarely saw our Mom eat any sweets.

Fancy Fruits: also known as DL's very own Tasteful Friends.

Open wide for Chunky!

Hershey's Golden Bar- It was a thick milk chocolate bar with roasted almonds in a gold foiled wrapper. I remember buying it in the mid to late 1980's. I think it was discontinued by the early 1990's.

It was so good. I liked it better than Chunky which I remember eating in the 1970's.

^ We used to sell an off-brand version of this for our high school band so we couldget new uniforms. They were pretty good.

Rexall cherry sours

Sorry it was Regal Crown Cherry Sours. Rexall was where you bought them.

Altoids Sours now brought back as Retro Sours by another company

Everything tasted better with MSG!

Another vote for Bonomo Turkish Taffy.

We ate a lot of Reeds and Teaberry and Beemans gum. I think because my mom grew up with those.

I liked Fruit Stripe gum and Lifesavers Tropical Fruits.

Has anyone mentioned CHUNKIES? I think that was the name. They were tin foil wrapped chocolate chunks filled with nuts and raisins and maybe something else like cherries? Anyone??

R67- I mentioned Chunky and how I thought that the 1980's version was better- Hershey's Golden Bar with Milk Chocolate and Roasted Almonds.

Goldenberg's Peanut Chews

R69- My mother loved those especially in a movie theater.

R66- I wasn't thinking of gum when I started this thread but I don't mind you mentioning gum because I am going to mention a gum that was yummy when I a kid- Fruit flavored Chicklets. I only had them once in a great while.

There is definitely a consistency here in my favorite sweets. They ALL seem to be fruit flavored except for the Reggie Bar.

I was one happy fruit as a little gay boy eating my fruit flavored treats. My adolescence was not so happy.

I used to love those giant Symphony bars with almonds and toffee that were about the size of a dinner plate.

R67& OP, I loved the Cadbury version, Dairy Milk fruit and nut. Although that was awhile back, doubt the recipe/taste has stayed the exact same.

PayDay bars. I was never a big fan of chocolate.

Willy Wonka chocolate candy bars. Peanut Butter Super Skrunch Bars, Peanut Butter Oompas, Wonka Bars and Scrumdidilyumptious Bars.

My ass tastes like candy. I’m a candy ass!

I was a salt-a-holic, so always spent my money on salty treats like chips. I never really had a favorite chocolate bar or candy.

You can lick my lollipop, but you can't lick me.

Would you lick my ass?

Depends. Do you wear Depends?

I’m 51 and vital

Sunkist fruit gems

French Chew, Ferrara Pan Jaw Breakers, Bazooka bubble gum (with the Bazooka Joe comics in the wrappers, Mr. Goodbar, Nestle's chocolate bars, Chiclets gum (for the beautiful colors), and those candy necklaces. I still recall the flavor of those necklaces.

I used to imagine the large chocolate coins were male bodybuilder nipples, and I licked all around them before they melted in my mouth. Yes, I knew way back when......

Skybars

Mr. Goodbars

Non-pareils from Sears or Woolworths candy sections

Night and Days at the matinee. Or Good and Plenty. Licorice because my mom liked licorice. And she wasn’t even there! Damn she was controlling.

Abba Zabba.

Long rectangles of strawberry 🍓 flavored taffy covered in chocolate they also sold it in vanilla.

R83- I really liked Nestles Crunch Bar when I was a kid .

I also liked $100,000 Bar .

Now it’s called 100 Grand - what a lame 😒 name.

I’m sure the ingredients have been degraded since I ate them in the 1970’s.

Yes, because "A One Hundred Thousand Dollar Bar," rolls off the tongue so much more easily than, "A Hundred Grand."

Bounty. Still my favourite chocolate bar.

Bun bar

Also loved Charleston Chews

KitKats & Twix

Reese's PBCs.

Plain M&Ms

Les Fraises and Les Framboises (French, expensive)

Milky Way, Sugar Daddy, sugar babies, those little green squishy mint things that were two-for-a-penny (mint juleps!) those little candies stuck to strips of paper longer than CVS receipts - unless I was at the movies, then it was Sno-Caps and Pom Poms.

Charley says: Love my Good 'n' Plenty!

Charley says: It really rings the bell.

Charley says: Love my Good 'n' Plenty!

There's no other kind of candy that I love so well!

Reply 82, yes. Sunkist Fruit Gems. I looovvvveeeedddd those. Why did they disappear? So excited, I'm hyperventilating!

OP, I used to love the Tropical Fruit roll of Lifesavers. It was only last year that I learned they'd been discontinued for a long time. Whyyyyyy? {shaking fist at the sky}

I loved those chocolate Ice Cubes. They were the creamiest! There was also a candy bar that had like 7 different candy-bar sections. Was it called 7-up? They couldn't have used that TM name, could they?

My favorite chocolate treat was Lloyd Haynes on "Room 222."

I didn't really like NECCO wafers but nobody else did so I didn't have to shrae.

Reply 99, OMG! Yazz! Chololate Ice Cubes in the gold foil with the horse shoe. Trans fat, heaven. Fancy because they were kept next to the cash register. Those and the Cello Choc. Cherries.

Lloyd Haynes was really something-I do remember him.So sad died at 52-lung cancer.

Milk Chocolate Flicks that came in the toilet paper tube. And Uno Bars.

R102, Rejoice!

I remembered the foil as silver, but you're right, and the gold is even more appealing.

[quote]Milk Chocolate Flicks that came in the toilet paper tube.

Yes! Made by Ghirardelli. They were my go-to movie candy in the '60s when I was a kid.

Can't believe no one has mentioned Twix. That was my favorite bar.

I also liked Whatchamacallit bars as well. I can still recite their commercial in my head 40something years later.

Long ago-salt water taffy came in these long thin stackable sheets maybe 10 by 3 in. wrapped in wax paper. Fun.

^They had banana and neopolian ones.

Small boxes of Nabisco Cookies. Chocolate Chip Snaps, Ginger Snaps.

Oh GOLLY! I loved that rocky road bar-marshmallow ,nuts, chocolate made by ‘’Annabelle’’-came in a shiny foil wrapper. Enough!

Frozen Charleston Chew. I don't know if they changed the recipe or my taste grew up, but I tried one about 5-10 years ago and UGH. But my brother and I loved them as kids in the 70s.

All this candy talk is making me hangry. I need a $27 bag of Halloween candy. Isn't it time someone started a pumpkin spice thread?

The earliest candy bar attachment I had was probably Three Musketeers. Then I spent a couple of years with the 100,000 Dollar Bar, followed by Chunky. Butterfinger became a favorite for a couple of decades.

Certain occasions called for certain candies. At the movie theater, it was Junior Mints to go with the buttered popcorn and Dr Pepper.

Candy corn drip for R113, state!

R80, I love you! I read your signature in Laura San Giacomo's voice from Pretty Woman!!

I loved Milkshake candy bars. We would put them in the freezer. Now that I think about it, they were just like 3 Musketeers bars but, somehow, I thought Milkshake candy bars were superior.

Also loved Life Savers Butter Rum Lifesavers. I guess because I thought they were like having rum at the age of 9. My grandmother always kept a small can of Charms multi-flavored hard candy in her house. The NYC Summers were not kind to them, though. By July, they were not only stuck to each other but also to the can itself

For those who live near one, Five Below is like going back in time in the candy section. I found chocolate and banana BB Bats there. Unfortunately, they are mostly sugary-tasting.

Was ‘’Chunky’’ just a block of milk chocolate? Never opted for that one.

Cake

When I was a kid my mother used to order Wilbur Buds in the mail -- they were kind of high end but they were insanely good. This thread made me think about them again and it turns out that the company is still in existence and still making the buds.

With milk, this was my favorite treat. Although Hershey's Kisses were a good downscale version.

Also, Chunky. And their weirdly sexual theme song: "Open wide for Chuinky!"

Hostess Suzy Q

I remember people giving out individual hoho’s and ding dong’s-maybe they got squished?

Tastykake. Pies and crimpets.

My grandmother went to a Baptist church in Brooklyn and always made sure to buy these. Apparently, you can now order them from Amazon. Before this, they only sold to churches and other non-profit organizations. They were sooooo much better than pecan turtles. I haven't had one in more than 30 years so I don't know if the quality is still there.

r117, Chunkies are crammed with roasted peanuts and raisins. They're not simply milk chocolate bars.

I was obsessed with those Chunky Bars as a very little boy. I would never try one due to the raisins.

Why did they never make a raisin free Chunky Bar, fat hogs?

Anyone remember the scare about Chunky's? Something about rat hair or something like that was allegedly found in them. I remember my Mom refusing to buy them because of it.

I thought it was a razor blade, r126.