Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Favorite candy

My nephews asked me what my favorite candy used to be. So I sent them some quite a lot. Amazon would have been easiest but they didn't have a good choice for all four flavors. This site offers 8 bars of 4 flavors each, so I sent them 3 units, or 24 bars, the amount that comes in a box.

They better like it or I'm gonna ... I'm gonna ... I'm gonna go over there to California and eat them myself! Right in front of them.

On a cold day you can take a bar in the flat of your hand and go WHACK! On a flag pole, a brick wall, somebody's car, the school bus, whatever, and break it to little bits. Then myum yum mum slurp myum myum *licks fingers* myum myum yum yum for hours.


They went out of biz wax, can you believe it? Then regained their senses and came back to life again. 

Edit: I forgot to mention the Bonomo site is down for service so I bought these from Vermont Country Store. Price is okay and shipping not too bad.



15 comments:

edutcher said...

I remember Turkish Taffy, but never saw strawberry; only banana, chocolate, and vanilla, which I thought was weird.

That was back when candy was sweet, not tart or sour.

The good old days really were.

The Dude said...

Chuckles and Necco wafers! Sweet!

Amartel said...

Vermont Country Store catalog has some weird/awesome old stuff.

ndspinelli said...

Turkish Taffy was one of my go to candy. Like Sixty, I like Necco[New England Candy Co] Wafers. Also like the Charleston Bar.

ndspinelli said...

Proper name is Charleston Chew.

The Dude said...

I used to live behind the NECCO company many years ago, right off of Mass ave in Cambridge. - Heavenly! They made Skybars in those days, and conversation hearts and the ever peculiar Clark bar. Good times...

ndspinelli said...

Sixty, Excellent candy/geography trivia. Chicago is a big candy city. Brach's, Lemonheads, Snickers, M&M, Tootsie Roll, Wrigley gum. I like Clark Bars.

edutcher said...

Loved SkyBar and Clark bars.

And Philadelphia is another big candy town with Whitman, Peeps, Mike and Ikes, Goldenbergs...

ColoradoJim said...

These look very similar to the BB Bat candy that also came in the same flavors. I remember paying 2 cents for one of them at a nearby drug store. Now that North Denver neighborhood has really changed a lot since then. It was along 32nd street and near a supermarket that is long gone.

Chip Ahoy said...

There is necklace from King Tut's tomb that looks exactly like candy. I thought my perception was unique. I took a lot of people through that exhibit one at a time and my favorite thing was pointing out that one simple child-like necklace. I'd go, "Neccos" to varying degrees of receptivity. The stones do look like you can eat them.

The page online where I found this photo says, "it reminds me of candy."

I love Neccos. What a brilliant idea for confection. Pastel coins.

But like anything, you eat five packs in a row and go, you know, I think I've had enough Neccos for awhile.

ampersand said...

I hope your teeth are in good shape. I bought some old time candy last year for Halloween.
The sticky paper wrapped stuff like Bit O Honey all stuck to the paper. They must have sat in a warm spot at the warehouse. A Sugar Daddy pulled out one of my crowns.

BB Bats are still being made. Bonomo's Turkish Taffy was remanufactured starting a few years back.

Titus said...

Necco is actually in the process of being sold. I had not idea Sixty lived in Cambridge. Necco is definitely a fixture. The entire area is now biotech/high tech/MIT.

The Dude said...

That's exactly the same thing you wrote last time I mentioned that I lived in Cambridge, Titus.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

I grew up near a Jolly Rancher factory.

Name that smell was a past-time on the drive by on Ward Road. It's long gone, sadly.
Apple, watermelon, grape - you would smell it and it was a good thing.

They also had a little candy store attached to the factory where you could go in and buy the specialty flavors not sold in stores by the pound. Fruit punch, lemonade etc...

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

looking at the wiki page, I think the factory I knew was THE Jolly Rancher, in Wheat Ridge. (tho I thought it was Arvada, but now that I think of it that Ward Road address was probably Wheat Ridge) It's been sold many times and now it's owned by Hershey.