Favorite Childhood candy

When u were a child was there ever a candy that u just loved?
We wanna hear about, it could be a candy that is no longer made or candy that is still made. Give us a brief descrption of what it looks like and tasted . Whatever it is don't be shy tell us .


Mine till this day has 2 b the smarties candies. They look like tiny asprin rolled up in a wrapper. I can explain the taste but they r good. If ever i need a sweet pick me up its this candy .

I forget what they are called but I am thinkin candy buttons. little colored dots of candy on a sheet of paper.or the huge jawbreakers.(big like the size of a softball) I think you can still find them at the mall in a candy store

Ah yes Ista, that would be a Chick-O-Stick!!! One of my fav's! I also liked those wax bottles you get with the different colored liquid in them. Oh and Payday candy bar.

I loved the B-Bats. They were kind of a taffy sucker on a stick. I remember chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. Loved those. That was the day of penny candy. We could go to the store with a nickle or dime and think we were in hog heaven.

I used to get taffy in long pieces, pink with white stripe in between the pink. It was flat and I don't know the name but know I liked it! 7 up candy bars, they dont' make them anymore but there were 7 bites to it, each with a different filling making one candy bar.

oh I loved allof that kind of candy, but I really loves cow tails, they were the best ever

Do I dare ask? What is a cow tail?

They still make them Ista. If I remember they were like carmel or chocolate wrapped around a vanilla type center. I do know they are still in the stores around here.

Teletalker, would that flat taffy of yours be called Laffy Taffy by chance?

OH, and saltwater candy!!!! I almost forgot.

MMM salt water candy mmm lol
how about bazooka joe gum the one with the cominc wrapped around it ? that was awesome . they used 2 be like 5 cents.

Oh yes. They ahd such great flavor but the gum always got hard to chew fast. But, then that was just an excuse to get out another piece and chew away! LOL.

What about fireballs and fish. Fish were a penny a piece and you would get a small paper sack of 25 of them. Especially at the concession stands during our softball games.

Lmao.. I love Cow Tails too, Donna! ... and Swedish Fish

The "7-Up Bar" sounds really interesting ... what kind of filling/flavors were in it, Teletalker? Sounds like something they need to re-issue!

Lillen wrote:

Lmao.. I love Cow Tails too, Donna! ... and Swedish Fish

The "7-Up Bar" sounds really interesting ... what kind of filling/flavors were in it, Teletalker? Sounds like something they need to re-issue!

OMG I forgot about the swedish fish, they are great, what about the chicko-sticks. I think that is what they were called.
You know I went to the Cracker Barrel with friends and they have candy that is boxed and its all candy from the 60's, 70's and 80's

Lillen wrote:

Lmao.. I love Cow Tails too, Donna! ... and Swedish Fish

The "7-Up Bar" sounds really interesting ... what kind of filling/flavors were in it, Teletalker? Sounds like something they need to re-issue!

The 7 up bars had 7 differnet fillings- I don't remember all of them but one sectoion was jelly filled, one carmel, one like a fudge...see now that's sad I can't remember the rest but they were good! lol It was many years ago tho. I do wish they'd bring them back.

teletalker wrote:

The 7 up bars had 7 differnet fillings- I don't remember all of them but one sectoion was jelly filled, one carmel, one like a fudge...see now that's sad I can't remember the rest but they were good! lol It was many years ago tho. I do wish they'd bring them back.

I found this online: "Seven Up, a bar composed of seven small, candy-box-style chocolates welded together. Its original incarnation featured four types of caramel, a Brazil nut, coconut, and jelly; by the time it was phased out in 1979, dark chocolate covered segments of mint, nougat, butterscotch, fudge, coconut, buttercream, and caramel."

That sounds so good. I guess there is a similar bar called a "SkyBar" that you can still buy in certain places, but it only has 4 segments (caramel, vanilla, peanut and fudge).

I found this online: "Seven Up, a bar composed of seven small, candy-box-style chocolates welded together. Its original incarnation featured four types of caramel, a Brazil nut, coconut, and jelly; by the time it was phased out in 1979, dark chocolate covered segments of mint, nougat, butterscotch, fudge, coconut, buttercream, and caramel."

That sounds so good. I guess there is a similar bar called a "SkyBar" that you can still buy in certain places, but it only has 4 segments (caramel, vanilla, peanut and fudge).[/quote]

Yep! That's it! yum! See- I never even thought of searching for it online. lol Thanks Lillen!! At least I remembered a few of the fillings right. lol It was a long time ago. lol Never heard of the SkyBar tho, must not be in this area

I remember the sky bars when I was growing up. I never see them anymore though. I haven't seen them for a couple of decades now...lol.

How about the candy cigarettes, the candy necklace, and the candy rings? I remember the candy cigarettes had powdered sugar coating inside the wrapper and I would "blow" (instead of sucking) on the end and it would resemble smoke coming out of the other end of the candy cigarette. And then they wonder why our generation thought it was cool to smoke!?!?!

DreamWeaver wrote:

I remember the sky bars when I was growing up. I never see them anymore though. I haven't seen them for a couple of decades now...lol.

How about the candy cigarettes, the candy necklace, and the candy rings? I remember the candy cigarettes had powdered sugar coating inside the wrapper and I would "blow" (instead of sucking) on the end and it would resemble smoke coming out of the other end of the candy cigarette. And then they wonder why our generation thought it was cool to smoke!?!?!

I remember the exact kind of candy cigarettes you're talking about! Weren't they like a gum? I did the same thing... blew into the wrapper and the powered sugar would poof out like smoke. There was also a different kind of candy cigarette- it was almost like a hard stick of icing. The ends were always "painted" with red or pink food coloring to make it look like it was lit. I remember they tasted really good - but what on earth were they thinking? Remember the big cigars made out of gum? They came in funky colors like pink and green? We used to take the wrapper off and wear it like a ring.

big fist size jawbreakers!!!!

LOL, yes Lillen they did have 2 different kinds of Candy cigarettes. I remember both of them and the red tipped hard ones. I totally forgot about the bubble gum cigars. Bringing back so many memories. I remember they had a candy shaped like a pacifier too and colored like one. My mother and father bought a Big bag full of all of those things when I came home from having my tonsills out. My tonsills were so bad I had to stay in the hospital for a week to get them down enough to operate on them. So my parents indulged me in candy upon coming home...LMAO. 4 years old plus a ton of candy items....where was their heads!?!?

DreamWeaver wrote:

Teletalker, would that flat taffy of yours be called Laffy Taffy by chance?

OH, and saltwater candy!!!! I almost forgot.

I've been trying to think of what that taffy was called but can't remember- k, having blonde moment I guess. (or age catching me) but I don't think it was laffy taffy- wasn't that little squares of taffy sortof like star burst?

I thought the laffy taffy was flat and about 6 inches or so long.....I know what you are talking about because we used to buy them at the City Swimming Pool concession stand. Now ya got me racking my brain too trying to remember if that was what they were called. LOL