Comments on: Candy Nostalgia, Updated Every Oct. 31

By: steph

steph — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 11:03:34 +0000

Ahhh, remember Gubalinnis (Sp.) I must have spent at least a hundred dollars there, just in junior high. Our second grade teacher at sprague, encouraged us to eat our fill of goodies from the candy store with our free milk. I think I was the candy runner, collecting cash as I distributed the goods, Clark bars, butterfingers, Mars, sky bars, Chocolites. I loved reading about your dismay that your kids were deprived of candy!! Wehave ordered sky bars and the like from the Vermont country store so my kids could experience something so important to my past!

By: Hal Phillips

Hal Phillips — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:22:52 +0000

Ah. Jujyfruits hardly rule. I think I last had them 12 years ago and only last week got the last bits out of my teeth.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:59 +0000

‘rule’ as in dominate, or lord over, not regulation

By: Janet Kahla

Janet Kahla — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:35:00 +0000

Well I had to go to the market anyway so I did a side by side. The nougat layer in the Snickers is thinner. I would say that this allows for the peanuts being added to an equal caramel layer. It is a warm tan in contrast to the cooler shade of brown in the Milky Ways (the “Y” stands for Why Bother). It’s flavor is decidedly peanutty while the MW’s is chocolatey. I don’t know what kind of wine you guys were drinking but the differences are stark. However, other than the addition of peanuts, the differences in the ingredient lists are subtle.

See this is the problem with the internet. Someone can just put a total fallacy out there with no fact checking.

By: Hal Phillips

Hal Phillips — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:49:30 +0000

In reply to Matthew. Discuss what? My misspelling? I suppose I'm guilty. But the rule? I don't recall. Refresh it, my memory

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:45:29 +0000

Jujyfruits rule. Discuss.

I distinctly remember David Weir cornering the market on Bubble Yum soon after it came out then scapling his booty for a tidy profit at Hunnewell. It was the best of times it the worst of times.

By: Hal Phillips

Hal Phillips — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:54:26 +0000

In reply to Vic Williams. Vic: I was a Sugar Daddy sorta guy, but really, what was the difference? I can't recall any. Only size and a stick... Did you know the guy who founded the John Birch Society (and first gave life to the crackpot world view now parroted up right-wing Tea Party nut jobs) owned the company that produced Sugar Daddies and Babies? It's true, but I can't hold it against the confection.

By: Vic Williams

Vic Williams — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:45:40 +0000

I lost a couple of baby teeth thanks to Sugar Babies, and my brother and his miscreant buddies used to shoot Jujubees at the movie screen at our local small-town theater. Those were the days.

By: Mark Leslie

Mark Leslie — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:32:15 +0000

Hal,
Clark bars, Baby Ruth, bring ’em on. Bring ’em all on (but only Good ‘n Plenty will do at the movies)!
I was already a parent when Hot Wheels came on the scene. I got by with pretending rocks were cars. The glossier the rock the sexier the car. Our “race tracks” were rock-width paths in the dirt driveway.
🙂
Mark

By: Jim Sullivan

Jim Sullivan — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:03:59 +0000

Hal makes a common mistake here in his remembrance of the Staburst. Although I was about to agree with him that we were around for the introduction of the fruit chew, not so. It came out in the 1960s. Wikepedia this. I’d made the same mistake about Doritos recently. I thought I’d remembered them coming out. But nope. Also before our time. It’s a funny thing, this link between one’s own dawning self-awareness, and the emergence of favorite snacks. They don’t coincide as often as we think they do. But Hal is right about Bubble Yum. That was a big, honking deal in 1975.