These folks most if not all the candy you had when you were a kid...(click on the image)
Posted on 10/26/2016 8:03:07 PM PDT by rickmichaels
You may be correct. My brother and I have been giving each other the same fruitcake for Christmas for the past 27 years.
That reminds me, I still need to open the gift from last year. He encased it in wood and duct tape and said something about an old chain saw chain being part of the wrapping.
I need to think about how I’m going to wrap it this year.
Thanks for this comprehensive list of candy to hand out this year...hopefully, it will keep the neighborhood %&*$#!@’s off my porch next year and for years to come. Maybe I should stock up for those annoying ‘trunk or treat’ parties I see popping up at “churches” all across the south.
Perhaps we should start handing this junk out to ‘journalists’ at Trump rallies...give them something to really bitch about...
I miss Bit-o-Honey.... those were another filling-remover....
Charlestown Chew and Bonamo’s Turkish Taffy were nuclear filling killers.
These folks most if not all the candy you had when you were a kid...(click on the image)
Actually, I’m not a big fan of most fruitcake, but I do like my mom’s fruitcake. I will have to try some GA Claxton and TX Corsicana for comparison one of these days.
Even my 5 year old knows that Twizzlers suck.
I’ve tried to trick her several times, but no luck.
Not familiar with Bonamo’s but Charlestown Chew would pull a garbage truck out of a ditch!
At room temperature it is like sugar epoxy clamped to your teeth. Bonomo's started advertising that by freezing the Taffy you could smack it down on a surface and it would shatter like glass. That was the only way you could get small bite size (hah!) bits, kind of like hard candy at that point. Heat softened in the sun for a bit and you could pull it almost like the softer salt water taffy.
Think Charlestown Chews x 10 or a 100 depending on temps.
One time, and one time only, I left less than a half bar in my pants pocket before throwing them in the washer. Pocket came out fused shut. One of those events you desperately hide from mom.
Great stuff when you're 10 and paying for them by collecting soda bottles. Lasted for a couple of days.
I’ll give you my perspective from Canadian Halloweens from days of yore. These molasses pieces were indeed a lower grade of candy but they were also highly variable in hardness. There were some that were quite soft and those weren’t bad. They would almost melt in your mouth. Now the harder ones were indeed quite a workout to consume. Chewing them could be a chore and they could indeed get stuck in your teeth and if that happened the treat level dropped down quite a bit. If you got too many of them you often threw them away.
Best line ever.......”They taste like Barbie dolls smell.” It has to be true, maybe they even taste like Barbie’s. Touche’!!!!!
To the grammar police I did NOT add that apostrophe to the last Barbie
Another FReeper has been using that quote in his tagline, since I first said it, *forever* ago.
:D
I hate black licorace,but strangely find the good n plenties yummy. The Good & Fruities totally rock!
I hate black licorace,but strangely find the good n plenties yummy. The Good & Fruities totally rock!
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