What I Love. Part 2
 

There used to be a candy store in town that sold 100's of the type of candy we had as kids. It was expensive, but worth it just to hear everyone's stories of how much a nickel got you.
Do you remember-wafer spaceships with the colored candy inside, bottle caps, 'black' babies, black balls, 'koo-koo', fudge cars, red wax hot lips, cinnamon toothpicks, black licorice cigars, Swedish berries, Popeye cigarettes, jawbreakers, malt balls, spearmint leaves, string licorice in green, red, and purple. We'd eat so much we'd be sick, and if your father sent you for his smokes he'd give you enough to buy a drumstick.
Aah, life as a kid had it's good points

Your list doesn't include Double-Bubble bubble gum.
.. a unique taste that is identifiable 60 years later.

Double bubble is the bubble gum of last resort. Bazooka bubble gum is the best, BY FAR.

Aw V, you were just taken in by the military picture cards.

Nope. None of the above is familiar to me.

Comics, my man, comics.

You folks are telling on yerselves, agewise...Bubble Yum has been the goto since I was a kid.

Red Vines.

Dumdums. Root beer dumdums.

The original (rectangular) Jolly Ranchers.

Zero candy bars.

:yum:

dude. REAL bubblegum doesn't come in "flavors"

BubbleYum was originally reglar ol' pink gum, it was just softer. The flavors followed shortly after.

I think.

What was that 'chew' that was beige/brown and impossibly hard to chew or break off? anybody out there know what I mean?

Charleston Chew?


ETA: I remember getting a Sugar Daddy in the bag at Halloween. I thought I'd hit the motherlode, it was so much bigger than anything else in the bag.

The Sugar Daddy was drool city. And not so healthy or good for your teeth. But you can't complain about false advertising.

Sugar daddy wins it

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aka "filling extractor"

hahahahaha~!!!!!


I have a bucket like that here.

BAZOOKA 4EVAH!!!!!

HA!!

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V you are so cute.

We had Bazooka Joe bubblegum here, but the kids I knew only bought it because of the joke/ comic strip inside the wrapper. Which we generally didn't get. Not sure if it was aimed at older minds than ours or because it was in American. Anyone I know whose parents let them buy their own sweets and/ or chew bubblegum bought Hubbly Bubbly. Much softer.

The refs to Bazooka do make me laugh though.
Bazuka (same pronunciation) over here is a verruca/ wart treatment.
Whenever I hear it/ read it I just think of the adverstising strapline, "Bazuka that verruca, Bazuka that wart"

Nice V! Love the t-shirt btw.

Speaking of drooling...starburst fruit chews. 5-10 of those babies in the backseat of my fathers car on the way to the beach and I was in for trouble.
Oh yeah, dentists everywhere are making money off these babies (including mine).