Fun fact, some of the candy cigarettes that came out, actually had a flour coating between the wax paper in the candy, so if you blew on the end of the cigarette, it looked like smoke
The blond girl (I don't know her name) I am amazed she knew what Necco wafers were. That shocked me for someone her age. That's a very very old school candy that to this day I still enjoy. It also seems her pallet was more aligned with people of older generations then the younger generation she belongs to.
My mom loves the charleston chew candy. She usually keeps it in the fridge or freezer. Also 2000's kid here, salt water taffy is a must anytime we go to the coast.
I'm a GenX/Millennial and none of these candies have the same taste or texture they had when I was a kid. The ingredients changed and they don't taste as good as they used to😢
Same with breakfast cereals. Most companies no longer use oat flour so the texture as well as the flavor is different, nothing but sugar shellac’d corn products.
We had both, but the chalk sticks were more widespread. I remember preferring the gum ones because they lasted longer, and actually tasted like something for a hot 3 seconds. 😂 (Also Gen X)
@@christiannacolbert5603 And you could blow through the gum ones a poof of “smoke” would come out. Confectionary sugar or corn starch I guess. Edit: lol, they figured it out!
I'm 62 and we didn't eat most of these. They were more like my parents' (born in the '20s) candy. Except Pez and candy cigarettes (but I never liked those). We ate Goobers, Sno Caps, Baby Ruths, $100,000 bars, Pixy Stix, Hershey's, Nestle Crunch, etc.
I’m just 46 and was thinking the opposite- my (gen x) peers and I loved a lot of these, while my Boomer parents weren’t into them or would never have even tried them (big example: Atomic Fireballs). My parents were 10+ years older than you though, which probably makes a difference.
I'm 6 years younger than you and I ate all these things so I guess it's your location rather than your age. My grandma who was born in 1901, loved pie. Pie pie pie. She was a pie fiend. She loves something called raisin pie. I'm sure she would have eaten prune pie.
I grew up in the 80-90s and these candy's were calling penny candy,we had a little corner store and you could get a little brown bag of candy for.10 cents. Mix and match your favorite. Better candies were a nickel or a dime. Those were the best days to be a kid.
Those were the best days to be a kid. And corner stores also usually had at least one arcade game, and sometimes movie rentals! Back when It was worth picking up every penny, nickel and dime you found & and if you got a cpl quarters, you were getting candy AND a surprise bag
I remember going to school and the bus attendant on Fridays would go to the general store and pick up candy for you while you were in class for over the weekend. If we were good and provided our parents provided the money lol
Teaberry is another name for Wintergreen. The original Teaberry gum is no longer made. The Teaberry gum you have was made by a company in Morocco and is horrid.
I’m pretty sure the saltwater taffy story is that they left the window’s open in the shop on the boardwalk letting the ocean air in and the taffy was better.
We ate all of these in the 80's and 90's as well. was very popular in the 80's You can not been have to a movie theatre and never seen Raisinets, No Matter What Age You Are!
Both existed. The candy ones you're talking about AND bubblegum cigarettes. The cool thing about the gum ones was that they were coated in powdered sugar, then wrapped in paper, open on the ends, like an actual cigarette, so when you blow into it, a cloud of powdered sugar came out resembling "smoke". It only worked once per "cigarette" though.
Mary Janes, Pixie Sticks, Root Beer Barrels, Lemon Drops, Caramel Creams, Chick O Sticks, Sugar Daddy, creme drops, Jelly Nougats, Spearmint Leaves, Wax Bottles, Zero Bars There is your next episode
My kids still Love taffy! I have to get it for my son almost every time he goes to the store with me. And definitely for every holiday. They like it way more than hubby n I ever did.
I put out an "old school candy bowl" for my hub's bday ea yr. Chico sticks, caramel chews, lemonheads, fireballs, bottlecaps, cow tales, Mary Jane's, bit'o' honey to name a few.. ppl look fwd to it🤣. Only have a problem getting my old favorite.. Squirrel Nuts 😮💨😩. But it's certainly nostalgic & ppl love filling their candy bags to take. ☺️
One of the reasons you don't like most of this candy is because it is not the same candy I was eating in 1954 as a child. The old time candy was made with real natural ingredients and the new old time candy is made with ARTIFICIAL ingredients.
@@rachelcooper6544 It occurred to me that Amazon might have them. That's where I get my favorite candy bar in the whole world, the Coffee Crisp! It's a wafer bar with several layers filled with mocha filling, coated in a mocha chocolate! SOOO good! Sadly, I'm in the US, and they're from Canada. I tried another bar from the UK recently, on Amazon, that is very tasty. It's called a Double Decker, and has a nougat layer, and also rice criespies in it! Really good, though the got squished in transit. But if you stick them in the refrigerator overnight, you can get the wrapper off without too much mess. My favorite "American" chocolate bar is a good ol' Baby Ruth! I love nougat, and I fool myself that they have some health value because of the peanuts.🙃 💙
@@DravenGal idk why I didn't think to check Amazon, it's where I tend to look for other candies I can't find lol And they do have them! I'll have to order some next week.
Chocolate covered raisins are my favorite. My grand parents would laughingly give my brother and me those candy cigs because we hated the taste of them. Later in life I realized why he did it. My brain was so sold on how nasty the candy was I was less likely to smoke because it would be even worse than the candy. Sneaky, very sneaky. Especially from someone who smoked alot. Thanks.
Most of those candies were before boomers. As a boomer we ate M&Ms, Heath bars, sugar daddys, Hersey, Nestle, Mars, Snickers, blow pops, and every now and then those candies. We ate a lot of candy bars that were 5 cents, we hardly ate the candy in the video accept, the candy cigarettes, fireballs and Pez. Most of that candy was eaten by our parents.
As a boomer kid in the 60’s, it was Snickers, frozen Milky Way, Three Musketeers, Payday, Abba-Zabba, Clark Bar, Butterfinger, Sugar Daddy, Apple Stix, Junior Mints, Mr Goodbar, Krunch or Crackle, Bazooka or Double Bubble gum, Lifesavers, Baby Ruth, Tootsie Pops, Tootsie Roll, M&Ms, and most others still available.
Great-grandparents candy. Saying it is their grand-parents candy is like saying it is their parents as things like Charleston Chews were avalable and were part of assorted Halloween candy when Gen X were kids.
Slowly realizing that my parents are basically their grandparents, which means it's only a matter of time before my favorite candies are considered old people candy... bazooka gum, big league chew, pop rocks, nerds... Also, I'm surprised they didn't have Razzles. Candy that turned into gum?? those things were great!!!
My moms in her 50s these, lemonheads, now and laters and mike and Ike’s were her go tos and I was raised on them (born in 98) and my nephew who is 13 definitely won’t buy any of these as a first choice 😂 for sure old people candy to the youngins but still good enough to eat when it’s in the Halloween bucket
@@aysiababyyy3664 I don't know if my taste buds changed or the recipe or maybe both, but I remember Mike and Ike being better in the 80's. Not nearly as big a travesty as the change in Butterfinger recipe a few years ago!
LMAO how have people never had these. All of these were popular in the 80s. But literally no one I know actually likes Circus Peanuts. My mom hates those things.
I'm a boomer and I didn't eat any of that except the atomic fire balls, we actually had some great candy however none of it was shown, some is actually discontinued.
There are lots of made up stories like this. It's called salt water taffy because it was sold at the beach. It was a marketing ploy to imply that it wasn't just any taffy.
Tea erry gum actually does taste like the teaberry tree. Yes..a tree. People used to brush their teeth with it in the mountains of NC. Its actually not bad at all and the gum yall got was old..teaberry gum is soft like regular gum.
