What was your favorite candy when you were a kiddie?

Zotz

Gum is candy? Is a hot dog also a sandwich, OP?

Green Apple super bubble

If it's not candy, what is it? Of course it's candy.

Charleston Chew

R4, gum is gum and candy is candy. Not a difficult concept.

Lemonheads

r2 I'd say a hot dog is more like a sandwich than bubble gum is like candy.

Hershey's chocolate bar. Simple, elegant, delicious. Still my favorite.

Caramello king sized

I was cheap and always wanted more bang for the buck, so when I went to the movies, I usually got a nickel Hershey bar. But when they went to a dime, I settled for Look or Big Hunk, which were still a nickel. I also liked Ghirardelli Flicks, which came in a cardboard tube.

Love Hearts

Maple fudge with walnuts

I don't remember it's name. It was a long rectangle shaped sucker made out of caramel or something similar. I liked it because you could suck on that sucker for a long, long time.

Good training for a young gay boy.

astro pop

I was never a “kiddie”, OP.

Malted milk balls

R14. One version of that was called a Sugar Daddy (also good training for a young gay boy).

Was be it a Slowpoke R14?

R14, it sounds like you're talking about Sugar Daddy. I liked them, too.

Bonomo Turkish Taffy. Vanilla was my favorite. It's the finest of the flavors.

I ‘d pair this with a ring pop.

Butterfinger

Anything fruity, sweet & sour: Sweet Tarts, Giant Sweet Tarts, Spree, Pixie Stix, Nerds, Fun Dip, Warheads, Cry Baby Tears, Bleeps, Runts (except the banana), Now & Later, Mamba, Tangy Taffy (except the banana), Lemonheads, Cherry Sours...etc.

That was it R20 - thanks. How could I forget a candy with the name "Sugar Daddy"? I had a crush on every handsome, young salesman my step-father brought home for dinner.

Mmmmm. What was up with that? Why was he always dragging these guys home to "feed him a good, home cooked meal"?

I liked those too R19. My oral fixation was in place at a very young age.

Bullseye.

Good & Plenty.

Choo Choo Charlie was my spirit animal

The great thing about Turkish Taffy was freezing it and then—as the slogan went—“crack it up!” It broke into lots of pieces and seemed to last forever.

I LOVE anise, R27, but I've never taken to Good & Plenty. The coating is chalky (and I say this as someone who admitted to liking candy that's nothing more than pressed powder), and the licorice interior tastes like rubber smells.

To each their own, of course. More for you!

Bit-O-Honey

Sugar Daddy

Black Cow (a Sugar Daddy covered in chocolate) on a stick

Sugar Babies

I loved caramel.

Brach’s (After she disappeared but before they found her rotted corpse) nougat with bits of red, orange, yellow, and green. The candy counter at Sears was very near the exit and you’d see these bins of cellophaned candies and these were always the neatest wrapped bricks of goodness - even better if left in a freezing car.

[quote] R14], it sounds like you're talking about Sugar Daddy. I liked them, too.

We all do, every gayling since the beginning of time has loved Sugar Daddy. It’s built into our DNA.

I always preferred sugar babies, but I’m a top.

Switzer’s Licorice Bars.

My mother used to buy those orange marshmallow Circus Peanuts. She knew that was a candy none of us kids would get within a mile to steal from her.

Bonomo Turkish Taffy

Cup-O-Gold! Still my favorite.

I liked a $100,000 bar, or a Sky Bar if I felt fancy

R131, I don't think they ever found Helen Brach...she was declared dead at some point, and not long ago, someone came forward that claimed he had helped kill her, and throw her body into a pit of molten metal at a steel mill near Chicago.

Sno-Caps. Going to the movies wasn’t going to the movies with a box of these things.

snickers bar or Almond Joy

Jelly Belly