A Little Piece of Nostalgia

[MN Fisher]

1 hour ago, Catt said:

 

Dollar General ?

Our local grocery store has a 'classic candy' rack with Necos, Sweet Tarts, Bottle Caps (my favorite) and others.

51 minutes ago, Buzzbaiter said:

Werther’s make me all warm and fuzzy inside. Good stuff 

Man - I use to OD on those at work.

[BrianMDTX]

I thought I heard NECCO went out of business.  They did. In 2018. Another company (Spangler) is now making them. As of 2020. 
 

Watch out, boys! I got three years of catching up to do! 

[Catt]

9 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

Watch out, boys! I got three years of catching up to do!

 

Every Dollar General round here has em, they even have all chocolate.

[N Florida Mike]

My aunt would come down from N. Carolina once and awhile and bring me some clove gum…

As far as the chew goes, I chewed redman, Levi Garrett, and beech nut . White mule was the twist tobacco that would kick your butt. . We only found it if we were in Baker county!

Quit when I was around 25 cold turkey… still an accurate spitter though …?

[Catt]

My grandpa broke me of chewing tobacco when I was about 10. I thought it was cool to take a bite out of this!

 

 

[Woody B]

My Grandpa broke me from EVER wanting to smoke another cigarette when I was 12.   He caught me and my cousin getting ready to smoke one of his Pall Malls.  (the ones with no filters)  He made us smoke the whole pack.  He'd probably get locked up these days for child abuse.  The truth is he probably kept me from being a smoker.  

 

[MN Fisher]

^ Woody - by the time I was 12, I was smoking about 1/2 a pack a day of either Pall Mall or Camel - no filters.

 

Not something to be proud of - but probably why I'm still smoking 50 years later. Not that it's done me much harm - my last CAT scan (every two years cause cancer) showed my lungs as 98% clear, and my last EKG was totally normal...for a 40 year old in decent shape.

 

Some of us are seemingly near-immune to the harmful effects. The cancer was eye caused by too much exposure to UV - I was bad about not wearing sunglasses when younger.

[throttleplate]

I as a kid would drop some sensen in my mouth, havnt seen this product for 20 plus years now. Anyone try these licorice bits before?

 

[MN Fisher]

21 hours ago, throttleplate said:

havnt seen this product for 20 plus years now

"Sen-Sen was a type of breath freshener originally marketed as a "breath perfume" in the late 19th century by the T. B. Dunn Company and then produced by F&F Foods until they discontinued the product in July 2013."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sen-Sen

 

Sorry dude, you're out of luck.

[Catt]

[MN Fisher]

@Catt - my grandma always had a bowl of those sitting around.

[Mobasser]

18 minutes ago, Catt said:

My mom put this candy out every year at Christmas time. Some had red jelly inside that I liked.

Sweet tarts were always popular. One holloween we got some of the big solid ones. My neighbors mouth got so sore from eating one he couldn't eat for a whole day. Too much tart.

[Catt]

@MN Fisher & @Mobasser

 

[Captain Phil]

On 7/28/2023 at 9:11 PM, MN Fisher said:

^ Woody - by the time I was 12, I was smoking about 1/2 a pack a day of either Pall Mall or Camel - no filters.

 

Not something to be proud of - but probably why I'm still smoking 50 years later. Not that it's done me much harm - my last CAT scan (every two years cause cancer) showed my lungs as 98% clear, and my last EKG was totally normal...for a 40 year old in decent shape.

 

Some of us are seemingly near-immune to the harmful effects. The cancer was eye caused by too much exposure to UV - I was bad about not wearing sunglasses when younger.

 

Most boomers like me started smoking in their youth.  Back in the 50s and 60s, practically everyone smoked.  TV and movies of the day made smoking seem sophisticated.  All the cool guys smoked, so I started when I was about 13.   I paid 25 cents for my first pack.  I didn't like smoking all that much, but I did like the tough guy image.  My father smoked Lucky Strikes, so I switched.  Lucky Strikes were non filtered and short, which added to their sex appeal.   You could get in trouble if you had cigarettes in your top pocket back then.  That made me want to smoke even more.   Every fall and winter when colds started going around, I got the flu.  Then it turned into pneumonia.   One day when I was in my early twenties, I got sick of being sick and threw my cigarettes out the window and never smoked again. 

 

My mother smoked all her life. She took her last breath as they wheeled her away crying out because she couldn't breathe.  She was 71 years old.  Smoking may not kill you right away.  What it does is shorten your life.  A month or so before she died, it was my job to tell my mother she was going to die soon.  I told her the doctors said she destroyed her lungs with cigarette smoke.   She said she knew, but she loved smoking so much she couldn't quit.  She chose how she wanted to die and she got her wish.

[N Florida Mike]

I tried smoking a couple times and hated it. Glad I never got started on them. The chew was supposedly addictive, but I just quit. I have a friend from my childhood that still dips to this day since he was a teen.…no ill effect yet anyway.

[Smells like fish]

Gummy worms in green pumpkin ?

[TnRiver46]

On 7/30/2023 at 7:56 AM, MN Fisher said:

@Catt - my grandma always had a bowl of those sitting around.

Mine too and they were nasty hahaha

[Bass Rutten]

It isn’t candy, but I still grab a box once in a blue moon.

[padlin]

There’s a retro candy store in Kittery Me that has most of the oldies, pretty cool to wander the aisles. If I could find it, Bazooka bubble gum would bring me back to the barber shop when I was little enough to need a booster seat. Don’t remember if it was the gum or the Bazooka Joe cartoon inside that was the draw. You can still get Bazooka gum, but not the single packages I remember.

 

do they still make Chiclets in the little 2 pack boxes?

[Catt]

[TLHSS]

On 7/28/2023 at 9:01 AM, Catt said:

My wife's favorite ?

 

 

I always had dibs on the licorice ones ....

 

[BrianMDTX]

On 7/31/2023 at 9:52 PM, Bass Rutten said:

It isn’t candy, but I still grab a box once in a blue moon.

The best are unfrosted cinnamon, toasted, and melt some butter on top.