You probably remember those chocolate covered marshmallow candy bars, called Black Babies (actually I think it was much worse and it was called N****** Babies) from the early 60s. I saw them in Elder Berman’s stores in Dayton Ohio growing up. They had a sterotypical picture of a little black girl and boy with big white eyes bugging out of their heads in what can only today be described as KKK comedy wrappers. I was probably in first or second grade and I knew this was SOOO WRONG but laughed like crazy at them. My mom was not amused and told me to cut it out. But like a fart in an evalator a kids’ gotta laugh. Those candy bars did not survive 1964.
Curiously, I don’t remember them at all.
But, I grew-up in California, so there was much I was unfamiliar with from the Mid-west and East.
And, there were things, popular in Southern California, which were unfamiliar to Nor-Cal residents.