Mounds/Almond Joy - Early 1970s - "You Can Share Half & Still Have Whole"

[SamAdams76]

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I don't know what part of the country you are talking about but Mounds was two pieces in the nineteen fifties in Texas!

[claptrap]

You havent noticed the poor quality of anything else yet?

[digger48]

Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut

Sometimes You don't

[SoCal Pubbie]

Snickers.

No, I'm not laughing. That was the candy bar I liked. Never cared for Almond Joy.

[martin_fierro]

Had a Bit 'O Honey the other day.

They sure aren't as good as they used to be.

[martin_fierro]

Not only did Peter Paul cut the weight of their candy bars by a solid ounce but to add insult to injury, they raised the price of these bars to fifteen cents!

Hillary knew.

[voiceinthewind]

I thought they were always in two pieces. I'm with you on the taste, though. Yum. If you'd like to try another really delicious candy, may I suggest Chick-O-Sticks. Crunchy, peanutty and with a dusting of toasted coconut. Absolutely addictive.

[SamAdams76]

You're the second person who said they were always in two pieces. I know I'm a little crazy but I swear they used to be in one piece. I can still remember as a small boy eating those full sized Mounds and Almond Joy bars. There was a vending machine near my house - the old-fashioned kind where you had to pull the handle all the way out, and one of these 10-cent bars would rattle around inside the machine and thump into the tray below. Once in a while, two bars would fall out at once - it was like hitting the lottery.

[Petronski]

Coconut is disgusting. I can't shake the impression it's just toenails soaked in syrup.

[boop]

Didn't the Mars bar start out as a two-piece bar, then become solid, like the milkyway?

[LongElegantLegs]

Wow, they had vending machines back then?? ;-)

[ml/nj]

I've been a Mounds fan for a long time. I don't remember when I started having them, but I do remember that they were a dime when all the other candy bars were a nickel. I don't remember them ever coming as a single bar in one of those dime packages.

ML/NJ

[snarks_when_bored]

The story of U.S. business in the last few decades is summed up in the question: "How can we make more while offering less?" The examples are endless...

[SamAdams76]

Maybe, but they're clean toenails. They do a pretty good job of sterilization at the candy plant.

[SIDENET]

Coconut is disgusting. I can't shake the impression it's just toenails soaked in syrup.

I agree with you that coconut is disgusting. I had never heard it referred to as being like "toenails soaked in syrup".

That is now stuck in my mind forever.

[jdm]

They sure aren't as good as they used to be.

You need to buy them from a 24 hour laundromat vending machine. That's the only way to eat those things. :O)

[martin_fierro]

You need to buy them from a 24 hour laundromat vending machine. That's the only way to eat those things.

Well, duh.

That's 'cuz they're still the originals from the 70s!

[jdm]

Coconut is disgusting. I can't shake the impression it's just toenails soaked in syrup.

Well, Almond Joy used to be my favorite candy bar. :O)

Brilliant description, but just YUCK!