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Sweet-Tooth Fix For Baby Boomers: Nostalgic Candy
wlky ^ | 10-30-03

Posted on 10/30/2003 2:23:01 PM PST by wheelgunguru

Baby Boomers can't seem to grow up, at least when comes to their taste in candy.

People who want to celebrate Halloween with wax lips, Gold Mine Gum and other hard-to-find candies from their youth are finding more companies catering to the middle-age sweet tooth.

The Woodstock Candy company in upstate New York is doing a booming business, catering to the boomers' sweet-tooth.

They have retro goodies like wax lips, candy cigarettes and those candy buttons on paper. But the company is up-to-date in marketing.

Boomers can buy their sugar fix from the Web site WoodstockCandy.com.

There's also a bow to the political correctness of the 21st century. Candy cigarettes are now called candy sticks. But some old-time favorites still provide a puff of sugar when you blow through a hole in the middle.

Bridget Sweeney-Bell says people are usually thrilled to find candy from their childhood is still available. She says candy buttons, Nik-L-Nip and candy cigarettes are big sellers this year on her Web site.

Tom Scheiman stocks 2,500 items in his Cleveland candy store, 200 of which he classifies as "nostalgic."

Nostalgic candy has become a niche in the $24 billion U.S. candy business, in part because the biggest candy makers like Wrigley and Pennsylvania-based Hershey have concentrated on fewer items, especially chocolate.

That means wax lips and Atomic Fireballs can be hard to find on store shelves.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: nostalgia
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I always liked the bottle of coke for five cents. Wonder if that'll be back?
1 posted on 10/30/2003 2:23:02 PM PST by wheelgunguru
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To: wheelgunguru
"Candy cigarettes are now called candy sticks. "

Bring back chocolate cigarettes! They were awesome!
2 posted on 10/30/2003 2:24:22 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: wheelgunguru
Chocolate Babies were great. Can't they rename them (assuming there was ever anything politically incorrect about them)?
3 posted on 10/30/2003 2:26:01 PM PST by Williams
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To: wheelgunguru
Turkish Taffy!
4 posted on 10/30/2003 2:28:12 PM PST by katnip (It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains)
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To: wheelgunguru
Baby Boomers can't seem to grow up, at least when comes to their taste in candy.

That should read:
Baby Boomers can't seem to grow up [Full Stop]

5 posted on 10/30/2003 2:28:44 PM PST by StatesEnemy
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To: Larry Lucido
Click below:


6 posted on 10/30/2003 2:28:48 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: wheelgunguru
Oh, baby. Candy cigarettes. Those were my absolute favorites!

I don't smoke, BTW. But man, I thought those were cool when I was a kid!
7 posted on 10/30/2003 2:32:07 PM PST by gridlock (Rooting for the Yankees means you can say, "We'll get 'em next year!", and mean it!)
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To: wheelgunguru
Remember those little wax bottles of liquid? You'd bite through the wax and then drink the sugary stuff. I don't want to know what was in it, but boy, was it good.
8 posted on 10/30/2003 2:32:18 PM PST by PaulJ
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To: Williams
Chocolate Babies were great.

Here ya go.


9 posted on 10/30/2003 2:32:29 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: wheelgunguru

10 posted on 10/30/2003 2:32:39 PM PST by evets (Warning: graphic images.)
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To: Larry Lucido; Miss Marple
I liked the candy cigarettes. My sister preferred the chocolate babies..
11 posted on 10/30/2003 2:33:37 PM PST by Molly Pitcher (Is Reality Optional?)
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To: wheelgunguru
Black Jack and Beeman's gum.

They still make it, but it doesn't seem to make the cut in the stores.

12 posted on 10/30/2003 2:35:42 PM PST by struwwelpeter
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To: wheelgunguru
Necco Wafers....and wax coke bottles..,yummie.

sw

13 posted on 10/30/2003 2:35:47 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: katnip
Oh yeah! I loved Turkish taffy. Of course now with my dental work, I'm not sure I'd be able to eat it.
14 posted on 10/30/2003 2:36:49 PM PST by iceskater
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To: Larry Lucido
I used to love the "Pink Owl" cigars. They were bubble gum.
15 posted on 10/30/2003 2:37:08 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.)
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To: evets
Hey! I just bought bags of those very same Mello-Cups at the Dollar Tree. My very favorite :~)

sw

16 posted on 10/30/2003 2:38:11 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: spectre
Opps.."mAllo-cup"..:)
17 posted on 10/30/2003 2:40:46 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: wheelgunguru
How about candy necklaces, candy lipstick and those straws with powdery stuff inside? And Lik-M-Aid?
18 posted on 10/30/2003 2:43:21 PM PST by Nea Wood
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To: iceskater
My teeth couldn't handle Turkish Taffy anymore either.

I liked those little black squares in the foil envelope called SenSen too. They were for your breath I guess.
My Mom always had a packet in her coat pocket.
19 posted on 10/30/2003 2:43:51 PM PST by katnip (It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains)
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To: spectre
These are yummy too!
enjoy!

20 posted on 10/30/2003 2:44:09 PM PST by evets (Warning: graphic images.)
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