Sweet-Tooth Fix For Baby Boomers: Nostalgic Candy

wlky ^ | 10-30-03

[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.

[wheelgunguru]

I always liked the bottle of coke for five cents. Wonder if that'll be back?

[Larry Lucido]

"Candy cigarettes are now called candy sticks. "

Bring back chocolate cigarettes! They were awesome!

[Williams]

Chocolate Babies were great. Can't they rename them (assuming there was ever anything politically incorrect about them)?

[katnip]

Turkish Taffy!

[StatesEnemy]

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]

[Larry Lucido]

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[gridlock]

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!

[PaulJ]

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.

[Larry Lucido]

Chocolate Babies were great.

Here ya go.

[evets]

[Molly Pitcher]

I liked the candy cigarettes. My sister preferred the chocolate babies..

[struwwelpeter]

Black Jack and Beeman's gum.

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

[spectre]

Necco Wafers....and wax coke bottles..,yummie.

sw

[iceskater]

Oh yeah! I loved Turkish taffy. Of course now with my dental work, I'm not sure I'd be able to eat it.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I used to love the "Pink Owl" cigars. They were bubble gum.

[spectre]

Hey! I just bought bags of those very same Mello-Cups at the Dollar Tree. My very favorite :~)

sw

[spectre]

Opps.."mAllo-cup"..:)

[Nea Wood]

How about candy necklaces, candy lipstick and those straws with powdery stuff inside? And Lik-M-Aid?

[katnip]

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.

[evets]

These are yummy too! enjoy!