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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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To: cyncooper
What candy did you like?
To: redlipstick
That brings back so many memories. I loved Quisp! My brother was a Quake fan...
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posted on
10/31/2003 7:36:02 AM PST
by
carton253
(To win the War on Terror, raise at once the black flag!)
To: Warren_Piece
The Root Beer and the Coke flavors of Bottle Caps were my favorite! The rest I would trade away to my friends for their Coke and Root Berr caps. Looks like you and I could have made a deal. LOL!
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posted on
10/31/2003 7:37:16 AM PST
by
carton253
(To win the War on Terror, raise at once the black flag!)
To: spectre
Nothing beats Necco Wafers. Try to name another candy that has "Clove" as a flavor.
184
posted on
10/31/2003 7:37:56 AM PST
by
exile
(Exile - proudly ticking off the Left since 1992)
To: Neets
Oh.........nasty!
185
posted on
10/31/2003 7:38:01 AM PST
by
Howlin
To: Charles Martel
Talk about nasty candies. Does anyone remember Circus Peanuts?
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posted on
10/31/2003 7:39:13 AM PST
by
exile
(Exile - proudly ticking off the Left since 1992)
To: luigi
No, but I remember Shake-A-Pudding... I remember shaking it in the kitchen while singing the jingle... "Shake, shake, shake a pudding... pudding, pudding, shake a pudding...
LOL!
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posted on
10/31/2003 7:40:08 AM PST
by
carton253
(To win the War on Terror, raise at once the black flag!)
To: exile
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posted on
10/31/2003 7:43:01 AM PST
by
Howlin
To: redlipstick
What candy did you like?I've been a Snickers girl my whole life. Also 3 Muskateers and Milky Ways. Actually any candy bar with chocolate does the trick (Baby Ruths, Butterfingers, etc, etc, etc). But, boy! Did this thread bring back memories.
I well remember Hi-C in the big can. I remember when pop and beer cans had to be opened with the can opener (we did not use the term "church key" in the Midwest). We drank Tang and lots of Kool-Aid. And someone remembered the Funny Face drinks and we drank that, too! Back to Kool-Aid, my mom sent away for the Kool-Aid pitcher and thereafter mixed it up in that.
As to rituals, we used to get Tootsie-pops to watch Saturday morning cartoons. LOL
I have lots of memories of many of the things people have reminded us of. Like I hadn't remembered Shakapuddin---I would never have remembered that without the prodding. How about Swiss Miss?
To: exile
Try to name another candy that has "Clove" as a flavor.There used to be clove Life Savers, which were really great, but they're no longer made.
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
I was just thinking of those the other day! How I would sit around and eat space food sticks. Man, that was livin...
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posted on
10/31/2003 7:55:31 AM PST
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carton253
(To win the War on Terror, raise at once the black flag!)
To: redlipstick
I posted earlier about Shake a Pudding.. I still remember that jingle and find myself singing it every time I have to shake something.
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posted on
10/31/2003 7:56:27 AM PST
by
carton253
(To win the War on Terror, raise at once the black flag!)
To: carton253
LOL. I didn't like Quake, but I could eat Quisp straight out of the box.
To: carton253
I posted earlier about Shake a Pudding.. I still remember that jingle and find myself singing it every time I have to shake something.What about Shake and Bake? That commercial with the little girl with her southern accent "And I HELPED!".
Not a treat, but to this day I think of that when I need to shake something!
To: carton253
I don't remember the jingle. Can you sing it for me?
To: cyncooper
We still say that..."and I heh-ulped."
To: Empireoftheatom48
Chucky's?, or Chuckles?, and what about "Dots", a sheet of paper with little sugar candy, err, what would you call them, oh yeah ...."dots"
To: redlipstick
That's IT!
LOL
To: cyncooper
Do you remember, "Mother! I can do it MYSELF!"
To: evets
Mallow Cups are the foulest thing ever created, with perhaps the exception of Circus Peanuts.
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