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.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

You're a gem! Thank you so much. Now I can buy my father's favorite candy, and send it to him as a surprise. :)

Best wishes.

[shellibeans]

I sing the shake a puddin song to my slightly chubby dog when he wags his entire body when I come home. His name is Maxx but we also call him puddin (among other things) as he's a bit overweight, (130 lb Yellow Lab.), I thought I was the only one who remembered shake a puddin, every time I ask someone they look at me like I made it up! I apparently hang with a younger crowd.

Does anyone know if they (don't even know who the manufacturer was) are still making the seven-up bar? And if so, where I might find some? The substitute with 4 sections they are hawking on the internet is just not the same.

[cherry]

"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"

YES......those were my all time favorite..