What was this candy called? And what candy do you miss?

There were people trying to bring back Bonkers about ten years ago. It turned into it turned into a whole shitshow on FB. It's worth looking up if you have some time to kill.

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yourmomma5000@reddit

If you live near a Cracker Barrel they have a ton of retro candies!

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Brittfish14@reddit

Dinosaur Eggs! Ugh I loved when I got my hands on those

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PixieCanada@reddit

Haha. My mother ate those like candy!

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Waffuru@reddit

Pepsids are even more dangerous, they actually taste good! It's like Halls Breezers as cough drops... I'm sorry, that's candy. XD

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dstarpro@reddit

Ludens are candy. I won't buy anything else.

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Waffuru@reddit

Those are good, too! But, I'm telling you, strawberries and cream breezers... chef kiss

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HaloTightens@reddit

They don’t make Spree Hearts around Valentine’s Day anymore. They were soooooo yummy.

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Imadethis23@reddit

Brachs Caramel Chews. The ones from the big pick-a-mix bins.

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astronomisst@reddit

Brachs Sparkles. Oval hard candy with a dent in the middle. I especially liked the red one. It had a bit of a spice to it.

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Flamegirl1972@reddit

My grandmother always had Canada mints (in the 70s)! I miss them.

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Gratefulgirl13@reddit

Wacky wafers. They were kind of like giant tart n tiny but they came in a cellophane strip of multiple flavors. Strawberry was my favorite.

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Gratefulgirl13@reddit

Where are wacky wafers available?!?! I’ve looked all over for years!

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dechets-de-mariage@reddit

OMG Tart & Tinys! That’s a throwback for sure.

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peeshofwork@reddit

I miss mixed fruit certs. From my youth, I used to love a Reggie bar and a Marathon bar.

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CJK_Murph@reddit

I just looked on Amazon, Canada mints are crazy expensive now

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Moist-Sundae-1116@reddit

Gobstoppers. They harder to find nowadays and they’ve made them easier to bite through, but I miss the OG bigger ones you could chip a tooth on.

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Solid_Association_49@reddit

And choke on! I suspect that’s why we can’t find them anymore. Society is too litigious now.

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HavBoWilTrvl@reddit

I miss Bottle Caps. I need to see if Mast General Store has them in their candy store.

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Imadethis23@reddit

The original ones. The ones now have a weird taste and are too small.

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GunnCelt@reddit

Amazon has them:

https://a.co/d/03GMIX4Y

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StrikingTradition75@reddit

I have terrible taste because my guilty pleasure was always Pucker Ups from the grocery store vending machine. Not a good candy, but positive memories from my childhood.

For reference: Pucker Ups

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FeedbackExisting4762@reddit

Those remind me much of the Spree candy I loved as a kid. https://thewholesalecandyshop.com/products/spree-roll-original-36-box

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I loved Spree candies back in the day. They were my #1 road trip food :) Even more than the roll of regular Spree, I LOVED the giant, chewy Sweet Tarts (you can keep the regular Sweet Tarts though, Spree were MUCH better ;) that came 4 in a package. I usually just chewed on them whole but they were made to ‘shatter’ into bite-sized pieces if you smacked the unopened package on a hard surface. Silly fun for middle school me 🙃.

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Pinkysrage@reddit

Marathon bars. They were my absolute favorite.

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Slow-Objective-7440@reddit

Yes!!!!!!

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Square-Wing-6273@reddit

I miss watchamacallits. And marathon bars.

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Pinkysrage@reddit

So sad about marathon bars. I’d ride my bike to 7/11 and get them for a quarter.

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Auntie_Venom@reddit

Whatchamacallits still exist

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SugarsBoogers@reddit

Can confirm and will also say they are not nearly as good as I remember.

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dechets-de-mariage@reddit

They ruined Whatchamacallit when they added caramel.

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expespuella@reddit

I disagree. They are one of my favorites and I'm not a huge sweets person.

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Present_Yak_6169@reddit

I loved (and I might be the only one) maple nut goodies by Brach’s. They do not make them anymore.

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MasterYam234@reddit

Maple nut goodies are the best! I haven’t thought of them in years. Sad to hear they don’t make them anymore.

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Present_Yak_6169@reddit

We have a candy store locally that sells a lot of the older candy you can’t find anywhere else. I asked about them and he said they’ve been discontinued for a few years. There’s really nothing similar on the market.

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Pinkysrage@reddit

Rural king has fake ones.

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Pinkysrage@reddit

Me and my dad were addicted to maple nut goodies. So yummy.

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anon2univ@reddit

Marathon bars.

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Pinkysrage@reddit

I said the same! My absolute favorite, loved that long Carmel braid.

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ThisMomIsAMother@reddit

Yes! I loved those things. Cadbury has curly wurly bars that are the same thing but smaller.

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TheeNihilist@reddit

I’m in sales and a decent person. Call the person by the name they are introduced. No brainer.

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doglady1342@reddit

I think you might have the wrong thread.

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TheeNihilist@reddit

What the hell. I responded to a comment about calling people the name they were introduced as.

I’ll be dumbass, I guess.

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CDubs_94@reddit

No problem dumbass!

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drunkenfool@reddit

No brainer.

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

I love Canada mints!

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dstarpro@reddit

Or the ones that the diners used to have in a bowl with a spoon by the cashier, very hard to find now: butter mints.

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a recipe to make butter mints.

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dstarpro@reddit

I would love to see it!

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Asleep_Caregiver_948@reddit

Certs: really great mints. Small pet peeve: all mints these days come in tins or plastic boxes that rattle in my purse. I miss mints in a paper roll.

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drunkenfool@reddit

Was it Certs that sparked in your mouth if you chewed them up quickly?

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SunshineAlways@reddit

Wintergreen Lifesavers sparked when you chewed them. I don’t know if Certs did as well.

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LaLionneEcossaise@reddit

I think just the wintergreen ones did that!

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Shopworn_Soul@reddit

I loved being able to stick a fingernail between two and pop the top one out without tearing a spiral of paper off the roll.

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OkConsideration8964@reddit

I still get Necco Wafers. I also love Good and Plenty & Dots.

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GrowlingAtTheWorld@reddit

Were the mints wintergreen? My Gma alway bought me pink wintergreen mints when I was a kid cause I love wintergreen. Search for Wintergreen Lozenges there are different brands.

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dyscophant@reddit

Mojos

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No-Ambition7750@reddit

I did!

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PussySvengali@reddit

Chewels gum. It was little pillows of gum with a syrup center.

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kabekew@reddit

Like Bubblicious Bursts. I think that was my favorite gum.

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dstarpro@reddit

Freshen Up too!

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VorpalBunnyTeef@reddit

The hard strawberry candies with a gooey center that only ever showed up at the Pepperidge Farm pop-up store in the mall at Christmastime. The wrapper looked like a foil strawberry. They’d tuck a few into the gift boxes alongside the summer sausages and cheese balls.

I’ve found strawberry candies like them as an adult, but they’re not as good as I remember. Maybe they’ve changed the recipe. Maybe I’m just old.

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Livid-Improvement953@reddit

They sell these at my local Boomgaars Farm and Home store.

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MB2katz@reddit

Do you mean Hickory Farm? ☺️

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VorpalBunnyTeef@reddit

Apparently I did! I think the last time I saw one of those pop-ups I was about seven, guess the memory is a bit fuzzy.

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Difficult_Ad_2881@reddit

Canada mints. I used to choke on them as a kid. 😫

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Critical-Bass7021@reddit

I have a ton of Necco wafers stored away that I break out every now and then. So good.

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doubleohzerooo0@reddit

Glucose tablets taste like Necco wafers.

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SamHandwich0@reddit

Chick-o-stick

It was basically the inside of a butterfinger rolled in coconut

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peacefinder@reddit

Zagnut bars are similar, though hard to find

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DoookieMaxx@reddit

Those rule. They’re also still available. You can order them online with Amazon.

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SamHandwich0@reddit

Damnint why did you tell me that? I just ordered a 48 pack.

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DoookieMaxx@reddit

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SamHandwich0@reddit

$17 for 48 of those bad boys is a deal!

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eejm@reddit

I could find them really easily at Latin American grocery stores for a long time. Then suddenly I couldn’t find them at all.

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MedievalHag@reddit

You can get them at the Dollar Tree in the US. They are mini but still the same.

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general-illness@reddit

Oddly enough there’s a pet store near me that has a old school candy section near checkout. They have chick-o-stick

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Waffuru@reddit

I miss Abba Zabba. I think you can still find it in novelty candy stores occasionally, but it's not something you'll see in the grocery store anymore.

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OTOKOKUMA@reddit

I grew up within walking distance of their manufacturing facility and warehouse. I ate so many as a kid in the 70s and 80s lol

Sadly, yet another thing ruined by private equity and covid.

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Waffuru@reddit

Private equity ruins everything. I'm still bitter about Toys 'R' Us =<

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japajew26@reddit

As a toy r us kid myself, I’m also still bitter.

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Smallmyfunger@reddit

My local Winco has Abba Zabba.

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Waffuru@reddit

Lucky! The last Abba Zabba I got was from my in laws, and they got it in a retro candy blind box XD

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FormerCollegeDJ@reddit

Juicefuls (hard candies with a fruity liquid center)

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Watermelon_Sugar44@reddit

Zots!! My husband was gifted a huge bag of Zots and it made me so happy to introduce our son to these.

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youngkpepper@reddit

Milkshake candy bars

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zanylanie@reddit

I miss Certs. My grandmother always had them. She kept them in her "pocketbook," but inside a sandwich bag, so they didn't take on that weird purse taste that was like a mix of staleness and copper.

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Smallmyfunger@reddit

Or lipstick...

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MindFluffy5906@reddit

They are still around! Different packaging though, as they now come in a bag, rather than a roll.

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Leading-Love1212@reddit

Asto Pop, I don't think they were even that good, but I associate them with summers as a kid at the local swimming spot. They had a little snack stand that was likely way over priced. Boy could those suckers get stuck in your teeth.

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Duck_of_Doom71@reddit

I used one to pull out a loose tooth!

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HavBoWilTrvl@reddit

You could stab someone with an Astro Pop.

You can still get them. Several "retro" candy places sell them online.

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automaticgainsaying@reddit

Late to this thread, but throwing out a type of Little Debbie snack cake. They were coconut-based. Two sticks like a nutty bar, but white with coconut sprinkles. They disappeared sometime in the early 90s and I can barely even find reference to them online. (Although I haven’t done deep deep forensics on this - but I should.)

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PollyEthyl@reddit

Yes!! I loved these. They were called Coconut Crunch. They also had one with mind covered in a thin dark chocolate that I loved too.

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Moluv10Tymz@reddit

Wintergreen Canada mints?

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RedditSkippy@reddit

I know exactly what you mean and I have no idea what they were called.

Maybe Vermont Country Store sells them?

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bizzy816@reddit

Freshen up gum. Bubblegum flavor.

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Shell-Fire@reddit

Omg. That squirt gum! Yes!

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Goldie1976@reddit

I know exactly what you're talking about, but I have no idea what they were called.

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Mom_who_drinks@reddit

I miss Marathon bars and one that was chocolate with a chocolate filling that was full of tiny bubbles but I don’t remember what it was.

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Puzzleheaded_Try_911@reddit

Cadbury Wispa has the tiny bubbles in chocolate filling

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Square-Wing-6273@reddit

Aero bars?

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AryuOcay@reddit

Those are English and still available. Chocolite is gone.

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Ok_Kick6546@reddit

Chocolite. I loved both.

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la_winky@reddit

These are Canadian mints. No clue why they’re called that.

I did like necco wafers though.

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Auntie_Venom@reddit

OP are you thinking of Velamints?

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zanylanie@reddit

I loved Velamints, but they were not the same consistency as Necco Wafers. Velamints had a kind of slick coating on the outside. Necco Wafers are like discs of the same material as conversation hearts.

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