I grew up in South Africa so all my favourites have to be imported. It’s probably just as well.

1. Jelly tots. They are little chewy candies covered with sugar. I would suck the sugar off and try to keep myself from chewing them as long as possible. I thought this was an excellent exercise in self-control

2.Tempo Bar. This was a very delicious chocolate bar. It is shortbread covered in caramel and milk chocolate. I remember my dad bringing me one to comfort me after some pre-teen drama late one night.

3.Aero bars-You can find these in Canada too. They are bubbly chocolate bars. They have bubbles of chocolate inside of them! So delicious and fun. My favourite is the mint flavour.

Whenever I go back to South Africa, sampling all the chocolate and sweets of my childhood is one of my favourite activities. It really is so nostaglic!

My parents were no-sugar nazis, so I honestly don’t have many memories of candy other than elaborate schemes to hide half my Halloween candy and ration it out over a period of a few months.

I’ve always had a fondness for snickers, Almond M&Ms and Sugar Daddies.

I loved eating ‘Flicks’ they came in a tube and resembled a big chocolate chip. They were so good with popcorn at the Saturday Matinee! Salty and sweet, doesn’t get much better!

I have alwlays loved

1) Big Hunk candy bars–yum! yum! You can still find them sometimes.
2) Cinnamon Bears
3) Sugar Babies and of course chocolate of any kind–almond joy, snickers. . . . .

What a trip back through memory lane.

Thanks for connecting us and helping us REMEMBER!

I remember getting a quarter for allowance each Saturday and my brothers and I would walk a block to the little store on the corner to spend it on candy. For 5 cents we could get Bub’s Daddy Bubble Gum. It was a foot long and the flavor was so good! I liked sour apple the best. We could chew on that all day, or see how much we could get in our mouth and chew all at once. You could blow great big huge bubbles! We’d also buy those horrible wax bottles. You know where you bite off the top, suck out the juice, then chew on the wax. I have no idea why we liked those – and the wax lips. We’d buy what we also called “penny candy”. My grandfather owned a grocery store (before Safeway came to town), and we’d get to pick those out from the bottom shelf and put them in little brown bags to take home. Can you buy anything for 1 penny anymore?

I’m a chocoholic so I recall eating anything that was chocolate but another good one to take you down memory lane is the candy dots that you have to eat off of the paper strips. Inevitably you would eat paper too but it was fun. And how about the gum you used to get in the collectible cards? Like the Garbage Pail Kids cards and the Wacky Packages stickers… aaahhhh memories.

I’ve always loved anything with caramel in it – Sugar Babies, Caramel Creams (still a favorite), milk duds, cow tales, you name it. Not only do I remember Banana BB Bats my uncle STILL has them at his house for family gatherings. Favorites today are Snickers, Hershey with Almonds and of course caramel!

My all time favorite treat was Big Hunk candy bars. I also loved Cracker Jack (and NOT just for the prize). I love popcorn of any kind and especially if it has nuts in it.

I love any kind of cinnamon candy. I think it all started with cinnamon flavored tooth picks from the candy store uptown in the very small town where I grew up. I also have fond memories of Strawberry Twizzlers. We had a small movie theater in town and they would place the packages of Twizzlers under the lights of the candy case so they would be warmish and pliable. We would bite off both ends and insert the Twizzler into our GLASS BOTTLE of Pepsi and use it as a straw!

Man… how do we narrow it down to just 3??? As I kid I would always choose the Charlston Chew (chocolate with vanilla inside), the big Peppermint Patties, and Necco’s. Nowadays I’m more into Peanut M&M’s, Dove Chocolate, & Red Vines. OK, I’ll add one more… the fabulous Twix bar.