56 here..yup, i remembered most of those too, box should've had those wax bottles. There's one i used to always get from a local restaurant, it was a pointed, different colored, different flavored sucker. Yellow i think was pineapple, green was apple and red was cherry. Yellow always gave me a headache for some reason. Ive seen sold at The Cracker Barrel Restaurant, they too sell nostalgic candies and gums. Zots i would always get from the skating rink snack section, loved the fizz. Anyone remember Gatorade gum, sour at first then lost flavor real quick. Bubble Yum grape and watermelon. I miss the Brach's candies you could put in a bag. Pick your favs, then get it weighed at the checkout. 😊
@@jonathansantorelli4529I buy those, for my mom, during holiday candy seasons, from Dollar Tree. For some reason, they only come out from Halloween through Christmas.
There is a specialty market near me it's 6 acres of groceries all kinds of international stuff (Jungle Jims) and big candy section with both the gum and the candy stick candy cigarettes. I got some for my teen nephews once, it blew their minds that that was even a thing. The stick ones taste better but the gum ones with the paper wrapper u could blow into and the powder would puff out like smoke... that was so "cool".
I'm 76 and I still remember a lot of these candies....but my favorites were chocolate bars ...mallo cups Hershey bars with almonds snickers three musketeers etc I ate chuckles a lot and when I was given money to go buy candy...it was called 'penny candy.' Lots of good memories...thanks.🥰
I used to caddie my grandma around the golf course in her golf cart when I was a kid (it was a blast!). She would let me buy a pack of those candy cigarettes before we started and I would always have one dangling out of my 8 year old mouth while cruising the golf course. Those were the days! 😂
The big question is, did the adults around you, along with the candy cigarettes, influence you into smoking? My Mom died from smoking, massive heart attack brought on from heavy smoking, and my 2 sisters, 1 brother, 2 of them now passed away were heavy smokers, because of our Mom and they were always so stinky and so sick from smoking. Such a horrible horrible vice. When I was a kid, I always bought these candy cigs. They also had the blue and pink bubble gum cigars.
The only drawback to the candy button's was the inevitable consumption of the paper that stuck to the candy. There is a candy store near our cabin that sells Zots. My favorite is the watermelon flavor. Does anyone remember the wax bottles? The liquid tasted awful, but they sure were fun.
OMG!!! The wax bottles! I haven't thought about them in 45 years! I LOVED those wax bottles. Biting into that wax and getting the gush of liquid was a very unique experience when it came to candy. Remember the "Freshen up" gum that had a gel center? I loved that gum.
@@charlesdeens8927 Absolutely I remember the Freshen Up gum! My dad was a Big Red guy, but every once in a while, he'd get Freshen Up and I was THERE for it!
@@charlesdeens8927 I've seen that gum around lately so it was revised at least for a short moment. The bottles I liked sorta as a kid, but I bought them about a year ago and realized, I've grown up and these are hideous. So the rest went into the trash. Just not the kid I used to be, but a huge amount of that boxes' candy were (and some still are) my favorites.
I was born in 1962, I remember the cigarettes, thinking we looked cool smoking that candy. Good memories of my best friend Dianne, thanks for bringing those memories back.
1961 here - Necco Wafers do have different flavors, my favorites are the white (cinnamon ), black (licorice) and pink (wintergreen). And I always have a packet of Black Jack gum with me!
Mallo Cups were my hands down all time favorite. If you take the turkish taffy and put it in the freezer then snack it on the table it doesn't stick to the wrapper. I really liked it. And Goldenberg Peanut Chews were made in my home town Philadelphia. Loved this video. Thanks!😊😊😊
Fleer sold a lot of cool candy in the early 80’s. One I remember well was the Bubble Burger which was a small hamburger inside a small fast food hamburger container that was entirely made of bubble gum. They also made a bubble gum waffle that came with maple syrup! Good times!
Out of curiosity I looked to see if they had one for my birth year, 1976. They do, and it has the exact same candy as the 1968 box! The Amazon candy department is getting lazy. Fun episode even though I felt my a1c hit the roof just watching.
Wax Lips: You're supposed to bite a piece off n only chew it til the flavor is gone, spit that out, n get another bite; rinse n repeat. The flavor is good, and it's fun to chew on. I'm a couple yrs younger than you, James, but wax lips were one of my favs.
@renees766 YOU?!?!?!? YOU'RE THE ONE PERSON WHO LIKES THAT CRAP AND THE REASON WE ALL CONTINUE TO ENDURE ITS EXISTENCE?!?!?!?!?!?! (I promise you. We'll all work together to get you the help you so desperately need.....😛)
The pop rocks, sugar cool aid straws, and the eatable dipping stick with the side packet bring me vivid memories. Also missing here, is the pez dispensers that came all the popular characters that dispensed multi flavored sugar tablets. Great times back then.
I'll be 59 in another month, and believe it or not, I STILL enjoy every single one of these (Five Below usually carries them). My wife bought me a bag of candy necklaces the other day, in fact. Chuckles are my favorite, however (LOVE the black one).
And I was allowed to take Neccos to church. I had to hide the powdered sugar using a Kleenex or handkerchief but I could slip them in my mouth during the sermons.
My favorites were always Sugar Babies and Zotz. I also love Quicksand gum. It was a powder that came in a pouch like Poprocks, but it turned into a gum the more you chewed it. I'd love to try it again. I was surprised they didn't have the wax bottles in there. You drank the fruit flavored liquid out and chewed the wax bottle. You also chew on the wax lips like gum.😁
This was an awesome video; I was born in 1968, and I will be ordering a box. lol So awesome seeing my favorite candies again. Great Video keep them coming...
The last time I saw a bubblegum "tobacco" product was in 1997, when I saw blue or pink bubblegum cigars to celebrate a new baby. Charleston Chew used to be a long bar. When you froze it, you slammed into pieces. Razzles! It's a gum! It's a candy! Candy from my past: Mary Jane (chewy peanut butter?) Good 'n' Plenty (pink licorice jelly beans ) Good 'n' Fruity (I don't remember the texture) Fruit Stripe Gum
Missing from your box is all the GOOD stuff. Marathon Bar, Nestle Chunky Raisin and Nut, Wax Coke Bottles, Chick O Stick, Big Chew Bubble Gum, Bit-O-Honey, Now or laters, etc etc And yes, you can still get the Marathon bar, from the UK, it's under a different name now, and it's smaller than it was when we were kids. Also, you REALLY needed a Nehi Grape and Strawberry glass bottle sodas to wash all that down with. I was a kid in the early to mid and late 1970s. I'm 56. I remember all of those candies I mentioned, and some of yours, very well. My Little Brother Mark, RIP, would bust our tails to collect pop bottles to buy candy.
This is what I remember from the 60’s. Squirrel nuts, Mary Janes, atomic fireballs, jaw breakers, sugar mamma, rock candy (crystallized sugar on a string), Whoppers, shaped wax soda bottles with flavored water, Chicklets, Boston baked beans, Goobers, bubble gum that was about a foot long, bit o honey, good and fruity, good and plenty.
Good 'n Fruity!! Yum! Were Atomic Fireballs the ones that had the layers, hot and then not? I couldn't remember what those were called but that may be it.
WOW what a fun, Gen X trip down memory lane! I hated those gum drop candy and the Chuckles ew lol also Blackjack gum is gross. Necco wafers are just chalky discs 😂. I've got to try those long boy coconut things that looks delicious! Oh man. Now I need a trip to this giant candy store we have in Cleveland that has all kind of candy you can imagine ❤
I still love Necco wafers, hard to find. They actually went under but shortly after they were bought by another company (last 3 years) and so they were not available for a few months
@@henriettavanderfloof8104 We don't have dollar generals around here but I have occasionally found them at Dollar Tree but when I do there is usually like 1-2 rolls left otherwise I would buy the whole box as I doubt they go bad easily.
Just starting ... SO EXCITED! We bought our nickel candy at the corner store ... so much fun! I still by necco wafers and sugar babies :) Great reviews! Favorite were the pop rocks ... This is a GREAT REVIEW! Thank you!
This is awesome. I've been wanting to order that box. We got one for Hubby's Dad years ago, and it was a lot of fun to see him remembering things from his childhood, and the rest of the family's reaction to it all! Thanks for getting the box! Esp since were nearly the same age and born in '68.
I remember a lot of these! The moment I saw that candy necklace, I could taste the rubbery/latex of the string covered in sugar all over again. Some things just never leave you 😂
1959 here. I loved the sugar babies and the sugar daddys, there was another one called the slow poke. We got to pick out one candy bar every week at the grocery store. I would get in a rut, buying the same Reeces or whatever for a while. I don’t remember a lot of what you showed. The candy necklace, I could wear that for days! 😂 All over my sweaty little neck. Loved the pimple candy, zotzes. Spelling I know.
I was born in 1968 too. Turkish Taffy was something I considered "old" candy, and even then it was stuck to both the wrapper and the cardboard in the 70's. So nothing's changed there nor with the Sugar Daddy which also EVERY SINGLE ONE got caught in the wrapper. Bad design that never got better--it's still available now and last I tried pre-Covid had the same issue. Sugar Daddies were my favorite of the family though Sugar Mamas had the chocolate dip to them. The candy cigarettes were something I grabbed frequently, and for the gum version I too poofed the smoke to look like my parents. Thank you for the definition of Nougat. I didn't know it had nuts in it in the Charleston Chew! I knew Snickers had nuts but didn't realize it was nougat that was also a danger to me (Nut allergy? 70's? 80s? Suck it up). Cow tales remain one of my favorite. They come in chocolate, vanilla (Goetz bullseye version were/are a favorite candy for me), and caramel apple. :) Used to be 2/a buck when my kids were a bit younger. Now they're more expensive like everyone else. And Chuckles were also a fun candy to receive at Halloween. So many candies, so many memories. And I think they've revised so many of these recipes for this remake--they look weird. So just hand me your Neccos and I'll run away! I was allowed to eat those at church!
My mother worked at the Necco candy factory in Cambridge MA in 1956-58. It was wonderful because the workers could buy the "seconds" that weren't perfect. The chocolate covered orange creams were my favorite and I still love them. Never cared for the wafers though.
Nostalgia overload!!! I LOVED this review. So many old memories came flooding back! I'm buying this for a sibling of mine. What a great gift this will make! The candy cigarettes were my favorite. I felt so grown up blowing that candy sugared smoke.
1968 woo hoo! Oh those wax lips at Halloween were the bomb 💣 and the little wax pop bottles filled with a colored liquid 🤪 Thanks for the sweet trip down memory lane James
I am even older than you and used to love some of those candies. There are candies I didn’t see like those sweet liquid filled wax shapes - mostly soda pop bottles or cylinders like straws. They’re pretty terrible. They used to make lots more wax shapes including a set of pan pipes. They’re pretty terrible, but because my dad was diabetic, any time we got that stuff was a real occasion because he didn’t allow it in the house. I used to think he was really mean and didn’t like sweets, but found out eventually that it was because he loved sweets and couldn’t stop himself. Poor Daddy. They used to make lots a good chocolate stuff too, that wasn’t included. Those random candies are grandma candies! Everyone’s grandma had those in a bowl on her coffee table.
The red lips… not sure it’s just because I’m a female, but I loved these! Cuz they made my thin lips full and voluminous, plus I read a comment about how to enjoy it. Back in the 60s you never wasted anything!! We chewed and spit out the chewed up pieces!! Btw I haven had a great belly laugh in a while!!!! I’m tears.. by you funny comments!!😊
Great video that took me down memory lane. I've had many of these and enjoyed them. Abba Zabba, Sugar Babies, Pixie Sticks, Charleston Chew. Still enjoy them today. I haven't seen the various gums, Black Jack & Clove come to mind. They forgot to add JuJu Bees. They were smaller than Dots. Snow Caps were another favorite sold at the movie theatre. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
The red lips… not sure it’s just because I’m a female, but I loved these! Cuz they made my thin lips full and voluminous, plus I read a comment about how to enjoy it. Back in the 60s you never wasted anything!! We chewed and spit out the chewed up pieces!! Btw I haven had a great belly laugh in a while!!!! I’m tears.. by your funny commentary 😂😂😂😂
So much nostalgia! Should have included Lemonheads and Boston baked beans with the Hot Tamales. I remember using Now and Laters to pull loose teeth. It's a good thing we all rode bikes to get rid of the excess sugar.
I’m 62 and remember a lot of these candies. They have a candy store my husband and I go to in Maine called “ yummies candies & Nuts “. They carry all the nostalgia candies 👍🏻
Bringing back a lot of memories...the candy cigarettes...I can remember being given 50 cents to go to the corner market and get candy..those were always a favorite...lol
I'm a late boomer (early 1960s) and I remember most of these! I never saw the Broadway roll or the Long Boy either - maybe those were regional. My favorites out of these were the Charleston Chew, Pixy Stix, Zotz, Pop Rocks and Hot Tamales.
1974 kid here. I remember a lot of these from Halloween. I loved Fun Dip mainly for the stick, but the grape flavor was good. I think my absolute favorite was the candy cigarettes. Such wonderful memories of the times I shared with my brother who passed away when he was 18 from cancer.
lol this video took me back. I remember having both candy and gum cigarettes. Anytime I see Now & Laters I look for the pineapple ones. Man this was a fun video for me thank you.
Loved your reaction to many of these!😂. I’m from the late 1950s so I was at the perfect age for these. I didn’t chew many of them. I preferred to let them melt in my mouth. Had the chewing gum cigarettes but never knew you could blow out the sugar. Tasted good on the gum anyway. They had the chocolate cigarettes, too, that used to start to melt the longer you handled them. What was missing were the huge jawbreakers that barely fit in your mouth. 😊❤☀️
This is so funny. We were just talking to my child about candy from back in the day and some were those you are showing and some I never ate or saw before. I am older than you and remember the candy store with jars and bins and we filled our bag for a nickel. Those candy cigarettes are different than I remember ours was a sugar stick with pink color on the tip. This was a fun video
That second candy cigarette is the one I remember. When we spent a couple of weeks with my grandmother in Groton Long Point, CT we’d walk up to the little store and buy them. 😁 Never thought anything about it. They were just another candy.
I swear in the 90s sugar daddy was my favourite Halloween candy to get trick or treating!! I couldn’t remember what it was, I was so young. Now I need to eat one
Mallo Cups, Skybar, ice cube chocolates, cherry mash, bazooka bubblegum, boston baked beans, circus peanuts and teaberry gum.. peach blossoms at christmas (nothing peach about them and actually had peanut butter in the center) and the fake chocolate liquor bottles wrapped in foil
Born in 1968 too. I remember almost all of these. Including those little hard candies you didn't bother with. If I remember correctly, the strawberry one had a gooey center.
Was born in 95. I definitely remember eating pixie sticks, fun dip and now & laters . Haven't had any of them in decades though. Now & laters used to be 2 for 25 cents. Then were super popular back in my childhood
What a nostalgic surprise this video was! I'm a few years younger than you, but I do remember several of these. Some I've never heard of, but that may be because we lived all over the world growing up, so I ate a lot of Korean, German and Italian sweets, and the Commissary was a bit limited on American candy, carrying mainly the big ones like Reese's, Snickers etc. I absolutely love Clove Gum, but...the flavor doesn't last very long 😑 A good place to buy vintage candies is in the Cracker Barrel Gift Shop 🍬🍭 Also there's a store called Rocket Candy or something that sells hundreds of sodas and quite a lot of vintage candies too. I really loved Pop Rocks and the Cinnamon ones, what are they called again? I hated the candy necklaces because my neck would get stained & sticky, as well as my shirts 👕 making extra laundry work for my mom! Thanks for this video, James! (Oh, the most hated candy 🍬 amongst all my friends was Bit O' Honey...was that out in the 70s?)
Rad to know we were born in the same year! Love this video. These candies are so nostalgic and brought me straight back to the carefree days of the 70s. Thanks man. RUSH ON.
I've got 10 years on you James. Some of those bring back memories, some I've never heard of. Two that you missed that were my favorites back in the day were the Black Cow (like a chocolate covered Sugar Daddy) and the 7Up bar (a chocolate bar with seven segments that each were a different flavor or filling like fudge, coconut, butterscotch caramel, buttercream, Brazil nut, cherry cream, and orange jelly).
I love Charleston Chews especially the strawberry ones. They're actually really good in the frozen. Also Whitman's chocolate box just the box not even the chocolate I just remember the box because that's where my grandparents hid their money at 😂😂
Used to get fun dips from the ice cream truck that used to come through my neighborhood during hte summer when I was a kid. I'd get a fun dip, whatever ice cream and a balsa wood glider. That glider would promptly end up on the second story roof. lol
That Turkish Taffy must have been stale. I used to love it, especially the chocolate one. They've always been a little hard to unwrap, but not THAT bad. And I don't remember the gum candy cigarettes but was relieved to see you also got a box of the kind I had.
56 here..yup, i remembered most of those too, box should've had those wax bottles. There's one i used to always get from a local restaurant, it was a pointed, different colored, different flavored sucker. Yellow i think was pineapple, green was apple and red was cherry. Yellow always gave me a headache for some reason. Ive seen sold at The Cracker Barrel Restaurant, they too sell nostalgic candies and gums. Zots i would always get from the skating rink snack section, loved the fizz. Anyone remember Gatorade gum, sour at first then lost flavor real quick. Bubble Yum grape and watermelon. I miss the Brach's candies you could put in a bag. Pick your favs, then get it weighed at the checkout. 😊
Born in 1969. I remember the candy stick cigarettes having one end painted with a little red coloring to replicate a lit cigarette. 😂
Yup. They did. The Round Up brand did. They were crunchy, not bubble gum. Tasty too.
Yes they still make the chalk sticks but they don’t have the red on them anymore they are not the same they taste different too
can you even get them any more I heard they ban do to promoting smoking
@@jonathansantorelli4529I buy those, for my mom, during holiday candy seasons, from Dollar Tree. For some reason, they only come out from Halloween through Christmas.
There is a specialty market near me it's 6 acres of groceries all kinds of international stuff (Jungle Jims) and big candy section with both the gum and the candy stick candy cigarettes. I got some for my teen nephews once, it blew their minds that that was even a thing. The stick ones taste better but the gum ones with the paper wrapper u could blow into and the powder would puff out like smoke... that was so "cool".
I'm 76 and I still remember a lot of these candies....but my favorites were chocolate bars ...mallo cups Hershey bars with almonds snickers three musketeers etc I ate chuckles a lot and when I was given money to go buy candy...it was called 'penny candy.' Lots of good memories...thanks.🥰
Mallo cups are great!
Penny candy. We were given a quarter to spend and came home with a LOT of candy.
Mallo cups are so good 😋💞
FruitStripes gum with the zebra mascot - great flavor that lasted about 2 seconds
Yes! It was one of my sister's favorites and I was always baffled why she even bothered 🤣
Not to mention the weird weird texture!
Bazooka Bubble Gum is very similar. Looooove that initial sugar blast but then...three minutes later, one is chewing rubber. Mmmmmm, not!
I remember my mom bought me this gum to chew on my first plane ride. The flavor was gone before takeoff. 😆🤦🏻♀️
@@pattimaska4124Lot of powdered sugar coating it, I think. 😂
I used to caddie my grandma around the golf course in her golf cart when I was a kid (it was a blast!). She would let me buy a pack of those candy cigarettes before we started and I would always have one dangling out of my 8 year old mouth while cruising the golf course. Those were the days! 😂
The big question is, did the adults around you, along with the candy cigarettes, influence you into smoking? My Mom died from smoking, massive heart attack brought on from heavy smoking, and my 2 sisters, 1 brother, 2 of them now passed away were heavy smokers, because of our Mom and they were always so stinky and so sick from smoking. Such a horrible horrible vice. When I was a kid, I always bought these candy cigs. They also had the blue and pink bubble gum cigars.
@all.day.day-dreamer Never got into the real deal fortunately. However, the I'm sure the candy cigarettes didn't do wonders for my health 😅
Hostess Ding Dongs in the foil wrappers were the best and my absolute favorite. The ones in plastic just aren't the same.
Agree. Totally different experience. Can't say why. 😂
Im a 60s baby meaning i was born in 66 i am reliving my child hood candy thru you....some i still eat til this day
...flash back
When I was a kid, we used to get packets of Jell-O powder and use the sugar stick from the fun dip to eat the Jell-O powder😊
Held you over til you could get more Fun Dip again. 😂
The only drawback to the candy button's was the inevitable consumption of the paper that stuck to the candy. There is a candy store near our cabin that sells Zots. My favorite is the watermelon flavor. Does anyone remember the wax bottles? The liquid tasted awful, but they sure were fun.
OMG!!! The wax bottles! I haven't thought about them in 45 years! I LOVED those wax bottles. Biting into that wax and getting the gush of liquid was a very unique experience when it came to candy. Remember the "Freshen up" gum that had a gel center? I loved that gum.
@@charlesdeens8927 Absolutely I remember the Freshen Up gum! My dad was a Big Red guy, but every once in a while, he'd get Freshen Up and I was THERE for it!
Nik N Lips or something like that they are still sold they now have a crybaby flavor. But they are delicious now.
Yes. I loved the wax bottles. This box did not include the rootbeer barrels and other hard candy I liked.
@@charlesdeens8927 I've seen that gum around lately so it was revised at least for a short moment. The bottles I liked sorta as a kid, but I bought them about a year ago and realized, I've grown up and these are hideous. So the rest went into the trash. Just not the kid I used to be, but a huge amount of that boxes' candy were (and some still are) my favorites.
I’m loving this new segment! I’m a ‘59 baby. Some of these I don’t. recall. But the buttons were a summer favorite. I still love chuckles.
Good ol Chuckles, I was never a fan but my mom used to give them to me. Good memories.
The company that makes Clove gum and Black Jack also makes Beemans, which is birch flavor. We still love those!
That gum is seriously amazing, thanks for reminding me.
It's a shame that Beeman's doesn't contain pepsin anymore. It was great when you ate too much. It took away that bloated feeling.
Yum…Chuckles!
Remember Teaberry gum❤❤
I was born in 1962, I remember the cigarettes, thinking we looked cool smoking that candy. Good memories of my best friend Dianne, thanks for bringing those memories back.
I don't recall the gum ones I'm sure I had them, but I remember the sugar ones from the 80's.
Too bad you only got one maybe two puffs off of each
We used to buy the gum cigars too !
Thanks for the memories I’m 63 and that candy brought back so many memories. And I enjoy your new channel.
1961 here - Necco Wafers do have different flavors, my favorites are the white (cinnamon ), black (licorice) and pink (wintergreen). And I always have a packet of Black Jack gum with me!
I liked white (peppermint). But my favorite was yellow. It was kind of like eating a hard drop of buttercream icing.
Mmm, I always preferred teaberry gum, but black jack is good too.
I always liked (and still do,once in awhile) the chocolate NECCO wafers!
I still love Necco Wafers
I love necco. I grow up eating them with my dad. He will still bring me some every on and then. I live the white ones.
Razzles reminds me of Bottle Caps, they weren't gum but had candy in soda flavors shaped like bottle caps.
They still make razzles and bottle caps
I still buy bottle caps if I see them. Love the cola and root beer.
I loved bottle caps when I was a kid.
Mallo Cups were my hands down all time favorite. If you take the turkish taffy and put it in the freezer then snack it on the table it doesn't stick to the wrapper. I really liked it. And Goldenberg Peanut Chews were made in my home town Philadelphia. Loved this video. Thanks!😊😊😊
That taffy looks like a knock off of Big Hunk.
Mallo Cups are still my favorite! Can you still get them there? Also Clark bars...did you get those in Philly?
@@CrossBorderCamping Yes. Thank God! ☺️☺️☺️
Fleer sold a lot of cool candy in the early 80’s. One I remember well was the Bubble Burger which was a small hamburger inside a small fast food hamburger container that was entirely made of bubble gum. They also made a bubble gum waffle that came with maple syrup! Good times!
Out of curiosity I looked to see if they had one for my birth year, 1976. They do, and it has the exact same candy as the 1968 box! The Amazon candy department is getting lazy.
Fun episode even though I felt my a1c hit the roof just watching.
Wax Lips: You're supposed to bite a piece off n only chew it til the flavor is gone, spit that out, n get another bite; rinse n repeat. The flavor is good, and it's fun to chew on. I'm a couple yrs younger than you, James, but wax lips were one of my favs.
I can't stand seeing people spit in public, so for there to have been a candy that encourages this would be my nightmare 😅
NASTY
@@brt5273 You do not want to hear about how ice cream used to be served in public then. THAT was NASTY, too, lol!
I remember wax lips well! But I wouldn't spit in public either. Ooh and there was a wax harmonica/pan pipe kind of thing you could play then chew
@renees766
YOU?!?!?!?
YOU'RE THE ONE PERSON WHO LIKES THAT CRAP AND THE REASON WE ALL CONTINUE TO ENDURE ITS EXISTENCE?!?!?!?!?!?!
(I promise you. We'll all work together to get you the help you so desperately need.....😛)
I'm 55 so I' remember most those candies, and now I want them.
The pop rocks, sugar cool aid straws, and the eatable dipping stick with the side packet bring me vivid memories. Also missing here, is the pez dispensers that came all the popular characters that dispensed multi flavored sugar tablets. Great times back then.
I'll be 59 in another month, and believe it or not, I STILL enjoy every single one of these (Five Below usually carries them). My wife bought me a bag of candy necklaces the other day, in fact. Chuckles are my favorite, however (LOVE the black one).
My dad worked next to the Necco factory in Revere, Massachusetts. They always made the Valentines candy that we all grew up and loved.
And I was allowed to take Neccos to church. I had to hide the powdered sugar using a Kleenex or handkerchief but I could slip them in my mouth during the sermons.
Black jack/clove are my favorite old candy!!!!!!
Marathon bar was one of my all time faves from 70’s/80’s.
I remember O Henry candy bars from the 60's.
My favorites were always Sugar Babies and Zotz. I also love Quicksand gum. It was a powder that came in a pouch like Poprocks, but it turned into a gum the more you chewed it. I'd love to try it again.
I was surprised they didn't have the wax bottles in there. You drank the fruit flavored liquid out and chewed the wax bottle. You also chew on the wax lips like gum.😁
I remember those.
7:02 "you may want to get a prenup before taking the plunge."
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Very honorable mentions: SweeTarts, Yipes! Stripes! Sour Bites!, Regal Crown Sour Candy, Chick-O-Stick, Nik-L-Nip, Lemon Head, Spree, El Bubble Bubble Gum Cigars, Wacky Wafers and Bottle Caps. Love all of these!
This was an awesome video; I was born in 1968, and I will be ordering a box. lol So awesome seeing my favorite candies again. Great Video keep them coming...
I like the new format. I remember eating all of those candies. Very fun video brought back many memories.
The last time I saw a bubblegum "tobacco" product was in 1997, when I saw blue or pink bubblegum cigars to celebrate a new baby.
Charleston Chew used to be a long bar. When you froze it, you slammed into pieces.
Razzles! It's a gum! It's a candy!
Candy from my past:
Mary Jane (chewy peanut butter?)
Good 'n' Plenty (pink licorice jelly beans )
Good 'n' Fruity (I don't remember the texture)
Fruit Stripe Gum
Charleston Chew is still made in a longer version, but this was the Charleston Chew Mini variety
Missing from your box is all the GOOD stuff. Marathon Bar, Nestle Chunky Raisin and Nut, Wax Coke Bottles, Chick O Stick, Big Chew Bubble Gum, Bit-O-Honey, Now or laters, etc etc And yes, you can still get the Marathon bar, from the UK, it's under a different name now, and it's smaller than it was when we were kids. Also, you REALLY needed a Nehi Grape and Strawberry glass bottle sodas to wash all that down with. I was a kid in the early to mid and late 1970s. I'm 56. I remember all of those candies I mentioned, and some of yours, very well. My Little Brother Mark, RIP, would bust our tails to collect pop bottles to buy candy.
I'm with you. I used to live on 10 cent Chick-O-Sticks at the municipal pool all summer. 😂
I look forward to James' next video "What brand insulin yields the best results?"
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Too funny 😂
Eating sugar does not cause diabetes.
Could also have a showdown amongst the various oral medications~
@@BostonEsqLet's just say it won't help your odds, either. 😂
Dr Pepper gum from the 80s shaped like little bottles were the best gum ever made.
Yes!! That was amazing!
This is what I remember from the 60’s. Squirrel nuts, Mary Janes, atomic fireballs, jaw breakers, sugar mamma, rock candy (crystallized sugar on a string), Whoppers, shaped wax soda bottles with flavored water, Chicklets, Boston baked beans, Goobers, bubble gum that was about a foot long, bit o honey, good and fruity, good and plenty.
Good 'n Fruity!! Yum! Were Atomic Fireballs the ones that had the layers, hot and then not? I couldn't remember what those were called but that may be it.
That was awesome seeing some of the Candies way back in the 60’s.
Brought back lots of great memories.
Born in 1958, and I remember most of these. Your reviews were spot on.
74 here. I remember the candies you’ve got there. My favorite was the Clark bar. Loved them.
I remember Arsenio Hall telling Richard Simmons his Clark Bar was showing. 😂
WOW what a fun, Gen X trip down memory lane! I hated those gum drop candy and the Chuckles ew lol also Blackjack gum is gross. Necco wafers are just chalky discs 😂. I've got to try those long boy coconut things that looks delicious! Oh man. Now I need a trip to this giant candy store we have in Cleveland that has all kind of candy you can imagine ❤
Would have been fun if Brandon joined you for the taste test. Would be cool to hear his thoughts on these vintage candies
Pretty sure he recently said Brandon was in a different city now. That probably limits collaboration.
@@LatitudeSky oh okay
I still love Necco wafers, hard to find. They actually went under but shortly after they were bought by another company (last 3 years) and so they were not available for a few months
I still buy the all chocolate Necco Wafer rolls at a couple of stores near me.
CVS has them at the front counter.
My dollar general sells them.
@@henriettavanderfloof8104 We don't have dollar generals around here but I have occasionally found them at Dollar Tree but when I do there is usually like 1-2 rolls left otherwise I would buy the whole box as I doubt they go bad easily.
Necco wafers made great targets for our pellet guns. I remember picking out the black licorice ones to save for eating.
Just starting ... SO EXCITED! We bought our nickel candy at the corner store ... so much fun! I still by necco wafers and sugar babies :) Great reviews! Favorite were the pop rocks ... This is a GREAT REVIEW! Thank you!
I loved the old candies 🍬 I remember 99% of those. Pop Rocks are awesome!! I Loved bubblegum cigarettes!!!
This is awesome. I've been wanting to order that box. We got one for Hubby's Dad years ago, and it was a lot of fun to see him remembering things from his childhood, and the rest of the family's reaction to it all! Thanks for getting the box! Esp since were nearly the same age and born in '68.
I remember a lot of these! The moment I saw that candy necklace, I could taste the rubbery/latex of the string covered in sugar all over again. Some things just never leave you 😂
1959 here. I loved the sugar babies and the sugar daddys, there was another one called the slow poke. We got to pick out one candy bar every week at the grocery store. I would get in a rut, buying the same Reeces or whatever for a while. I don’t remember a lot of what you showed. The candy necklace, I could wear that for days! 😂 All over my sweaty little neck. Loved the pimple candy, zotzes. Spelling I know.
I've had several of those. I gave a visiting aunt a zotz once just to see her reaction when I told her to bite into it. It was hilarious.
Loving this video!!!!!!
Me too!😂
Cracked me up.
I use the word nougat every year in december. Quite popular for Christmas treats.
I was born in 1968 too. Turkish Taffy was something I considered "old" candy, and even then it was stuck to both the wrapper and the cardboard in the 70's. So nothing's changed there nor with the Sugar Daddy which also EVERY SINGLE ONE got caught in the wrapper. Bad design that never got better--it's still available now and last I tried pre-Covid had the same issue. Sugar Daddies were my favorite of the family though Sugar Mamas had the chocolate dip to them. The candy cigarettes were something I grabbed frequently, and for the gum version I too poofed the smoke to look like my parents. Thank you for the definition of Nougat. I didn't know it had nuts in it in the Charleston Chew! I knew Snickers had nuts but didn't realize it was nougat that was also a danger to me (Nut allergy? 70's? 80s? Suck it up). Cow tales remain one of my favorite. They come in chocolate, vanilla (Goetz bullseye version were/are a favorite candy for me), and caramel apple. :) Used to be 2/a buck when my kids were a bit younger. Now they're more expensive like everyone else. And Chuckles were also a fun candy to receive at Halloween. So many candies, so many memories. And I think they've revised so many of these recipes for this remake--they look weird. So just hand me your Neccos and I'll run away! I was allowed to eat those at church!
My mother worked at the Necco candy factory in Cambridge MA in 1956-58. It was wonderful because the workers could buy the "seconds" that weren't perfect. The chocolate covered orange creams were my favorite and I still love them. Never cared for the wafers though.
Nostalgia overload!!! I LOVED this review. So many old memories came flooding back! I'm buying this for a sibling of mine. What a great gift this will make! The candy cigarettes were my favorite. I felt so grown up blowing that candy sugared smoke.
1968 woo hoo! Oh those wax lips at Halloween were the bomb 💣 and the little wax pop bottles filled with a colored liquid 🤪 Thanks for the sweet trip down memory lane James
Lol the wax bottles, I remember those well haha. Loved them.
I am even older than you and used to love some of those candies. There are candies I didn’t see like those sweet liquid filled wax shapes - mostly soda pop bottles or cylinders like straws. They’re pretty terrible. They used to make lots more wax shapes including a set of pan pipes. They’re pretty terrible, but because my dad was diabetic, any time we got that stuff was a real occasion because he didn’t allow it in the house. I used to think he was really mean and didn’t like sweets, but found out eventually that it was because he loved sweets and couldn’t stop himself. Poor Daddy.
They used to make lots a good chocolate stuff too, that wasn’t included.
Those random candies are grandma candies! Everyone’s grandma had those in a bowl on her coffee table.
Yes, the little wax soda bottles with liquid in them, I definitely remember. They also made vampire wax lips.
I remember the candy cigarettes but they were chocolate. Thanks for fun video
Chocolate ones were on rare special occasions...besides they melted too fast but sure we're real good!!!!
The red lips… not sure it’s just because I’m a female, but I loved these! Cuz they made my thin lips full and voluminous, plus I read a comment about how to enjoy it. Back in the 60s you never wasted anything!! We chewed and spit out the chewed up pieces!! Btw I haven had a great belly laugh in a while!!!! I’m tears.. by you funny comments!!😊
unexpectedly enjoyable to watch
Great video that took me down memory lane. I've had many of these and enjoyed them. Abba Zabba, Sugar Babies, Pixie Sticks, Charleston Chew. Still enjoy them today. I haven't seen the various gums, Black Jack & Clove come to mind. They forgot to add JuJu Bees. They were smaller than Dots. Snow Caps were another favorite sold at the movie theatre. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
The red lips… not sure it’s just because I’m a female, but I loved these! Cuz they made my thin lips full and voluminous, plus I read a comment about how to enjoy it. Back in the 60s you never wasted anything!! We chewed and spit out the chewed up pieces!! Btw I haven had a great belly laugh in a while!!!! I’m tears.. by your funny commentary 😂😂😂😂
So much nostalgia! Should have included Lemonheads and Boston baked beans with the Hot Tamales. I remember using Now and Laters to pull loose teeth. It's a good thing we all rode bikes to get rid of the excess sugar.
The one Cow Tales used to be a different name in the 50's and small pieces. My favorite candy.😊
I’m 62 and remember a lot of these candies. They have a candy store my husband and I go to in Maine called “ yummies candies & Nuts “. They carry all the nostalgia candies 👍🏻
We have a candy store in Chandler Arizona called "Sweet Candy of Arizona". It is almost 13,00 square feet of candy.
I was also born in '68. Great memories here. Thank you!
Bringing back a lot of memories...the candy cigarettes...I can remember being given 50 cents to go to the corner market and get candy..those were always a favorite...lol
I'm a late boomer (early 1960s) and I remember most of these! I never saw the Broadway roll or the Long Boy either - maybe those were regional. My favorites out of these were the Charleston Chew, Pixy Stix, Zotz, Pop Rocks and Hot Tamales.
1974 kid here. I remember a lot of these from Halloween. I loved Fun Dip mainly for the stick, but the grape flavor was good. I think my absolute favorite was the candy cigarettes. Such wonderful memories of the times I shared with my brother who passed away when he was 18 from cancer.
Wow, this really brought me back to my childhood. I do remember quite a few of those candies. Loved the video.
lol this video took me back. I remember having both candy and gum cigarettes. Anytime I see Now & Laters I look for the pineapple ones. Man this was a fun video for me thank you.
Loved your reaction to many of these!😂. I’m from the late 1950s so I was at the perfect age for these. I didn’t chew many of them. I preferred to let them melt in my mouth. Had the chewing gum cigarettes but never knew you could blow out the sugar. Tasted good on the gum anyway. They had the chocolate cigarettes, too, that used to start to melt the longer you handled them. What was missing were the huge jawbreakers that barely fit in your mouth. 😊❤☀️
This is so funny. We were just talking to my child about candy from back in the day and some were those you are showing and some I never ate or saw before. I am older than you and remember the candy store with jars and bins and we filled our bag for a nickel. Those candy cigarettes are different than I remember ours was a sugar stick with pink color on the tip. This was a fun video
I noticed that, too. The ones I had as a kid had a pink filter painted on the end.😊
They missed good n plenty and bottle caps , glad I only watched you with those 😊
This is my favorite episode! ❤
That second candy cigarette is the one I remember. When we spent a couple of weeks with my grandmother in Groton Long Point, CT we’d walk up to the little store and buy them. 😁 Never thought anything about it. They were just another candy.
I love Necco wafers. I don't get much of those candies anymore but man I could go through a necco wafer pack while watching some movies or tv shows.
I really love your videos they keep me 😂. Informative and comedic ❤
Great video we need more on this channel ❤ keep up the good work!
"Oddly Satisfying" is one of your favorite phrases, in case you don't know. Love your channel.
I swear in the 90s sugar daddy was my favourite Halloween candy to get trick or treating!! I couldn’t remember what it was, I was so young. Now I need to eat one
Candy cigs....prob the best candy gum product ever back in the day. We all could be just like dad. Good times!
Mallo Cups, Skybar, ice cube chocolates, cherry mash, bazooka bubblegum, boston baked beans, circus peanuts and teaberry gum.. peach blossoms at christmas (nothing peach about them and actually had peanut butter in the center) and the fake chocolate liquor bottles wrapped in foil
Those ice cube chocolates... I loved those. Was always a treat getting to enjoy one of those; felt like luxury!
@ you can still buy them where i live!
Absolutely loved the Cherry Mash but they are hard to find in most areas of the country.
@ i cant get them locally anymore so once a year i splurge and buy a few online
Born in 1968 too. I remember almost all of these. Including those little hard candies you didn't bother with. If I remember correctly, the strawberry one had a gooey center.
Was born in 95. I definitely remember eating pixie sticks, fun dip and now & laters . Haven't had any of them in decades though.
Now & laters used to be 2 for 25 cents. Then were super popular back in my childhood
Necco wafers!!❤️ they are definitely different flavors.
I buy NECCO Wafers by the case and keep them on my desk at home and work. My favorite candies at the moment.
Absolutely love this channel!!! Hilarious!! I remember all these as a kid!!❤❤❤
What a nostalgic surprise this video was! I'm a few years younger than you, but I do remember several of these. Some I've never heard of, but that may be because we lived all over the world growing up, so I ate a lot of Korean, German and Italian sweets, and the Commissary was a bit limited on American candy, carrying mainly the big ones like Reese's, Snickers etc. I absolutely love Clove Gum, but...the flavor doesn't last very long 😑 A good place to buy vintage candies is in the Cracker Barrel Gift Shop 🍬🍭 Also there's a store called Rocket Candy or something that sells hundreds of sodas and quite a lot of vintage candies too. I really loved Pop Rocks and the Cinnamon ones, what are they called again? I hated the candy necklaces because my neck would get stained & sticky, as well as my shirts 👕 making extra laundry work for my mom! Thanks for this video, James! (Oh, the most hated candy 🍬 amongst all my friends was Bit O' Honey...was that out in the 70s?)
The orange fluffy marshmallow Circus peanut-shaped banana flavor candy. That was one of my favorites.
I still to this day adore those. Always love grabbing a few when I see them at the store; take me right back to sleepovers with the grandparents. ;)
Zotz are my favorite!!!!!
Rad to know we were born in the same year! Love this video. These candies are so nostalgic and brought me straight back to the carefree days of the 70s. Thanks man. RUSH ON.
I've got 10 years on you James. Some of those bring back memories, some I've never heard of. Two that you missed that were my favorites back in the day were the Black Cow (like a chocolate covered Sugar Daddy) and the 7Up bar (a chocolate bar with seven segments that each were a different flavor or filling like fudge, coconut, butterscotch caramel, buttercream, Brazil nut, cherry cream, and orange jelly).
Yay! I was born in 1968 too. What a wonderful year! My favorite candies were abbazabas And Rocky road. The best. Thank you so much for your videos.
Talk about nostalgia! Thanks 👍🤩
You had me cracking up throughout the whole video! 🤣🤣🤣
I love Charleston Chews especially the strawberry ones. They're actually really good in the frozen. Also Whitman's chocolate box just the box not even the chocolate I just remember the box because that's where my grandparents hid their money at 😂😂
O wow! Blast from the past! Great idea. They will probably not be around for much longer due to the new look at food dyes
8:41 I remember eating these at church. My grandmother would give them to me.😅
Used to get fun dips from the ice cream truck that used to come through my neighborhood during hte summer when I was a kid. I'd get a fun dip, whatever ice cream and a balsa wood glider. That glider would promptly end up on the second story roof. lol
That Turkish Taffy must have been stale. I used to love it, especially the chocolate one. They've always been a little hard to unwrap, but not THAT bad. And I don't remember the gum candy cigarettes but was relieved to see you also got a box of the kind I had.
In australia we had candy cigarettes and they were called 'FAGS', wonder why they dont sell em anymore,ha.
The trick to getting Turkish Taffy to shatter was to put them in the freezer for a few minutes before slapping them on a flat surface.
@@60gregma Yep! But he was having the problem with unwrapping it, and the only times I remember it being that hard to unwrap was if it was stale!
I remember BB Bats too.
Oh yea! BB Bats!
Hot Tamales, Cherry Fun Dip, Sugar Babies ,and Sugar Daddy were my favorites