Do they still make Sixlets? I used to get those all the time when I would go to Disneyland as a kid.
Do they still make Sixlets? I used to get those all the time when I would go to Disneyland as a kid.
Were those the little Skittles shaped things except they were choclate and a hard candy coating?
[reply]Do they still make Sixlets? I used to get those all the time when I would go to Disneyland as a kid.
Were those the little Skittles shaped things except they were choclate and a hard candy coating?[/reply]
They’re small round balls, but yeah, chocolate with a candy shell. I see 'em around still. I was never too into 'em. They always struck me as a poor man’s M&M.
Sixlets have more of a sweet candy taste to em. M&M’s are a bit more on the chocolate side. Whatever your preference is I guess.
The biggest pain in the ass candy were those little dots they used to put on paper…and you would pull them off and the paper would always stick to the fucking candy…they used to sell those bastards at Farrell’s!!! I hated those things…
Candy buttons. Yeah, those suck. A damn sheet of dried frosting dots (and yes, you’d eat just as much paper as candy). Total waste.
or remember the little wax bottles with the strange candy flavored mystery juice in them…you had to bite off the nasty wax to get to the juice…weird shit…
The wax soda bottles are kind of fun, but really not that great overall. Fun for the novelty. Plus if you’re bored you can chew the wax too.
The “Olde Fashioned” taffy is crap too. Thin as a sheet of paper, and again, you’ll be eating the paper along with it. Lame.
Sixlets have more of a sweet candy taste to em. M&M’s are a bit more on the chocolate side. Whatever your preference is I guess.
Yeah, they’re sweeter. I think it’s more of a fudge taste. They’re not bad, and I’ll certainly eat them if the choice is between them and a piece of fruit or them and no candy at all.
The one I was thinking of the other day and hadn’t seen in ages is DINOSOUR EGGS. They were by Willy Wonka and sort of like a Gobstopper but shaped like little eggs and with a dinosaur on the package so it was of course that much more awesome. Anyone seen these lately?
Oh yeah the Olde Fashioned candy was such a pain in the ass with the wax paper…I would usually get frustrated and just throw the taffy in the goddamn garbage…
Those chocolate pennies were ball busters too…by the time you peeled off the aluminum wrapping you had chocolate all over your fingers…
How about the candy necklaces?Pretty sweet if it’s a cute rave chick wearing it around…not so much when it’s a big sweaty meathead…
Bubble gum cigarettes were the shit too…I always got the ones with the Lucky Strike spoof packaging…
I forgot about the Dinosaur Eggs…holy shit…
One thing that got me excited this weekend was when I was at Target I found that original FOUR-FLAVOR MAMBA packs (orange, lemon, strawberry, raspberry). I don’t know if this is a limited edition or if they have finally corrected this great sin of the last 20 years ago.
When I was a kid you’d get all four flavors (there were four individual flavor smaller packs within the large bar package). Then sometime around '92 or so they would only give your three flavors . . . . but it was random distribution, so you had only a 25% chance of getting your top three flavors. And besides, it’s lame to have to give up one of the flavors anyway.
I’ll be monitoring this situation . . . .
One thing that got me excited this weekend was when I was at Target I found that original FOUR-FLAVOR MAMBA packs (orange, lemon, strawberry, raspberry). I don’t know if this is a limited edition or if they have finally corrected this great sin of the last 20 years ago.
When I was a kid you’d get all four flavors (there were four individual flavor smaller packs within the large bar package). Then sometime around '92 or so they would only give your three flavors . . . . but it was random distribution, so you had only a 25% chance of getting your top three flavors. And besides, it’s lame to have to give up one of the flavors anyway.
I’ll be monitoring this situation . . . .
Are those the sticks you dip in the flavored sugar?
Oh wait,Mamba’s were the fruit chew thingys, right?
How about the candy necklaces?Pretty sweet if it’s a cute rave chick wearing it around…not so much when it’s a big sweaty meathead…
HAHA!!! Yeah, I’m actually fully opposed to candy jewelry of almost all forms (necklaces, Ring Pops, etc). Gross kids sucking on that crap with saliva soaked chokers on their necks. Or walking around with that big hard candy ruby on their finger, bumping into everything and feeling the need to SHOW everyone their spit covered jewel.
Bubble gum cigarettes were the shit too…I always got the ones with the Lucky Strike spoof packaging…
The really kick ass ones came loosely wrapped in the cigarrette paper and had a really fine sugar powder laced within so you could blow on the end and sort of make it look like a smoke coming out. HELL YEAH!!!
Candy cigarettes of any kind (gum, chocolate, or the original chalk-like ones) are pretty scarce. These too are limited to novelty shops. I don’t know if there’s any actual legislation against them, but it’s just not PC for the major markets to carry candy cigarrettes anymore. Pink Owl Bubblegum Cigars fall into the same category of course.
Are those the sticks you dip in the flavored sugar?
No. You’re thinking of FUN DIP, or LIK-M-AID that came with the chalk wafer bat and the powder packs.
Mambas are fruit chews. Kind of a creamier version of Starburst. I always liked molding the candy into people and/or creatures when I was bored in science class.
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How about the candy necklaces?Pretty sweet if it’s a cute rave chick wearing it around…not so much when it’s a big sweaty meathead…
HAHA!!! Yeah, I’m actually fully opposed to candy jewelry of almost all forms (necklaces, Ring Pops, etc). Gross kids sucking on that crap with saliva soaked chokers on their necks. Or walking around with that big hard candy ruby on their finger, bumping into everything and feeling the need to SHOW everyone their spit covered jewel.
Bubble gum cigarettes were the shit too…I always got the ones with the Lucky Strike spoof packaging…
The really kick ass ones came loosely wrapped in the cigarrette paper and had a really fine sugar powder laced within so you could blow on the end and sort of make it look like a smoke coming out. HELL YEAH!!!
Candy cigarettes of any kind (gum, chocolate, or the original chalk-like ones) are pretty scarce. These too are limited to novelty shops. I don’t know if there’s any actual legislation against them, but it’s just not PC for the major markets to carry candy cigarrettes anymore. Pink Owl Bubblegum Cigars fall into the same category of course.[/reply]
Yeah,they sold the loosely wrapped one’s around here and I always loved blowing out the smoke…so great growing up in less PC times…Wow dude,the Pink Owl’s…holy shit!!!Another one I had long forgotten…
I’m fiending candy now like a wild beast. I’m gonna stock up on my lunch hour.
[reply]Are those the sticks you dip in the flavored sugar?
No. You’re thinking of FUN DIP, or LIK-M-AID that came with the chalk wafer bat and the powder packs.
Mambas are fruit chews. Kind of a creamier version of Starburst. I always liked molding the candy into people and/or creatures when I was bored in science class.[/reply]
Right of course!!! How could I forget Fun Dip and Lik-M-Aid…Those fuckers kept kids wired all day…straight up sugar rush just like the old Pixie Stix…
Yeah,Mambo’s…I never see those…
Remember Fruity Stripe bubble gum…the flavors were awesome but only lasted about 20 seconds hahaha…and then you were just chewing blandness…
I’m fiending candy now like a wild beast. I’m gonna stock up on my lunch hour.
Yeah dude,I’m jonesin my ass off now…
20 seconds is being pretty generous for Fruit Stripe. 5 seconds was more like it, haha!
“Oh, damn! This gum is delicious! What a great taste of . . . wait, where’d it go? What the heck just happened? Gimme another piece!”
The mascot was totally badass too. A crazy, rainbow striped, homosexual, pscyhotic zebra.
20 seconds is being pretty generous for Fruit Stripe. 5 seconds was more like it, haha!
“Oh, damn! This gum is delicious! What a great taste of . . . wait, where’d it go? What the heck just happened? Gimme another piece!”
The mascot was totally badass too. A crazy, rainbow striped, homosexual, pscyhotic zebra.
Accurate description of the mascot…loved that son of a bitch…yeah that gum had zero staying power…
Gatorgum was like that also…you would get that rush of sourness and the nothing…
The gum that came with baseball cards was the worst…
The Fruite Stripe mascot was named ‘Yipes’,by the way…
Gatorgum was like that also…you would get that rush of sourness and the nothing…
The gum that came with baseball cards was the worst…
Oh, damn! Gatorgum was amazing! Probably been about 8 years since I’ve had it but I’d occasionally come across it at sporting goods stores.
And baseball gum was more like a fragile ceramic strip lightly dusted with some powdered sugar. May as well be putting razor blades in your mouth.