What were some of the best candies that are no longer being sold?

Mother’s Iced raisin cookies.
I could polish off a whole bag in one sitting.

I have fond memories of the “Penny Dainty”. It came individually wrapped in a twist of green and white paper and was, in my earliest memories of it, too big to fit in my mouth. We used to bash it against the kerb of the pavement to break it in two or more often to shatter it into splinters of toffee so we could eat it or share it.

^^ And that reminds me of Turkish Taffy bars and Sugar Daddy caramel pops on a stick that were both very likely to break your teeth if you bit in to them too hard. Both so sweet and good though.

Do they still make Bazooka bubble gum? It was wrapped in a little comic strip. I haven’t chewed bubble gum nor blown a bubble in decades. I wonder if I could.

@flutherother Ahh yeah I looked it up. I like all that kind off candy like @janbb mentioned but I have such an urge to chew that I just can’t eat that stuff. Feels like it’s pulling your teeth off if you get it stuck.

@Hawaii_Jake yeah, they still make it. Comic strips included. It’s one of my favorites for sure. What’s that gum called that has the fake tattoos in the rapper? It’s really good but the flavor goes away extremely fast. I forgot about it.

@Austin_ I vaguely remember that kind of gum. I remember getting fake tattoos from the little machines at the front of the grocery store that you put a coin in.

Some old-timey candies that you thought were obsolete are available through the Vermont Country Store. You can order online.

Alas, no more licorice whips, though. Those were among my favorites.

@Jeruba I started a Christmas tradition of my own of ordering treats from the Vermont Country Store. I open the box on Christmas morning.

@janbb, I have been to the Vermont Country Store! I’d been their customer for so long that when I got there I just wanted to spread my arms and shout, “I’m here!” I’ve bought a lot of stuff from them over the years, but it started with Vermont maple syrup. My Vermont cousins made their own, and when I was a kid we got a fresh gallon every year, which we treated like liquid gold. When I moved out, I needed a source, and they were it.

I like your Christmas tradition. Great idea.

Marathon Bar that wasn’t really a bar. It was a caramel crisscrossed rope with a chocolate covering.

@Jeruba There’s a country store in Shelburne, is that the one you’re talking about? It’s been a continually running store since 1859, and the wooden floors squeak – love that! I grew up in Vermont – South Burlington and then Shelburne. My sister was born at Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington, and my dad was Dean of Engineering at UVM.

@anniereborn The Marathon bar has been reborn (ha) as the Curly Wurly bar and you can buy them here:

https://www.oldtimecandy.com/collections/walk-the-candy-aisle-curly-wurly-marathon-bar

@janbb @anniereborn In the UK at least the Marathon Bar has for long been branded as Snickers. It is quite different from the Curlywurly. Both are available on the oldtimecandy site.

@flutherother We’ve always had a bar called Snickers here that is like what you call a Mars bar but with peanuts. A Mars bar is called a Milky Way here. My favorite UK candy bar is a Picnic but there isn’t really an equivalent to that here. I did find a couple last week at a “Taste of Britain” shop. (And some Red Leicester which is one of my favorite cheeses.)

@janbb I found this on Wikipedia:

In 1930, Mars introduced Snickers, named after the favorite horse of the Mars family. The Snickers chocolate bar consists of nougat, peanuts, and caramel with a chocolate coating. The bar was marketed under the name “Marathon” in the UK and Ireland until 1990, when Mars decided to align the UK product with the global Snickers name (Mars had marketed and discontinued an unrelated bar named Marathon in the United States during the 1970s which was similar to the UK’s Curly Wurly).

Divided by a common tongue, as they say!

I loved Butter Nut bars by Hollywood. If I recall they had nor caramel and were not as sweet as Snickers.