In North America, trick-or-treating has been a Halloween tradition since the late 1940s. According to USA Today, about 4 percent of all candy consumed in this country occurs on that one day. What candy were you most excited to see in the bottom of your pillowcase or pumpkin bucket on Halloween? Are you a child of the ‘70s who enjoyed Bottle Caps and bubble gum cigars, or a child of the 90s who liked Big League Chew and Warheads? Share your favorite candy on today’s Hopkins Happenings “Throwback Thursday.”
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Any chocolate bar or Bazooka bubble gum with a comic inside!
smarties!!!!!! I just love them!
Red Shoe Strings...hands down!
Twix
Peanut Chews—a Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York thing.
Have you seen the signs on 83?!
I have, Cy. I believe their plant is in Philadelphia, but they're definitely claiming Baltimore on one of those signs!
Yes Peanut Chews!!! a facebook group I belong to is talking about throwing a party in 2015 to celebrate Peanut Chews' 100 year anniversary.
Ooooh, this is my favorite subject! I actually a recovering sugar addict! 🙂
I love laffy taffy, skittles, sour patch kids, now and laters, sweet tarts.....the list goes on and on and of course now I'm craving some!
Anything Chocolate really.....but my favorite was Whoppers or Bazooka Joe bubble gum!! yummy.... 🙂
back in the day - Candy cigarette sticks, bubble gum cigarettes that blew out a white powder, sweettarts, Peppermint patties
now - Reese cups, Almond Joys, Goetez
Umf...now, I'm gonna have to get a 25cent box of Boston Bakedbeans from the gift shop 🙂
Oh my goodness, the CANDY CORNS. Remember how you would eat them; you had to eat the small end first, slowly eat the orange part. Heaven!!!!! But sometimes a stomachache later, but well worth it. (lol)
Any house that gave out full sized candy bars. All of the kids in my neighborhood would go there first.
Nestle Crunch Bars...we got the long bars....not the mini size!!!!
Happy Halloween......I left my "flying monkeys" home today! 🙂
Reeses anything and ring pops!
If I could only have one food for the rest of my life
That's easy
Pez
Cherry flavored Pez
No question about it
-- Jerry O'Connell as Vern Tessio
Stand by Me, 1986
I knew this quote instantly. Great movie!
"Back in the day", we would get WHOLE candy bars when Trick r Treating. My favorite was a ZERO BAR, white chocolate and a mysterious filling!
Since I was allergic to chocolate, I have fond memories of pixie-stics and mini red vines.
yeah, Pixie sticks...they would get wet and clogged and you have to tear off the end
Jawbreakers...last forever, and so does your dental problems!
I'm with Cymantha! Reese's anything! White reese's cups, mini reese's, double peanut reese's, reese'e pieces. Jelly beans are a favorite, too. And, I love Bottle Caps! Too many options to enjoy them all this time of year!
Gummy Bears, but, any chewy gooey candy will do 🙂
Three Musketeers bars or Milky Way bars. These were the bewt because they were more expensive then the junk candy.
Swedish Fish - although not a popular Halloween candy. You really can't go wrong with Swedish Fish.
Caramel Creams (Bulls Eyes) allll the way!!!
This is impossible. Who can pick one? Reeses anything. Or black jellybeans. Or pop rocks.