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Hello you sassy beast!  Ready for another flip flappin' fantastic weekend?  Yes indeedy, Ally Sheedy. It's been a week of working ahead for me as I try to work on ideas for holiday posts.  I know, no one is ready for Christmas but spit balling stuff is actually getting me excited for the season.  I like to try to give myself the month of December off from writing new posts (except updating weekly happenings) so all I have to do is respond if needed.  It lets me take a little mental break during the holidays to try to enjoy what I can then hop back into the new year hopefully rested and ready to roll.   We did book our 30th anniversary trip, which is the same one we had to cancel this year and of course got travel insurance.  It's just nice to have something to hopefully look forward to and it makes you go "where the heck did 4 1/2 years go?" because it seems like just yesterday we were celebrating our 25th.  Do people even celebrate their 30t...

Hump Day (Sort of) Holiday Poll


Today is apparently National Candy Day.  You can thank (or curse) France and Britain for bringing it to the US in the 18th century.  We've seen a lot of candy come and go in that time which brings us to today's hump day poll.

What discontinued candy do you miss from childhood?

Mine is the Bubble Burger hamburger gum from the 80's

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It looks totally gross there but back in the day, each gum piece from the bun to burger to lettuce was separate, I probably chewed it for 10 seconds before it lost flavor and spit it out.  Others have tried to replicate something similar, usually in gummi form but it is nowhere near the same.  

Your turn...

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  1. Hot & Cold Nerds. Nerds in general are still around but I loved the opposing flavours of "Hot" and "Cold". I remember that the hot was kinda like a cinnamon heart, but I can't describe the "Cold" flavour.

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  2. Candy cigarettes. The mintish flavored ones. I don't think they are truly discontinued. There are some retro candy outlets where they can be ordered online. But since they are banned from candy stores due to the cigarette association so I'm counting it.

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  3. Most candy you can still get, like Marathon bars are satisfied by Curly Wurly for me. But those gum hamburgers have never made it back and I would love to have one now if only just to prove how good they were and also how quickly the flavor went away.

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  4. Dynamints is the first thing that comes to mind. The BEST cinnamon flavor hands down. Freshen Up Gum, Charms suckers that were flat and wrapped in colored cellophane with polka dots, and the "true" wacky wafers.

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