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Well you made it to Friday!  I don't know where y'all are but unless you were near Glacier National Park that got snow this week, you were probably boiling in your own pudding to quote Charles Dickens.  I do not dig 90 degrees by noon and it feels like everything is frying left and right including us.  Most of the week I had the 50% shade cloths on the veggies to attempt to save as much as I can.  I need to get the next batch of lettuce in the shade planter to see if I can successfully grow there over the summer since it never gets direct sun.  I told the Mr the other day I feel like nothing is in the right place back there.  I have a lot of containers and I don't know if I need to put some of them on a little ledge since the 5 gallon buckets take up so much room or not.  The zinnias being in a long planter on the fence were a mistake but they were only put there because I had so many extras and didn't want to chuck them.  I have a few struggling...

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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