Hump Day Poll: What Takes YOU Back?
In a world that is spiraling down the toilet ever changing, and sometimes not for the better, there are small things we can do to create little pockets of nostalgia from a simpler time. It's harder and harder to find things from your childhood and if you do, often they aren't the same. (I still lament the death of the taste of Chef Boy Ardee boxed pizza mix. Sigh) But for me, there are a few scents that I can rely on that are still out there. When we were dating, one of my favorite scents was that spray musk and I was tickled to still be able to find it! One spritz of it and I'm ready for a night on the town with the teenaged Mr in his Iroc. I was also happy to find Night Magic from Avon is still available and gives me that same feeling. My friend got it for me last year and with as much as I use it (rarely to never), I'll have it until I'm dust. (I did find the solid perfume compact in a bin and still have it if I want to be truly...
Even though I loved getting them, let's face it the wax teeth were really the biggest letdown once you actually dug in. It really was just minty wax. Nasty!
ReplyDeleteJust about everything in your pic above I would still eat, lol. I honestly liked Good N Plenty but Good N Fruity was even better!
Since I'm in Canada we don't have a lot of those candies or they aren't as popular here. Necco waffers and Good & Plenty don't exist. Smarties are known as rockets here. Smarties are something else entirely, kinda like an M&M. Candy corn and the marshmallow peanuts are not something that is given out on Halloween. Candy corn wasn't even available here in my childhood.
ReplyDeleteSo, to answer your question, the little boxes of raisins and apples were the most disappointing. Rockets and molasses kisses were slow to be eaten, but would eventually disappear.
The allure of candy corn eludes me. It tastes like...corn syrup? Based on the recipe for homemade versions it might be tasty but the way it is mass-produced seems to leach all the good flavor out of it. I don't necessarily love all of the ones pictured but can see where each has it's own flavor, except for candy corn. This post inspire me to do a little google searching which made me giggle. The pro-candy corn comments sounded as if they'd been taken from Gourmet magazine: a blend of creamy fondant and rich marshmallow with hints of butter and vanilla. But I tend towards the less favorable description of it as "the unholy mix of glue and old icing."
ReplyDeleteChocolate was always the best candy in my opinion. Even mediocre chocolate was tasty. Smarties and peanut butter cups are a must in whatever Halloween candy mix I give out.
I like Good N Plenty, but Good N Fruity was far superior -- BUT now the version they have now. They changed it about 10 years ago and it no longer has licorice in the middle and doesn't taste nearly as good. And I used to like the multi-colored circus peanuts (weirdo!!) Not a big fan of the peanut butter kisses or Mary Janes, but would probably like them more now than as a kid. Mounds Bars were gross to me, Smarties were okay, but preferred Sweetarts or Wacky Wafers or Bottle Caps. Probably the worst was the popcorn balls and apples back in the 70s. Or if you were my dad, nickels. Yep, he gave out nickels. Heathen.
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm the weirdo of the group. I liked all of them. Some more than others, sure, but if it had sugar I was happy. We rarely had sweets in the house when I was a kid so even the not so great candy felt like a win. Now, with my own son, I hated when he got those little packs of twizzlers. They're great when they are fresh, but they go stale and turn into rocks really fast.
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