Candy store memories
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There was a small store near my childhood best friend's house that had a penny candy section. I fondly remember picking out some nutritionally awful but totally delicious (to a kid) treats.
Saw these in a grocery store today and the memories flooded back...
I resisted. Those little sugar beads inside are tooth-breakers.
What were your childhood favorites?
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Sears and Roebuck candy and peanut counter, Coral Gables ... 1960s. I remember it well. The smell of fresh, warm, roasted cashews!
@Piano-Dad said in Candy store memories:
The smell of fresh, warm, roasted cashews!
Oh, boy. Do I ever remember those! Whenever my dad and I went to the Sears on Harlem and North we'd buy a little bag of those cashews. Years later as an adult I used to pop in to the State Street store during my lunch hour. One day I went in and was crushed to learn that they had eliminated the cashew roaster and there were no more to be had. A very sad day....
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Here’s our local old-fashioned candy shop. Goes back decades, used to be in Coney Island. It’s mostly chocolates though. Still worth a visit, and I’m glad it’s there. -
Here’s our local old-fashioned candy shop. Goes back decades, used to be in Coney Island. It’s mostly chocolates though. Still worth a visit, and I’m glad it’s there.@RealPlayer That looks like a wonderful place. I looked at their website and they sure have a lot of goodies!
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@RealPlayer That looks like a wonderful place. I looked at their website and they sure have a lot of goodies!
@wtg Personally, I’m fond of their dark chocolate almond bark!
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There was a small store near my childhood best friend's house that had a penny candy section. I fondly remember picking out some nutritionally awful but totally delicious (to a kid) treats.
Saw these in a grocery store today and the memories flooded back...
I resisted. Those little sugar beads inside are tooth-breakers.
What were your childhood favorites?
@wtg
Flying saucers filled with sherbert omnomnomMy favourites as a kid were called crispets which were also in the shape of a UFO and I'd buy a quarter. Crispy milk chocolate with coconut.
No longer available but I think 'Crispy Bits' made in Scotland are the same.Ventosa viri restabit
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Morrow’s Nut House here at Lloyd Center in Portland, Oregon. Caramel apples, those roasted cashews, candy. The shop is long gone. The mall is dying. It was the largest open air mall in the US when it opened in 1960. They did a big renovation in the 1990s but things have tanked from there. It’s still a good place to walk, for now.
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@wtg
Flying saucers filled with sherbert omnomnomMy favourites as a kid were called crispets which were also in the shape of a UFO and I'd buy a quarter. Crispy milk chocolate with coconut.
No longer available but I think 'Crispy Bits' made in Scotland are the same.@AndyD said in Candy store memories:
My favourites as a kid were called crispets which were also in the shape of a UFO and I'd buy a quarter. Crispy milk chocolate with coconut.
No longer available but I think 'Crispy Bits' made in Scotland are the same.Something like this?
looked like this chocolate but in ufo shape