Favorite Penny Candy?

Favorite penny candy

  • Hershey Kisses

    Votes: 6 16.2%
  • Tootsie Roll

    Votes: 3 8.1%
  • Mary Jane

    Votes: 2 5.4%
  • Bit-O-Honey

    Votes: 1 2.7%
  • Caramel Creams

    Votes: 3 8.1%
  • Peanut Butter Bars

    Votes: 3 8.1%
  • Root Beer Barrels

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Smarties

    Votes: 3 8.1%
  • Squirrel Nut Caramels/Zippers

    Votes: 1 2.7%
  • Necco Chews

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Jolly Rancher

    Votes: 11 29.7%
  • Alberts Fruit Chews

    Votes: 1 2.7%
  • Brach's Sundaes Neapolitan Coconut

    Votes: 1 2.7%
  • Atomic Fireball/Jawbreakers

    Votes: 1 2.7%
  • Bazooka/Dubble Bubble

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • Total voters
    37

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What is your favorite 'penny' (individually wrapped) candy from back in the day?

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Hershey's Kisses (stylized as "KISSES") is a brand of chocolate first produced by the Hershey Company in 1907. The bite-sized pieces of chocolate have a distinctive conical shape, sometimes described as flat-bottomed teardrops. Hershey's Kisses chocolates are wrapped in squares of lightweight aluminum foil. A narrow strip of paper (called a plume) sticks out from the top of each Hershey's Kiss wrapper.

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Tootsie Roll is a mildly chocolate-flavored taffy-like candy that has been manufactured in the United States since 1907. The candy has qualities similar to both caramels and taffy without being exactly either confection.[1] The manufacturer, Tootsie Roll Industries, is based in Chicago, Illinois. It was the first penny candy to be individually wrapped in America.

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Mary Jane is an old-fashioned peanut butter- and molasses-flavored taffy-type candy. Originally made in 1914 by the Charles N. Miller Company and later by Stark Candy Company,[1] it was later manufactured by Necco.[1] Charles Miller named the candy after his favorite aunt, Mary Jane, and it has featured the same "little girl" illustration on its wrappers since its inception.

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Bit-O-Honey is an American candy product; it first appeared in 1924 and was made by the Schutter-Johnson Company of Chicago, Illinois. Both a large bar and a small, bite-sized version are available for sale, the latter in bags of multiple units.

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Caramel Creams (also known as Bull's Eyes), a soft chewy caramel with cream filling in the center.[1] Each individual candy is typically packaged in a clear wrapper and twisted at two red and white ends.

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They’re crunchy, they’re crispy, they’re almost flaky and they’re truly addictive. Our Peanut Butter Bars are perfect if you love peanut butter in a portable snack.


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Root Beer Barrels are hard, root beer flavored candies in the shape of a barrel

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Brach's Sundaes Neapolitan Coconut

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Smarties are a type of tablet candy produced by Smarties Candy Company, One individual candy is a biconcave disc in shape, with a diameter of roughly 1 cm (0.39 in) and a height of roughly 4 mm (0.16 in). Larger ones have a diameter of 2.5 cm (0.98 in) and are about 6 mm (0.24 in) thick. Smarties come in combinations of colors within their wrapped rolls; these include white and pastel shades of yellow, pink, orange, purple, and green.[10] Each color's flavor is different. They are usually packaged as a roll of 15 candies.

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Squirrel Nut Caramels (chocolate flavored) and Squirrel Nut Zippers (vanilla flavored) were chewy caramel candy mixed with peanuts.

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Necco Chews: Strawberry Shortcake, Mint Julep, Banana Split


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Atomic Fireball: A round, cinnamon-flavored hard candy invented by Nello Ferrara (1918–2012) in 1954
Jawbreakers are a type of hard candy. They are usually round, and usually range from 1 to 3 cm (0.4 to 1.2 in) across

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Dubble Bubble is a brand of pink-colored bubble gum invented by Walter Diemer, an accountant at Philadelphia-based Fleer Chewing Gum Company in 1928.
Bazooka is a brand of bubble gum introduced in 1947. [1] It is a product of Bazooka Candy Brand, a division of The Topps Company Inc.

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Jolly Rancher is an American brand of sweet, somewhat tangy or sour/sweet hard candy .

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Alberts Fruit Chews bite sized chewy taffy come individually wrapped. Choose from the following flavors: Assorted, Banana, Green Apple, Strawberry, Wild Cherry, Black Cherry, Peach, Blue Raspberry, Ice Cream, Watermelon, or Pink Lemonade.
 
I remember as a kid going up to NJ. The selection of candy in the corner stores were a lot better than in Miami.

  • Coconut long boys
  • Mike and Ikes
  • Chico sticks
  • Big Bols

Use to like Atomic fireballs but after a kid we knew almost died choking. They got banned in our house.
 
Now&laters
Big blows
Airhead
Crybabies
Sugardaddies
Bubblegum cigarattes
Jingles
Nerds
Lawbreakers
Dum dums
Blue blowpops. This was my childhood
 
Hard to pick just one

fireballs, bit o honey, Mary Jane, jolly ranchers, squirrel nut

...but bazooka gum and tootsie rolls are trash
 
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