(I love having pretend arguments with myself. No idea why.)
I attribute my slight burst of normal writing methods to the abundance of sugary stuff I received for Easter. I do not attribute any of it to the abundance of emotional hooplah I've been going through that spurred a long, angry, scary scene in WLA at 2AM. Nope. Totally the sugar.
In THAT case, it's only fitting that I pay proper tribute to what I attribute my inspiration. (haha, tribute, attribute...moving on.) Most of the sugary goodness I received took the form of retro-type candy. As I reminisced over the memories of the days of yore, I got very nostalgic. Here are two of my most favoritest nostalgia moments:
Fun Dip!The ultimate in sugar coma fun: a stick of compressed sugar that you dip in loose sugar. But they put SEKRIT magical ingredients in the compressed sugar stick that make it taste like SEKRIT magical vanilla-like compressed sugar. So, in essence, it is magical vanilla-flavored sugar mixed with multi-flavored-fruity sugars. We are the greatest country in the world.
Jelly Belly Jelly Beans!The only candy you can eat a LOT of to make it taste like real food! My personal fave is mixing peanut butter and jelly. Or blueberry and buttered popcorn to make blueberry muffin. Though I must confess to gagging profusely upon consumption of just the buttered popcorn. No. Thank. You.
What are some of your favorite nostalgia-inducing candies?
What are some of your favorite nostalgia-inducing candies?
6 comments:
Jelly Belly I love. I don't think I can ever eat another one, even if my cap can be fixed. Actually the cap on my tooth came off while eating chuckles, which aren't even nearly as good.
I am old enough to remember when Bubble Yum first came out. For real. The flavor of neighborhood-choice was the grape flavored. It was so sugary you could feel it grit in between your teeth when you started to chew it.
It's a wonder all of us aren't toothless adults after the amount of Bubble Yum we chewed that summer.
I love Fun Dip, especially grape! And I actually just bought one of my favorite old-school candies the other day - pixy stix!!! =)
Pixie Sticks! Especially the ginormous ones that are like a foot and a half long.
Also, your post makes me think of the best candy store that I'd visit when I was younger. It's called B.A. Sweetie and it's the biggest candy store in the entire country. It's up in Cleveland, near where I grew up. They just expanded their store too--it's now over 14,000 square feet--and it's all dedicated to candy!
Now I have to fight the urge to get in the car and drive the 3 hours there...
Ring Pops! Cherry ones, to be specific. Man, I loved those things.
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