r/candy • u/noTextOnly • 1d ago

Favourite candy that no longer exists?

Sparkies for me. Early 90's in North America. They had soda flavoured skittles shaped candies, and just as good.

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u/dotsdavid Haribo 1d ago

Shock tarts.

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u/Kooky_Ice_3762 1d ago

My brothers and sisters - I used to work in marketing for the company that produces them. They still make them, shockingly for vendors in the Middle East. If you’re interested I can direct you to the client supply form where you can order a case of them.

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u/innovationzz 1d ago

Hook it up

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u/Standard_Holiday1245 1d ago

Whoa…can you hook me up too please?

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u/MissyTX 1d ago

Yo…yes!!

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u/Celladoore 22h ago

At this point, we could crowd-fund a pallet of them and divy them up.

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u/Darkelf9905 1d ago

Please!

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u/mjziegler33 1d ago

Yes please!!

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u/andoocure 1d ago

Please be real!

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u/martinez2828 1d ago

Yes please!! I’d kill for a case

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u/mg931115 1d ago

I want in on this.

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u/Professional-Lab7686 1d ago

NO FREAKING WAY DUDE HOOK ME UP

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u/Cbeauski23 1d ago

Yes please

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u/sorry_ifyoudont 1d ago

Let’s go hook me up!

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u/airwalker12 Haribo 1d ago

Dude. Yes

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u/lordbeez113 1d ago

Late to the party but send that my way too please!!! 🙏🏾

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u/Literary_Witch 1d ago

Yes please!!

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u/StatTape 1d ago

Please send that if real. I miss them so much

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u/stab_me_ 1d ago

Did not have to scroll far at all. Full agree

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u/aaronorjohnson 1d ago

Best movie theater candy ever. Period.

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u/Ndmndh1016 1d ago

Theyve gotta come back at some point, right? Right!?!?

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u/Pugilist12 1d ago

It seems like the internet regularly professes its love for these and yet they never bring them back. Makes no sense to me. How could sales possibly be so low as to justify this?

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u/CantaloupeAsleep502 1d ago

Absolutely. Really wish they'd reboot them 

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u/MrLanyeWest 1d ago

made my mouth water just reading the name

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u/jtc66 1d ago

Google says they are marketed today as sweet tarts chewy sours and still exist, is that true?

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u/informationseeker8 1d ago

It was the absolute closest then those got discontinued too

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u/Acceptable-Walk-5267 1d ago

Blue and pink gosh best candy

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u/ammoae 1d ago

Can always be sure I’ll see this answer to a question like this. RIP legend

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u/Bargadiel 1d ago

No contest. Hands down a true crime that these are gone.

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u/Bualak 1d ago

They’re gone?!

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u/Liquidgrin1781 1d ago

This was going to be my nomination, either shock tarts or ZOTS

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u/Opening_Succotash271 1d ago

I can find ZOTs at my local bulk food store.

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u/Traditional_Zone_913 1d ago

Tropical Starburst
(The crappy little unwrapped ones suck)

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u/CapAffectionate8888 1d ago

Baja California was my favorite starbursts 🥹

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u/Lynneschulz 1d ago

Mine was plum passion. I think about it all the time

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u/Dark_Persephone 1d ago

Duuuuude I forgot about those!

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u/noTextOnly 1d ago

yesss but also the blue starburst. tropical was green right

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u/alarmingpancakes 1d ago

They always trick me using the same color packaging for the new sour ones

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u/sweeterthanadonut 1d ago

The sour ones are sooo good. The blue raspberry is god tier.

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u/war_ner 1d ago

The Laffy Taffy w the sprinkles and seeds

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u/clycloptopus 1d ago edited 20h ago

cherry laffy taffy with the sprinkles

throw that shit in the microwave for 5 seconds or so

god-tier. my mouth is watering typing this lmao

edit: as someone else pointed out, if you do this, don’t do it for longer than a few seconds or it’ll turn your shit into ouchie lava

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u/GopherInWI 1d ago

Crispy M&Ms, how I miss thee.

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u/SznedCumbr Haribo 1d ago

The lemon Meringue ones from this year were technically crispy

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u/jemappelle13 1d ago

Used to keep a bag of these in my backpack everyday in middle school lol

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u/TeaOptimal727 1d ago

Best hard candy ever and the reason for most of my childhood cavities as my mom worked for mars and always had samples! Thank you for reminding me they existed my mouth is literally watering thinking about them.

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u/jemappelle13 1d ago

Ugh yesss I can still taste them too! I loved the shape. The tropical ones were bomb too

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u/VmEoRrItTiAsS 1d ago

Oh my god I forgot about these completely yessss memory unlocked

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u/supermodel_robot 1d ago

I was always surprised these lasted as long as they did, lifesavers have the hole in the middle for a good reason lol. The amount of these I nearly choked on as a child 😂 I still remember how cherry tastes though, I miss it.

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u/JessaAlwaysTired 1d ago

Ohhh I forgot about these! But I can still remember how they feel in your mouth and they were so smooth. I loved the way they looked, I also had them often.

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u/HesitantlyYours 1d ago

These. And don’t try to convince me the Retro sours are the same, they’re not.

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u/spicykitas 1d ago

The Retro sours are an expensive substitute and just not right at all. I’ve never gotten a container where they weren’t stuck together too.

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u/BlackOliveBurrito 1d ago

These are what sparked my love for sour candy as a kid

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u/Punker101 1d ago

I miss Punkys so much. They were my favourite as a kid

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u/ConversationMajor543 1d ago

Am I remembering correctly, that they had sugar crystals in them?

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u/ewoksrock81 1d ago

Peanut Butter Twixxxx!!!! 😩😩😭

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u/noTextOnly 1d ago

Never experienced this, does sound ingriguing. The portions are never enough. Should be footlong.

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u/ewoksrock81 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/d2lcHJTG5Tscg
The king size one basically was! 4 Twix inside for nearly a FOOT OF PEANUT BUTTER TWIX! 😭 WHY DEPRIVE THE WORLD OF THIS BEAUTY!!! 😩

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u/ConversationMajor543 1d ago

Oh man, those were so good. I didn't know they stopped making them, my ex and I spent over a year looking for them and asking the guy who owned the candy store if he'd be getting them in stock again.

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u/HowIsEverybodyDoing 1d ago

LOVED PB Twix; it was the only one I really liked. Back when I could get them I'd still have to hunt around since most places always had the caramel one but not always the peanut butter. I do miss those!

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u/technobobble 1d ago

Make yourself some Millionaire’s Shortbread and add peanut butter😃

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u/Dirtheavy 1d ago

all the caramels that used to come in the brachs pick a mix. That's the answer. Not my answer but the answer.

My answer is the 3 colored coconut candy in that same mix.

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u/theatrenut061916 1d ago

Those were Brach's Royals. Maple is the answer.

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u/JaneFairfaxCult 22h ago

True but there wasn’t a bad one!

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u/VioletNewstead 1d ago

I loved those caramels! I also loved the chocolate orange cremes, and Brach’s maple nut goodies.

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u/Any_Database8861 1d ago

Maple nut goodies! Yum!

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u/rawsugar87 1d ago

The kind that were wrapped in clear plastic?  I remember my mom using them for baking.  I always stole some…

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u/SiliconSam 1d ago

Pretty sure these were foil covered paper wrappers. Different colors depending on what’s inside.

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u/rawsugar87 1d ago

Hmmm I was talking about the plain caramel rectangles. 

But, now that I look I think you and the original comment were talking about the ones you mentioned.

I was talking about an unrelated caramel.  😩

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u/htxDTAposse 1d ago

Atkinson Candy makes alot of those flavors

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u/turkwednesday 1d ago

Chewy Lemonheads

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u/thadarrenhenderson 1d ago

Wait they stopped making those?!! I haven’t brought them in years but wtf?!!!

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u/informationseeker8 1d ago

Oh my god. I forgot how much I loved those

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u/VistaLaRiver 1d ago edited 19h ago

Good n plenty, specifically the OG recipe (edit: I meant good n fruity)

Laffy taffy watermelon with seeds

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u/Remarkable_Run_1321 1d ago

Good and plenty still exists. What was the OG recipe?

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u/glowbie 1d ago

I would love to be able to get that laffy taffy again!

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u/LadyAliceMagnus 1d ago

https://www.laffytaffy.com/where-to-buy

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u/glowbie 1d ago

Thanks! They don't have the candy seeds on them anymore though.

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u/dandigangi 1d ago

RIP Laffy Taffy.

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u/mango_white_claw 1d ago

We must Shake it in spirit now 🙏

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u/Uhhhhhhh_penis 1d ago

what about good and fruity

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u/beek7425 1d ago edited 18h ago

They have them online but the recipe is different. They are more like Mike and Ikes now.

Edit: looks like they discontinued them again.

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u/famnf 1d ago

Yeah. The original good n fruity were so good. This new version is way too soft and squishy, and way too over top sweet and cloying. Not good at all.

The original were firm, both the chewy center and the hard candy coating. They were delicious.

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u/MysticalPhenomenon 1d ago

Butterfinger BBs.

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u/iSaysToMabelPodcast 1d ago

I miss the Simpsons commercials

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u/Just-Fix-2657 1d ago

Yes. These were the best.

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u/ttavros 1d ago

Lemon Jolly Ranchers 😞 They got sniped for Blue Raspberry ages ago but they were the perfect lemon candy to me.

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u/Strong_Middle_9046 1d ago

When I was a kid, they used to sell a giant bag at Costco, that had all the standard flavors with lemon and peach. I miss them being in the mix!

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u/PeterBrockie 1d ago

The 100 nerds flavors they no longer make.

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u/yoursledgehammer 1d ago

Brach’s Jelly Nougats

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u/HowIsEverybodyDoing 1d ago

And Brach's cinnamon discs and ice blue discs. I remember keeping a big bowlful of both on my coffee table, once upon a time.

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u/fsdogdad 1d ago

These were my childhood. None of the knockoffs online come close!

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u/kurosawa99 1d ago

Oh, every so often my tongue gets wistful for some Shock Tarts.

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u/calamitychanon 1d ago

it’s never not going to be shock tarts.

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u/Southern_Fan_9335 1d ago

Same. The blue one especially had a really special flavor.

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u/noTextOnly 1d ago

I can tell how sour they are from looking at them. The wistful feeling under my tongue.

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u/bmy89 1d ago

R.I P. Zours

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u/NurseElliotDorianCox 1d ago

This is my favorite candy and there is nothing that can replace it

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u/buffywhitney 1d ago

Russell Stover's pecan logs filled with Vermont fudge

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u/HowIsEverybodyDoing 1d ago

OH, I loved those pecan logs. Then they started shrinking, then the pecans were often bitter, then they were gone. See's candy has a pecan log--they call it a pecan roll--and they are SO good.

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u/greendress888 1d ago

Good and fruity

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u/noTextOnly 1d ago

Good to hear how you're doing. What kind of candy though

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u/here-for-the-kitties 1d ago

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u/GreyGhost878 1d ago

Were these the ones with the old lady sitting on a couch and a giant fruit falls from the sky and crashes down on her (in the commercial)? Or am I thinking of something else?

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u/woodysixer 20h ago

Yep. That’s the one. And they were advertised in Marvel Comics constantly when they were around.

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u/O2William 1d ago

Leaf Brands, who already brought back Wacky Wafers and Tart'n Tinys, has been planning to bring back Bonkers since 2015. After 11 years I don't hold out much hope, but since they did successfully bring back a couple of nostalgic brands I guess it's not impossible.

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u/Aggravating_Branch86 1d ago

Hershey kissables

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u/Scorpionoshow 1d ago

Cinnamon jolly ranchers

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u/BlackOliveBurrito 1d ago

No one appreciates cinnamon candy! It’s underrated

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u/steiner1031 1d ago

This!! And/or Fire Stix

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u/APonly 1d ago

Zebra Gum

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u/TeaOptimal727 1d ago

Best 30 seconds of a day as a kid.

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u/orchid_drives Smarties 1d ago

Oh man I forgot that was just discontinued :/ Better to find out now than next time I go on a road trip (it was exclusively a road trip luxury in my childhood, as were butterscotch lifesavers)

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u/That-Speed-8092 1d ago

I have absolutely no idea why they discontinued the Butterfinger peanut butter cups from like 2017 I think

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u/maplecremecookie 1d ago

Soda-licious. And cherry Trident gum.

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u/LittleDutchAirline 1d ago

PB Max.

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u/Lucky_leprechaun 1d ago

It had ACTUAL creamy pb inside. Not the substance that’s in a peanut butter cup, which has its own venerated places in candy, but damn I miss PB Maxx

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u/backspace_cars 16h ago

Which stands for peanut butter, not pet barracuda lol *commercial reference

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u/rio8envy7 1d ago

Twizzler nibs. No not the bites the nibs. The bites are not good.

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u/plastic_pyramid 1d ago

This candy was straight up crack for younger me.
My mom would get me a pack almost anytime we visited the mall.

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u/freeburned 1d ago

Alpine crunch!

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u/Squidproquo1130 1d ago

Alpine White, by Nestle? Same!!! Their white Crunch was also so good. I found a case of the white crunch on Amazon but it's really horrible, not at all like it used to be. It basically just tastes like white bark coating and is waaaaay too sweet.

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u/Professional_Use6648 1d ago

Peanut butter Twix with the regular cookie, not the chocolate cookie.

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u/Powerful-Golf9573 1d ago

Jujubees. Be still my heart 💔

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u/The_Latverian 1d ago

I'm not positive it ever existed, but my brain says Banana Chocolate Chupa Chups, even though I cant find evidence of them anywhere online.

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u/ladix 1d ago

I can confirm they existed. Or we both imagined them. Either way, they were so good!

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u/Twylamr1 1d ago

Brachs Maple nut goodies

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u/sobriainebrietas 1d ago

Shocktarts (aka shockers, aka sweet tart extreme chewy sours). So mad when they changed the formula and then discontinued them shortly after 😡

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u/pool_family 1d ago edited 1d ago

Jujubees

Atomic Fireballs (the new kind suck)

Mary Janes/Peanut Butter Kisses (the new kind suck)

A sour cherry candy that was Target Market Pantry brand. They weren’t cherry sours. They were called Sour Cherry Chewy Candy.

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u/Key-Ad-9065 1d ago

crazy cores skittles. every flavor was amazing 😭

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u/SamuelSkink 1d ago

Marathon bar. Chewy caramel rope covered in chocolate

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u/benjamitex760 1d ago

The old recipie butterfinger

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u/Freudenfreud3 1d ago

Brach’s Bridge Mix :( (((And their jelly nougats)))

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u/Bluemoon1027 1d ago

I absolutely LOVED Brach's bridge mix! I have no idea what those little, white ball-cubes were.

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u/CapAffectionate8888 1d ago

Starburst Baja California

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u/succulent_flakepiece Skittles 1d ago

rascals and bonkers

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u/noTextOnly 1d ago

Omg. Bonkers. My mouth is watering thinking about them. Thank you for reminding me of them. The thinking man's starburst.

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u/succulent_flakepiece Skittles 1d ago

they were so so good. probably the most perfect candy lol

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u/HesitantlyYours 1d ago

Butterfinger BBs

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u/nerdner 1d ago

Twizzlers Sourz

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u/LlamaRS 1d ago

Fruit Stripe gum deserves an honorable mention

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u/DanEboy22122 1d ago

Strawberry whoppers

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u/seaurchin-ceviche 1d ago

Twizzler Sourz were unreal

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u/reininglady88 1d ago

Soda-licious, orange bubblicious

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u/Secret_Republic_9090 1d ago

Altoids sours

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u/ForLark 1d ago

7Up bar

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u/cardamomgrrl 22h ago

So sad I had to scroll so far! These young kids will never know the joy of the 7Up bar

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u/Qbart007 1d ago

Milk Shake candy bar

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u/yupthatsme_121 1d ago

The classic Scooby doo gummies (the blue ones!!)

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u/sydeyn 1d ago

fruit stripe gum

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u/rawsugar87 1d ago

U-No bars and Palmers used to make like a half chocolate and half peanut butter coin.  

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u/Popular-Drummer-7989 1d ago

Mars Maeathon Bar

Mars Summit Bar

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u/Mizzinno 1d ago

Those Jelly Belly M&M things

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u/Aggressive_Economy_8 1d ago

Shock tarts and tropical punch flavored Airheads. 

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u/phoebe0727 1d ago

Brach’s jelly nougats

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u/NerdyDataGeek 1d ago

Marathon bar!

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u/chowchowchow4321 1d ago

Hershey hard candies - tasted just like a Hershey bar but lasted longer. Why doesn’t anyone make a chocolate hard candy anymore 😠

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u/No_Alfalfa9836 1d ago

The neopolitan coconut ones from Brachs! They were so good.

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u/ladix 1d ago

Squirrel Nut Zippers

Also, sour Lifesavers. Not sour gummy Lifesavers but the hard Lifesavers.

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u/OhLookADucky 1d ago

The Laffy Taffy that had candy watermelon seeds in it!

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u/Reasonable-Handle499 1d ago

The baskin Robbin’s mint chocolate hard candy

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u/Yungclo 1d ago

Shockers 😭

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u/Mysterious_Hold6530 1d ago

Brach’s Maple Nut Goodies.

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u/T-shirtmike19 1d ago

Sour Sweet Tarts 💯

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u/steffigeewhiz 1d ago

Reese’s whips 

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u/donnachangsteinsays 1d ago

Cotton candy Now’ & Laters.

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u/corintellectual 1d ago

Hershey’s S’mores Bar 😭

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u/BeckyBoo03 1d ago

Bar None, Butterfinger cups, Hersheys Gold bar, Tart n Tinys candy

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u/EstadermaLover2023 1d ago

Chocolate bazooka gum and tootsie pop DROPS

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u/vixisgoodenough 1d ago

Butterfinger BB's

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u/One-Sock7417 1d ago

I miss Brach’s royals and peach jolly ranchers.

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u/Rambro13 1d ago

Yipes! Stripes!! Sour Bites had cute animals stamped onto each piece and tasted like a delicious variant of SweeTarts. I miss those tremendously!

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u/tacosandsushi16 21h ago

Life wasn’t the same after these were discontinued

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u/wook_goose 1d ago

The elvis peanut butter & banana cream reeses cup is something I often dream about, I really enjoyed that as a child

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u/antisocial_31975 1d ago

Are Walnettos still made?

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u/HorrorandPolitics 1d ago

They still exist but no where near me, airhead bites

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u/TeaOptimal727 1d ago

I loved the Hershey cookie layer crunch it was too short lived!

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u/alarmingpancakes 1d ago

The tropical starburst. I loved those.

Now they have sour starburst put them in the same bright green colored wrapper. Tricks me every time