The other day I received an email from a reader trying to remember the name of a candy she had when she was young. The only things I could think of were Zotz and WarHeads but they don’t quite meet the description below. It has stumped me, so I put it to you, the readers. Can you Name That Candy?
Recently I’ve been searching for this candy that I loved soooo much. They used to sell it at our drugstore in Hampton, Illinois about 13-14 years ago. I cannot seen to find this candy anywhere…I can’t even remember the name of it and I thought that maybe you could help me. I would appreciate it sooo much if you could. I’m not sure how popular it was, it wasn’t around for very long I know that.
There were a few different kinds, and I think that they might have even had semi-gross names. There was one kind that fizzed in your mouth, there was another kind that was super sour and there was another kind that turned your mouth this disgusting color. They were made by the same company, I know this much, as they were all stored in the same bin together and had similar packaging.
I thought that maybe I would be able to find it under weird or novelty candy, but I am having no luck at all, anywhere. I would love it so so so much if you could help me find this mysterious candy. I would be forever in your debt!
Thank you so much!!
Katee
Any ideas, readers? Post a comment below.
Spew!! The 7-11 near my elementary school sold Spew…it came in different forms, I think. I think one of them forms was in a plastic tube thingy and the spew was powder and when you put it in your mouth it went all crazy foamy. I remember it being a Thing to bring to school…
the sour one could be warheads i dont kno where to find them anymore
I’m trying to find out where I could find a candy called McSweeneys. This is a bit strange, but I don’t know what the candy looks like. It might come in a package maybe similiar to a smarties box? Maybe they’re sour candies? help please.
Can someone send me the website information for arcor? They said they have what I’m looking for. I’m looking for the hard candy called Tongue Fizzies. It’s a hard candy that fizzes in the middle and turns your tongue colors. I seen 2 of them at Holloween. They are called tongue fizzies that’s their name. Thanks.
TJ Rose
Yeah,in the early 90′s they had candy called (Kablooies)
that turned your mouth blue.
There is a candy similar to this that I have been trying to find for years. They were hard candy and they turned your mouth the color of the candy. I swear they were called “Tongue Bandits” but I cant find them anywhere.
Mad Dog Super Spew Bubble Chew i think thats wut your looking for they would be super sour then in the middle of it there was powder and made your mouth fizzle plus the sour look on ur face was just a joke waiting to happen but they disapeared :-(
I have been looking for a candy I used to buy when I was younger at a trading post near our school. It was powdery, had different soda pop flavors (like root beer) and packaged in a pouch-like bag (sort of like a large kool-aid bag with sugar already added). When you put a mouthful of the powder (like pixie stix powder) in your mouth it would begin to foam as soon as it mixed with your saliva – (about 3-4 sec and keeps foaming for about 30 sec) – if you put in too much you would look like you were foaming at the mouth (it’s difficult to hold in a mouthful unless you swallow). It’s hilarious to watch someone else do it, and funny when you do it yourself. Hard not to burst out laughing. It was foaming candy, not chewing gum.
What is the name of the candy, it is a white creme, that is covered in chocolate and rolled in peanuts? It is killing me and I can remember nor can I find it online. It is popular and as far as I know still being made. They came in a box tray, with a dark plastic tray inside of that, there was no lid, just a clear wrap. PLS help.
I would start a new thread, but… I think I finally found my answer here about on of my favorites – fizzers. The fizzy candy in the same shape as US smarties – those disc shaped candies wrapped in a cellophane roll. I lived in Milwaukee, WI and they were as common as the Smarties when I was a kid in the 60′s-70′s. I lost track, but then when I thought about them they were not around anymore. I now live in Utah, and no one (even WI transplants) don’t seem to remember them. I did find an IL source and will try them. Other source say they are made in the UK by Swizzles Matlow. However I really doubt that these were the same as those I found in Milwaukee in the 60′s as english candy was pretty rare and these were very common. The IL source and photo seem slightly different from the UK images. http://www.illinoisnut.com/shop/details.asp?id=733&iCat=11&iSubOne=61 compared to http://www.sweetstall.com/acatalog/Foamy_Candy_Sweets.html (scroll down to fizzers – the Swizzels Matlow site won’t link)
Anyway anybody know the history of these. Are they still made in the US too. I may order a few pounds from the IL source and see what they are like.
Incidentally I also found another candy I have always mentioned from my childhood memories in Milwaukee. Candy Raisins. I never knew what they were called. They are med-light brown ‘gumdrop-like’ candies with a very unique taste – I think they tasted like corriander seeds. I did no like them but my relative would often have them out in candy dishes. I learned they are unique to the Southeastern Wisconsin area – Milwaukee in particular. Now they are made by Necco. I never liked them and when I brought them up I used them as an example of those old fashioned candies only Old Ladies liked – like rose-flavored hard candies (although I also love Candy Violets – from CHOWARD’s another childhood favorite but an aquired, sophisticated? taste).
http://candyaddict.com/blog/2006/12/22/retro-candy-flashback-zotz/
I too have been looking for this fizzy, sour candy to introduce to my boyfriend. I LOVED them. Along with Space Sticks – sure wish those would come back, and Lemon Thin cookies… but I digress.
Zotz are individually wrapped and come in attached string of wrapped candies. They are hard candies that after you suck on them for a while the fizzy (almost baking soda like substance) leaks out so you have the candy favor – sourish, some sweet with the puckery fizzy stuff. They are fabulous. I just ordered a couple packets!
I know this one for sure, the candywas called fizzers, and the did look just like the candy called smarties. I remember buying them in a big tub (like a countertop bin) at costco. They were wrapped in a clear cellophane wrapper with the name in red, just like smarties candy. I remember they just didnt have them anymore one day, and I haven’t seen them since. I really think they were made by the same company because of the similar packaging, but I don’t know that to be fact. Anyways, if anybody has a line on these, let it be known, I would love to get some!
I think I know what the original poster is talking about. Raven’s Revenge candy. it came in test tube like vials in all different colors and tastes. I remember a few, One was white and it was sweet. others were dark and turned your mouth nasty dark and one was green and was very sour. they all had weird creepy names, like Black Widow and were kindo of creepy. they were really good though! I ate them as a Kid. I have been looking for them everywhere, but cant find them. i dont think they make them anymore
probably those nasty Bottlecaps.
it sounds like bottlecaps ! the colors were very dull , and so was the taste ! YUK !
Mad Dog(Dawg?)Candy? It was super sour and it foamed/fizzes.
The sour candy that came in a test tube style container is BACK!! Raven’s Revenge is coming back under a new name. Who wants this great old candy to come back to storeS??
I loved Mad Dogs (or dawgs) I wish I could find them, i’d buy some
look on roshen.com look at products. under products click on hard candies. then look under bulk candies. on the second page the first one will say fizzy mix.
its ravenge revenge!!! ahh i loved those
It seems like Katee might be looking for the same kind of candy I’ve looked for over the years. I would swear it was made by Zots, but here is the best description I can think of after 20 years…..
The Zots candy that everyone is talking about on this forum has a hard outer shell and a white fizzy powder in the middle of it….like a tootsie pop would have, right? Well this specific candy I’m looking for is like the Zots, but without the hard candy part. It almost resembled little miniature sticks of coral. lol Sounds funny, but it was! It looked like tiny sticks of coral. The packaging from what I remember was a foil packaging with a Space or Rocketship type of look on it.
Is this ringing any “old school” thoughts of anyone over 30? Help me out!!! Let’s find this long lost candy!!!!
Butterscotch Lassies were my favorite candy, ever! Not only could I buy them from the local Candy Store, I could also buy them at recess, in Catholic school. I’m sorry no one has any information on them. I’ve been looking, for years. My guess is they were manufactured by one of the many local cany factories in Philadelphia, and when they went out of business, the candy was gone forever. Too bad. Nothing equals Butterscotch Lassies!
Katee,
Are these candies hard, soft, powdered, gum? That information would undoubtedly help find your answer.
I came to this site looking for Fizzy Smarties. I am pretty sure that is what they were called. They had the same packaging, and I thought they had the “Smarties” name + Fizzy or Fizzies.
Now I am curious about your candy and the “Butterscotch Laddies/Lassies” as well.
LOVE THIS SITE,
Cheri Y.
Who ever made spew needs to make it again. Its a powder candy and it foams up not just fizzing. then it turns a gross green color. But it was a good candy.
i love the fact that sooo many people remember spew. i used to talk to all my friends about it when i was a teen and they had no clue what i was talking about. strange how funky candies made our childhood memories so wonderful. :D
Loved those little chocolate butterscotch lassies. Yes your could get them for a penny at the candy store or buy them at school. PLEASE someone resurrect this candy like they just did bonomo turkish taffy.
http://arcorusa.com/index.php/products?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=52&category_id=13
MAD DAWG Super Spew Bubble Chew!
I use to be addicted to that! It was sold in Some Other Nuts a candy store in Libertyville Illinois. Before that there was also a great candy shop just down the block called Main Sweet. Man I miss my home town.
Tounge coloring Fizzing Candies
Made by Arcor
IM EATING ONE NOW
Chris,
I have been looking about two years for the candy you have described. You are the first person that has even remembered this candy. I bought this candy sometime between 1987-1990 at Kings Island amusement park in Ohio. Good luck finding it.
I know this thread was started years ago but I hope the people looking for “Fizzers” (the ones that look like Smarties) reads this. The Irish Import Shop in Hollywood CA., stocks them. I don’t know if they’re still distributed in the US anywhere else, but they get them imported from the UK. If anyone who doesn’t live locally wants some they can mail order them. They no longer cost a penny like they used to when I was a kid though–now they’re .35 a roll! They don’t have them listed on their website, but if you call or email them they will send them out by UPS.
I have also been looking for the “fizzy” candy that I believe was posted in a much earlier thread. I can only find them at Halloween at the Dollar General store…I came across a couple tonite in an old purse, lol and decided to try to locate them online since I have looked everywhere for them. They come in a bag, individually wrapped in a red wrapper. The wrapper says Arcor Tongue Coloring Fizzy Candies. They taste a bit sour at first then you get down to the center and its a liquidy tart taste….they are soooo good! If anyone has found where they can be purchased besides at Halloween, PLEASE let me know! Thanks! vickieladyinblack@yahoo.com
I’ve been looking for Butterscotch Laddies for years to no avail. The closest I can find in taste and consistewncy are Reisen Storks. NOT Butterscotch, but quite similar otherwise!
It’s Raven’s Revenge!! Came in a little test tube container, all of them were sour as hell and turned the mouth weird colors. Yeah I remember that stuff! Loved it when i was in elementary school and it’s dropped off the face of the earth.
Katee, the name of the candy you are looking for is “Raven’s Revenge”, sadly they are no longer making them, but have come up with something similar. http://www.candywarehouse.com/paybackattack.html These are called Payback Attack, I was looking for them this morning myself, and found the above website. A bunch of friends and I are looking to buy a couple cases for a New Year’s Eve party and this will so fit the bill. -grins-
Good luck!
Ok so don’t know if you haven’t figured it out yet, but the candy you’re looking for is BIZZERKS!! BEcause I was looking for the same candy too.
http://www.zeer.com/Food-Products/BiZZerks-Candies-That-Fizz–Assorted-Flavors-Hard-Candy/000045366
Just got back from trick or treating and my son had a candy in his pumpkin and I came across this site trying to find out what it was. . .changes tongue to a bright color and fizzes
(package reads)
ARCOR TONGUE COLORING Fizzy Candies
Colorful Fizzy and Fun
round candy with white stuff in it. .
Chris and Mike,
I know this string is very old, but did you ever find the name of the fizzing candy that doesn’t have a hard shell and came in a silver package? I have also been looking for it. I would describe them as looking like the old candy cigarettes (white, dry looking), only much shorter. And instead of being sweet, they were very sour and fizzed once in your mouth. I’m doubtful that they are still produced, but I would love to at least know there name.
Any help would be great.
-C
Aw alas I finally found out that my fave mad dawg spew gum is no more ….I will forever miss my times going to santa Monica mall candy shop and buying the sour fizz gumball . I even kept a gum ball rapper (dog foaming at the mouth) R.I.P.1995or96? Lol you will be missed.Hey does anyone remember a candy called zanys?I believe late 80′s pls Help for I have a new quest
It sounds like the candy “pond scum” to me. It came in a black package like Pop Rocks one and it had green slimy fonted lettering on it that said “pond scum” and it had a picture of a frog on the front. It was a powder that made your mouth foam.
Yes. Please someone resaurrect the…butterscotch lassie…but it could laddie???? I dream about eating one again. They were hard Carmel covered in dark chocolate?
re: Butterscotch lassies have been looking for years cant find them anywhere i remember the plaid box and they were a penny each got them in Philadelphia at the corner store Please anyone let me know where i can get them now
Razzles are a candy that once chewed, mix to transform into chewing gum. Originally introduced in 1966, with an advertising slogan and jingle of, “First it’s a candy, then it’s a gum. Little round Razzles are so much fun.” The original flavor was raspberry. They were named after a fictional flavor, Razzleberry, that was planned but never panned out. This has also happened with the flavor “Zuzzleberry Zash”. Concord Confections was formed in 1986, and sometime after that date acquired the Razzles brand. Additional fruit flavours were added to raspberry. Most recently, a “tropical fruit” pack and a “sour” pack were added to the product line. Tootsie Roll Industries acquired Concord Confections in 2004. Razzles were first produced by Fleer along with their Dubble Bubble brand, and eventually sold both brands to Concord Confections.