Comments on: Remembering Discontinued Candy

By: lynn

lynn — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:50:37 +0000

In response to “Old-Time Flicks” (27): I was just reminiscing about Debeukeler wafers w/ cousins whom I visited. No one recalled ever experiencing these, but they suggested I google it, so here I am at the only google site mentioned. I must say you (and I) have sophisticated taste in candy. The last time I remember having one was when I was about 8 y.o. My dad used to take me to a soda fountain shop on Clinton and Delancey St on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where I grew up. My dad would have an egg cream and I’d have a chocolate malted + a pretzel stick which I loved to dip in the malted. The top off was buying a Debeukelr wafer on our way out. I still remember the flavor and delightful fragrance of the exquisite, generous dark chocolate (similar to the best present day Valrhona chocolate)skirting a perfect wafer. Yes, it was square shaped and wrapped in a deep brown and gold paper; and yes, I am still trying to get the pronunciation and spelling correct, although I recall the spelling exactly as you do. Oh, for a Debeukeler wafer now!

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:38:55 +0000

I am looking for a candy my 76 year old mother would like for Christmas . This may be her last Christmas & I need to find it for her it’s called Ben Hurs. If anyone knows how I can find a box PLEASE reply Thanks Robin :)

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:30:32 +0000

I have a chocolate candy box that holds my mother’s letters from my father during WWII. The type of chocolate is called “Gold lace”. The box is white paper cardboard embossed with a pattern of blue and white lace. An oval of gold embossed lace pattern surrounds a blue inside oval. In that oval is embossed in gold, “Donna Deane Boston Chocolates.” The letters from my father are from 1940-1945. Of course this does not necessarily tell how old the box is, as my mother could have found it into the 1960′s. I hope this gives some info to you. RR

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:12:33 +0000

Hey, fellow candy lovers…. I am remember a candy we sold as a fundraiser in AL in the 70′s. These were small boxes of mint caramel candies – one flavor had chocolate on the outside and the other had some sort of green outer covering. I ate most of them myself – they were delicious!

BTW you can still buy Razzles at different places. Another of my favorites is the Fizzers, similar to Smarties but better and made in England (Swizzles Matlow), no longer imported.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:13:19 +0000

From the 50′s there was 3 different fruit flavors that came in a small gold metal pan with matching spoon. Does anyone know anything about that?

Thank you!

By: Lexi

Lexi — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:00:03 +0000

Does anyone remember these grape dinosaur egg candies? They werent the wonka eggs. They were called dinosaur eggs I think. There was a grape flavor,I don’t remember if there were any others. They were chewy and kinda gross. They were around in the 90s. It’s driving me nuts.

By: Danna

Danna — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:07:37 +0000

My mom would love to have the fruit faces she use to send me and my sister to the store and buy all they had on the shelves and what they had in the back,can anyone tell me if this candy still around I would love to see her face if I got them for her birthday

By: Rachael

Rachael — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:15:46 +0000

Rascals………..

Yes. I loved them. I don’t know what these little fruit shaped candy’s that are being pawned off under the name now are.
The dark pink/purple bag was the best. The pink and green candies…YUMMY.

BRING THEM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:02:24 +0000

I’ve been looking everywhere about the peanut shaped peanut butter filled chocolate candy too! I used to love them when I was little and I’m wondering what happened to them. All I’ve been able to find is PB Crisps which are not the same.

By: Linda Holloway

Linda Holloway — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:47:24 +0000

When I was a little girl in the early 60′s there was a candy lipstick that was so awesome. It was a chalky type sweet candy and the bottom half was wrapped in gold foil. My sister and I would like so much to get some of this. All the retro candy sites I have found have said it is no longer made. Does anyone else remember this?