Comments on: Retro Candy Flashback: Butter Nut Bars

By: Dwight

Dwight — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:32:22 +0000

In 1959 when I was 11 years old and living in Augusta, GA I would walk every day across the street to a train station and buy a Butter Nut candy bar out of the vending machine. It cost a nickel. I would also get a coke in the small bottle from a vending machine there and it cost a nickel, then later I had to put in a penny before the nickel. Over the years I have drooled often thinking of the unbeatable taste of the Butter Net bar. I’m surprised to see the comments here of so many others who remember the Butter Nut bar as the best of all candies. BUTTER NUT RULES!!!

By: leonard

leonard — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 03:53:33 +0000

i bought this candy bar in the late 50s and 60s at my school, and our own little country store, it was delicious, don’t they realize that a kids taste don;t change it was good then and it would still be good today i wish they would at least try it again but i think it’s gone forever.

By: Sterling W.

Sterling W. — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:03:51 +0000

Born in 1959, my favorite candy bar was the butternut. The only candy today similiar to it is the snicker bar which uses a darker chocolate then the butternut. I often wonder why the people at butternut stopped producing that candy when so many people enjoyed the candy.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:26:08 +0000

I have told my kids about Butternut candy bars so many times that they would do anything to have one. “We may have only had three TV stations, but it didn’t mater. We had Butternuts.”

By: Lucille

Lucille — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:32:05 +0000

Butternut is still the best tasting candy bar ever!!! The taste can’t be beat! I was born in 1953 and it was a childhood staple. Miss it!

By: CL

CL — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:38:42 +0000

Like all other responders said, the Butternut is the Very Best candy bar I have ever had and the only one I would buy today! So many scrumptious yummy memories! Bring it back…PLEASE!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:35:16 +0000

I should explain that the “culture shock” was that there wasn’t a store on every corner like there is in Brooklyn. Most people drove because there wasn’t a bus or subway to take…..etc. I still don’t get why that grocery store had to be so far away! Butter Nut made me forget about the distance : )

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:26:54 +0000

In 1967 my family moved from Brooklyn to a suburb of Indianapolis. It was quite a culture shock for a 10 year old. We had one car which my father took to work – which was fine because my mom didn’t have a driver’s license. Sometimes I would walk to the grocery store which was quite a distance and she rewarded me by telling me I could buy a butternut candy bar for the walk home. I loved that candy.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:47:03 +0000

In junior high (’59-’61) I rode my bike to school every day, passing a small mom & pop store, where I’d stop for my sugar fix. Butternut and Top Star, made by the same company, were my favorite candy bars. They were actually also available in the school cafeteria at lunchtime. It’s crazy what you remember from the past: Reed’s lifesavers (no hole in the middle…root beer and cinnamon flavor.. were my favorites). Black-jack chewing gum, and Black Crows; I see Dots for sale, but not Black Crows.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:03:52 +0000

Well hello all,
First I need to say thank GOD for such memories. I was a kid in Baytown Texas in the mid 60’s when I had my last Butter Nut. I remember getting my behind busted for spending my church money to buy 6 of them bad boys. That was the best switchin I ever got and well worth it.
The only Candy bar that could come close to it is the all mighty Oh Henry.
Jerome