Comments on: Retro Candy Flashback: Rock Candy – It’s Geologically Delicious

By: ashle

ashle — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:55:14 +0000

I love rock candy so much i’m doing a science project on it. its called the colored candy!cool…huh?

By: Trish

Trish — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:30:19 +0000

You know what rock candy reminds me of? The Museum of Science , Boston, Massachusetts. Growing up in Massachusetts, one of the most common field trip destinations was (and probably still is) the Museum of Science. I went to that museum on field trips an insane number of times and several with my mom, dad, and brother besides. It’s still my favorite museum today, with all it’s hands on displays and experiments. The musical stairs still strike a chord :). The gift shop, which was a must see place at the end of every visit (which kid wouldn’t want to see all those cool gadgets and toys and candies/foods and maybe persuade their parent to get them a little something) always had rock candy. Many of my classmates would buy rock candy there to have on the bus on the way back. I remember those bins of color sugar crystals on sticks on strings. Sure, I’ve seen them in plenty of other places too, but they’ll always remind me of the Musuem of Science.

I remember trying to make them once when I was little with my parents, but it didn’t work. At all. All we got was a coating of sugar on the inside of the jar. Nothing crystallized on the strings.

By: Julie Nicolay

Julie Nicolay — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:44:51 +0000

Jawbreakers, Pez, lemon drops, licorice whips, chocolate in any form, cotton candy…the list is endless when it comes to favorite candy as a kid (and, uh, ahem, still as an adult), but my number one, all-time favorite candy was always rock candy! Didn’t matter if it was colored (though that was just an added bonus), and yeah, I’d eat it on that string, but on a stick was the BEST!

I still veer towards it and buy some whenver I come across it, but it was better when I was young. Just had a different taste, somehow, and was consistently PERFECT.

Who among us candy addicts could resist solid sugar in that sparkly geometric explosion, the light being caught on every angled surface, making it look like the finest and most expensive jewelery? Not me then and not me now!

By: stefan

stefan — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:08:19 +0000

Ah rock candy. brings back such good memories.

By: Laurenq

Laurenq — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:07:20 +0000

I have so many great memories of Rock Candy…

By: cds

cds — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:07:44 +0000

i still take my class to space farms every year for their final field trip. goliath is still there (RIP) – albeit stuffed – but still standing as the world’s largest kodiak bear. and…so is the rock candy!