Comments on: Retro Candy Review: Whatchamacallit – Another Take

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:06:01 +0000

Hey, thanks for the compliment, Heather! I’m glad you’ve been enjoying the reviews. :)

To those who preferred Whatchamacallit pre-caramel…I honestly can’t remember if I ever ate one “plain.” If I did, I was too young to pay much attention. Sugar’s sugar to a four year old, after all. I personally love caramel, so I like it in the Whatchamacallit. Maybe we could petition Hershey’s to offer an original version. They love those nostalgia sales boosters.

I’m glad to have brought back so many happy memories for all you Candy Addicts! That makes my day.

By: GinsuVictim

GinsuVictim — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:15:23 +0000

Man, I used to eat them all the time a few years ago, but haven’t been eating candy bars as much as I used to (focusing on M&Ms, Reeses Pieces, Skittles, and Hot Tamales as of late).

All this talk makes me wanna go get one.

And I love them with caramel, btw.

By: swttooth

swttooth — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:41:35 +0000

oh, my gosh!,WHACHAMACALLIT is my all time favorite candy bar ever. I first had that when I was about 10 year old and I was hooked. My mom would go into the gas station and we would be looking at her hoping she would as us if we wanted something. I always asked for it, and my sister always got the ZERO, or that hard candy bar that had toffee on it that would hurt your teeth when you bit into if your weren’t careful.
They still sell that at the gas station and I still get it.It beats the Snickers for me by far.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:09:21 +0000

Wow! Candy Addict has had some great reviews lately! You guys have reviewed a lot of my favorites: 100 Grand Dark, Chick-O-Stick, Clark bar, Milky Way Midnight, and now my childhood pick, Whatchamacallit. When I was a kid, my mom used to let me stop at this little gas station after school almost everyday to get a snack. I usually rotated between Funyuns and a Yoo-hoo or a Whatchamacallit and a can of Surge. Ah… Those were the days… ;) Great job Candy Addict staff! Keep it up!

By: Sheri/Cookingmom

Sheri/Cookingmom — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:35:30 +0000

I agree with Renee – when I was a kid, the bar had no caramel. It’s OK now, but I LOVED them when I was a kid. The caramel added nothing good to the bar.

By: Renee

Renee — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:39:02 +0000

I now realize why I don’t like them anymore. They added a layer of caramel, you say? I ate Whatchamacallits like crazy when I was a kid but when I tried them again as a teenager I hated them! I couldn’t figure out what had changed but I knew it was something. Thank you for helping me figure that out. I’m not really a caramel fan … at all so that must be why I don’t like them anymore.

By: Beck

Beck — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:32:59 +0000

Favorite. Candybar. EVER.

By: amypaige

amypaige — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:30:23 +0000

This is the commercial I remember:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOlD-ub63cA

It was such a silly name for a candy bar. I’ve always liked it.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:17:20 +0000

Hi, Samantha, thanks for sharing your Whatchamacallit experience. Do give it another try…though I’ll admit that I prefer the old style peanut butter Twix to a Whatchamacallit. Since they changed to the chocolate cookie bar, though…ah, not as good.

Anyway, I must be too young to have noticed the commercials because I don’t remember ever seeing one. What were they like?

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:57:28 +0000

I also remember my first Whatchamacallit experience. I had been seeing all the commercials for it on tv, which were a little strange in their own right. I saw it in the store and my mom was gracious enough to buy it for me. I remember sitting in the living room, watching my mom fold laundry and eating the candy bar. Mine had been sitting on the shelf a little too long, I remember the caramel was a little hard. It still had a nice flavor, but the bar got lost in my world of snickers and peanut butter twix… I will just have to track this bar down and give it another try.