When I was 8 or 9 years old (in ’78 or ’79), my dad was in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany and I remember getting this candy there. I have done some searching online and can’t find any references to this candy. If anyone has had this candy or knows what I’m talking about, please email me or leave a comment on this post….
The candy came in seashells like the ones seen above (I’m not sure what they are called). They used the seashells as a container for the candy. The candy was like hard candy – maybe like a Jolly Rancher type candy that was poured into the shell then allowed to harden (I am assuming that’s how it was made). The candy itself I am almost positive was a cola flavor (though it might have been root beer). You ate the candy by just licking it out of the shell. I am also almost positive that these were real seashells that were used and not plastic.
I don’t remember the packaging at all – I’m not sure if they came in packs or if they were sold individually or if they had a name brand or a wrapper or anything. I don’t know if the candy was German or not, though we definitely bought them in Germany.
Does this ring a bell with anyone? I’m going to email my Mom a link to this post and see if she remembers these. I’ll update you if she remembers or if anyone emails me.
Also…if anyone else has a candy from your childhood that you can’t remember the name of, contact me and if I don’t know what it is, I’ll post it for all the world to see and maybe we can get an answer. I have another one of my own I’ll post sometime too.
UPDATE: Thanks to some kind readers, they have been found at GermanDeli.com
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I live in germany now because my husband is stationed here and we went to a candy store in Mainz yesterday and they had some. You should give me your address and ill mail you some shells.
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I to lived in Germany in the 60′s… Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Hamburg. For five awesome years, no TV, no Americans (been there, done that), all I had was a few kids stuck like I was, a radio and the strange and loving Germans. I searched restricted Bunkers for war relics (and found many) and collected German miniature model war machines. I had over 1000 very tiny soldiers, Americans and Nazis, as well as every Armament you could think of…. and one more thing… hard Honey Candy in a real sea shell. I watched my real sea shells go to plastic in 3 years, and the candy went from a homemade recipe to mainstream flavors. Our maid would make them homemade after they changed the shells and flavors. I remember falling asleep listening to sci-fi radio casts from America and sucking on that sea shell…
I could write a book… or a screen play, oh yeah, I am working on it.
Cristal, if you could send me some, I would love to try to share a part of my my youth, with my daughters….
Mark
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well in dallas there is a store called the german deli…they sell the shell candy there…or you can order them at there online store…they are one of my fav. candies…!!!!
I lived in Germany–also as an Army kid–between 1959 and 1962. I can tell you this about these seashell candies: we bought them at a roadside stand in Hanau along the Autobahn called “The Toto Store” and they were, indeed, called totos. BUT: When I first started buying totos, they were NOT candy inside a seashell. They were Christmas-tree-shaped lollipops which came with various little plastic toys as the sticks upon which they were attached. (How I wish I still had some toto toys, which we collected, like people later collected the little plastic toys which the Sonic hung upon one”s cup when buying a limeade and such!). It was during my time in Germany that one day I went to find that the totos with which I’d grown familiar were Gone, and these seashell totos had taken their place…I well remember the shift, which (A) made it hard to eat the last of your candy due to having to try to lick it out of the curl of the shell, and (B) provided us with no more little plastic toys. I can also declare that these were indeed REAL SEASHELLS when the shift from the first kind of toto to the seashell kind was made; Whether or not they later became plastic, as some have said was their experience, well, like I say, I left in ’62 and so saw totos no more. (I also first became axquainted with gummi bears via the toto store, and when we returned to America years went by before they were introduced to the American market and I could get ‘em again.)
Oh MY!! I cannot believe all these comments…they made my heart smile!!! and brought back sooo many memories. I too was just thinking of these seashell candies just today and desided to google them and reached this site!!! As you can imagine my joy upon reading so many people were in some of the same areas at the same times as me,I was like WOW!! However I looked on the site to find the seashell candy on the German Deli website given and could not find them on the site any other places I can look for them at to buy? I would love to share them with my children also… ths ahead for your help!!!!
germandeli.com in Colleyville, Texas near Dallas can hook you up with all of those childhood candies…
I have found all my favorites there.
I was in Mainz Germany from 89-92 and there was a candy truck that I remember as the BR Truck and BR Stand and for 1 mark we got a white bag of mixed gummies and I love love love the sour tounges! Wish I could find those and the smurf gummies were so good too!! German candy was so good and so fun! Anyone else know anything about the BR Truck/Stand?
We lived in Landstuhl, Germany in the mid 60′s and made our way down the mountain to the local candy store. The shells were filled with hardened honey and very delicious. Let’s face it, German candy is the best! Anyone know if they still make those original sour sticks?
Growing up in Leimen, Heidelberg, Bad Toelz, & Muenchen, I sampled a variety of all the candies you have mentioned above, but the one I want to help with that was a persistent favourite of mine is the fizzy, somewhat chalk-dusty “prickle sticks,” Brause-Staebchen. Sadex and Frigeo Ahoj Brause are two prominent current brands. They came in five flavours in my youth — appel, cola, raspberry, orange, and lemon. Cheers!
I lived in Wiesbaden Germany 1965-1970 I am looking for what we called sour sticks. About 3 inches long and about 1/4 – 1/2 inch wide. Different flavors some like sweet tarts I’m still dreaming about them. Can anyone help me ?
Me, too, Rochell! If you find sour sticks, I would like to know! They were and always will be my favorite! I lived in Wildflecken, Bad Bruckenau, and Frankfurt in the late 50′s as an Army brat! Thanks, Kim
Air Force brat here…lived at Patch Barracks from ’68 until ’72 in Kefurt Village. I am so happy to find others that remember these shells. I loved them and as soon as my comment posts, I’m going to order some.
BTW, if anyone comes here was stationed at Patch at any time or went to Boeblingen School, come over to facebook and join our group!
I ate these Shell candies also while growing up in Germany. So where can we order these????? Please let me know.
I ate seashell candies in Orleans, France in the early 60s when my dad was stationed there. It was barley sugar candy, I remember.
Funny cuz I just asked a French friend if they still have them over there and she said she didn’t think so.
I remembered what they’re called in French! Coquillage roudoudou or just roudoudou for short. Here’s an entry from French Wiki on them.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roudoudou_(bonbon)
Two interesting points in the article. It says they were most popular from 1960-70. They no longer use real seashells, rather plastic.
And they mainly came from Cotignac, Orléans, close to where my family was stationed..
Still widely available online, for example
http://www.mamie-dine.com/roudoudou-p-121.html?osCsid=a3ebb58ba3db5a6127aa9cf9438e706e
To Rochelle in post #61.. I lived in Aukamn housing in Wiesbaden in 1965…used to get sour sticks (like a sweet tart) and gummy bears and gummy cokes in a little candy store in Bierstadt which I think was named Lulies (loo lies)….does that ring a bell?
OMG THIS IS SUCH A TRIP I AM SITTING HERE WITH MY BOYFREIND AND WE ARE EATING GERMAN CANDY AND THE SCHIECKMUSCHEIN CAME UP I CALLED IT TEH HONEY SEASHELL CANDY SO WE GOOGLED AND FOUND THIS SITE AND I AM NOTICING ALOT OF US ARMY BRATS LOOKING FOR THE SAME CANDY LOL AND WAS THINKING WONDER HOW MANY WE MIGHT KNOW WELL HERE GOES I HAVE NOT FOUND WHERE TO GET IT SENT TO ME BUT I WILL BEFORE IT IS OVER AND HERE IS TEH OTHER THING IF YOU LIVED IN MUNICH GERMANY FROM 71-74 PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL MY STEPFATHERS LAST NAME WAS PURSLEY AND MINE WAS BUTLER. WENT BACK TO GERMANY IN 99 AND STILL COULD NOT FIND THEM I WAS IN BREMAN THEN I WOULD SO LIKE TO HAVE THEM AGIAN. SMALL WORLD :)
I also remember them and was hoping some one could tell me how to make them so I could make some for my Kid this Christmas.
Loved those seashells. AF Brat at Toul Rosieres France. The candy can be bought in the plastic shells. I imagine the novelty of the real shell made them taste much better to us kids. The memory of France got me looking for these candies and I was happy to find BRATS… Air Force and Army we are all connected. AF from Toul Rosieres France can find TRAB on Facebook. TRAB is now a solar farm. There was a ceremony last year on base with the French and Americans for the final shutdown of the base.
Thanks for the memories.
Barbara Heun-Ploch
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I was an Army brat in a little military town called Pattonville outside Ludwigsburg, Germany from ’62-’66. I don’t remember as much about the candy like my sisters do but I do remember trading comics, playing marbles, leaving our shoes outside for St Nicholas to fill on CHristmas. My fondest memory is playing with Castles. My older brothers had the nice ones but I sure liked mine with all the miniature Romans and Knights etc.
Wow! that was a long time ago
This is great! I lived in Schwaebisch-Gmeund from 1967 – 1969 and have thought many times about those honey shells I used to buy and love! Does anyone make them – did not have time to read through all the posts! ♥
Wow. I was thinking about the shell candy and decided to google. I’m an Army brat born in Nuremberg , lived in Frankfurt, Augsburg and Munich 63-71 We had a candy man that had a kiosk. I loved the big sour sticks, the gummies (goomies), peppermint cigarettes, pointy cone lollipops, eatable necklace, and the banana flavored ice cream bars. I remember the slingshot paratrooper toy soldier, helicopter blade that launched when you pulled the string, and net bags of beautiful marbles. I remember watching John Wayne movies in German. Everything in tv was in German. First heard English on tv on the news.
I miss the honey shell candy big time. I may have played with someone on here on the playgrounds.
We were in Stuttgart Germany in 76-77. They are honey shells!!! I am so excited to see these posts – brings back lots of memories. We lived in Robinson Barracks! I loved it there!
I TO WAS AN ARMY BRAT IN THE FIFTIES AND EARLY SIXTIES. WE LIVED IN HANAU BOTH TIMES. I REMEMBER THE SEASHELL CANDY AND CAN REMEMBER THAT THEY WERE REAL SEASHELLS. AS I RECALL THE DID HAVE HONEY FLAVORED ANND CINNAMON AND A FEW OTHER ONES, TOOK FOREVER TO EAT ONE. THEY ALSO HAD A SUCKER THAT WAS CONE SHAPED AND CAME ON A PLASTIC STICK THAT HAD DIFFERENT AIRPLANE SHAPES ON THEM. WE GOT THEM AT THE LITTLE STORES WE CALLED “TOTO” STORES BECAUSE THEY USUALLY HAD A SIGN THAT SAID TOTO LOTO, I NOW KNOW THAT STANDS FOR THE LOTTERY. I DID 22YRS MYSELF WITH 4 TOURS TO GERMANY AND WAS ALWAYS TEMPTED TO CHECK THE STORES, BUT I NEVER DID.
Oh my world!!! Guess another “Army Brat” here. I was very young when we were stationed in Germany. BUT..I remember those. Goodness..I have tried to describe these to others but no one understood what I was talking about. I was remembering it..so glad to know, it wasn’t just some odd candy in a dream. We were there in the early 70s. I remember this shell candy (I remember that it had real shells)..I also remember Germany was where we discovered Gummy Bears which have remained a favorite all these years later.
Okay..not sure if anyone else is still checking this..BUT..I remember another candy..wonder if anyone else does (since it sounds like a lot of our families were stationed there around the same time). Okay..I remember there was a candy, I want to say pastel color (but might have been others)..they were the shape of M & Ms but much bigger..and they had some sugary powder in them? Does this ring a bell to anyone else? Someone else mentioned powdery candy but they are talking about “sticks” and these were not sticks. From what I remember I think you only ate the powder but maybe the “shell” was edible as well.
Thanks..SO glad I decided to google this and found out I wasn’t the only one remember this candy.
I love the honey shells. Some one bought some in Russia/ Ukraine area and they where delicious. I do believe they where German made. I wish someone could find some more. Candy of that type is something i would pay any price for. (not exactly but along the lines.) The shells differ in regions and yet I KNOW they are out there still making them just don’t remember the original comp name for them. Although i know that they tasted like honey and root-beer and one other flavor.
OMG! I too thought I was the only one looking for German candy. My father was stationed in Mainz. I am looking for BR’s. they were sour candy that looked like a tongue/ tongue stick . It had two colors . On each end( red/ yellow, green/orange). We used to go to the kiosk vendors or the bakery to get. Please help!!!!!
I grew up with these and last time I got them was 10 years ago but not in Germany. In France. Called Ru doo doo. not sure if that’s the right spelling. They are very hard to find but I got a bag of 50 to bring home.
found them at this addy. little expensive but its them.
en.mylittleday.fr
they were 0.40E each
Awww, y’all are making my heart melt, my dad was stationed in Germany from 1963-1966 and then 1965-1979 Augsburg and Nuremberg. I love the Seashell Candy but sadly cannot find it, if anyone does, please let me know. Best memories for an Army Brat!!!!