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Name That Candy: Cinnamon Balls in a Tube

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I got an email from a reader named Jennifer today trying to find the name of a long-lost candy. We get many, many of these types of emails and 95% of the time I don’t recognize the candy so I refer them to our Name That Candy Forum. This one was different though. I, too, remember this candy and the taste of it instantly flooded back into my memory, but I cannot remember its name. Below is Jennifer’s summary of what we remember about it. Can anyone help us remember the name?

For years now I have been searching for the name of a wonderful cinnamon candy I had in the 80′s as a kid. I remember the packaging almost more than the candy, so with Brian’s help I think we have both the candy and packaging covered. The candy itself were small red balls a little larger than BB’s, a little smaller than Tart N Tinys. The center was pressed dextrose similar to the center of a Gobstopper and the balls were coated with a red candy shell. They were sweet cinnamon… not too hot/spicy. They came in a very thick fuzzy (not smooth) red and white cardboard roll (Brian just remembers the tube and the candy, not the color or fuzziness), about the same size as a roll or quarters. On the top there was a round red plastic flip top. I can almost hear the sound of the little balls clicking as I would hold the roll between my thumb and pointer finger and flip it back and forth and can remember the taste as if it were yesterday. Now if we could only remember the name, that’s where you guys come in! Can someone please help a girl out and put me out of my misery… What was the name of that Candy??

Help us, Candy Addicts!

Name That Candy: Vomit Head Ooze, Melty Mints, and SweetTart Lollipops

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Once again it’s time for the game show craze that’s sweeping the nation: Name That Candy! Readers email about long-lost candy and we try to figure out what candy they are talking about. If you know what these candies are, leave a comment and let them know!

Here’s one from a reader named David:

There is a particular candy I had several time as a kid that no one else has ever heard of. I need to prove I am not insane, so please help me figure out the name of it. Google has not been kind so far.

It was bought Cleveland, Ohio in the late 1980s. Each item was sold individually. It was a soft candy that had a jelly-like consistency. It was soft enough to ooze into a puddle if you squeezed it out. The taste was exceedingly sweet, like a liquefied Pixie Stik, but without any sourness. The memorable part is that it came in a package that simulated vomiting. It was arranged in the manner of a Pez dispenser, with a toy child’s head at the top and a reservoir for the goo underneath, where the body would be. The reservoir was translucent and had an accordion-style ridging to it for easy squeezing. When squeezed, the goo would come out of the mouth of the dispenser head, thus imitating vomit. The entire package was about the length of a disposable lighter, maybe slightly smaller, and was about as wide as a quarter.

Sounds gross. Never heard of it. Anyone? UPDATE: A reader named Lael actually still has one of these and sent us an image (click fof full-size view)!


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Next we have one from a reader named Kia:

I am looking for a mint that I bought 5-7 years ago at a Kmart in Concord, NC. It was a light as air, puffed mint, but not the powdery kind. It would melt in your mouth instantly. I was sold in a bag of about 100, not individually wrapped, and came in mint, strawberry, and lemon flavors. It was about the size of a large gumball and they don’t sell these anymore. Haven’t been able to find them in years. Please help!

Sounds tasty, but it’s ringing no bells for me.

Here’s one I actually knew from a reader named Jan:

1974 corner candy store in Mt Lebanon Pennsylvania sold kinda like a sweet tart [but only sweet] lollipop on a plastic hollow stick – any idea the name???

That’s an easy one – they’re called double lollies and are delicious!

So any help with the other one? Anyone?

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Name That Easter Candy: Naked jellybeans, German taffy, and squished Kisses

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Every week we do a Name That Candy post where we post descriptions of long-lost candy sent in by readers and you get to see if you can help figure out what candy it is.

This one comes from a reader named Rachel:

They were these jelly beans that lacked the outer coating that a jelly bean usually has (imagine just the soft, squishy sticky inner “jelly” part). They came in a mixed bag of flavors. I used to buy them in semi-large quantities (they were pretty small individually, smaller than tic tacs, for example) in blue metallic foil packages like you usually find gummy bears. This was around Forest Hills, NYC (Queens) at convience stores like Walgreens and Duane Reade around 1998/1999

This one is from Sharon:

The lost candy I am loking for came from Germany, but I got it through German club in St. Louis Mo in the early 80′s. It was a white taffy, individually wrapped, slight longer and thinner than an individual size Laffy Taffy. I don’t remember the outer packaging, but it did have an inner wrapper with writing or art. It was a king of fruity flavor, although not as strong or identifiable as American taffy. The insert had colored ink, kind of like temporary tattoos but I don’t think that’s what they were.

And a final one from Christina (this one I know!):

WHERE/WHEN: I distinctly remember eating this candy while going to the movie theater. I lived in Honolulu, Hawaii at the time, during the early 1980s.

TYPE/DESCRIPTION: Chocolate candy, similar in shape as a Hershey Kiss, and the diameter of the bottom is about the size of a quarter or slightly bigger, and it seemed like someone put their finger on the tip of a Hershey Kiss and squished it down a little bit, so it was a little flatter, and from top to bottom was slightly more than one-half inch.

PACKAGING: A tube that was about 7 inches long and about one and one-half inch round. The outside of the tube was sort of like foil and I believe it came in two different colors, one green and one red (maybe two different flavors??). The inside of the tube looked like the inside of a paper towel/toilet paper roll. I believe there may have been anywhere from 6 to 10 pieces per package.

Finally one I know! That has to be Flicks candy! If you know what the other candies could be, let us know in a comment below! If you have a long-lost candy you can’t remember, describe it in an email and I’ll post it here for all to read.

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Name That Candy: gummi cardboard and boxed licorice tubes

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Believe it or not, I get 2 to 3 emails per week asking if I know what some long-lost candy from someone’s childhood is. Previously, I had been answering the ones I knew and posting a few of the ones I didn’t. From now on, I will collect all of these emails each week and post them on Monday in one “Name That Candy” post. So here are two from last week:

Samantha M. writes:

I’m seventeen. I remember a candy I used to eat when I was about eight or nine. I can’t remember what the package was made out of, but the candy itself was on a little thin cardboard thing. The candy was sort of gummy, and was made in a cool design that you could pull off the cardboard thing almost like long, string stickers. I don’t remember the colors, but for some reason I think each one may have been multicolored, and I think at least one kind of them was blue and red.

I live in Minnesota, but I’m quite sure that it wasn’t only a local candy. I think they tasted sort of like gushers, but I’m not sure. The most similar thing I can find to this product is a fruit-roll-up, but the candy I’m talking about is thicker and, for lack of a better word, drier. It wasn’t rolled up, just on a little thin piece of rectangular cardboard with the long sides folded up, then packaged.

Anyone recognize that candy? I sure don’t.

Here’s the other – GT writes:

Back in the later part of the 60s here in Central Indiana, I used to get these licorice tubes that came in a little box about 4″ by 2″. The box was red, blue and black I believe and had a picture of an X-15 rocket on the front. Any idea what these were? Thanks for any help!
GT

I have no clue on that one – I have never liked licorice, so never paid attention to it.

Can anyone help these two Candy Addicts? If you know what either of these candies is, leave a comment and let them and us know!

Name That Candy: Shaving Cream Candy

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In our never-ending quest to put names to childhood candy memories, we present to you another edition of Name That Candy. This one comes from a reader named Caitlin (and it’s not our staff writer Caitlin). This one only goes back 12 years, so it’s not quite as old as some of our other Name That Candy episodes. Caitlin says:

I was wondering if you could help me find a candy I used to eat when I was younger. I am only 15, so it wasn’t that long ago. I lived in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the year was approximately 1994. The candy came in a shaving cream dispenser. I believe the container was pink with a moose on the front. The candy itself was a gel I think that would come out just like shaving gel. It was my favorite candy, but I only know one other person that had it before and they also lived in Hawaii.

Thank you!
Caitlin

I don’t ever recall seeing shaving cream candy and some Googling turned up nothing. Readers? Anyone know what candy Caitlin is remembering?

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