Welcome Wednesday: What is/was your favorite candy?

Happy Wednesday Everyone!

I'm in the middle of Hackathon week at work. My awesome company sent out a care package that included: a container of gummies, a chocolate bar and some pepperoni sticks (as well as an awesome t-shirt)!

This got me thinking about some of my favorite candies when I was younger (i don't eat them much now).

One of my absolute favorites was Cherry Blasters:

Were you a candy, chocolate or chips person when you were younger? I'd love for you to tell me in the comments.

Have a great rest of the week everyone!

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Utz Potato Chips!

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I'm not familiar with the Utz brand but they do look very similar to Lay's. Likely same thing different country :D

Hi @Jimmy Seddon

I was a chocolate person. And my favorite was LANCY with cocoa and hazelnut. I don't know how many times I ate this one! But, a lot of times, for sure.

And the fun is that nowadays I usually eat a bar of chocolate with 90g in 1 month or more.

Excellent topic; thanks for the interaction today!

Cheers! 😃🤩👏🍫

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Ok I have never had one of those, but it sounds delicious! I'm going to have to see if I can find it (or an equivalent)!

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Hi @Jimmy Seddon

I highly recommend this experience to you!

See here where you can find Lancy on Amazon!

Let me know when you prove this one!

Cheers, 😃👏🙏🍫💪

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Chips all the way! I think I'm always craving salt.

When I didn't have anything after school, I would grab a bag of Fritos and watch the VH1 video countdown and text my friends on my super-cool full-keyboard LG rumor.

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I was always a fan of Ruffles Sour Cream and Onion, but it had to be Ruffles. I didn't watch VH1... but I had friends that did.

Never met a potato I didnt like. Smiths chicken for me!

I used to love Lion Bar but it doesn't taste the same any more :(

A similar thing I still love is Tunnock's Caramel Wafer.

Otherwise I mostly just eat dark chocolate (preferably not under 70%).

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I love caramel!

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Gummies are awesome. Dots have always been a fave.

Chocolate? Goldberg Peanut Chews. Love places that sell old-timely candy like oldtimecandy.com

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I did not know there was an entire site devoted to this (though I should have).

Gratefully, some Old Timey Candy Never Dies.

I have a few favorites that change out depending on my mood that week. But a mainstay is Tootsie Rolls!

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Those are all yours @John Funk! I was never much of a fan of them.

Those would make some good Atlassian swag :-)

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I see what you did there. Great idea! It would be so nice if Atlassian sent Wondrium a Costco-sized shipment of Tootsies. But ALL colors too.

Hey wait. Wasn't the question about candy? How did potato chips get in here? :)

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Probably because if you eat anything but plain salt ones, they are full of sugar! 🤣

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As I child we had visitors from Germany who brought us the chocolate which I liked the most: Kinderschokolade.
This was not available in the shops of Austria.

And I also liked the Stollwerck candies which had a very good taste.

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Pop Rocks

A few other 70's things I still Like!

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Cant go past pop rocks!

FAN. Its never boring with Pop Rocks in your jaw. Wash it down with a Coke!

We had this coloured "licorice" when I was in primary school. The school shop went through who knows how many hundreds of boxes a week, because just about everyone had some most days. It was a gelatine / gummy type thing, sticks about 10cm long, that had strips you could pull off. The most popular was the red one - a sort of pretend raspberry flavour - but they had green, yellow and blue as well... maybe orange?

Cant have been very good for us, but we could not get enough. Sadly I haven't seen it since I left primary school. Cant even find pictures of it.

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I appreciate that you said "liquorice". As a lover of liquorice proper (the awful black stuff :þ) people calling this kind of gummy liquorice gets on my nerves :þ

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Linda,

This sounds a lot like Twizzlers.

https://www.hersheyland.com/twizzlers/about

Originally red or black rods, but later with the peel off strips you mentioned in various flavors. Hope this helps.

Sort of, but not the same thing. They only had 3 tubes that you could peel off, the strips were quite distinct. And I think twizzlers are harder than ours were, and they weren't twisted either. The closest thing you can get now is from Darrell Lea - an Australian lolly shop.

@Thorhalla Gudmundsdottir Beck I agree about licorice. I love the real thing.

This one these days, anyone with me?

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@Bihan Hu I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking at? Can you elaborate please?

IS that a CRACKER? Are we going from candy to chips to CRACKERS? Crackers aren't candy. Guess we should have defined that up front with chips too.

Hiiii @Jimmy Seddon

It's a candy (called Dalgona) game from Squid game ( on Netflix series), the rule of this game is everyone will randomly get one candy box but they have different shape on it, and you have to use a niddle to pull them out, if you failed, the watcher will kill you. people have been crazy about watching and playing this game. I also organising this game as our next team event too!

you will like it if you check here!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W_dF32DglY

Hey @Jose Osorio or @Jose Osorio

IT IS definitely a candy called Dalgona from my childhood and the one in the picture is a candy game from a quite popular Netflix series - Squid game recently. I got same question like you (what is that?) when I first saw it but then I got obsessed with the CANDY and the game now!!

Check this out, hope you will like it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W_dF32DglY