Favorite Childhood Junk Foods

[Pete C]

Something to carry it all in:

[Ron Thorne]

You name it. If it wasn't liver or some other internal organs, I probably ate it. My folks nicknamed me "the human garbage can".


Loved olive loaf, Pete!
Lay's potato chips
Lik-M-Aid
Necco wafers
Fleers bubble gum
Tops baseball cards bubble gum
Nik-L-Nip (wax bottles filled with colored sugar water)
Waxed lips (halloween)
Fried pork rinds
Ice Cream Sandwiches
Eskimo Pies
Sno Cones
Kool Aid
Peanut butter "toast" crackers
Forever Yours candy bars
Mars bars
Orange-colored peanut-shaped softish candies
Orange slices
Candy Corn
Heath candy bars
Boston Baked Beans
JuJu Bees
Popcicles
Dreamcicles
Fudgecicles
French Burnt Peanuts
Salt Water Taffy (from New Jersey)
Candy Cigarettes
Baby Ruth
RC Cola
Nehi Grape Soda
Nehi Orange Soda
Coca-Cola
Cracker Jacks
Vienna Sausages (why?)
Velveeta

[jazzy mary]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ron Thorne
[B]


"Orange-colored peanut-shaped softish candies"
Ron, those were called "circus peanuts" and I loved them too!!

How about cotton candy? I still love cotton candy!

[RBS]

Originally posted by Jimmy Cantiello
In rereading this thread I realized that in post #26 I mistakenly thanked SinginSumo for starting it. It was RBS (Randy) who actually started the thread. Sumo started the toy thread. Hey, us kids like both. Mea culpa. Thanks, Randy!............

You're welcome, Jimmy! Enjoy!

[shrugs]

wasn't there a Girl Scout cookie called Royal Cremes? I seem to remember liking those very much and was sad when they were discontinued. At least they added Samoas/Caramel Delites.
Chocodiles
Ding Dongs
almost any Little Debbie snack(still love the Oatmeal Creme Pies)
Fruity Pebbles
King Cake
Buttermilk Drops
Beignets
Petit Fours

[SinginSumo]

Little Debbie? Drake's? Any Philadelphian could tell you that the superior product line is, of course, TASTYKAKES!


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A visit to the Philadelphia area, by the way, MUST include a visit to any of the Rita's Water Ice locations...

http://ritasice.com/home.html (and click on PRODUCTS and then click on ITALIAN ICES)

P.S. IMHO the best flavors are any of the non-citrus fruit flavors (but there are some that swear by lemon and/or tangerine).

[steve(thelil)]

kool-aid on steroids

[steve(thelil)]

As a canadian, my wife's childhood candy faves were dorky


(maple candy)

[Al in NYC]

Fizzies!! Damn... had forgotten about them. My favorite drink from ages 2 - 5.

Speaking of Canada, my grandmother fed me WAY too much of this during the Ontario summers of my childhood, but damn was it good.

[Pete C]

Originally posted by steve(thelil)
kool-aid on steroids

Yeah, but did you suck 'em?