Did you have a favorite candy bar when you were a kid?

[red dog 1]

All the candy bars cost 5 cents, except my favorite, U-NO, which cost 10 cents (I'd bring it home & put it in the refrigerator to get cold)

[ret5hd]

1. The large ones. Screw those Halloween sized ones.

[leftieNanner]

8. You mean the "fun size" ones?

My daughter once said to me "What's FUN about a little bitty candy bar?"

Gotta say she was smart even way back then!

[ret5hd]

15. What does that make the large size ones?

“f’ing orgasmic size”?

[leftieNanner]

19. Yeah. I think I dated him once.

[Boomerproud]

2. Butterfingers and 3 Musketeers.

I'm type 2 so I miss them both.

[tblue37]

28. Butterfingers & Baby Ruth.

[Golden Raisin]

3. Mounds and 3 Musketeers.

[highplainsdem]

47. Those have always been my favorites, too.

[redstatebluegirl]

4. I like a frozen Milky Way.

[flor-de-jasmim]

5. Mounds. Occasionally Butterworths.

[Lochloosa]

6. Payday. Salt and Sweet

Still is.

[Jade Fox]

30. Did you slowly eat all the peanuts off first....

and then tackle the candy?

They were about twice as big as they are now back in the day. At least it seemed so.

[Lochloosa]

37. No, one small savory bite at a time. They are huge now.

[Submariner]

7. Charleston Chew and Bonomo's Turkish Taffy

Both frozen then smashed on countertop into bite size bits. Thousands and thousands of dollars made my dentists rich, but they were yummy.

[Archae]

71. I love those Charleston Chews, too.

The vanilla ones with chocolate covering.

[Sneederbunk]

9. Forever Yours.

[rurallib]

21. me too!

[patphil]

10. 3 muskteers.

[walkingman]

11. My 3 favs were Mr. Goodbar, Payday, and Baby Ruth - yum yum

[FSogol]

12. After each liile league game, I was given a concession stand ticket.

With that tix, I could get a 6 oz root beer and a candy bar. I always got a roll of Necco wafers

[Glorfindel]

13. Mounds

I fell in love with dark chocolate at an early age

[leftieNanner]

20. I wish they made the Almond Joy

with dark chocolate.

Same with Butterfinger bars.

[electric_blue68]

61. This 😄

Once I discovered dark chocolate the only milk chocolate I really, really liked was when it was paired with peanuts. So Reese's peanut butter cups was my go to when I couldn't get dark chocolate. Though I also did like them in their own.

Several years back Trader Joe's introduced after having their version of RPC for years - a dark chocolate peanut butter cup. Yuuuum! 😄

[leftieNanner]

63. Have you tried

Trader Joe's dark chocolate almond butter cups?

Yum again.

[electric_blue68]

66. Ah, no... Hopefully making a visit down in the next few weeks!

I'll scoop a few up!

And the dark chocolate covered while almonds. 🧡

As a pretzel lover there's the dark chocolate covered pretzels.
The one with the ?blue, or violet top banner, then white, then photo of item. Yum! 🧡


😄

[electric_blue68]

60. Me, too It was either ...

Mounds, or Hersey's Special Dark which we got on (the bite size) Halloween go arounds.

Might have been the Halloween Hersey's bc I wasn't old enough to go to the candy store yet.

[hlthe2b]

14. Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, Snickers--loved them all. But my Dad always loved St. Jo, MO's own:

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cherry mash. So, I sort of had to love those too. They still make them but are increasingly hard to find.

[Runningdawg]

35. Gotta have the mash - Valomilk honorable mention.

[LisaM]

16. Heath Bars.

Still are, actually.

[Upthevibe]

55. LisaM.........ABSOLUTELY Heath Bars!

Then and now.

To me, it's the perfect candy bar....

[LakeArenal]

17. It's not so much a candy bar but the penny candy.

Wax lips 👄 and that horrible candy on a strip of calculator paper. Individual caramels and red vines.
Candy cigarettes and bubble gum cigars. Those wax coke bottles.

All of it pretty disgusting. But to an eight year old….🤪😜😛

[randr]

18. Sugar Daddy

Lost count of fillings pulled out

[jrthin]

22. Thank you for this. Kitcat bar and Charleston Chew

[padfun]

23. $100,000 Bar and Milky Way

nt

Edit: I have to add Butterfinger too.

[Ohiya]

67. I still remember the first $100,000 bar I had.

I couldn't believe how good it was!

[applegrove]

24. Misty Mints. My grandmother had them. The store that she bought them from still carrried

them up to 5 years ago.

Link to tweet

[ProudMNDemocrat]

25. Snickers and Hershey's Chicolate Bar.

[LonePirate]

26. Same now as when I was a kid: Reese's Cups

[peacefreak2.0]

27. Sky Bar and Snickers.

Broadway Red licorice rolls, too

[Xavier Breath]

29. The same bar that's my favorite to this day.

They can be difficult to find at times unless a store has a huge candy display. They seem to be far down on the candy bar pecking order. But whenever I'm traveling and stop for gas, I have to go into the c-store to see if they have any. It's a bit of a ritual for me, I guess.

[OilemFirchen]

31. Chunky!

Second best: all of the above.

[werdna]

32. It' s a lo-o-o-o-ong one.

[jmowreader]

44. That's what I was going to say

The only problem with a Marathon bar was, due to the consistency of the caramel, it was impossible to eat if it wasn't frozen or at least refrigerated for a really long time.

[Haggard Celine]

68. I was going to say that!

I loved those things when I was a kid. One of these days I might open a factory and start making them again. The bank probably wouldn't give me the money, though. Marathon bars were very simple, just caramel coated in chocolate, but they were so tasty!

[Midnight Writer]

33. Mars Bar and Payday

[Chainfire]

34. Reese's cups, followed by Baby Ruth.

I still think the Reese's are the food of the gods. My non-candy go to were Rock and Roll Planks frosted gingerbread cookies.

[gibraltar72]

36. Payday.

[eppur_se_muova]

38. Milk Duds and Black Cow.

I could hardly ever get them, which made them more special.

If you can find them now, they're weak imitations of their former selves.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

39. Mars bars... from Germany!

They were like Milky Way bars over here, but much better!

I ate those Mars bars as a preteen in 1980, visiting my older brother stationed in Germany. No idea if they're different now. Maybe the chocolate is cheaper today?

Me and my parents asked the brother to mail us more Mars bars from Germany, so what did that dummy do? He bought them from his base's PX, so they were the same Mars bars that we could've bought in the USA! As if we would've ever done that, anyway. (Yuck)

Edit: After some quick online "research", I've learned that the Mars bars that we loved in Germany were made in the UK. And those candy bars had more cocoa butter in the chocolate compared to the USA Milky Way bars. Also, the recipe has changed in the interim just as I anticipated.

[marked50]

40. tootsie rolls

[marked50]

41. tootsie rolls

[Different Drummer]

42. Not as a kid, but nowadays I go for PayDay and 5th Avenue. n/t

[ForgedCrank]

43. Maple "Bun"

I still grab a couple whenever I'm lucky enough to find them. They are freekin awesome.
A few years back, snickers was making a maple flavored version. Those were very good as well. I only found them once and haven't seen them anywhere since so I don't know if they are discontinued or what.

[AwakeAtLast]

45. Zero Bar!

So good!

Non chocolate was Spree

[3catwoman3]

46. French creams from the Woolworth's...

…candy counter. The pink ones were my favorites.

[DoBotherMe]

48. Maple nut Bun and Mallow Cups

[rownesheck]

49. What?!

Is there no love for Whatchamacallit?!

Still my favorite.

[Baggies]

50. I like a Kit Kat bar

But only if I’m with 3 or fewer people.

[Emile]

51. Mars bar, I wish they still made them.

[edbermac]

52. Chuckles, Mallo Cups, SkyBars

I like Fifth Avenue and Kinder Bueno now.

[Emile]

53. When I was a kid there was a Chuckles candy factory

in our neighborhood in Danville, Illinois. We use to walk along side of the railroad tracks next to the factory to go to school. Women inside the factory would throw out the windows packages of Chuckles to us kids. Good memories. . .

[yellowdogintexas]

54. Three Musketeers - in the 1950s it was a nice sized bar

however I do not think it tastes nearly as good as it did back then

[LompocDem]

56. Big Hunk and Taffy Strips from Reggies in Carpinteria Ca,

That old seadog treated us kids right in the late 50s

[Delmette2.0]

70. Big Hunk was great

I couldn't eat one today. I wouldn't have a filling or crown left.

[Mr.Bill]

57. Butterfinger and Snickers.

Back when I had teeth.

[LompocDem]

58. Snickers no...

put my upper plate in and Butterfingers work, just let them soften and break apart on their own. Had one today with morning coffee,,,,mmmm

[lunatica]

59. Milky Way

I may have had my first orgasm eating one. If not, then it was mighty close.

[Harker]

62. Yes.

The one in my hand.

[area51]

64. Reese's peanut butter cups.

Still love 'em. Also like dark chocolate bars.

[Callalily]

65. Healthbar

[electric_blue68]

69. Mounds and Butterfingers...

Only, Idk about the rest of you but from the mid '60s to the through the '70s (maybe later) often the Butterfingers core would be too hard to eat here in NYC.

So for a long time I stopped eating them and also serious dark chocolate bars were popping up in the ?'90s. When decided to have one I was pleasantly surprised that the core was now very easy to crunch on. It has been that way (though it's been several yrs since I've had one) ever since. Yay someone(s) fixed it.


As an adult back in my 40s, while not a candy bar per se,
I discovered Maple Candy at a Vermont promotion event! Oooo, yum! Haven't had any recently since I haven't been down to my big Greenmarket since covid.

[SKKY]

72. Kit Kat has always been my jam