I'm going to give you 5 pennies to go to the penny candy store. What 5 pieces of candy do you buy

[debm55]

that the clerk puts in your small brown penny candy bag. My choices are
wax lips
lipstick
cherry licorice
pretzel rod (2)
Don't change your mind too much or you will get a dirty look from said clerk Please let us know how many you are buying.

[dem4decades]

1. Fire Balls

[debm55]

3. You are going to buy 5 fire balls. Oh that will burn.

[dem4decades]

5. That's the way I roll, red tongue and all

[FalloutShelter]

2. Tootsie rolls.

[debm55]

4. Loved the little tootsies.

[brush]

6. 2 cents worth of 2 for a penny kisses, 1 red hot jaw breaker...

and two cents worth of those candy dots on sheets.

[debm55]

8. I could never get the paper completely off. Had to use my fingernails.

[brush]

14. That's ok. I used to bite them off.

[Walleye]

7. Mary Janes

[debm55]

12. At our store it was choice between Mary Janes and Jawbreakers.

[Deuxcents]

9. O. No! This reminds me of a very valuable lesson when I was a kid..

My dad gave us maybe 3 cents each for a job well done..this was when I was in the 4-5th grade. My sister and I went to Badger’s neighborhood little store n got candy. But..we sat in there and ate some before we left. When we got home, my dad wanted to see what we got. Where’s the chocolate? O, we didn’t get any of that…then why is it on your face?! To make a long story short, he marched us right back and we had to tell him we stole some of his candy and here’s the money for what we ate. Omg. I was beyond embarrassed and the truth is..I never took anything again. Welll..maybe paper and pens from work but you know what I mean!

[debm55]

30. I'm sorry that happened to you.

[Deuxcents]

31. O, no! I was just a kid and my dad taught us a real lesson..

Don’t steal! Ever. I like to think I learned it well.

[LakeArenal]

10. Brachs caramels. The three foot red vine. (It seemed like three feet to me)

That most awful jewelry. Bracelet or necklace of colored sugar beads.

And I have to admit I was cool smoking those candy Camels.

[debm55]

32. I liked the brachs caramels with a slight dusting of powder sugar. I liked the colored sugar bead

necklace--you could wear and eat them when you wanted.

[bottomofthehill]

11. Here we go

Pixie stick
Kits
Fireball
Tootsie roll
Jaw breaker

[debm55]

33. Pixie stick--loved all the flavors.

[rsdsharp]

13. When I was a kid, my small town still had an old time drug store

with old fashioned candies in glass jars. In the spirit of nostalgia, my choices:

Rock candy
Horehound drops
Root beer barrels
Lemon drops
Licorice

[brush]

16. Good choices. I forgot about root beer barrels.

[Walleye]

19. We had a scare with all of those, I liked the horehound

[debm55]

34. I loved the rock candy--with string going through. When I was teaching, my class make some.

[rsdsharp]

38. I've had that, too. This stuff was just chunks of sugar crystals loose in a jar.

[sueh]

15. I'd choose 1 Bit o Honey, 1 Mary Jane, 1 cherry licorice, 1 black licorice

and 1 orange slice.

[debm55]

35. Bit of Honey yum

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Bit-o-honey, candy cigarettes, Tootsie roll, Sugar Babies, and Mary Jane.

[debm55]

36. Love your selection. candy cigarettes---I thought I was cool

[Hekate]

56. I practiced all my "sophisticated" gestures with those candy cigarettes, lol

Never actually smoked myself, and looking back I can see that was a helluva marketing ploy on Big Tobacco’s part. Remember making clay ashtrays in primary school as gifts for mommy and daddy? Oh, the 1950s.

[debm55]

63. Same here. I tried to mimic the movie stars on TV and the movies.

[onecaliberal]

18. Lemmon drops, licorice

[debm55]

37. Did you like the cherry or black licorice? Or both?

[onecaliberal]

52. Only cherry.

[debm55]

53. Me too

[onecaliberal]

55. I still love it.

I don’t get to eat it anymore, but I can wipe out a package all by myself.

[debm55]

64. I have jaw problems and can no longer eat licorice or chew gum.The other family members eat the

cherry.

[EYESORE 9001]

20. 5 blue m&ms

Nah.

1 Boston Baked Bean

1 Skittle (preferably green)

1 Andes Mint

1 Lemonhead

1 Willy Wonka Runt (must be banana)

[debm55]

39. You know if you did that in the store, (change your mind) the clerk would say"Make up you mind kid,

I don't have all day!" I like and still like Andes Mints.

[Diamond_Dog]

42. Andes mints!

Now you’re talkin my language, deb! 😋

[debm55]

43. YES!!!!

[dameatball]

21. Bazooka Gum, root beer barrels, caramel rolls, atomic fireballs, red hots

Honorable mention to the candy cigarettes and bubble gum cigars.

However, I would have traded it all for a comic book.

[debm55]

40. When we adopted our son, I found a place that sold blue candy cigars. and we gave them out.

[viva la]

22. Remember those wafers that were like pillows?

They had little balls inside?
That's what I want.5 of them.

[bcool]

26. Cracker Barrel has those

Just saw a bag of those yesterday 😀 They were called UFO's, I believe.

The wafer ships always reminded me of communion wafers 😈

[debm55]

41. We called them satellites with the little balls of candy inside. We would place on the tongue like

we were giving each other communion.

[viva la]

81. That's what I thought too!

Like communion wafer, only with candy.

[Chainfire]

23. With a nickel I may have gotten a Sugar Daddy.

[debm55]

44. Sugar Daddies are the bomb.

[calguy]

24. I'll get a pixie stick, jaw breaker, and tootsie roll

with my other two cents, I'll score a pack of chum gum, because you get four sticks for two cents. I always go for the value.

[louslobbs]

25. An orange Tootsie Pop, a Tootsie Roll,

Bit-O-Honey, a Lemon Head and a Caramel Cream. If I had more money, I’d get some Chuckles and some Dots……and a handful of Bazooka Bubble Gum….and those little Nik-L-Nip
wax bottles of cherry, lemon, lime, and grape flavored water….then I’d chew all the bottles to get all the juice out of the wax…..that’s it!

[debm55]

45. I forgot about those little wax bottles with the flavored water. I would bite off the top, spit it

out and drink it and throw away the wax bottle.

[louslobbs]

69. I'd do the same with the top

but then I’d chew each wax bottle because there was still some flavored water in each bottle 👍🏻 Yum!

[Hekate]

27. Ben Franklin store candy counter ❤️ Lemon drops, Cinnamon red-hots, Butter mint, Butterscotch...

… surely something else will come to mind, but sheesh it’s been over 50 years. Glad I could remember this much.

At the movie show I used to get a whole Sugar Daddy because it lasted a long time, but in early middle age I had to give those up for fear they’d dislodge my fillings. The other thing I used to get at the movie show was a little box of Tomoe Ame gummy rice candy wrapped in a layer of dissolvable rice paper and a layer of regular paper.

[debm55]

46. Yes, we all had the teeth fillings from all the penny candy junk we ate as kids. I like the red hots

too,

[thatcrowwoman]

28. A Kraft caramel, lemon drops, redhots, Hershey's kiss, sour apple sucker

Cinnamon, citrus, sour, sweet, and chocolate. That covers it for me.
🕊thatcrowwoman

[debm55]

47. crow, loved the sour apple sucker too!

[Mr.Bill]

29. One of the grocery stores in our area

has a candy rack containing dozens of these old style candies. I mean there is stuff there I haven't seen in 50 years. And it's all fresh stuff. I wonder if they've been continuing to make this stuff for all these years, or are they reviving it? They even have bubble gum Cigars. It's like walking into a candy store in the 50s. I like the little wax bottles with the sweet liquid in them.

[debm55]

48. Me too. We had a store here that sold big bags of 1950s-1960s candy. But they went out of business.

[Mr.Bill]

49. This stuff is all individual items

and the packaging even looks like it did years ago, except there are bar codes. It's not real cheap, either. Pretty much contemporary prices.

[debm55]

50. Oh I haven't seen those. That's cool that your store has them. Mine had the bag full of penny candy.

I didn't buy because there are candies I didn't like or can't eat like jawbreakers.

[Conjuay]

57. No, sorry,

I was thinking in the here and now and not a reminiscing moment. Now that I realize what you were asking,
it would be 2 Bit'o'Honey, two Maryjanes, and a Sugar Daddy.


I also loved Sen-Sens, but they were never a penny in my lifetime.

[debm55]

59. Thank you

[betsuni]

58. Four red licorice sticks and one watermelon Jolly Rancher.

Every Friday after elementary school I'd stop at my little town's library to borrow books for the weekend and buy candy at the grocery store if I had pennies. Even now sometimes on Fridays if I'm out walking around and it's overcast and quiet like those long ago Pacific Northwest afternoons, I remember licorice and books and feel happy.

[ProfessorGAC]

60. Loved The Watermelon Jolly Ranchers

The lemon ones, too. I lost my taste for hard candy a long time ago, though. Except for Werther's toffee & butterscotch drops.

[debm55]

65. Memories are great, aren't they? red licorice and Jolly Ranchers---any flavor for me.

[llashram]

61. cherry licorice

yum

[debm55]

66. Double yum.

[3catwoman3]

62. I don't think these were penny candies, but a childhood.....

...favorite was French cremes from the Woolworth's candy counter. I would always ask for lots of pink ones.

The Vermont Country Store still carries them, in mixed flavors.

[debm55]

67. Yes, I get their catalogue. I liked the pink ones with coconut inside. I remember the Woolworth's

candy counter. They would have very thin paper to wrap them and place in your bag.

[LNM]

68. red licorice stick

red licorice stick
black licorice stick
a pixie stick
a sleave of malted milkballs
and finish with Bazooka bubblegum

[debm55]

70. OMG --forgot the sleeve of malted milk balls. They were sooooo good.

[LudwigPastorius]

71. I guess my tastes were more expensive.

I don't remember anything besides individual pieces of gum going for a penny.

But, if I had a full pocket and had to pick 5 I'd get:


A pack of BeechNut Fruit Stripe gum

Bottle Caps

A Tootsie Roll

Spree

and either Red Hots, or Lemon Heads

[debm55]

74. Those candies were sold by the box at the drug store and yes they were more expensive. I could

remember getting a bad of Baker's BBQ chips and a bottle of coke for the 25 cents my grandmother gave me.

[Wolf Frankula]

72. What's penny candy?

When I was a kid the cheapest candy was a nickel. I get a little Mars bar.

Wolf

[debm55]

73. There was a time when a small grocery store had a penny candy section. Mine had a glass encloser.

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The clerk would bring out a small brown bag, you would select you candy and he would place it in the bag. Some candies were place in a cellophane sleeve--like the malt balls. but they were still a penny a sleeve. Clerk would get mad if you changed you mind or the number you wanted. We paid our money and left, or in some cases were thrown out.I guess it depends on where or when you lived. Mine were a penny

[yellowdogintexas]

75. If they have them, those mini Milky Way bars

preferably dark chocolate if available.

I never liked typical candy store candy.

[debm55]

78. I love the mini milky way. We buy them for Halloween candy.

[JudyM]

76. 3 Cherry stones and 2 tootsie rolls

[debm55]

79. Sounds good.

[Phentex]

77. Circus peanut, fire ball, Mary Jane, tootsie roll, bb bat...

Candy corn too

[debm55]

80. I liked the little sized fire ball. I others were good too,

[Prairie_Seagull]

82. We used to be able to get the small chick o sticks. Don't remember them being a penny but even if-

they were a nickel, I would have only bought one. Loved em.

[debm55]

83. Prairie, I am not familiar with them. Maybe we called them by a different name. Can you give me a

brief description? Thanks

[Prairie_Seagull]

84. Absolutely, here ya go and it has a pic or two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-O-Stick

yum. have not had one in ages.