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Member Posts: 13455 11/01/09 05:47 PM YO MAMA Slightly Off-Kilter	From One-Minute Writer: What was your favorite sugary treat as a kid? Do you have a specific memory attached to it?
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MLS859		#1	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 13455 11/01/09 05:53 PM YO MAMA Slightly Off-Kilter	When I was young, my folks always went to a particular gas station to gas up -- this was back in the days before there was such a thing as "self-serve". We always went to Balcom's Sinclair Gas Station on Vineville Ave. I don't remember how often we had to gas up -- only that back then, all the cars were probably gas-guzzlers -- and gas was only about 25 cents a gallon -- told you it was a long time ago!! Anyway, whenever I was with my daddy, he always let me get a chocolate drink (in a bottle) -- it was one of those old bottle dispensers where you had to yank them out of the slot. I loved those things -- I'm not sure if it was called the same thing back then but now they're called "Yoo-hoos". Today, you can get them in bottles, cans and a boxes -- but they always taste better in a bottle! Lynn
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Suzy from Texas1		#2	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 856 11/01/09 09:32 PM	My favorite sugary sweet as a kid was adding sugar to a Kool-aid package and eating it straight out of the package. I also loved Valomilks.
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MLS859		#3	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 13455 11/01/09 09:56 PM YO MAMA Slightly Off-Kilter	I haven't heard of "valomilks". I used to love "pixie sticks" -- which is sort of like sugar added to kool-aid, in a way! And I loved those big wax edible lips -- the thought of eating one of those now makes me want to .
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ariesgirl1		#4	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 1551 11/02/09 01:35 PM	Hmmm, my favorite treats were the various different Brachs wrapped candies my Grandmother Grace would always keep on hand for me. She would ALWAYS have a stash just for me, although I think she enjoyed them as much as I did! She would go to the little grocery store around the corner, and they had a huge selection that you could mix and match for by the pound. Or you could buy three pieces for a nickle and put it into a little white metal change box. I loved the square, coconut Neopolitan pieces the best, followed by these very strong pretty blue mints. I was so intrigued by that shade of blue lol! Would you believe that store is still there(where my oldest daughter got her first job) and they STILL have that Brachs candy section? I was so floored that that had'nt changed in all these years! And yes, you can still get three pieces for a nickel!! I asked my daughter once, if they have trouble with kids stealing form it, and she said suprisingly no. Every great once in a while, I take my youngest in there and we do a candy run in honor of my Grandma lol!! And I still love those Neopolitans!! Jennifer
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melisande		#5	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 2105 11/02/09 03:21 PM	I used to love "pixie sticks" Totally beside the point, but my friends and I thought we were so cool when we were in middle grades that we snorted Pixie Stick sugar like it was cocaine once. Bad idea! Not only did it hurt like hell (coke is much more fine, or so I'm told) but my snot was rainbow colored for days! I was never much into candy, even as a kid, just give me the real food and lots of it! When I was really small, I liked those candy necklaces but more to wear and play with than to eat. I also thought those candy cigarettes were neat but again, more to pose with than actually eat. Hm, I see a theme here --- always wanting to be grown-up even with my candy - LOL!! I like gummy, sour stuff so probably Sour Patch Kids are my fave even though they haven't been around that long. 'The best way to get over a man is to get under another.' Tamala Jones "What Love Is"
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MLS859		#6	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 13455 11/02/09 05:27 PM YO MAMA Slightly Off-Kilter
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ariesgirl1		#7	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 1551 11/02/09 08:45 PM	OMG!!! Too funny because we just had an experience with this on Halloween night. We went out walking/driving with an old friend of ours and her two year old, for tick or treating. When the night was over, we had to pick up her older son and her nephew from her sisters house. Both of these boys are a bit on the rowdy side, and they have grown up alongside my youngest-needless to say she can barely even tolerate them at this point. So they're in the back seat and come up with the bright idea of doing just that-lets snort these Pixie Sticks! Of course they're trying to persuade Emily to do it too, and she took one look at them and told them "You're beyond retarded, and I'll have you know I'm a lady and we don't do things like that!" I about laughed my ass off! My tomboy daughter who loves to burp, catch fish, and shoot a bow and arrow proclaiming her ladyhood!! Oh and the retards were yelping in pain and begging for Kleenexes within two seconds. Jennifer
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fruityscot		#8	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 3449 11/03/09 05:32 AM	I have never been much into sugary, coloured sweets...i usually went for a bar of chocolate. Although when i was at primary school i often went to my grans for my lunch as she lived close by so on those days we would stop at the corner shop on the way and would have an amount to spend on sweets (and i would have a big list of things i had to get for others in my class...if they knew i was going they would usually bring in a small amount of money and ask for 30p or 20p worth of something, usually tom thumb drops, millions or cola cubes. If it was a nice day they would often ask for ice poles...am sure they people in the shop used to think we were nuts due to the amount of stuff i would leave with) and some times i would get a bag of millions...i liked the orange flavour or the strawberry ones. You could get loads of them for 30p as they were so small and light.
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MLS859		#9	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 13455 11/03/09 09:03 AM YO MAMA Slightly Off-Kilter	Too funny, Jennifer!! Don't you wish you had things like that recorded? Marie, I'm intrigued by all the candy names you've listed -- since none of them are familiar to me -- I wonder if we have them but they are called by other names? Lynn
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fruityscot		#10	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 3449 11/03/09 10:30 AM	I am not sure.. this website has a lot of them...might give you an idea. http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/kola-kubes-cola-cubes-p-509.html In a lot of the newsagents they used to have the big tubs of sweets behind the counter and they would fill small paperbags for you of how ever much you wanted. I am not sure if any of them still do it. I was in one of the newsagents i used to buy the sweets from recently with my cousins kids but i forgot to look and see if they still did it...they went straight for the chocolate bars so i never really thought to check. Just a though...do you's have pic n mix's??
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melisande		#11	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 2105 11/03/09 12:30 PM	Good for Emily! I had friends who did it in high school (I didn't have to since I was so much wiser and experienced in such things by then) so it must be the thing to do. I didn't look at Marie's link, but I know from traveling that many brands, including international ones, have different names for products in different areas even within the same country. So, it's very possible that what we identify with as one name is similar or the same as a product called something else elsewhere. 'The best way to get over a man is to get under another.' Tamala Jones "What Love Is"
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Suzy from Texas1		#12	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 856 11/03/09 08:40 PM	Lynn, a Valomilk is like a Reese's peanut butter cup, except it's filled with marshmallow cream instead of peanut butter. Yummy. I went to lunch with some friends recently, and next door to the restaurant was an art gallery/music studio that had a small room devoted to displays of all the old candy they had when I was a kid. They even had a lot of it for sale. I have no idea where they got it, but we all had a ball reminiscing about eating all that sugary stuff when we were kids.
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melisande		#13	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 2105 11/04/09 12:02 PM	a Valomilk is like a Reese's peanut butter cup, except it's filled with marshmallow cream instead of peanut butter. Here, that's called a Mallo Cup. 'The best way to get over a man is to get under another.' Tamala Jones "What Love Is"
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texasislander		#14	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 1084 11/10/09 03:41 AM Moderator	banana pudding and date loaf candy! I'd help my grandmother make them every Christmas. She never used a recipe so it has taken me awhile to get her recipe right now that she is gone. My mother thought it odd that when my grandmother passed away, I wanted the yellow plastic bowl that we made banana pudding in and the threadbare kitchen towel we soaked to mold the date loaf candy. They live in a cedar chest and come out at holidays! "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
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ariesgirl1		#15	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 1551 11/10/09 08:26 AM	I love those type of memories! I know what you mean about trying to figure out their recipes-my grandmother used to make me the most wonderful spaghetti when I was a child, using the tomatoes from her garden. She lived to be 101, but the last 15 years she did'nt really remember anything, and stupid me never asked for her recipe. I had tried for years to duplicate it, adding this herb and that, olive oil, grated cheeses....but never hitting it-heck, not even coming close lol! Then one day, my daughter and I were canning tomato juice, and it turned out unusually thick. I took a drink, and about jumped for joy! It tasted just like my grandma's sauce! Turns out less is more, and I'd been trying too hard by adding all those other ingredients, when all it ever was, was just her tomatoes made into a sauce with nothing more than salt and some butter added! So all those years longing for that taste are over-I fix it for myself quite often and my youngest daughter has grown to love it too! Jennifer
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melisande		#16	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 2105 11/10/09 10:19 AM	Sounds delish Jen --- I'm on my way for dinner! LOL!! 'The best way to get over a man is to get under another.' Tamala Jones "What Love Is"
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Suzy from Texas1		#17	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 856 11/10/09 02:16 PM	One of my favorite holiday treats that I made as a child was to take the seeds out of dates, stuff them with pecans and roll them in powdered sugar. Yum. Another appetizer (not sweet) is to stuff a bunch of stalks of celery with your favorite filling. We used cream cheese or pineapple cream cheese, dyed with food coloring. Put all the filled stalks back together tightly and then slice into 3/4 inch slices. This is pretty for a party tray.
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