Hi, I remember candy floss. We got it at our fall fairs.
Candy apples were a favourite around this time of year also. Have a great weekend, it is raining here and very damp and windy in Ontario Canada. Hugs Lynn *4U

No, sorry I thought I'd had all the candies. What is candy floss is it like cotton candy. What are nutties??

I remember when I was a kid, we had penny candy. We would take a nickel and if we were real fortunate, a dime and go to the store to pick out our candy. Sometimes things were 2 pieces for a penny!! What are nutties. Do not think I have heard of them. Hugs Mary

I don't remember either of those suzette, so don't know if we had them or not. My favorite was a Baby Ruth, a chocolate & peanut bar probably because because it was only a nickle. *4U

Hope this is not really for the over 50 but I also remember the wilson and candy floss. We still get both in Cape Town, but the wilson toffee is half the size but about 500% more in prize. The candy floss you can buy in some of the shopping centres. I remember a pinky. Little triangle filled with condensed milk, cost only 5c.

Suzette, I have never heard of either - but I just bet they were wonderful. Most of the candies I remember when I was young - were penny candies. But I would love to try the Wilson't toffees, candy floss, and nutties. Hehehe! *4U

Just a pity that the Wilson toffees of today does not taste like they used to. My favourite used to be the buttermilk flavour. I also remember that you could buy a creamy toffee, it was about 15cm by 5cm and a half cm thick. The young kids of today does not know these and they prefer sour worms etc. They sure are loosing out.

We never had sweets and things, my mother was dead against it, but then came the time my father had to go to London every few weeks and each and every time he brought us a box of Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate - very sweet compared to the chocolate we have here, but at the time I loved it.

Penny candies were just finishing as I grew up, come on all we're not that old! The best long lasting candy was the Sugar Daddy but my favorite was the Heath bar.

I don't remember those being around here in Georgia, but I do remember my little brother and I walking to a tiny little store and picking up Cola bottles to cash in. We bought as much candy as we could find bottles in the mile or so we had to walk to the store. There were candy cigarettes (nice, huh?) little wax bottles filled with a sweet juice, bubble gum, and smarties.;)

Suzette, that sure brings back memories, am I giving my age away? We did not get much sweets , but I do recall both of them. Not much of a chocolate eater, but I love chips and salty things. But have cut down a lot since I went to weigh-less and try to stay close to my goal weight, it has been over 3 years now. So there are no big packets of chips/crisps, sometimes I will have a small packet though. Hugs Yvonne

Dear Suzette, I also dont have interaction with people other than my husband and my dog. Now I talk to my dolls Mai, Manami and Rika-chan too, I'm getting better :D!
Unfortunatelly, never heard about wilsons toffees and candy floss, and I'm over 50's :) My favorite sweet as a kid was senbei and manju, well, I still like them, I wish I had one now :)

1. senbei
2. manju

Wilson's Toffees were a rare treat for us, only at the wealthy aunt's house at the holidays, hee hee hee. But we kids were just thrilled that the house across the street and up a ways had an actual cotton candy (candy floss) machine! It was so unreal to us that these kids' parents had such a thing in their very own house!! And at Halloween, that's what they gave out to the Trick or Treaters, big big cones of cotton candy, in every colour you could imagine. For a kid, it was probably better than living next door to a movie star, hee hee hee. But mostly we had the penny candy from the corner store. Yes, Jerrilyn, I remember the candy cigaretts, with red ends that looked like they were lit, even! And the little wax bottles with syrup in them, and then we chewed the wax like gum. They actually came in a little 'six-pack' carton, like soda pop used to come in before cans... and "dots", anybody remember that? What a concept, selling kids little dots of colored sugar on a strip of calculator paper! Of course, it did provide 'roughage', because you always ended up eating part of the paper because the 'dot' wouldn't ever come off cleanly, hee hee hee. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane, Suzette! Hugs, Marji

Oh, yeah, I don't talk to any live people, either; just dog, cats, stuffed animals, the occasional mouse or spider, and of course my embroidery machine!

Wilson's Toffees were a rare treat for us, only at the wealthy aunt's house at the holidays, hee hee hee. But we kids were just thrilled that the house across the street and up a ways had an actual cotton candy (candy floss) machine! It was so unreal to us that these kids' parents had such a thing in their very own house!! And at Halloween, that's what they gave out to the Trick or Treaters, big big cones of cotton candy, in every colour you could imagine. For a kid, it was probably better than living next door to a movie star, hee hee hee. But mostly we had the penny candy from the corner store. Yes, Jerrilyn, I remember the candy cigaretts, with red ends that looked like they were lit, even! And the little wax bottles with syrup in them, and then we chewed the wax like gum. They actually came in a little 'six-pack' carton, like soda pop used to come in before cans... and "dots", anybody remember that? What a concept, selling kids little dots of colored sugar on a strip of calculator paper! Of course, it did provide 'roughage', because you always ended up eating part of the paper because the 'dot' wouldn't ever come off cleanly, hee hee hee. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane, Suzette! Hugs, Marji

Oh, yeah, I don't talk to any live people, either; just dog, cats, stuffed animals, the occasional mouse or spider, and of course my embroidery machine!

I qualify for the OVER 50, but don't remember Wilson's toffees or candy floss! I just read that Necco is changing their flavorings and there won't be green/lime anymore...AND they are going to have 3 flavors in the chocolate pkg..milk white and regular....Those were my hubbies favorite...I would feed them to him while riding the motorcycle!!!!

Oh my goodness, what a lovely topic. Can I remember Wilson toffees and candy floss !!!!!!!!!! <br />I found some Wilson toffees in a little shop the other day, and had to visit the dentist afterwards, because my filling came out with it LOL.<br />Do you also find that todays toffee's does not taste quite the same as those in the older days ?<br />I also remember the pink sweets called "stars". Have tried the modern version of this too, but it also does not taste quite the same.<br />Nutties bly maar die lekkerste, Geniet dit.<br />Marietta

My favorite candy was Sunkist Fruit Gels. My Dad would buy me a box every birthday and Christmas. Can't seem to find them any more. I love ice cream even more than candy and we has a Thrities Drug Store they sold Ice Cream Cone 1 scoop 5 cents 2 scoops 10 cents and 3 scoops 15 cents. They had different flavorites every month my favorite was Grape sherbet and mint chocolate chip.At Christmas they would have
candy cane. Man was that good.