153 years of uninterrupted Sweethearts candies, interrupted

[agies]

@TobinL

I actually like the hearts and the wafers. Even the licorice flavored ones.

Me too.  

[oldsma]

You buy Peeps in this year’s after-Easter clearance so you can eat them next year.

[faithnomore]

I’m with you. When the closing was announced, there was a coincidental buy one, get one sale at my local CVS, so now I have a large ziplock bag of about two dozen rolls carefully tucked away for future enjoyment.

[faithnomore]

Count me in too!

[Melizmatic]

I think y’all have the Necco love/hate positions well-covered.

Personally, I still pine for my old school Lifesavers Cream lollipops:

This crap just isn’t the same:

[Shuck]

I’m hoping that when they return, they start using the neural-net-generated messages. Much better than what they used to have, anyways.

Candy Heart messages written by a neural network

@Melz2

Wait… those little candy hearts were made “fresh?”

Yeah, who knew? I always assumed they sat around for years before they got sold. I recollect as a kid, having some that ended up in the back of a drawer, found them years later and they tasted exactly the same.

[FGD135]

But, but, but - that’s the secret ingredient!

[joed]

Spangler also makes these:

https://www.spanglercandy.com/candy-store/circus-peanuts

[pingmerlot]

Circus Peanuts?

They represent a good value if you run with a band of no-good two-bit grifters like I do.

They are:

• $1.79.
• Filling.
• Rather enjoyable if you come from a grifter background.
• Mostly air, so lo cal.

So a real win for those of us with rather inscrutable palettes.

But, as Cookie Monster would put it, Circus Peanuts are SOMETIMES food. Om nom nom.

[ulasaw]

Oy I couldn’t remember
their name
But I can see them,
smell them
remember them.
Thanks!

[knoxblox]

@pingmerlot

if you run with a band of no-good two-bit grifters like I do.

Your kids? That was our relationship to our dad and his candy.

[zuludaddy]

I spy a Cantab! Does the smokestack still sport the wafer-colored stripes?

[Brainspore]

@Otherbrother

• If it was good enough to stand on its own merits they’d just sell it year round and call it “candy.”

[Gyrofrog]

@pingmerlot

They represent a good value if you run with a band of no-good two-bit grifters like I do.

Thanks for the laugh (out loud; my son came over to see what was so funny. Now he’s hovering over my shoulder, supervising).

@zuludaddy

Cantab

Thanks for the vocabulary lesson

[Hanglyman]

Here’s a suggestion for a heart-shaped substitute candy, with the added benefit of not tasting like chalk:

They don’t have messages, but… dude. Write a note. It’s not worth it!

[LDoBe]

Love 2000 Hogs Yea

[Shuck]

Is it… an affirmation? a fuck-off “suggestion”? The ambiguity makes that one good.

[rocketace]

Seriously - I hate to be that guy (and I’m as nastalgic as the next guy) but who the F cares about this - terrible tasting “candy” that was lame and undesirable 50 years ago… I am nostalgic for something that really matters .

[MBrody]

“That’s not a rat turd. It’s a caper!”

[nungesser]

@rocketace

Seriously - I hate to be that guy (and I’m as nastalgic as the next guy) but who the F cares about this - terrible tasting “candy” that was lame and undesirable 50 years ago… I am nostalgic for something that really matters .

I guess I’d say it’s one thing to say “never liked them much, not a fan” and it’s another to say WHO THE FUCK CARES

A lot of people do. I’m sure there’s people out there who like a lot of things I don’t like, but it doesn’t anger me that they do.