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fwiffo wrote:No, not Good 'n Plenty. I'm talking about that horrible molasses and peanut butter taffy that comes in orange and black wax wrappers.

Oh right, I misread your original post as "black and white" instead of "black and orange." I remember the ones you mean also. I thought they were OK, but yeah, not real memorable.

When I was a kid people gave out really good treats: homemade popcorn balls, taffy apples, homemade cookies and brownies, and full size candy bars (they only cost 5 cents back then). Unfortunately those great treats wouldn't be possible today except at a party in your home, due to societal psychoses.

OMG I hate those peanut butter taffy things! Every year I'd try one or two of them just to see if maybe I liked them that time around, but no, they were always horrible.

I love Necco wafers, though! My favorite ones were the anise flavored ones, but I also really like the clove and cinnamon. In fact, when I started doing tsumego every day, I had to buy Necco wafers almost every day too for the first couple weeks, since seeing all of those little circles and imagining snapping more little circles on just made me think of Necco wafers.

So I may not be the best judge, since I'm something of a candy junkie, but I love Reese's PB cups too! And Snickers and kitkats and Milky Ways and Mars bars and all of the other things I only eat the day after Halloween any more, but Reese's have always been my favorite. I don't think you're in any danger.

@Helel: I love ginger candy! I had no idea it was popular there! I kind of want to try Turkish Pepper too now.

Aahh, it's such a shame I never get candy collecting kids because I live in a student house. I'd love to run an experiment once and give them little mandarins, just like the really old people used to do when I was a kid. Just to see how ungrateful kids will be nowadays .

Probably it's a good thing that they don't come round our house...

gowan wrote:When I was a kid people gave out really good treats: homemade popcorn balls, taffy apples, homemade cookies and brownies, and full size candy bars (they only cost 5 cents back then). Unfortunately those great treats wouldn't be possible today except at a party in your home, due to societal psychoses.

What do you mean? The only reason against that I see is people nowadays are too lazy to make that stuff themselves.

Helel wrote:

Li Kao wrote:

gowan wrote:When I was a kid people gave out really good treats: homemade popcorn balls, taffy apples, homemade cookies and brownies, and full size candy bars (they only cost 5 cents back then). Unfortunately those great treats wouldn't be possible today except at a party in your home, due to societal psychoses.

What do you mean? The only reason against that I see is people nowadays are too lazy to make that stuff themselves.

Parents will believe that you mixed your treats with rat poison, hypodermic needles and other fun stuff.

Nice remark, but seriously: are people in the US really messed up enough already to distrust other people's homemade cookies?

Yes, I think we are.

But there's also a second order issue: even if no one would complaink if you worry that they might, that may stop you.

It's not like putting poison into bought sweets is much harder than putting them in homemade sweets...
People who are that paranoid should just lock their kids in the basement 24/7 so they're safe from that dangerous and cruel outside world.