Anyone remember this candy? toffee/butterscotch

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by DannyCox

Just recently, a bunch of us sat at the bar for hours talking about the penny candy we used to get as kids. We're all in our 40's and 50's and it got really funny watching how excited everyone got bringing back old memories of their favourites.

That was the days when you could buy things like 5 black balls for a penny....and wax lips!!

When I was about 14, there was a "corner market" near the town park we played in. It looked like a converted house. Big, wooden steps up to the front door; a pot bellied wood burning stove with elderly gentlemen sitting around it drinking coffee and chatting; and best of all for us...a big glass case full of penny candy. I remember standing there in front of that case with my friends, doing the "one of those...two of those...uh...OH! Yes! *three* of those!..." This was when 50 cents was serious money. It all went into a little brown paper sack.

Thankfully, for a short time there was an independent gas station here that had a penny candy section, so that my own children could know what it was like to be me as a child. So many of the things were the same. They liked the little colored dots on the sheet of paper, too.

I never liked to chew wax. I used to get the little wax bottles full of liquid, delicately bite off the top and drink the liquid, though. I do remember that my mother pretended to be "shocked and surprised" when I came around the corner with wax lips. Each and every time I pulled it, too. Mom's are nice like that.