In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
Showing My Age
By Janet Evans
Thursday, Jun 26 2008, 09:52 PM
I like love very good chocolate.
I know I’ve said that before.
But sometimes the little kid in me creeps back in.
The one who loved that old fashioned candy bar made with overly sweet, sort-of grainy, (I’ll say it) cheap chocolate.
I didn’t have a whole lot of candy when I was a kid. I lived out in the country in Connecticut in a small home, with five brothers and sisters, on a lot of land. We had a huge garden with a fruit orchard…organic fruits and vegetables; lots of flower gardens and organic berry patches.
Milk?
We went to a farm and it was put in bottles with thick cream floating on top.
Eggs?
We went to the chicken farm and got fresh eggs…I think they were still warm.
Soda?
We made our own…only root beer. I still make it…in glass bottles that I saved in two wooden crates from American Soda Co. I have two bottle cappers, too. Nothing better than a yeasty glass of cold homemade root beer. Ask Mrs. Meinhart’s third grade class from back in 1984-85 at old Ben Franklin School. I taught the whole class how to make it. Each student bottled their own, it brewed for a week on the rooftop, and then we all enjoyed it together. Great memories.
Anyway, my favorite old-time candy bar?
Sky Bar.
Chocolate candy bar with four molded centers--fudge, vanilla, peanut and caramel
It’s made by Necco (New England Confectionery Company). Check out their link...you'll be surprised at which of your favorite candies they make.
You may not have ever had a Sky Bar...but it gives you a variety of candy bars all in one. It's all you could want in an old fashioned candy bar.
I bet you've had this ….
Necco Assorted Wafers
Sugar treat with eight pastel colors and flavors--Chocolate, lemon, lime, orange, clove, wintergreen, cinnamon, licorice
(I only like the rolls of all chocolate :)
In the past few years, Nostalgic candy shops have come back. Kids can now have some of the candy from long ago.
Oak Creek has Debbie’s Sweets and Treats
8880 S. Howell Ave.
Suite 300
Oak Creek, WI 53154 Retail Store Hours
Monday through Friday - 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday - 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday - 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
What’s your favorite old fashioned candy?
P.S.
I was so disappointed when Bonomo Turkish Taffy stopped being made in 1989.
