Post by Charles BishopThere are also some stores that offer "Old Tyme" candies, mostly candies
that were sold during our childhoods but aren't carried along with the
other candies for sale in, say, supermarkets and other "normal"
locations. These may be in stores decked out to be like the original (?)
general stores, or stores that also sell "antiques".
There are many of these candies from my childhood, but some I remember
are "root beer barrels" - hard candy shaped like barrels and tasting of
root beer, "Bit-O-Honey" a candy "bar" with sections that were chewy,
sort of taffy, "soda bottles" which were very small and made of wax,
with a sugar liquid inside - we chewed the wax after drinking the very
small amount of liquid.
Many, many others. Some of which like Abba-Dabba I think I've seen in
regular stores, brought back or perhaps never left.
A few years back I watched a DVD of early children's television shows,
one segment of which featured "Bonomo, the Magic Clown"...the sponsor
was Bonomo Turkish Taffy, which provided the name of the show's host,
the "magic words" he used whenever he did a trick, and what seemed like
about every third word of the script...after a minute or two, it was as
if you were tuned to the Bonomo-Bonomo-Bonomo-Bonomo Show....
Not long after, I was in a dollar store when I noticed packages of
Bonomo Turkish Taffy in the candy department...I bought one of each
flavor and took them home, marveling that this brand I'd never heard of
had somehow survived over fifty years since the show on the DVD....
When I checked Wikipedia, I learned that this was not exactly the
case...Bonomo had stopped production in 1989, and had only recently been
revived when I found it at that dollar store over twenty years later....r
