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Originally posted by frayedends:
Mars bars. They haven’t been around in a long time. The rumor is that Snickers with almonds is the same thing. But I’m sure the nougat is different. I think the Mars bar had a white nougat while the snickers has a softer chocolate nougat. I also don’t recall a caramel layer in the Mars bar.

The oringal Mars was my favorite, then they changed it up. Snickers Almond sort of replaced it but, like you pointed out, the caramel layer was added. I understand the Mars in the UK is like the original

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Originally posted by StarTraveler:
The Marathon Bar (caramel strands, woven together, and covered in chocolate) came out when I was a kid and it quickly became one of my favorites. I would freeze them...

That was my favorite as well and I remember putting them in the freezer, too. I have since lost my "sweet tooth" for the most part, which probably helps in NOT weighing 300 lbs.

Chocolate French Chew.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
When I get one at the specialty candy store, most of my friends here have no idea what a Zagnut is, even when I mention the Beetlejuice scene.

That's always what I think of when I hear Zagnut.

Abba Zabba! (damnit).

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Originally posted by signewt:
late 1950s style "Idaho Spud bar"

loosely egg shaped chocolate coating with ?tiny coconut gravel, with a two-chamber interior surrounding a ?nugate center.

They revived them about 30 years ago for a period of time. Either they were very different or my memory drifted.

Can't eat any of it these days anyway.

Beat me to it! I loved those for years and years! Even if I could find some now, I couldn't eat them. Would blow my blood sugar all to hell

Racking my brain trying to remember what store I was in...Checkout lane and there at the head of it was a large display of candy after candy that I hadn’t seen for many years including Necco, Dots (both the jelly kind and the kind that are little colored spots of candy on a strip of paper, Black Cow suckers, Blackjack, Beemans and Clove chewing gum, and more, much more. The sad thing is, I didn’t buy any of it.

When I was a kid living in Missouri, we had a candy called Cherry Mash, I loved those things have not seen one in years or ever out here on the Eastern side of the US.

Violet Crumble

I seem to remember the craft store, Michael's (?) sold the retro candy ear the cash registers.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Necco Wafers

Are you serious? I thought those were the fruitcake of candies. No one ever voluntarily consumed them.

Hershey's Krackle bar. Like a crunch bar, but so much better. Apparently a low seller and deleted from production in '18. I am reduced to buying the fun size variety packs to get them 6 or so at a tine.

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Originally posted by TMats:
Racking my brain trying to remember what store I was in...Checkout lane and there at the head of it was a large display of candy after candy that I hadn’t seen for many years including Necco, Dots (both the jelly kind and the kind that are little colored spots of candy on a strip of paper, Black Cow suckers, Blackjack, Beemans and Clove chewing gum, and more, much more. The sad thing is, I didn’t buy any of it.

Sounds like the front of my local Tractor Supply.

Three Musketeers they way they used to be in the 1950s

Kit Kats from Canada actually have a slightly different taste. Maybe a little creamier. Perhaps it has more cocoa butter?

Remember when Whatchamcallit had a different recipe (don't think it was better) and also Reeses crunchy cups had the fine crushed peanuts right on top (definitely better)?

One of the BEST was a fund raising candy bar that I think is still made and has a woman's name for the company I think (not World's Finest). The best one simply said Caramel and it just oozed out when you broke the chocolate. They had a Krunch and another variety or two, but Caramel was the one everyone devoured.

Have not had one of those in years. Caramello is not quite the same.

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Originally posted by Hamden106:
Three Musketeers they way they used to be in the 1950s.

And Payday the way they were in the 1960s.

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Originally posted by vinnybass:

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Originally posted by Yellow Jacket:
Real licorice.

Australia and a few European countries still make some passable licorice.

My wife found Wiley Wallaby black licorice at Bed, Bath, & Beyond. It is excellent.

Must be a regional thing, every grocery store, hardware store, gas station, etc. around here seems to have it, in multiple flavors.

I prefer the older Mars bar.

I just thought of another that was similar to Butterfinger, but more dense; Bolster.