80’s Candy Treats You Can Still Taste Today
Much to the dismay of dentists at the time, candy was an integral part of the 80s. Movies like ET and The Goonies gave Reese’s Pieces (invented in 1978) and Baby Ruth bars (invented in the 1920s) new life along with pop culture-celebrity status. Those candies may have been big screen stars, but a few others actually born in that era have had similar influence. Great 80s Candy Treats Great 80s Candy Treats: Airheads The sour but...
80s Candies: Pixy Stix
Powdery sugary substances never got any better than Pixy Stix. Who could forget one of the most simple candies known to man? Why did we love Pixy Stix? Was it the fact that it was simply a Sweet-tart in powdered form? Maybe. The packets varied with some of the extra-large ones almost being too much for one person to handle. Of course, Pixy Stix were introduced in the 70s however, they started their upward boom in the 80s and guess...
Candy of the ’80s: Gobstoppers
Is it a globe? A Gobstopper? Or both? Was there a better candy for the naivety of youth than Gobstoppers? As kids, we welcomed the challenge of consuming a piece of candy that was nicknamed “jawbreaker.” We ignored the choking hazards accompanying the enormous contraption and believed cavities were things that happened to other kids. Of course, all these decades later, we know better, and can only imagine what a Gobstopper would do to...
Candy of the ’80s: What happened to Chewels?
The first gum for many children of the ‘80s was Chewels, the sugar-free gum with a liquid gel in the middle. What it amounted to was squirting gum—the liquid popped out with the first chew—and if we’re being honest, squirting gum doesn’t sound nearly as good now as it did then. Perhaps that’s why it has been off the shelves for three decades. But for a brief time, Chewels was the gum every kid had to chew. Here’s three things you may...
Remember Bonkers? The Candy Treat You Could Chew On Forever
There are plenty of forgotten candies from the golden era that is the 80s. Each week we’re going to feature a some of the hard-to-find candies of the decade in hopes to point you in the right direction if you get that craving you can’t get rid of. First up is Leaf Brand‘s Bonkers. Remember popping open a box of Bonkers and endlessly chewing on the candy pieces. Well these fruit chews are looking to make a comeback....
80s Candy: Big League Chew
When Big League Chew first hit the market in 1980 the product seemed like an odd mix of brilliance and bad idea. It’s a pretty simple concept on the surface. It’s a pouch of gum clearly designed to look like the pouches chewing tobacco comes in which were at the time very popular in Major League Baseball. The baseball tie-in was overt, with an amped up slugger appearing on the packaging (which would soon be very...
