Candy

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When we went to Europe when I was kid1, we spent a few days in Yugoslavia. At the time, the currency wasn’t worth much and we exchanged too many dollars for dinars. The dinar was worthless enough that the banks would not let us exchange the excess back to dollars, so we spent money on random things. I have a memory of being in a store that was pretty picked over but it did have 1 pound2 bricks of PEZ. We bought one and ever since, I have kept an eye out for PEZ in bulk, but have never seen it.

This weekend, I went to the b.a. Sweetie Candy Company since we were nearby. People have mentioned it from time to time as a big candy store. I had a mental image of it, a lot of candy, etc. but it actually exceeded my expectations. It was enormous. Needless to say, not only did I find PEZ available without the dispensers, but I found legit bulk PEZ:

bulk PEZ

The also had some other candy from my childhood that I was kind of surprised still existed, like El Bubble and of course, the shitty candy cigarettes we used to get at the B&J. They had a lot of those.

These were bad when I was a kid.
World’s King Size Candy

I was surprised at a few things:

  • They had no chocolate NECCO wafers. That might have to do with the issues NECCO is having and they might be sold out. They did have Tropical and Sour, which I never knew existed.
  • There were only three varieties of Nerds. Mind you, this place had at least 10 flavors of Now & Laters. I guess the varieties of Nerds have been significantly reduced over the years.
  • I only saw Chick-O-Stick in the nugget size.

On a side note, I have to keep an eye on the NECCO company status. If things go south in the next week or two, I might go buy a few boxes of NECCO wafers.

  1. I don’t actually know what year we went. I think it was 1989 or 1990. ↩
  2. Not sure if it was a pound, a kilogram, or some other quantity. It was a lot of PEZ. ↩

3 thoughts on “Candy”

  1. Now that I think about it, I’m a little surprised it is legal to sell candy cigarettes / cigars. Apparently, they are banned in some countries, but not in the U.S.A.

    On a weirdly connected note, Pez dispensers are modeled after cigarette lighters, with their candy initially marketed as an adult breath mint that was meant to be a smoking alternative. Hence, it wouldn’t be all that odd to pretend to light a candy cigarette with a Snoopy Pez dispenser.

  2. I light all my candy on fire and inhale the fumes then I take the charred carmelized syrup and inject it into my MEMBER and scream YUMMY YUMMY IN MY BLOODSTREAM CANDY DRUUUUUGZ!!!!

    In short, I don’t need candy cigarettes to smoke sugar. And I aint pretendin’, boss nossies.

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