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Top 5 Favorite Candy Bars
With Halloween tomorrow, I thought I'd make a list of my favorite candy bars from when I was a kid.

1. Mounds/Almond Joys
I always think of them together (because sometimes you feel like a nut and sometimes you don't). Maybe it's because I used to get them for free from my uncle who worked at Peter Paul (though I can't say the same about York Peppermint Patties, which I also got in abundance), but I loved these candy bars with a passion. Lots of people have problems with coconut but as for me I couldn't get enough.

2. Marathon Bar
I don't think they make these anymore but if memory serves they were something like a foot long piece of chocolate covered caramel. Aside from how delicious they were, they'd last forever -- something every kid looks for in a candy bar.

3. Charlston Chew
Yet another entry under the enormous candy bar bar category, the best way to eat these was to stick them in the freezer, wait a few hours, then take then out and whack them on a counter. When you finally opened the wrapper you found tiny bits of frozen candy that would melt in your mouth. Vanilla was good, and so was chocolate, but my favorites were the strawberry ones.

4. Sugar Daddy
If Marathon Bars lasted forever, Sugar Daddies lasted forever plus an eternity. If you were foolish enough to bite off a chunk of one of these, you could be stuck for days trying to get it out of your teeth. Eat it like a lollipop, however, and you'd found heaven.

5. Bit-o-Honey
Similar to Mary Jane's but without the peanut butter, I got hooked on these at the movie theater. I still have no idea why. They're little pieces of crappy candy, but for one long year they were the most delectable bites of pure joy.

Date: 2009-10-30 06:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geniusofevil.livejournal.com
I don't like nuts

Date: 2009-10-30 06:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janradder.livejournal.com
What are you -- some kind of anti-nut sicko? You probably hate America, too.

Date: 2009-10-30 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geniusofevil.livejournal.com
but mostly I hate your freedom. Not everyone's, just yours.

Date: 2009-10-30 07:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janradder.livejournal.com
I figured as much.

Date: 2009-10-30 08:47 pm (UTC)
ext_7025: (where's the fruitbat)
From: [identity profile] buymeaclue.livejournal.com
I always think of them together

BLASPHEMY.

Date: 2009-10-30 09:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janradder.livejournal.com
I liked to open them all and then line them up, alternating between Mounds and Almond Joys, then eat them one by one. It might have been blasphemy, but the desecration was quite delicious.
From: (Anonymous)
If it's Mounds/Almond Joys, I will be over several times, with slight variations on my costume. Soo

Date: 2009-10-31 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theryk.livejournal.com
Velvet Crumble (from Australia). So hard to find in the USA.
From: [identity profile] janradder.livejournal.com
The answer, unfortunately, is none -- we'll be out with the kids.

Date: 2009-10-31 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janradder.livejournal.com
I've never heard of it -- the name sounds very intriguing, though.

Date: 2009-10-31 07:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theryk.livejournal.com
Whipped Honey Nougat w/ Chocolate Coating. Smooth as velvet, crumbly.... so good.

Date: 2009-10-31 07:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janradder.livejournal.com
That does sound good -- sort of like a Wonka Bar.

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