Suck the fillings right out of your teeth. LOL

The Vermont Country Store carries it from time to time. I nagged them unmercifully to sell it, and about three years later, I got a letter telling me that they had located a supplier ! My favorite was chocolate. We'd freeze it, then smack it on the counter into pieces, suck on it till it melted then chew it.

They have like every candy item you have ever thought of or remembered. Even some you might not have known.
They even have a section for British candy.

At least they used to have them.

Thank you, dhol82 !!

7 or 8 minutes later I still don’t know if I believe they are coming back. Sure do hope so though.

They stopped making them about two years ago.

Thank you.

There was some sort of circus show in the fifties and she was the drum majorette.
Loved that doll and her outfit!

I remember smacking it on a hard surface to break it up. Interesting to hear it is still sold.

HOPE it's still around; hope my grandkids DON'T get any (for sake of my daughters!)

We used to love those...lol.

Think the surgeon generals action on smokes took the candy ones down also.

I was up to half a pack a day.

and instead of using actual brand names they just have other words and similar looking pictures

We got some of the new ones a few years ago at a candy shop and they were similar but different enough to avoid the law.

These are the ones I remember;

My favorite was root beer

like orange or root beer. I thought about them about a year ago when I was ill and was drinking orange flavored Alka-Setlzer cold remedy. It was weird.

Root beer flavor.

Pop Rocks
Prell Shampoo
Lemon Up Shampoo
Halo Shampoo
Breck Shampoo
The original Clairol Herbal Essence Shampoo
Brylcreem
Wildroot Tonic

(Yeah, a lot of hair products)

Think Halo was also.

OMG Brill Cream - like bear fat in the hair

Memories of my childhood and the road from Philly to the Jersey Shore.

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It's pancreatin enzymes.

I guess they just copied the name.

I'm surprised the original Serutan is gone. According to web md, it had the same ingredients at Metamucil.

Here's the Indian version

Like the original Serutan it is natural...it's just a different kind of natural.

https://www.sastasundar.com/serutan-tablet-10-tab-pancreatin-ttk-healthcare-ltd/medicine/rszw54



Pancreatin IP 212.5 mg
• Lipase 8000 FIP units
• Amylase 6500 FIP units
• Trypsin 450 FIP units

because it had a realistic plastic lemon for a cap.

It will actually remove some hair dye and that is why it's still around.

but Old Dutch Cleanser is still available. It's distributed by Fitzpatrick Brothers outta Chicago, and the also distribute another old-timey cleaner - Bab-O.

With Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley...1951 -1957....180 episodes

Loved that in the bath. Looked for it when my kid was little. I’ve heard it’s still around someplace but I haven’t seen It forever.

A very bad idea which deserves to be no more.

You saturate the air with an insecticide - not smart.

Hot Shot makes them, contains same ingredients.

Usage rules have changed though. Recommended for enclosed, unoccupied areas such as sheds, garages, dumpsters etc Not recommended for living areas.


We have those bulky city issue bins and down here we have huge roaches. (Palmetto bugs) Rather than spray, we wash the bins with bleach and then duck tape the strips inside the bins.



https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hot-Shot-No-Pest-Strip-Insect-Killer/1000338595

I have roach phobia. It's really a bad phobia and I tried to get help for it, but nothing works. When I was outside yesterday, leaf blowing, I saw a few and I ran and got some Raid, so I could finish leaf blowing. I have Raid in all the rooms of my house. It's a bad phobia. Just the thought of roaches breeding in the bins freaks me out.

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The classic ones, with the spread handlebars. Like the one below. The video tells me that those were called "monkey bars" and yes, I remember that! The newspaper bag would fit just right on the handlebars. Soon the handlebars were more narrowly spaced. Most of the photos you see in a google search are with the more narrow spacing.

I built tandem baskets saddled over the rear wheel to hold about 8 Sunday papers, and the handlebar bag held 6 or so. Oh, and it was, like, 30 below on some Sunday mornings.

A friend had the 2-speed version. A marvel of engineering, that 2-speed hub.

plastic motor looking thing that made noise and did nothing else.

Perfect for 10 year old boys

Some of the flavors weren't very appealing to me, but I know that I liked Goofy Grape!

Yeah, that's offensive.

I wonder if I naively had those as a kid in the early 70's? The names don't ring a bell like some of the others.

I loved them! Why were the characters considered offensive? That was half the fun of buying the product.

... to another poster.

I don't remember those, but I was very young.

I was very young as well.

Jolt Cola, and answering machines with the cassette tape.

They stood out to me as those 20oz bottles they came in were not the norm in those days.

They trashed the stadium when they blew up all those disco records!

And got in trouble? I think I was moving from the area at the time so I never caught what happened after that. I remember the lead up to it. They were pretty funny on their morning show, they had REO Speedwagon on a bunch.

Their "spokesman" was Bucky Beaver.

It was banned in the 'seventies after babies died.

It has a few other nasty side effects as well.

So many "miracles" of 20th century chemistry were really bad ideas.

More than a "bad idea", it was tragic!

See my post here https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213400494 for its current consideration.

but Wikipedia tells me it's still sold in Turkey - a leading brand there, actually.

Brusha, Brusha, Brusha for the new Ipana!
And Bucky the Beaver!

Presumably before he wrote Howl.

Wonder if he was proud or embarrassed?

he found it ironic.

Well drawn and well-paced. It's a minute-long commercial and it just flies by.

I've occasionally been tempted to buy one, but that would be "cheating"!

Was so impressed that the astronauts drank it.

I even buy it in winter--my family likes to drink it hot (when you can't really taste it.....)

I've a sixpack on the shelf somewhere.

Developed by or for NASA I seem to remember. It's useful because it doesn't need refrigeration so you could take it camping.

Yummy stuff. The idea was that you made it in batches as gifts for new neighbors, old friends, etc. Put in in a pretty jar and decorate.

https://www.theseoldcookbooks.com/friendship-tea/

Don't remember what it was. Just remember the ad? joke?

probably the whole line from the Hollywood candy company

Last time I saw any was in 80s

Really fascinated by it

Why did they disappear?

Roman Catholic liturgy[edit]
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 25 July.[9] The Tridentine Calendar commemorated him on the same day only in private Masses. By 1954 his commemoration had been extended to all Masses, but it was dropped in 1970 as part of the general reorganization of the calendar of the Roman rite as mandated by the motu proprio, Mysterii Paschalis. His commemoration was described to be not of Roman tradition, in view of the relatively late date (about 1550) and limited manner in which it was accepted into the Roman calendar,[10] but his feast continues to be observed locally

Sears indestructible pants

Removes all your fillings with one stick

And, damn was it it good at taking out your fillings!

I'll have to look harder

That really made my five cent allowance go so much further!
Still remember the malty balls!

I remember the jolly ranchers the most. I know they still have those but you could get a lot more for a lot less then.

was available at nearly every corner market, or village market, depending on whether you were in a larger town or out int he country. We didn't have supermarkets in my world until I was in my teens when we moved to a city.

They had all the candy in a display case and you would pick which pieces you wanted.
It was only individual pieces not whole candy bars. But, how much could a six year old eat?

And a quarter was flat out wealth.

I remember a lot of that stuff like red licorice records, black licorice "pipes" that were in the shape of a fancy smoking pipe, button candy - dots on a strip of paper (I have seen them recently somewhere).

An eight - ten year old kid with a bike could do some business around the neighborhood serving up penny candy to kids who weren't allowed to go to the store on the day they got their allowance! Even better, on the school bus.

I probably wouldn't eat any of that stuff now.

We had a group of kids with a little red wagon. We went around the neighborhood and collected bottles, newspaper and rags. There was a place 5-6 blocks away where we could sell it and split the profits. Bought a lot of candy!
Also, there was a movie theater close by where you could see a newsreel, 2 movies and a bunch of cartoons for 10 cents. That was living!

There would often be a penny candy machine next to the gumball machine. I think the candy was a lot like Sweetarts. I usually got the candy instead of the gum.

Of course prices went up, by the time my kids were born they were phasing them out.

When I was growing up, I couldn't imagine them just disappearing. It's funny how things phase out

They got rid of these fairly recently. (I'm thinking the last time I saw them was the early 2000's)

I could buy a pack for 3 cents, which was the amount I received for an empty pop bottle. That was big money back then to an 8 year old.

I remember the distinct cap powder smell and the rolls of red caps. I doubt I would have ever had occasion to ever remember that had I not seen your post. And we played with them so often!

you could explode the caps by hit them with a rock. We called it 'bustin' caps'; the expression made its way into gangster rap as a euphemism for murder.

Which I still.miss.

...I'd like to remain a comics fan, but it's just too damned expensive these days. On the other hand, they publish lots of them these days as Graphic Novels, and my local library has a lot of them, so I'm not totally out of the loop. But it just isn't the same...*sigh*...going thru old Lee-Kirby FFs, or Lee-Ditko Spideys, is the single best way of recapturing my youth. Better than madeleines any day...

They'd run these full page ads in magazines where a user would go into great detail about her (it was almost always a woman) weight struggles, and her eventual success with Ayds. They were amazing ads, but the unfortunate name.


If you Google "ayds" and click on images you can see some of those ads.

My mom was always dieting and she would buy boxes of them and we would eat them like candy.

That quickly got to be an unfortunate slogan which nobody could have foreseen.

I remember the hard rubbery textured little cubes. -wierd how a taste and texture can remain in memory.

It used to be heavily advertised. I haven't seen or heard of it in years.

It was a kit with a plasticky substance and molds. You melted the plastic (I don't remember if you added coloring or if the plastic was already some color or another), poured it into a mold and waited. What you got was a tiny, wiggly monster that would fit over a pencil top.

Creepy Crawler sequel to my memory, an they had little feathers and stuff you could use to enhance the creeples.
then there was Incredible Edibles - same Mattel idea, but the plasticy crappy thing you made was supposed to be edible - it was disgusting!

Nasty things they were.
Wacky Pack Stickers
Click-Klacks, those acrylic balls on a rope one slammed together till they shattered,cutting the crap outta you.
Creepy Crawlers.
Blo-Plastic,that gooey rubbery stuff you put on the included straw to make big colored bubbles with...till they realised that the fumes got us kids higher than all get out.
Lawn Darts.