Candy Paper

[The Jays]

So, when my brother and I were younger, round 4 and 8, our father used to take us with him to the bowling alley on thursday nights, back during his drinking days. He would leave us at the bar, near the video games and such, give us a couple bucks, while he went to bowl.

Now, this bar just so happened to also supply a great supply of standard fashionable 80's candies... Fun Dip, Lemonheads, Nerds, Sweetarts, Spree... and they had one other candy.

It was called

Candy Paper.

A small rectangular sheet, pink, grid like, which was basically spun sugar compressed into paper form. It might even have been called Wafer Paper.

This was the one candy we would always get. This is one of the earliest memories I have.

I tell people this little tale every so often, and everytime, they walk away convinced that my dad left us alone with a bartender that sold us paper napkins for a dollar each, and hoodwinked us.

[GonzoStyle]

this is like the anti-random galt & gonzo memories thread, here we post happy memories!!!

I got nothin so far.

[faceman802]

I can back you up on the candy paper. I bought it once at the corner store back in my younger years and it was quite tasteless. I can remember eating mayo and butter sandwiches for lunch almost every day bought at the same store. They were only .45 and was a good way to save some money for snacks after school or for a slice of pizza if you wanted one.

[GonzoStyle]

I remember "My Place Pizzeria" by my school, they had the best specials. I used to get the 2 slices with soda special for 1.20 and they took food stamps!

My favorite candy was peanut butter cups, I used to cop a handful at the candy shop at times.

[HedCold]

mayo and butter sandwiches? gross

[Galt]

Sweedish Fish
Mary Jane
caramel bullseye
licorice hats

all better than your welfare candy dots (as we called them)

[HedCold]

yea are you just talking about these things?
<img src="http://www.sweetpalace.com/catalog/images/CandyDots.jpg">

[GonzoStyle]

yea are you just talking about these things?
<img src="http://www.sweetpalace.com/catalog/images/CandyDots.jpg">

OMG I loved those!!!

[drusilla]

mayo and butter sandwiches? gross

i didn't catch that before. that's pretty disgusting.

[Galt]

yea are you just talking about these things?
<img src="http://www.sweetpalace.com/catalog/images/CandyDots.jpg">

That's what I was talking about, but now I don't think that's what he was talking about.

He's not talking about Necco wafers, is he?

[GonzoStyle]

mayo and butter sandwiches? gross

i didn't catch that before. that's pretty disgusting.

butter sandwiches, toasted with some sugar was the bomb.

but butter and mayo, thats just disgooooooooooosting.

[faceman802]

No, not mayo and butter sandwiches, mayo sandwiches and buttered rolls....seperate, not at the same time. sorry for the confusion.

and he meant this, but back then it wasn't so exotically packaged
http://www.orientaltrading.com/applicati...u=5%2f1197

[HedCold]

a mayo sandwich? gross

[drusilla]

still gross

[Bloody Anus]

I had margarine sandwiches for lunch, cream cheese when we were out of margarine. And keebler fudge stripe cookies for dessert. I always broke them up into pieces then put it back together like a little puzzle.

For about a week stretch, my brother and I would sabotage each others lunches for no apparent reason. All I remember was one day bringing in a margarine sandwich filled with chocolate chips, some which melted during the course of the day. The next day I doused his sandwich (I think it was tuna) with vanilla extract and some decapitated teddy grahams.

[drusilla]

And keebler fudge stripe cookies for dessert.

that's what i had today. wacky. but i had a roast beef sandwich for lunch first.

[Bloody Anus]

But did you turn them into puzzle pieces first?

After I matured from my turning food into puzzles days, I would stack a bunch of them together, stick a straw through the holes, and have myself a fudge stripe kabob.

[drusilla]

i think i used to put them on my finger like a ring & eat it around in a circle.

but i didn't do that today. i just broke them into pieces & ate each piece separately.

[The Jays]

Sweedish Fish
Mary Jane
caramel bullseye
licorice hats

all better than your welfare candy dots (as we called them)

yeah, no, I'm not talking about candy dots. You don't eat the paper wilingly with those.

[Keyser Soze]

i know exactly what the jays is talking about.

i used to buy it at charlie's deli on the corner in white trash keansburg, when me and my family were po white folk.