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Cool Trivia About Sweets
We all loved to eat candy when we were younger didn’t we! I don’t suppose that we eat as much nowadays, although the craving can still sometimes be there now an again. There are a lot of candies back then that no longer exist.
You would have thought that with all the media coverage of the day that was afforded to the Candy Industry, that these types of candy would in fact out live us all. This has proved not to be the case sadly, and many of our favorites are no longer to be found on the shop shelves, below are a few examples.
In the Eighties there was a popular candy that was fruity and chewy and also creamy. These were advertised everywhere you went and kids of the day loved them. They were called Bonkers, but they do not seem to be found anymore.
Bonkers had a great range of flavors to choose from, watermelon, strawberry, and chocolate, but it was not long after the chocolate flavor came out that Bonkers seem to disappear.
Do you also remember the Bubble gum that used to come in a mini Juice box? There were lots of different flavors to those. Although Bubble gum has not entirely disappeared, it was much more popular about 20 years ago.
Today you get your Bubble Gum in sticks or a few pieces per pack. Back then, especially in the mini Juice box, you got lots of little pieces, and this meant that you had to grab a handful at once just to get the taste.
Does anybody remember the Mars bar? Another of my favorites way back then, with its Almond and caramel taste, lovely chocolate bar!
Well Mars bar is still around, only now it is called something different. No big announcements have been made, but if you taste a Snickers Almond you will see what I mean.
How I still remember the sweets of yesteryear with fondness.
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