(April 16, 2017 at 8:43 am)Kitty Galore Wrote: Hi Thump

Hiya Kat, how's kicks?

(April 16, 2017 at 11:37 am)Tres Leches Wrote: I actually remember candy cigarettes when I was a kid - basically white sticks of sugar shaped to look like cigarettes and sold in a little box that looked like a cigarette pack. We would hold them like the adults held their real cigarettes.

Oh, the good old days. I wonder what happened to candy cigarettes?

-Teresa

They still exist... they just dropped cigarettes from the title for obvious reasons... they're just called 'Candy Sticks' now, but still in a little box shaped like a cigarette pack. They're one of my favourite sweets, and thankfully, no different (that I can tell) in taste or texture from how they used to be. I bought some relatively recently online for old times sake... and there you can get them by the proverbial carton :

http://www.keepitsweet.co.uk/retro-sweet...PObLmco-M8

(April 16, 2017 at 8:43 am)Kitty Galore Wrote:

(April 16, 2017 at 4:56 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Believe it or not, there are decent American sweets. Ghiradelli's has already been mentioned; they make good chocolate. Like many other American experiences, you'll have to get away from the mass-produced stuff in order to find the best things.

It's a function of being a large country; when serving a huge population, the pressure to approach the lowest common denominator and maximize profit is nigh inexorable.

This.

Hi Thump

(Hi Kitty! Long time no see)

I've been in downtown Hershey once. Very cute little settlement it is. Very All-American place to start a family.  Never made it to HersheyPark though (I had something to do in Harrisburg that day). I do like Hershey Chocolate, though. Maybe it's just that bias in favor of Pennsylvania that I cultivated while living there. 

Jawbreakers are something I remember from my youth, but today, with my disability, I recognize them as just a choking hazard. I'll pass. I remember, in particular, those Everlasting Gobstoppers, which I think were white with colorful splatter dye. In fact, I think the rest of the Anglophone world calls them gobstoppers.

Yabut, did you drive down Hershey Highway?

(Sorry, couldn't help myself. I'll show myself the door.)

(April 16, 2017 at 2:30 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Yabut, did you drive down Hershey Highway?

(Sorry, couldn't help myself. I'll show myself the door.)

Door's locked! 

I have taken the scenic route down Hershey Highway. I remember one beautiful vehicle that had a bumper sticker which read : "If you can read this you're riding my ass!"

Now I will unlock the door so we can both leave.

(April 16, 2017 at 2:55 pm)chimp3 Wrote:

(April 16, 2017 at 2:30 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Yabut, did you drive down Hershey Highway?

(Sorry, couldn't help myself. I'll show myself the door.)

Door's locked! 

I have taken the scenic route down Hershey Highway. I remember one beautiful vehicle that had a bumper sticker which read : "If you can read this you're riding my ass!"

Now I will unlock the door so we can both leave.

Thanks asshole.   I just got done telling everyone here where on the doll Casper touched me, now I have to go back to my therapist. Yes please unlock the door, I WANT OUT!

I am sure you also took the "Purple Crown Cab" there too. I had a sneaking feeling that as soon as I read "Hershey" someone would bring that old joke up.

(April 16, 2017 at 3:02 pm)Brian37 Wrote:

(April 16, 2017 at 2:55 pm)chimp3 Wrote: Door's locked! 

I have taken the scenic route down Hershey Highway. I remember one beautiful vehicle that had a bumper sticker which read : "If you can read this you're riding my ass!"

Now I will unlock the door so we can both leave.

Thanks asshole.   I just got done telling everyone here where on the doll Casper touched me, now I have to go back to my therapist. Yes please unlock the door, I WANT OUT!

I am sure you also took the "Purple Crown Cab" there too.

I could lie and say it was a '67 Mustang but I was driving a '59 Nash Rambler.

(April 16, 2017 at 3:07 pm)chimp3 Wrote:

(April 16, 2017 at 3:02 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Thanks asshole.   I just got done telling everyone here where on the doll Casper touched me, now I have to go back to my therapist. Yes please unlock the door, I WANT OUT!

I am sure you also took the "Purple Crown Cab" there too.

I could lie and say it was a '67 Mustang but I was driving a '59 Nash Rambler.

Meh, I bet it was a Pacer or a Ford Pinto.

I drove it with an AMC ... a Javelin.