Retro Candy

A friend just gave me a tin filled with Necco wafers...who of you out there recalls Necco wafers? It made me think of all the candy that I used to get as a kid that just isn't around anymore (I seem to be having childhood flashbacks lately) Wax lips...what were they all about? Why did we chew them...and worse yet, why did we enjoy them? Those little dots of stuff that look like hits of acid (not that I would ever know what acid would look like or anything). Candy cigarettes, either the chocolate kind (mmmmm) or the candy kind that really had paper on it and the paper had a power in it so that you could blow hard and a puff of powder would come out and we pretended we were smoking! Those UFO shaped things that tasted and looked like styrofoam and were filled with a million tiny round candy balls. (they are in the cellophane bag just above the Sugar Babies in this picture, looking for all the world like a bag of coloured condoms.) Yeah, we chewed and swallowed the styrofoam and then broke our teeth on the little candies inside. Toffee that pulled out our fillings...black licorice pipes that stained our teeth and tongues and then gave us the "trots" (as we said). Mallo Cups made of some sort of gooey marshmallow that stuck in our throats and made us choke and gag until we managed to spit it out...slimy and sticky. Ahh, good times, good times.