Gimme Some Sugar: Candy from Our Childhood

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Whenever I smell a cold rectangular pizza or tater tots defrosting in an oven, I’m immediately thrown back to third grade. In those days, Kindles and iPhones were not necessary to keep kids entertained; a mere bubble gum cigarette or Abba-Zaba was all we ever needed. As an eight-year-old, I got more excited about those treats than I ever could have about some new app.


Bubble Gum Cigarettes

I remember hiding under the bridge, blowing on these babies, and feeling very “Greased Lightning” at the tender age of ten—so wrong, yet so right.

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03.15.2010
StayBank
The 'Kings' bubble gum wasn't that good. They were hard to light. Got to two packs a day before Dr ordered me off them. Switched to white crayons. They were smoother.
03.15.2010
Ricci Neer
My flashback is the Astropop - http://theyalwayscomeback.blogspot.com/2008/01/astropop...
03.14.2010
Mike Sauve
What, no Pop Rocks? No Fizzies?
03.14.2010
Zeo Roods
Wow, thats major cool stuff. I like it. Jess www.fbi-logfiles.int.tc
03.14.2010
Gerald Miller
I think that I eat more candy today then I did as a kid.The cigs I had only once however. Ger
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