billyporter said:Rosie,
I love your small world!
Laughing, and the paper would sometimes come off with those dots. I'm not sure of the smell of them. I have the double Bouncing Bett and it smells just like an old candy to me. I thought maybe the dots.
I loved the foot long banana taffy! Flat and it could be chewy or you could snap off a piece.
Ahhh, a whole roll of lifesavers to yourself and if you didn't want the green one you managed to take the next one and stuff it back in the roll.
They could last all day if you sucked on them and that's why we chose them for our birthday treat.
Slo Poke:
The Slo Poke was billed on its wrapper as a “delicious caramel,” even though it’s presented like a lollipop. I wouldn’t quite call it a caramel, as it was not at all sticky, and its chew was much softer and long lasting than that of caramel.
Yes!!!! I know those. It had sort of a chalky feel to me too. I don't think they were called slo poke in NY and the chocolate taffy was lighter in color...like a yoo hoo dink color.
We never had a foot long taffy.
You may have to be catholic I think to get this... ...but the material of the host..the wafer? Well back in the day..there was this candy...( two for a penny) two cup shaped wafers..maybe the size of 50 cent piece..sealed together and formed a sort of saucer shaped hollow..was filled with tiny colored candy balls..the two wafers popped apart easily. And, aside from the curved bulge in each...it did look and taste like the Holy Eucharist....I used to pull those apart-- eat the little candy seeds -- and then play "mass" where I would dispense the 'host ' and prayers and take up collections (to support my immense Super Girl comic habit )
It was astounding ..now that I think about it .... I really had a thriving congregation for a girl. We kids were sinners! Well, the nuns at St. Sylvesters heard about it...( I think it was that weasel up the street Frankie Sabatello and his nosy gossip mother) ...well...if the nuns heard....my mother heard......OH there was HELL to pay!!
