for a nickel. I kid you not.
Also Mallo Cups, and Reese Cups.

Orange Dreamsicles and Fudgesicles were a dime though. So I usually only had a nickel and could not get one of those.

Chocolate covered malted milk balls.
Then penny licorice strips, candy dots on a strip of paper, and probably a pretzel stick.
Five cents would have been a windfall. Usually only two or three cents.

paper dot strips always had the paper stuck to candy dots.

No such thing as penny candy store in my little dumpy 250 population town

I loved that stuff. As I recall, you would slap it on a table and then eat the pieces.

Or was that Bit-o-Honey? 🤔

Anyway Bonomo Turkish taffy was my favorite.

Found it on Amazon (sorry). The mini’s aren’t the same (too soft) but the bars are exactly the same. Vanilla was my favorite. Watch your dental work!

The bit of honey was good too. If I bought the Turkish Taffy. all my money would be gone.. Did you have the Jaw Breakers????

Oh boy, those were the days. Before going to the movies, we used to go to the corner store and stock up on penny candy because the concessions at the movies were so expensive. Some things never change, eh?

Regal Crown sour cherry candy (newer ones suck!)

never had it again. My mistake was to bite down on it.

Sorry to hear.

Of course, it's gotten harder to find over the years and it sure isn't a nickel anymore.

Hard to find. The little shop across the street from me carries them.
The manager/clerk said he couldn't believe the reaction he got from older customers when they started carrying them.

chocolate. If you ever get a chance to visit South Central PA. visit Hershey Land. It is great.

grade. The smell was overwhelming but it was a lot of fun.

I loved how chewy they were, and they weren't hot 'n spicy! They were raspberry flavored.

Bazooka bubble gum, tootsie rolls, and fireballs

the best I could maybe do would be a stick of gum.

Now 25 cents, you'd be talking about real candy money.

versions.

maybe a dime, definitely a quarter, but I never saw penny candy

They’d actually absorb the aroma of some types of candy! I always had little bags that smelled like Red Hot Dollars and Swedish Fish!

candy bar were good too; Butternut was my favorite; or Snickers or 3 Musketeers, the candy bar that can be split 3 ways.

Of course, a Sky Bar was always a good option, too. And, of course, the bubble gum cigars.

Chum Gum, 3 for a penny, was an option, but the flavor'd wear out on those pretty quickly.

The money cards you'd get in Mallo Cups or Peanut Butter Cups was a form of gambling, but my brother and I both were able to save up the cardboard cash to the $5.00 required to get a box of 10 mailed to us. In fact, we both scored a #1.00 card several times.

cardboard could be traded in. I thought it would stop the cups from melting and them them out.

So when we got an actual dollar, it was like hitting the jackpot.

they lasted sooooooo long!

one wax lips, and two pixy stix.

candy.

2 Atkinson peanut butter bars



2 Lemon drops



and 1 Atomic Fireball

new ones suck.

I remember that fact vividly because my mother bribed me with a nickel if I unlocked the car doors to let my pediatrician give me the measles vaccine (of all things!).

Even at 4, I understood the power of negotiation and transaction. Plus, my measles immunity is still good.

... but a nickel didn't buy much even then.

And orange gummy slices.

or Red Hots (both cinnamon based)

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They don't make them anymore...The Heide Red Raspberry.

5 for a nickel

or those wax coke bottle things. I was already under corporate America's influence.

just threw them out.

Came in a string about 3/8" diameter and about 6 inches long

I still love that chocolate, but you don't see them any more.

There's a Fudge/Candy shop that sells a lot of these loose by the pound.
Including Bit O' Honeys,Goetz Caramel Cremes,Dad's Root Beer Barrels,Ice Cubes, Chick-O-Stix & lots of others I long forgot.

Only place I ever saw them at and googling them turns up zip. They were small but good, and with the 2 cents change I could get a couple of jawbreakers.
Amazing how so many of my happy childhood memories date from the years we lived in the Awful Mojave, land of sandstorms, rattlers, tumbleweed attacks, and 120 degrees in the shade summers.

haven't seen it mentioned.here though.Thanks for sharing.