The Corner Store
 

It's the place you could go to get anything from milk to pickled pig feet. My gandma had a corner store up the street from her house and my favorite things to get were jungle juice and nowandlaters. Every now and again I would get one of those big 'ol 2 and a half pound pickles and munch on it all day. To all who grew up around a corner store, what were some of your favorites.

Those huge pickles!! Plus you always got to chhose the one you wanted!!

Ditto on the pickles. We had three kinds to choose from--kosher dill, sour and hot. Yum.

we'd get pickels, eat down one end then stick a now-n-later in it. also, the corner store would be the only place to get nehi blue and nehi peach! (i wish i had some right now!)

not me, but other folks would get pickeled pigs feet at the corner store.

This thread sent me back to memories from my old house on Buckeye!

My favorites from the corner store were the bags of wax candy. Inside there was this juicy liquid, but we had to chew threw the wax to get to it! We'd also buy now n later's (non lata's LOL), fruities (also know as penny candy)

Great thread! Ditto on the pickles & now&laters. Salt & vinegar chips, orange push ups, and blow pops! Any soda that was orange. http://www.websmileys.com/sm/happy/050.gif

Dem Pickles...

Funions (ewww)

Alexander the Grape candy

Lemon Head Candy

Now and Laters (all flavas)

Those popsicles that are really some juice in the plastic, but when you freeze them the're popsicles and you have to keep pushing it up to eat it (hahahahahahahahahahaha)!

Oh and pop rocks (you know - they crackle in your mouth????).

lemon heads and boston bakedbeans- i stayed at the corner store

I remember getting pickles and kool-aid from my corner store. We dipped the pickles in our kool-aid, and went home with our colorful mouths! :p

Ahhhh you just took it back

The huge pickles
Now and Laters
Fun Yuns
those ice cream cups with the wooden spoon
Alexander the Grape
Johnny Apple Treats
Cherry Clans
Little Debbie snack cakes
Little Hugs

My favs:

Pickles
Now and Laters
Welchs Grape soda
Pixie Stix (straws with kool-aid mix inside)
5 cent candy
honeybuns
jalepeno flavored chips
Bazooka bubble gum

chic-o-stick
Faygo redpop
Munchos

Mane, you really JUST took it back!

Ooohhhh - how could I forget about "kiddie crack"?
That stuff has kids bouncin' off the walls!:p

The big fat peppermint candy that was divine with a cold glass of water.....not at all like the little, cheap imitation kind they have now.

It's funny, how I know all of these items..but I dont eat candy.


Grippo's (Cincinnati Brand Chips)
Chick-o-Sticks
Peppermint Stick
Now & Later
Airhead

Mike & Ikes
Jaw Breakers
Lemon Head
Boston Bake Beans
How about the really long (about 1 foot) long popscicle that you could get for like a quarter. (blue is my fav)

what you know about dem Grippos potato chips? Hometown is in the house! :cool: (somebody go tell Wen08!)

I was down with the "honeybuns, now'nladers and the Boston baked beans."
Usually you only saw the girls wearing/eating them but remember the candy necklaces? By end of a hot summer day, after sucking on the candy beads, their necks were 3 shades of purple. ....yall are taking it back there!

Yeah, for some reason, our candy lady had those HUGE honey buns with extra icing!!

Man, we took that stuff seriously, me and my friend used to pour the powder into our hands and snort it, thinkin' it made us look cool. :rolleyes: All it did was burn our noses off.

I grew up in the suburbs, the only corner store I had was 7-11.:(

Is my corner store the only that had that kitchen? You could get some okra, potatoe wedges, chicken, burritos, and anything else you could throw in some grease.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Hey yall didn't use to eat Fun Dip??? Me and my cousin Charles fought over that mess. Then Gramma Susie would give us the business over spilling it all over the place.:( Bad a** kids.

I lived in Cincy briefly and I must say aside from BW3's, Butternut Bread, and Gold Star Chili, Grippos is one of the things I miss

please Fed Ex me some :D

/hijack
Gold Star? :eek: you meant to say Skyline chili, right? Cincy's home but I don't live there anymore. I'm trying to get Wend08 to send me a care package but she still trippin' :p

...dang, I had forgot about Butternut Bread. But I do miss LaRosa's Pizza and the fact that you can find a United Dairy Farmers on like EVERY other corner in the city. :)
/end hijack

Now that I am really thinking back on it (and this was in 1998)..Skyline was better. I may have just gotten my places confused. LOL

I totally forgot about La Rosas....I may need to take a 3-day road trip just for the food. :D There was this one place where I got this bomb sandwich one afternoon. The place was in Evanston but I totally forgot what its called.


Shame on you WenD08 :p

Our corner store had a kitchen. We had the same things in addition to hot corn beef sandwiches, chicken livers and gizzards and every type of pork rinds you could imagine!
:D

And how could I forget about my favorite candy: SLAPSTICKS!

Mmmmm chicken gizzards. I could only get a few down before I'd start feeling queasy but it was worth it. Mmmmmmm.

DC, you are making my mouth water. And unless you gon "fix a brotha a plate" I need you to stop. Now. :)

All this talk has me hungry for some gizzards. I think I'll have to go to Lee's Famous Recipe and get a gizzard dinner.

:p

Ya'll are bringing back memories up in here:

When I live in WV I used to try and be like my parents(when they used to smoke). I would go to the corner store and buy those candy cigarettes, and then they had some cigarettes that were made out of bubble gum that when you blew on them smoke/powder came out of the other end.

I also used to love them Ring-Pops, and Airheads (especially the white kind, or the mystery flavor)

Anyone remember those candy dots that came on white paper, in the packs. I can't remember the name but I aint them things up all the time.

I like the foot long pixie stick, and the foot long popsicyle on a hot summer day:D

I really like that monster ice cream sandwich that would run halfway down your arm before you could finish it.

I used to love that bubble gum that was made to look like Baseball chewing tobacco, and bubble tape.

I used to love to go get me a little Pez dispenser, and get the refills for it.

I've just discovered that there is still a corner store in my neighborhood. They sell all the good stuff, plus barbq, okra, fish dinners, etc. My husband has known about it for months and just decided to tell me after I mentioned that some of the candies on this thread.

TonyB - There's no Skyline Chili where you are? I thought it was a chain restaurant. Aren't you still in Ohio?

^^^
My corner store had the real big ones and they used to cut the heck out of the insides of your mouth!


Jolly rancher candy sticks
The big lemon heads that came one to a package
fruities
Jo Jo with lots of hot sauce
those little bags chips that were a quarter( Doritos, Funions, Lays etc...)
Orange shebert push up pops
Jingles( they were a smaller version of a Now N later)

We also used to buy packs of Kool Aid, mix it with sugar and put it in a sandwich bag and eat it.:o

No need to be embarrased, who hasn't done that mess? One thing I remember the most were the stains.

1. Sprinkle/pour in your hand
2. Lick hand
3. Wipe hand on clothes
4. Carry on

Get home and get the bi'ness for messing up my clothes.

You know!!

We always got in trouble at school for having it because the teacher would see our stained hands and mouths!

Okay,

Does anybody remember the generic slushes( Slush Puppy) at the cornerstore?
You would take two drinks from it and there would be
nothing but crushed ice left!

Everyone in my neighborhood would go to one 3 corner stores:

Stoll's Little Giant (corner of Princeton and Broad St.) where you could actually buy groceries on credit--anybody here go to one of those type of stores.

Van's Carryout (corner of Princeton and Town St.)

Yale and Town Carryout--my mother would play the lottery there.

Anyway, I would buy any Ferrara Pan candies:

Lemonheads
Cherry Chan
Cherry Clan
Johnny Apple Treats
Alexander the Grape
Boston Baked Beans
Mr. Melon

10 cents a box. You can't beat it.

I would also buy those (then 25 cents) Little Debbie singles.
Oatmeal Creme Pies
Zebra Cakes
Pecan Spinwheels
Fudge Swirls

Oh, and my all time favorite Hostess snack cakes (no longer made):

Chip Flips (c.1984)--two chocolate chip snack cakes with vanilla creme in the middle. Cost 43 cents. I would save up my pennies, nickels, and dimes to buy one, and it was heaven to eat.

Hostess Lights (c. 1990)--there were 3-4 products, but my favorite was an apple spice cup cake with real apple cinnamon filling in the middle. Dee-lee-i-o-shus!

Bring back the 80s just for old times sake. Please!

OMG! You did that too! I loved a big dill pickle with a peppermint stick in the middle.

People in Georgia act like they never heard of that. I thought it was just a Tennessee thing.

I loved lemon heads, penny candy (big bol gum & fruities) & Jungle Juice!!!!!!

shooot, I've been taking these to the head all summer long! :cool:

*stands up from the circle, draws in breath for strength.*

me: "Hi, my name is TonyB"
circle speaks in unision: "Hi, TonyB."
me: "I can't stop with the Grape or Blue raspberry..." :D

OMG, ya'll have really brought it back!! My corner store was Jones Store! He had everything!! He had:

Now and Laters: 1 pack for 15 cents, 2 for a quarter, the super packs for 35 cents

Lemonheads, Cherry Chan, Boston Baked Beans, Alexander The Grape: all 10 cents a box, and the boxes made great ghetto kazoos once you ate all the candy. We used to rankle grandmama's nerves blowing those boxes!

The big pickles: 50 cents
Peppermint sticks: 5 cents
Honey Buns, Little Debbie cakes, etc: 25 cents
Pops: 35 cents a can

Mr. Jones also sold meat, school supplies, stamps, loose cigarettes, pantyhose, toys, books and magazines (that's how I got hooked on 18 Pine Street books and Black Confessions magazines) and just about anything you could think of.


For a little while his penny candy was 5 cents until this other corner store opened right across the street called Mom's Place and her penny candy (Jingles, Frooties, etc) was actually a penny and so all the neighborhood kids flocked there. Then Mr. Jones started having take-out dinners and lowered the prices on his candy and poor Mom had to close up shop.

Later on, Mr. Jones' daughter got married and had a HUGE fairy tale wedding complete with reception at the country club with a live band. It took up 2 pages in the Sunday Society section of my hometown paper. My sibs and cousins and I like to think that we financed her wedding with all the money we spent in his store.