Junk food junkie

Japera1920 · #1 04-05-2002, 10:19 AM

I am a junk food junkie. I am in love with gourmet jelly beans. I also love the not forgotten ghetto candy. For those who do not know what ghetto candy is: there are your lemonheads, johnny appleseeds, boston bake beans, chicko sticks (sp), lick-em-aids, candy rings and etc.

Tell me what is your favorite.

zetafg · #2 04-05-2002, 01:07 PM

My favorites are:

Red swedish fish (I call them fishees)

Jolly Ranchers (Watermelon is off the hook)

Sunflower seeds (I know they are not candy but still a snack I ate in grammar school)

Charms Blow Pops (Watermelon, Sour Apple)

Jingles.....I don't think they make them anymore, and if they do they are not the same as when I was little.

PrettyPetite · #3 04-06-2002, 04:01 AM

My weakness is CHERRY BLOW POPS (Charms of course! No imitations)!!!!

It's so bad that my students bring me blow pops on a regular basis. I used to keep a candy basket on my desk full of them, but I ended up eating them all.

Next weakness: well, it's not candy, but I like it nonetheless. Devil's Food Chocolate Cake with Milk Chocolate icing. I baked three this week alone.

Next weakness: Strawberry Cheesecake, preferably from JUNIORS IN NYC. This is a once in a blue moon weakness, since I live in South Florida. But Cheesecake Factory is a suitable substitute.

I also have a thing for Fruit Roll Ups, Twinkies, Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches, oh my goodness I can go on.

Can you tell that I have a sweet tooth?! LOL

sprinklemeluv · #4 04-06-2002, 08:36 PM

Japera 1920, you took me back to '85 with those ghetto candies. The candy lady up the street from my school sold those boxes of lemonheads, boston baked beans, red hots, and alexander the grape for $.10. Now and laters were a nickel (watermelon, apple, grape, cherry and my fave was mystery mix that was purple and yellow). Big Bol bubble gum was a penny. I think Air Heads had just come out by then.

undacuva22 · #5 04-07-2002, 12:35 PM

gotta have air heads, now and laters, suga daddies, moo cow sticks, pigs feet, those lemon cookies from the lady on the corner who also sold chilly bears!!!!!

does anyone remember after like eatting your boston big beans and lemonde heads how we would blow on the boxes and make that whistling sound????? iF you dont it must be a down south thang........

and most importantly GOTTA HAVE MY HAGENDAZ Vanilla and Vanilla Swiss with Almonds, My red velvet cake and of course Chocolate Chip ice cream from Baskin Robbins with one of there sugar cones crunched up in it!!!! Its the best!!!!!

lilZetagirl · #6 04-07-2002, 11:35 PM

whew, i think i am the junk food queen! i went to the store yesterday JUST to stock up on mess!!!

some of my fav's are charleston chews, mike and ike's, sugar babies, peanut m&m's (not the plain one's, too much chocolate!)crunch 'n munch, goodness the list could go on and on...

sprinklemeluv · #7 04-07-2002, 11:44 PM

You know you're ghetto when...
~you know what a bee-bop is.
Holla at me if you know what i'm talking about

For those who know, what was your favorite kind and how much were they in your 'hood? cause bee-bops were like the ab machines on TV...not sold in stores!!!

zetafg · #8 04-08-2002, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by PrettyPetite
Next weakness: Strawberry Cheesecake, preferably from JUNIORS IN NYC. This is a once in a blue moon weakness, since I live in South Florida. But Cheesecake Factory is a suitable substitute.

Soror PrettyPetite, You can Love Me or Not....after this:

www.juniorscheesecake.com or

1-800-4junior 1-800-458-6467

It takes about 2 days or more and the cheescake is shipped in a refrigerated safe container. I live in NYC and had one delivered to my Mom in NYC and it was a little frozen when it was delivered.

Enjoy!!!

Japera1920 · #9 04-08-2002, 01:32 PM

I remember making the lemonhead boxes into whistle

It is not a southern thing. I grew up in NYC.

PrettyPetite · #10 04-08-2002, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by zetafg

Soror PrettyPetite, You can Love Me or Not....after this:

www.juniorscheesecake.com or

1-800-4junior 1-800-458-6467

It takes about 2 days or more and the cheescake is shipped in a refrigerated safe container. I live in NYC and had one delivered to my Mom in NYC and it was a little frozen when it was delivered.

Enjoy!!!

Soror, why was I dang near DROOLING when I peeped the website?! Thank you thank you thank you!!!

And strawberries are coming back in season, too?! Oooh I can't wait. It's gonna be my birthday all over again! LOL I won't tell you that I ordered a CATALOGUE!!!

Okay ya'll, back to the regularly scheduled thread.

Question: Does anyone remember how the Jolly Ranchers were back in the day? They weren't these little things that they are now, but they were slender sticks, and the flavors were more varied. (I remember Pink Lemonade, and I BELIEVE there was a mango flavored one once, too)

How about Pixie Sticks? I used to like those, then I got hipped to just eating straight kool-aid (It was practically the same thing)

Everyone at my elementary school had a plastic bag that was filled with Kool-Aid, usually cherry (RED!) flavored. Everyone had kool-aid stained fingers, too, lol.