Old Fashioned Candy

Starburst Jelly Beans, for the win.

These colorful fruit shaped runt hard candies may be small in size, but they're big in flavor! Each bag has an assortment of green apple, grape, strawberry, orange and banana flavors. Runts are fruit flavored candies in the shape of their respective fruits. Runts have a hard candy shell with a somewhat powdery center (the center being the consistency of the more-familiar Sweet Tarts). This listing is for a 5 lb. package

"Pop Rocks Cherry Wrapper Redux" is a hand-drawn & colored recreation on the wrapper of the iconic 1970s candy. This piece features fluorescent ink, the scan does not do the vibrancy of the colors justice. Ink & marker on Bristol, 4 x 6".

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All 6 flavors are pictured

Popeye Candy Sticks Old Fashioned & Nostalgic Candy Popeye Candy Sticks are a classic candy every kid can remember, probably the epitome of retro candy, literally in a box. These candies are long, thin white sticks made out of sweet powdery, chalky sugar, making for a deliciously crunchy pick-me-up kind of nostalgic treat! Popeye Candy Sticks are one of the Top 20 Retro Candies

As we're stocking up on all the best Halloween candy this year, we can't help but feel nostalgic for a time when candy reigned supreme: the '80s. You might not

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Retro Candy Label designed by Ricky Rinaldi. Connect with them on Dribbble; the global community for designers and creative professionals.

From chewy caramels to Chick-o-Sticks, here's a piece of nostalgia!

Here's one of three different Lemonhead boxes I have. This comes from the "Munktiki Collection", a large lot of consumer goods packaging saved and stored by Californian Paul Nielsen during the 1970's. A collection I recently acquired and will be documenting here. For more on Paul's current activities, check out www.munktiki.com.

There are many things we miss about being a kid. But we get most choked up by the loss of some of our favorite candies. Do you remember these?

According to a recent article on Smithsonian.com, the notion that poison candy is routinely distributed to unsuspecting children on Halloween is a myth pe...