Top 100 Candies As Voted By You!

[ghouck]

40. Tootsie Rolls



I LOVE the vanilla ones. .

[Mr. DS]

41.) Smarties

I just bought a pack of the giant ones of these.  I think they're being discontinued in many stores.   

[ghouck]

42. CARMEL APPLE Sugar Babies! Just tried them for the first time. Pretty good!

[brooky1969]

Zero bars!

[Psycho Circus]

Hey! You've not finished! 

[CheezeFlixz]

They still sell these in the stores here, it's great because it really p**ses off the PC crowd.

[Menard]

My apologies to anybody allergic to peanuts, but I have a thing for peanut butter and anything with peanut butter.

Three favorites of mine:

P.B. Max (I don't believe it is still made but it was the best candy bar I've ever had; too bad their advertising campaign could have made it into the hall of fame for disasters).

Peanut Butter Bon Bons (These are sold at Walmart and is simply peanut butter in a thin shell covered with chocolate; round and a little smaller than a golf ball).

5th Avenue (I never tried one of these until I saw the movie Stargate, and it goes to prove product placement does work).

[ghouck]

Ever make "Reese's Cups" with real peanut butter? My grandma had chocolate molds to make them and we used to buy the chocolate and make them ourselves and they're better than thereal thing. Put a small blob or butterscotch/carmel/whatever sundae topping in there with it and it's even better.

[Ash]

They still sell these in the stores here, it's great because it really p**ses off the PC crowd.

I used to buy those all the time when I was a kid.  It was fun to pretend to smoke like the grown-ups.
They always seemed to be placed near the bottom of the candy shelf.  No matter where I went, there they were at the bottom.
They started pulling them from local store shelves sometime in the late 80's or early 90's.  Haven't seen any since. 

These were the ones I remember buying...



I still remember that cheap minty taste they had.  And the red dot at one end that was supposed to be the cherry.

[Menard]

Ever make "Reese's Cups" with real peanut butter? My grandma had chocolate molds to make them and we used to buy the chocolate and make them ourselves and they're better than thereal thing. Put a small blob or butterscotch/carmel/whatever sundae topping in there with it and it's even better.

I've never tried that before.

I remember an episode of Oprah (I believe...from some time ago) when the guest was some lady who showed the audience how to make their own homemade copies of brand name products and one of those was what she called 'recess' peanut butter cups. The technique she used to make the peanut butter sweet, like in the real deal, was to mix a little chocolate in with the peanut butter.

The P.B. Max I mentioned, was more of a real peanut butter filling than Reeses, so it was less sweet, but they included graham cracker crumbles as a cover layer.

On Christmas, I would eat myself sick on a bag of Reeses Miniatures when I was younger. Now I eat myself sick on peanut butter bon bons instead.

Not a candy bar, and I have only ever found this once, back in the early to mid 70s, at a bakery thrift shop, I bought two boxes of a variation of Hostess Ho Hos (Swiss Cake Rolls), but rather than filled with creme filling it was filled with peanut butter. Just one more box before I die....please.

[Raffine]

Again, not a commerically produced candy, but one of my favorite peanut butter-based treats is

IRISH POTATO CANDY!



It's also extremely easy to make.

A Recipe:
2 (1 lb.) boxes powdered sugar
1/2 c. hot mashed potatoes, drained
1 sm. jar crunchy peanut butter

Mix sifted sugar into potatoes a little at a time by hand. (Don't panic when potatoes liquify as the first sugar is added. This is what it's supposed to do. Just keep adding sugar until it is pastry consistency.) Sprinkle wax paper with additional powdered sugar. Take baseball-sized ball of mixture and roll out like pastry. Spread with peanut butter and roll like a jelly roll. Wrap rolls in plastic wrap; chill and slice.
Makes 2 rolls

Somebody should market this stuff - they could call 'em


Spudanutters!

or

Peanutspudders!

[ghouck]

My mom made this once when I was a kid, I loved it and she never made it again. Kudos for the recipe.

[ghouck]

Hadn't seen these in quite a while.

[JJ80]

I like to take a small packet of white mice into work with me occasionally.

[Psycho Circus]

Wispa is back!