We're setting the table (sans turkey) for the big tasty holiday feast today, and I do believe we have all of the other highly important, nutritional food groups covered here: delivery, hot 'n cold, vending machine, can or coffin, and lastly-- veggies! We all need our vegetables now, don't we? But anyway, yeah, these are fun candy containers from my childhood (some still containing some very petrified gum and hard candy) --and fyi: I have another big batch of them to share with you all next month as well, so stay hungry for that. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving today, too!
When I started scrolling through these pictures all I could think about was Mr. Bones and how much I loved those compacted bits of sugar, and lo and behold ... Mr. Bones!
ReplyDeleteThat made my thanksgiving!
Though those look a bit ... moldy! A very horror comic skeleton at this point!
Yeah, you need to put those moldering Bones back together into a portrait.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Mr. Bones is my favorite candy here, though a bit less Thanksgiving related, I guess. I also had plenty of those trash cans as a kid, too--but none with Chicklets in 'em. I'd sure miss the hard sugar tennis shoes, soda bottles, and fish bones, but Chicklets are pretty good too. I remember the veggies, especially the carrot and the corn, but I don't recall ever buying them.
I thought the modern day four food group consists of salt, sugar, additives and preservatives, at least the fast food industry thinks so.
ReplyDeleteI really love the candy containers of days gone by, a bit of great ephemera of carefree days of my youth.
I remember the garbage cans, but I seem to remember them containing sweet tarts in the shape of various garbage.
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