Remember it?
YES Virginia, we did have penny candy at one time.
This all came back to me when I bought a piece of paper with candy dots on it. Remember those? The small dots, in pastel colors, arranged in rows on a sheet of paper? I bought one of those recently. It cost me a dollar. Of course this was not the usual candy store (it was in, of all places, JoAnn Fabrics) so the price may have been a bit inflated. It was also wrapped in plastic.
Penny candy was just that, a penny a piece. You could get licorice sticks, a piece of Double Bubble gum, a paper with those dots on it, a wax bottle with juice in it, a pair of red wax lips that you chewed for the flavor, and on and on. And some of the candy was even TWO for a penny, such as banana splits.
Most of this candy did not have wrappers on it either. We were subject to, omigosh, GERMS. And we LIVED in spite of it! But then the candy was made in the U.S., not imported from wherever, and potentially tainted with whatever.
Think we'd sell more candy, if we dropped the price a bit, sold it individually, and made more of it in the USA? There's a job I'd take, on Day 93!
YES Virginia, we did have penny candy at one time.
This all came back to me when I bought a piece of paper with candy dots on it. Remember those? The small dots, in pastel colors, arranged in rows on a sheet of paper? I bought one of those recently. It cost me a dollar. Of course this was not the usual candy store (it was in, of all places, JoAnn Fabrics) so the price may have been a bit inflated. It was also wrapped in plastic.
Penny candy was just that, a penny a piece. You could get licorice sticks, a piece of Double Bubble gum, a paper with those dots on it, a wax bottle with juice in it, a pair of red wax lips that you chewed for the flavor, and on and on. And some of the candy was even TWO for a penny, such as banana splits.
Most of this candy did not have wrappers on it either. We were subject to, omigosh, GERMS. And we LIVED in spite of it! But then the candy was made in the U.S., not imported from wherever, and potentially tainted with whatever.
Think we'd sell more candy, if we dropped the price a bit, sold it individually, and made more of it in the USA? There's a job I'd take, on Day 93!
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