Gen-X Kids Had The Best Candy. Karen Morgan

[@llamasugar5478]

The bubblegum cigs were great, because if you breathed *in* at the wrong time, you got a smoker’s cough that sounded pretty realistic.

[@MontagZoso]

😂👍

[@loopofconsciousness]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jamespeace1237]

Here's one chocolate coins?

[@jamespeace1237]

Chocolate coins , nerds.

[@themaggattack]

And wasn't it so nice to reinforce to little kids the idea that smoking is cool and you can do it too?

[@canelaboriqua2003]

Jolly ranchers, Chic-o-stick and Alexander Grape, lemon heads, Boston baked beans, Sunflower and Pumpkin seeds. 😂

[@NubianP6]

Alexander the Grapes were my favorites, but I only ate the coating, not that hard white candy in the middle. 😂

[@silliepixie]

I'd add the Fun Dip candy to this list. Just a pouch of flavored dry sugar and a stick made of candy to eat it with.

[@mstyles2667]

Fun dip where you ate flavored powdered sugar with an unflavored sugar stick. honestly fun dip is probably why I have never managed to kick my addiction to sugar.

[@IamCurrentlyAscending]

Yep, eating sugar WITH sugar.

[@createallow3126]

I liked the stick better than the powder.

[@sar_e_bear]

I was just going to say this!

[@sar_e_bear]

​@@createallow3126I'd eat the stick and then pour the sugar in my mouth.

[@flamingpieherman9822]

Turning 56 this year and she made me feel like a 8-year-old kid again...

[@sarge4455]

56 this year too, time flies

[@rudyspective1870]

YES! Oh good times!

[@HisbeautifulTruth-nl1ch]

57 this year and she told not one lie!😂😂

[@stonecoldwwe13]

LOL same here!! 56 in Sept. '86 grad!!

[@kynn23]

Her demonstration of trying to eat a candy necklace brought back a lot of memories. Mine usually wound up breaking and spilling the candy all over the floor.

[@MilaJohns]

I have to say that the candy necklace was what got me through the SATs. I'd totally forgotten which Saturday they were scheduled for, had far too much fun the night before, then had to be drug out of bed by one of my besties who handed me a coffee, a candy necklace, and some #2 pencils and shoved me into a classroom! Shanna, I'm forever grateful!

[@rustylee1836]

She didn't do well at the pixy sticks, though. You didn't try to suck the powder out, you poured it in your mouth

[@ksh4892]

@@rustylee1836 that was exactly what I thought! And whatever you did, you didn't breathe until after it was moistened. Breathing pix stix was no fun! :p

[@DestinyA83]

Me too! And I ate every piece

[@EMuro-wu7uy]

So funny how much I remember. I always think "How the hell am I still alive?" No seatbelts, crazy candy, and all of this. Were they trying to kill us?

[@leslieweeks9279]

Don't forget smoking at 16, drinking at 17.

[@LdyVder]

@@leslieweeks9279 Smoking at 13 and drinking at 16.

[@aleshacoats9033]

I seem to remember a really pointy cone shaped sucker about the length of our hands big around as a toe no actual flavor just sweet pretty sure it was dark orange and clear with a wax base, Sooo not only did we play dodge the rocket with Real Metal Tipped Lawn Darts we had its baby sibling Candy Tonsil&hangy-dingy(Uvula)Darts ✌️😊👍

[@frankjustis]

How could she leave out jaw breakers?

[@majoroldladyakamom6948]

... and those HUGE SweetTarts that would make your tongue bleed after awhile?

[@saltyshockwave7723]

Because of Big League Chew

[@jamesslick4790]

This is not "just" comedy, It's documentary! 100% spot on!

[@ronbon321able]

So true!!

[@JustLocal]

That’s why it’s comedy!

[@babylonian.captivity]

It is exactly spot on. It's uncanny, really.

[@waded2129]

Big League Chew, Shredded beef jerky in plastic cans that looked like chewing tobacco. The list goes on doesn't it? Lol

[@themaggattack]

Ah yes, as if the candy cigarettes weren't a bad enough influence! 😂

[@MxE5571]

The Big League Chew I had as a kid was pink bubble gum, yes shredded to look like chewing tobacco, but it wasn't beef jerky, it was gum! I still remember the picture of the baseball player on the package 😁⚾😄 (52 years old here, grew up in L.A.)

[@ohsoloco5113]

​@@MxE5571I believe he was referring to two different products that mimic chewing tobacco. I remember the big league chew bubble gum, as well as the shredded beef jerky in snuff cans

[@aleshacoats9033]

Yes I remember Turkey Jerky Chew ✌️😊👍

[@jrussellcase]

She nailed it. I'm 51 and everything she said is facts. 😂

[@pamelameckley5040]

I'm fifty-two and I agree with everything she said. Remember Tart n Tiny's, Wacky Wafers, Marathon bars,(caramel covered in chocolate and braided, so not really a bar.) She forgot the Red Hots that were sold in a box identical to the Lemonheads).

[@ddz1375]

@@pamelameckley5040 Marathon bars were my absolute favorite. Boston Baked Beans, Beer Nuts, Penny Fish, B,B Bat's. Wax Lips....

[@alewisscott]

She is 100% correct! And back then, we called them "now laters" because no one paid attention to the "&" in the name 😂. Remember Chicklets, Fruit Stripe gum, Big League Chew, and McDonald Land Cookies? And the vending machines that had little cartons of milk and juice? Such great times!! 😊

[@kynn23]

@@alewisscott It wasn't until my late 30s that I realized the McDonald's cookies may well have been Famous Amos. That would explain why they were so yummy.

[@sharonsmalls6846]

I will be 68 in June. She is on point.

[@janetttyminski7295]

Let’s not forget Jujubes. They stuck to your teeth like glue.

[@genxx2724]

They tasted bad, too.

[@Metalman200xdamnit]

Oh man,those were an absolute pain to eat and pull off your teeth.

[@johneli495]

I miss the old Brach's displays at the stores...coconut candy was my favorite

[@CHIsports81]

Oh, wow. I remember those. There was a grocery store in another town near where we lived that had one. We used to get the chocolate stars. They started making them recently and selling them in bags, but do not taste the same, to me at least. Those and lemon drops were road trip staples when we could afford to go somewhere.

[@katrinamillings3651]

@@CHIsports81 The chocolate stars are my all time favorite candy. I miss them so much.

[@Metalman200xdamnit]

I loved those. I think for like a quarter,you could get a few pieces.

[@jackromero7324]

I left the US 20 years ago and still dream of those displays.....Thought they were still around😢

[@z-z-z-z]

the Brach's displays were fair game to this little Artful Dodger...

[@gloriaalex11]

OMG, I ate all that candy. We also had chocolate cigarettes, which were just skinny paper tubes full of chocolate that melted instantly, causing more consumption of soggy paper. Good times.

[@micks336]

They also had bubble gum ones they would coat in flour then the wrapper, and if you blew you would get a puff of smoke.

[@erineddy7999]

I noticed she didn’t mention the Circus Peanuts. Those glow-in-the-dark giant peanut shaped candies that never quite came off your teeth. Oh, and bubblegum cigars. 😂

[@SirReptitious]

Ugh, circus peanuts are tied with candy corn as the worst candy ever.....

[@jamesslick4790]

@@SirReptitious I'm THAT GUY. I love BOTH of those! 😳

[@SirReptitious]

@@jamesslick4790 I'm sorry to hear you were so brutally abused as a child.... ;-p

[@jamesslick4790]

@@SirReptitious😜 I have weird tastes and opinions, LOL. My mother worked for Sears, Roebuck & Co. My father worked for H.J. Heinz, So very much mainstream. (and well, kinda boring upbringing) I'm just "out there", LOL

[@SirReptitious]

@@jamesslick4790 Let's see if you like the whole trifecta of most disgusting candy- do you like black licorice too?

[@Northeasy_Iowa_Outdoors]

Don't forget grape BubbleYum

[@cheeto4493]

I always remember zebra stripe gum.

[@futureselfnow]

how bout the legend that grape bubble yum had spider eggs? 😅

[@midwest1389]

The best flavor

[@colleenhurst4585]

I'm 57, this is dead on what we had for candy. Loved it though! Those necklaces were the best when u were in class. You thought you were sneaking

[@LdyVder]

I always wrapped the necklace around my wrist. I could never get it over my head.

[@randaljr.8581]

facttttssss! the paper on a now or later will never all come off cleanly.

[@erineddy7999]

One time, one time, I managed to get all of the paper off a B-B-Bat (banana flavor).

[@LdyVder]

Neither did the hard candy on the paper. Loved those, but ate a lot of paper as a kid too.

[@stephenishom2898]

Another great show reminding us Gen-Xers of our childhood. Thanks Karen!🤓

[@notsure1969]

These days, it's not often when you hear somebody genuinely saying "Thanks, Karen". 😂

[@christopherbic7688]

​@@notsure1969 I was going to say something similar but you spoke well Shalom

[@mphays]

We also had 1¢ candy. Individually wrapped hard candy that came in a few dozen different flavors. 🍬

[@brianfalls5038]

I'm 64 going on 65 and I can tell you I grew up eating those candies. Fun memories for sure!!! Lol. 😂

[@lisaswineheart6537]

I did too and I'm 66. We were the later boomers though, not the hippies into yuppies ones.

[@debrarutkowski5110]

That’s what I said. All but the pop rocks. That’s baby boomer candy! 😋

[@brianfalls5038]

@Debra Rutkowski I never did try the pop rocks. I was afraid to try them. Lol! I drank a LOT of pop growing up and I'd heard stories about pop rocks mixing with soda pop

[@rudyspective1870]

OMG Shut up, everything she said is hilarious because it's so true!! Love that the audience understood and related to what she was talking about, it's great!

[@standdownrobots_ihaveoldglory]

Candy lipstick & candy cigarettes were my signature accessories in the 70s lol...

[@mstyles2667]

omg i forgot about candy lipstick, i had that in the 80s

[@lauralowery9303]

Yeppers! But you forgot the sugar daddy! Can't even tell you how many times I got that stuck to the roof of my mouth and almost pulled out all my teeth to get it out! 😂 And then stick it back in! 😮😅😂 Love your videos sweetie! 💖

[@lauralowery9303]

Even though I'm a boomer! A septugenarian!

[@rayjohnson2387]

They still make those...they have em at 5 Below...unless they're leftover from 40 years ago...which wouldn't surprise me 🤣🤣

[@lauralowery9303]

@@rayjohnson2387 😅😂

[@mstyles2667]

Omg dying 🤣you just brought back so many memories, I almost choked to death serveral tmes on those and always went back for more.

[@Kaemea]

​@@lauralowery9303So you're still just a kid, right? 😊

[@catherinehall5692]

I loved the candy necklaces! I also remember eating candy cigarettes. No one in my family smoked so I don’t know how my parents allowed that, but they did! Zero bars were my all time favorite, still are.

[@cynthiat6505]

She’s absolutely hysterical!!!

[@thanksfernuthin]

Snack Pack Pudding!!! With the razor sharp metal lid. You had to be SO CAREFUL licking the pudding off of the lid. I swear... it made the pudding taste better!

[@theresagomez2605]

Pudding pops.

[@flameripper5502]

Pudding tasted way better when it was in a can than in a plastic container.

[@everising4999]

Danger pudding 😂

[@dolphinbear661]

I cut both corners of my mouth so bad on pudding lid one time, looked like the Joker

[@thanksfernuthin]

@@dolphinbear661 I'm guessing you never did that again! 😄

[@mareelovely]

Talk about a trip down memory lane. That was awesome.

[@Michelle7.17]

One of my fondest childhood memories is when Dad asked me if I wanted to go to the Liquor store with him. YEAH!!! Dad got his juice and I got my candy 🍭 😊 And yes, it was called the Liquor store, NOT a convenience store or the grocery store, THE LIQUOR STORE 👍🏻🍷🍭

[@genxx2724]

The liquor store had Fire Stix.

[@katelinnett9020]

Here in Boston it was called the package store, or the "packie" for short.

[@jendorf13]

I reject that I am a boomer. Born in 1964, I am a boomxer. These observations all apply to me!!! Love it.

[@Kaemea]

Oh man, missed it by a year. Or a few months depending on birthdate. As a proud Gen-Xer born in 69, I hereby declare that you, Jendorf13, are an honorary Gen-X denizen!

[@phaedrussmith1949]

Kind of a crossover generation. Just Boomer enough to have seen the great jobs so have a good work ethic even though those jobs were gone by the time you became adults, and just Xer enough to realise that the job you are working hard at will never really get you anywhere.

[@diamondgirl7519]

65 is Gen x.

[@WillSing4TP]

Born in '63 here. On the cusp of boomer & gen X. I consider myself to be the MTV generation.😎

[@newyorknight]

Yep I remember back in the day over 40 years ago. Going down to the little store at the end of my block, with my quarter in hand👍 Looking to get as much penny candy as possible .

[@jim6070]

And you could get quite a bit for a quarter.

[@shannykin8771]

43 years here and I remember all of those candies. The atomic fireballs were some of my favorites primarily because my older brother wouldn’t swipe them.

[@teamawesome5153]

Ah, the candy from my very early childhood. How did I survive?

[@notsure1969]

How did any of us?

[@ashleelarsen5002]

An occasional banana is all you really need

[@theEndtimePrincess]

Honestly, she's describing what "we" (baby boomers) had. I'm 66 and every piece of candy she mentioned is what I grew up with.😆

[@macsnobia]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@JoybuzzerX]

Makes sense, seeing gen X starts in 1965. Going to be over lap

[@lauraann7816]

Good point- I was born in 62 and my brother in 66. On our way to Religious classes (CCD) once a week in the after school hours, we were taken to the Penny Candy store and could get lots of goodies for little money. We both had this experience and we are different generations me being a Boomer and him a Gen Exer. I got all of what she said minus the dots on paper. They were awful to me even as a kid. I loved Tootsie Rolls too. At the Penny Candy store they weren't the tiny ones either.

[@suprchickn7745]

I'm 49 and I remember all of that and Lik'm Stix and Boston Baked Beans and Mike and Ike and Jolly Ranchers and on and on

[@theEndtimePrincess]

@@suprchickn7745 Yes! Those candy choices stayed around a long time.

[@auntiemame7076]

What a fabulous comedian. As a Gen Xer, she nails our lives and middle age issues in every routine she does!

[@katelinnett9020]

Squirrel Nut Zippers, root beer barrels, Nerds, Good & Plenty, flying saucers, Red Hots, giant jawbreakers, Charms lollipops, buckeyes, Sugar Daddies, Bit' O' Honey, MaryJanes, Bazooka bubblegum, Whoppers, Goobers, Raisinets, Boston Baked Beans, Laffy Taffy, Razzles, Swedish Fish, what else? Today's kids will never know the delights of the penny candy stores!

[@vickigonya9432]

Yes!!!!

[@debrasnyder7695]

Funny stuff!🤣 Don't forget about the blue tongue splashers!😛 As we got older the joke was, someone went to Smurf village..💙 Lmao!😂🤣

[@QCS_AdamCole]

Gen X represent! 1000% can confirm all she said!

[@cski4048]

OMG, she brought back memories with the Pixie sticks.!!!!!

[@dulynoted2427]

And the jawbreaker. No need to explain it. The name told you what it does to your jaw. That is if you had any teeth left.

[@EntertainMeNow78]

She literally started off with my favorite candy as a kid. Atomic fireballs. 😍

[@kristicollett7887]

We definitely had GREAT candy!!! I get the wax bottles in my store now. LoL

[@danielcobbins8861]

I'm a boomer and remember the Nickel Nip wax bottles.

[@andreabradley5837]

I would totally buy them if I saw them!

[@minimaladjacent]

Dollarmas in Canada have them.​@@andreabradley5837

[@jasonthibeaux1049]

Remember the sugar sticks you could dip in the colored sugar? And the chewing tobacco gum, Big league chew.

[@Kaemea]

Lik-a-sticks! I loved that stuff so much. I swear, I'd eat several packets of that and several pixi-sticks and shake for the next 24 hours. Good fun!

[@genxx2724]

@@Kaemea I thought it was Lik-m-ade.

[@McQueenPress]

Best candy and best Saturday morning cartoons.

[@knittenpurl4274]

When I was in sixth grade (1986), I watched a kid snort a pixy stix while waiting for the school bus in the morning.

[@gsdfan8455]

Wow, that brings back memories.

[@carolinebjerkelund767]

She just touch on a few of the crazy candy we had.

[@penelopepitstop762]

And there was a candy shaped as a rocket. I’m not sure what it was made of but it was a hard gel that could pull out your fillings! I recently made a retro candy gift bag for my brother’s 50th birthday and put all that stuff in it, plus some Hubba Bubba and that gum “chewing tobacco” lol.

[@gx8841]

Astropop? Multi-colored goodness.

[@loner1295]

Big League Chew!

[@penelopepitstop762]

@@gx8841 yes, that’s it!

[@cheeto4493]

@@loner1295 Not really "candy" but don't forget the shredded Jerky "dip" in the little round containers to go along with the Big league chew,.

[@Kaemea]

​@@cheeto4493Oh gads, I loved that stuff.

[@janetross1900]

I’m 69 and when I was in middle school my girlfriend and I would buy like 10 pixie sticks and cut them all open, inform into a pile and mix them all up. Then we would suck them up with one of the straws and try not to choke to death.. now I am a respiratory therapist, and I take care of patients that have aspirated something such as pixie stick dust down in to their lungs

[@BLOODRAVIN01]

36 years old and I remember all of those and the uproar over the candy cigarettes I also remember the 5 second rule in the grass on the pavement didn't matter you ate it

[@karly6025]

And we can't forget those massive jawbreakers!! I almost lost some teeth biting into those like biting into the Eight ball :)

[@jeanniemaynard5919]

This lady is just hilarious 😅😅

[@louissivo9660]

Thank you for the memories. Every candy she mentioned, I enjoyed! It was so fun back then. Not just different sorts of candy bars, but candy necklaces, pixie sticks, etc... It was all so fun. I loved that time as a child.

[@lw3269]

Loved the Sugar Babies, bubblegum cigars, and chocolate cigarettes, too.

[@pammcdowell8635]

Omgosh!!! Spot on and so many memories!!!!

[@jntdhome]

Jolly Rancher sticks were my jam. Not the individual hard candies. These were small flat ruler like sticks. Watermelon and Apple were my fave!

[@isaackellogg3493]

I think jolly rancher sticks were more of a nineties thing

[@Dollarkat]

Lemon heads is the greatest candy ever made.

[@sarahpalmer411]

I agree, yum!

[@aliciakisner7092]

I thought they were too sweet since I've always loved sour stuff. They're only sour on thy outside.

[@alphavegas1]

Haribo Gummy Bears entered the chat

[@davidbrooks4294]

Love you Karen. once again, nailed the Gen X.

[@cheeto4493]

ahh, candy from my youth. Reminds me of going to my grandmother's house she would always have a dish with fancy ribbon candies and drops that the humidity had made stick together. You would have to chisel and pry a piece out, only to end up getting a chunk about the size of a walnut.

[@theresaastley9339]

😂😂😂 TOO TRUE !!! 😂😂😂

[@anotherashley7]

Omg 😂 these kids now will never know

[@GrumpyOldGuy-so4qt]

​@@edithdlp8045 you probably do.

[@AngelsHikari]

She's so right 😂😂😂 I thought people were trying to influence extra stupidity and bad decisions.

[@suprchickn7745]

Oh, they were!

[@beckyaquino5007]

FACTS!!! Hilarious walk down memory lane 🤣🤣🤣 I remember my sister and I walking down to the corner store to pick out our candy with the $2 we were given and we both left with a little paper bag filled with all those candies she mentioned. The hardest part was deciding which ones to eat first and then of course there was trading the candy with each other when we were nearing the end of our stash. I loved the Bazooka gum for the comics 😛( the gum was crap) and can’t forget the Fun Dip!

[@Kaemea]

Bazooka gum was awesome! Same with the gum that came in the baseball cards. My Dad collected the cards and we kids would help open them and split the gum.

[@xczechr]

We also had candy chewing tobacco in the form of Big League Chew. Good times.

[@stevenfischer9772]

I was born in 1978, toward the tail end of Gen X. I remember all these candies, but most of them seemed kind of dated to me, even in the late 80s. Candy cigarettes were getting hard to find by the time I was old enough to ride my bike to the store by myself.

[@davidwhitlock5625]

Sadly that generation is the strongest one we got left.

[@jim6070]

Us boomers made it all for you.

[@noondayfair]

I'm in the generation after, but this was still a walk down memory lane 🍬

[@araskempf]

Mikey. Always getting into trouble. 😅

[@venomdrop4583]

You can still get a lot of this candy. Even the cigarettes. They no longer paint the ends red and they are called candy sticks.

[@mstanley97]

I loved blowing the smoke on candy cigarettes 🚬 lol! I would sit them in the clay ash trays we made at school as gifts to our parents😂

[@sunderwood9321]

The candy necklaces and bracelets were awesome……… didn’t even have to take them off when someone else wanted a bite😂❤

[@stanford-nf4jk]

Oh man, then there were Chick-O-Sticks, Mr. Melon, Charleston Chew, Big Hunk, and so many more!

[@dawnpence3248]

The best part was the cost! You could get a large lunch bag full for a handful of pennies! Full size candy bars were 5 cents. I miss blackjack gum too

[@Carol-zn2bs]

I saw blackjack gum at JoAnn's fabrics store a few months ago!

[@WildwoodFern]

I wasn’t allowed to buy the candy cigarettes but my mom would send me to the local market to get her a carton of Marlboro lights with a note to “please sell cigarettes to my daughter”. I was 10.

[@mandy747c]

I miss the good old days.

[@marinhusky8863]

I remember the various flavors of Charleston Chew, not sure if they are still around. I also actually had candy chalk! Used to freak my trachers out when I ate it 😂

[@CJC-mr3gk]

I stumbled upon this video and had great memories and laughed from the past. I remember all those candies. I forgot a lot of them. Thank you

[@LatinCuz]

Lemon Heads, Now laters, wine candy, the bag of penny candy for a dollar, and the snow cones in the summertime. wonderful memories.😄

[@user-kb9cu4rl9z]

I'm 66 and ate all that stuff. Probably after a breakfast of Lucky Charms or Captain Crunch and Tang. Having had so many Jolly Ranchers, Looks, Big Hunks, Sugar Daddy's and Abazabas I am surprised I have any fillings, or teeth for that matter, left in my head! Penny candies then would cost me 45 bucks now! Ah the reckless good old days.

[@ianmackenzie686]

The little Bazooka pink bubble gum with the little Bazooka Joe comic.

[@jillh6779]

So good!!!!

[@tonyfeuerhelm]

Thanks!

[@denisefarmer366]

So much of what she said was true for boomers too.

[@CHIsports81]

We did indeed have some awesome candy. I used to love Atomic Fireballs. One of our school bus drivers use to hand them out to us, but I cannot remember if we were in elementary or middle school. 🤣 I am part Asian, so I grew up eating hot food and now there was hot candy? Oh, yes please! Haha

[@Sydroo1969]

I'm 54. Boy, can I relate. We have a candy store here that carries some of those retro candies. Sure hope they're not leftovers from the 70s and 80s...lol. Just kidding. Luckily, my kids got to experience some of those candies when they were little.

[@racktech]

Thank you MOM, we didnt have much but you did enough to let me experience all these candies growing up.

[@cherjohnson5807]

Candy cigarettes I love those

[@fragout9575]

Cosmic Candy was the best!!! 😂 Until the urban legend of Mikey!!!! 😮

[@kathydavis3873]

So funny and True!!😂

[@jameslipke354]

RIGHT!!! She's not wrong!!! 😂My cousin Tommy found what he thought was a better use for Pop Rocks. He mixed it into their big Tom cat Toby's litter in his litter box, he smiled at me raising his eyebrows up and down and said, "Now we wait!" 🤣 Toby the Tom cat had NO sense of humor about it. He took off like a shot! Tommy is 4 months older than I am, we're both 57 now. Did I mention we're both redheads? 😈 ~ APRIL LIPKE

[@jameslipke354]

@@punkinhoot We have a 9 year old granddaughter. On her 7th birthday one of the things we gave her was the wax pop bottle candy! She thought that was just the coolest thing ever and she gets them quite regularly from us. I don't think she really cares they all taste the same! 🤣🤣🤣 She also loves her Pez dispenser. 😁 ~ APRIL LIPKE

[@Kaemea]

Poor kitty! Anyone reading this, please don't do this to your cat(s) It can cause litterbox avoidance which leads to inappropriate urination outside of the box and, since cats don't *want* to be "bad" by peeing and pooing outside the box, they will hold their pee until they can't anymore which can lead to urinary tract infections which leads to more inappropriate peeing and ultimately, the cat either gets tossed out of the house, gets thrown into the pound, or the worst, gets euthanized because the owners don't realize that they caused it all. I'm sorry if you think I'm being a downer or being harsh but I've seen this happen more than you'd think. I don't think your cousin was doing this out of abusive thoughts, heck I bet it would be funny to someone who doesn't realize how much it affects the cat, but please don't encourage anyone to do this! 😢

[@jameslipke354]

@@Kaemea OMG! That was almost 50 years ago. My cousin and I were all of 9 years old at the time that happened. For the record, I do NOT like cats at all - BUT - would never hurt one because I don't like them. I don't want any pet in my house that jumps up on my kitchen counters, dining room table, etc. because of the fact they use a litter box. And ALL cats do that, I don't care whose pets they are. I have many friends that have house cats, and no matter how spotlessly clean their home is, I can still smell the odor of a litter box. Still, as an adult, I would NEVER go out of my way to hurt any animal just because I don't like it. The only "house" cat I would ever want would be a Savannah or an Ocelot. Why? Because their behavior is akin to that of dogs and we're dog people. If cat owners loved them as as they all claim to, rather than letting them have one litter right after another, then just dropping weened kittens off out in rural areas ASSUMING "someone will take them in as farm cats, which they DO NOT (AND YES KITTENS ARE DISCARDED IN THE COUNTRY CONSTANTLY, WE LIVE IN THE COUNTRY AND WERE BOTH RAISED IN THE COUNTRY), leave them in boxes or place ads saying "FREE TO A GOOD HOME", which is just ridiculous considering you don't they'll be taken care of, YOU WOULD HAVE YOUR FEMALE CATS SPAYED. Since you wanted to be so serious, the sad, cruel reality about dumping ANY family pet, whether it be kittens, puppies or adult dogs is this - they are either hit by vehicles, eaten by coyotes, some adult dogs assimilate and become part of the pack, or they die from STARVATION. There are much larger issues for family pet owners than for two 9 year old kids being ornery little assholes at the expense, one time, of the family house cat. We weren't the perfect as kids. NO ONE IS. ~APRIL LIPKE

[@Kaemea]

@@jameslipke354 Oh April, I knew your post was talking about something that happened a long time ago. I think I referred to it in my post. But know that I was NOT calling you out. There are some crazy folks out there that would find it to be a funny joke but, as you can see, for the cat it can be life or death. Again, I know you were referencing something from a long while ago. I didn't believe for a millisecond that you would ever harm an animal. I am a cat lover and an advocate for our wee beasties. I regularly help at shelters and sanctuaries with programs on why it's necessary to spay and neuter. I help with TNR, trap, neuter, return, programs to help colony cats get speutered, vaxed, and tipped. I talk with anyone who wants to adopt cats, I give info and helpful tricks to make adjustments easily. If litterbox odor is a problem for you, you might want to rethink your dream cats. Those two breeds can get super stinky. Savannahs also need their guardian to be licensed to own one because they are still pretty much a wild animal. There are smaller breeds that are also quite doggish in personality. I haven't slept in about 38 hours so I can get back to you on that. Cats can be trained to not get on counters and tables. None of my current cats even try for either. Like I said, I know tons of tricks for training our feline buds. I, too, live in the country and have taken in a fair share of kittens, Mamas, and Daddies. I'm lucky to have vet friends who will speuter for $5 or so. Then it's off to adoption events. You might be surprised to learn that most cat "drop off" stunts are done by dog people whose kids wanted a cat but wouldn't make them an indoor only feline. Speuter and indoor only, and NO DECLAWING, are the things I demand from potential adopters. They must sign a legal document stating that they will abide by the rules and, if they can no longer care for the cat(s), they must bring them back to me. So, long post short (too late!) I know you were talking about something that happened years ago but my cat loving heart can't help itself and I have to do the talk. I am a feline adorer. I like dogs too though I don't have the stamina to care for one properly. So no dogs for me anymore. I miss having Black Labs. They're so cool.

[@jeanetteraichel8299]

I loved all of the candy from the late 70s and 80s! I loved lik-a-maid, plastic garbage cans with sugary candy in the shape of trash, astro pops, pop rocks, candy cigarettes, oh and the best gummy candy possible

[@genxx2724]

Trash Candy! And the fabric drawstring pouch of Gold Nuggets gum. It tasted good.

[@WalkingwithWendy]

I’m from Iowa and my mom would give me a dollar to buy candy at HyVee. I would buy 5 boxes of lemon heads and five slow poke suckers because that was the most for my money. I think I would eat it all that same day. I’m grateful I got to eat all that candy at one point in my life because now I’m a health nut and don’t eat sugar.

[@markelmore66]

I’m a Gen X’r born in 1966 - my favorite X’r candy was “The Marathon” bar. 12 inches of gooey, impossible to chew chocolate and caramel goodness! If you were there and had one - you’ll remember!

[@PhD777]

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[@jq8974]

I REMEMBER THIS! LOL ♥ Loved eating the necklace and having a sticky neck ;) And still buy the white smokes for nostalgia sometimes (never smoked a day in my life!)

[@jrrn96]

Johnny Apple seeds Boston baked beans Dip pouches with that hard white thing you end up eating, giant sized chewy sprees!!! Sour Cherry gumballs in the twisted cellophane, and six lets this was any day or night of the week.

[@pamelameckley5040]

Now *that* bring back more memories!

[@WalkingwithWendy]

I loved that stick that came with the powder. I would buy that and just eat the stick. Fun dip!

[@jeremy1350]

55 here. AMEN to that list. I can attest that every word she said was TRUE !!

[@rick3747]

I am 57. I loved Fruit Stripe gum, Goldberg Peanut Chews, peanut butter Twix, Reggie Bar, grape Bubble Yum, Bazooka gum, Mars Bar...good gosh so many others I can't recall off the top of my head.

[@tonyfeuerhelm]

I'm between boomer and gen-x I think.(1960) I'll wait tell the next time I need good laugh to watch the whole show. All that silly candy brought back some memories. Thanks for being you.

[@RoyalMasterpiece]

Reese’s Pieces, Hot Tamales, Chick-O-Sticks, Swedish Fish were my favorites. We sure ate a lot of candy. 😂❤

[@speak91-r.i.s.e.78]

I’m a millennial. I have had most of these candies and feel very nostalgic.