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Old Candy & Cereals

socksoff

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Do any of the more senior members of the Forum remember a candy product in the 60's called "Turkish Taffy"?.I've gone to many a nostalgic candy store but have not found the product so I assume they don't make it anymore.
I know you can't buy "Popeye Candy Cigarettes" anymore but you can get "Popeye Candy Sticks"

Also,Do they still make a cereal called "Maypo" in the U.S.?
 
Sorry, not of much help with those, socksoff. Hopefully, someone else may have the answers you're looking for.

In the meantime, anybody who can come up with a pic of the old `70's Freakies cereal box~I'd be so appreciative! Thanks!
 
Hey Socks, I haven't seen turkish taffy in quite a few moons, but wasn't the brand name called something like "Bonammo's Turkish Taffy"? I seem to recall commmercials for this in the early 70s while watching saturday morning cartoons.


Drew
 
TklDuo-Drew said:
Hey Socks, I haven't seen turkish taffy in quite a few moons, but wasn't the brand name called something like "Bonammo's Turkish Taffy"? I seem to recall commmercials for this in the early 70s while watching saturday morning cartoons.


Drew

It was the candy for tough guys, "real tough guys".
 
socksoff said:
Also,Do they still make a cereal called "Maypo" in the U.S.? [/B]

I remember a commercial from Mayop where a mother was calling her son and she was like "Junior, time to have your Maypo".
 
Maypo is still sold here in the U.S. i don't actually know of anyone that has eaten it.

remember King Vitamin cereal?
 
TklDuo-Drew wrote:
Hey Socks, I haven't seen turkish taffy in quite a few moons, but wasn't the brand name called something like "Bonammo's Turkish Taffy"? I seem to recall commmercials for this in the early 70s while watching saturday morning cartoons.

Hey TklDuo-Drew - Believe it or not,I still have the musical jingle roaming around in my memory banks.You are right! -it was called Bonomo.In fact,at the end of the song.The Name was spelled out.
B O N O M O Bonomo..O O O...Bonomo! Turkish Taffy!(the song was sung to one of those famous military marches,who's title escapes me).
I would love to find a video of that commercial somewhere!
I do remember eating it once when I was a kid.I've tried to find it in those nostagic candy stores but to know avail.
I did buy a "Sugar Daddy" a few months back.I forgot how stiff and hard that candy was! I suspect you have to treat the thing like a sucker in that you suck it to moisten the taffee so that it's easy to chew off! I think that was the 2nd or 3rd "Sugar Daddy" I've ever had and it was probably 35 years between the 2nd and the 3rd!!!!!
🙂
 
Yes, Maypo is still sold here. I have some in my cupboard. It's not as good as Quaker Maple and Brown Sugar.

Bonamo Turkish Taffy! Yes. There was also another brand, called 'BB Bats'. I wasn't big on this stuff, it got caught in your teeth, a real mess, and I was the odd child who didn't like messy candy. I firmly believe that I was the demographic M&Ms were targeted for...😛

You can find 'Salt Water Taffy' in gift shops in towns down on the Jersey Shore. Same thing, in pretty colors, a local legend. I've had people tell me it ain't a trip to the Jersey Shore unless they've gotten a box of Salt Water Taffy. Whatever.

Here's a favorite memory: the Bazooka Big Buddy. A foot long rectangle of Bazooka bubble gum, by Topps, it could possibly last you all friggin' day, like the so-called 'all day sucker'. My favorite flavor was apple, the gum coming in a bright shade of green. Topps discontinued the line, which saddened me greatly, I loved it.

Bounty bars. They're obtainable...overseas. They were here, though, back in the day. Rich chocolate covered coconut, a hundred times better than Mounds. Actually, you can find them here, in British or Irish specialty shops, at a stiff price. NO one's gonna do that.

Cereal? Here's one! Quackers. They had some very funny commercials. Mascot was some duck or something, almost as funny as our friend at AFLAC...
 
Oh, yes, it's an oatmeal...

As far as collectability and nostalgia, Maypo's commercial sweeps Bonomo off the floor. I'm sure Venray would agree. They had all these great athletes of the time (e.g. Mickey Mantle, Carl Yastrzemski) looking in the camera, with tears rolling down the cheek, going "I want my Maypo!"
You can't possibly make this up.
 
giantfan121262 said:
Does anybody remember Count Chocula or Franken Berry?
Our local stores still sell them

I like Qwisp (if thats how is name was spelled)
 
Gadzooks!

I hadn't thought of Quisp(sp?) in eons! Here's a box-cover for the Freakies cereal that I used to plow through as a kid. It really wasn't very good cereal, but I was Hellbent on collecting all the little figurines, so I ate that crap `til I was ill.

box1276.jpg
 
I just had a customer win a full set of the Freakies plastic figures off eBay a few weeks back. He brought them in to share his new treasure. Odd timing...

Marathon Bars. The foot long (It had a ruler on the back of the bars wrapper to prove it) carmal toffy twistly thing. Vanished in the late 70's, early 80's.

Myriads
 
Bless you, Featherfingers!

That is odd about the figures collection, Myriads. Much like finding that there's tens of thousands of feathered friends out there via the TMF, the Net never fails to amaze me for finding out that others share the same obsessions. Fortunately, in my case, years of therapy paid off, and I'm okay with the fact that I'll never own all the Freakies figurines.
Damn things were like so many other collectables. I wound up with ten-or-more of certain figures, and never could manage to get that box with those coupla ultra-rare ones in it.
 
Myriads said:


Marathon Bars. The foot long (It had a ruler on the back of the bars wrapper to prove it) carmal toffy twistly thing. Vanished in the late 70's, early 80's.

Myriads
I remember those things Anyone remember the Reggie Jackson candy bar?
There was also a monster cereal called Fruit Brute Made by the makers of Frankenberry,Count Chocula and Boo-Berry
 
Ha Ha! I remember the Reggie bar and Fruit Brute!

Strangest thing with breakfast cereals: I almost never eat `em, but every once in a blue moon, I gotta have a bowl of either Count Chocula or Capt. Crunch. Then, the box sits up in the cupboard until it petrifies.
 
Now that I've seen the box, I do remember "Freakies". Though I couldn't tell you what they tasted like, when I was a little shaver, all I wanted were the plastic toy "Freakies" that came one free in every box. I think I had a few of them that I traded with kids in the neighborhood for.

And I also remember Quisp' friend (or emeney) Quake. There was something that came out called "Orange Quangeroos" that were awesome!


Drew
 
gen.zod said:
I remember those things Anyone remember the Reggie Jackson candy bar?

I remember when the candy bar was out I was in high school. On our baseball team, the standing joke was, after someone made a great play or got a clutch hit, now they will name a candy bar after you
 
TklDuo-Drew said:


And I also remember Quisp' friend (or emeney) Quake.


Drew

Wow Drew...those were my two favorites growing up!!! I even had my grandma get me the cool hats they each had. The quisp guy had the spinning helicopter looking thingie and the quake hat was like a miners hat with a light on it! ahh the memories...

peace out,
daddy
 
You want to complete your freakies collection?

go here

Myriads
 
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