35 Childhood Candies You Forgot You Were Obsessed With

2022-09-17 05:17:41 By : Ms. Lynn Tang

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The real question is: Can you pick a favorite?

The real question is: Can you pick a favorite?

Living on the edge as a kid meant not knowing if you were about to eat a booger or green apple flavored jelly bean.

What's better than a chocolate ball hiding even more sugar inside?

Nothing could demystify these small bites of gum when you were kid—not even the fact that they lost their flavor in about 30 seconds.

The only trouble with these candy-coated chocolates is that you wanted about 10 sleeves of them.

Kisses get all the attention, but Hugs were in just as many candy bowls.

Did anyone even try to use these as real straws? Because they were sour AF.

Nestle giveth and Nestle taketh away. These were like an entire Butterfinger bar in one bite, and they were discontinued in 2006.

This sweet and stretchy candy is so great there was a song written about it.

We commend any and all brave souls who enjoyed these burning candies of death.

These neon orange, pillowy treats blew plain old peanuts out of the water because obviously.

The only thing better than refined sugar-filled Pixy Stix is the super-size version.

Two different flavors of crunchy sugar is one adorable box—it doesn't get much better than that.

I think we all know which was the superior flavor. Because it *cough* changed colors *cough* tasted best. Plus, it tastes great in shots.

Usually wearing just one wasn't enough. Gimme 10 or all my digits or nothing at all.

These are the epitome of classic candy.

If only all Band-Aids looked (and tasted? nah, that might be weird) this cute.

Little bottles of sweet, sweet syrup inside a wax bottle you could bite open. Wow, kids are weird.

Simultaneously super tough and chewy, the punchy flavors were insanely addictive.

It was a sad day when your pop no longer whistled. But not really because that means you ate it.

You probably collected all the cap colors and then got disappointed when the candy flavors were basically all the same.

A candy where you virtually guzzle brightly colored liquid sugar? That has childhood written all over it.

Only the craziest commercials for the craziest candies with a syrupy center.

Don't even try and pretend that you didn't stick one of these in your mouth and pretend it was a giant tongue.

There was just something about pushing a pop that made it taste better than a standard lollipop.

So sweet and chalky and yet we loved pretending to poison our lungs so much.

Seriously, though, how did these companies get away with marketing tobacco to elementary- and middle-school kids?!

The figurine dispensers were cool and all, but let's be real: The fruity pellets were good enough to eat alone.

Who cares if these tie-dyed your neck? They were delicious and totally shareable, so long as you didn't care about spit-swapping.

Regular Chupa Chups were great, but nothing beat the Spice Girls edition—complete with limited-edition photos inside the wrapper and 24 collectible stickers.

If you didn't eat these with your mouth wide open—or your tongue sticking out—you were definitely doing it wrong.