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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 04/28/2007 : 09:50:28
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Are you, like me, interested in the games played and candy eaten during childhood? Have you ever plame Game Nostalgia or Candy Nostalgia? Here's a chance to list - with descriptions - what you can recall from either category. I think it would be particularly interesting to see what has survived the decades and also what may be shared with other countries. Just cut-n-paste or list your own. Please include decade and country. TIA!
CANDY [not just brand-names, but really a description]
1940s and 1950s NYC, USA
1. Mary Janes - individually cellaphane wrapped tiny tan toffee rectangles with some kind of chewy center. [MJs were also a kind of girls' patent leather shoe, but that's another story  ] The wrappers were tan and red.
2. Buttons - a long thin piece of paper dotted with sugar-flavored different colored blobs that you peeled off and dissolved on your tongue. Dis-gusting! But cheap!
3. Juicy Fruits - tiny multi-colored, fruit-flavored hard gelatin figures that you could munch on for quite a long time. I think they were all shaped like little babies, but without any detail. Our nabe candy store kept them in big wide-mouthed jars and they were sold by the scoop ... but I can't remember for how much.
GAMES
1940s and 1950s NYC, USA
1. Double Dutch - a jumprope game in which a player stands at each side holding corresponding ends of two jump-ropes which are turned simultaneously. Another player has to calculate when to jump in and keep jumping without getting tangled in the ropes. REALLY TOUGH!
2. Scully - played with bottle caps, the kind with fluted edges that had to be pried off soda bottles, and each printed with the logo of the soft drink. You had your own collection. The object was to place the bottle cap, shiny side down on the road and flick it with thumb and index finger to see how far it would go across the street. The farthest won - and you collected everyone else's bottle caps as your prize, building up your collection. This was a good ploy because you could never be sure your mommy would let you buy yet another soda.
3. Statues - one person is 'it' and faces a group of players, who stand still, moving their bodies into various poses. 'It' then turns his/her back on the group, and when s/he turns back whoever is caught moving is considered 'out' till the last person left becomes the next 'it.'
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Rovark 
"Luck-pushing, rule-bending, chance-taking reviewer"
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Posted - 04/28/2007 : 11:27:05
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1960's South London/ Kent
SWEETS (Candy to our American cousins)
BlackJacks
Little rectangular lumps of hard licorice, 4 for a penny, made your mouth all black/ purple
Jelly Babies
Different coloured jellied sweets in the shape of - wait for it, babies. Still around.
Gobstoppers
Hard candy, last for ages. A variation were the Traffic Lights which started out one colour and as you sucked them smaller and smaller, became a different colour. You had to keep taking them out every 30 seconds or so to see if they'ed changes yet
Sherbert Dabs
A card cylinder containing sherbert, with a stick of soft black licorice which you sucked then dipped in to the sherbert working your way through the sherbert before eating the licorice.
GAMES
Statues
As per BBabe's
Sheep And Wolf / Tally Ho
You need at least 6 to play and a big patch of ground. Everyone stands in a line at one side of the ground - the Sheep. One person is the Wolf and stands in the centre. One of the sheep suddenly legs it to get to the other side, although the other sheep can move up and down the line and bluff by taking one step over the 'line', once someone runs, they can't move. If the Wolf catches the runner, they're out. If the runner reaches the other side, they scream 'Tally Ho' and the rest of the sheep make their run en masse. Last person caught is the winner and the next Wolf
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duh 
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 04/28/2007 : 14:06:20
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CANDY
whatevertheywerecalled
Small crunchy bars of peanut butter flavored stuff that was striped with white and chocolate. (Still sometimes available at rural farm stores.)
whateveritiscalled
Outside chocolate shell resembles Reeses peanut butter cup but inside is a heavenly gooey sweet stuff. (Still sometimes available at rural farm stores.)
GAMES
Cowboys and Indians
I'm guessing kids don't play pretend like this anymore? Their politically correct parents probably wouldn't allow it, anyhow.
Silence In The Court, Monkey Gonna Speak
Someone says, "Silence in the court, monkey gonna speak!" The first person who can't stand to be quiet any longer (usually the youngest), is the 'monkey.'
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 04/28/2007 : 15:51:28
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USA 80's and 90's
Candy:
Sugar Daddy - Long Caramel on a stick. (You now only see them at Halloween)
Fireballs - Cinnamon Balls that really burned your mouth. We used to see who could last the longest.
Cany cigarettes - actually blew a puff of fine sugar out.
Games:
Red Light, Green Light - see who can cross the finish line first while someone calls out Red Light (Stop), Green Light (go).
Kick the Can - Hide and go seek with a group of people. If your found you go to jail. Other players must kick the can without being touched or seen to let the other people out of the jail.
5 minutes in the closet. Played at parties. One guy and one girl are pick to go into the closet for 5 minutes.
Quarters - Hand on the table with thumbs free. A quarter would go between the thumbs and you would try to bounce the quarter past the other persons hands. If you missed. The other person would fling the quarter on the table with their thumb while the other person bared their knuckles on the table. Game woulds get really bloody |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 04/29/2007 : 06:19:30
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Originally posted by duh
CANDY
whateveritiscalled
Outside chocolate shell resembles Reeses peanut butter cup but inside is a heavenly gooey sweet stuff. (Still sometimes available at rural farm stores.)
You mean Milk Duds?
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 04/29/2007 : 06:50:10
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Evanston, Illinois - 1960s-early 1970s
Candy:
Milk Duds - (in case that's not what Duh meant) these were chocolate covered hunks of caramel.
Snowcaps - little drops of chocolate that had tiny white sprinkles on top.
Cracker Jack - "candy coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize, that's what you get in Cracker Jack!"
PEZ - little rectangular shaped candies that you'd put into a dispenser and eat out of the top one at a time. The dispensers were more fun than the candies, but sometimes you could find single flavour packets of the candies that were unusual, like once I found cola flavoured PEZ.
Smarties - much like PEZ, but sweeter and they were round instead of rectangular.
Cinnamon Hearts - small little cinnamon candies that were shaped like little hearts. I understand they still make them but are just ovals and not heart-shaped anymore, and are now called Cinnamon Imperials.
Watermellon Candies - they might have had a name, but I don't recall it. Simply, they were regular hard candies (boiled sweets) that tasted like watermellon. A huge hit when I was growing up.
Games:
Dodgeball - two sides line up against each other and you throw a ball at one side and try to hit someone from the other team. If you do, that person is out.
Red Rover - don't remember the rules much but there was all that singing "red rover, red rover, have X come over".
Treasure Hunt - also played in teams where you'd leave clues in different places for the other team to figure out where to go next, and at the end there was some object you were supposed to find. The best part of the game was making up the clues so they would be difficult to figure out. |
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Chris C 
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 04/29/2007 : 18:17:20
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Originally posted by Rovark
Sheep And Wolf / Tally Ho
You need at least 6 to play and a big patch of ground. Everyone stands in a line at one side of the ground - the Sheep. One person is the Wolf and stands in the centre. One of the sheep suddenly legs it to get to the other side, although the other sheep can move up and down the line and bluff by taking one step over the 'line', once someone runs, they can't move. If the Wolf catches the runner, they're out. If the runner reaches the other side, they scream 'Tally Ho' and the rest of the sheep make their run en masse. Last person caught is the winner and the next Wolf
Rovark:
This sounds a bit like British Bulldog that we used to play in the early/mid 70s. One person was picked as the Bulldog and had to stand in the middle of a pre-defined area in the school playground (usually a marked out netball area or similar). The rest of the participants then had to charge from one end of the playing zone to the other without being caught, accompanied by lots of shouting of "Bulldog". Obviously, the more people got caught, the harder it was to get from one end to the other. Last man standing was the winner. Click here for the Wikipedia listing for the game.
We also used to play MurderBall at my school. |
Edited by - Chris C on 04/29/2007 18:19:08 |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 04/29/2007 : 18:35:52
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Originally posted by Chris C
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Originally posted by Rovark
Sheep And Wolf / Tally Ho
You need at least 6 to play and a big patch of ground. Everyone stands in a line at one side of the ground - the Sheep. One person is the Wolf and stands in the centre. One of the sheep suddenly legs it to get to the other side, although the other sheep can move up and down the line and bluff by taking one step over the 'line', once someone runs, they can't move. If the Wolf catches the runner, they're out. If the runner reaches the other side, they scream 'Tally Ho' and the rest of the sheep make their run en masse. Last person caught is the winner and the next Wolf
Rovark:
This sounds a bit like British Bulldog that we used to play in the early/mid 70s. One person was picked as the Bulldog and had to stand in the middle of a pre-defined area in the school playground (usually a marked out netball area or similar). The rest of the participants then had to charge from one end of the playing zone to the other without being caught, accompanied by lots of shouting of "Bulldog". Obviously, the more people got caught, the harder it was to get from one end to the other. Last man standing was the winner. Click here for the Wikipedia listing for the game.
We also used to play MurderBall at my school.
... and did they let you eat candy in East Anglia way back then 
 
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 04/29/2007 : 18:53:17
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Naah, I was too busy playing violent games  . Back in those days I lived about 8 miles from where you do now.
Check Rovark's post from earlier for highlights. The mention of Blackjacks and Sherbet Dabs brought back memories.
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Spangles: Small square boiled sweets in a packet. Fruit flavoured.
Toffo: Small, incredibly chewy toffees that came in a wrapped tube. Tagline - A man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 04/29/2007 : 19:44:33
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Originally posted by Chris C
Naah, I was too busy playing violent games . Back in those days I lived about 8 miles from where you do now.
Check Rovark's post from earlier for highlights. The mention of Blackjacks and Sherbet Dabs brought back memories.
Also:
Spangles: Small square boiled sweets in a packet. Fruit flavoured.
Toffo: Small, incredibly chewy toffees that came in a wrapped tube. Tagline - A man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew.
I'm sure I've still seen Spangles around. But I think you'd better explain to the non-Brits just what Sherbert is ... because in the rest of the world it's what we in the UK call sorbet. Mucho confusion-o!
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Tori
"I don't get it...."
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Posted - 04/29/2007 : 20:55:45
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by Chris C
Naah, I was too busy playing violent games . Back in those days I lived about 8 miles from where you do now.
Check Rovark's post from earlier for highlights. The mention of Blackjacks and Sherbet Dabs brought back memories.
Also:
Spangles: Small square boiled sweets in a packet. Fruit flavoured.
Toffo: Small, incredibly chewy toffees that came in a wrapped tube. Tagline - A man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew.
I'm sure I've still seen Spangles around. But I think you'd better explain to the non-Brits just what Sherbert is ... because in the rest of the world it's what we in the UK call sorbet. Mucho confusion-o!
In the US it's mostly called sherbet (I know you live here) but I've heard it called sorbet at the nicer restaurants. It goes both ways! |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 04/29/2007 : 21:08:19
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Originally posted by Tori
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by Chris C
Naah, I was too busy playing violent games . Back in those days I lived about 8 miles from where you do now.
Check Rovark's post from earlier for highlights. The mention of Blackjacks and Sherbet Dabs brought back memories.
Also:
Spangles: Small square boiled sweets in a packet. Fruit flavoured.
Toffo: Small, incredibly chewy toffees that came in a wrapped tube. Tagline - A man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew.
I'm sure I've still seen Spangles around. But I think you'd better explain to the non-Brits just what Sherbert is ... because in the rest of the world it's what we in the UK call sorbet. Mucho confusion-o!
In the US it's mostly called sherbet (I know you live here) but I've heard it called sorbet at the nicer restaurants. It goes both ways!
Absolutely! But that's not the kind of sherbert that the lads are talking about ... it's a sort of candy-flavored powder that fizzes on your tongue. I think. 
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 04/29/2007 : 23:00:18
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by Tori
In the US it's mostly called sherbet (I know you live here) but I've heard it called sorbet at the nicer restaurants. It goes both ways!
Absolutely! But that's not the kind of sherbert that the lads are talking about ... it's a sort of candy-flavored powder that fizzes on your tongue. I think.
Yup, Baffy's correct. Sorbet (over here) is water-ice, usually lemon or orange flavoured, and served at the end of a meal. |
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 04/30/2007 : 02:09:33
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Originally posted by Chris C
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by Tori
In the US it's mostly called sherbet (I know you live here) but I've heard it called sorbet at the nicer restaurants. It goes both ways!
Absolutely! But that's not the kind of sherbert that the lads are talking about ... it's a sort of candy-flavored powder that fizzes on your tongue. I think.
Yup, Baffy's correct. Sorbet (over here) is water-ice, usually lemon or orange flavoured, and served at the end of a meal.
Sometimes the French serve it between courses--le trou Normand. |
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thefoxboy
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 04/30/2007 : 06:08:18
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Originally posted by Chris C
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Originally posted by Rovark
Sheep And Wolf / Tally Ho
You need at least 6 to play and a big patch of ground. Everyone stands in a line at one side of the ground - the Sheep. One person is the Wolf and stands in the centre. One of the sheep suddenly legs it to get to the other side, although the other sheep can move up and down the line and bluff by taking one step over the 'line', once someone runs, they can't move. If the Wolf catches the runner, they're out. If the runner reaches the other side, they scream 'Tally Ho' and the rest of the sheep make their run en masse. Last person caught is the winner and the next Wolf
Rovark:
This sounds a bit like British Bulldog that we used to play in the early/mid 70s. One person was picked as the Bulldog and had to stand in the middle of a pre-defined area in the school playground (usually a marked out netball area or similar). The rest of the participants then had to charge from one end of the playing zone to the other without being caught, accompanied by lots of shouting of "Bulldog". Obviously, the more people got caught, the harder it was to get from one end to the other. Last man standing was the winner. Click here for the Wikipedia listing for the game.
We also used to play MurderBall at my school.
British Bulldog was excellent, plenty of kids suffered broken bones in that one.
Are Pop Rocks still available? |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 04/30/2007 : 08:59:13
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Originally posted by thefoxboy
Are Pop Rocks still available?
Sure are! |
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