Airheads
The stretchy, tangy taffy bar in the loud mylar wrapper — Blue Raspberry stained your tongue, and White Mystery was a gamble by design. Fifty cents of pure lunchbox status.
#Taffy
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Laffy Taffy
The flat fruit taffy with a groaner printed on every wrapper, banana and strawberry and green apple, the joke usually worse than the candy was good. An Illinois candy maker started it in the 1970s; Nestlé's Willy Wonka brand made it a Halloween-bag fixture.
Now and Later
The corner-store fruit squares that started out jaw-breakingly stiff and only gave in after honest work — think Starburst, but way harder. The name was the sales pitch: eat some now, save some for later. Whether any kid ever actually saved some is another matter.