Candy Bar: Whatchamacallit

[enframed]

I had no idea these were still around. I'll go looking for one tomorrow at lunchtime.

You know what other candy bar I loved? The Reggie! bar.



I am so not a caramel fan, but somehow, in my 8 year old (or however old I was) mind, it tasted better in a Reggie! than in anything else.

Reggie was OK. I preferred Marathon bars, myself, but then I love caramel.



At least I still can get a Rolo.

Seems to me that back then the candy company dictated price. I remember Marathon bars costing $.25, too. Interesting shift in candy culture now that candies range from $.99 to $1.39. And those old ones had sugar while many of the new ones have subsidized corn syrup. It's a fuckin' racket, I tell ya.

[Tree]

My favorite candy bar, hands down.

I love you. Put it in your back pocket so it melts a tad before eating. Better yet, put in my back pocket.

[tallchris]

My favorite candy bar, hands down.

I love you. Put it in your back pocket so it melts a tad before eating. Better yet, put in my back pocket.

I bought two a few nights ago during our recent ""heat" wave" and put them in the freezer when I got home.

Frozen Whatchamacallit: NOT CRAP.

[lemur68]

My favorite candy bar, hands down.

I love you. Put it in your back pocket so it melts a tad before eating. Better yet, put in my back pocket.

Eww, then you'd be eating butt candy.

[Jodi S.]

A quarter? That's awesome.

In like, 1980.

Even in '80, that was a deal.

Well, my middle name is "Thrift."

[jimmy two hands]

Thingamabod. Gobbledegook. What's its face? Whatchamacallit!
Whatever it is, whatever it was. Chocolatey chocolate - Whatchamacallit!

[Trey]

My favorite candy bar, hands down. Packaging is still the same as when I was a kid. Stupid name.

NC.

This combination of chocolate, peanuts, and balsa wood is unfuckwithable, to borrow a hipstery curse word.

[etch]

I forgot about the Marathon bar, that was a good one.

In the eleventh grade, a friend and I were cruising around, listening to Led Zeppelin, stoned out of our minds. We decide to stop at a convenience store, well, because we're hungry.

We peruse the candy aisle and decide on Mars Bars™. Somehow we pay the cashier and stumble back out into the night laughing our asses off. I peeled the wrapper off of that thing and gobbled it down. It had to be the most amazing thing I had ever eaten. Like a crazed, stoned zombie, I turned on my friend and ripped his Mars Bar™ out of his hand and ate the rest of it. He had already taken a couple of bites and everything.

Mars Bars™ are really good.

[flyinghouses]

Peanut flavor in these seem weak. Not nearly as good as a Take 5. Milky Way sell bars with just caramel in them now. I can eat a lot of them

[154]

These were pretty far up there, though my childhood favorite was Caramello. All these things are sickeningly sweet to me now, but those were better days.

[Christopher]

Delightful. My favorite '80s candy bar. Seemed to randomly appear and disappear from the candy aisles, much like the elusive Tangy Citrus Bubblicious.

Also the best Brick Layer Cake album. NC.

[numberthirty]

These were pretty far up there, though my childhood favorite was Caramello. All these things are sickeningly sweet to me now, but those were better days.

Along this line, I really wish those Wonka chocolate bars were on the shelves when I was a kid. They are a bit of overkill.

[jimmy two hands]

This was one of the staples of my diet during the incredibly stoned summers of 1994 and 95. I'd sing that terrible song from the commercial while eating it. The other staples were klondike bars, hot pork rinds, beef jerky, and Mr. Pibb. While listening to Primus or the Flaming Lips.

[tbone]

I think this one is my favorite candy bar. Haven't had one in quite a while. Might have to remedy that the next time I find myself at a convenience store or gas station.

You know what other candy bar rules?

[The MayorofRockNRoll]

I mean, it's good and all, but it's just a candy bar. Not much better or worse than most others.

I like Take5s, for the pretzels, and I like Zero bars, when I'm feeling racist. Other than that, so many candy bars have their virtues but they're all about equal.

[garthplinko]

god damn you guys

[runs to vending machine]

[Wheely]

What do you call it? Whatchamacallit!

What do I call it? Totally not crap, that's what I call it!

[jimmy two hands]

I had no idea these were still around. I'll go looking for one tomorrow at lunchtime.

You know what other candy bar I loved? The Reggie! bar.

I loved the Reggie bar! When I was in third grade, there was a contest where we could win a bunch of candy if we could guess which type of candy bar they were referring to in a set of clues, and I answered "reggie!" for "candy bar named after a baseball player". The correct answer was "baby ruth", which is bullshit. And I lost.

Also, the Reggie! bar was made by Wayne Bun candies, who came up with the Maple Bun, another fantastic candy bar. I had a t-shirt made by them that said "I <3 Buns" that I wore for years and years until it eventually disintegrated.

[same]

I never eat candy bars. I think when I see them at the gas station or whatever it doesn't really register in my brain that I'm actually seeing them. Completely tuned out. Never considered.

[numberthirty]

I also miss the Chunky bar.