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The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: How many states in the United States have you visited?
Talk about it….
And Please;
The name of your 2nd grade teacher?
The name of the street you first lived on?
🙂
1. Ms. Massillo..
2. Flatbush Ave.
What do I lose? 😎
dunno yet, not finished hacking…
😁
It seems that the answers is from yesterdays question. The question today was “How many states have you visited, but the comments are about candy!!!
Candy is more fun at home than traveling.
Eye candy.
@Mojo
With lots of sugar?
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Candy bar: Whatchamacallit
Lollipop: Charms Mini-pops
Hard candy: Jolly Ranchers
Mints: Ice Breakers
Altoids: Cinnamon (Wow!)
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VerMints: cost about as much as Altoids but without the junk in them. Real cinnamon, peppermint, ginger, etc. And they got sued by the state of Vermont who didn’t like their name.
States visited? The same number as the last time this was asked. Don’t get around much anymore.
See’s toffee-ettes.
The Scotchmallows are my favorite.
Pez and Kit Kat
Don’t eat much candy anymore – but I usually eat my “leftover” Halloween candy from Costco. Childhood favorites were: Cracker Jack, Tootsie Roll Pops, Hot Tamales, M&M’s Peanuts, Double Bubble bubblegum, Lifesavers (the original flavors (“green” , lemon, orange, etc. Enjoy your afternoon, all..
MOUNTAIN BAR
hard to find nowadays
use to be made by Brown & Haley
@THROW THE BOOK….Same folks that make Almond Roca
I always got some in my Christmas stocking each year, usually didn’t last to the next day, no matter the container size. It could be a “destination road trip” now…..the mountain on the rapper is Mt. Shasta, previously Mt. Tacoma…..https://www.brown-haley.com/
That would be “Rapper MR” spinnin’ the vinyl , Mt. Rainier used to be Mt. Tacoma, getting my “Mounts” mixed up.
No Favorite, … just what hits the mood at the time. Mostly nuts & chews of some sort.
Still looking for the ones without calories or causes cavities, … can’t find the darn thing!! 🙂
Mounds, Choward violet and to many to mention.
Pepto Bismol, 5 Symptom Relief Chewable Tablets, Cherry flavored
@Reasonable
Tums, Dulcolax, Alka-Seltzer.
I used to enjoy a Baffle Bar once in a while. It was made by the same company that makes U-NO, but was discontinued in the 70s.
@DAWG….The U-NO and Baffle bar production line used to be on old Franqette Ave. when it connected to Meadow Ln. in Concord, they were a local company. We had a field trip when I was at Meadow Homes School, we walked from school to the factory and got a free candy bar.
I moved here in the 90’s, so this was the first I had heard of that. Thank you for sharing that, I really appreciate getting to know.
Geez Nytemuvr, I’m about the same vintage as you & I never got walked (or bussed) to that candy factory.
Only place I ever saw was the Jelly Belly Factory with that big Jelly Belly Ronald Reagan mosaic all the way out to Fairfield…. and that was as a chaperone with my daughter’s school!
No fair!
@DR. JELLYFINGER….We did the same thing to the Crystal Milk production line on Market St. I remember it so well because we walked past my house up Detroit Ave. We did take a bus to the Benicia State Capital in ’63, I took pictures with my first camera, and to Sutter’s Fort.
The one’s they don’t seem to make anymore. Can’t have most of the rest.
Rocky road
See’s buttercreams, especially milk chocolate Bordeauxs or Mayfairs….Store bought Clark Bars, only found them at vintage candy stores now…and often stale. They used to be my favorite as a kid, and don’t forget Chicken Stix.
My favorite “kind” is milk chocolate, always something with a lot of sugar in it.
Snickers “Rockin Road” Dark Chocolate Bar
I cannot remember the last time I had candy. Probably a mint in a restaurant. Huh, that’s weird. Not like I’m against candy or anything. Unexpected question.
The 7-up bar, made by the same people. It had seven different candies in the one bar.
Trader Joe’s makes a killer dark chocolate peanut butter cup. I was hooked on them for a while but I’ve cut down on the sugar/candy thing since. TJ’s also has organic dark chocolate bars and dark chocolate truffle bars that rock and are cheap! Like $1.99 each. Otherwise a Reese’s peanut butter cup or Hershey chocolate bar would suffice.
See’s Milk Chocolate Molasses Chips, Milk Chocolate Buttercreams, especially the Bordeaux, 😃 Mars Bar, Milky Way, Hershey Bar, M&Ms, that Chewy Carmel bar with Peanuts all over it, those Mountain Bars were really good, Almond Roca, Thin Mints, those round, spiral-pinwheel mints, Haribo (sp?) Blackberry gummies, thay look and taste like actual berries, Butterfinger.
Walnettos!! Walnettos were a local candy made from local Walnuts in the ‘50s and ‘60s. I think there’re was a Chocolate Walnettos version, too. The owner of the company lived on Pine Hollow Road at Alberta Way before Ygnacio Valley Road went through.
I don’t buy candy because I can’t resist it. I ended up in the Emergency Room one yesr because I ate too many of those Halloween mini-Butterfingers. Allergy.
I swear I proofread that — more than once!
I tend to have seasonally based favorites. I have a tremendous weakness around Halloween for Butterfinger and Baby Ruth. Outside of Halloween, never touch them. At Christmas, I do a lot of damage with See’s toffee or toffee-ettes (and egg nog, not a candy). Easter, those darn Cadbury eggs.
My favorite candy now is Costco’s Macadamia Chocolates. They’re kinda like chocolate turtles — chocolate-covered gooey and kinda hard caramels with macadamia nuts. So yummy.
Lindts Milk Chocolate with hazelnuts or praline. German or Danish (Anton Berg) marcipan. You use to be able to get Anton Berg marcipan at Cost Plus at Christmas time, they had different flavors, plain, one with cognac and one with truffles, all great. Also like salty (very salty) soft licorice. Cost Plus have some from Holland that taste like the one I grew up with.
My partner is in love with that Finnish brand of licorice, Panda I think? But I always liked the Gin-gin candies from Cost Plus. TR hen I figured out how to candy the ginger myself and it’s just too good.
Eye Candy, if you get my drift.
My own homemade Irish Cream Truffles.
Déjà vu all over again
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Ground Hog Day?
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28 states!
Right?
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State of Panic and Anxiety
All but Alaska, so far!
@COWELLIAN….Me too, I’ve hit those all in each season also. What I learned back in the 80s, with all its downfalls…..”There’s no place like home……”.
Go in late spring. After the cold and before the mosquitoes. The mosquitoes are bigger than you’d think could grow in Alaska and everywhere in early summer. Also crazy expensive, like Waikiki expensive.
@ATTICUS THRAXX~
Yes, the mosquitoes in Alaska are crazy big.
Plus, of course, expensive, …. we were in Cordova, Alaska, … in 2019.
Can only get there by airplane and the Ferry, if that’s still operating.
I have lived in 5 states Ct, New York, Louisiana,(New Orleans) Wisconsin (Milwaukee and Madison) and California. I have been to New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Mississippi, Alabama, Nevada, Colorado (Denver, Boulder), Texas, Tennessee, New Mexico (Santa Fe), Oregon and Washington. Also spend a fair amount of time in Florida, Pensacola, Miami, Naples and Orlando, and Arizona Tucson, Phoenix and the Grand Canyon. Spend a week in Puerto Rico with my au pair family Christmas, New Years 67/68.
I have lived in Ohio, New York, Md., Ct., Va., Ca. and Oregon., (total of 7), and have been in 20 others, plus a lot of time in Florida with family.
Geez Hanne, you’re from some jerk water country east of the sunshine but you’ve seen more of my own country than I have!
I’ve now been to 57 states, one left to go.
45
Dang. What are the last five?
25 states, 3 continents, 9 countries and 1 failed utterly nation-state. And the Baseball Hall of Fame which would require a passport, if it was up to me. ⚾️🇺🇸
Wyoming
Idaho
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Oregon
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Missouri
Arkansas
and
Cabo San Lucas
San Jose del Cabo
Oh yeah!
And, the “Old California” … when it
was known as The Golden State.
42 states so far and about 20 countries. Last year we visited the two smallest countries in Europe (Vatican City and Monaco) and this year, the third smallest (San Marino).
5 states (not including touchdowns at intermediate airports) and numerous countries in Europe.
Also: Tomorrowland, Frontierland, etc.
I’ve visited 23 states, born in Texas, but also lived in Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina.
All 50