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sinkingfeeling

(55,646 posts) Mon Oct 31, 2016, 11:54 PM Oct 2016

Do you remember Lunch Bars? I used to get a lot of them on [View all]

Halloween. They sold for 3 cents and my grandfather would buy them for me. I was thinking about the stuff we used to get trick or treating: homemade candy apples, popcorn balls, and taffy, apples and oranges, cookies and homemade fudge, and Lunch Bars and occasionally a Snickers.

I was just remembering those bags of goodies as I handed out tiny, "fun'" sized candy bars tonight.

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Do you remember Lunch Bars? I used to get a lot of them on [View all] sinkingfeeling Oct 2016 OP

Back in the day, those candy bars were the size of a toddler's arm! MADem Oct 2016 #1

I sure do! I would love a popcorn ball right about now. nt Tess49 Nov 2016 #2

My parents always threw away lillypaddle Nov 2016 #3

Talking 1950's. There were no razor blades in candy and people knew who sinkingfeeling Nov 2016 #4

Well, that was the 1950s lillypaddle Nov 2016 #5

We always got pennies mainstreetonce Nov 2016 #6

I've never heard of Lunch Bars. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2016 #7

Think they were all over the country. I was raised in rural Ohio sinkingfeeling Nov 2016 #8

Thanks for the link, but I also never saw or heard of the other two candies PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2016 #9

Me neither. trof Nov 2016 #10