SweeTarts memories... I remember Sweetarts from my 4th birthday party. My friend's mom made an ice cream cake decorated with these little candy discs, Sweetarts. From that day forward I loved them. When my dog died, my mom cheered me up with my very own roll of Sweetarts and I didn't have to share them with anyone. I am 34 years old and every Friday I stop at a local store and grab me one for the road. My favorite candy of all time, Sweetarts... They always cheer me up when life gets tough. ~ Kevin from Georgia Although I graduated high school over thirty-five years ago, one of my most VIVID and EMBARRASSING memories was when I had a late lunch and was starving, so tried to sneak some candy during my Biology class one morning. I popped some Sweet Tarts in my mouth and started coughing and choking badly. Of course everyone had to turn around and see who was making so much noise, including the teacher! Even though I had to serve an after-school detention for eating in class, to this day I still LOVE Sweet Tarts! And mostly all other candy ...for that matter! ~ Susan from Illinois Growing up in Philadelphia, Halloween was something special. I'd go from door to door simply by jumping over the porch railing to the next "Row Home". Entire blocks of twenty to thirty houses could be tricked and treated in a matter of minutes. The haul was so good that after my family moved to New Jersey, we'd still go back to the old neighborhood on October 31st just for the sheer amount of sugar. I'm not sure why, but SweeTarts seemed to be in no short supply in the early Seventies. (my goodness, has it really been thirty five years?) So much so that at Six A.M. one Saturday morning in early November, while watching cartoons, I decided to unwrap all of the SweeTarts and put them in a big yellow plastic bowl. (my mother used to host Tupperware parties) Man, that was a lot of SweeTarts, at least an inch and a half deep. But after the third or fourth installment of School House Rock, maybe an hour and a half later, the pile wasn't nearly that impressive. To remedy this situation called for some quick thinking, so I started untwisting all of my Smartie's into the mix, followed by Bottlecaps, and for a
little spice, all of the stubby little nickel Necco Wafer sleeves as well. |
