Epic Win: Fun Dip
From Wikipedia:
Fun Dip is similar to fellow Wonka product Pixy Stix, but sold in small pouches, rather than paper or plastic straws. It generally consists of three packets of flavored and colored sugar, along with two edible candy sticks called “Lik-A-Stix”. It is intended to be consumed by licking the sticks and using the moistened stick to collect some of the sugar. The most common flavors are cherry, grape, and a raspberry/apple combination that turns from blue when dry to green when wet with saliva. It also comes in sour flavors, including sour watermelon, sour apple, and sour lemonade. Packets with one stick and two flavors were once the standard, and packets with only one or two flavors are still available with less prominence than the now-standard three-flavor package.
The best part about Fun Dip, which in Canada was called Lix-a-Stix, was the stick. The powder tasted like ass (and also didn’t mix with water to make kool-ade, which I tried), but the stick was delicious! I usually ended up with a lot of powder left over and no stick.
Strange, I’m from Canada and in our area they were always called Fun Dip.
As some stated further along, it was Lik-M-Aid And I remember it growing up in Ontario with this name till probably at least the late 90’s. Same name in Sask where I lived in the early 90’s.
The sticks were called Lix-a-Stix in the States too.
Mebbe I got it mixed up. I’m wrangling toddlers here. NOt at full mental capacity
I think the Lik-A-Stix were the stick part. It’s Fun Dip in Aus.
I was the exact opposite – I used my finger to eat the powder, but I thought the ‘Stix’ were so nasty that I just used them like sidewalk chalk
Yeah, I also had trouble eating all of the Fun Dip without first chomping through the dipstick, which double as a stick of sidewalk chalk. No matter though, because you can always just pour the powder straight into your mouth.
God, my mouth is watering just thinking about it. Will have to get it next time I’m near a gas station.
The sticks were the best part! And the only part that I actually ate!
I never liked the powder . . . I usually just poured it on things: the grass, the dog’s food, in the fish tank once. Who knew the fish would rather commit suicide than eat the powder?! O_o
Weird- I LOVE the powder but don’t really care for the stick…
Lol, I still eat these all the time! One of my favorite candies. I remember my mom would get mad because sometimes the paper packs would rip a little to much and get powder all over the car.
always used 1 for the powder and just eat the other one =P
youse guys ain’t really old; i remember when this stuff came to chicago in the late 40s! it was called “Lik-M-Aid” and consisted of only the packets. No stix–you dipped your finger in it, poured it into your palm and licked, or poured it directly into your mouth!
we dint need no stinkin stik! I either had a pink finger or opted for the Pixie Stix!
And sometimes, splurged on the one that used to be almost a yard long..the Giant
Pixie Stik, which was about a quarter if I recall correctly. Yes, my bicycle was
powered by Pixie Stix and Atomic fireballs!
Yup yup, Lik-M-Aid! I remember!
It was called “Lick ‘m’ Aid” at least through the 1970s, which was my childhood time, but by then they did include those two delicious edible sticks. It was a slow evolution from old “Lick ‘m’ Aid” to newfangled Fun Dip (which I believe is still around).
This is what I remember. No stick…just the powder called Lik-M-Aid. Also I remember Pixie Stix long before Willy Wonka.
I got those for Halloween! This year! =D First time ever!
OMGEWWW! I remember those. Liked them at the time but makes me shiver at the very idea now. The things we used to eat!
Oh and I also liked the “nerds”, those were little bits of candy that popped in your mouth. Available in regular and sour. ::eye roll::
Pop Rocks?
Nope, TOTALLY different. Pop Rocks were fizzy, while Nerds were inert. Damned tasty, though.
um, pop rocks and nerds still both exist. are they not valid hip current forms of candy anymore?
Yeah, they’re still around. I have, and always will, only liked the purple fun dip and pixy stix flavor, the grape nerds flavor, and the strawberry pop rocks. Pop rocks were probably the best in my opinion, even though I loved all of them, but they left the worst after-feeling. I felt like I would explode, and I got that taste in my mouth as if I’d just taken a swig of orange juice after brushing my teeth!
I always preferred the powder to the sticks. The sticks are useful — but not really all that tasty IMO. My husband likes the sticks more than the powder – so we make a good team.
I liked them at a pretty equal rate, but the funny thing is, even though I liked the powder a tiny bit more, I always chomped off the stick before I was done!
this sort of thing is important to work out before marriage.
Sticks FTW!
It was called “Lik-M-Aid” where I came from, too. Got this lovely confection (and insane sugar high) from the ice cream man. I thought I was the only one who liked the stick best. I still ate the powder, too, but would have bought just the stick if I could. This and Bottle Caps (rootbeer, mmmm) were my favs.
rootbeer all the way!!! i would eat all the rest first and eat all my rootbeers last just to leave that wonderful flavor in my mouth. the worst was when i got them mixed up with cola. disappointment.
I was more of a gum chewer… Preferred Big League Chew.
My Mom bought us a giant box of like 40 of those big packs from Price Club one time… Oh good times. Of course she made us go outside when we ate them. I’m surprised that I wasn’t an overweight kid because of all that sugar. The sugar high I must have had probably made me run around the neighborhood like a maniac, and I burned the calories off!
Do you guys remember when the 3rd flavor was lime instead of that color-changing raspberry crap? Lime was the most prized flavor, and they mercilessly killed it! Would I would not give for some old-school fun dip now.
We used to pour each packet into 3 small dixie cups and treasure it for hours.
And that Price Club reference made me laugh – those boxes were great. They went well with the giant tub o’ red licorice.
BEN!
YES!!! Lime was the absolute best!
i hated when all lime candy flavors either disappeared (like from starburst) or all became green apple flavors instead >:(
LIME CANDY LOVERS UNITE!
Oh God — I remember the lime starburst! I loved those! I can’t believe they had to be discontinued! My next favorite is orange, but it still doesn’t compare.
My overall favorite candy flavor, though, is grape.
Grape all the way!
Or Aqua Smarties… Mmmm…
Dude, they got rid of lime Starburst too–what do they have against lime??
Hello? The stuff still IS called Lik-m-aid. Look at the product image–the phrase “Lik-m-aid” appears above “Fun Dip.” The difference between the older version and the new, as I recall, is that it used to have one stick, two bogus flavors, alleged grape and alleged cherry, that were never as good as the chalky stick. It also had a dumb-looking cartoon kid on the front. Oh, and it was not yet incorporated into the Wonka line in the early 70’s…and neither were Pixy Stix, which had equally dumb packaging but, like Lik-m-aid, were cheaper than most other candies at the time. I remember Lik-m-aid being a nickel in 1974.
OMG!!! This just made me so hungry!!! I remember going to the movie theater as a kid, getting a suicide (all the flavors of beverage available mixed together), then going back to my seat and making it even worse by adding some of the sugar from each of the three flavors of Fun Dip right into the cup. It was almost pure sugar, and I would be hopped up for HOURS!!!
I remember when we tried to make Kool-Aid too and it didnt work, suprisingly enough it needed more sugar! I liked to buy them because it took so long to eat it, stretched out my 35 cents!
i never understood why there was always one less stick than sugars. especially since the stick was the best part. what was it about that stick?! it was like vanilla-sugar or something. i want to go to a 7-11 and just rip some of the sticks off the packages now. ALSO they made the packaging so difficult to cut the two packages apart from each other! the paper connecting them was so thin. when i was very young i would try to rip them apart without scissors. big mistake. especially when i wanted the middle flavor first.
I loved snorting the powder!
I loved the sticks best, too, and I’d also use one stick for the powder and reserve the other stick to eat alone. I was really disappointed when they got rid of the lime. That color change stuff is craptastic.
There’s another candy I can’t remember the name of. I think Nestle made it. It was a chocolate bar, but it was really light and airy, like whipped chocolate. I think the wrapper was purple. That was my favorite candy bar when I was around 5 or so, and I’ve never seen one since.
I only liked these with the original flavors.
Cherry (THE BEST)
Grape
Lime
Failcake. They sell this in the UK, but under a different name and branding.
Why would you ever credit anything from Wikipedia?
It used to be so good back when I was a kid in the 70’s and 80’s. Now it just tastes like chemicals. It’s not the same at all. The sticks still rock, though.
Sad, wished they would have thrown up a picture of the original packaging. This high marketing packaging sucks
Loved the powder.. hated the nasty taste of the vanilla sticks.
The picture is a fail. I want the old white packaging from the 70’s.
Do they still make this stuff and does it taste the same? I’m guilty of eating the stick too… the powder was always a little sour for my liking.
Yes, no and agreed.
I don’t approve, it look like cocaine.
Are these the same kind of thing as Double Dips? Because they’re awesome!
i loved this stuff until it became apparent that this (and other stuff in skating rink machines) were making me fat. i still eat it about once a year, but i hate it now, because it is TOO SUGARY. i only eat the stick and throw out the sugar dip packets when i get it. i always loved the sticks…
This is the weirdest candy ever. This and Baby Bottle Pops. The stick was the best part. The powder was sour and bland.
The sticks are the best part. D<