Comments on: Epic Win: Fun Dip

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:14:41 +0000

It’s definitely all about the stick. If they sold those sticks by themselves, I’d still buy them.

But I have to admit, my favorite Wonka Candy is the ever-shrinking Gobstoppers. They are still good, but I miss the big ones they used to sell, that were the size of a quarter, and you had to suck on them for half an hour, because trying to bite it would chip a tooth. The anemic little versions they sell now are hardly “everlasting.”

By: Faithfulpuppy85

Faithfulpuppy85 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:56:18 +0000

that’s when your finger comes in handy.

By: rackfocus

rackfocus — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:50:25 +0000

My brother liked the powder more, which worked out well because I got the double the sticks.

I found these at dollar general a few days ago. 10 for $1 and I ate them all in the same night.

By: The Moomin 2

The Moomin 2 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:55:14 +0000

The video doesn’t play. FAIL.

By: llc

llc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:37:22 +0000

definitely hazardous to a person’s health.

By: derp

derp — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:21:18 +0000

the sticks were the best
i always tryed to trade my powder to my friends for their sticks lol

By: amyrenee2413

amyrenee2413 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:52:09 +0000

These don’t go bad do they??? I’ve had one in my cupboard for about 5 years…. I just havent brought myself to eat it because I can’t find them anywhere

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:54:55 +0000

these were yummy

By: Vueiy_Visarelli

Vueiy_Visarelli — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:23:05 +0000

I think there were a lot of different brands of this same type of candy. I remember seeing Fun Dip, Lix-a-Stix, Lik-M-Aid, and more, I think.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:46:32 +0000

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

By: Nina

Nina — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:48:59 +0000

The sticks are the best part. D<

By: TBelly

TBelly — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:49:54 +0000

This is what I remember. No stick…just the powder called Lik-M-Aid. Also I remember Pixie Stix long before Willy Wonka.

By: Mstar

Mstar — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:27:20 +0000

Weird- I LOVE the powder but don’t really care for the stick…

By: Blenheimears

Blenheimears — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:33:46 +0000

This is the weirdest candy ever. This and Baby Bottle Pops. The stick was the best part. The powder was sour and bland.

By: linze3425

linze3425 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:52:56 +0000

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…

By: WeirdEars

WeirdEars — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:31:19 +0000

Are these the same kind of thing as Double Dips? Because they’re awesome!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:53:18 +0000

Grape all the way!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:10:53 +0000

Yes, no and agreed.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:06:19 +0000

Or Aqua Smarties… Mmmm…

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:04:17 +0000

Sticks FTW!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:59:49 +0000

I think the Lik-A-Stix were the stick part. It’s Fun Dip in Aus.

By: nil zed

nil zed — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:29:52 +0000

this sort of thing is important to work out before marriage.

By: Momose

Momose — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:42:23 +0000

I don’t approve, it look like cocaine.

By: Fiddlesticks

Fiddlesticks — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:08:21 +0000

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.

By: Deek

Deek — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:26:03 +0000

Dude, they got rid of lime Starburst too–what do they have against lime??

By: SonnyCrockett

SonnyCrockett — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:23:04 +0000

The picture is a fail. I want the old white packaging from the 70’s.

By: Frosta

Frosta — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:17:44 +0000

Loved the powder.. hated the nasty taste of the vanilla sticks.

By: invertedspear

invertedspear — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:12:06 +0000

Sad, wished they would have thrown up a picture of the original packaging. This high marketing packaging sucks

By: Skwerlly Em

Skwerlly Em — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:09:23 +0000

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.

By: Doodliedo

Doodliedo — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:11:38 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:20:45 +0000

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.

By: Nikky Raney

Nikky Raney — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:23:20 +0000

Why would you ever credit anything from Wikipedia?

By: dr-spangle

dr-spangle — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:45:58 +0000

Failcake. They sell this in the UK, but under a different name and branding.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:15:05 +0000

I only liked these with the original flavors.
Cherry (THE BEST)
Grape
Lime

By: Skwerlly Em

Skwerlly Em — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:49:18 +0000

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!

By: Skwerlly Em

Skwerlly Em — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:47:55 +0000

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!

By: Mollypog

Mollypog — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:31:29 +0000

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.

By: Chest licker

Chest licker — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:48:56 +0000

I loved snorting the powder!

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:39:58 +0000

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).

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:33:02 +0000

Yup yup, Lik-M-Aid! I remember!

By: Miranda

Miranda — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:22:57 +0000

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!

By: jonelle

jonelle — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:47:40 +0000

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.

By: jonelle

jonelle — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:41:04 +0000

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.

By: jonelle

jonelle — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:39:02 +0000

um, pop rocks and nerds still both exist. are they not valid hip current forms of candy anymore?

By: Amethyst

Amethyst — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:26:26 +0000

Mebbe I got it mixed up. I’m wrangling toddlers here. NOt at full mental capacity

By: AmyJ

AmyJ — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:45:22 +0000

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!

By: kittycatorce

kittycatorce — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:22:03 +0000

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!

By: Amy S.

Amy S. — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:06:15 +0000

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!!!

By: 40something

40something — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:52:35 +0000

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.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:30:47 +0000

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.