Epic Win: Candy Necklaces
Submitted and written by Nicole O
Ahhh, the candy necklace. What kid didn’t love these? You could parade around, pretending you were a princess, pirate, or anything else that wears cool necklaces, then you could amaze others by eating your colorful jewels! They came in a zillion different flavors, and let’s face it, these things are pure sugar- perfect for getting those highs you need to pull an all-nighter at your slumber party. Even teens aren’t ashamed to wear these epic wins because, hey- they’re amazingly cool! Long live the candy necklaces, rings, watches, and lipstick- and any other candy jewelry those geniuses at the candy companies can dream up.
A zillion different flavors? Rly?
I only remember them tasting like sugar.
It was definitely a ‘prize’ to get one in your Halloween bag, along with any full size candy bar, or real coins.
Hmm, mine tasted like sweat at the end of the day.
I barely every actually got to taste the candy, I always managed to bite clear through the rubber string leaving all of the candy pieces on the ground. Well, either that or my friends would nag me for some of the candy and I’d be left with about 5 pieces. It was good stuff, though
These never tasted nice but the great thing about them was you could bite the bead in half and use the elastic to fire them at people. It really hurt if you got some power behind them.
Ha ha, that’s what we always did! Hm, actually, what we STILL do. I fired one at my boss three weeks ago, but since we all had candy necklaces she never found out who did it.
Where do you work? Chucky Cheese? ; )
Haha welldone XD
Simular thing happened in maths class, teacher gave us them for doing well in a test then wondered why no one was atually eating them!
I used to fire em to! i remeber they made them softer at one point to stop people from doing it. just like banning conkers……
They tasted like ass candy coated it feet, but damn it I loved ‘em anyway!
“ass candy.” heheheheheheh.
Why are you folks talking about them in past tense? They’re still widely available. We even got some for our kids a couple weeks ago.
There’s nothing like compressed sugar with food coloring held together with a string!
personally, i speak in past temse because i havent had one in like 5 years.
Well, do they have different flavors or not?
Yes. But very slightly different.
Heck yeah. My mother and I were once on our evening walk down the street when we found a cinderblock altar erected at the foot of the big tree at the end of the cul-de-sac. Arranged like offerings to the wood nymphs were candy necklaces. It was, like, fifteen years ago, but we still laugh about the randomness of it all.
(Then again, I used to know a donut maker in Cambodia who seriously offered incense and donut holes to the resident land spirits, so…)
Incense for the lovely smell, the donut for the eating…. Heck, I’D be pleased if I were a land spirit! ^n_n^
We wore them all the time in the summer.
Nothing like filthy-dirty, sweat-soaked, compressed sugar. Hellyeah.
Right.
When girls wear them long enough, jou can cut the wire – and those pearls stay where they are!
And if you wore them too long on a hot summer day you would get a little rainbow ring around your neck/wrist/finger/etc.
man i loved those things
As a kid, this was a candy that girls would wear and eat.
In high school, this was a candy that girls would wear and I would eat.
Definitely an epic win, and a great ice breaker.
I’m right there, bro.
In college, i had a girlfriend who twisted, tied together and wore a bikini out of a number of these…
best.sugar-high.ever.
hey!!! remember candy cigarettes? those things tasted aweful but we still ate them anyways and pretended to “smoke” them. which i suppose isn’t the best message to send to kids, but, hey, it was all in good fun….right?
I remember them. They just tasted like sugar.
I remember the gum that looked like cigarettes. They even had a tiny hole in the middle that if you blew through it, a puff of corn starch came out that looked like smoke.
At this old-fashioned ice cream place next to where my dad works, you can still buy those. The rest of the world may think they’re nasty, but heck, I love those things! I dpn’t really know why, I would say the flavor, but they don’t really taste like anything… but somehow they remain delicious.
Hey, has anyone submitted this Epic Win yet?
Yep
Oh fantasic fun! Tho’ I’m curious, do you mean the white ones that came in the tom and jerry packets or those gritty choclate ones with the white paper around them? Our school banned the choclate ones ‘cos they looked so ‘real’ XD
I LOVE them! I eat them a lot xD
Once, a few years ago, I bought a packet of 7, then put them all around my neck at the same time, it was awesome
man, i used to love these! then i found a candy g-string, and that really ruined it for me…
You can get CANDY THONGS now.
on a more adult note, i’ve seen them as a candy bikini. just can’t remember which site. ah, well
I just ate some yesterday. Sweet stuff.
The original “kandi” before ravers did it..lol
huh? why in past tense? I still get these once in a while…
these were great until you fell asleep wearing half-chewed “jewels” and woke up sticky and covered in chunks of hardened sugar. XD
yum, you can still find them in dollar stores and some have a HUGE star or diamond as jewelry so much sugar!!!!
Ah, I loved candy necklaces! But I never bit them off the string before eating them like smart people do, I’d always lick them and my neck would get all sticky.
I used to buy them all the time as a kid. I never wore them, just ate them.
I remember also getting them in the form of a watch, but those are hard to come by these days.
Also one time I bought a limited edition one where there was a “pendant” made out of the same sugary stuff. this “pendant” was hollow and contained some candy powder that tasted really sour.