I Bet You Can't Remember All 30 of These 1970s Candies

If you were a kid in the 1970s, you had a favorite candy — and there's a very good chance you can't buy it anymore. A quarter, a walk to the corner store, the biggest decision of your day. Most of those candies are gone now. Discontinued. Vanished off the shelves so quietly you never got to say goodbye. In this video we count down 30 candies and snacks every 1970s kid loved that you simply cannot buy anymore. The Marathon Bar — the eight-inch braided rope of chocolate and caramel with a ruler on the wrapper, discontinued in 1981. Space Dust and the original Pop Rocks. The Brach's Pick-a-Mix nougat chews with the colored bits. The Seven Up Bar — eight different fillings in one bar, gone since 1979. The Milk Shake Bar that tasted like a malt shop. The Reggie Bar. Butternut and the Hollywood bars. Candy cigarettes you pretended to smoke. Wax bottles full of syrup. Bonomo Turkish Taffy you smacked on the sidewalk. Razzles that turned from candy into gum. Astro Pops. Space Food Sticks. Candy necklaces. The circus peanut. And the prize at the bottom of the cereal box. And number 30 — the one that still breaks hearts at school reunions fifty years later — is going to explain why a grown adult can get genuinely emotional about a discontinued candy bar. Because it was never really about the candy. It was about being a child, with a quarter in your pocket, walking to the corner store on a summer afternoon, with everyone you loved still alive and the whole summer ahead. The candy was the taste of childhood freedom — and when you taste one of those flavors again, it is the whole vanished world that comes flooding back. There are about 70 million Americans alive right now who walked to a corner store with change in their pocket and bought these candies, who can still taste them, who would give anything for one more afternoon at that candy counter. Tell me in the comments: the one candy you miss the most — and the corner store, the gas station, the drugstore where you bought it, the name and the town. I read every single one. #1970s #candy #retrocandy #1970snostalgia #genx #babyboomers #americannostalgia #howitusedtobe #vintageamerica #1970smemories #vintagecandy #discontinuedcandy #childhoodmemories #pennycandy #thingsthatvanished