The China Adventures of Arielle Gabriel

• red licorice sticks
• black licorice sticks
• wax pink lips that you could eat, after your wore them
• dusty heart candies, with Love Slogans on them
• fake cigarettes, white brittle candies with pink tips
• Double Bubble gums, not sold in Quebec
• Tootsie Rolls, not sold in Quebec
• Carcker Jack Boxes, with free toys in them
• Macintosh toffee bars, too sweet even for me
• Cadbury milk chocolate
• Cadbury dark chocolate
• Crispy Crunch, a favorite
• Lowney's Bridge Mixture, Mom's favorite
• Lowney's Cherry Chocolate in a square box
• chocolate covered raisins
• chocolate dovered nuts
• chocolate covered coconut bars
• peanut brittle
• Mars Bars
• popsicles
• fudgsicles
• Dixie cups, small tubs of ice cream
• Kit Kat bars, plain wafers with choclate coating
• popcorn, plain
• ice cream cones, in wrappers, from a freezer
• Life Savers, rainbow colored
• Life Savers, mint, plain white
• Life Savers, butterscotch
• huge lollipops with rainbow circles

In that there were dozens of huge jars behind the counter, I cannot remember all the types of teeth rotting foods we consumed, but we did so, cheerfully, with no thought of the future, or concern for dental bills.

I went to this store with my first money earned carrying my dad's golfs clubs, to buy comic books and a little candy. It was the first store I saw when I walked up the Canadian National Railway tracks with my brother towards Kenstone Station.

And after the candy purchase, I selected my comic books from the circular metal stand by the door: a perfect shopping day.