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At The Penny Candy Store: Bobcaygeon, Ontario
The penny candy store was small but rich in candies and also
comic books.
Here are some of the candies:
- 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.
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