First Wonderful Candy Bar you remember eating?

[Stuart G]

For me, 3 Musketeers...chocolate on outside, gooey stuff on inside...I think I was 4 or 5..I ate it in a park across
the street from where we lived. (more than 70 years ago)....

[Tomconroy]

1. Hard to beat a Hershey's bar.

[Stuart G]

45. Still hard to beat a Hershey's bar...right now, this very day...K and R post 1..Tomconroy!!!!

[Tomconroy]

47. You got that one right!

[cilla4progress]

2. Clark Bar

and Chunky!

Can still find Chunky but not Clark??

Also Jujubes!!

[elleng]

39. YES Clark.

Chunky still around, Clark ownership's transferred a couple times.

The Clark Bar is a candy bar consisting of a crispy peanut butter/spun taffy core (originally with a caramel center) and coated in milk chocolate. It was the first American "combination" candy bar to achieve nationwide success. Two similar candy bars followed the Clark Bar, the Butterfinger bar (1923) made by the Curtiss Candy Company and the 5th Avenue bar (1936) created by Luden's. The Clark Bar was introduced in 1917 by David L. Clark and was popular during and after both World Wars. It was manufactured in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by the original family-owned business until 1955. It was then manufactured by corporate owners until a series of sales and bankruptcies in the 1990s resulted in transfer of production to the Revere, Massachusetts–based New England Confectionery Company (Necco). Following Necco's 2018 bankruptcy, the Clark Bar is now produced in western Pennsylvania, by the Altoona-based Boyer Candy Company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Bar

[cilla4progress]

41. So maybe I could give Butterfingers another look?

Crispy, but not slightly chewy though as I remember Clark...

[elleng]

42. I have, as it's hard to find Clark.

Butterfinger not crispy enough, and the chocolate's nowhere near dark enough, but butterfinger's @ checkout, so what to do???

[elleng]

50. #2, I just did, hard as hell, badly preserved,

PLEASE make more CLARK BARs!

[mopinko]

3. we were sorta required to eat mars candy bars.

my mom worked there before she got married, and got addicted cuz the office staff got to eat the goofs.
loved the musketeers, and now love the dark chocolate ones.
kinda hate mars, tho.

but for me, as a kid, fannie may pixies.
my aunt always brought frango mints, or other marshall field's candies on holiday. once in a while she'd go get pixies, cuz they were EVERYONE'S favorite.
unfortunately, a one pound box did not go far.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. Maple Bun! 😋

[Cartoonist]

26. I preferred the vanilla Bun.

I stopped seeing them in stores long ago and thought they went out of business. Then, several years ago a specialty candy store had them along with other classics I hadn't seen in a while.

Didn't taste like I remembered. I guess it's true, you can't go back.

[wcmagumba]

5. Probably the same candy bar for me, 3 Musketeers...still love them...

I grew up in a small town in the days when there were still locally owned and operated neighborhood stores on every few blocks...we lived across the street from a place called "Simmon's Grocery" where the grumpy senior (to me anyway) lady owner/operator lived in the back of her store. It had the old curved glass display cases for the candy from which you could choose your favorite...Sad was the day it closed, upon her passing, never to reopen...

[Freddie]

6. Milky Way

My favorite as a kid, all that gooey stuff and caramel too. Then when I was a teen they invented Twix, even better.

[Walleye]

8. Me too, and the chocolate version Forever Yours

[CrispyQ]

7. Almond Joy--sometimes you feel like a nut.

AJ/Mounds had the best commercials.

I loved candy as a kid. Now a bag of Twix mini's will last me weeks.

[OLDMDDEM]

9. Baby Ruth

[MissMillie]

10. I don't remember NOT enjoying a candy bar, until

I had a Butterfinger.

I will say that I think more candy bars should have a dark chocolate option.

[elleng]

40. Yes dark chocolate should be an option.

Butterfinger still around, and being promoted, it appears.

[samnsara]

11. i liked them all except that Idaho Spud bar

...mtn bar was my fav tho...

[global1]

12. The Original 'World's Finest Chocolate' Bars.....

You remember - the substantial ones that looked like 'gold ingot' bars that were sold for $1.00 as fund raisers in schools.

[cinematicdiversions]

13. Reggie Bar

[Irish_Dem]

14. Kit Kat. Cost a dime.

Which was my weekly allowance.
So I didn't get it often.

[Harker]

22. It's funny how having an allowance made otherwise ordinary things

very special, and helped us set priorities... a useful skill in later life.

[Irish_Dem]

28. I remember standing at the candy counter. Ten cents for one Kit Kat bar, or ten penny candies?

I was about six or seven years old and I can remember the hard choice even now.
I also liked to save some of my allowance.

Good point, I guess that was the beginning of me learning how to budget and make money decisions.

I guess when I asked for some candy at the store, and my mother said, here is your allowance, you buy it, she was giving me a good lesson.

[Harker]

29. I remember the glory of going from 3 cents to 4, ca. 1964.

That really got the gears churning. What riches!

I admire your determination to save some. I only occasionally waited more than a week to walk to Ben Franklin's.

[Irish_Dem]

30. Wow, I guess I was right thinking a dime was a lot of money.

We went to a little store after Mass on Sundays, it had a huge candy counter.
Such a temptation.

[Harker]

31. Ha! You high rollers!

I was known to glean a bit of silver by way of selling lemonade or hovering around aunts and uncles.

I can still taste the Leaf sour apple gumballs and Sweet tarts that lit up my life.

[Irish_Dem]

32. I have a sweet tooth too.

I went for the chocolate bars.

Of course since I had a whole dime for my allowance, I was rich.

When my brother and I got a roll each of Nesco wafers for Christmas, I sorted them out in piles according to color.
The chocolate pile was my favorite. One year my brother stole my chocolate Nesco pile and I am still mad at him.

[Harker]

33. Did you crunch one while twisting your nose? n/t

[Irish_Dem]

34. Nope. No kinky candy stuff.

Maybe you meant twisting my brother's nose.
Nope. Should have.

[Harker]

35. Never too late for a Nosebreaker wafer! n/t

[Irish_Dem]

36. Next time I see him, I'm gonna get him back.

Just because it was over 60 years ago, doesn't mean I can't get revenge.

[dameatball]

15. Mounds. If mom or dad bought a sampler candy box I would always eat the coconut pieces first.

Eventually I saw the light and switched over to the Almond Joys.

[Demovictory9]

51. i hate the texture of grated coconut in candy, on cakes, etc... Mounds was my least fav

[dameatball]

52. I never liked licorice.

[FakeNoose]

16. For me it was a Mounds Bar, and I still feel that way

Mounds bars are probably the only candy made by Hershey that I actually like. Most of their chocolate bars are too sweet. In the last 20 years, they've cheapened the quality of the chocolate, I guess maybe for longer shelf-life. (?)

You guys may not realize this, but the Cadbury Cream Eggs that we get in the US are made by Hershey, not Cadbury. The quality and flavor are not the same as before.

I'm not posh, but I much prefer the Lindt chocolates, or other brands of chocolate made in Germany and Switzerland.

[EYESORE 9001]

17. The Heath bar from my youth

The contemporary Heath bar just doesn’t taste the same.

[Bluethroughu]

18. Whatchamacalit

[Bluethroughu]

20. Although I often only got a bazooka piece of gum for 3cents

It had a fortune in each one.

I usually got the same fortune, "it"s better to be alone, than in bad company".

It was a comforting mantra in my life.

[SoCalDavidS]

21. Me Too

That was going to be my answer.

[Bluethroughu]

24. It was a good one.

[hibbing]

38. Beat me to it

Not a big candy fan, but that's the one that came to mind right away.

Peace

[wendyb-NC]

19. I remember sharing...

a "Skybar" with my sister. I was milk chocolate coated and shaped into sections. Each section along the length of the bar had a different filling. I remember marsh mellow, peanut butter, etc.

[Harker]

23. I occasionally eat a little dark chocolate most every night...

and haven't had a distinct candy bar in maybe 35 years, but the first time I can recall that my mind was blown by one, it was Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

[lucca18]

25. Chunky candy bar!

A delicious, little square chocolate shaped candy bar, packed with nuts and raisins.
I just thought that was the “best of the best”!

[tirebiter]

27. When I was about 10 or 11 living in Germany

The post movie theater had Saturday morning movies for kids. I noticed one day that there was a separate section for 5 cent candy bars, as opposed to the more vast supply of 10 cent bars. Basically the ones named so far were the ones that cost twice as much. I then noticed there was one that cost 5 cents that was bigger than others for either cost. It was a Hollywood candy bar. Bought one and opened it up and if my memory serves it was a lot like 3 Musketeers. I didn’t really care. It was bigger and cheaper and it was my discovery

[Buckeye_Democrat]

37. The Milky Way bars from Germany! Called "Mars" there.

That was back in the early 80's while visiting an older brother stationed there, so maybe they're not as good now?

All I know is that they were far tastier than any Milky Way candy bars over here. Me and my parents were so surprised by the difference in quality.

Edit: Here's a video about the different names.

[sinkingfeeling]

43. 3 cent Lunch Bars.

[bluestarone]

44. Lets go way back.

I remember a Big Time candy bar, Hollywood candy bar, 7up bar ALL a NICKLE apiece!

[onethatcares]

54. Bonomo Turkish Taffy

in strawberry .

[Chainfire]

46. Baby Ruth

[bluecollar2]

48. Cadbury's fruit and nut....

Challenged only by Cadbury's Flake...

[hay rick]

49. They say you never forget your first one.

They're wrong. I'm sure I really enjoyed my first candy bar, but I have no idea what is was. I do remember really liking Zero bars when I first tried them. Still a favorite.

[The Polack MSgt]

53. 1st candy bar I remember having

Was a frozen Zero bar from the snack bar at the Town Park Pool in Canonsburg PA

It was a big deal to have snack money as an 8 year old

[zanana1]

55. Sky Bar!

[maxrandb]

56. Payday

Salty peanuts embedded in thick, sweet caramel.

When I was a bit more sophisticated, say at age 10, it was Toffee Fay, because it was "too good for kids".