When I was a kid gum came in ......

[sandrakae]

Flat sticks, usually 5 in a pack, little squares called chicklets, hard rectangular squares called dentyne and trident. Thick rectangle called Bazooka ,round balls in a gum ball machine,and golden nuggets in a little satchel to represent gold. I just cannot remember anything in a powder form.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/paris-hilton-drugs-gum/story?id=11522787

[Skink]

1. Now you can get Crab like that.

Tastes good and has those Omega vitamins.

[dflprincess]

2. She should have said her Pixy Stick had broken open

My mother hated them because we would wind up spilling the powder.

For those not familiar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixy_Stix
Pixy Stix is a powdered candy packaged in a wrapper that resembles a drinking straw.

Pixy Stix used to be made by Sunline which started in 1952 in St. Louis, Missouri. Originally it was a drink mix in the late 30s, sold as Frutola, but J. Fish Smith found that kids were eating the sweet & sour powder right from the package. He shifted the name to Fruzola and added a spoon. Later it was repackaged with a dipping candy stick as Lik-M-Aid and also sold in little straws called Pixy Stix. It wasn’t until parents complained about the grainy, sticky powder that Sunline came up with a compressed tablet form, the SweeTart in 1963.<1>

Sunline was sold to Rowntree Mackintosh of the UK, which was then bought by Nestle. Nestle maintained the Sunline brand for a while and only recently has rolled the SweeTarts, Pixy Stix, and Lik-M-Aid into the Wonka brand, which already had a strong line of sugar candy, such as Tart 'n' Tinys, Nerds and Runts.

[sandrakae]

3. Oh, I remember them. My dad didn't like to buy them for me because they were nothing but sugar.

Your right. Pixie stick would have been more believable then gum.

[Hoopla Phil]

4. How about "Fun Dip"?

http://www.candywarehouse.com/fundip.html

[Jamastiene]

5. Damn, now she won't be able to powder her nose.

I can't believe she tried to claim it was gum. :rofl:

[flvegan]

6. Mine was horrible but came with baseball cards.