Do you remember Lunch Bars? I used to get a lot of them on

[sinkingfeeling]

Halloween. They sold for 3 cents and my grandfather would buy them for me. I was thinking about the stuff we used to get trick or treating: homemade candy apples, popcorn balls, and taffy, apples and oranges, cookies and homemade fudge, and Lunch Bars and occasionally a Snickers.

I was just remembering those bags of goodies as I handed out tiny, "fun'" sized candy bars tonight.

[MADem]

1. Back in the day, those candy bars were the size of a toddler's arm!

Why we all didn't have the diabetes, I just don't know!!!

[Tess49]

2. I sure do! I would love a popcorn ball right about now. nt

[lillypaddle]

3. My parents always threw away

anything that wasn't sealed. Those razor blades, you know. Not sure I know what a "lunch bar" is - like a granola bar?

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Talking 1950's. There were no razor blades in candy and people knew who

passed out what. You only went trick or treating within walking distance of your house. Lunch Bars were milk chocolate like a Hersey bar.
A much different time.

[lillypaddle]

5. Well, that was the 1950s

Maybe it wasn't just about razor blades, but my mother didn't trust what people "made," because who knows how clean they were or what they put in them. She was German, btw, and had some weird ideas - believed in lots of old wives tales. I'm remembering specifically when we were in Germany and living on base. People moved a lot, and we didn't necessarily know our neighbors that well.

[mainstreetonce]

6. We always got pennies

It was very unusual to get candy. I do remember an occasional apple or candy apple.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. I've never heard of Lunch Bars.

Maybe the were a regional thing?

In the 1950's when I was trick-or-treating we mostly got a piece or two of penny candy, and it was often stuff that I never ate normally. We didn't get full sized candy bars, although sometimes got home made popcorn balls or an apple.

I give out much better candy than I ever got.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Think they were all over the country. I was raised in rural Ohio

and we always got full-sized candy bars at Halloween. I don't remember smaller versions of them until the '60s.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/candyprofessor.com/2009/11/09/candy-lunch-bars/amp/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Thanks for the link, but I also never saw or heard of the other two candies

in that old ad, Denver Sandwich or Candy Chicken Dinner. Also, the comments clearly show they weren't nationwide. Back then a lot more candy was regional. In New York I loved Welch's fudge bars and Mallo Cups. Couldn't find either one in Tucson.

I spent my first 14 years in and north of Utica, NY. Then Tucson, AZ.

I'm incredibly jealous that you got full-sized candy bars at Halloween, because I never did.

[trof]

10. Me neither.