Comments on: Ode to the Necco

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:13:51 +0000

I am very unhappy with the new All-Natural Necco wafers. They taste yucky, not even close to the original. I’ll never buy one of my favorites again, unless they bring back the original.

By: OBloodyHell

OBloodyHell — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:52:01 +0000

Oh, yuck. You might as well subsist on valentine hearts.

By: Old Grouch

Old Grouch — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:01:32 +0000

Stew, check the candy department at Walgreen’s.

By: Stew

Stew — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:44:31 +0000

I must say I had never even heard of Necco before today. I am quite certain they don’t sell them in my local store.

By: Foxfier

Foxfier — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:51:51 +0000

Gray–
Someone noticed the attention that “required” was getting, and it was edited about Nov 7, 2008 6:44:37 PM, according to http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/11/taxing-people-with-no-money.html?cid=138144194#comments .

By: gemma

gemma — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:08:10 +0000

Thanks by the way for bringing that memory back. I really needed it tonight.

By: gemma

gemma — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:07:00 +0000

I’m 65. My favorite memories are of my father with a roll of Necco wafers, which he always had in his pocket, looking for the color I would like the best. He was able to move those disks and rearrange them so that I would get the one I loved. Years later, when I was really upset with my oldest brother, he pulled a roll of Necco wafers out of his pocket and I knew, regardless of what he pretended, that he really truly loved our Dad. That candy was a real hook.

By: Gray

Gray — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:01:51 +0000

Yeah…. Kids are going to have less time to enjoy these kind of things; Compulsory Service for Children:

From the ‘O’fficial gov site:

http://change.gov/americaserves/

The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.

Stay away from my children, you bastards.

By: Elizabeth L. Crain

Elizabeth L. Crain — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:03:53 +0000

Alex Bensky, do you mean Lik-M-Ade? Sure do remember them. I had a friend whose mom wouldn’t let her have them, I have no idea why. That was long before the concept of *snorting* had occurred to anybody.

(For those who’ve not had the pleasure, a Lik-M-Ade was, maybe still is — I haven’t seen them for awhile — a waxy soda straw thing filled with fruit flavored powder, kind of sweet-sour, IIRC — more like a Sweet-Tart than are Necco’s, which are spicy-sweet. The idea was to mix the powder with water like Kool-Ade, but nobody ever did that. You broke the straw in half and poured the powder in your mouth. Pure tooth-rotting goodness.)

By: Foxfier

Foxfier — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:58:38 +0000

Big R usually has a good selection of candies– I picked up some bags of horehounds and assorted sour balls, and there’s usually a bunch of the more “traditional” types in handy one-pound bags. ;^p

Daniel in Brookline–
I’d probably point out that jelly beans are cow hooves, but they taste good as well. (Goodness, looking back, I actually feel a little sorry for my teachers…..)