From Charleston Chews to Raisinets, watch as Gen Z tries retro candies of yesteryears. Will these classic treats stand the test of time across generations?
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Gen Z vs Boomer Candy (Circus Peanuts, Boston Baked Beans, Charleston Chew) | React
0:00 Intro
0:07 Circus Peanuts
2:06 Charleston Chew
4:10 Tea Berry Gum
6:14 Boston Baked Beans
7:55 Raisinets
10:08 Salt Water Taffy
12:06 Gum/Candy Cigarettes
14:10 Atomic Fireballs
16:16 Violet Mints
18:06 Pez
20:54 Thrills Gum
22:48 Final Thoughts
23:27 Outro
Dani and Jair are the two kids in class that the teacher can't have sitting next to each other because they're going to do nothing but talk all class.
Fr 😂
Fun fact, some of the candy cigarettes that came out, actually had a flour coating between the wax paper in the candy, so if you blew on the end of the cigarette, it looked like smoke
i’m not a boomer i’m 16 but i definitely remember this
Icing sugar
I forgot about the jerky! Lol! Thank you! 🙂
The ones we had where I grew up in Canada were called Popeye cigarettes
The Popeye ones 🤣🤣💨💨
Saltwater Taffy is good. It’s basically softer Starburst or Laffy Taffy so you don’t break your teeth on them.
My mom loves the charleston chew candy. She usually keeps it in the fridge or freezer. Also 2000's kid here, salt water taffy is a must anytime we go to the coast.
"Boomer candy" *immediately shows 80's commercial aimed at Gen Xers*
I'm 62 and we didn't eat most of these. They were more like my parents' (born in the '20s) candy. Except Pez and candy cigarettes (but I never liked those). We ate Goobers, Sno Caps, Baby Ruths, $100,000 bars, Pixy Stix, Hershey's, Nestle Crunch, etc.
I’m just 46 and was thinking the opposite- my (gen x) peers and I loved a lot of these, while my Boomer parents weren’t into them or would never have even tried them (big example: Atomic Fireballs). My parents were 10+ years older than you though, which probably makes a difference.
I'm 6 years younger than you and I ate all these things so I guess it's your location rather than your age. My grandma who was born in 1901, loved pie. Pie pie pie. She was a pie fiend. She loves something called raisin pie. I'm sure she would have eaten prune pie.
@@falsenostalgia-shannonword girl!
The blond girl (I don't know her name) I am amazed she knew what Necco wafers were. That shocked me for someone her age. That's a very very old school candy that to this day I still enjoy. It also seems her pallet was more aligned with people of older generations then the younger generation she belongs to.
Juliana
I'm Gen X and the candy cigarettes that we had in those packs weren't the gum version, they were like chalk sticks.
We had both, but the chalk sticks were more widespread. I remember preferring the gum ones because they lasted longer, and actually tasted like something for a hot 3 seconds. 😂 (Also Gen X)
What? No Wax Lips, Wax Coke Bottles, Or Necco's
I am so sad about whatever went down between Jair, Sharon, and React. I loved them both. :(
huh?? what went down? 😮
what happened?
Explain, please.
what happened??
Kinda can’t stand Jair anymore.
I was really hoping to see Chico sticks. Bit of honey and Mary Janes and bullseyes
I'm gen z I loveeeeeee bit o honey and Mary Jane's I would've like that too. Hope they do a pt 2
I need the portion control of the Dollar General $1 bags of Mary Janes and Bit-o-Honey. Just a few pieces at a time.
Dude, Mary Janes are where it's at. During Halloween they'd be Peanut Butter Kisses.
Salt water taffy is actually pretty good stuff. Those circus peanuts are a little iffy.
I grew up in the 80-90s and these candy's were calling penny candy,we had a little corner store and you could get a little brown bag of candy for.10 cents. Mix and match your favorite. Better candies were a nickel or a dime. Those were the best days to be a kid.
Those were the best days to be a kid. And corner stores also usually had at least one arcade game, and sometimes movie rentals! Back when It was worth picking up every penny, nickel and dime you found & and if you got a cpl quarters, you were getting candy AND a surprise bag
I remember going to school and the bus attendant on Fridays would go to the general store and pick up candy for you while you were in class for over the weekend. If we were good and provided our parents provided the money lol
I loved so many of these. My grandparents had a bunch of these in their candy dish.
So we not gonna acknowledge that they put a gif of Drake when Dani was swinging that Charleston Chew around😂😂😂
fr
Have you ever frozen a Charleston Chew? It's amazing!
Never understood why people hate raisins, like my favorite cookies have been oatmeal raisin since I was 6 😂
reall
Because people like different things. I like craisins and dried cherries, but not raisins or prunes.
They must have had different candy cigarettes than I did. Chalk, anyone? 😂
That's the one I remember. They never looked like actual cigarettes.
Ace hardware here has both kinds. The chalk ones had a red tip when i was a kid
You should have these kids try Zotz, wax bottles, pixie stix, bit-o-honey, razzles, and bottle caps.
We ate all of these in the 80's and 90's as well. was very popular in the 80's You can not been have to a movie theatre and never seen Raisinets, No Matter What Age You Are!
Im a Gen X er and we had most of these, including the bubble gum cigarettes as well as the harder candy type.
The ones that look like pieces of chalk? I haven't seen either since I was a kid. Only the ice cream man sold them around me. That and those giant jawbreakers that were almost as big as a baseball and took weeks to finish lol
I am 70 and chewed a lot of Teaberry gum in my day, and it was NOT crunchy when I was young!!
That’s actually very helpful information cause I was like what were they eating back then!! lol what a huge texture change that would have been
They don't make or sell enough of them to get them fresh. They aren't in the supermarkets anymore. They are in specialty shops.
Hell he said grandparents…I was born in 92’ and a lot of these are what I grew up on 😂
I’m pretty sure the saltwater taffy story is that they left the window’s open in the shop on the boardwalk letting the ocean air in and the taffy was better.
I think they should try Cow Tails or sugar babies
Speaking of nostalgia, Does anyone remember skittles gum!?!?👀
I still have hope they will bring them back one day. I loved those so much!!!
"They're kinda weird if you eat like 100, 200, 300 of these things, it gets a little much" 😂 Ryker is hilarious
Slowly realizing that my parents are basically their grandparents, which means it's only a matter of time before my favorite candies are considered old people candy... bazooka gum, big league chew, pop rocks, nerds... Also, I'm surprised they didn't have Razzles. Candy that turned into gum?? those things were great!!!
I am only 34 and these are candy’s I ate as a child/still buy 😂😂
I'm in my early 50's. When I was a kid the oldies radio station played 50's 60's and a little 70's. It plays 80's & 90's now 🤣
My moms in her 50s these, lemonheads, now and laters and mike and Ike’s were her go tos and I was raised on them (born in 98) and my nephew who is 13 definitely won’t buy any of these as a first choice 😂 for sure old people candy to the youngins but still good enough to eat when it’s in the Halloween bucket
@@aysiababyyy3664 I don't know if my taste buds changed or the recipe or maybe both, but I remember Mike and Ike being better in the 80's. Not nearly as big a travesty as the change in Butterfinger recipe a few years ago!
@@aysiababyyy3664 Now & Later...like Starburst but even harder to chew, and that's only when you found them fresh. Which usually you didn't lol
Wheres the Tootsier Rolls or the Sugar Daddys, the Nerds candy or the Chick O Sticks?
Nerds candy was first available in ‘83… I (Gen x) loved it, my boomer parents would never ever have tried it 😆
I’m not a boomer and I’ve had all of these growing up.
Beech nut gum, nico waffers, horehound hard candy, boston baked beans, chicko sticks, jujubies, hot red cinnamon cubes suckers, wax bottles or lips 💋, chicklets gum, root beer barrels, chlorophyll gum, sugar rock crystal candy, pastel after dinner mints, valomilk chocolate ( like peanut butter cup) with a marshmallow cream filling
Millennial here not a boomer and this video made me so nostalgic for all the candy I had as a kid.
i’ll never understand the appeal of circus peanuts i’m sorry
as a gen z that has a gen x and a millennial parents, i grew up on half of these candies and still eat them
They forgot the iconic strawberry candies that grandmothers and aunts always kept in their purse. Those and butterscotch.
The strawberry candy with the wrapper that makes it look like a strawberry? Love those. Very nostalgic
Put the Charleston Chew in a freezer for an hour. Then smack it on the counter and enjoy. 🤤
Salt water taffy is either really really good or really really bad. I depends 100% on the flavor.
I love salt water taffy
You should have given them a frozen Charleston Chew. Infinitely better frozen
Circus Peanuts are the kinda thing that you say "Eww". Then like for some reason days later you think of the taste and kinda want another lol
I love getting the mini Charleston chews and freezing them.
I remember the Bach’s candy displays in grocery stores back in the day
Grab a scoop of this and a scoop of that...
Yep. It was Brach's candy. You don't see it anymore in the pick-a-mix tubs, but you can buy it in bags at most grocery stores still.
Atomic fireballs is how I quit smoking. Every time I wanted a cigarette I had one of them. Until I eventually became addicted to atomic fireballs. Lol
As someone born and raised in New Jersey, the story we were told was that a candy store on the boardwalk left their taffy out overnight, and the sea air coming off the ocean flavored it.
Kids! When I was a kid, we bought the candy, ate the candy, and didn't worry about what was in it. As long as it tasted good. 😁 I live about 2 hours north of Atlantic City, and somehow, I ended up with a big barrel of James Salt water taffy. Plus, I'm just up the street from Criterion Candies, who make salt water taffy and all kinds of chocolate candies supplied to candy shops along the boardwalk up an down the Jersey Shore.
Teaberry is the flavor of Pepto Bismal (the traditional pink liquid stuff). It's also an ice cream flavor here on the east coast with the same pink color, it's one of my favorites. Also the teaberry refers to the fruit, the teaberry leaves are part of the wintergreen family and used in wintergreen flavored stuff like toothpaste, mouthwash, gum, etc.
I’m a millennial and I love Boston baked beans
Same!
Need to freeze the Charleston chew then smack it on the counter to break into small pieces
Charleston chew are best served frozen! They used to have them in the freezer at our community pool & we would get them during the mandatory break
They have little mini ones in a box like Dots come in, when I get them I keep them in the freezer.
Do you remember the Marathon bar? It was just as long as a Charlesto Chew,but it was a braid of caramel.
@@maryannturton9830 I 've heard of it. I looked it up and it seems it was discontinued when I was 9.
Charleston chew is best if frozen overnight then slam it on the counter to break it
How weird... they bit into the Boston Baked Beans instead of putting the beans into their mouths whole. Would you eat a Skittle like that? 😂😂😂
Salt Water Taffy is still a HUGE seller on boardwalk on both the east and west coast. These kids don't know what's good. My mother and I still eat Circus Peanuts.
Salt water taffy is so yummy!
The one who rated the Raisinets 10/10 and the taffy a 3 - is she ok? Like, that's a cry for help. You know that "what what you post if a kidnapper let you have social media" question? This is exactly what I would post.
@@jonathanhibberd9983 or maybe its just their opinion....
It does come in infinite flavors, and some are pretty horrid. Not to mention, I've had brands that were trash and others that were great. Who's to say what exactly they tried?
I love taffy but I stock up at the beach. Tastes better than inland
I used to get Boston Baked Bean candies at the bank out of one of those machines where you put a dime in and turned the knob to get about 15 candies. That was the only place I've ever seen them.
I'm not a boomer but I loved many of these candies growing up
Gen X here and I ❤ a lot of these🫣
First time watching this channel - it’s so interesting to me that the blonde girl and the guy with her actually look 60s to me 🤔
Charleston Chew straight from the freezer. Chef’s kiss
i was going to say this but u did!! great minds!! its the only way i will eat them!!
@@nukkinfuts_ One hour in the freezer and then...SLAM! against the table and then gobble up all those tasty little shards of heaven! Good times...
The full size ones aren't as easy to find lately. The mini ones in the box I keep in the freezer, but they start to thaw quick!
@@katstorm13 I see them all the time. Check 5Below. I have seen them there in both the vanilla and chocolate
the guy in the blue cat sweater is obnoxious....Please find someone else UGH!
I knew what the Boston baked beans were before they even guessed. I love them!!! I’m in Chicago and don’t see them anymore 😭
The only place I've seen them for a long time is Walgreens and Dollar stores.
what ever happened to the Elders React??
Love to see the older react to this candy🤩
Love to see the olders react to this candy🤩
Salt Water Taffy is all about the flavor and brand. It can be great or terrible lol
WinCo has some great salt water taffy
These children NOT liking salt water taffy?! One of my favourites!
Mine too. The cigs and fireballs too. 14:40
is it just me, or does Ryker look like a young Jon Bon Jovi?
like the teen version of him HAHAHAHAHAHA!
The guy in the blue sweater could be my best friend. Im old enough to be his mom but our humor is one in the same.
The saltwater taffy origin story is true, except it happened in San Francisco.
Everybody got saltwater taffy at the fair..the cinnamon seemed to get the most attention as it was twisted on the machine before cut and packaged.the entire area smelled like cinnamon.
They complain about soap taste. This coming from the generation that gave us the Tide Pod challenge. 😅
I'm an Xer and I love most of these. My favorite was the atomic fireball. We used to drop them in our cokes when I was in softball
I love the peanut butter taffy you can sometimes get around halloween. They come in those Orange/Black wax paper wrappers.
Not everyone hating on my circus peanuts. MORE FOR ME
Salt water taffy is so good whatttt
Atomic Fireballs are amazing. Once your mouth goes numb you can enjoy pure cinnamon flavor.
My South Jersey heart. The hate for salt water taffy. 😭
That violet candy def gives me grandma vibes. My grandma loved them but she used it as a breath freshener so she wouldn't breathe whiskey fumes on us kids.
I don't like raisins by themselves, but I like Raisinets. It's not the candy I'd go for, but if someone offered me some, I'd say sure.
I agree with the turds comment
I'm a boomer and, while I had some of this when I was a kid, it's not boomer candy. I had it when my grandmother or father bought it because it was their type of candy. Some of this, I've never heard of.
I'm a millennial and I have had pretty much all of these never had teaberry. Some I didn't like but these were still available for me. I love violets gum and mints. Also the butterscotch hard candy and cinnamon candy
Charleston Chews in the freezer are the best
Abso-friggin-lutely
The Charleston Chews are best frozen, then you can crack them into pieces. I loved Teaberry gum-it was my favorite.
I just adore the guy in the white hoodie. So charming , kind, and well mannered!!!! Sign him up for future videos ❤
Atomic fireballs were pretty good.
Good salt water taffy is amazing. There's a candy shop in Galveston, Texas that makes it by hand and it's phenomenal.
I love freezing my Charleston chews. Especially the mini ones.
The mini ones thaw quick! Can only take a few out of the freezer at a time lol
12:19 the innocence of smoking them backwards 😅
I'm an older millennial. I grew up eating some of these candies.
5:32 I could probably tolerate Teaberry gum since I used to chew the gum that came in a pack of baseball cards. 8:56 Raisenets are still popular movie theater snacks.
Baseball card gum, yes that is probably similar to the tea gum (guessing). I loved the baseball cards. But, I wasn’t a collector.
Now they have dark chocolate which actually like more than milk chocolate ones, but both are winners to me.
I love Circus Peanuts, I'm glad one of them did.
My grandmother is 75 and still alive. I knew all of these and I’m 25 😂
Give these kids some jujubes and necco wafers! Those are older. Cry baby tears were another favorite as well as root beer barrels.
Man. I'm only 23 and I grew up with all these candies at our local stores. Granted I grew up in a very small town lol
Old Fashioned Puff, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Caramel Creams, Needhams, crunchy candy cigarettes, Swedish Fish, those chalky flying saucer shaped lollipops, sour balls that cut up the roof of your mouth.
Julianna is the best, so positive. LOL "why does it smell like that?" all mints smell awful.
The smell is one of the reasons why I don't like mint.
@@GeminiWolfstarGaming same here
You guys need to come to NJ and have REAL salt water taffy. The story is wrong, btw. lol. It's not salty.
18:12 NOOO! Dispenser, not container! -1 point for the producer. That shows how serious I am about pez. lol
Dispenser
Boomer kids had lots of candy that is still classic today: M&Ms, Snickers, Reese’s, Hershey, etc. Gum brands may have changed though. Are Doublemint, Bazooka and Dubble Bubble still around?
they're still available in Canada
I believe they're still around in the US.
In Canada candy cigarettes were chocolate! We also had Popeyes cigarettes that were like the Valentine’s Day heart texture.
Same in Sweden
When I was a kid in the 70's & 80's I only remember the chalky candy cigarettes. Once I started seeing the gum kind sold, I don't remember seeing the other kind.
@@katstorm13 if you google “chocolate cigarettes 90s canada” they pop up. They had four “Mexico” “London” “Paris” “New York” they were all the same flavour though.
The blue sweater person is like nails on a chalkboard.
Saltwater taffy is great when you get it fresh!
My friends and I (Xennials) loved standing on the corner and “smoking” the candy cigarettes- we thought we were shocking the adults driving by, seeing some little kids smoking 🤣🤣🤣
😊👍🏾 Proud Xennial here as well❣️
You can still get Charleston Chews. I find them at Goodwill. Circus Peanuts found at Walmart. Don't recognize Teaberry. Boston Baked Beans also at Walmart. Raisonettes found everywhere. Some flavors of salt water taffy are better than others. I don't thinkcandy cigarettes are found any more.Atomic Fireballs are great for people that lovee cinnamon. Chower whatever??? Never heard of them. Love PEZ. Also containers are collectible. Thrills never heard of.
7-11 sells Charleston Chews here in Canada, and I'm sure most other convenience stores do too here.
C. Howards can be found in local delis, bodegas, and hospital gift shops in NYC! Love those things. I think all of the candies are still available...might have to use Amazon for the candy cigarettes, though.
1:28 you should have given them a slush or shake or something like that, a frizen drink that you can dip the Charleston chew into, it instantly freezes and becomes super crunchy
Y’all did these kids dirty lol! The tea berry gum was old and stale if it was crunchy. But also, the candy cigarettes I had as a kid were crunchy and kind of chalky but not gum
They had two types.The gum and the chalky candy. I always preferred the gum cuz of the smoke that you could blow out.
@@singingkitty02_ I preferred the gum because I love gum. The chalky ones are still nostalgic for me, though.
@@singingkitty02_ Same here! I loved the gum because of the "smoke" effect!
I remember grade school. Getting out of school and across the street on the corner was a 5 and Dime that sold ALL of this. Every day after school the kids would flood the store buying candy. I am heartbroken that my kids will never experience this.
Charleston Chew is best frozen! And it's hard to find the flavors chocolate and strawberry. 💙💙💙💙
Strawberry is my favorite one. I had the worst craving for them when I was pregnant with my 3rd kids and couldn't find them anywhere.
@@rachelcooper6544 It occurred to me that Amazon might have them. That's where I get my favorite candy bar in the whole world, the Coffee Crisp! It's a wafer bar with several layers filled with mocha filling, coated in a mocha chocolate! SOOO good! Sadly, I'm in the US, and they're from Canada. I tried another bar from the UK recently, on Amazon, that is very tasty. It's called a Double Decker, and has a nougat layer, and also rice criespies in it! Really good, though the got squished in transit. But if you stick them in the refrigerator overnight, you can get the wrapper off without too much mess. My favorite "American" chocolate bar is a good ol' Baby Ruth! I love nougat, and I fool myself that they have some health value because of the peanuts.🙃 💙
Oops, sorry that got so long! 💙
@@DravenGal idk why I didn't think to check Amazon, it's where I tend to look for other candies I can't find lol And they do have them! I'll have to order some next week.
@@rachelcooper6544 Sweet! Literally! 💙