Q on "ribbon candy"

[etaoin22]

anyone heard of this?

seemingly it's the sort of thing one remembers from childhood, but I don't.

There are of course as with any food product or name infinite google responses, but I just wanted to check your childhood memories.

[silvercamaro]

Ah, yes. It's the striped stuff in tight waves. I always thought it was pretty, but it never tasted as good as it looked.

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

[silvercamaro]

There are of course as with any food product or name infinite google responses, but I just wanted to check your childhood memories.

My most specific childhood memory is that if Santa put it into a Christmas stocking, it would somehow inevitably get stuck to the fabric in the toe. The extra fuzzy bits may be the reason I never thought it tasted so great.

[kayrharris]

Don't remember liking it, but I think it's striped like candy cane, but flat and wavy like a ribbon.

It was very sticky.

[gsabc]

As the others have said. It comes in various flavors, all loaded with sugar, or probably corn syrup sweetener at this stage. My MIL likes it a lot, but we can never find any to send her for Christmas.

[TheCalvinator24]

[SportsFan68]

I do remember it, but from a looooooong way off, like looking through a telescope. Here's what I remember --

It came in the Christmas stockings we got from the VFW Santa, along with little plastic toys and an orange. Mom bought it too because Grandma was fond of it. It made for a very attractive candy and nut bowl.

I wouldn't eat any that had green in it, that meant mint.

If it was all red with a little bit of white, that probably meant cherry, and all orange and white meant orange.

I liked to eat it two loops at a time, let it sit on my tongue and melt, but that way the drool accumulated in the loops, so if I had to take it out in a hurry to answer Mom or something, I had to remember to be careful or I would have orange- and sugar-flavored saliva all over my shirt.

The photo Cal found looks exactly right.

[peacock2121]

I remember it. No matter where it showed up, it had lint on it. It was impossible to eat without having the stickiest fingers and eating the lint. My memory is that it was also spicy - like cinnamon.