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Chocolate or Candy sweets

What do you like eating the most?

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Chocolate. I hate candy.
 
When I was little, my family had a small neighborhood grocery. The store had a “penny candy counter” . You could get candy for a penny back then. Kids would bring in pop bottles that they found, collect the 3 cents and spend it on penny candy.
Because it was there all day, every day, I was never interested in candy. My mom’s rules were that after any meal, I could have all the candy I wanted; so it was just never a big deal for me, and except for an occasional malt-ball or two, I didn’t eat any of the candy.

On Halloween, I would trade my candy to other kids for their apples or homemade cookies that sometimes little old ladies baked for kids on Halloween. At Christmas, we always had a nativity play at church, and a bag of Christmas candy and treats afterwards, so I traded for the anpples and oranges in those bags, too.
I do like Lindor’s chocolates, but that is about the only candy or chocolates that i eat, and that is a holiday treat we have each year because Bobby loves those, too.

This is our store, early 1950’s, in the winter. I am on top of the pile of snow with my dog, Bonzo.
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Yvonne Smith said:
When I was little, my family had a small neighborhood grocery. The store had a “penny candy counter” . You could get candy for a penny back then. Kids would bring in pop bottles that they found, collect the 3 cents and spend it on penny candy.
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We had such a place as well, called "Goldie's" after the wife in the couple who ran it. Small pop bottles had 1 cent deposits and large bottles were 3. We didn't have a lot of bottles around though.

We lived there from when I was around 2 until 9 1/2 years old, then we moved out to the sticks. Financial reasons.

I got in big trouble at Goldie's once. I'd been sent for some groceries, and bought a tiny die-cast toy car for a dime from the change claiming Ma said it was ok. By the time I got home she had already called my mother, and this was just across a street and 4 houses from the store. I had to take it back and get the dime and apologize, then return home for punishment. I was probably 6 or 7.
 
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