Candy of the Present and the Past

Dear Duck-Billed-Platypus,
I’m writing to you while eating Nostalgia Candy chains and candy clocks from the 80’s. You may be wondering what difference there is between them. Well, let me tell you the candy clocks are half the size of the candy chains and in-between the candy beads there are way too sugary hard clocks mostly showing 3.45 am (or in some rare instances also 8.00am). I didn’t know they were from the 80’s before I googled an image for you.

I was born in 1984 so the first time I got to taste them was in the 90’s when I moved from Georgia to Germany. As soon as I got pocket money I used to run to the nearby store and buy Candy chains, eatable paper in three different colors (washed away pink, green and yellow)

and my favorite sweet, a marshmallow like round little cushion that came in two colors, white and pink and that had coconut freckles all around it.

The candy paper tasted like nothing; the pink one had a slight aroma of strawberry and I’ve heard rumors that someone had written all the answers to a test on it and when the teacher arrived he just ate it, how convenient. I’ve been wondering how someone could have written anything on it without making holes in it. With a pencil it would have been impossible and with ink pen the poor test cheater guy would have gotten bad stomachache. It was one of the candies that didn’t make a sound while eating unless you crunched it a bit with your teeth within the first few seconds. I preferred other sweets and very rarely bought those. They are still sold nowadays. As to my favorite marshmallow pillows, I’ve been searching for them over years. I’ve seen imitations but was unable to find the original; every time I saw something similar looking, I bought a pack of it but was disappointed over and over again. Perhaps I came across them and didn’t recognize them because the memory of the taste was different to the real taste; then again when I think about candy chains and eatable paper, they taste exactly the same now as they tasted in my childhood. Do you have favorite sweets from your childhood platy?

When I was in the first and second grades in Cologne, we used to have gummy-bear reading, spelling and dictations. If we spelled everything without even a punctuation mark fault, the teacher made us stand up and walked around with a big jar of maxi sized gummy bears. Most of us used to pick the red or the green ones and we’d suck on them for a while to get the full pleasure and taste. We’d also get a stamp inside our notebooks (mostly marine or creme colored ladybirds from what I remember). It was pretty to look through the notebooks afterwards; I still have mine somewhere. My current favorite German sweets are Raffaelos, Rochers and the local marzipan.

As to International sweets, I doubt anything can top Turkish Floss Halva. I don't mean the regular Halva, I specifically mean the floss kind.

Ranking My Top International Sweets
1.Turkish Floss Halva: if paradise were a sweet, this is heaven.
2. Georgian Kaklutji: privately made by some secret recipe, nuts covered in honey. I wonder why they aren’t marketing it internationally; it would be a huge success. Not even too many Georgians know about that sweet. It’s round and hard, kind of reminds me of dark amber with something caught inside.
3. Swedish Daim: chocolate covered caramel, you can get at IKEA Speaking of international sweets, Japanese candies are pieces of artwork; however, when it comes to taste, I like them but I prefer others (perhaps I haven’t tasted the right ones). How are the sweets where you are platy?
I’ll talk about something special next time
Enjoy the sun
Love Anna.