Gourmet Gift Baskets: Nostalgic Candy Gift Crate Review + Giveaway
If there is one way to describe me, nostalgic comes to mind. I love to see things from my youth, and have began a collection of old toys and advertisements.
One thing that always reminds me of my childhood is candy. I remember when I was young, my father would take me to breakfast each weekend, and while he sat and chatted with friends, I would go over to the general store in the same center and purchase a couple of pieces of candy. My choices were usually items that would give me more candy, for less cost.
When I was recently contacted by GourmetGiftBaskets.com, and took a little time to peruse their website, I was immediately struck with gift inspiration – the first thing that caught my eye was the Nostalgic Candy Gift Crate.
The products featured in this post were provided to me free of charge courtesy of GourmetGiftBaskets.com. This post may have affiliate links but this in no way will influence the review to follow and all opinions are my own.
The Nostalgic Candy Gift Crate from GourmetGiftBaskets.com is a wooden crate of candy that will remind you of your childhood and included the following items:
· Wonka Bottle Caps by Nestle – 5 oz. – These are those classic bottle cap shaped sugar candies that have a old- fashioned soda fountain taste.
· Pop Rocks by Pop Rocks Inc. – .33 oz. – These are the candies that pop in your mouth making your friends wonder where the “poppin” is coming from.
· Candy Necklace by KOKO’s – Sweet candy that you can wear and eat!
· Good & Plenty by The Hershey Company – 5 oz. – An old-fashioned licorice candy that is coated in a candy shell.
· Ring Pop by Topps – .5 oz. – A jewel shaped hard candy on top of a plastic ring individually wrapped.
· Hot Tamales by Just Born – 1.8 oz. – The original chewy cinnamon candies.
· Mike and Ike Original Fruits by Just Born – 1.8 oz. – This 70-year-old candy is the original chewy bites made with real fruit juice .
· Cow Tales by Goetze’s Candy Company – 1 oz. – Chewy caramel sticks that are wrapped around a sweet creamy center.
· Tootsie Roll by Tootsie Roll Industries – 2.25 oz. – A chewy almost chocolate flavored bites/sticks.
· (2) Super Bubble Gum – Iconic since 1946, a classic bubble gum.
· (3) Smarties – These are a sweet and sour mini candies.
· Jelly Beans by Buttercup Candy Shoppe – 3.5 oz. – Gourmet jelly beans
Here is a fun fact per the Nostalgic Candy Gift Crate website – In 1896, Leo Hirschfield came to the US and started a making candy in a small shop, where he decided to make a chocolaty candy that wouldn’t melt in the heat. He invented the Tootsie roll, which he named after his daughter’s nickname, Tootsie. The rest is candy history!
Each of the candies in this collection will tie to a memory of the recipients childhood and would be a much appreciated gift! This is one of the more unique items I have reviewed and honestly would be THRILLED to receive this as a gift!
Head over to GourmetGiftBaskets.com and see their vast assortment of themed baskets!
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Snowcaps!
My favorite candy from my childhood were Sugar Babies.
I remember this blue gel-like candy that was in a clear package that looked like an aquarium. It was delicious, and I’m sure pure-sugar. Haven’t seen it since.
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My favorite candy were the packs of candy cigarettes. I didn’t like the chocolate ones, just the pure sugar ones!
I loved tootsie rolls still do.
I like slow poke
Well, I loved Sweet Tarts when I was little. And those little pastel sugar pills that came in rolls.
Swedish Fish and they are still my fav to this day.
Strawberry and grape nerds mixed with bubblegum 🙂
I always liked candy cigarettes and Razzles.
My favorite candy from my childhood was and still is Skittles.
My favorite candy from my childhood was butterfingers
I enjoyed Sour patch kids and sour straws.
I will always love skittles, thank you so much for this!
I loved York Peppermint Patties.
jolly ranchers 🙂
My fave candy from my childhood are sour worms
My favorite childhood candy was Black Cows!
Razzles were my favorite childhood candy
My favorite childhood candies were the baby bottle pops!
My favorite candy from your childhood is Sweet Tart hard candy. I have always like them and still do! I guess we can grow older but we never truly grow up! lol
I always loved Mambas
My favorite is Tootsie Rolls!
My favorite are Goo Goo Clusters.
I was a tootsie roll freak!!!
I always liked Hersheys Kisses. I liked them chilled in the fridge.
I liked Bazooka gum
I like cigar gum.
My favorite candy from childhood was Boston baked beans.
My favorite candy was twirlers.
as for me I have so minny that I like and one I say was zot’s and button candy and bit of honnys.
My favorite candies from my youth would be Razzles .
I used to love Pez so much, that may have had as much to do with the dipensers as the candy though.
My favorite candy might be whatchamacallits. I still get excited when I find them!
I loved and still love pixie stix.
These baskets are super duper….very nice. I am saving this site for future events.
As a child, I liked root beer barrels, rock sugar crystals, and the original Hershey Bar candy bar.
I used to love Tootsie Rolls! It has been a while since I ate one.
I always loved Clark bars!
I loved the candy cigarettes!
I love starburst when I was a kid and still do.
Twizzlers then and twizzlers now 🙂
I liked Tootsie Rolls and Lolly pops.
I loved ring pops!
I loved mike and ikes and Tootsie roll Pops .
My favorite candy from my childhood was Mike and Ikes.
Mmm, I was an Atomic Fireball girl! 😀
I loved candy necklaces, they are too cool!
My favorite candy from my childhood was a Hershey’s with almonds candy bar.
I loved Good N Plenty! Thanks so much for the opportunity!
One of my favorites were Sugar Babies, I loved those. Oh and malted milk balls too!
My favorite was Smarties.
Candy cigarettes were my favorites.
I had 2 favorite candies as a kid. The first was Zots, the candy that fizzed in the center. The other were the little wax bottles that had the juice inside.
My favorite candy from my childhood was grape Now & Later’s.
My favorite candy from my childhood was peppermint, and still is.
I remember the candy zero bars. So good.
I liked the candy cigarettes. They were fun!
I liked pop rocks.
I liked Jolly Ranchers.
Fun Dip
Candy Cigarettes and Bubblegum Cigars all the way!!!
I loved Smarties, Kit Kats, and M&Ms.
I loved sugar babies. They were my go to candy every time I went to the movies
Gummy bears are my favorite
I think they’re called cowtails? It’s the caramel with the sugar in the middle…ooomg! So good.
I loved abba zabbas
Gummy Sharks!
Fun Dip/Pixie Sticks were one of my favorites growing up!
I liked Milk Duds – and they still make them. Milk Duds were first created in 1926 by S. le Noble
Thanks for the contest.
slehan at juno dot com
Mine were the buttons that were on paper and the wax bottles.
Cow tales and bottle caps!!
I liked the cinnamon square suckers:)
I won this! Thank you!