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If you recognize that sound, you know it's the noise of candy being unwrapped, and not

just any candy, but a hard candy, the kind we often think of as old-fashioned.

You know, root beer barrels, peppermints with those little red and white stripes along

the edges.

Butterscotch It's not just hard candies that we often

think of as grandparent candies, of course.

There are plenty of other treats that have a reputation as old-fashioned, like chico sticks

or Clark bars.

They don't often see them in modern vending machines, or by the cash register at the 7-11,

but they persevere with no signs of fading away completely.

They have a resonance that goes beyond flavor and endurance beyond sales numbers.

There's nostalgia, but there's also something more than that.

For travel writer Doug Mack, one of the old school candies that forges an emotional connection

is the strawberry bond bond.

Doug writes a newsletter called Snackstack, and he recounts this encounter with the

strawberry bond bond photo.

He writes,

They always struck me as a relic not just of the past, but the distant past.

A grandparent's whistfulness embodied in sucrose and placed in a wrapper that looked

like a strawberry.

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