Gum
This bubble gum brand, introduced in 1947 and popularized in the 1950s, is known for its comic strip wrappers.
What is Bazooka Bubble Gum?
This classic gelatin desert became a household staple in the 1950s.
What is Jell-O? There is an entire museum dedicated to Jell-O in Le Roy, New York, where it was invented.
This popular candy bar, introduced in 1932 and widely enjoyed in the 1950s, consists of nougat topped with caramel and covered in milk chocolate.
What is a Mars bar? From 1939 to 1945, Mars bars were distributed to troops in the UK and prisoners of war in Germany.
This controversial candy with a chalky texture was often sold in packs with branding similar to actual tobacco products.
Candy cigarettes. Over the years, candy cigarettes were rebranded as candy sticks to reduce their controversial nature.
This iconic question is repeatedly asked in the classic Tootsie Pop commercial from the 1970s.
What is “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” According to Purdue University, the average was 252 licks to reach the center.
In the 1960s, this gum brand became one of the first to introduce sugar-free gum in the United States?
What is Trident?
This popular 1950s dessert is flipped before serving, placing the fruit on top.
What is pineapple upside-down cake?
This candy, introduced in 1940, features a peppermint center covered in dark chocolate and is known for its minty flavor.
What is a York Peppermint Pattie? They were named after York, Pennsylvania, where the York Cone Company was based. Hershey bought the York company in 1988.
This candy, introduced in 1949, consists of small, colorful, fruit-flavored tablets that are often packaged in cylindrical rolls.
What are Smarties? In 2021, Nestlé announced that Smarties would be sold in recyclable paper packaging to help reduce plastic waste.
This is the name of the popular gummy candy shaped like small, colorful fish.
What are Swedish Fish? They were first produced in Sweden by the candy company Malaco.
This gum, introduced in the 1950s, became known for its long-lasting flavor and was advertised as “double your pleasure, double your fun.”
What is Doublemint Gum? Jayne and Joan Boyd were the first “Doublemint Twins” in the brand’s long-running “double” commercials.
This layered dessert, featuring cake, custard, and fruit, became especially popular at parties in the 1960s.
What is a trifle? The Italian variation is called zuppa inglese, which features sponge cake and is layered with pastry cream.
This out-of-this-world chocolate bar features a unique combination of milk chocolate and a smooth, creamy center.
What is a Milky Way? Frank Mars created the candy bar in 1923. In 1926, two varieties were available: chocolate nougat with milk-chocolate coating and vanilla nougat with a dark chocolate coating
This candy, introduced in 1939, features a crunchy, malted milk center covered in a milk-chocolate coating and is often sold in theater-sized boxes.
What are Whoppers? Whoppers were first introduced as “Giants” and were rebranded in 1949.
This iconic gummy candy was invented by Hans Riegel in 1922 and became globally popular by the 1950s.
What are Gummy Bears? A bear was the first gummy candy mold by the Haribo company. The name Haribo is an acronym formed from Hans Riegel, the founder of the company, and Bonn, the city where it was established in 1920.
This iconic gum brand introduced the first commercially available bubble gum tape in the 1988.
What is Hubba Bubba? The brand’s biggest selling point was that it was less sticky, making it easier to blow large bubbles without the gum sticking to your face.
This frozen dessert, introduced in the 1960s, was celebrated for its convenience and included swirls of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.
What is Neapolitan ice cream? The first original flavors were pistachio, vanilla, and cherry, inspired by the colors of the Italian flag.
This candy bar, introduced in 1967, features a biscuit base topped with caramel and covered in milk chocolate and is known for its “Two for me, none for you” tagline.
What is a Twix? The Twix bar was first introduced in the UK and several other European countries as the “Raider,” but it was changed to Twix in 1991 to match the American branding of the bar.
This candy, known as the oldest branded candy in the United States, features a licorice center coated in pink-and-white candy shells.
Good & Plenty. Good & Plenty rose in popularity thanks to its mascot, Choo-Choo Charlie, a fictional train engineer who powered his engine with the candies.
This popular non-chocolate, fruit-flavored gummy candy was available in the 1950s and often sold alongside more traditional chocolates and caramels?
What are Dots? Tootsie Roll Industries acquired the Dots brand in 1972 and continues to manufacture them to this day.
This candy-coated gum’s name is derived from a Spanish word for “sticky stuff.”
What are Chiclets? Chiclets, like other gum, were originally made from chicle, which translates to “sticky stuff” in English.
This cold dessert, made with layers of cake and ice cream, was a showstopper at 1960s dinner parties.
What is Baked Alaska? Baked Alaska defies the expectations that ice cream would melt when put in the oven thanks to the meringue covering, which helps trap the air to act as an insulator.
This iconic chocolate bar, introduced in the 1900s, is often referred to as “The Great American Chocolate Bar.”
What is a Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar? Milton Hershey ran a successful caramel company before experimenting with milk and chocolate, which shifted his focus.
This candy, first introduced in 1925, is a caramel lollipop known for its long-lasting chew and was originally called the Papa Sucker.
What is a Sugar Daddy? The lesser known Sugar Mama was a chocolate-covered caramel version of the Sugar Daddy.
This person sang “On the Good Ship Lollipop” in the 1934 film Bright Eyes.
Who is Shirley Temple?