This got me thinking about Charleston Chews, which I also quite enjoyed when I was a kid. Charleston Chews are taffy covered in chocolate. there are currently Vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. On Wikipedia, they say that there was also once a banana. Which is true, there also was once a grape, which Wikipedia does not mention, but which I definitely remember. It wasn't very good. I think that there were maybe some other flavors as well. But I do not remember any specifics, so I could be wrong. I definitely remember the grape though.
Anyway, Charleston Chews were always best when you froze them, and then you would hit them on a hard surface, and they would break into pieces. Very tasty.
That got me thinking about summer days in my childhood(we're talking mid to late '70's here-'76,'77,'78. I used to go with my Mom to take my Dad lunch at the bar he owned and tended during the day. There was a candy store/newsstand across the park from my Dad's bar, and I was a fairly regular customer there. I don't know if it was actually called Dave's, but that's what we called it, because the very nice guy who ran it was named Dave.
we used to go in there, and I would look at comics and candy and gum, and I was usually allowed to pick something that my Mom would buy me. If we went to Dave's before we went to my Dad's, I would often choose a Charleston Chew, and then we would bring it to the bar, and my Dad would put it in the beer cooler(which of course got everything colder faster), and after a video game or two(or 5 or 10), we would take it out and CRACK it on the bar. And those Charleston Chews always tasted better than the ones we would freeze at home.ALWAYS.
Okay, that's my time in the wayback machine. I appreciate your indulgence.
