From ancient times to the present, desserts have always been an existence that can bring people joy and happiness.

On a gloomy day, the continuous raindrops fell down like a curtain of beads, gentle and quiet. Everything is lazy and drowsy. I pick up the pen in my hand and put it down again, thinking about it, but I don't know what to write.

Perhaps at this time, a piece of sugar and a cup of milk tea can sweep away the gloom in my heart and slowly reconcile the depression in my heart. Sitting in front of the window and watching the raindrops slowly fall, I still think of scenes from my childhood, and my heart is full of emotions. Healed little by little.

Pagoda Candy (Anthelmintic Candy)

Very sweet. Every time you eat one, a lot of roundworms will be excreted from the body after eating. Many of the worms are still alive and not small in size. , poked out its little head from the feces, twisted its body leisurely, and maybe even smiled at you.

This is the childhood shadow of some friends.

The author’s neighbor is a little girl. After eating pagoda candy, she saw roundworms in her feces. She thought she was going to die. She even didn’t want the Barbie doll and she couldn’t stop crying.

Little Naughty

The taste is very bland and tastes similar to rock candy. The price at that time was 1 cent and 2 yuan, which was basically the cheapest candy.

Small Stone Candy

The stone-shaped gummies are lifelike. This cute appearance attracted the attention of many children at that time. 5 cents a pack, chocolate core, some stone candies also have yogurt-flavored cores, which taste very good. When I was a kid, I could eat a pack of candies for a long time.

Sticky tooth candy

It is very sweet and sticky. One can be chewed for a long time. The color is definitely very attractive to us at that time.

This candy was launched when the author was in the third grade of elementary school. At that time, students could be seen everywhere on the playground and in the corridors eating this sticky candy while walking around. Good friends would buy different ones. Taste, change it.

Oh Oh Milk Candy

It has a strong milk flavor and good toughness. You always bring a bag when visiting relatives and friends. It was a must-buy candy for many families at that time when preparing New Year's goods.

At the turn of the millennium, Taiwanese group F4 became popular all over the country. Zhou Yimin once endorsed Oh Oh Milk Candy. He was wearing a milk-white suit and spinning a pack of Oh Oh Milk Candy on his fingertips.

"If it tastes good, just say oh, oh, milk candy."

Sour Girl Gummy Candy

The packaging bag is printed with the popular Sailor Moon. The author remembers that there were 6 flavors in one candy back then, including cantaloupe, sweet orange, pineapple, peach, strawberry, and black currant. The outer layer of the candy was sour and a bit sticky to the teeth.

There were very few human traffickers at that time, and students were not under much academic pressure. Many students went home by themselves after school. With the house key hanging around his neck and a bag of sour girls clutched in his hand, he was kicking stones while walking, thinking about what to do tonight.

Drooling Gummies

They are sour, long and thin, with a layer of white powder on the surface. The cantaloupe flavor is delicious.

Some students in the class at that time liked to shape the candy into a ball or a cube before eating it.

Lard candy

There is no wife in the wife cake, but there is lard in the lard candy.

This candy was not very common in the north at that time. The author vaguely remembers that it was produced in Guangdong.

The lard candy is not very greasy, soft, sticky, with a light green onion flavor, and generally tastes good.

Straw candy

A candy shaped like a straw. The powder inside is slightly acidic, somewhat similar to today’s vitamin C powder. It is specially developed for children who don't like to drink water. It can be inserted into boiled water or milk. The liquid sucked up has a strong fruity flavor.

Of course, you can also eat it directly. At that time, I liked to eat the powder at both ends first, but as a result, I often couldn't eat the powder in the middle. At that time, many students put all the straw candy into their mouths after sucking half of it and chewed it.

Maltose

Also known as "stove candy", the candy is wrapped with fragrant sesame seeds. You can always see it during the Chinese New Year in the north, and many people will buy it during the New Year.

A large piece of sugar is divided into many small pieces. It has no special taste, only the sweetness of maltose itself. If you eat too much, it will feel bitter. If you bite it directly, the sugar will stick to your teeth for a while. To melt.

For the author, candy symbolizes happiness and reunion.

When we were young, in order to give us healthy teeth, our parents always restricted us from eating sweets. We could only eat a few more pieces during the Chinese New Year.

On New Year’s Eve, there are various candies on the enamel plate in the old house, including prawn cakes, cat’s eye candy, sorghum candy, and many unknown colored candy balls. happiness.

Grandpa grabbed a handful of candies and gave them to me, saying, it’s Chinese New Year, eat some candies, it’ll be fine.

At that moment, when I received the candies, I felt like I owned the whole world. I happily put the candies into the pocket of my new clothes.

After lunch, the elders began to make dumplings, took a few pieces of candy, tore off the wrapping paper and wrapped them in dumplings.

Grandma said that after eating sweet dumplings, the new year will be sweet.

After hearing this, we juniors hurriedly started to eat voraciously. We could only eat 10 pieces at first, but ended up eating 15 or 20 pieces.

In the evening, the Spring Festival Gala was broadcast. Zhao Zhongxiang and Ni Ping appeared in front of the camera, and the "Spring Festival Overture" played.

We looked at our parents, carefully tore open a piece of candy, and quickly put In the mouth,

It’s so sweet...