Thursday, June 10, 2010

"L-O-L-A Lola"

I'm dying for a Caramilk bar.  It's one of the many edibles I miss living on this rock.  Oh, there are some Cadbury bars down here, but not my favourite Caramilk bar.  Sob.  "How do they get the caramel in a Caramilk Bar?"  was one of Cadbury's most successful ad campaigns.  I think they even had a contest about it.  And then there is the Crunchie bar, also produced by Cadbury. A chocolate covered sponge toffee piece of heaven that would stick to your teeth for some glorious molar licking sweet aftertaste.  Great hang time on the toffee, for sure.

"Don't eat so much candy...it'll rot your teeth."   So the saying goes.  So does methamphetamine.  Meth addicts like candy.  I guess they are doubly cursed.

But some of my favourites in the candy family were penny and Halloween candies.  Pixi Stix, Twizzlers, Shoelaces, and "Rockets".  There were also individually wrapped little hard candies, caramel cubes, tiny Tootsie Rolls, your basic suckers and the like.  The "gummies" came much later, but I enjoy those too.

Ice cream, snow cones and Popsicles are other things I consider candy.  One of my summer favourites was the "Lola":  a large triangular-shaped ice treat that I believe was introduced about the time the song of the same name was released by The Kinks.   It would take almost 2 hours to finish one of these ices and, if you were successful in sucking out all of the flavour (thereby leaving only the ice behind), you could crush the ice in its packet and cool your body off on a hot summer's day. A truly multitasking treat in my opinion.  Alas, Lolas are now relegated to smaller wedges:   it's just not quite the same.

So, if you are now craving "candy" and you really, really, REALLY don't want to screw up your diet or whatever, eat a banana, suck on a lemon or consider that your teeth may eventually look like this:


(My "Elvis".  I think he smoked coconuts, not meth)


Else, have at 'er!



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30 comments:

  1. haha...is that sugar coma? smiles. need to look up a caramilk and see what i am missing...happy tt!

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  2. ROTFLMAO You (and you dog) rock! :D

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  3. Hey Brian! If I gave him sugar, he would roll around like that, begging for more! If you like caramel and can find a Caramilk bar in the US, you'll get hooked!

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  4. Ra: Thanks! Elvis had an "Elvis" walk, too!

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  5. Elvis's white and pearlies look just fine to me! What a handsome dude he is! And I know you look styling in black and white taking him for a walk! You made me stick a caramel candy in my mouth with this post!

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  6. Heh Heh Linda: Yes, he's handsome and he's a rescue - we didn't name him, but it suits him just fine. Mmmmm... caramel. Ha! I think everyone wants candy today!

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  7. Never heard of a Lola. Love the song. Love the Elvis photo, too. Great post and thanks for the visit to my place.

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  8. My cat's name is Lola. I just had a Reese peanut butter cups. Even better than caramel and chocolate!

    :-)

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  9. My boss keeps a jar in our department stocked with candy and junk food. Usually it's gummy bears and gummy worms, or even gummy spiders. I despise all things gummy.

    But the other day, I spotted Twizzlers. To my horror, they were second rate, knock-off Twizzlers. They were kinda crumbly and disgusting. Good thing too, cause if it's in front of me, I'll eat all of it, obsessively.

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  10. Monkey Man: Thanks! I wish they still made the original Lolas.

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  11. Nicky: Chocolate with almost anything is good! Even cheese!

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  12. CheesyMike: Sounds like the Twizzler-like things were stale. Yuck. I've had those too - they don't even taste close to the originals.

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  13. You must be a British ex pat. We can only get Caramilk at a specialist lollie shop in the blue mountains, definitely a favourite along with Walnut Whips, are Lolas like in a tetra pack? If so we have them here you freeze them and sucky long time? Your dog is class . .gold class!

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  14. I remember most of those childhood candies. So did my dentist.

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  15. Baino: I'm actually Canadian. And Cadbury, although originally British, produces chocolate products in Canada. I don't know what Walnut Whips are, but Lolas are in something like a tetra-pak - you freeze them, snip off one side and squeeze the treat out to suck it. (Gawd, that sounded horrible;-)

    Yes, Elvis is a sweetie - he thanks you too!

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  16. dufus: Heh heh. Why is it that, when we were really young, the doctor would give you a sucker and the dentist would give you a scolding?

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  17. I've never heard of the Lola ice candy. The song? Yes!

    As for Elvis and his teeth.....I don't want to see them up close and personal!

    ;-)

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  18. Hey Reffie: I think Lolas were only available in Canada.

    Aww - Elvis is the biggest suck, really! He wouldn't hurt a fly, um, well yes, he eats them, but other than stepping on my toes, he's really sweet.

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  19. Actually my dentist gave me a sucker (return business, eh) and my doctor smoked. Hey, it was the 50s.

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  20. dufus: Ha - isn't it ironic! Speaking of irony, my dentist had the most HORRID breath imaginable and I had to prentend to choke on my saliva when he got too close to my nose! And, come to think of it, his teeth didn't look all that good.

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  21. Oh, did you ever have the Cadbury "Flake" bar? It was shaped kind of like a Twizzler, but made of chocolate strings and it flaked when you bit it. Haven't seen one of those for years.

    Thanks for the memories.

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  22. Frank: Ahhh, YES! I loved those too! I don't know if they still have them in Canada, but if they are, they'll be on my next "wish list".

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  23. i never had a lolo or a caramilk. suddenly i feel like i've been missing something.

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  24. Jaime: If you ever get to Canada or the UK, look for them - yummy stuff!

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  26. How do they get the caramel in a Caramilk Bar? I've always wondered that. I love Krunchies, too, and also the Flake, which is very hard to find in America and another manufacturing msytery. My mother is English and she goes back to the old country almost every year, returning with a grab bag of goodies for me, including Cadbury treats and another fave that I've never seen here, the licorice sherbert. This is a licorice stick that you dip into a tube of white, surgary, lemony-lime fizzy powder. It's considered a gateway candy to drug use, and rightly so: properly eaten, you should end up with a trace of white powder under your nose that looks highly suspicious. I love it. Thanks for the sugar buzz!

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  27. BonyMike: I forgot to mention Malteasers - small chocolate covered malt toffee balls. MMMMmmmm. We had something similar to the licorice stick - it was more of a candy stick that you would dip in an envelope of flavoured powdered sugar. Another "gateway" drug candy was the sugar dots on a roll of tape. Shades of LSD.

    The Flake, by the way, was concocted by the line workers at the factory: they would save the drippings from the machines that were considered waste, eventually making a bar of ribbons, of sorts.

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