Originally Posted by
anrkitec
I haven't seen sweethearts [they're the ones with little phrases printed on them, right?] since grade school, where we Scotch taped them to the Valentine's Day cards we were required to give to one another.
They were a pretty good metric for determining which girl was interested in you. One Sweetheart taped to your card - 'don't even talk to me, I had to give you this'. Two - 'wanna sit next to each other at lunch?' Three - 'let's meet behind the gym at recess'.
I got a whole box of them from Mary Ellen. I was in second grade at the time. I wonder what she wanted.
I spent a couple minutes on the Necco Wikipedia page and was surprised at their other products. I'm aging myself here, but the corner store sold penny candy when I was a kid and three Necco items were 2 for a penny: Mint Juleps, Banana Splits and Mary Janes. All three of which could remove a filling from your tooth with no difficulty.