, or those rare occasions when we were given an empty plastic bag to fill up with sweets at the local candy shop. Not only did we stare at all the goodies, dreaming of sugary sweetness, but begging our parents for a treat was just part of the work of being a kid.
But when we did succeed in making our case, we treated the selection process like we were choosing a name for our firstborn. So many factors to weigh—should we go for a candy that was long-lasting like lollipops, or perhaps a big bag of shredded bubble , or just a giant sugar bomb? It was a huge decision, and when we think back to those summer days, these areThe original Nerds, launched in 1983, were basically colored globs of sugar in a divided box with two flavors, and we loved them. Since then there have been candy innovations like Nerds Rope and Nerds Clusters, but we still love the harder-to-find original.