Lik-m-Aid, Fun Dip memories... My
favorite candy when I was a child was called Lik-m-Aid Fun Dip. I was
in the hospital a lot as a child for a lung condition called Cystic
Fibrosis. My grandmother would come to visit and take me down stairs
to the gift shop to pick out some candy to cheer me up. I always went
straight for the Lik-m-Aid Fun Dip.
I would pick out
as many packs of the yummy sugary powder and crunchy sugar sticks as
my little hands could hold. The cashier would stuff them in a little
blue plastic bag and my grandma would take me up to my hospital room
and watch in delight as I ate the sugary sweetness.
That candy put a
smile on my face even when I was sick and tired of being sick and
tired. To this day I am still tempted by the Lik-m-Aid candy at the
check out counters at the grocery store and the gas station. The candy
makes me think of the good times with my grandma when she would come
to cheer me up. ~ Jeannine from Tennessee
My brother Dan
is only 2 1/2 years younger than me, so we played together a lot, and
we were often friends with our friends' siblings. My friend Meghan,
her brother/Dan's friend Ethan, Dan, and I were always trying to come
up with a way to make money. Usually I came up with the ideas,
everybody else came up with the plan of action, and we all worked
together.
Some of our more original ideas
were a "plants and lemonade stand" and selling homemade potpourri
door-to-door. One that never quite got off the ground was coming up
with our own candy company. We all loved Lik-M-Aid fun dip, and we
brainstormed a way to come up with our own version. The dip itself was
easy--sugar and Kool-Aid. The dipping stick itself, however, proved to
be a challenge for all of us. Among the ideas suggested was
Super-gluing sugar together. We never did get around to trying that,
thankfully. But we did eat a lot of candy for research purposes! ~
Becky from Indiana
I remember as a child I use to love this stuff. Actually, I loved the candy sticks the most, they
were the best part. I would try to finish the powder as fast as possible and leave as much of the dipping stick as I could. My little
brother and I always fought over the blue powder because we both loved the color blue but really I liked the cherry the best. Recently I
went to the supermarket and saw this and bought some, I gave some to my brother and automatically he reached for the blue powder and I was
left with the red, cherry-my favorite. ~ Elizabeth from California
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