Satellite Wafers memories...
In 1969, my parents & I were traveling from southern Indiana to Georgia to visit my brother. "Pete" was in the army stationed in GA. We had car trouble. While the car was being repaired, the three of us walked across the street to the drugstore. I bought some satellite wafers. They were sooooo good. I had never seen them before & couldn't locate them afterwards. I finally found them at a novelty candy shop. I was so happy. I asked the clerk for information about them. I finally found a place 45 miles away. They taste as I remember them. I still love them. ~ Marilyn from Indiana More memories... I had my first satellite candy when I was 8yrs old. I thought it so mysterious! It was so much fun to eat it. My mom asked me where is the outside wafer!!! (she thought it was fake and not edible that all she needed was a trip to the hospital to pump my stomach and on an on!! ) She told me no more candy, I was a bad girl for eating the wrapper! Until I read on your internet site it was meant to be eaten I have carried around the guilt of "gluttony" all my life!! In spite of it all I remember it being really tasty!!! ~ Ann from Illinois My memory is about flying saucer, or satellite wafer candy. My earliest memory of flying saucers were going to my doctors' when I was four, he would give me satellite wafers every time I saw him. Back then, he even made house calls. I remember one time watching him walk down our side walk with his black leather bag. I had giant hives on my knees, what a super visit it was!! I got flying saucers, and purple candy syrup! better known as Dimeatap. As I got older, my grandfather would take my sister and I to a penny candy store in Etna Pa. I would fill my bag with flying saucers and a few candy lipsticks. As I got older we moved to Mars, Pa. and I continued my "need" for flying saucers. I found a miniature golf course right beside my high school that sold them! Now, I am 42 years old and have 4 sons, one who also acquired my addiction to flying saucers! I can't explain the attraction to them. Maybe the sense of comfort that I felt given from the doctor? also the idea of a candy and a toy put together? maybe the different ritual I go through... sometimes letting them melt on my tongue, or biting the edge all the way around before eating the whole thing! or even splitting them open and eating the candy beads first. Whatever the reason, I STILL, at age 42 NEED to have flying saucers on occasion and fill a bag and usually eat them all in one sitting! They're so cool!!! ~ Lucy from Pennsylvania |
