Sour Fruit Ball memories...
When I was young we spent nearly entire weekends visiting our various
grandparents. My maternal grandmother always had chocolate, but my
other grandma truly had the key to my heart. She kept sour balls in
her candy jar. Every time my husband and I travel I look in nearly
every store we visit for these tasty little balls. I've found lots of
other great old candies but have been constantly thwarted in my search
for sour balls.
The cherry were my favorite, lemon definitely the most potent, and I
also liked the lime ones. Actually, I loved them all. Of course now it
seems like every other candy that comes out is sour, but they'll never
beat the basic old sour balls. ~ Deb from Michigan
When I was about 7 my father
worked as an engineer for a plastics company. On rare occasion we
would be allowed to go to his work and visit for some reason or
another. I looked forward to these trips because at the front desk
was a jar of sour balls. I would spend the bulk of the time on the
trip to his office trying to decide what flavor I wanted to enjoy
this time or if I might be lucky enough to be offered two which two
flavors would give me the most satisfaction.
After awhile the woman working at the front desk left the company
and so the sour balls stopped, much to my dismay. But I never
stopped looking for them in every office or candy store I would
visit. The only other time I found them was a huge jar at a
festival. If you guessed how much candy was in the jar you won all
the candy in it. I took a solid 20 minutes trying to figure out what
my guess would be. After that I never did find them again until I
stumbled upon them at oldtimecandy.com! Thank you for bringing back
those childhood memories! ~ Lon from Washington
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