Spending My Allowance on Nacho Cheese Doritos

[Wee67]

For the first time in several decades, I had Nacho Cheese Doritos at lunch today. The smell and taste sent me back to the days when I was a kid and me and my best friend George would take whatever we could scrape up and buy terrible junk food at the local Wawa (inarguably, the best convenience store ever. so don't argue!) I mixed up my purchases, but my entree was usually a slim jim or those packaged cheese and crackers with the red spreading stick or maybe a couple of soft pretzels. I'd wash it down with a Tahitian Treat soda (like a carbonated fruit punch). If I had enough money, I'd also get a sweet. That could be anything from a casket of Dem Bones or a can of Trash Candy to a Marathon bar or pack of Caramel Creams to a satchel of Gold Rush or a Bubble Yum pack.

Did you have a convenience store/bodega crap/snack food go to when you were a kid? That is when you weren't buying Star Wars cards or Wacky Packages stickers?

[megomania]

7-11 for a Slurpee, penny candy and Pro Wrestling Illustrated/The Wrestler/Sports Illustrated/MAD. And sunflower seeds.

Occasionally went to Circle K but only if no 7-11 available.

-Chris

[LonnieFisher]

7-11 and Slurpee in a comic cup!

[Random Axe]

My drinks of choice, and remember this was the 70s, was Nehi Grape soda and a beverage called Chocolate Soldier. It was a precursor to Yoohoo I suppose. I always remembered buying a candy that was essentially a bag of sugar power with a dip stick also made of sugar. Can't recall the name but yeah I'd get those and some baseball cards for the ultimate childhood combo meal.

[PNGwynne]

It was down the street to Lawson's for comics and candy. The candy varied: Bazooka or Bubble-Yum, Marathon, Choco'Lite, Oh Henry, Twix, or Caramello bars. I liked the novelty candies, too: Gold Rush nugget gum in a bag, or the shaped tart candies in a plastic coffin or sarcophagus.

[Mikey]

Had a mom and pop general store about half mile away growing up.

They used to have one of them huge floor freezers with glass top sliding doors filled with frozed iced cream treats

Used to always get an iced cream cone or a Tuscan pop … Sometime them little cups of iced cream that came with a wooden spoon

[EmergencyIan]

My drinks of choice, and remember this was the 70s, was Nehi Grape soda and a beverage called Chocolate Soldier. It was a precursor to Yoohoo I suppose. I always remembered buying a candy that was essentially a bag of sugar power with a dip stick also made of sugar. Can't recall the name but yeah I'd get those and some baseball cards for the ultimate childhood combo meal.

It was Fun Dip.

- Ian

[PNGwynne]

^Yes! My sister loved it, she was into all the sugary candies. She loved Pixy Stix and Pop Rocks, too.

[EmergencyIan]

^ Oh, I went through tons of Pixy Stix’s.

- Ian

[PNGwynne]

I'll bet you liked those wax bottles filled with colored syrup, too lol. Remember the similar monster figurines, one had to bite off the head to drink the syrup.

[EmergencyIan]

I did like those! Lol

By the way, I was just reminded that I also loved the Willy Wonka Wacky Wafers.

- Ian

[Brue]

What kind of monster goes decades without Doritos?

[Hector]

I prefer Doritos Taco flavor myself.

[KLAATU]

We had a convenience store called 6-12 (I guess they were trying to outdo 7-11). Favorite "weird" treats were harmonicas made out of an edible wax-like substance and wooden toothpicks soaked in spicy cinnamon flavor.