1960s Halloween Candy: Banned or Not? 40 Treats, Honest Answers

1960s Halloween Candy: Banned or Not? 40 Treats, Honest Answers Make old-fashioned candy at home: popcorn balls, caramels, taffy and more are in our cookbook, Christmas at The Recipe Counter: https://storefrontmemories.com/produc... 1960s Halloween candy, sorted out: candy cigarettes, wax lips, Fizzies, Pixy Stix, candy corn, and the popcorn ball from the lady down the street. Were any of them really banned? These are 40 lost Halloween candies from the 1960s, with the honest answer for every one: banned, or not? A few really were. Most of the rest are still out there, under a new name, from a new company, or made in a new town. In this video: • Were candy cigarettes ever banned in the United States? • Why the red M&M disappeared for eleven years, even though it never used the banned dye • The 1969 government order that ended the original Fizzies • The Massachusetts grandmother who won the Sky Bar at auction • What one researcher found about poisoned candy and the razor blade in the apple Chapters: 0:00 Banned, or not? 0:59 #1 Candy cigarettes 2:36 #2 Wax lips 3:22 #3 Nik-L-Nip wax bottles 4:09 #4 Red candy and the banned dye 5:07 #5 Fizzies 5:51 #6 Pixy Stix 6:34 #7 Atomic Fireballs 7:11 #8 Candy corn 8:18 #9 Smarties 9:19 #10 Dubble Bubble 9:54 #11 Bazooka Joe 10:40 #12 Sugar Daddy 11:12 #13 Bonomo Turkish Taffy 12:04 #14 Charleston Chew 12:48 #15 Mary Janes 13:32 #16 Bit-O-Honey 14:09 #17 Good & Plenty 14:42 #18 Dum Dums and circus peanuts 15:18 #19 Lemonheads 15:47 #20 Chunky 16:33 #21 The $100,000 Bar 17:09 #22 The Clark Bar 17:42 #23 The Sky Bar 18:15 #24 Necco Wafers 19:48 #25 The Seven Up candy bar 20:26 #26 The Cracker Jack prize 20:58 #27 Razzles 21:31 #28 The Tootsie Pop wrapper 22:16 #29 Candy Buttons 22:50 #30 The Mallo Cup 23:27 #31 Black Cow and Slo Poke 24:08 #32 BB Bats 24:42 #33 Chick-O-Stick 25:20 #34 Zagnut 25:54 #35 Black Jack, Beemans and Clove gum 26:44 #36 Teaberry gum 27:29 #37 The fun size bar 28:24 #38 Candy apples 29:01 #39 Caramel apples and popcorn balls 29:53 #40 The night Halloween changed 32:37 Which ones were really banned Research note: Dates and details come from sources including Tootsie Roll, Hershey, Ferrara, Pearson's, the Christian Science Monitor, Fortune, St. Louis Magazine, the Associated Press, the Keene Sentinel, the Cambridge Historical Society, the Leventhal Map and Education Center, the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, the Texas House of Representatives, Snopes, candy historian Samira Kawash, University of Delaware professor Joel Best, and trademark and federal court records. Where sources disagree, the video says so or uses the best-documented version. Brand and company details are as of October 2026. Watch next: 30 FORGOTTEN Candies Every 1960s Kid Bought at the Dime Store    • 30 Forgotten Dime Store Candies Every 1960...   So which one came home in your bag? And which house on your street gave out the good stuff? Tell me in the comments. Subscribe to Storefront Memories for a new piece of vanished America every week. #Halloween #RetroCandy #60snostalgia ──────────────────── THE COOKBOOK Christmas at The Recipe Counter: 100 old-fashioned candies, cookies and holiday treats (digital PDF download) https://storefrontmemories.com/produc... THE WEBSITE More stories from the America we shopped in: https://storefrontmemories.com/ SUBSCRIBE A new documentary every week:    / @storefront-memories-usa