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- When I was a kid, the best candy counter in town (maybe the best I have ever seen) was at the Sears store in Winston-Salem.
Martin Winfree
April 4, 2015
When I was a kid, the best candy counter in town (maybe the best I have ever seen) was at the Sears store in Winston-Salem. (Yeah, go figure – any of my other W-S friends remember that?) Unlike most downtown department stores, they had plenty of parking. One of the candies I discovered there was oversized malted-milk ball eggs at Easter time, covered with chocolate and a thin, white candy shell with paint spatters on it. Every year since, I search in vain in Walgreen’s, Winn-Dixie, Walmart, etc. to see if I can find the next best thing, Brach’s version (or somebody’s – I found some by Leaf one year. (There are malt-ball eggs all over, mostly called “robin eggs”, but they are covered with a gooey candy shell – not at all the same thing). Well, this year, I think for the first time since I have been in Mississippi (18 years and counting), there they were in the wall of Easter candy at Walgreen’s. I cleaned them out, and later found them at Winn-Dixie, too. I would hate to say how many bags I have bought this season (not in double digits yet! I think! 🙂 ), but it sure hasn’t felt much like Lent this year with those treats everywhere.
Bob Paxton
Oh yeah, I remember the HUGE candy department at the old downtown Sears store. I was always partial to the jelly beans……
Betty Northcott Snitzer
Wonder where Sears got them? Did they make them? I remember something similar at Woolworths.
George Konstantinow
Wow! Curious and strange — when I read “candy counter” and “Sears store,” I experienced *immediate* recognition but do not have an image of the place in my head. Must be part of my kid’s-fabric, kinda like the smell of chlorine I remember from the pool at the YWCA where I had swimming lessons . . .