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Nostalgia may taste better than Fizzies do

I had forgotten them until now... they're somewhere in the cobwebs of my brain along with Blackjack gum, hula hoops, and my Chatty Cathy doll. Thank for memory.

The Candy Barrel at South Towne Mall also stocks these, but at $5 a package, I have to say I just haven't been curious enough to give them a try...

I remember that every week, I'd send a dozen packets of Fizzies (8 tablets to a card, I think) to my boyfriend, a Marine in South VietNam. He liked the Root Beer ones, but any flavor would do.

I always thought they were nasty.

Oh my gosh!

Remembering the Fizzies was bad enough, but you HAD to go and bring up the aluminum tumblers!!!

I'm gonna have nighmares...

Fizzies was one of the things you begged your mom to buy, but after the first couple tablets it seems like they lost the fascination.

One of my wife's has fond memories is of sleeping over at her grandma's house and always getting Kool-Aid in aluminum tumblers.

The original Fresca with cyclamates was delicious!

A later relative of Fizzies was "Pop Rocks," candy which was
about the size of rice crispies, had a hard candy coating, and when
you put it in your mouth it popped and kind of exploded (probably the same chemical reaction as Fizzies.) I remember my older kids putting these little candies in my baby's mouth (circa 1976) and they thought it was really funny how they popped. I don't remember what the little one's reaction was. According to Wikipedia, "Around 1983, General Foods stopped selling the candy. Some incorrectly believed that this was because of an urban legend that mixing Pop Rocks with carbonated soda could result in a person's stomach exploding."

They used that "stomach exploding' myth with both Fizzies and Pop Rocks.

you can still buy pop rocks, they aren't even hard to find, and i don't remember a time they weren't in the stores. wikipedia is wrong.