25 Candies From Your Childhood You Didn't Know Still Exist Gallery

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Unless you grew up under a rock, getting to the checkout lane at the grocery store was the highlight of every shopping trip. Not because you loved moving bananas from your grocery cart to the belt, but because the checkout lane is where the candy was. No matter your age, you spent the final minutes of every shopping trip begging your mom or dad for a chocolate bar or a bag of fruity, tangy candies. And maybe you haven't seen some of those candies in a long time.

Indeed, few things define a childhood more than eating mountains and mountains of candy, but the candies that define a childhood have changed over time. Long gone are the days when penny candy and wax bottles dominated candy shops and convenience stores. Today, candy aisles are dominated by a few big-name brands like Reese's, Skittles and M&M's, leaving retro candies like Sugar Babies, Sixlets, Abba Zaba and Razzles in the dust.

Wait a second! Can you even find Razzles and Abba Zaba anymore? Maybe you haven't seen these treats on store shelves in a long, long time, but many favorite retro candies are still in production. Even if they're not going strong, they are still going. What candies from your childhood still exist today? The answer may just surprise you.

The Bazooka Bubble Gum you know and love from the 1940s and '50s looks different today. The famous Bazooka Joe comics were swapped for brain teasers in 2012. The classic taste of this sugary gum, however, remains.

Few candies taste as classic as Bit-O-Honey, which consists simply of honey-flavored taffy and tiny bits of almond. Though this brand has changed hands a few times since its debut in the 1920s, today Bit-O-Honey is made by Pearson's Candy Company.

While adults may be popping different kinds of bottle caps, if you want to feel nostalgic, crack open a pack of Bottle Caps candies, which are still going strong after nearly 50 years. These candies fittingly reflect soda pop with root beer, cola, cherry, grape and orange flavors, differentiating them from other tart treats like Smarties and Spree.

The candy cigarettes of today may still have packaging that looks like a pack of smokes, with brands like Lucky Lights and Round Up mimicking Marlboros and Lucky Strikes, but these chalky sugar sticks are a bit different than you may remember. Because candy cigarettes were thought to desensitize kids to the actual hazards of smoking, features like red tips and powdered sugar that allows you to blow "smoke" have been removed.

Since 1921, Chuckles Jelly Candies have been making people, well, chuckle with their five classic flavors: cherry, lemon, lime, orange and black licorice. These sugar-coated jellies are the perfect decoration for a gingerbread house, if you ask us. Today, Chuckles are sold by Ferrara Candy Company, the same people who make and sell Boston Baked Beans, Bob's Candy Canes, Atomic Fireballs and other nostalgic treats.

While their fruity sibling Dots may be better known, the black licorice-flavored Crows came out first.  And while you may have to hunt for them, you can still find and buy Crows today. In addition to Dots and Crows, Tootsie Roll Industries also produces Tropical Dots, Sour Dots and seasonal gumdrop flavors.

A West Coast staple since the 1950s, the Look! candy bar has faded from largely faded from public memory and stores. But fans of this peanut, nougat and dark chocolate treat are in luck. The Look! bar is made and sold by Annabelle's today, the same folks who sell the Abba-Zaba.

Just look at the wrapper of an Oh Henry! bar; it just exudes the feeling of classic candy. Indeed, this peanut, caramel and fudge log draped in chocolate has been around since the 1920s and is still sold by the Nestle company today.

The candy-coated chocolate game may be dominated by M&M's today, but children of the '60s know and love Sixlets, crunchy little chocolate candies available in iconic, tiny cellophane tubes. Despite their name, a typical tube of Sixlets actually contains eight candy pieces.

A true Coney Island classic, Turkish Taffy, with its snappy texture and old-school wrapper, goes all the way back to 1912. Today, Bonomo still makes this boardwalk classic in its original formula and four flavors: vanilla, banana, chocolate and strawberry.

Warheads arrived in the United States in 1993 and dominated candy aisles throughout the decade. You may have to hunt a bit harder to find Warheads today than you did 25 years ago, but a variety of Warheads products, including the classic Extreme Sour Hard Candies, Sour Drops, Pucker Packs, Super Sour Spray and a variety of sour worms and other gummies are available in stores.

Originally made by the D. L. Clark Company in 1930, today the Zagnut candy bar is still alive and well, thanks to the Hershey Company. The "nut" in this confection's name comes from a few sources, both a coconut coating a peanut butter filling.