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Guest Opinion: Ashland council vote on travelers accommodations was less than transparent ... Herb Rothschild Jr: Failing at charity ... Ashland Calendar: Saturday, March 28 ... Guest Opinion: Ashland council vote on travelers accommodations was less than transparent ... Herb Rothschild Jr: Failing at charity ... Page Onorato: Please don't take my Goo Goo Clusters away Comment By Page H. Onorato More Content Now DailyTidings.com By Page H. Onorato More Content Now Posted Mar. 4, 2015 at 1:27 PM Updated Mar 4, 2015 at 1:28 PM By Page H. Onorato More Content Now Posted Mar. 4, 2015 at 1:27 PM Updated Mar 4, 2015 at 1:28 PM » Social News I heard the crinkle of paper wrapping coming from my mother’s bedroom, where she was relaxing with a good book while I was supposedly taking an enforced nap. “Oh boy,” I thought. “She’s opening up a Fifth Avenue,” her favorite candy bar. Imagine my disappointment when I, sneaking a peek in her door, discovered that she was opening a pack of nasty old Camels instead of a sweet treat to share with me. What a bummer, not to mention that cigs were a whopping 20 cents a pack, and a Fifth Avenue only a nickel. Prices are way higher now and will be even more so if the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, reporting to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has its way. We’ll all be paying higher taxes on those sweet treat candy bars, as well as sugary soft drinks. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, ye of the 16-ounce limit on soft drinks, rejoice. The recommendation is an effort to help in the war against obesity, which the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says affects 17 percent of children and one-third of adults in the country. Well, darn, I already happen to know that eating a bunch of sugary stuff isn’t good for me and will make me gain poundage, but if I want to do it, don’t penalize me. It would be a dull world without the occasional candy bar to cheer things up, wouldn’t it? After all, candy has been around just about forever. Ancient Egyptians, Chinese and Arabs made sweets by boiling fruits in honey; the Conquistadors found Aztecs and Mayans consuming chocolate when they invaded the Americas; folks have been sucking on peppermints and lemon drops for hundreds of years. Milton Hershey marketed the first milk chocolate bar in 1900 and sold it for a nickel. Jellybeans, Ronald Reagan’s favorite snack, hit the candy counters in 1905, and in 1912, Ohio candy-maker Clarence Crane came up with a treat that wouldn’t melt in the hot summertime and called it Life Savers. Both World Wars were boon years for candymen. During World War I, huge blocks of chocolate were shipped out with the troops, and chunks were hacked out with an ice pick-like device. During World War II, chocolatiers were in their heyday with the slogan “Chocolate is fighting food.” Most candy productions went to the troops; D-Rations contained three chocolate bars that could sustain a soldier in a war zone for 24 hours. Tootsie Roll, the first wrapped penny candy, which had been around since 1896, also went to war, for it could survive all kinds of weather and conditions. Many new candy products were marketed after the first war. In 1921, the Curtiss Candy Co. came out with Baby Ruth, claiming it was named for President Grover Cleveland’s daughter Ruth, not the baseball hero. And Goo Goo Clusters, the darling of the Grand Ole Opry during the ’30s, had been around since 1912. Milk Duds followed in 1926, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in 1928 and soon after came Pez, a breath mint candy for smokers, all the way from Austria. In 1940, M&Ms arrived with the catchwords “Melts in your mouth, not in your hand,” covered in red, yellow, green, brown, orange and violet candy coatings. We’d be bereft without a gooey, nutty, chocolate-y nibble once in a while. What’s a movie without a box of Junior Mints to munch on? What’s a trip to the beach without a stop at Stuckey’s for a pecan roll? What’s Easter without a chocolate bunny? Shucks, we’d have to scrap Halloween entirely, and many a sweetheart would go hungry on Valentine’s Day. The movie “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” couldn’t have been made without Reese’s Pieces (actually, Steven Spielberg approached M&M’s first but was turned down). My cousin, who has a bundle invested in Tootsie Roll, would be out on the street with a tin cup. And what would become of Lexington’s own Piedmont Candy Co., which has been around for 125 years with its Red Bird Peppermint Puffs? Shucks, we’d have to close the town without the Candy Factory. Nope, I didn’t get a bite of Mother’s Fifth Avenue that long ago afternoon. But I’m going to rush out and purchase a couple of Goo Goo Bars for myself quickly, before the government gets in on the act. Page H. Onorato is a retired teacher and a correspondent for The Lexington (N.C.) Dispatch. By Page H. Onorato More Content Now DailyTidings.com By Page H. 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