This is making me crazy! I know exactly what you're talking about. I remember eating the stuff. And it came in different flavors. I remember that I liked the chocolate, but there were some that were pretty horrific. One was a pink colour and made me gag. Darn! No one has mentioned it yet, I'm pretty sure. It's definitely NOT Bit-o-Honey, but I think it WAS the Bonomo. I just googled it and found this one paragraph;

"In time, three new flavors appeared: chocolate, strawberry and banana. According to Tico Bonomo, the company sold 80 million to 100 million bars a year in the 50's and 60's and employed as many as 350 workers at the Coney Island plant, where it also produced hard candy."

It MUST be this! It was the strawberry I hated, but I remember the banana as being pretty dreadful too.

Thanks for the sensory blast from the past!

..xx..e