Altoids of any flavor I find especially useful during Sunday Services. When I see my Husband, Dave, nodding off and about to snore, I pop one in his mouth and suddenly he is wide awake again. Other wives noticed this effective cure for the Nod-off disease and we all now carry a Mini-Tin in our purse or pocket. We have the freshest smelling Service in all of town!

Mind you, many of the husband's nodding off aren't so much bored as they are tired. The frequent Nodders are always the fellows who work in Construction or in Film where they are required to get up before dawn and work well past seven in the evening. Come sunday at 9 Am...they have all they can do to stay awake even when they are on their feet singing hymns! As soon as we sit down and some speaker with a soft voice is talking...Time for the Altoids! Sometimes we just let them sleep. After all, they did get up, shower, shave and put on a tie. That's something.

Currently I am addicted to something called Hint Mints which have an odd, slightly curved tin that fits perfectly in the back pocket of your jeans.

My roommate at University always chewed Teaberry gum. Couldn't stand the stuff myself.

I got addicted to Voilet Crumble bars myself in the early 90's after making friends with an Australian who needed them sent to him by the case on location. Those are horribly sweet chocolate covered honeycomb things...no violet flavor at all. I used to drive all over town to find them so I could pack them off to him. Also in those care packages were Trebor mints and some kind of mint called XXX that came by the roll.

Still, nothing like a good Cadbury Flake bar every now and then.

I used to eat something called Ice Cubs...not Cubes...it was a pun as there was a bear cub on the label. That was in the 70's. That was an especially slippery feeling milk chocolate square that melted in your mouth. Similar flavor to Cadbury, but American.

Dum Dums are still the best lollipop there is next to Tootsie Pops. Dum Dums are actually sensible owing to their smaller size. They are not big enough to tempt you to crack them with your teeth and just large enough to satisfy the urge for a Lollipop.

I used to like Charms Sour pop lollipops as a child.

This will most likely be a silly question for the UKers but...Was there ever really a Coulter's Candy? And if there were, is there still?

That was a song my mother sang to me as a child..

Ally Bally, ally bally me
sitting on your mamma's knee
waiting on a wee penny
for to buy some Coulter's candy

or something like that.

It was on an Irish Rovers record we wore out the grooves of. The album that had Brambleshire Wood on it. (a rather good anti-war song) It might have been Tales To Warm Your Mind.
There were some right odd songs on that album...one about a pig who drowns himself in a bathtub!