I'm helping my co-worker disepense of his children's extraneous Halloween candy (fine, he stole it). He stashed away the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and Almond Joys per my request. All the other scavengers are left to sift through the M&M's, Snickers and Milky Way, which have somehow fallen upon hard times on the candy hierarchy. I remember when Snicker's was still cool. In fact, I think I remember when Snickers came on the scene and my friends and I used to say, "Snickers really is satisfying!" Advertising worked on me like a charm.

Somehow we began talking about Stix by Jolly Rancher, a hard candy which consisted of a large flattened jolly roger, sort of like a rectangular tongue depressor. I used to buy the "Fire" flavor, which I thought made me cool because it was too hot for my friends who always got "Watermelon" or "Green Apple." I figured since I was Mexican I knew how to eat hot things. But no matter the flavor, that thing lasted all day. The problem came when the tip got too thin and the experience was like sucking on a shard of glass. Eventually, I would stab my tongue or mouth, but by that point I was pretty much drunk from sucking on pure sugar and couldn't feel the pain anyway. I'm pretty sure that's why it's no longer on the market. It wouldn't surprise me if some kids figured out how to use their sucked on Stix as weapons.

I couldn't find it anywhere on the Internet (though, the Internet stopped working for searches last year).

Just for today, I'm nostalgic for random things.