There are two types of candy that really remind me of childhood. One is grape push pops. My family did a lot of camping when I was a kid, and most of the time we went to national and provincial parks where it was more secluded and natural and really like camping. Once a summer, though, we went to a specific private, commercial campground in New Brunswick with my mom's side of the family. And they had this little canteen that sold candy and ice cream, and every year my grandparents would take us to the canteen to buy candy, and I always got a grape push pop. I hardly ever had them any other time, so I really only associate them with that campground. I don't see push pops around very often, but when I do, sometimes I get a grape one just to reminisce.
The other type of candy is a type of sucker, but I don't actually know what they're called. They're just slightly larger in diameter but thinner than a regular sucker, and they're multi-coloured with part of it being white. I don't know if you guys know what I'm talking about, but google didn't know what I was talking about either, so that's okay. Anyway, the gas station near the house I grew up in only had full serve pumps, and they would always bring out these suckers for any kids that were in the car, and I still can't have one of those without thinking of being in the car with one of my parents at the gas station.
Other than that most of the things I can think of are really specific, like a lake we always swam at when I was younger, or my childhood best friend who lived across the road from me but that I haven't seen in four years. I guess also strawberry u-picks, there was one just down the road from that lake, so we used to go there and pick a bunch of strawberries and then we would go for a swim to cool off.
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