Originally Posted By ImTempest When I was a child, the big event in my family was going to Disneyland once a year, every summer. We didn't have a lot of money, and each child was allowed to buy one item from the candy store on Main Street. Every year, without fail, I picked the rainbow-colored Rock Candy. Now that I have my own family I want to share that with my son, but all I can find are the clear "rocks", not the multi-colors. Don't they make them anymore?
Originally Posted By HTHgal12 unfortunately, they only have the clear. I have seen blue rock candy in the past
Originally Posted By knoxvelour you can always make your own rock candy with your son and take it to the parks <a href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/candy/recipe-rockcandy.html" target="_blank">http://www.exploratorium.edu/c ooking/candy/recipe-rockcandy.html</a>
Originally Posted By ImTempest knoxvelour, thank you for the recipe, I'll have to give it a try. It's just...I know this sounds silly, but for me the rock candy was "Disneyland". It could have been made at home, but it was bought at the most wonderful and magical place on the planet. I ate it one piece at a time per day, making it last for as long as I could to remind me of Disneyland every day. I remember the days I would eat the last piece as being very sad, because it would be a very long time (to a child) before I would be at the park again. But it's okay...my son will find his own special Disney item that will bring it all back to him years from now!
Originally Posted By HTHgal12 I hear ya ImTempest. To me Disneyland is cookies and cream fudge (which I haven't seen there recently). It takes me back to HS and college when I was there all the time. I hope your son finds something special that reminds him of Disneyland!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <knoxvelour, thank you for the recipe, I'll have to give it a try. It's just...I know this sounds silly, but for me the rock candy was "Disneyland". It could have been made at home, but it was bought at the most wonderful and magical place on the planet.> For many years, DL peanut brittle was like that for me. I wouldn't buy it any place but DL, and eating it was very DL. They used to actually make it at the Candy Palace, years ago. When they stopped doing that, I still bought it sometimes, but it wasn't the same.
Originally Posted By NJ AP For us it is the ice cream mouse ears. DH and I share one, DD has her own the we finish off whatever she doesn't -- trust me she doesn't leave much.
Originally Posted By StitchDude For me that one item was always the lollipops. The problem was that I would never wanted to eat them! When I got older I loved to go in and choose my own salt water taffy!
Originally Posted By sherrytodd When my sister and I were kids, the one thing we were allowed to buy every year at Disneyland was a little glass figurine from the glass blower's shop. I still have them all.
