LOL! You just jogged loose a very old memory from the webbing in my brain.
My earliest memory about candy was more about the circumstances than the candy itself. I remember going to the local variety store with all the neighborhood kids to buy Hershey bars & Bazooka bubble gum (I loved the Bazooka Joe comics). My friend's Uncle owned and ran the store. He used to regularly cheat little kids out of their change thinking they didn't know how to count and if they did, they wouldn't have the nerve to tell an adult he was wrong. Until he tried pulling that crap on me.
sad to say when i was twelve stole a candy bar at the store. Got caught strange...can't remember the candy bar wait, Milky Way it was. It took me bit to remember back that far. haha. Dad gave me Ten swats on the palm of my hands with a razor strap for that. True confessions
I remember being very small running up and down a snow covered sidewalk in The Bronx. I remember I had in my mouth a certain kind of pink candy, gum maybe, shaped like a tiny donut. If you held it just right and blew thru the hole it would whistle.