When I was a kid in the '50's and '60's, I loved a penny candy called Frenchies. It was a little rectangle of nougat (half pink, half white) with bits of red, green, and yellow jellied candies in it.
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You might find them on one of these web sites...
www.GroovyCandies.com
www.NostalgicCandy.com
www.oldtimecandy.com
www.rauscountrystore.com
You might also try Brachs Candies. I believe they made those candies also.
Is this what you are looking for, Joan?
I hope this web site helps. Hugs from Fort Sill, OK
www.vermontcountrystore.com/
Hi, try http://www.hometownfavorites.com It has foods and candy from the 50's 60's and 70's. Good luck on your quest.
Joan, when I saw your post it was as if I could have written it! I have also been looking for Frenchies. The last time I had them was about 30 years ago, and I'm 57. The funny thing is, no one I've ever mentioned them to even remembers them. Very Twilight Zone! But I grew up in Hartford, CT and they were everywhere "back in the day".
I have been looking for them also. It brought back .memories k owning someone else is looking for them.
Did you find the pink & white nougat candies yet?
I have searched everywhere & can only find some remotely close on online British sites.
I did find a candy that was similar, in a wrapped candy bar size at a Scottish Highland Games booth in Canada.
The Brach's nougats are more jelly & don't have the pink.
The Frenchies were a fav of my father's & me too.
I am 54 so the candy must have been popular 50-60's?
Hope we find it!
Oh my goodness! I am 50 and remember Frenchies. In my small NJ town, you could only get them at one little store on Main St. They were nothing like Brach's because they were more airy, and I believe they had small bits of almond in them as well. So, where is this British website to order online?
Charlie Chips use to sell. We use to get them when he delivered the chips. I miss them.
I loved them, too!! I am 55 and yes, they were pink & white with a light airy taste & powder on them and almonds !! I have been searching for them for years!!! Please find them!
I see these questions all the time regarding frenchies. I can't believe that some candy company has not started making them again. Unless there is a patent on them with the company that did make them.
Check yummies.com They have something that resembles Frenchies.
Hi Joan. I've been looking for them, too, but I never knew their name. I'm 47 and grew up in Philadelphia. It was the mid-sixties when I remember eating them. They were so good, weren't they? If anyone finds them, please post. Thanks.
Ok furthering the quest, I remember that I saw the box they were shipped in and remember that it was New Orleans, LA as a sender. But for the life of me I cant remember the company name.
I remember my mother buying these by the box at a wholesale candy store in the Fells Point area of Baltimore City when I was a kid. I'm now 55 and have been searching for these candies myself for many, many years. My two sisters loved them, too! Everyone who is searching for these candy delights seem to be able to describe them exactly as I remember them...I just wish someone could remember who made them!
Was it Jeppi Nut and Candy Company ? They still exist. Theyve been around since 1884. They just moved out to Timonium.
To estronski regarding Lassies. I found these online:
www.candyattic.com/
They look similar to what you are referring to. Cheers!
I've been looking for these also. I was a 6 year old kid in the 50's, living in Dover, Delaware, and ran to the candy store every day after school and asked for frenchies. They were a penny each, a pink and white nougat with green, yellow and red gummies wrapped in wax paper with "Frechies" printed on it.
I found them at a candy store in the Market Place in Ottawa, ON Canada. They were $13 or $15 /lb about 4 years ago. I haven't found them anywhere else either, including a candy store in NH that boasts itself as the largest penny candy store. (It is pretty big). I always bought them, too as a child and ate the white side first. I didn't remember that they were called Frenchies. Is it because I'm old? Lol.
Julie in Massachusetts
Does anyone know the place in Ottawa? I can't seem to find it/track it down...
It was in a candy store in the Market Place but now it's been many years since I've been there.
Wow I was begining to think I was crazy,nobody I spoke with remembered these delicious candies. I would go to the store as a child in the early 60's in Maine and Frenchies were my favorite treat. I would get two, one to eat on the way home and one for later. I have been looking everywhere for these candies to no avail. I am happy to know that others are remembering them and if I find them I will post.
Here ya go. They are even the right shape. =-) www.kalyx.com/
Oh my God, I thought I was the only person in world who like these things. If they are still out there I hope they taste the same. You know how things change over time. I am glad to see there are more crazy people out there who like Frenchies. I can taste them now
I have been looking for these for years...loved them as a kid..grew up in Maryland. I wonder if they were a Northeastern treat. I hope someone will be able to find them and post the address on here...
I grew up in Southern California and remember loving Frenchies too...so they were not just an Eastern product. Wish I could find some!
Grew up in the 50's in Philly. Would buy them at the corner store for 2 for a penny. Dying for some!
Are these similar? I am trying to remember....www.oldtimecandy.com/
Trish, check out www.goldenbonbon.com. Canadian company ... jujube nougat ... closest thing Ive found to frenchies. Enjoy!
Nope! Totally different! These where very airy. Rectangular, half pink and have white with the jelly canfies in them! Grew up in the Philly area, been looking for them for years!!!
It's 2017 and I am still searching for Frenchies! I am also from the Northeast and a child of the sixties. Used to get them from our old general store. A penny each. Pink and white. With jellies and wrapped in a wax type paper.
I have been looking for those for years. I didn't realize they were called Frenchies. Nothing compares to them. I did find them in Ottawa at a candy store in the Market but nowhere else. By law, they can't ship to the U.S. I would have liked cheese curds, too!!!!
I remember these candies. They were so good. If anyone knows where to find them please post it here. Thanx.
Believe it or not...... Marshalls sells jujube nougat. Missing the pink. And half the width.... same exact taste. I promise
OMG.....I googled frenchies and cannot believe all the people looking for them......
I am glad to have someone comment on this candy. Yes! I am a baby boomer born in 1958. And these were in the 1960s . And you are right they aren't the white nougat with colored jelly made by Brachs.
They were rectangle. Pink on one side and white on the other. They were soft and chewy.
Golden Bon Bon from canada sells jujubee nougat that is really close. Not chewy like Brachs, this was melt in your mouth good.
I have been trying to find Frenchies for years. Will try some of the sites people mentioned. None of my friends even remember them. I used to buy sooooo much penny candy every day.....now my teeth are paying for that habit.lol
If you find them, please let me know. I have been looking for them also. My favorite!
I am.also looking for the pink and white Frenchies from childhood,! If anyone finds , please post! Would love to purchase and revisit that memory!
I had not though about those candies for many years until a four years ago my daughter in law brought me some candies from Paris. I tasted a couple and one made me stop and think.
I had to dust off my brain but I did remember "Frenchies".
The candy from Paris reminded me of a Frenchie.
It did not look like the ones in California but it did have a white part and multi flavors.
I'm thinking the ones here were probably inspired by the French ones.
I think it is time to visit Paris.
All the candies were very good!
Hi! You may want to try Economy candy store in the lower east side
Good luck
These were also one of my favorites when I was a kid in the 50s-60s and I've looked for them for years. I recently found something on Amazon that's very, very similar - they're all white, but have the same bits of colored candy pieces in them and are lightly coated with powder - as far as I remember, the taste is the same. Unfortunately they're no longer a penny candy; as of this writing they're $10.99 for a 6 oz. pounch, although there's an option to get a bundle of four pouches for $28. They're called Jujube Nougat Italian Chewy Candy. The link to Amazon is below, and I just looked at the bag and you can also order them direct from goldenbonbon.com.
smile.amazon.com/
it won't be pink and white but if you melt mini marshmallows, white chocolate and cute up dots candies melt them together and then in a pan with parchment paper let it harden you will get something close
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