Food of the Seventies, Michigan Cherries
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This was, I thought, a Lance product. It was a chewy candy, red and if I remember right the inside was hollow. I used to buy this at school almost every single day. I've tried googling it, and digging though the internet and am beginning to think I dreamt it! This would have been somewhere between 1974 and 1977.
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The good news is, you didn't dream it. In 1970-71, my third grade teacher would take orders for snacks from the teacher's lounge (her husband was the principal, so I guess she could get away with it) for the Lance snacks in the machine. I would always get the Michigan Cherries (10 cents per bag). There are other companies making the same kind of cherry sours (they're not hollow, by the way), but some of them taste downright perfumy and nothing compares to the original.
Michigan Cherries did exist. They were sold out of Lance Vending machines. They were soft and chewy on the inside and kinda crackly on the outside. They tasted really artificial, but kinda good.
I used to buy these every Sunday at the bowling alley. This was in the early 80's. I really miss them. Wish I could find them now. Have tried the Lance site but no luck.
I too remember Michigan cherries. I remembered them to be a Lance product also. A few years ago, I was at Walmart and they had purchased some cherry candy balls. Even thought it was not the original it surely brought back memories.
I remember they were very deep red almost maroon colored. The current version is too bright red. I sure could go for a bag now.........
Yes, I have been looking for those for years. I thought Warner Candy company had them at one time. Where can we purchase them? Maybe we should contact the Vermont Country store catalog.
I am from Charlotte, NC, home of the Lance Factory. I can tell you all about that stuff! Everywhere were Lance machines. Michigan Cherries were like Cherry Jelly Bellies are today. They had a sugary coating that you could separate after sucking for a bit, and the inside was chewy I think. They had a lot of dye as well. I liked to buy them at the pool. :)
I am from Philadelphia,Pa. , and remember summers at the pool , where if you shook the lance machine at the same time it was dropping one bag the bag behind it would fall too. 2 for 25 cents what a deal!!!
I am from Delaware and also have fond summer memories of buying the Lance Michigan Cherries from the snack bar at our outdoor pool. I especially remember that they stained one's fingers and lips bright red (or maybe that was the raw jello we ate from the box?) Someone call Vermont Country Store!
Our local YMCA in King of Prussia, PA sold Michigan Cherries back in the late 70s early 80s. MMMMM chewy goodness. They were 25 or 35 cents. The red dye would be all over our hands. I would buy them in a minute if they were still available.
I can remember the taste of Michigan Cherries like it was 1974 at the community swimming pool with 10 cents in one hand with a wet towel and another 15 cents for a grape fanta!
i buy them as sour cherries--i looked for michigan cherries too, and used to buy themat the bulk food stores such as "mr. bulky" in the 80s, but the sour cherries are the closest you can get. I tried a while back to find the michigan cherries too, but these will substitute!
I was in the seventh and eighth grades at Camp LeJeune, NC, 1968-70. After school ended and before the buses left, the school store was open, selling fountain Cokes without ice and a few snack foods. Michigan Cherries were my choice. I don't recall sucking on them; I'd bite right through the harder shell to get to the chewy goodness inside. I wonder why they were "Michigan" cherries.
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