Weird Shit your Grandparents and Parents used to (or still do) eat or drink

[Rain Man]

On a less weird basis, I'm curious about the evolution of candy. My generation tends to go for chocolate. Was chocolate widely consumed during the depression era? Was it hard to preserve without air conditioning? I don't know if my grandparents liked chocolate, but when we'd go over to their house they always had hard candies - ribbon candy, butterscotches, and a dozen other varieties I don't remember right now. And usually they were in a bowl all stuck together so you had to chisel off the piece you wanted. I wonder what the sales trends are for hard candies, because I can't imagine that they're as popular now as they were with the older generations.

(And I'll exempt Werther's from the above discussion, because Werther's candies rock.)