Can you name all these rainbow candies?

Proof that there's more than one way to taste the rainbow.

 
When you serve up the most colorful candies, it brings smiles to kids everywhere, which is probably why every sweet tooth can't get enough of their rainbow ways, across every decade.

Think you can navigate this candy spectrum and solve for all these vibrant sweets?

Scroll through the candies below and see if you can make these rainbow connections and name every single one. Good luck!
  1. Which fruity candy first dared you to taste the rainbow in 1974?
  2. These colorful candies have been around since the 1940s and claim to be the most popular gumdrop:
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  3. Remember what these little sleeves of rainbow sweets were called?
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  4. In 1982, these candies arrived, shaped like the fruits they taste like:
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  5. These peppy candy straws were introduced in the late 1950s and are full of rainbow-colored sugars:
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  6. These tangy sweets first appeared in the mid-'60s and are still popular today:
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  7. This illustration has helped create intrigue for kids gazing at its packaging since this candy was introduced in 1976:
  8. Introduced in 1969, this rainbow-colored gum had a super catchy jingle:
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  9. We first met this mascot in 1983, appearing on boxes of this candy that often came in two colors:
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  10. Here's a candy from the 1950s, marketing as flying saucers with a surprise inside:
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Can you name all these rainbow candies?

Your Result...

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20 Comments

geatornez82 30 months ago
9/10. Missed #3. I never new SweeTarts were packaged like Smarties.
JKMallaber 33 months ago
10/10! And I'm looking for Sprees next time I'm at the store. I didn't know they still made them.
Snickers 40 months ago
10 out of 10. Ate way to much sugar when I was a kid.
idkwut2use 51 months ago
10 for 10, and I love them all sooooooooooooo much (well, most...not sure on the Satellite wafers or gobstoppers.)
JKMallaber 58 months ago
9/10! Only missed the fruit stripe gum, which I've never heard of.
Debbie JKMallaber 45 months ago
That was my favorite gum as a kid! The only one on this list that I never heard of was the Satellite Wafers
Snickers Debbie 40 months ago
Satellite wafers were some kind of soft wafer with tiny bead candies inside.
MaryAnn 58 months ago
Grrrrrr...that last one tripped me up. The rest were a cinch!
Debbie MaryAnn 45 months ago
Same here
Snickers MaryAnn 40 months ago
I can't believe I'm the only one who remembers satellite wafers. Man I'm feeling old.
Jeremy 58 months ago
I got them all, thank goodness!
EllisClevenger 70 months ago
You got 9 out of 10
Your love for colorful candies proves that sweets are the best treasure at the end of any rainbow.
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