Monday Guilty Pleasure: Dem Bones

October 25th, 2004

Filed under: General

I’m in trouble. So far this Halloween I haven’t been able to find any Dem Bones. Put out by Brach, Dem Bones are a bone-shaped fruit-flavored candy. They’re quite tasty, actually. Kind of like a SweetTart, but with more flavor. The shapes include skull, foot, hand, chest, and generic “long bone.” The flavors include cherry (red), grape (purple), orange (umm, orange), lemon (yellow), lime (green) and pineapple (white). I usually buy 2 or 3 bags around this time of year (which lasts maybe a week-and-a-half, tops), but I haven’t seen them in any of the local stores this year.

I vaguely remember buying a similar candy as a child that actually came in a plastic coffin. These candies were actually interlockable, like jigsaw puzzle pieces. Somehow, each coffin never held enough bones to make a full skeleton. Haven’t seen that candy in twenty years, and I have no idea what the name even was.

3 Responses to “ Monday Guilty Pleasure: Dem Bones ”

  1. Tim O'Neil
    October 26th, 2004 at 1:55 am

    Hey! I remember that candy too. I remember the green plastic coffin package it came in… it lasted a long while, sitting in my misc. toy box alongside my marbles and army men for many years. Its probably even still ina a box in my parent’s garage, the final momento of a long ago sugar-high.

  2. Jim Kosmicki
    October 29th, 2004 at 3:47 pm

    Brachs seems to be having problems in recent years. There are a lot of their traditional candies that they simply aren’t producing anymore. I knew it was a bad sign when they co-branded all of their products (REALemon Lemon Drops for example). BRACHS should be the brand that matters and sells the product, not another corporation’s brand!!!

  3. Jim Kosmicki
    October 29th, 2004 at 3:52 pm

    do you mean these:
    http://www.orientaltrading.com/otcweb/application?namespace=browse&origin=categoryDisplay.jsp&event=link.itemDetails&sku=/K333&mode=Browsing&catDestinationJSP=/browse/categoryForward.jsp?categoryId=342744

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