Hard and tangy candy

Every hard and tangy candy on Original Candy House

• Necco Wafers (1847): Thin, chalky sugar disks sold in rolls, in flavors like lemon, orange, clove, cinnamon, wintergreen, licorice and chocolate. Back on sale.
• Sweethearts (1901): Chalky, heart-shaped candies printed with short messages like "Be Mine", "Kiss Me" and "Miss You". Back on sale.
• Boston Baked Beans (by 1924): Peanuts in a hard, brick-red candy shell, shaped and colored like baked beans. Still made.
• Pez (1927): Small pressed sugar blocks that come out of a spring-loaded character dispenser. Still made.
• Red Hots (1930s): Tiny, hot cinnamon candies, a favorite for decorating cakes and cookies. Still made.
• Jolly Rancher (1949): Hard, glassy, intensely fruity candies. Still made.
• Smarties (1949): Rolls of small, chalky, tangy tablets in six pastel colors. Still made.
• Atomic Fireball (1954): A big, hard, fiery cinnamon jawbreaker. Still made.
• Lemonhead (1962): Round lemon candy with a sweet coating, a sour layer and a hard center. Still made.
• SweeTarts (1962): Sweet and sour pressed tablets. Still made.
• Zotz (1968): A hard candy with a fizzy, sour powder center that foams when you bite in. Still made.
• Bottle Caps (1972): Tangy pressed candies shaped like soda bottle caps: grape, cola, orange, root beer and cherry. Still made.
• Everlasting Gobstopper (1976): A hard jawbreaker made of layers that change color and flavor as you suck on it. Still made.
• Nerds (1982): Tiny, crunchy, tangy pebbles of candy, usually two flavors in one box with two lids. Still made.
• Runts (1982): Fruit-shaped hard-shell candies with a tangy, chalky center, a lot like SweeTarts. Still made.
• Life Savers Holes (early 1990s): The little discs punched out of the middle of Life Savers, sold in a flip-top tube. Discontinued.
• Wacky Wafers (year not recorded): A strip of tangy, coin-size fruit wafers in a clear wrapper. Back on sale.

The oldest here is Necco Wafers, first made in 1847. Gone for good: Life Savers Holes.