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The glorious interwebs have once again delivered instant nostalgia verification and indulgence straight to my computer screen portal. When I was just a lad, a trip to grandma’s house always meant the accompanying treat “Food Sticks,” an odd 5 or so inched, cylindrical shaped candy in a cool brown paper and foil lined wrapper. Think tootsie roll meets powerbar. Turns out this product started off as “Space Food Sticks,” and then sometime in the later 70s shortened to simply “Food Sticks” when the space program lost it’s verve. And I’m not the only one who has since wondered about this product it seems, as it has been reverse engineered and reanimated, albeit in more squarish form and with a BMX biker on the package. Good enough for me, since BMX was about as cool as space anyway.