Sugar is a powerful thing, don't let anyone tell you differently. When we were younger, sugar filled the imagination and conversations with others and suddenly everything became silly. Once we're older, sugar brings that child in us back out, and we're still driven crazy by it. Favourites were common, but everyone had several.

Here are five colourful, sugary things that I ate way too much of as a kid, and drove my mother crazy with.

Lucky Charms seemed like the greatest excuse for sweetness. It came with oats! Eating breakfast was never more 'magically delicious.' More marshmallows were introduced over time (along with some ... interesting choices, like grey whales), and the commercials became a beacon of colour, especially during the time when jingles and songs were popular. I can still tell you that there were "hearts, stars, horseshoes, clovers and blue moons. Pots of gold and rainbows, and the red balloon," but I think there have been a few since. To the worry of parents everywhere, and dependent on package settlement, it can seem like there are more marshmallows than oats in any given bowl.

Yipes! Stripes! Fruit Stripe Gum was an obsession of mine for a decent chunk of time. Given to enjoying some of the most bizarre, probably-a-horrible-idea-to-put-in-your-mouth candies, the colourful zebra stripe designs and flavours of this gum were often requested. Although I could never really enjoy the lime stripes, the fifteen minutes of flavour was always seemed worth it, even if I ended up with several strips of the same colour in my mouth to make it last.

Fun Dip actually was just pure sugar. Even the stick that you wet with your tongue and got the flavoured power out with was sugar, and you could eat it when you were done. It was often practice to empty the pouches into a large bowl and indulge. ... this is sounding more and more like confessions of a drug addict.

Sweettarts were a middle school discovery, but they were a welcoming alteration to social awkwardness and my vivid imagination. These were strictly contraband. Sweet and tart, as the name suggests, the five flavours were enough to keep me addicted, opening "fun size" paper packages hoping for more blue ones, or pouring out the box and sorting by colour. With all of these candies, there just never seemed to be enough with every store run.

Lifesavers were the ring-shaped candy that even mothers could love. Aptly named, the hole in the centre was designed to prevent children from choking on them. Originally five flavours in 1912, Lifesavers exploded in popularity and variations, from mints to butterscotch.

What are your favourite sugary foods?

Are they colourful?

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