The shop carries 500 different flavors of taffy, ranging from strawberry to popcorn. Rocket Fizz offers a wide variety of salt water taffy.
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This section contains the store’s best deals: $5.99 for small plastic bags (or $8.99 for big bags) that can be packed full of taffy and other small candies.
Tragic really, but Rocket Fizz eases the calamity by replacing it with bins filled with salt water taffy.
If there’s anything in Rocket Fizz that shows it isn’tthe lost land of Willy Wonka’s candy factory it’s the absence of a chocolate waterfall. It comes in small tootsie roll sizes, easy to unwrap and pop in your mouth. Another treat in this section is the Big White Rabbit, a delicious taffy-like candy. One of the rarities found in Rocket Fizz is Ramune, a Japanese soda brand that has a marble installed in the bottle neck to keep the soda inside from foaming over when opened. You and your taste buds can thank me later. Try the hodgepodge of Asian candy that Rocket Fizz amassed. Thanks to Rocket Fizz, Asian candy can be easily accessible in Palo Alto instead of the distant land of Mountain View, which is the closest place with an Asian store. What I got out of it was a cleverly disguised time machine. What I expected from Rocket Fizz was a candy shop. These signs, perfect for comic relief say things like, “Wine! How classy people get wasted” and “It’s better to have loved and lost that to live with the psycho the rest of your life.”Īccording to Escalant, Rocket Fizz plays music from the 50s to the 80s with occasional 90s music in the afternoons, just to keep in touch with modern times. “It was put up to make people laugh,” store manager Ophny Escalant says. “Basically our motto is, if you’ve had a childhood from the last 60 years, we got something for you,” Chris Dunn, owner of the Palo Alto and Campbell Rocket Fizz shops says.Īs a modern day teenager, I can’t say that I used to eat these candies, but I do imagine that many adults would be happy to see their old favorites.Īlong with the retro smorgasbord, Rocket Fizz proves itself as a retro-themed candy shop with walls plastered with tin replicas of 50s art. The first thing visible upon walking in the store is retro candy, stocked with popular candy from the 40s to 60s, like the Charleston Chew, a chocolate-covered nougat bar, or the Abba-zaba, a chewy taffy. a week before Christmas, for a good 30 minutes - not because I wasn’t able to make a good decision but because I found the sheer diversity at Rocket Fizz overwhelming. I was wandering around Palo Alto Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop, which opened on University Ave. I smile with relief, glad that to finally choose something to purchase. They actually created bacon flavored soda. sugar crash, but they’ve probably got something for that, too.Bacon Soda. OK, maybe not, but for a lunchtime pick-me-up, head over to Rocket Fizz. (The only thing the store has apparently had trouble tracking down is imported sweets.) Hell, they even distribute a pre-nostalgic soda flavor named for another pop culture heartthrob we’ll one day remember fondly. Remember that soda you could only get near your grandmother’s house in upstate New York? Or that taffy from your childhood summer camp that you can still sort of taste? They’ve got it, and then some: Zotz, Pop Rocks, Lik-M-Aid, Charleston Chew, even the banned-by-the-PC-police candy cigarettes. The place is literally floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall with soda, candy, and other Rockwellian artifacts such as vintage signs and comic book figurines, a staggering array that will inspire you to reflect on gauzy memories of bygone years-and inspire your cardiologist and dentist to exchange gleeful high-fives. Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop-AKA, The Place Where I Will Someday Be Buried-opened its doors a few months ago with the mission of providing two things Americans can’t get enough of: sugar and nostalgia. That's only $1 per issue! Subscribe Today »
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