"Candy" "Here is Mark Street." "And here is Hjalmar Bue and Hurri-Harry." "Of all the foods that existed in the world, very few had the honour of being called candy." "Not even the blue plums in the gardens of those who didn't have dogs was considered candy." "Not even the fresh Wittenberger bread was candy." "Not even bananas." "Because bananas has to be picked, and those you need to pick, they are not candy." "For a while the kids in Mark Street thought that there was one type of candy that you could pick." "That was the coconut." "Then Hurri-Harry's father came off a ship." "The day after, Hurri-Harry had a coconut." "A hairy, brown coconut." "It was their biggest disappointment to date in their young lives." "Nothing of this could be called candy." "Not the cookie remains." "A huge bag full of cookies for only 25 cents." "There was another shop in that street." "They didn't carry cookie remains, coconuts, plums or bananas." "In all the drawers and all the jars, on all the shelves from top to bottom they had nothing but candy and more candy." "All the sweet, mild, sour and sticky candy that a child can desire." "Boxes of chocolate, chocolate beans, chocolate balls, chocolate boats chocolate mouse, banana chocolate, chocolate nut, milk chocolate, chocolate biscuits, licorice, lollipops, mascipan, caramels, bubble gums, jelly men, bob-bons in any colour possible, and "The King of Denmark" in a bag." "You're a good boy, running errands for an old lady." "Here's 25 cents but don't go running to the candy store." "The candy gives you cavities, you know that." "Cavities were serious business." "That meant staying in that leather chair for an eternity." "It was that long sharp needle." "The slow drilling and The Punisher breathing down on you with a sickening perfumed smell of tobacco." "It kept you awake at night and made you pray." "But not even the thought of The Punisher and her breath - ...could keep a kid away from Mark Street." "Not a ton of amalgam." "Hard candy, the king of candy." "First you had to lick the paper off and then you could make everyone else in the street envious because it could last for hours." "Of all the candy there was, only one could measure up to hard candy." "That was the bubble gum." "When they shut the lights in hall 5 in the cinema when the first episode of "Zorro's Revenge" was on, Hjalmar Bue, Hurri-Harry and Pivien and all the others never got to see it through because the sound from the gums was so loud that they turned on the lights." "If you don't stop that popping I will stop the film." "Hundreds of kids stood outside for more than half an hour until two cop cars full of cops chased them home, at least 12 years before the student revolts." "At home they put the chewing gum in a glass of sugar water so that it would be fresh and nice for a new day's tussle."