Food of the Seventies, Milky Bites
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I remember Milky Bites from the late 60's, early 70's. Basically a small raspberry jelly bar covered with milk chocolate ... I don't remember the maunufacturer ... possibly knickerbocker? The jelly was comparable to that used in kosher chocolate covered jellu rings.
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I used to get the jelly bars in New York.They were delectable.They were about 2 inches long chubby and had jelly in them.Have you found anything like them.Yes they were by knickerbockers.That is how I just looked them up and got to your site.
must find these candies, use to have them in New York. My search took me to this sight. Any info on this candy would be great. Havent found a good substitute yet.
i think they were called royal knickerbocker jellies. they were covered in a purple aluminum outside and the other side of the wrapper was paper. they cost 2 or 3 cents.
I have been searching for Knickerbocker Royal Jellies for 30 yrs. They must have gone out of business. The closest I have found so far are Dark Chocolate coveried raspberry jellies from Al Richards Chocolates located in Bayonne, NJ
Knickerbocker candies NYC NY has been out of business from the early 80's. They were located on Canal St. at the intersection of West Broadway. They ware missed.
I bought them on the corner of 8th & brooks Manville NJ in the 70's
That was my grandpa who made them.
I bought milky bites at the Coney Island restaurant in Perth Amboy, NJ in the early 1960's. Wish I knew where I could buy them today.
My uncle always brought us Knickerbocker raspberry covered chocolates when I was a little kid in Kingston, NY. He had a candy store and sold them there. Seventy years later I still long for one of those sweet treats!
OMG! My Father would bring a box of knickerbockers home and keep them in the frig. As a child, I thought the color of the foil was so pretty! I wish, I could see again a picture of the wrapper. jl, you posted that your grandpa made them? Perhaps, you may have a picture of this great tasting candy?
we called them knickerbocker jelly rolls.
We got them from Pals in Pequannock, NJ. They were the BEST!
I remember those "jelly bars" so well. They were only wrapped during the summer months, to offer some protection from the hot weather. According to a local business who did distribute the product, the company is long gone. It truly was a delicious product!
Knickerbocker was by far one of the best candies of the past, they remind me of a wonderful era in the Bronx and North Jersey. Attention to the heirs of this wonderful company, please bring them back, I am sure they will sell very well with original recipe. Not many of the other companies are just not as satisfying. It was one of those candies well worth the calories. Come Back Knickerbocker !!!
It was in fact my "grandpa" Antonio Di Filippo,who made and ran Knickerbocker candy.
WOW!...so good to know that others remember my favorite candy from long ago.I lived in NJ and grandparents kept them "hidden" down cellar in the rafters...miss them!...and the candy, too!
ive been looking for milky bites for a long time .i use to buy four or five at a time they were only a nickel back then.i liked them a lot i have bought everything that has come close to the taste .that were my favorite candy lived in paterson,n.j.back in the late 40s early 50s.
wow..i'm soo glad to see others remember knickerbockers.. I used to get them in Kearny,NJ.seems like I'm the only one in my family that remembers them.the chocolate covered raspberry jelly candy today ain't quite as good
worked at Sidoroffs liquor/deli in jersey city in the 70's, always a favorite of mine.
Be still my dark choc raspberry jelly heart !!!!! Have long fantasized of these memorable delights. 2cts a piece at Irv Silvermans newsstand in E. Rutherford circa 1960's - 1973 prior to my having moved out of state. NOTHING has quite replaced such a taste sensation. NOT even my own attempts at recreation has slaked my desire !!!!! Tis unfair
I used to get a Quarter from my Mother and get 10 Knickerbocker "Jellies" and a Yoo Hoo from Kazies on Wilson Ave. in Newark N, J. on my way home from school 1971 1972
I used to buy Knickerbocker Jelly rolls as a child and the closest you can buy now are the Jell Rings made by Joyva in Brooklyn, NY.
I used to get Knickerbockers in Brooklyn and Queens as a kid in the late 50s-early 60s. We'd go 'sewer fishing' and take our few coins to the candy store for them. We were poor, but thinking about those candies stir up some great memories. Closest you can get now is the Joyva Jelly Bars. They have a website that isn't maintained, but there's a phone number to contact them.
I sure do remember Knickerbocker jellies. You could get them at Dave's candy store in the 50's for two cents each. He also had a swankier jelly candy in the glass case two for a nickel. My father found the motherload of Knickerbockers on Canal St. in Manhattan and brought home a giant box. Tony, was Canal St. where the factory was? Trader Joe sells very similar jelly candy, at least they used to.
I was born in NYC in 1946. I lived on 8th St. by Thompkins Square Pk. My best memory is of that candy! I do enjoy the Joyva jelly rings but I don't know why they have to use dark chocolate, milk chocolate is so much better!!!
MY RECOLLECTION OF KNICKERBOCKER JELLY ROYALS. THEY WERE SOLD INDIVDUALLY AT.02CENTS EACH AND 3 FOR .05 CENTS......THEY WERE IN RED BOX WITH A CELLOPHANE LID THAT WOULD HINGE UPWARD SO YOU COULD SERVE YOUR SELF OR THE MAN BEHIND THE COUNTER WOULD SERVE YOU
Sure miss those little Mom and Pop candy stores...they carried everything...wish somebody would start making them again...all that money in NYC...it would be a Goldmine...
Yes, my dad would send me to the candy store on the corner of Jamaica Avenue and 212 street in Queens Village in the late 60's to buy a few Royal Jellies in the purple wrapper. Delicious! That candy store had everything!
Glad I fund this site. Those Knickerbocker Jellies were fantastic! For a while in the late 50s/early 60s I couldn't find then I was in a candy store one day and there they were! I bought several whole boxes over the next year or two. Others came close but not as good. Please bring them back!!
Yes the Knickerbocker factory was in one of those very old buildings on the north side of west Canal Street and that's where my father would stop off on the way home from work to buy a whole big box full. I used to savor them. I liked to nibble off the outside layer of chocolate first, tho sometimes I'd just munch down on them.
My dad was a NYC firefighter near the Knickerbocker factory, and would bring home boxes of the raspberry jellies sometimes. I STILL crave them, and there is nothing that comes close. Nothing. They were perfection. Not squishy, no artificial chemical-y taste - just simply perfect.
Oh wow you got them too, Maryanne! Have u tried the Trader Joes chocolate covered jellies?.
Tony I wish your family had kept them alive. As you can see in the posts nothing compares to them and also I am not the only one missing them. My relatives would send them to me in Florida after we moved.What a wonderful memory for you! You should be very proud of your grandpa for touching so many lives.
Knickerbocker jellies were originally 2 cents in the early 60's when they started wrapping them the price went to 3 cents. My grandfather had the company's local trucking contract. We always had a box in the fridge. In the mid to late 60's they started making them in flat retangular bars. I don't remember when but Knickerbocker sold the receipe for them to Joyva which changed the shape to rings that are still sold today. Joyva is in the bushwick section of Brooklyn, n.y.
try Sweets brand chocolate covered jelly sticks. they have cherry, raspberry and orange and dark chocolate kinds
Loved em...Try Joyva Ring Jells ,closest thing. https://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-205603-joyva-ring-jells-chocolate-covered-jelly-rings-9-oz
Mary Miller, my wife Cathy (Hainer) grew up in Kingston and was just fondly remembering milky bites. Was your uncle’s store called Rutzie’s or similar? That’s where she got em.
Milky Bites and Knickerbocker Royals were different. The Royals had more jelly. I preferred the Bites. The closest I've found today is Godiva raspberry filled chocolate bar - pricey tho.
my Great Uncle, Charles F. Chamberlaine worked at Knickerbocker in NYC. I believe they sold to Nestle?I would love any information!!!
There is a home made chocolate shop in Fairview NJ that makes something similar. Krauses candy. A little expensive but totally delicious82Q
Love them. In the 1960s my father would bring them home by the box. The box said they were two cents each. I get something similar from Hanna Krause in Paramus NJ with a choice of dark/milk chocolate. Delicious. This candy brings back great memories.
good to know im not crazy!they did exist! % cents yes ate them when i was a kid but i think wrapper was gold & red?5 cents which was alot since we stil had penny candys & seems u can but more!LOL
My mom Isabel Fitzpatrick would buy these from Cherney’s store in Kingston NY. They were soooo good. Great memory. Wish they still make them. The closest I found is Krause candy in Saugerties that make raspberry jelly covered in chocolate.
I remember the Knickerbocker Bars. I grew up on Clinton Ave. and then Cedar St. in Kingston, NY and there was a small store near the intersection of those two streets originally owned by the Zacheo’s and later by another family I can’t remember the name of but I believe her first name was Ruth. I used to get the Knickerbocker bars and another candy named a Royal bar that was similar to the Milky Way bars. Great memories.
Used to have a ritual when I was a kid, in the Bronx. I'd go to the candy store down the block... sit at the counter & get a chocolate egg cream. When I was done, I'd pay & buy a few Jelly Royals. Now, Knickerbocker is defunct, as well as the Diamond chocolate syrup that was used in the egg creams. I have to settle for Joyva & U-Bet now.
Jelly Royals... OMG! I grew up in Greenwich Village in the 50s. A little green wooden stand/store on was on Macdougal by 3rd Street carried them. These gifts from the gods were in a hinged cardboard box, hundreds in each. ABSOLUTELY THE BEST!
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