some of the school kids had beaten them there-clusters of boys and girls grazing the hundreds of glass jars filled with gumballs , spree , sweet tarts , pixy stix , cry baby bubble gum , jolly ranchers , jawbreakers , mandm 's , starburst , pez , skittles , sour patch kids , nerds , smarties , atomic fireballs-no staple of teeth-rotting goodness absent from the collection .