What discontinued foods do you miss?

[Danmel]

I loved a dessert called Fruit Float, and my son loved chocolate chip Thomas' toaster cakes. What taste o childhood do you miss?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Not a childhood food, but I used to be able to buy canned gazpacho soup

that was pretty good and that I enjoyed in hot weather. I don't remember the brand name, but I can't seem to find it or anything like it anywhere.

[ailsagirl]

2. Laura Scudder Potato Chips, for one...

Remember? "The noisiest chips in the world."

They made wonderful BBQ chips but, alas, no more.

Oh, also Almond Cluster, a heavenly chocolate bar made by Peter Paul. Discontinued, for some reason.
And yet, Mounds are still around (ick)

[Capt.Rocky300]

35. Me too. Charlie Scudder lived across the street from us.....

Laura had passed on and he'd sold the company to Pet Milk when we moved in. Despite his fabulous wealth, he was one of the nicest and down to earth people I've ever met.

They'd started the company during the depression. Charlie worked climbing phone poles for a utility company and Laura made the chips. When he was off work he'd sell the chips door to door. Very humble beginnings and he never forgot where he came from. I was disappointed when he moved away.

[ailsagirl]

48. Well, this is very interesting!

Thanks for the history! I wasn't sure if Laura Scudder was a real person or else a fake one (like Betty
Crocker). So I looked up Laura Scudder and... guess what? They are selling their potato chips online!

Check it out

http://laurascudders.com/products/potato-chips/laura-scudder-s-bbq-potato-chips

I hope they are using the same "excellent blend of herbs and spices," because their BBQ'd chips were
unsurpassed!

The only thing is, you have to buy at least one case of them but, hey, I can handle that!!

[Capt.Rocky300]

52. Interesting. Thanks for the link.....

it sounds like an independent operation now. I thought it was Pet Milk but Wiki says Borden's bought them out. What can I say, it was 50+ years ago I knew Charlie. Nowadays I'm lucky to remember my own name.

[ailsagirl]

53. I know what you mean

For some reason, I thought they were from the East-- didn't know they're from my own state!

[mackerel]

85. I remember they also had dip mix that was pretty good.

[ailsagirl]

86. Here ya go!!

http://laurascudders.com/products/dry-dip-mixes

[BlueJazz]

3. Almond clusters. Loved them.

[ailsagirl]

66. They were delicious!

And for some crazy reason, they were pulled. Grrr....

[BlueJazz]

71. There are only two tragedies in life: Both of them involve not getting an Almond Cluster.

[ailsagirl]

82. Hah!!!

Very amusing-- it gave me my first laugh of the day!!
Mr. Oscar Wilde would have applauded

[Adsos Letter]

4. Turkish Taffy

Haven't seen it in our stores in years.

[seaglass]

21. This is where we go for hard-to-find candy. They do have Bonomo Turkish Taffy if that's the kind

you like:

http://www.yummies.com/search.htm?searchterm=turkish+taffy&searchmode=any&s_category=0&s_vendor=&oper=lt&searchprice=&DoSearch=Show+Matches&numresults=10&viewfrom=1&step=2

[Adsos Letter]

24. Thanks!

That's the stuff!

[seaglass]

25. I like it too, bought some a few years ago - it is not good for fillings! :-)

[elleng]

33. I SAW it somewhere recently!!!

Was a fave, but restrained myself due to effect on fillings and cavities!

[mak3cats]

57. This catalog/website has lots of old-fashioned items, including candy...

...it's a walk down memory lane for anyone over 50.

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/store/?searchid=7SPDBRND&feedid=googlebrand&adpos=1t1&creative=76461336138&device=c&matchtype=e&network=g&gclid=COaurvqOqscCFUQSHwodnpIBzA

[Adsos Letter]

69. Lots of familiar candies in that catalog.

Reeds Butterscotch and Root Beer hard candies! GAH!

[Arugula Latte]

5. Loved this stuff back in the 70s:

God knows how many chemicals were in it, but it was delicious to us back then. The chocolate shell hardened like magic.

[Danmel]

7. Jell-o also made jell-o 1-2-3

Which you mixed in a blender and separated into three different layers. It was really good.

[DawgHouse]

120. I still make this with Jello and Coolwhip

All you need is a blender.

http://www.food.com/recipe/jell-o-1-2-3-dessert-295804

[Danmel]

122. Thanks for the recipe

Does it separate into layers??

[DawgHouse]

123. Yes it does!

[Danmel]

125. Oooooh

I feel a dessert coming on!! Thanks!

[DawgHouse]

126. It seems to me that the "old" packaging by Jello

was basically Jello gelatin and probably Dream Whip (remember that powdered stuff?)

Anyway this recipe with Jello and Cool Whip was on a box of Jello I recently bought too so I guess Jello fans must have been requesting the old 1-2-3.

[PasadenaTrudy]

44. I remember this! n/t

[jmowreader]

80. Just because they don't sell it packaged doesn't mean you can't have it

Go to any Michaels store and buy a bag of Candy Melts. Chop them up fine. Make a batch of cooked pudding and put it in serving glasses, then sprinkle a couple tablespoons of chocolate on the hot pudding. It will melt, then turn hard when the pudding cools in the fridge.

[olddots]

6. Moxie

a very strange carbonated beverage and a catch phrase at Mad Magazine .

[RandiFan1290]

8. You can still buy Moxie

http://www.sodafinder.com/

[sarge43]

11. Come to New England. It's everywhere.

Even diet Mox

[Tom Kitten]

96. Moxie is still around!

Maybe more available than ever. You used to only find it in New England, but now the store at the local gas station sells it. And I live in Oregon!

[Paulie]

9. M&M Royals

Mint M&M are not the same. The Royals were amazing!

[handmade34]

10. watermelon with seeds...

kids can no more experience the joy of spitting watermelon seeds

[benld74]

20. I never spit the seeds, especially after mom told me I'd grow a melon in my belly

[jmowreader]

79. They still have seeded watermelon...have to, in fact

Seedless watermelon plants don't make pollen, so a field of seedless watermelon has to be set with about a third seeded melons. I would guess most of the seeded ones go to flavor factories.

[BainsBane]

111. Seedless isn't as flavorful either.

[u4ic]

116. Exactly

I found seeded watermelon a few years ago and marvelled at how sweet the taste was. Haven't seen it since. The seedless variety just doesn't compare.

[Codeine]

124. Not hard to find regular watermelons. nt

[LWolf]

131. YES.

Except that I didn't spit them; I ate them, happily crunching them up.

[handmade34]

144. me too

always ate them...

http://www.livestrong.com/article/24243-health-benefits-watermelon-seeds/

I was referring to the stereotypical kids sitting on the stoop and turning the seed spitting into a contest…

or adults…

[Fix The Stupid]

12. "Snackin Cakes" n/t

[Danmel]

14. I loved those

Especially the banana one.

[ailsagirl]

59. Now they have "dump cakes"

I'm sorry, but that name is really weird!!

[DawgHouse]

137. Loved these!

[Paladin]

13. Delaware Punch. (nt)

[Adsos Letter]

23. Yes!

[Major Nikon]

15. Billy Beer

[femmocrat]

16. Mr. Salty Pretzel Sticks

[ghostsinthemachine]

133. YEP.

Just came here to post that one.

[BarbaRosa]

17. Campbell's Fiesta Chili Beef Soup

[Aristus]

18. Koogle. Non-peanut-flavored peanut butters.

[PasadenaTrudy]

43. Trader Joe's

has some similar spreads, like cookie dough.

[Brother Buzz]

19. Hydrox Cookies

[KamaAina]

26. To the joy of all Baltimore, Hydrox is poised for a comeback

Oreos never did gain any traction in Charm City until the ax fell on Hydrox.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027035689#post22

[Brother Buzz]

28. Cool beans!

Here's hoping they make it to the West Coast SOON!

[murielm99]

105. I hope they have not changed the recipe.

Some of these things don't taste the same any more.

My husband used to love Chips Ahoy cookies. The use HFCs now instead of sugar. He hates them.

Hershey's kisses and World's Finest Chocolate candy bars don't taste right, either.

I will eat Hydrox if they taste right.

[ailsagirl]

49. I liked them better than Oreos. Well, look at this!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/05/11/hydrox-leaf-brands-oreo-mondelez/8896377/

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. A few menu items for various restaurants:

The Bacon Cheeseburger Burrito from Taco Bell

Carolina style Baby Back Ribs from Chili's

And most notably, the Wendy's Superbar (a thing of dreams...an all you can eat buffet featuring a pasta bar, taco bar and salad bar):

[Snobblevitch]

29. I know of a Wendy's restaurant that had the superbar.

There was a nurse's convention across the highway. Many of the nurses are lunch at the superbar. About 50 of them got ill from listeria. That Wendy's restaurant closed about 6 months later due to lack of sales.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

30. Always a concern with buffets.

But as an eight year old kid, all I saw was all the food I could eat at a Wendy's.

They had "garlic bread" which was really nothing other than a half of a fried hamburger bun, but damn did I eat a lot of those.

[Snobblevitch]

50. I happened to know the owner of that Wendy's.

He was an asshole, so I didn't eat there too much. (It was a small town the next nearest Wendy's was an hour away.)

[SusanaMontana41]

34. Oh, yeah. Good one! eom

[U4ikLefty]

62. Jack in the Box had a Hot Ham & Cheese sandwich in the 80's

that was real good.

[mak3cats]

63. I need to get off this thread, because I'm drooling here!

I was just thinking of Shoney's Slim Jim sandwich, which was the same thing. (My first "real" job was waiting tables at a Shoney's in New Orleans.) Michigan still has Big Boy restaurants - I think they still have them.

[MattSh]

27. Not exactly childhood, but...

Eagle Snacks Potato Chips, especially the Jalapeño Cheddar Chips.

They had others too, which I can't remember right now.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

31. Chocola

I used to spend a big hunk of my paper route money drinking that stuff. It's probably been at least 25 years since I've seen it around anywhere I've been.

[JCMach1]

32. Crystal Pepsi...

and those Bac-o Chips that tasted like bacon

[recycled60]

36. candy cigarettes

been missing them for decades

[shenmue]

47. They have them at a place called Candy Barrel

Near Tampa, Florida.

[msanthrope]

98. Mueller Chocolates in the Reading Terminal Market in Philly. They still 'smoke' the powdered

sugar if you do it right.....

[RushIsRot]

37. Penrose Pickled Sausages and

Campbell's Noodles and Ground Beef soup.

[OriginalGeek]

38. i might commit murder to get Morrison's back

OR I guess I could visit Indiana more and go to Gray Brothers which is every bit as good but soooooooo far away...

[Throd]

39. Slice lemon lime soda

The mandarin orange was really good too.

[DawgHouse]

142. How long has this been gone?

A friend of mine used to bring a can with her when we went out so she could have her Slice Lemon/Lime and vodka.

[Throd]

146. At least 10 years. I used it for the exact same reason!

It had a much better taste than Sprite or 7Up.

[Laffy Kat]

40. Ding Dongs.

I would come home from school and have two Ding Dongs and a cold glass of milk.

Also, Cloves gum. I used to be able to load up at Cracker Barrel but they finally stopped manufacturing it altogether. Oddly, I never cared for any other gum, just the Cloves.

[recycled60]

104. Now you're talking!!!!

[pinboy3niner]

41. Doughnuts and chocolate eclairs from L.A.'s old Helms Bakery trucks

The trucks drove around the neighborhoods of L.A. and Orange County like ice cream trucks do, sounding a distinctive whistle.

[Brother Buzz]

45. Woah, that lower right hand drawer was, like, eight hundred feet long and full of DONUTS!

Glazed donuts six cents a pop! The panel truck visiting our neighborhood was a Colonial® bakery truck, but it was the same color and had the same interior casework. That lower right hand drawer was the mother load.

[shanti]

84. omigosh, yes

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in the 60's, OC. especially popular on weekends or summer vacations, with the donuts, yum!

[pinboy3niner]

91. Same time frame here, but in the San Fernando Valley

I visited the Helms plant a couple of times and I won a $100 journalism scholarship in a sportswriting competition co-sponsored by Helms and the old LA. Herald-Examiner. We had to lug our portable typewrites up to the press box at the Rose Bowl stadium and cover a UCLA-Michigan game. I missed the awards banquet and never collected the scholarship, but I was pleased to win one of the prizes, especially since I'd never written a sports story before and I knew nothing about the teams and players before I boned up for the competition.

But I can't help having the sneaking suspicion that Helms detectives investigated me, discovered my passion for their bakery truck doughnuts and eclairs, and slipped in some bonus points.

[PasadenaTrudy]

42. Van deKamp Bakery

They used to make this fresh two-layer yellow cake with chocolate walnut frosting. This was when I was a kid in the 1970s. I love yellow cake/choco. frosting. Never see this combo. No, I'm not going to bake one myself!

[KT2000]

162. ever try their salt rising bread?

They made it and it was really good. Never found anyone else who made it.

[PasadenaTrudy]

166. No, don't remember that

Sounds good though!

[shenmue]

46. Carnation breakfast bars

Very salty, thin, large granola squares, coated in chocolate.

[arcane1]

51. Fearnow's Brunswick Stew still exists back east, and my mom ships it to me, but it's gone downhill

It's still fun to get a few cans sent to me for Christmas though

[ailsagirl]

54. Remember those fizzy tablets that were like Alka Seltzer only flavored?

Maybe they were called Fizzies. We used to drink that crap!!
And I don't miss it.

[mak3cats]

55. Fizzies! I do miss them...

...we had them on our summer trailer trips, and drank the beverage out of those anodized metal cups (unbreakable for a family with 8 kids). Good times!

A question, though: What the hell in this thread did someone find offensive enough to alert on???

[ailsagirl]

58. Someone alerted on this thread?

Good question! I haven't read each and every reply but...

[ailsagirl]

60. No offense about the Fizzies!

I remember they had a cola flavor that didn't taste anything like coke.

[mak3cats]

61. You are absolutely right, but the orange was good!

Rather like the way I remember Orange Crush (we didn't get pop when I was a kid, except at the holidays). Of course, my taste buds aren't what they used to be, especially with the fact I'm too stupid to quit smoking...

[ailsagirl]

90. Stop that smoking, please!!

I used to many years ago-- you can too
(sorry-- mother hen here)

[shanti]

83. ha! i was just going to say fizzies

until i saw your post! last time i ate them was 1969. i remember when they were made with SUGAR, we would eat them like candy, not for a drink. my sis sent me some, but they were artificially sweetened and impossible to eat (or drink, imo). of course, i couldn't eat them now, but the memories...

[MicaelS]

56. A soft drink called Potomac.

Sold in Texas back in the 1960s / 1970s. I am pretty sure it was just an Apple Beer, but it tasted great.

[virtualobserver]

64. Sundance Kiwi Lime soda, and Sundance cranberry soda

they were the best

[Lydia Leftcoast]

65. Hires Root Beer

There used to be a restaurant in my neighborhood that was decorated with vintage Coca Cola and other soft drink signs, and they also had a Hires Root Beer sign. I asked if they actually served Hires, and the woman at the counter said that they didn't but that she was surprised at how many people asked that question.

[DebJ]

148. I loved Hires. And it didn't have added caffeine. n/t

[Contrary1]

67. Some company, maybe Chesty?

used to make a snack that consisted of two thin wafer type chips, with a cheddar cheese filling. I really loved these as a kid back in the 60's.

Anybody here old enough to remember them?

[femmocrat]

76. Was it Old London Cheez Waffles?

They also came in blue cheese flavor. I remember them from when I was a kid.

[pinboy3niner]

95. They used to come in a tubular container, like Pringles

I couldn't remember the snack name or brand, but a quick check on the net indicates that Old London was the original popular version, with the snack name later licensed to Wise (though other companies market their own versions under their own snack names).

Checking my supermarket's snack aisle today, I couldn't find anything like it. But I was cross-eyed just halfway through my search, so I could have missed something.

[laundry_queen]

68. Not sure this was in the US

but it was discontinued here in Canada quite a few months ago (I wanna say 7-9?).
Philadelphia cream cheese chip dips, garlic flavor.

It's literally the ONLY chip dip I like and have liked since childhood. I've tried dozens since. Nope, ew.

I was so upset I even wrote the company. They didn't even offer a coupon for me to try some of their other flavors. Just, "aw, sorry, we discontinued it, it's too bad that you liked it."

I miss it. I used to indulge once every couple of months or so. I haven't enjoyed chips and dip since. *sigh*

Any links to clone recipes are very welcome, LOL.

[Arugula Latte]

81. This seems pretty easy:

http://www.food.com/recipe/cream-cheese-garlic-dip-97752

[TexasBushwhacker]

92. Laughing Cow cheese makes a Garlic & Herb flavor

Pretty tasty. Roasted garlic hummus is good too.

[pinboy3niner]

97. Laughing Cow is good, but pricey

Same with the Kaukama chese spreads. Luckily, cheeses are often on sale at the supermarkets, including Laughing Cow. I picked up a smoked cheese with my supermarket's label today. Haven't tried it yet, but it's probably good.

[TexasBushwhacker]

99. Yes, I stock up when it's on sale n/t

[Wolf Frankula]

70. Perky Fruit Pies

.

They were more expensive than Hostess, but were much better.

Wolf

[BlueCollar]

72. doggie diner hotdogs

And fries.

They should never have been allowed to go out of business

[Art_from_Ark]

73. Sunshine Yum-yums

Sergeant Toppit whipped cream
Jungle Juice fruit punch
Space Food Sticks
Funny Face drink mixes
Kitty Clover potato chips

[DawgHouse]

121. My earliest memory is about Yum Yums!

My parents went into the grocery store and left me and my twin brother in the car. We couldn't go in because we had chicken pox so they left us sitting in the back seat with a blanket wrapped around us. My older brother was in the front seat. Times were different then and parents weren't so concerned about kidnapping, I guess.

So we waited, and I remember my Dad came out and passed a box of Yum Yums through the back window to me and my brother. I told my Mom about this memory and she said, "I can't believe you remember! Ya'll were TWO when you had the chicken pox!"

THEY ARE THAT GOOD!

[Art_from_Ark]

135. Yum Yums were great

Unfortunately, I haven't seen any since about 1970 or so.

[DawgHouse]

136. Seems like I ran across them when I moved to Orlando

in 95 but I haven't seen them in a long, long time, either.

The Girl Scout cookie Caramel deLites aka Samoas (depending on region) are just about the same as Yum Yums.

Also this Kebbler cookie, is close but nothing will match Yum Yums because I am sure in the 70's they used different ingredients and it was a much smaller bakery operation.

https://www.keebler.com/en_US/cookies-and-more/fudge-shoppe/coconut-dreams-cookies.html

[Art_from_Ark]

147. I remember only one grocery store in my town stocking Yum Yums

That was the Warehouse Market, which was a veritable treasurehouse of hard-to-find food items and wacky related products. They not only had Yum Yums, but also candy cigarettes, Bazooka bubblegum (save comics to send in for "prizes&quot , Pixie sticks and the apparently very short-lived Sergeant Toppit whipped cream. They were also the only place in town that sold Odd Rods bubblegum cards, which featured the craziest cars imaginable.



Unfortunately, they closed down in 1970 or 71.

[raccoon]

74. Date Bar--a mix that made a great dessert. Not sure if it was Betty Crocker

or General Mills, but it was a great loss.

Why do the manufacturers quit making good stuff????

[Ino]

75. Jack in the Box bean burritos (nt)

[JimDandy]

77. Canned Plums.

Haven't been able to find them in any store for years. Wonder why there are fresh ones in stores, but never canned? The canned ones are so sweet.

[noamnety]

114. Aldi sells them.

Not helpful if you don't have an aldi store around, of course.

[JimDandy]

118. No Aldi here. Good that they are still being canning somewhere. n/t

[Frank Cannon]

78. Buc Wheats Cereal

The maple flavored kind. I seem to recall it disappeared during the first Bush administration. Another reason I hate that fucking family.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

87. I loved Gaucho cookies when I was a kid in the 1950s

Peanut butter creme between two peanut butter cookies.

[TexasBushwhacker]

93. Those look a lot like Girl Scout Cookies

Peanut Butter sandwich cookies. They're rather dry, which them especially good with some nice cold milk.

[DawgHouse]

139. Yeah, they do look the same.

The GS cookies are actually a crunchy oatmeal cookie with pb cream in the center. These are my favorite GS cookie.

http://wwwl.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/meet_the_cookies.asp#mtc_dopb

[Special Prosciuto]

88. TANG, Pop-Tarts, and wagon wheel pasta.

[Danmel]

89. Colavita makes wagon wheels

I buy them all the time-they really remind me of my childhood, my mom made them for us, we loved them!

[TexasBushwhacker]

94. You can still get all of those

The wagon wheel pasta is called "rotelle". Barilla even makes a mini rotelle.

[DebJ]

149. You are in quite a unique, select class.

I never met anyone who liked Tang. Ever.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

169. Tang and vodka works!

[DebJ]

171. Oh, now I see, LOL! I was so turned off by that orange water as a child it never occurred to me

that an adult would touch the stuff. Mom might have watered it down, too, I dunno.

[kcass1954]

100. I'd kill for some Screaming Yellow Zonkers.

[KamaAina]

106. Maybe they still have them in Screaming Zellow Yonkers.

[catbyte]

109. They sell them at Walgreens in Grand Rapids, MI. I kid you not.

[kcass1954]

112. Every couple of years or so, I find them in Big Lots.

Gotta check the dates carefully there, though.

[Homer Wells]

101. Seven-Up candy bars

They were like a Whitman sampler in bar form. Seven different segments all covered in milk chocolate. Miss 'em muchly!

[DawgHouse]

140. Oh man, yes! Forgot about those!

[valerief]

102. Non-GMO tomatoes. nt

[Jamaal510]

103. Hostess Tiger Tails,

strawberry-flavored Honeycomb, and Trix cereal with the fruit shapes (instead of puffs).

[TeamPooka]

107. a candy bar called the Marathon Bar. Chocolate and caramel. nt

[DawgHouse]

138. Marathon John!

I remember! (That's John Wayne's son, Patrick)

[TeamPooka]

143. yes!

[KMOD]

108. Mike's Giant Submarines and Neba Roast Beef.

[BainsBane]

110. Dove Delights

the raspberry ones.

[LiberalEsto]

113. Bosco

I loved it back in the early 1960s, before they started using high fructose corn syrup. My mom wouldn't buy it, but they put jars of Bosco on the table at summer camp. We loved mixing it into Cream of Wheat to make it barely palatable.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

153. "I love Bosco, that's the drink for me...

Bosco gives me _____ and Sunshine Vitamin D.
Mama puts it in my milk for extra energy
I love Bosco, that's the drink for me!"

It's about the only Bosco commercial that ISN'T on YouTube.

[HeiressofBickworth]

115. I don't remember the brand name

but when I was a teen (1960's) my mother would send me to the store to buy frozen ham & cheese sandwiches on French rolls. They came 4 to a box, individually wrapped in foil. You then bake them with their foil wrapper still on. The cheese melted until it was all one gooie mess. They were "fast food" in our house. I liked them. Haven't seen them since.

There was a bread that was just wonderful Gai's French Bread. Very crispy on the outside and soft as a cloud on the inside. It was a local company which operated from 1941 to 1993 when it merged with another bakery. The bread was never the same. I've never found a satisfactory replacement.

I think a lot of the items mentioned in this thread were the victims of corporate mergers/acquisitions or simply driven out of business by national brands. Locally produced treats were absorbed by corporations who, in order to increase profits, changed the recipes to cheaper ingredients. They lost their old fans, but the younger ones never knew the difference so they continued to purchase the items.

[suffragette]

163. Gai's french bread was great.

I miss hard rolls as well.

I remember those ham & cheese sandwiches, too! They were a big treat to us.

[Art_from_Ark]

117. Brach's candies

Supermarkets in my town in the '60s used to have bins of Brach's candies near the checkout counter, where you could fill a bag with as many candies as you wanted-- mix or match-- and pay by the pound. My favorite was the coconut candy. And if memory serves correctly, it looked like a miniature carton of Neopolitan ice cream.

[DryHump]

119. Space Food Sticks n/t

[Capt. Obvious]

127. Sour Cream & Onion Doritos

They made a limited time comeback a few years ago.

[DawgHouse]

141. Do you remember "Plain" Doritoes, just regular tortilla chips?

They were good. Maybe they are still in the market in some areas but I haven't seen them in 20 years at least.

[Capt. Obvious]

151. The original taco flavor?

[DawgHouse]

152. No, but I remember the original taco flavored ones, too.

They were really good, much better than today, IMO. First they had a regular "Corn" Dorito chip, then they introduced the Taco flavored and later Nacho Cheese.

My brothers and I were always fighting over the Taco doritos.

I was curious about the plain Doritos because I actually have some recipes from the 70's that specify "Plain Doritos".

From Wiki: Doritos are sold in many countries worldwide in assorted flavors. They launched nationally in the United States in 1967,[14] and proved successful, but additional market research revealed that many consumers outside the Southwest and West considered the chip to be too bland—not spicy enough for what was perceived as a Mexican snack. Frito-Lay therefore developed taco-flavored Doritos, which were introduced nationally in 1968 and were a tremendous success. Four years later, national distribution began of nacho cheese-flavored Doritos, which were also a hit, and for a short run at the end of the 1970s, the Sour Cream and Onion flavored chips were available, but were discontinued in the early 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doritos#History

[ailsagirl]

157. I asked someone about the plain Doritos...

and he said they weren't being made anymore.

What a drag! That's all I'd like would be a bag of the original Doritos.

[DawgHouse]

159. Rats!

[ailsagirl]

160. I asked the guy who stocks markets with chips...

and some of the chips were Doritos, so I figured he knew whereof he spoke

It's just like vanilla ice cream-- it's the preferred flavor yet ice cream companies come up with the
most outlandish flavors that they probably couldn't GIVE away. At least they're "smart" enough
not to discontinue vanilla.

This to Doritos:

I mean, fine-- experiment with new flavors, but DON'T discontinue what made you famous in the
first place!!

If this tirade makes any sense.

[applegrove]

128. Coca cola made with real sugar.

[Liberal Veteran]

130. You can still get it. Most grocery stores sell Mexican Coca-Cola. Costco sells it by the case.

It costs more, but tastes so much better.

Also, keep an eye out for Kosher Coca-Cola for Passover which is made with cane sugar as well.

[applegrove]

132. I'm in Canada. Don't know that we get mexican coca-cola. Will think of the kosher stores.

[PennyK]

129. EBINGERS!!!

THE Brooklyn bakery. Best cakes in the whole world. The taste of my childhood.

[Tracyjo]

134. Not food but,

Rock Creek Grape Soda. I used to love that stuff.

[eppur_se_muova]

145. Dove truffle eggs -- the *BEST* Easter eggs ever.

Either the other (cheaper) copycat chocolate eggs crowded them off the shelf, or they were just too heat-sensitive. There is a petition to bring them back.

On a much more nostalgic note, I miss the original Milk Duds. The new recipe just does not compare.

Black Cows were revived, but also as a different recipe. I used to get those when I visited my grandparents in WV -- couldn't find them at home.

[DebJ]

150. Life Savers, in the original flavor (watermelon .... puke!) and in a roll, not a stupid bag

where every piece is in a separate wrapper that you can barely open.

I did find them in rolls in NC, but I haven't seen them around here in the 12 years or so I've lived in Pa.


On Edit, from Wikipedia:
1932. In 1935, the classic "Five-Flavor" rolls were introduced, offering a selection of five different flavors (pineapple, lime, orange, cherry, and lemon) in each roll.[4] This flavor lineup was unchanged for nearly 70 years, until 2003, when three of the flavors were replaced in the United States, making the rolls pineapple, cherry, raspberry, watermelon, and blackberry.[4] However, orange was subsequently reintroduced and blackberry was dropped. The original five-flavor lineup is still sold in Canada.

[sakabatou]

154. Pepsi Blue and there was this sour ball that turned into root beer flavor

[TorchTheWitch]

155. Screaming Yellow Zonkers and Danish Go-Rounds

[ailsagirl]

156. Boy, Danmel, you probably didn't know...

your post would unleash such an enormous number of frustrated replies!!

[Danmel]

158. Kind of like Proust.

Food is so evocative and triggers memories of times and places and people. I'm not surprised, really.

[ailsagirl]

161. Remembrance of things past

You nailed it!

[ArnoldLayne]

164. Whip' n Chill by Jello

[mysuzuki2]

165. Anything cooked by my mother.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

170. awwww

[noamnety]

167. Funny Bones.

now I'm all sad, just thinking about my loss.

[seveneyes]

168. Moon Pies

I guess i better find another guy ...

[blogslut]

172. Team Flakes

The only cold cereal I ever loved: