Spangles!! (possibly UK only). Square hard-boiled sweets in a roll. Myriad flavours. Haven’t seen them for years.
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream sandwiches, with french vanilla ice cream and hand-made brownies with walnuts as the wafers.
I really miss candy cigarettes. I wish I had some right now.
You can get those here in Spiffeld 
Just saw some at the convenience store this morning, actually.
–tygre
Pez?!? doesn’t anyone miss pez?!? I’m sweet 
I think so, too. They used to be among my favorites because one would last me forever, which was very important on my scant allowance money. Do you remember the commercials for them featuring King Louis (with the French pronunciation)? “They’re chewy, Louis, but no too chewy.” My sister and I still quote that, for some reason.
Has anyone seen a Big Hunk lately? I lost a tooth in one when I was 10, and kept trying to chew it (thinking it was just an exceptionally hard nut) before I figured out that I was missing a molar. The only time I ever lost a tooth where it wasn’t painful. God bless Big Hunk candy bars everywhere.
I also miss Jewel gum, the little soft squares with some kind of flavor-juice inside. I saw a pack for the first time in years a month ago out in the boondocks. Who knows when I’ll see one again.
Candy dots, candy cigarettes, and what has to be a Buffalo thing — Jingles cookies during the Christmas season.
Check out http://www.buffalofoods.com – Buffalo is still one of those places where you’ll go through the supermarket aisles, and half the products you’ll see aren’t available anywhere else in the country.
OMG!
I haven’t even heard mention of them in 30+ years. We used to live on 'em. I keep seeing things in the thread that we still have here.(Kansas) Blackjack gum, PopRocks, Pez.
I miss Fizzies. we only tried making the drink out of them a few times and then figured out that they were way better just to suck on. The gum with the liquid centers…wasn’t that Chewel?(Everyone I know called it cum-gum.)
What do I miss most?
[list=1][li]ZOTS hard, fruity candy with fizzy centers[]Screaming Yellow Zonkers sugar coated popcorn[]Quake cereal (I’ve recently seen it’s cousin, Quisp on the shelves here)[]Peer pop -came in about 25 flavors[]Bottle caps hard, sweet candies[]Mini Chicklets the little bitty ones[]Teaberry gum[]Gold Rush gum Nugget shapes, came in it’s own draw-string pouch[]Beechnut gum[]Black Cow chocolate-Fudge on a stick[]Laffy Taffy 3" X 12" flattened straps of the stuff, with a white stripe down the middle[]Hot Dog bubble gum cinnamon bubble-gum in the shape of a hotdog[]SLOW-POKE the be-all of tooth-wrenching, caramel goodness, on a stick []GIANT Sweet-tarts big as a pocket watch[]Atomic Fire balls HOT, cinnamon jaw breakers[]Bloops marble shaped, sweet-tart-like candies[]Chick-o-stix kinda like the center of a Butterfinger, without the chocolate, covered in toasted cocoanut.[]Sugar babies pure sugar-coated sugar[]Ozark Bar-B-Que potato chips[]FunnyFace drink mix(Loudmouth lime, Goofy Grape, Choo-Choo Cherry, Rootin-Tootin Raspberry, others)[]My favorite of all was Licorice ice cream. Used to get it as a kid…back when we had the afore-mentioned Spudnuts.[/list=1][/li]It looks like I snacked kind of a lot as a kid, huh?
Doug, if by Forever Yours you mean the vanilla nougant, carmel and dark chocolate bar made by M&M Mars, they’ve come back here as Milky Way Midnight. Still damn good, too.
I miss Triple Decker bars, which were tested and dropped by Nestle in my Boston Mass childhood. A layer of dark chocolate, white chocolate, and milk chocolate in one bar.
A lot of Ben&Jerry’s flavors: Apple Pie Yoghurt, Nutcracker Suite, and Cool Britanna. The top of the list is Southern Pecan Pie, which is simply the best food I ever ate in my life.
[ul][li]Reggie Bars (Very much “packed with peanuts” – bonus points to anyone who can remember for whom this confection was named)[/li][li]Wacky Wafers (fruit-flavored half-dollar-sized candies – my fave flave was banana)[/li][li]Bottle Caps (soda-flavored dime-sized candies – my fave flave was cola)[/li][li]Spree (also a hard, disk-shaped candy. They came in a long roll and by the time you were done, your tongue was raw from sucking)[/li][li]Tropical Fruit Life Savers[/li][li]That gum that came in miniature record albums. I may still have one of those “album covers” with The Knack on it. (Does anyone remember The Knack? Bonus points to anyone who can name both of their hits)[/li][li]Ramblin’ Root Beer (from the Coca-Cola company)[/li][li]OK Soda (another Coke product – early '90s)[/li]Lucky Charms with their original marshamllows as God intended – pink hearts, yellow moons, blue diamonds, and green clovers – and nothing else!..These kids today with their weird shapes and immoral colors…[sub][sup]grumble…grumble…[/sup][/sub][/ul]
Bboy, take a trip down to El Dorado, Arkansas. The Spudnut Shop’s still doing a booming business. Ever since I moved away I’ve been trying to find a recipe for the damned things that tastes right. One day I shall convince them to give me theirs!
A lot of the candies on your list are still around. Wicked me introduced my kids to Zots without warning them and mini Chiclets are a favorite of son’s.
jesuslynch, I hate you. I can buy all manner of other Jackson cookies, but I have only been able to find the lemon ones when I go visit my Mom or she sends me “care packages”, and then I have to hide 'em from my kids.
I’m at school in PA, and I miss Krumpe’s Donuts from Hagerstown, MD. These doughnuts are the best doughnuts in the world…even better than Krispy Kremes. They just melt in your motuh, they are so light. The best part about the shop is that its open these weird hours–7pm til 3 in the morning, and you can smell the doughnuts as soon as you get close to the building (which helps you find it, considering its in an alley that most people aren’t familiar with). I love those doughnuts and I wish I had about a dozen of the glazed twists so I could eat them right now.
I also miss Nehi soda…their cream soda was the best, and they had a kick ass strawberry soda. They had the weirdest colors and the best flavors, and I miss them.
I also miss glass bottles. Not a snack food, but it does make soft drinks taste sooooo much better. Coke out of a glass bottle rocks. And Fruitopia in the glass bottles was great. Now that its in the plastic bottles, I don’t buy it anymore because it takes funny. And forget about fruit juice or iced tea in a can or in plastic. Ick…funky metallic or plastic aftertaste. Glass recycles, but plastic is so much cheaper to make and ship…fie on these companies who are so cheap that they went to plastic. (That’s just a general rant thing that pisses me off. But it had to be said. Otherwise, my brain would hurt me.)
I may just have to do that…although, according to my wife (our official navigator) it looks like about 11 hours from here, excluding stops.
I’m sure you’re right, and its probably a regional thing. I see others in the post, lamenting about stuff that we still have in my area. It seems to me that in today’s world, this stuff ought to be available everywhere.
Maybe we should organize a trading ring?
I wish I could’ve seen that. I bet your kids think you are pretty cool.
Here’s a few more that seem to be deceased, at least in this area.[list=1][]Mason’s the best rootbeer (IMO) the world has ever known[]Dad’s another rootbeer, and a very close second.[]Rondo lemony-limeish soda pop[]Simba another soda similar to Fresca.[/list=1]
Necco Wafers.
What can I say? I’m weird that way.
Me too! I thought I was the only one to notice that.
I do miss Cadbury’s Aztec bars. Sort of like a superior quality Mars bar. They’re all gone now though, they were just a one off special edition I think.
I saw candy buttons in the store the other day.
I remember getting Nehi Blueberry Creme Soda. YUM!!!
I once found Snapple Strawberry Ice Tea. THAT was the best. I have never seen it again.
BTW, there is a dead foods board at http://www.topsecretrecipes.comcom
There was a gum with sort of a sweet jelly inside, called Freshen Up-I’ve seen it occasionally!
I see Teaberry gum a lot. It’s sooo yummy. I also see Beechnuts and Spree and Neco Wafers.
I miss Kool Aid flavors like Sunshine Punch and Rainbow Punch. THAT was the best.
And those jawbreaker gum that was soooo sour you had to lick it a little at a time, or your face would just pucker up, and your mouth would implode! And some had the added benefit of turning your entire mouth blue.
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The drive’s worth it! Buy 2 dozen and warm 'em in the microwave! They’re still better than plain 'ol doughnuts! While you’re at it, take another half hour and drive to Betty’s Diner in Strong, Arkansas for the best soft serve ice cream in the area. I don’t know what’s different, but it’s wonderous.
Trading ring. Yes. Though unless you get my Lemon Jumble cookies where you are, I’d just be doing it out of the goodness of my heart.
I wish I could’ve seen that. I bet your kids think you are pretty cool.
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Well, not at the time. My son thought he had been poisioned. But he loved the Pop Rocks.
I can still get pop in glass bottles around here. Coke in a glass bottle is the only way to truely enjoy coke with peanuts in it.
I can get mini little bottles of pop in glass bottles. I don’t really notice much of a difference, frankly.
Actually, if you have a lot of little kids running around at a picnic, glass bottles aren’t very practical. Trust me.
Scratch1300, do I get the points for being the first to remember that Reggie Bars were named for Reggie Jackson?
You all sure jostled my memory…I liked a lot of these things you’ve mentioned!!
*Screaming Yellow Zonkers! (Remember the funny messages on the original [black] box? Like “Win a Continent”–no entries accepted after August 21, 1947." :D)
*B-Bats–colored taffy in square pieces, with baseball players depicted on the wrapper.
*Variations on the Candy Buttons–wrapped like Life Savers.
*Licorice ice cream, as mentioned–I got to try this only once. Really liked it. Baskin-Robbins said they quit making it because of problems with the black coloring.
*Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy.
*Butter Brickle (“Costs a nickel.”)
*Soda pop caps, as mentioned–we originally got these from ice cream trucks that came through the neighborhood.
*Those big ol’ jawbreakers. Almost as big around as ping-pong balls. Good for hours of sucking fun unless you like to break your teeth!
*Delaware Punch (although you can still find it in some places.
*Cliquot Club, Mother’s Pride, Dad’s Root Beer, Frostie’s, Bar-B, Bireley’s, Sun Crest.
*Abba-Zabba (I know it’s still around, but in the 50s you could buy it with pictures of African natives on the wrapper–they must have gone politically correct in the 60s.