# Apparently, they still make... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 29, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655 "2017-05-29T16:19:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/81 "2017-06-11T21:02:06Z")
BB Bats. Haven’t seen them for like 40 years but they were at the $5 and Under store last night. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/82 "2017-06-11T22:43:17Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Once in awhile I run across _Chunky_ chocolates in their distinctive truncated pyramid shape. I’m licking the nuts and raisins out of my teeth as I type. I got a couple of Chunky candy bars for myself and The Wife, from Rite-Aid. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/83 "2017-06-12T03:01:10Z")
Silly Putty. I saw some in a store display (not a toy store, oddly) a few weeks ago. I bought one for my daughter. It’s the same, exactly, as it was when I was a kid. Unfortunately, newspaper ink is not the same, so you can’t spread it over a comic in the paper and get a transfer print. Still, she had fun with it. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/84 "2017-06-12T16:25:30Z")
Re sandwich cookies: [Carr’s Ginger Lemon Cremes](https://www.google.com/search?q=carr%27s+ginger+lemon+cremes&rlz=1C1REZB_enUS724US724&oq=carr%27s+ginger+lemon+cremes). Back on topic: [Buckley’s Mixture](http://www.buckleys.ca/). Imagine a flavour like mothballs dissolved in PineSol. (They apparently are in the midst of a voluntary recall because the seal on the bottle might fall inside and be swallowed. Considering the taste, you might choke and not notice. But it will clear your congestion!) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/85 "2017-06-12T16:58:41Z")
I can once again run faster and jump higher-[PF Flyers](http://www.pfflyers.com/) are available. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/86 "2017-06-12T18:29:39Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I can once again run faster and jump higher-[PF Flyers](http://www.pfflyers.com/) are available. I wore nothing else as a 50s/60s kid. I’ve often wondered if we actually believed that… I suspect so. I mean, [Jonny Quest did…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Q8WLdbFr4) ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/87 "2017-06-12T18:42:50Z")
Chic-O-Sticks. Hard to find but still made. ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/88 "2017-06-12T18:57:05Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Count Chocula and Franken Berry are released for Halloween (although I’m not sure I saw them last Halloween), but the others, Boo Berry, Fruit Brute, and Fruity Yummy Mummy are very rarely seen. > > I remember wondering how hard it is to recreate something like that. Are all the ingredients (such as they are) still available, and is there any special equipment neded to produce it? For that matter, who still has the recipe? Is there an archive somewhere that includes the instructions on how to make all the products that have disappeared off store shelves? They bring all of them out every year now around Halloween. I know because I’m partial to Boo Berry and I get a couple of boxes every year. Fruit Brutes and Yummy Mummy were re-introduced for Halloween more recently, but they still come out every year. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/89 "2017-06-12T19:36:03Z")
> [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > Chic-O-Sticks. Hard to find but still made. [Go nuts](https://www.oldtimecandy.com/walk-the-candy-aisle/chick-o-sticks/). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/90 "2017-06-12T19:52:52Z")
The subject of old candy made me think of Chupa-Chups–as a child in the late 1970s or early 1980s, you could buy one from a display (IIRC not unlike [this](http://imgur.com/ttQQGNh)) and they had a plastic “stick”, and with each one you bought you were given [a little plastic propeller](http://www.ebay.ph/itm/vintage-chupa-chups-loli-pop-stick-propeller-/112161279154) so that you could turn the stick into one of [these](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo-copter) when you finished the sucker. The Chupa-Chups are still available, but as best as I can tell, they no longer come with propellers. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/91 "2017-06-14T00:22:42Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > Re sandwich cookies: [Carr’s Ginger Lemon Cremes](https://www.google.com/search?q=carr%27s+ginger+lemon+cremes&rlz=1C1REZB_enUS724US724&oq=carr%27s+ginger+lemon+cremes). They sell 'em in CostCo here. I have an unopened box sitting on the snack shelf even as I type. > [@jtur88](#): > > Mouse traps. Made out of wood. In the USA. Victory, Lititz, Pennsyhlvania. Two for a dollar. There are knock-offs but they don’t work as well as the Victory traps do. They’re either riskier to set or harder to trigger, sometimes both at the same time. > [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Of course [Zima] is. Why else do you think it was available in 2258? JMS featured in the show because he thought it funny to consider the stuff would be around in 10 years, never mind 260. 241 to go. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/92 "2017-06-14T03:30:38Z")
> [@Turpentine](#): > > They bring all of them out every year now around Halloween. I know because I’m partial to Boo Berry and I get a couple of boxes every year. Fruit Brutes and Yummy Mummy were re-introduced for Halloween more recently, but they still come out every year. I didn’t see FrankenBerry and Count Chocula this last Halloween. Granted, I wasn’t particularly looking. ---
**Author:** ![pipperroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@pipperroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pipperroo)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/93 "2017-06-14T03:32:15Z")
Perfect timing to find this thread. At the grocery store tonight I found “original New York Seltzer” I hadn’t seen this since the 1980s. I bought the raspberry flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/94 "2017-06-14T04:31:17Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Go look in the cleaning products aisle at the $.99 Store. They have all sorts of stuff I would have sworn was long gone, like Bon Ami cleanser. Most places have Bon Ami if you look for it. I keep a supply. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/95 "2017-06-14T04:32:57Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Mouse traps. Made out of wood. In the USA. Victory, Lititz, Pennsyhlvania. Two for a dollar. > > I think you can also still buy Fly-paper, in the sticky coil-out roll, to hang from the ceiling over the kitchen table. Both of these still work great. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/96 "2017-06-14T04:34:37Z")
> [@Chicken\_Fingers](#): > > Save me your clove flavors, please, if you don’t want them. > > Then I’ll share my [Email Diamant](https://www.bigelowchemists.com/email-diamant-red-toothpaste.html) toothpaste with you, and our teeth will look whiter because it tints the gums red. I first read about it in a Colette novel. > > And I still use V05 shampoo every day. The kiwi-lime smells amazing and costs a buck a bottle. I still buy Necco wafers when I find them. The licorice ones are by far my favorites. Sweet flavored chalk! Can’t beat it. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/97 "2017-06-14T04:52:22Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I didn’t see FrankenBerry and Count Chocula this last Halloween. Granted, I wasn’t particularly looking. I did, but they weren’t in the cereal aisle; they were on a standalone display sorta/kinda near the cereal aisle along the back of the store. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/98 "2017-06-14T05:18:59Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > I did, but they weren’t in the cereal aisle; they were on a standalone display sorta/kinda near the cereal aisle along the back of the store. That’s where I saw Fruity Yummy Mummy, et al., a couple years ago. I think I’d have noticed if any of them had been brought back last year. It might have been a regional thing; maybe they didn’t ship them to my part of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/99 "2017-06-15T04:59:06Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > Bartles & Jaymes. after the “Thank you for your support” commercials ended, it just seemed to go away. Then a couple of months ago I saw some on the shelf at a store. > > matter of fact, I think it’s “wine coolers” in general; they didn’t seem to survive the '80s. I don’t know about the rest of the world, but I know what happend to “wine coolers” in my home state, because I was working in the liqour industry at the time– Somebody came out with a wine cooler in a single-serve size cardboard box, called a “tetra-pack”, same as childrens fruit juice before “pop-tops”. Somebody else said “Children will drink it”, “They’re marketing it at Children”. The market collapsed. Wine coolers were, of course marketed at children. The kind of children who want to drink sophisticated Adult drinks. The kind who wouldn’t be caught dead drinking a childrens drink. A quick follow-up was that alcohol levels in “Wine Coolers” were regulated down, because they were being marketed to young people. So (around here), if you wanted to market a sweet high-alcohol-content drink, you couldn’t call it a “wine cooler”. Not that it mattered. That branding was gone. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655/100 "2017-06-15T12:27:00Z")
> [@Mudshark](#): > > What shocked me was Murphy’s Oil Soap. > > Prell seems to fade hair dye the fastest for me. I’m not surprised. We used to use Prell when washing our hands after working on the car! :eek: Then we switched to Oxydol laundry detergent. Hey it was the 70s, all we had was Lava and that stuff never worked like it was supposed to! > [@Brodi](#): > > Brylcreem > [@jasg](#): > > “A Little Dab’ll Do Ya!” - it lasts forever. Funny, until I read your post, my memory was that the slogan “A Little Dab’ll Do Ya!” belonged to Dippity-do. By the way, Apparently, they still make… Dippity-do! [http://dippity-do.com/en/](http://dippity-do.com/en/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-they-still-make/787655.md?page=6)