I remember this! Back in the early 90s, this was a constant in my fridge for my BF. I’ve been a diet soda drinker for the past 40 years, but occasionally, I would drink a bottle of blue because it tasted good.
Regal Crown Sours candies. A hard candy, disc-shaped. It’s probably been thirty years since I’ve had on, and my mouth still salivates when I even think about them. We used to eat them until the roofs of our mouths were raw.
StG
Actually, I think Quake was supposed to be a miner. The two cereals were always promoted together and the last campaign I remember was a series of ads in the mid 70s that centered around a cross-country race between Quisp and Quake from New York to Lompoc, CA. I never saw the final ad so I don’t know who won but I do recall that soon afterward both cereals disappeared after a somewhat long run on store shelves.
A few years back, the Fred Meyer stores in the PNW were selling Quisp on a special limited-time basis. I bought a box and found that as a snacking cereal, it was better than Cap’n Crunch.
It pains me that the thread has gone so long without a mention of Sunshine Lemon Coolers. Sunshine Biscuit Company was bought out by Keebler’s in the 1990s and those little bastard elves killed the Lemon Cooler as well as the Golden Fruit Biscuits and Hydrox cookies (which I never really cared about anyway). It should be noted – ruefully – that there is no substitute for either my precious Lemon Coolers or MLS’s Golden Fruit Biscuits.
I have heard rumors that despite a valiant effort by fellow Lemon Cooler fans to get them restored to their rightful spot on the top shelf of the cookie aisle, Keebler has no intention of bringing them back. Hence, I will no longer buy any Keebler product. Not even those damn devil’s food cakes that taste so good.
Vermont Country Store has them, they’re called “Garibaldis”.
Quisp won.
I saw these today at the store. I assume they are just the original flavor without any flavoring?
Ah, here they are.
One I just remembered: for a short time in the ‘90s, you could buy packages of Land o’ Lakes’ frosted butter cookies. Holy god, were these delectable! I’m not sure who manufactured them (I’m having no luck with Google), but whoever did also made Jiffy peanut butter cookies, which were decent, but were in no way as divine as those damned discontinued butter cookies.
Yes, yes to Danny bars (and Dannon yogurt itself, in the big waxed cardboard containers) and Carnation Breakfast Bars. Let us also remember Tiger’s Milk drink mix. That stuff was awesome.
But the one I miss the most is real, old Rachel’s Brownies, from back before they got bought out by some big corporation that ruined them, overpackaged them, and then killed them. You could buy them individually or in a whole tray. Holy cow were they good.
Oh, and I still miss my Seven up candy bar too.
Now you’re talkin. When I was in high school, I’d ride my bike several miles to get a Whaler (with extra tarter sauce, of course). There was something awesome about it. Maybe it was a bigger piece of fish, crispier, with real flavor to it. I suspect some guy in a suit decided to switch to an inferior product because it would be more profitable. What a tragic loss for humanity.
As long as we’re talking about Burger King…
They used to have the best tasting burgers by far, with that slight crispiness you get from a flame. Now I think they partially microwave the burgers after cooking, making them bland and gooey.
And a couple of times they offered the Pork T (limited time only). I liked those, but haven’t seen them in years. I now get my tenderloins from Culvers.
. . .wha? I saw some at the store this morning!
Brach’s chocolate covered cherries. Discontinued in 2003. Bastards.