Hopefully, this thread is mundane and/or pointless enough. If not, let me know and I’ll throw in a few obscenities and repost it in the pit ;))
Anyway…
There’re a couple of old junk-food type foods that are no longer made that I occasionally get a craving for and have never been able to duplicate or find an acceptible substitue:
First and most missed is a Jack-In-the-Box item that was called a “Jack-Steak”. It was an oval hamburger (may have been a cube-steak) on a hoagie bun covered with shredded lettuce, a couple of (fried) onion rings, and this oddly sweet/smokey/catsup-py barbecue sauce.
Another was from a local chain called “The Brick Oven Beanery” which was sort of a precursor to Boston Market in terms of food-they had a citrus marinated rotisserie chicken that was some of the best chicken I’ve ever tasted and I’ve never once come close to duplicating the flavor.
Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream made a Peach Trifle Ice Cream that was so good I went out and bought out the stock of two stores (only 4 pints, but still…)when a clerk told me that it’d been discontinued.
Finally, there was a soda called “Aspen” (I think) that was an apple flavored soda. It wasn’t sparkling apple-juice, it had about the same relevance to apple juice that orange soda has to orange juice but it was addictive.
Anyone else remember any of these or have foods they miss?
SoftBatch chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips. I used to eat them by the boxfull when I was a kid.
Spatini, which is spice to make spaghetti sauce with. It still exists, but I can’t get it here, so any time I know someone’s going to be in my hometown, I have them pick up a couple boxes for me.
I used to get these oreo cookie Ice cream sandwiches the size of oreo cookies. They were exactly the same as Oreo cookies except the cream filling was cookies and cream Ice cream…they were the best, If you left the package open in the freezer they would start to taste like rum…
We rag tag girlies back at the hotel…
Then we all switch places when I ring the bell.
I don’t know about you guys…but my favourite food in this whole world, the only thing that really makes me happy is…Presidents Choice Extra-Chunky Volcano Salsa…now I have to look wide and far for this salsa…the other shit just don’t cut it for me…
I feel like the grocery chains are playing some big giant grocery cosmic joke on me…it drives me fucking nuts… I hate you Pace…I hate you Old El Paso or whatever the fuck you call yourself,just give me my extra chuncky volcano salsa…
don’t even get me started on my favourite unsalted blue corn nachos… I feel depressed now…bye
For a while, Entenmann’s was making fudge-iced crullers that were out of this world. Now, alas, they’re no longer in this world.
I used to like the taste of Pepsi Light, and wish that a soda company would once again consider putting some lemon flavor into cola.
For a brief while, the Mars company was regularly making mint-flavored M&Ms. I believe they’re still available around the winter holiday times, but I wish they were available year-round.
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
Oh man!..I forgot all about them! They were great on a cold day as an afterschool snack!
Beef and noodles was my Fave!Just add boiling water…wait 3 minutes((sure was hard waiting that long)) Voila!
Carl’s Jr. Roast Beef sandwich. I’d swear it was microwaved, the bun was so soft! Fast-food roast beef with a mild green chili and some mayo. No, Arby’s just isn’t as good.
Mug root beer.
I remember Aspen. I was obsessed with skiing at the time, and all that snow in the commercial made me try it. Not as good as Coke, but nice for a change.
Fish Sticks. I ate them all the time when I was a kid. I’d grab a lemon off of the tree to cut the fishy taste. The kind you get now don’t have any fishy flavour at all. What’s the point?
Pioneer Chicken. Greasy, but good. And the gravy is much better than the Colonel’s.
“I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry
In SEAsia, Cocoa Cola makes a ginger ale called Krest, it’s beautiful, not so sweet as Canada Dry, not as gingery as Vernor’s, it’s the best, but hard to find.
Also in SEAsia, they have yummy lemon flavoured Chicklets, and not that bitter lemon junk either, fruity like juicy fruit.
Wisdom is the boobie prize,they give you when you’ve been --unwise!
