# Extinct Foods that I Miss **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464 "2000-03-30T22:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DJScherr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@DJScherr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJScherr)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/41 "2000-03-31T17:24:00Z")
The food my father says he misses is something called kucha (kooka)it is a german food that he always used to have when he was a kid, he swore that people used to hide it or else it would disappear like nothing you’ve seen. No one he knows knows the recipe. Any of you guys heard of it/ know how to make it? ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/42 "2000-03-31T17:59:00Z")
TechChick68, Our Taco John’s franchise re-opened about a year ago. Boy, did I miss that place when it closed. I’m in heaven now that it’s opened again under better management. Just had two bean burritos (ninety nine cents!) with sour cream, potato oles, and a Dr. Pepper for lunch. They still do the Taco Tuesday thing, too. One thing that they don’t carry anymore are the Apple Grande desserts. Do you remember them? A fried tortilla covered with cinnamon-apple topping and sprinkled with cheddar cheese. Mmmmm, cheddar… Some may be grossed out by this, but I like Spam luncheon meat. Hormel used to make Spam spread, but either they stopped making it or they don’t carry it around here anymore. I really miss that stuff… * * * “It’s only common sense, There are no accidents 'round here.” ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/43 "2000-04-01T06:03:00Z")
Marathon candy bars. They were braided caramel covered in chocolate. I remember the commercials, even. Haven’t seen them since I left Oklahoma in 1980. Also, Apple flavored Kool-Aid. Fruit Brute cereal Jello Pudding Pops - vanilla flavored Carnation Breakfast Squares. Dry as a bone, but sooo good with a glass of milk! The list of “Boy they were good” items at http:www.hometownfavorites.com brings back some memories! Some of that stuff deserved to be discontinued, though, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/44 "2000-04-01T06:04:00Z")
Aspen soda, Quisp, Adams Gum, yum… Anybody remember the BK Yumbo, a hot ham and cheese sandwich, or the Chunky bar without the crap like raisins in it, how about the lemon flavored Pepsi? * * * All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/45 "2000-04-01T06:07:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Motorgirl: > \*\* > The list of “Boy they were good” items at http:www.hometownfavorites.com brings back some memories! Some of that stuff deserved to be discontinued, though, IMHO.\*\* It would help if I typed the link correctly. Luckily someone else posted it, too. [http://www.hometownfavorites.com](http://www.hometownfavorites.com) ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/46 "2000-04-01T06:08:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Yankee Blue: > \*\*how about the lemon flavored Pepsi? > > \*\* I remember Pepsi Light with Lemon, is that the same thing? ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/47 "2000-04-01T06:18:00Z")
Possibly, but I think it was not neccessarily a diet Pepsi since I can’t recall ever willingly drinking diet soda. * * * All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/48 "2000-04-01T06:51:00Z")
Guy, I am green with envy! I can almost taste their Potato Ole’s…I even found their web site and emailed them and told them I want them back in town. Oh, and yes, I remember the Apple Grande…it should be easy enough to make. Flour tortilla, deep friend, cover with sugar and cinnamon, add some warmed apple pie filling, and sprinkle a little more cinnamon and suger on top. YUMMY! ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/49 "2000-04-01T06:53:00Z")
\< of course I forgot the cheese! \> ---
**Author:** ![Hepzibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hepzibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hepzibah)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/50 "2000-03-31T19:02:00Z")
Four Words: Morton’s Great Little Desserts. In the frozen foods section, chocolate cream pie, cheesecake. Never could wait long enough for them to unfreeze just a bit before eating. * * * Ooh, I love your magazine. My favorite section is `How to increase your word power’. That thing is really, really… really… good. – Homer, ``Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington’’ ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/51 "2000-03-31T19:08:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Drain - is this the place you’re talking about? Nah. The place I’m talking about was called Scream, and it was in the North Market in Columbus, Ohio until about two months ago. _sniff_ I miss it so… ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/52 "2000-03-31T21:42:00Z")
Bar None candy bars. There were two incarnations–the original, and then, I think because it wasn’t selling, they reformulated the recipe. I didn’t like the second as well as the first, but I would take it. You can’t find either kind anymore, or at least I can’t. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/53 "2000-03-31T22:17:00Z")
Our co-op used to sell this wonderful ice cream by a little company called Taos Cow. It was wonderful creamy chocolate with pieces of Mexican chocolate candy about the size of a nickel. They went out of business. I couldn’t believe it–it was such good stuff, and I’m ordinarily a salt person. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/54 "2000-04-01T03:15:00Z")
Royals! I now settle for mint M&M’s which they only bring out at christmas time. And sorry to mention this, but we have Taco John’s around here. Pudding Pops- to which the SO just said well they were disgusting anyway. What does he know? They just came back with Wonka Bars around here with a golden ticket game even! Boo-berry and Franen-berry, at least around here. Come to mention it I don’t think that I have seen count chocula around either. Stuckies. One of my favorite stops between Davenport and Chicago as a child. There was also a Cremettes frozen Mac-n-cheese that I adored. Snack cakes which I think they just brought out as stir and bake. It’s just not the same! Soft Batch Chocolate chip cookies. New York Seltzer-Vanilla I had a few more, but the minute I hit reply they just fell out of my head! I will keep checking in just so I can slap my forehead and say Ooohhh yeah! * * * ## Mistress Kricket Are you stuck on stupid? ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/55 "2000-04-01T20:38:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Kricket: > \*\*New York Seltzer-Vanilla > \*\* I miss lots of flavors of NY Seltzer. A woman at work came in about a year ago with a bottle of raspberry New York Seltzer. I freaked, because I hadn’t had any for years, not since leaving Ithaca. She said she had bought it a Shaw’s supermarket, of which there were none in my town, so I asked her to pick up some for me - any flavor at all. Turns out all they had left were 6 bottles of raspberry flavor, so she got all of them for me, which kept me happy for about a week. They never had any more. I wonder if they still make the stuff, or if a distributor found a case left over from 1988 in a dusty warehouse and delivered it to Shaw’s. :sigh: I could use a peach or vanilla one right now. You had to open it really slowly, no matter how cold it was, because it had a tendency to fizz all over the place with the slightest provocation. I used to open it in the kitchen sink wrapped in a tea towel. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/56 "2000-04-01T20:39:00Z")
I seem to have hit return alot in that last post. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/57 "2000-04-01T22:18:00Z")
Not long ago, some local supermarkets started carrying New York Seltzer again, but I think they’ve stopped…and they never had my favorite flavor, concord grape. Plenty of raspberry, though. ---
**Author:** ![David](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@David](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/58 "2000-04-01T23:27:00Z")
I see I am not the only one who misses Marathon candy bars. They “last a good long time.” ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/59 "2000-04-02T02:41:00Z")
Lemon flavor of Tootsie Pops. Sour Cream Doritos the original flavor. Wheatables before they completly changed the product and kept the same name. Crunch coated ice cream cones from Dairy Queen. Any store making fresh carmel corn closer than 200 miles away. My mother’s macroni and cheese with hot dog chunks in it. Kidding. She did make it. I didn’t eat it. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464/60 "2000-04-02T03:06:00Z")
Our local Dairy Queen still has crunch coat for the dip cones. I know, because that’s my usual purchase every time I go there. Of course, I haven’t been there since last summer. If they got rid of it since then, I’ll cry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinct-foods-that-i-miss/15464.md?page=4)