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?
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.”
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.
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.
It would help if I typed the link correctly. Luckily someone else posted it, too.
http://www.hometownfavorites.com
I remember Pepsi Light with Lemon, is that the same thing?
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.
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!
< of course I forgot the cheese! >
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’’
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…
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.
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.
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?
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.
I seem to have hit return alot in that last post.
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.
I see I am not the only one who misses Marathon candy bars. They “last a good long time.”
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.
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.