SO, all I need to do is drive hundreds of miles to Ohio from Visconsin. We got milk! You got the crunch coating.
I’ve been trying to get a crunch dipped cone for years. None of the Dairy Queens in Wisconsin have it. Maybe their main office can sell me a can of it, and I’ll dip the cones myself.
I asked the girl behind the counter if they had any yesterday. She looked at me, made a weird face, and said “What’s that?”. I wonder what she’d done if I asked for a Mr. Misty.
Don’t know if this will help you, but I did a search.
RIGGLEVAKE KUCHA (RAILROAD COOKIE)
Rigglevake Kucha (Railroad Cookie)
Cake and Wine Pudding (Kucha Und Wei)
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yes, Yes, YEs, YES!!! This whole thread, I’m thinking " Yumbo, Yumbo, Yumbo " and you beat me to the punch! I also miss the BK Veal Parm sandwich, which is just like their chicken sandwich, but with veal, cheese and sauce. I asked the manager of the local BK about these the other day, and he had never heard of either. <snort> Kids!
But the thing I miss most is Coca-Cola. The REAL thing. With sugar. * IN A GLASS BOTTLE!!!* You can get kosher Coke with sugar during passover, but not in glass. Am I the only one who thinks this makes a difference? To me, it’s night and day between plastic and glass. Am I alone in this?
(BTW, for those who don’t know what I’m talking about, as always, Cecil explains it here
Cecil said it. I believe it. That settles it.
Hey, weirddave, you can still find real coke in a bottle year round here in Texas! The grocery stores and the local dive taco joint has both fountain cokes, and those in a glass bottle. I always get a coke mexicana with my taco al pastor. They have Fresca in a bottle too!
Kist Golden Ginger Ale. (a ratio of something like one ginger root’s worth of ginger to each 12 oz bottle).
Budwine. (a non-cherry deep red soda I used to be able to get in the South).
and, adding to the Taco Bell memorabilia: Fiesta Sauce, the original extra-hot sauce they experimented with a year or so before coming out with Fire Sauce which has way too much garlic and onion powder taste.
And yes, the long-forgotten encherito.
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I think coke in the little 8 oz. bottles has always been available in the Atlanta market (naturally), and a few restaurants around town bring out one of the little bottles and a glass of ice when you order a coke.
What I missed (until recently)was when the bottles used to have their place of origin printed on the bottom.
(For those too young to remember, you used to pay a deposit on coke bottles. You colud return the bottles to the store and get the deposit returned. The local bottler would collect the bottles from retailers, sterilize them and re-use them. Each local bottler also had its own bottles made, with the location of the bottler printed on the bottom. The bottles wound up circulating across the country, so as a kid in Georgia, I might buy a Coke, look at the bottom, and find that the bottle originally came from Minnesota.)
My Dad says that when he and his buddies bought cokes, they would gamble on whose bottle would be from the farthest away. When I was a kid, I tried to get bottles from all 50 states (hey, it was boring in the country, what can I say). I once got a bottle from Hawaii.
For a while, they stopped putting the place of origin on the bottoms. (I always check.) I notice, though, that in the past few months I have begun to see the bottler’s location on the bottom again.
Right.
UK foods I miss:
“Hundreds and thousands” are called “sprinkles” (you’d want to specify them as multicolored sprinkles) in the U.S.
What, you don’t have those anymore either? What kind of freak heathen Dairy Queen do you go to?
Here, we have four kinds…the original slushy kind, one where they float a bit of soft-serve on top, one where they blend the soft-serve in with it, and another that I can’t remember.
Vanilla Crunch. Used to eat it dry, one piece at a time , to savor the flavor.
Frozen Custard. YUMMY, YUM-YUM!
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That Pac-man pasta that came in tins…like Chef Boyardee stuff. It was Pac-man shapes with chicken in a yellow sauce…oh man, that was good.
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One more vote for the Marathon bars. Man, those things were awesome!!
I also loved Crystal Pepsi. I prefer brown colas (Coke is my personal fave), but tried Crystal Pepsi, just for kicks. Loved it.
This is my new sig. Thank Wally. It was his idea.
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Drain, they sell Koala Yummies in almost every store in Tampa. I never tried them, they never looked all that exciting. Maybe next time I am at the store I’ll get them.
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Man, I had almost forgotten about Bar None. I used to love them with a nice hot cup o’ coffee. Delicious.
Several people have mentioned Adam’s gums. We have those all over the place here (NE Kentucky). The gum I miss, though, are the ice cream flavored gums, which I think was also put out by Adam’s. I might be wrong, though. The were the standard flavors, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry, and they actually tasted like ice cream. Weird, but good. (This would have been early 70’s BTW.)
My favorite missing breakfast cereal was Graham Cracko’s. Graham cracker flavored cereal that was shaped like a series of small circles stuck together. We got them all the time while they were still available.
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Knick, I hear ya! I thought I was the only person who feels that way! Breading does not belong on fries.
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No, Rilch, you aren’t the only ones. I had BK’s new fries once…once. They were crunchy!
Mr. Misty, Mr. Misty float, and Mr. Misty freeze.
I worked at a Dairy Queen for four seasons.
Do you people know how long it takes to break up a case of frozen Snickers?
Are you stuck on stupid?