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**Marathon **candy bar. From wikipedia:
Also, I miss saccharine-based diet colas. All I drink are diet colas and ever since they went to aspartame, they just don’t taste as good. **Tab **was one of the hold-outs and I would buy that, but even **Tab **has since added aspertame to the mix:
I miss Zima. It was like an alcoholic Fresca. Crisp and refreshing. It made a “limited edition comeback” last year for a couple of months, which was nice. I shouldda bought more. (Zima gold, on the other hand, was horrid).
My dad always was partial to Campbell’s Pepper Pot soup, which was tripe-based. He said it was almost impossible to find. (I’ve never tried).
:eek: To both of these!
Marathon bars sucked. The caramel was always hard as a rock and the chocolate cracked off and made a goddamn mess everywhere. If you tried to warm the bar up by keeping it in a pocket or something things got even worse. In theory it should have been a great candy bar. In reality it was a hard or gooey catastrophe.
Saccharine based diet sodas were absolutely horrible. The aftertaste was excruciating. Anyone here who never had an original Diet Pepsi should thank their lucky stars. My grandmother gave me a diet 7-Up once in the 70’s. I thought she was trying to poison me it was so awful!
Ghirardelli used to make a chocolate muffin mix that was TO DIE FOR. They don’t anymore and life is sad.
Who knew there were so many discontinued cherished food items???
While out in the desert with the dogs recently, I found an ancient can of Hires. It’s actual tin (or whatever, not aluminum) with hard edges and the old timey pull tab. You can just barely make out the writing one side. Got it on my shelf of ‘interesting old trash I track home from the desert’.
The shape is right, but the graphics are different.
The old school KFC Chicken Littles. The square ones at 3 for a buck. I used to leave campus in high school for lunch and get 3 littles, a biscuit, and a soda for like 3 bucks.
They brought out a modern version with a chicken tender on a mini hotdog roll. Not anywhere near as good.
Banquet made them. I quite liked them over a baked potato. The food quality wasn’t the best, but boom, dinner.
Trader Joes carried a Brazilian hash in a packet that I really liked. Apparently, others never even tried them. They didn’t last long in the store and I haven’t found another brand like them. I’d heat up the hash, poach an egg and serve over toast.
This statement about standard cocktail sauce sounded odd to me, since my usual condiment at home for steak and hamburgers is ketchup mixed with grated horseradish - and it doesn’t taste like the cocktail sauce you get in restaurants.
Seems that cocktail sauce recipes commonly incorporate lemon juice, salt, Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco.
When Pepperidge Farm was bought out by whomever, the Nassaus disappeared. They were my favorite, too! Too many of the cookies they kept were just variations on Milanos, which were my least favorite Pepperidge Farm cookies.
I miss Vernors, too. I couldn’t find it for forever, then I saw it in stores – maybe 10 years ago? – but they’d changed the formula, and it was too sweet. The point of the original Vernors was that sharp bite. I assume they disappeared a second time because they faked out original Vernors fans. 
The Gino Giant—what the Big Mac aspired to be, but failed.
Gino’s was a great U.S. Mid-Atlantic fast-food chain founded in 1957. The *Gino Giant *predated and was superior to the Big Mac. Their 1/4lb Sirloiner was better than McD’s Quarter Pounder and BK’s Whopper. They held the mid-Atlantic franchise for Kentucky Fried Chicken. They even had a tasty, crispy fish sandwich.
They hit the Meat Trifecta with beef, chicken and fish. Had they included something with pork (how about piggy pies?), they would have won the Slaughterhouse Superfecta.
They fried their fries in beef tallow, as God intended.
Their Black & White milkshakes were udderly magnificent—not to mention racially harmonious.
They even had soup—Soupy Sales, that is.
Their tagline, “Everybody goes to Ginos, ‘cause Gino’s is the place to go”, was a mastery of to-the-point marketing and their jingle was a veritable toe-tapper (revamped 2010 version).
They tried a limited re-birth ~2010 (I got my hopes up), but it failed to ignite. Why? They failed for the same reason VHS beat Betamax—because people are idiots.
Time-transport me back to ~1973. I’ll order a Gino Giant, a Kentucky fried chicken breast, large fries and a Black & White shake and I’ll die a happy man. Yeah, happy, but dead—my diabetes can’t handle that kind of carb overload anymore. But in my pre-death diabetic coma I’ll be humming, “everybody goes to Ginos, cause Ginos is the…”
Whew, I thought I had one… I do all my shopping via bike, so I don’t hit too many grocery stores. And in our neighborhood, Wheat Chex disappeared about a year ago. Rice, Corn and a bunch of cutesy flavors (Vanilla, Cinnamon, Blueberry, even Peanut Butter) crowded that shelf.
I was thinking I’d post about it here, when suddenly last week… Wheat Chex! Five boxes, with Russell Wilson on the box (I am now a Seahawks fan)!
Hell, yeah, I stocked up. Left one box for the next person.
No, I can find tomatillos. Tamarillos come from New Zealand, and they are oval shaped with a thick red inedible skln. Inside they are a mix of green and red.
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I’ll save you the risk, then - they’re not bad, but they are definitely not what those great old ones were. The icing isn’t that fantastic thick layer, the cream is a lot thinner, and it’s only about half the size. I never ate a Hostess (they’re not kosher), so I can’t tell you how these compare to those.
I always want to mention Marathon bars when these type of threads come up but now I think it’s more of a nostalgia thing because you are absolutely correct; hard carmel and crumbly chocolate.Now I don’t remember why I thought I liked them so much.
I’m also puzzled about enjoying the taste of saccharine. I remember starting to drink diet soda when I was, oh about twelve (when all good SoCal girls start loathing their bodies) and it was a job to choke them down. The first iteration of Diet Coke was a welcome improvement but I bet if I tried one today I’d spit it out. It always surprises me when folks say they can’t stand the taste of diet soda when to me it tastes like regular soda used to taste to me when I drank it (did that make sense?)
Good & Fruity
It was the lesser-known cousin of Good & Plenty.
The original candy disappeared some time in the 90s, only to be resurrected as a faux imitation of itself in the 2000s. I believe that fake version has since vanished.
The version I remember from childhood had a thin fruity shell, just like the shell around Good & Plenty, and had a slight bit of a tart note.
The bogus recent version was more like a jelly bean or Mike & Ike.
Lemon Coolers
A very tasty cookie that has vanished.
Piña Canada Dry
This was a vaguely pineppalely flavored soda. Super sweet and not a lot of gas. It disappeared in the 90s. THey broguht it bask for a couple of months in 2005, but, alas, it waa a brief moment.
Golazo
This was a chocolate that had two options: filled with peanuts and filled with popcorn.
When did that happen? Lowenbrau was still around not too long ago (maybe 4-5 years ago is the last time I remember seeing it).
My vote for discontinued beverage is Shiner Frost. It was a seasonal Dortmunder Export style beer that Shiner made for a few winters back around the 2010-2011 time frame.
If you’re not familiar with the Dortmunder Export style, if you were to draw a line between Munich Helles and German Pilsners in terms of hoppiness and maltiness, Dortmunder Export would be about halfway in between. Maltier than a German Pils, but hoppier than a Helles.
I found Hires root beer on the Walmart and Amazon web sites.
Ordered a 12 pack at a inflated price. I probably won’t order again. I just wanted to remind myself of the delicious flavor.
It came back locally just this year. I saw two-liters for sale last week … probably for the first time in seven or eight years.
Sprite also makes a cranberry soda. I haven’t always been able to find it reliably around here, but this year they’ve been easy to find.
Oh man … used to love the Super Bar! Used to treat it as kind of an ersatz Mexican buffet.