FWIW I have drank Fresca pretty consistently since the 90s where it never went away and it seems they same to me. There are sub varieties of it that have come and gone but the standard grapefruit flavor has always been there.
Yeah, Wheat Chex are my favorite cereal, and it’s awful hard to find. It’s also more expensive than almost any other cereal.
Frusen Glädjé - the best vanilla ice cream ever.
As mentioned earlier in this thread, Emerald Nuts Dry Roasted Walnuts. So good.
And the mainstay of late 60’s through 70’s bodegas, bars, tap rooms, gas stations, etc. - the infamous Stewart Sandwich. They were cooked in an infrared oven and were a platonic ideal of sandwiches for me way back when. They say that if you browse Cafe Society with just the right set of eyes late at night, a thread will appear telling tales of the glories once beheld.
Do you have any central american shops by you? You might get lucky there. While Mexican goods are easy to find, it’s harder to find South American goods. My friend used to ship me stuff from a shop in Baltimore that had the foods she had taught me to cook from her childhood in Peru. Now, I find stuff online, but I haven’t tried to find fresh fruit like tamarillos.
You’ll be happy to learn that a few years ago an entrepreneur acquired the trademark and recipe for Hydrox cookies and has brought them back! You can buy them on Amazon.
Quick! Festival Foods (at least in Madison, Wisconsin) have them on sale for $1.98.
Locally I wish Black Bear made soda again. Went out about 2 years ago. They had a diet lime and a diet Blue Raspberry that were to die for. Only 50 cents for a pint bottle.
I don’t know of any other bottler that has those flavors in diet.
and the workers (here at least) didnt care if 4 kids ate on the same order either …mom would only get cheeseburgers for us if we promised to eas some salad …of course we loved the rest also …
I was told the reason they killed it was it was too much work and disrupted the “flow” of the chain …
Duncan Hines Lemon Tunnel bundt cake mixes. The middle had lemon pudding in it.
Dixies were drumstick shaped, chicken flavored snack crackers that we used to get occasionally in the late 70s. They were available for a few years but I can’t recall seeing them on the shelves since the early 80’s.
Oddly, I was asked just this week to bring home some Wheat Chex. I couldn’t find it at one store, found it at Walmart. The box was smaller than the Rice and Corn Chex.
Ontario has long lost its “Pop Shoppe” which sold cheap ersatz versions of many soft drinks in cases of litre bottles. The Lime Rickey was one of the better ones. (The name has been revived for a couple of truly awful alcopop drinks). The flavours of pop available now tend to be better. But in addition to Tahiti Treat, I used to like Sport Cola (made by Canada Dry). Wish you could find diet grape sod’s (outside of the odd Canadian McDonald’s or Wendy’s with those awesome multi-flavour dispensers; saw one a Vegas buffet too).
I think the sugary crap available now is often better than the nostalgic stuff I scarfed when small. But the Laura Secord Hallowe’en bars were great.
KFC used to sell loaves of bread covered in greasy oil. They should switch to biscuits or waffles, like any responsible chicken joint.
Fast food favourites included Red Barn, Mother’s Pizza, Ponderosa Steak House (still extent in New Brunswick and Niagara Falls) and Kenny Rogers.
Really??? Love, love, love Hydrox. Way better than Oreos. I’m going to take a look and maybe treat myself.
I remember eating these as a kid. They were surprisingly delicious.
I’ve seen quite a few here that I would second or third or whatever, but the ones that came to mind for me:
Cherry Rush Gatorade was my favorite flavor of Gatorade, but as far as I can tell they don’t make it anymore, and thankfully there’s a cucumber-lime variety that I can find every once in a while that I really like
Taco Bell chicken soft tacos, the kind that they made back in the mid- to late-90s
I don’t remember if it was one of the big brands like Rold Gold or Snyder’s, but someone used to make mustard pretzels… not honey mustard, just mustard. Seems like I never see those anymore, and all the mustard pretzels in the grocery store are honey mustard instead
I know someone that took the discontinuation of the Mrs Grass Golden Egg really, really hard.
Bought it tonight at Walmart in the Midwest US. $1.98 for 18 oz (and advertised as a label as "20% more than those 15 oz. guys). Lea was next to it on the shelf $4.48 for 15 oz.
You made my day!
I would like to know if any of you Hydrox aficionados find that the taste is an exact match.
From the story, it seems that the trademark was acquired, but the recipe had to be figured out the hard way–that sure sounds like a challenge to me, but maybe they nailed it.
To me the story doesn’t sound like he had to figure out the recipe, but rather he had to track down suppliers who still had the original ingredients, like that really specific vanilla flavoring. I mean if he knew he needed “vanilla number 6532” or whatever it was (I kind of doubt he’d give away the real ingredients on the air), that makes it sound to me like he had the recipe.