Oh, I loved those things! I’d kill for them to bring them back.
I’ll add Stouffers’ White Garlic French Bread Pizza. It had this absolutely divine white garlic sauce, and tons of cheese. I can’t imagine WHY they’d stop making it.
I recently discovered, quite by accident, that cocktail sauce is just ketchup with horseradish (although I like to add a little Worcestershire and Sriracha).
A very very few scattered around the country apparently. I was willing to drive 700 miles if I had to but every time I found a place that had some, by the time I called them it was “sorry- sold out and we have no idea if or when we’re getting any more”. I was visiting a friend in Indy and he had some — which I guilted him out of right then and there.
Until I read your post I had forgotten ---- Great American Soups. The soups themselves were really good but the commercials with Legs Miller were fantastic!
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Kellogg’s OKs cereal, with Yogi Bear on the box. I KNEW I didn’t dream it!
Simba, a soft drink from the Coca Cola company.
I don’t know what to tell you about the noodles, but you may want to check out Bulk Barn for the powdered cheese stuff.
7-Up Gold, available from 1987-89. A cinnamon-ginger soda with a sort of ‘earthy’ undertone. God, I loved that stuff.
I have a friend on a seriously reduced sodium diet, and as low fat as possible, for him I make a variety of soups, all based on my homemade chicken stock [bone in skin on chicken, a large onion, 3 whole large not baby carrots, 3 or 4 ribs of celery and a tablespoon of italian herbs. SImmer for a couple hours, remove all the solids, stash the liquid in the fridge for long enough to float the solidified fat which gets skimmed off. When I cook it into soup with other ingrendients, I can tweak the seasoning with pepper and other herbs like cumin, cilantro, sage or whatnot as needed.] I find that if you slice veggies paper thin or use fine dice or julienne they cook quickly at a simmer. A favorite of his is ‘spring soup’- a green onion, a carrot, a rib of celery, lettuce cut into julienne strips and fine dice of white meat chicken and added seasoning is cracked black pepper and a tiny dash of dill. If I store the stock in the freezer in 12 oz pucks [I mold in those chinese soup containers I get off Amazon], the stock is thawed and to an almost simmer bu the time I finished slicing and dicing the ingredients, and if I go with precooked chicken [I poach a bunch ahead of time in my sousvide and freeze it] I can get a bowl of soup on the table in about 20 minutes.
I personally like having 4 large chest freezers, it lets me premake and store stock - I also have currently beef stew, beef barley soup, chicken congee, pork rischert and pureed artichoke to make into soup. I have to admit, I tend to cook with minimal salt normally as a force of habit, if salted to taste it would get dangerous because I am a salt junkie [been known to lick the salt out of a pretzel bag]
I found that Campbells changed their flavor profile - the regular whole sodium chicken soups taste like dish water, the only soup of theirs I even bother to have on hand is the tomato soup [ingredients are basically tomato and water] not the bisque or anything fancy, but it is still the original profile and what I crave with grilled cheese sandwiches [made with Kraft singles, other cheeses just don’t taste right and the only time other than on toasted english muffins I like Kraft singles.]
My friend Dave found out the hard way in our high school cafeteria once that Suzy-Qs were flammable. Got a three-day inside suspension.
Sometimes I think I made this one up, but I swear that in the 70s my grandmother would purchase canned barbecue beans. I think that they were Campbell’s, with the red and white label, but also with a silhouette of cowboys at a campfire. Not baked beans, but barbecue beans. I really liked them.
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I’m not sure what you’re talking about in that big paragraph, but I am sure that it’s a political rant of some sort. This is not the place for political rants. This is an official Warning.
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This is what non-GMO corn looks like. I doubt it was very common in your childhood, either.
We all remember Bugles, they’re still around.
But who remembers Whistles? I liked them quite a lot. Daisies and Pizza Spins, not so much.
But all 4 of those products were brought out at the same time in 1965 by General Mills. Only Bugles made it past the 1970’s.
Kellogg’s Puffa Puffa Rice: lightly sweetened cinnamon-flavored puffed rice cereal.
You’ve made a compelling case! Where do I sign up?
This, over and over… this.
When I was about 17-18 (1997-98) I studied for a few terms at my local community college. I always had an afternoon break between classes, so every day I would walk down to the bookstore and buy a SoBe Zen Blend. I absolutely loved that stuff.
I actually remember the last time I had one: I was working a graveyard shift ca. 2002 and stopped at a convenience store on the way to work to get something to drink. They had a SoBe display with my old favorite right there in front. I picked one up out of nostalgia and since I was quite thirsty I drank it quickly after arriving at work. Had I known it would be the last one I’d ever have I would’ve savored it.
Man, I miss that stuff.
Progresso Chickarina soup. Available online, but I haven’t seen it in a store for years.
In the U.S. Mars was discontinued circa 2002 and replaced with Snickers Almond. Snickers Almond is not quite the same and not as good as Mars.
You can still get it in Europe. I had it on tap in Italy and it was celestial. In the U.S. it was made under contract by Miller. I really liked it and it accounted for half the beer I drank in the 70’s and 80’s. When Miller lost the contract to brew it some Canadian company made it for awhile but it wasn’t as good. I don’t believe you can get the European version in the USA. I saw the Swiss version here back in the early 80’s.
If nobody has mentioned it I’d like to bring up Josta. It was a unique flavored soda made by Pepsi in the mid-late 90’s. Only had about a 5 year run. Was one of the only non-diet sodas I drank.
I’m aging myself here, but I miss Jello Spoon Candy and Birdseye Thick & Frosty.
KABOOM! cereal … it was a goofy fruit-flavored circus-themed cereal with marshmallows …
Do they still make good and fruity candy?
I miss all the flavors of bubbleyum and bubblelicious…
Yes. But the only place I ever see it sold is at Woodmans. It’s one of the best fruit candies ever.