I’ve seen and purchased it several times in the last few months. The Walmart Supercenter near us carries it regularly. We have a discount grocery chain called Grocery Outlet, and I’ve gotten it there, too. It’s good stuff!
kaylasdad99, now I can’t find your post, but my grandfather loved Simba. I liked it, too. I remember it being pretty citrus-y. I think Fresca’s the closest I can come to Simba, but it doesn’t have the depth of flavor that Simba did. I haven’t tried Squirt and I wonder if that might be closer. Thanks for the memory, BTW.
In the early 2000s, Taco Bell had mexi-nuggets. They were wonderfully salty, greasy, seasoned little discs of shredded potato. I haven’t liked anything from Taco Bell nearly as much as I loved those.
I search the produce stands, but I can never find tamarillos.
It tastes like a cross between kiwi fruit and tomatoes. I loved them. I would cut the tops off and eat the insides with a spoon.
I used to find them at Whole Foods but I haven’t seen them since the 90’s.
Thai Kitchen used to sell little jars of roasted red chili paste. Hot but sweet. They still sell little jars of other stuff - including a red curry paste that keeps giving me false hopes when I see it on shelves at a distance - but the roasted chili version seems gone. Delicious in anything even vaguely resembling Asian dishes, and surprisingly wonderful in American style meat marinades. For a time it was my version of Frank’s Red Hot sauce: I put that shit on everything!
Also, Swanson used to sell packets of chicken stock concentrate as a thick goo, called Flavor Boost. In my kitchen, they didn’t boost anything’s flavor, because I became addicted to them. Straight outta the packet, a little bit at a time. Like a chicken-y Vegemite salt bomb.
Christ what I wouldn’t give to have either back in stock, even briefly. I’d hoard the shit out of every package I could find for sale.
Is that like the Ocarina of Time (from Zelda) but chicken flavored?
My constant complaint – Breyers Ice Cream, back before they started adding gums and stabilizers to it. Their vanilla ice cream was just cream, sugar, and vanilla – that’s all. Their other flavors were similarly sparse. Once they started adulterating it, I could both taste and feel the difference.
I’ve tried lots of other brands since, but the only generally-available gum-free brand I’ve found is Turkey Hill.
Here’s the ingredients list for their Vanilla Bean Ice Cream:
They are everywhere around Frederick, Maryland; they really never went away there. Apparently many of the restaurants located in and around Frederick were franchisee-owned by the Plamondon family, so they were protected from the takeover and remained. They bought all the rights to the franchise from Hardee’s in 2002 and have been slowly opening new stores, starting in Maryland and planning to expand outward from there.
I know of at least 5 Roy’s in Montgomery County, where before there had been only one remaining restaurant, the one by Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg (the others are in Aspen Hill, Rockville, Germantown, and Burtonsville).
Someone above mentioned Fortified Oat Flakes, which was my first thought for this thread.
I loved to wash that down with canned Pineapple/Grapefruit juice, which I have been unable to find for about 30 years - not sure why.
Tropicana once had some “juice blends” which included a delicious orange/raspberry blend, but I suspect these were just market trials.
My most recent loss is Emerald Dry-Roasted Walnuts - they covered walnuts in that spicy, crunchy stuff that is usually on peanuts. Cannot find these anywhere.
They also had a cocoa version where the walnuts were covered in what amounted to chocolate milk powder - it was like eating a cakeless brownie.
There were times when nothing would satisfy but a meal of Arthur Treacher’s fish ‘n’ chips, which apparently faded away as cod became scarce. Apparently there are only seven ATs left; 3 in NYC and 4 in eastern Ohio. I’m nowhere near either of those locations.
Ran into a Arthur Treacher’s deep fried creatures on the south side of the Jersey Turnpike about 3 years ago, partnered with something else in one of the southbound rest stops.
Cinnamon Frosted Mini-Wheats - From the 1970s. They used to be a lot bigger, and the cinnamon flavor was great. There’s really no equivalent flavor today.
Mama Gibbles Sour Cream and Onion Potato Chips - I enjoyed these during my college years (early 80s) They had a unique sour cream flavoring and lots of it.
Breyers Yogurt - Stawberry Walnut flavor - Also from my college years. Breyers doesn’t even make yogurt anymore.
Snapple Cherry Flavored Tea - From earlier this century, maybe, but still missed. My all-time favorite Snapple flavor.
Vernors Ginger Ale - Not discontinued, but hard to find in New Jersey
Old El Paso prepared taco meat. Came in beef and chicken varieties. Totally a “laziness” product, but it was a really convenient laziness product. It made the most effort-intensive part of making tacos a simple matter of microwaving the tub.
I remember moving in the 70s, and our boxes of stuff arrived days before the furniture did. I remember sitting on boxes in the kitchen eating a meal of those breakfast bars.
I did not know this! I loved those egg rolls, too. I’ll need to check that out.
Also, for myself: Totino’s mini pizzas; little hexagonal pizzas that came with their own little pan for the oven. Mom used to make those for sleepovers, and I loved them.
Jell-O Pudding Pops: I’ve seen something in stores that passes for them once in a while, but they’re not right. You should be able to chip off the outer ice coating with your teeth to get to the creamy, yummy, frozen pudding goodness.
Another frozen treat was Dannon Frozen Yogurt bars; they looked like your standard ice cream bar on a stick, but inside the chocolate coating was raspberry yogurt. I’ve found a couple of black raspberry chip ice creams that do in a pinch, but they don’t have the same tang as those yogurt bars.
