I was going to say Quake Cereal, but if we start in on cereals, we’ll need a whole other thread.
As a child, I loved a powdered chocolate milk mix called PDQ. Actually it came in three flavors: chocolate, strawberry, and my favorite, eggnog! No wonder I was a fat kid.
Some of these things are still around. Lik-em-ade/Fun dip, Carnation instant breakfast, Otter Pops, Chef-Boy-Ardee pizza in a box. Not sure about Jiffy Pop, but I think I’ve seen it.
What I miss: The original “Taco” Doritos.
I just saw all three of these being sold at the cash register of my local Cracker Barrel. Every now and then, I buy some Clove Gum for my dad.
I remember candy dots being sold on black licorice.
Why did Carnation discontinue selling Breakfast Bars? They were great.
Zagnut. It was a candy bar that was basically a Clark bar without the chocolate, but covered in toasted coconut. I would always use my allowance to get them at the general store back in the 70s. I vaguely remember hearing a rumor about little worms in the Zagnut bars, but I don’t know if that was a widespread rumor or if it was a kid being mean to me. It didn’t matter, I ate them anyway, since I didn’t notice any worms.
I found them a few years ago in a little store somewhere in northern NYS (I forgot where) and bought a bunch of them, but I haven’t seen them since.
I saw button candy in a party store a couple of weeks ago and I still eat Otter pops.
I remember Millbrook bread. In fact, I was having a conversation with my husband about it just a week ago. My family always ate Millbrook, his family always ate Freihofers (I know I messed up that spelling).
Word! They were the best. Anyone know if some other manufacturer makes chips that taste like these? I’ll add that the nacho cheese flavored ones were much better back then also.
The candy that I want is Hershey’s Carmels. They came in regular and apple flavored. They were soft and creamy through and through. The stores don’t have them and the company web site doesn’t have them. I have to count them as gone forever. They must have had a market period of about two years.
They have them in Canada still. I eat them whenever I go home to visit. I’ll wager that you can find them online.
I miss Wig Wag candy bars. I’m sure there’s some British equivalent. They were sort of open-braided caramel covered in chocolate.
As long as we’re speaking of Dorito-type things, anyone remember Bravos? They were round instead of triangular and had kind of a richer, less artificial flavor than Doritos. I loved them! And I haven’t seen them in years.
Googling tells me that Wise is still making something they call Bravos, but they don’t look like the real thing to me…
Sakuma Drops, the candy seen in Grave of the Fireflies. No, I’m not that old, but the ones we had when I was little (late 70s) didn’t look very different from those in the film. It’s still available but it looks more different now.
Malt-O-Meal.
Tang. (eewww)
Ovaltine. Circa 1965 they were promoting Ovaltine as the healthiest thing in the world. Other kids hated the taste; instead of sugar, I think it used some sort of malted grain as sweetener. Plus chocolate.
The American equivalent was a Marathon bar, but I think they’re extinct. I haven’t seen one in years, and I don’t see them at the site I linked to earlier.
I remember them fondly.
I skimmed the thread and didn’t see this one. The only thing I want back are ‘Pudding Pops’, those things were the most wonderful frozen snack on the planet! I haven’t seen them for at least 15 years though. Are they around somewhere else? I used to spend 30 minutes slowly robbing them of the pudding goodness they contained. 
I remember a couple of pudding things my mom used to make back in the '70s. The first was similar to Jello 1-2-3, but pudding instead of gelatin. We always got the chocolate and it formed layers just like the Jello 1-2-3 – the bottom layer was plain pudding, then a chiffon-like layer, then a light, fluffy mousse-like layer. It was, according to my mother, a mix, not a special method of preparing regular jello. Like the Jello 1-2-3, you mixed it in a blender (maybe, or an electric mixer) and it separated out into layers on it’s own. I can’t find a refference to this stuff online, but if I’m imagining it, then my mom is too.
Around the same time, there was another pudding mix. This one had 2 layers – a pudding on the bottom and a hard shell on top. Pretty good, but not as good as the 3-layered kind.
Are you old enough to remember GRAPE Tang? Eeeww, indeed. I don’t know when they stopped making it, but I remember drinking it when I was a wee toddler in the early 70s.
I saw them in Price Chopper in Troy, NY about a year ago. 
My husband and I were surprised to see them, but were on a health kick at the time so we didn’t get any. I should head over there and see if they still have them.
Flavored peanut butter. One of the greatest things I ever ate. Came in vanilla, banana, cinnamon, and chocolate. Great washed down with Hills Brothers Flavored Mocha Coffee–basically coffee and chocolate with another flavor thrown in: mint, butterscotch, vanilla, and the best of all coconut.
Hey thanks! I found a page that says “we can’t get 'em, but here’s the British equivalent” - Curly Whirly or something like that.
In a local discount store [Ocean State Job Lot, they buy discontinued foodstuffs and sell it really cheaply] We have found pineapple and prune tang flavors, arabic markings on one side of the cannister and english on the other. This was about 10 years ago, and we have kept looking for more odd flavors but no luck =(
I’m probably coming in too late, but for those missing Taco flavored Doritos, they are still distributed at grocery stores I frequent. Omaha, NE, USA area.
Perhaps your local grocery retailer could be convinced to periodically put in an order for same. I’m not in the grocery business, but I’m guessing that certain products are likely still available somewhere in the country, but the usual sales numbers for product zyx aren’t high enough for them to routinely order it. Shelf space that’s not making enough profit. But if they had a guaranteed sale… that would be different.
PRUNE TANG? Ohmigod 