# Foods I miss. Name yours! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694 "2007-09-19T02:23:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/61 "2007-09-20T00:03:50Z")
[QUOTE=Emmy2635] Funny that you say that, because I just got Mr. Pibb from the fountain at Baja Fresh in Stoneham, MA today! [/QUOTE] Really? Wow. I have never seen it in Boston. ---
**Author:** ![smhanse751](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@smhanse751](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smhanse751)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/62 "2007-09-20T00:27:31Z")
the mc-rib from mcdonalds ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/63 "2007-09-20T01:58:29Z")
[QUOTE=Clockwork And Candy] Lemon Coolers, Hostess Snowballs, and _un_frosted blueberry Pop-tarts. The only plain Pop-tarts I ever see are the icky cherry-heartburn-inducing-flavor. :\ Oh. And Charms lollipops. Not the blowpops, the old school lollipops. Those’ve gone the way of the dodo, I’m afraid. [/QUOTE] lemon coolers! I can’t find them anywhere, a wonderful cookie. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/64 "2007-09-20T02:09:58Z")
Carnation Instant Breakfast bars. How am I gonna take my son camping without 'em? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/65 "2007-09-20T02:26:25Z")
[Danish go-rounds](http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/pix551.jpg)! Now those were trippy. Bummer about the Fizzies. I’d still try one, though. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/66 "2007-09-20T02:36:02Z")
[QUOTE=Cheez\_Whia] IIRC, those old Carl’s Jr french fries were made from re-formed potatoes. They were sooo good! The french fries they have now are still better than Burger King’s. They also used to have hot dogs and several varieties of roast beef sandwiches. I particularly remember one with green chiles. Yum! [/QUOTE] You are correct, they were some form of re-formed potato. On more than one occasion as a kid, I asked to have those fries as my dinner. Guess how many times my parents let me do that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/67 "2007-09-20T03:56:47Z")
I miss Dr. Pepper, too. Always go out of my way for it when I’m in the US. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/68 "2007-09-20T04:21:23Z")
the finnish boyfriend wants me to tell you guys that he misses salmiakki from the motherland. I don’t miss it though. That stuff is foul. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/69 "2007-09-20T06:11:27Z")
[QUOTE=Little Wing] Original flavor Doritos. Hell, even better, TACO flavored Doritos. Now all they have is Doritos that smell like dirty feet. I second the Marathon Bars. Those were great. [/QUOTE] I loved the old Taco flavored Doritos. I was really excited when they relaunched them a few years ago (I think they said Taco Bell) but they were NOT the same. ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/70 "2007-09-20T13:06:06Z")
> [@baffle](#): > > I miss beetroot on hamburgers, common in Australia, certainly never seen here. I don’t even know where to buy pickled beetroot. [QUOTE=Zsofia] Uh, pickled beets are in your grocer’s canned vegetable section. Hardly rare. [/QUOTE] I think \*\*baffle \*\*was saying it was rare to find beets on a hamburger. What I miss most is Strawberry Crush soda. It was good all by itself, but add two scoops of vanilla ice cream and you have nectar of the gods. Also, put me down as a fan of Turkish Taffy. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/71 "2007-09-20T13:31:33Z")
[QUOTE=Ferd Burfel] What I miss most is Strawberry Crush soda. It was good all by itself, but add two scoops of vanilla ice cream and you have nectar of the gods. [/QUOTE] Available through the [Hometown Grocer](http://www.hometownfavorites.com/shop/candy_cat.asp?c=21&p=1&id=2083&newp=), already mentioned upstream. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/72 "2007-09-20T13:51:04Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] And where is that? Googling around on this, I found that Coca Cola really pushed it into the Dr. Pepper market, namely the south, and especially in Texas. But at one point they had big time East Coast distribution. When I lived in NY in the 70s, it was always a beverage option. But I have never seen the stuff in MA. Not once. [/QUOTE] I’m in Arkadelphia, AR, so of course it’s everywhere. Much to the dismay of some Dr Pepper lovers. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/73 "2007-09-20T14:17:23Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] Turkish Taffy. That was gooooood! Pretty damn chewy, though. I haven’t had it since the 60’s, but there may be a bit of it still stuck to one of my molars. Shake-a-pudding. By Jello. Annoying jingle, sorta gritty if you didn’t shake it enough, but it was 5th grade comfort food for me. Beeman’s pepsin chewing gum. Did they ever make a rennin flavor? [/QUOTE] I loved Beeman’s too. Rennin? That sounds scary. Wouldn’t it taste like urine and raise your blood pressure? I miss Big Hunk candy bars. It was chewy in your mouth, but it would shatter if you hit it before it got warm. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/74 "2007-09-20T14:36:52Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] I miss Big Hunk candy bars. It was chewy in your mouth, but it would shatter if you hit it before it got warm. [/QUOTE] Also available through [Hometown Favorites](http://www.hometownfavorites.com/shop/candy_cat.asp?search=big+hunk&newp=&p=1&id=21) Quite the place. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/75 "2007-09-20T14:46:41Z")
Fizzies. Mr. Cola. Carnation Instant Breakfast. Root Beer Kool-Ade. For a year or so there was something called Quick Shakes or some such - a powder you mixed with milk in a brown plastic shaker that came with the “starter kits”. Those large purple suckers, some of which came with a “You’re a winner!” sticker on the backside - get one of those and you got another one free. How I survived childhood on a diet like this, I’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/76 "2007-09-20T15:04:16Z")
[QUOTE=BJMoose] Carnation Instant Breakfast. [/QUOTE] Come to the metro NYC area. It’s all over the place here. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/77 "2007-09-20T15:21:27Z")
Habitant Split Pea soup and Caines Mayonaise both were plentiful in MA Can’t find either here in SC ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/78 "2007-09-20T15:24:58Z")
There used to be these cocoa flavoured candy cigars - bigger than those little white fake cigarettes that are now just called ‘candy sticks’, but made of the same sort of brittle, crumbly sugar candy. You can get ‘chocolate sticks’ now, which are just paper-wrapped cylinders of gritty chocolate, and you can still get the white candy sticks, but I can’t find the chocolate candy cigars anywhere, and I’ve looked far and wide, for years. I haven’t seen them since my late teens - more than a couple of decades ago. They had a distinctly powdery-cocoa mouthfeel to them and I miss them terribly. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/79 "2007-09-20T15:35:58Z")
Entenmann’s fudge iced devil’s food cupcakes. That thick, fudgy icing. The soft chocolate cake around thick cream in the center. G-d, I miss those. Curse whoever’s responsible for discontinuing that product. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/80 "2007-09-20T16:31:11Z")
Burger King’s old fries. They weren’t as good as McDonald’s but they were better than the crap they have now. Carnation Instant Breakfast _Bars_. They were dry as dust, chalky, and awesome with a big glass of milk. Then they changed them and made them chewy or something and ruined them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694.md?page=5)