# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/81 "2007-09-20T19:06:20Z")
[QUOTE=BJMoose] 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. [/QUOTE] Sounds like what we called All Day Suckers, but I don’t know if that was the real name for them or not. ---
**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, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/82 "2007-09-20T19:43:41Z")
Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies! ---
**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, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/83 "2007-09-20T20:02:39Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies! [/QUOTE] And I almost forgot Sugar Mamas! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/84 "2007-09-20T21:20:54Z")
When I was in college, there was restaurant here in town that made the best damned reuben sammich ever. At least once a week I would go in there for lunch and get me a reuben with a side order of fries ‘n’ chicken gravy. Absolute heaven. The sumbitch owner closed the restaurant about fifteen years ago to go into real estate. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/85 "2007-09-20T21:52:11Z")
[QUOTE=Shoeless] When I was in college, there was restaurant here in town that made the best damned reuben sammich ever. At least once a week I would go in there for lunch and get me a reuben with a side order of fries ‘n’ chicken gravy. Absolute heaven. The sumbitch owner closed the restaurant about fifteen years ago to go into real estate. [/QUOTE] The last time I was in Fredonia NY I noticed that the Bomber House had closed, which was my childhood source for cheesesteaks. The perfect mix of fresh flavor and stale oil that no one seems to get right. I also miss Concord Grapes, but we get them here in Florida right about now, for about 3 weeks. Then they’re gone for another year. I’ve already had my fix for this month but by the time I want some next month they’ll be gone again ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/86 "2007-09-20T21:53:11Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Mars bars. Not those things they have in the UK and call Mars bars. What we had was more like a Snickers bar but without the peanuts. It might have had almonds or I am misremembering because it was so long ago. And of course the one I mention every time this type of thread pops up. The PB Max. [/QUOTE] American Mars bars had almonds. For a time, you could get the same candy bar, but with a very different name. Alas, Snickers Almond aren’t around anymore either. ☹ I miss the original [Bar None](http://www.typetive.com/candyblog/item/i_miss_bar_none), chocolate Pop Tarts, chocolate toaster strudle, and that layered ice cream dessert that had crisp chocolate and vanilla ice cream. I can’t recall it’s name, but it was yummy! (It looked pretty too, wavy.) ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/87 "2007-09-20T23:08:30Z")
Boston Market (I know they are still in some locations, just not here). Doo-Dads (like a ready-made Chex party mix) Grape Tang Heyday Bars (chewy caramel, marshmallow and nut bars) Jell-O Fruit & Cream Dessert Bars Kenny Rogers Roasters (disappeared at about the same time as Boston Market ☹ ) Mug-O-Lunch (anyone remember this one?) Rax Super Sour Smarties ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/88 "2007-09-20T23:11:22Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies! [/QUOTE] I’ve seen Sugar Babies in several places around here (Fort Worth, Texas). Usually they’re sold in cardboard boxes or cartons, not in the paper bags that I remember from my youth. They are just as sugary now as they were back then. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/89 "2007-09-21T00:03:59Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] I also miss Concord Grapes, but we get them here in Florida right about now, for about 3 weeks. Then they’re gone for another year. I’ve already had my fix for this month but by the time I want some next month they’ll be gone again ☹ [/QUOTE] I love Concord grapes as well but didn’t get any this year. The vendor at the Farmer’s Market said his source got frozen out in spring, when there was a damaging frost. I have a recipe for grape pie that won’t work with anything but Concord, because you have to slip the skins off of the grape pulp. ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/90 "2007-09-21T01:59:08Z")
On my list are: Pizza Spins Mystic Mint Chocolate Cookies ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/91 "2007-09-21T02:28:09Z")
Has anyone mentioned that Jell-0 1-2-3 dessert? that’s the one that you mixed up and then let it set. When it was “done” it had a layer of jello, a layer of kind of a merangue-textured something, and then kind of a mousse-like substance on top. Very pretty, but tasted like the inside of a hockey skate. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/92 "2007-09-21T03:12:51Z")
Baskin Robbins **Watermelon Ice**. It was my fave during the mid-sixties. Googly-speaking, it seems to still exist, but I haven’t seen it in many, many years. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/93 "2007-09-21T04:07:44Z")
Olde Tyme Jamaican Style Ginger Beer, the only ginger beer that to actually anesthetize your esophagus. I recently had a bottle of Reed’s Extra Ginger Brew. It had a vile vegetably taste and I poured most of it down the drain. I haven’t thought about Shake-a-Pudding in a long time. Quisp and Quake. A package that contained the parts for a (foam? balsa?) airplane with a cartoony character on it, with a negligable piece of gum that I’d throw out. I didn’t like Freakies but would eat a bowl now for nostalgia. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/94 "2007-09-21T05:37:16Z")
[QUOTE=Faruiza] Now the only thing I haven’t seen mentioned here or anywhere, and I’m beginning to think I dreamed it up…Aspen. Apple flavored pop. Anybody remember that? I seem to recall getting a can of it delivered to my door from some promotion or something. I loved it, but something tells me that the memory of it is enough, because if it rears it’s ugly head again, and I taste it with adult taste buds, it’ll put me off of it real quick! [/QUOTE] Could you be thinking of [Apple Beer](http://www.applebeer.com/)? I remember that product had a brief appearance in the Philly market during the early 1960’s, and the stuff was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Cattitude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Cattitude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cattitude)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/95 "2007-09-21T10:27:17Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] McDonald’s Cheddar Melt. Perhaps it’s not as good as I remember it being, but it was oh-so-exciting when they’d bring it back every so often in their limited-time-only! promotions. [/QUOTE] Yes!!! Oh another Cheddar Melt fan. I used to LOVE these things… I don’t eat any fast food now but if the Melt came back, i’d be at Mc D’s in a second. ---
**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 21, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/96 "2007-09-21T12:52:37Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] Olde Tyme Jamaican Style Ginger Beer, the only ginger beer that to actually anesthetize your esophagus. I recently had a bottle of Reed’s Extra Ginger Brew. It had a vile vegetably taste and I poured most of it down the drain. [/QUOTE] I can still get Olde Tyme Ginger Beer in Canada (thanks to **elfbabe** ). Sorry you don’t care for Reed’s “extra Ginger”. It’s my second favorite (after A. J. Stephen’s). You can send me yours! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/97 "2007-09-21T14:35:59Z")
What was a Marathon bar in the US? In olden days in the UK, we had a Marathon, but it was the same as the US Snickers, and was eventually renamed Snickers to go with the rest of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/98 "2007-09-21T14:51:38Z")
Forever Yours candy bars; kind of like a Milky Way, but with richer nougat and covered in dark chocolate! Wheat Nuts! Raisins, Rice 'n Rye Cereal Waffelos Cereal Cheese Kisses Grape Tang Bacos Crackers Tab ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/99 "2007-09-21T17:01:23Z")
[QUOTE=PoorYorick] Sounds like what we called All Day Suckers, but I don’t know if that was the real name for them or not. [/QUOTE] Nah. These things were a couple of inches in diameter, about 3/8 of an inch thick, and the front had some sort of texture I do not recall well enough to describe. I suspect the name had something to do with the “prize” gimmick. **anyrose** : Guess I’ll have to look harder for Carnation Instant Breakfast. Or move to New York. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/100 "2007-09-21T19:36:32Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] What was a Marathon bar in the US? [/QUOTE] An “[eight inch, braided caramel bar coated in milk chocolate.](http://www.victoryseeds.com/candystore/confectioners/news/news_marathon_bar.htm)” As the linked page states, it was similar to the Cadbury “Curly Wurly” bar you may know. **Hazle Weatherfield** : TaB (as [this site](http://www.lundy.org/lundys/kensr/tabsoda/) insists on spelling it, in deference to the graphic on the cans) is available in the Lafayette area. I don’t drink it (flavor is what I’d imagine battery acid tastes like), but I periodically notice a few cartons on local grocers’ shelves. Distribution is apparently very much a hit-or-miss proposition. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694.md?page=6)