# 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:** 6
**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 21, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/101 "2007-09-21T19:47:21Z")
I also miss Frosted Rice Krinkles cereal…like Rice Krispies only flat, not puffy (think Pebbles shape and Rice Krispies flavor.) ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/102 "2007-09-21T19:50:55Z")
Dunkin Donuts chocolate creme filled donuts. My sister and I used to beg my mom to buy us one on Sunday mornings on the way to church. Sigh. I haven’t seen them in 30 years or more. ---
**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, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/103 "2007-09-21T20:09:48Z")
> [@](#): > > I can still get Olde Tyme Ginger Beer in Canada (thanks to elfbabe). Good to know, but are you sure it’s the same stuff? A Google search does not turn up any easily identifiable sites where it can be purchased, even when I limit the search using “Canada.” I would drive to BC for it. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/104 "2007-09-21T23:04:19Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] 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. [/QUOTE] Yes, I did upthread. Loved the orange and lime flavors of that. ---
**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, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/105 "2007-09-21T23:18:14Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] Good to know, but are you sure it’s the same stuff? A Google search does not turn up any easily identifiable sites where it can be purchased, even when I limit the search using “Canada.” I would drive to BC for it. [/QUOTE] Yes, it’s the same label, same logo, and even more importantly, the same taste. I drank a _lot_ of Old Tyme Ginger Beer back when it was available in the states, and this is the real deal. I’ve still got 3 or 4 bottles of the stuff from my Canadian source at present. I’ve only seen it in Ottawa though, so you might want to check out sources in BC before heading there. And I’ve had the same lack of luck regarding Google searches for this product. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/106 "2007-09-21T23:29:05Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Old Coke. It’s not that tough to get Coke imported from another country, which will, I’m sure, be the same as Coke was here before the switch to corn syrup. > [@Little Wing](#): > > Hell, even better, TACO flavored Doritos. Now all they have is Doritos that smell like dirty feet. There are “Toasted Corn” Doritos, which are basically tortilla chips, and Buffalo & Bleu Cheese (even though it says “blue”, those dumbasses) is surprisingly good. And I really miss Chick-Fil-A from my days in Arizona, where there was one on-campus at the U of A – but I found out the other day that one finally opened in San Diego! I’ll have to go check it out. > [@Cheez\_Whia](#): > > The french fries they have now are still better than Burger King’s. That’s not saying much. But the best fries anywhere, period, are the waffle cut fries at Chick-Fil-A (since In-N-Out Animal Style fries don’t really count…) > [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > We frequently wore the candy necklaces which turned our sweaty, spitty little necks irridescent colors. Those became popular again in my first couple years of high school (2000-02ish), thanks to the surge in E use. > [@Kalhoun](#): > > Even the ones with the sugary stick you could dip into the powder. I used to eat Fun Stix (or something like that), which sounds like exactly the same thing. > [@gwendee](#): > > The macaroni was long (8" or so) WTF? 8 inches? Are you sure? > [@tdn](#): > > Mr. Pibb. If anything, there’s far too much Mr. Pibb in the world. JMHO. > [@PoorYorick](#): > > I miss those thick glass bottles that soft drinks used to be bottled in I can still get them by the bottle in any neighborhood here with a high immigrant population. YMMV. > [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > That’s right, the potato stayed a potato until after you ordered fries. Only then would it become french fries. Fried up right then and there in front of you. That’s true at In-N-Out, too. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/107 "2007-09-22T01:49:57Z")
PuffaPuffa Rice cereal. According to the 70’s commercial, it was hot-blown right out of a Hawaiian volcano, with a whole bunch of luau natives celebrating it. Guess it costs too much now to do that. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/108 "2007-09-22T02:20:47Z")
Oh, well, of course the internets have a [YouTube documentary](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvCxfdcl1yM) on Puffa Puffa Rice Forgot about the Oceans of Energy part, but, I well remember wanting to have the cereal blown out of a volcano as a part of my day as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/109 "2007-09-22T14:07:18Z")
I used to love those freezer pops in the plastic tube. I know you can still get them, but few people keep them around unless they have a regular stream of keeblers running around. When our friend’s daughter was a wee tot, I bought a huge box of them for like $3. I’d grab a half dozen at a time and freeze them for when she was over. She thought they were da bomb. ---
**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 22, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/110 "2007-09-22T14:23:38Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] I used to love those freezer pops in the plastic tube. [/quote] Kool Pops! Yeah! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/111 "2007-09-22T14:45:23Z")
Anyone remember those new-fangled hot dog buns that weren’t hinged, but had a hot dog shaped impression in the middle so your hot dog wouldn’t fall out? I can’t remember what they were called…wagon wheel somethin’? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/112 "2007-09-23T17:46:05Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] Kool Pops! Yeah! [/QUOTE] Never heard of Kool Pops. We had Otter Pops and Flavor Ice! ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/113 "2007-09-23T19:12:46Z")
I have very fond childhood memories of a candy that nobody else remembers but me and one friend of mine. When we talk about it, everyone else looks at us like we’re insane. They looked just like M&Ms, only in just two colors, dark brown and light green. They had crowns printed on them where the M would go, and tasted like mint chocolate. Does anyone remember these at all? ---
**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 23, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/114 "2007-09-23T23:02:36Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] Never heard of Kool Pops. We had Otter Pops and Flavor Ice! [/QUOTE] [Kool Pops](http://members.tripod.com/~NightGarden/kapops1.jpg) But here’s one ones I remember [best](http://tv4u.com/commercials/classic_commercials/images/kool_pops_commercial.jpg). [sub]tiny little picture![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/115 "2007-09-23T23:22:04Z")
I had this sno-cone machine. It was so cool, but my mom never replenished the syrup. [Frosty Sno-Man Sno-Cone Machine by Hasbro - Sam's Toybox](http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/Frosty.html)☹ ---
**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 24, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/116 "2007-09-24T02:08:40Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] I had this sno-cone machine. It was so cool, but my mom never replenished the syrup. [Frosty Sno-Man Sno-Cone Machine by Hasbro - Sam's Toybox](http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/Frosty.html)☹ [/QUOTE] OMG, another blast from my past! I had the Frosty model too! Our syrup didn’t get replenished either. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/117 "2007-09-24T02:21:09Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] OMG, another blast from my past! I had the Frosty model too! Our syrup didn’t get replenished either. :mad: [/QUOTE] I wonder if you could fake it in with a non-frozen Kool-Pop!!! ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/118 "2007-09-24T02:50:21Z")
**QtM,** I always thought you were, like, this wise old dude, because of all your medical knowledge ‘n’ stuff. But – holy shit! – we must be close to the same age. Turkish Taffy! Fizzies! Holier shit! Maybe I’m old! 😉 There used to be a Snackwells chocolate yogurt. It tasted like chocolate pudding. It probably WAS chocolate pudding, which is why it went off the market. \*\* LavenderBlue\*\*, my local grocery store carries the salmon cream cheese. YUM! Just had some last week spread on slices of rye bread. I can be your fixer! My e-mail address is in my profile. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/119 "2007-09-24T03:37:44Z")
Carnation’s Instant Breakfast in other flavors besides chocolate (I can get all I want if I want chocolate) Grape Nuts O’s cereal. That gets discontinued in the stores I visit and yet they still sell the flakes?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694/120 "2007-09-24T04:29:30Z")
[QUOTE=danceswithcats] 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. [/QUOTE] No…there was a flavored pop called Aspen, very crisp and apple-y. I remember getting some out of a machine while on a road trip to New Mexico, mid-90s. I think I’ve even seen it since then. What I miss–and this is impossible to replicate, I think–is this spiced tea mix made by my mother and other ladies in her circle, consisting of Tang, instant tea, and some spices like cinnamon and clove. Also lots of sugar. Loved the stuff. She used to include it in the care packages she sent to me in college. I think I have the recipe for it in some old church cookbook but who can find Tang or instant tea? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-miss-name-yours/419694.md?page=7)