Foods I miss. Name yours!

[tdn]

@Emmy2635

Funny that you say that, because I just got Mr. Pibb from the fountain at Baja Fresh in Stoneham, MA today!

Really? Wow. I have never seen it in Boston.

[smhanse751]

the mc-rib from mcdonalds

[gravitycrash]

@Clockwork And Candy

Lemon Coolers, Hostess Snowballs, and unfrosted 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.

lemon coolers! I can’t find them anywhere, a wonderful cookie.

[Darth_Nader]

Carnation Instant Breakfast bars. How am I gonna take my son camping without 'em?

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

Danish go-rounds! Now those were trippy.

Bummer about the Fizzies. I’d still try one, though.

[dnooman]

@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!

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:

[Siam_Sam]

I miss Dr. Pepper, too. Always go out of my way for it when I’m in the US.

[lobstermobster]

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.

[Sleeps_With_Butterflies]

@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.

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.

[Ferd_Burfel]

@baffle

I miss beetroot on hamburgers, common in Australia, certainly never seen here. I don’t even know where to buy pickled beetroot.

@Zsofia

Uh, pickled beets are in your grocer’s canned vegetable section. Hardly rare.

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.

[Rube_E.Tewesday]

@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.

Available through the Hometown Grocer, already mentioned upstream.

[chaoticbear]

@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.

I’m in Arkadelphia, AR, so of course it’s everywhere. Much to the dismay of some Dr Pepper lovers.

[picunurse]

@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?

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.

[Rube_E.Tewesday]

@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.

Also available through Hometown Favorites

Quite the place.

[BJMoose]

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.

[anyrose]

@BJMoose

Carnation Instant Breakfast.

Come to the metro NYC area. It’s all over the place here.

[Labtrash]

Habitant Split Pea soup
and
Caines Mayonaise
both were plentiful in MA

Can’t find either here in SC

[Mangetout]

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.

[cmkeller]

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.

[KneadToKnow]

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.