Sounds like what we called All Day Suckers, but I don’t know if that was the real name for them or not.
Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies!
And I almost forgot Sugar Mamas!
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.
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
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, 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.)
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
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.
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.
On my list are:
Pizza Spins
Mystic Mint Chocolate Cookies
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.
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.
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.
Could you be thinking of Apple Beer? I remember that product had a brief appearance in the Philly market during the early 1960’s, and the stuff was pretty good.
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.
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!
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.
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
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:
An “eight inch, braided caramel bar coated in milk chocolate.” As the linked page states, it was similar to the Cadbury “Curly Wurly” bar you may know.
Hazle Weatherfield: TaB (as this site 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.