What ever happened to those old foods that ruled, but are semingly impossible to get?
I was at the store today and couldn’t find the spagettios with meatballs, there were regular, with calcium, and with franks, no meatballs! It’s been like that for the past year! Did they stop making them? Or is my local store not carrying them (I have also not found them in at least two other stores, one in my state, and another in New York (the stores were Shaw’s, Grand Union, and Price Chopper))
Also, those potato chips Keebler made, Tater Skins, I think they were called. They ruled!
In case there was any doubt that Tenar is older than dirt:
Does anybody remember Shake a Pudding? An amusing but revolting little product, Shake a Pudding was an instant pudding mix in a cup. All you had to do was add milk, or water, or whatever it was, close the top and shake! Viola! Poor quality pudding! (Also, you were supposed to sing “Shake shake shake a pudding, shake shake shake a pudding” while you shook the container.) Anyway, it was fun even though the pudding sucked.
How about Danish Go-Rounds? Not to be confused with today’s toaster danish, Danish Go Rounds were nasty-looking twists of chemical laden “dough” filled with a mysterious substance and drizzled with a uniform stripe of shellac-like frosting. They were meant to be put in the toaster, but I was often to be found furtively devouring them cold in whatever corner my mother wasn’t in at the moment. Stealing them from my little brother was my entree (pardon the pun) into the wild world of eating disorders!
I also miss Team Flakes. Nothing special, just a groovy unfrosted breakfast cereal that I really liked.
Whe summer it first came out, my mom bought a whole case containing 18 cartons or something like that. For three days straight, my 4 brothers and I ate practically nothing else.
Another cereal I miss is Marshmellow Rice Krispies, remember those? They also had Chocolate Rice Krispies (NOT the Cocoa Krispies with the monkey, actual chocolate flavored Rice Krispies.)
Although I wasn’t a fan of the chocolate ones, the marshmellow ones rocked!
(and who else remembers when Trix was in the shape of balls, not fruit?)
There used to be some kind of freaky pudding that you mixed up and dumped into cups and it separated out into three layers – dark, lighter and lightest. This was available at around the same time as a similar gelatine product called, I think, Jello One-Two-Three. Another nifty pudding product available at that time was some stuff that had a hard chocolate shell on the top. I don’t know whether the shell developed on its own, or if it had to be applied somehow… My mother (from whom I inherited a love of gadgetty foods) bought and made all of these items.
Also, about 10 years ago I used to be able to buy really cool hot dogs with a tunnel of chili inside. I loved those hot dogs!
You’re too high-toned for this gang, Zennie…I opened 'er up hoping to be able to bitch and moan about the difficulty of finding a cafe that’d serve me a nice bowl of neckbones with boiled potatoes and kraut, but these guys are all obsessing over Spaghetti-o’s and BooBerry breakfast cereal.
…but there’s GOTTA be some way to produce a palatable dish of chicken a la king, no? As a Dad Who Cooks, I’ve found a method for rendering Tuna Noodle Casserole tasty, which involves aged white cheddar and jalapenos…
Maybe its just the stores around here, but I’ve been to Winn Dixie, Publix, Food Lion, and Albertson’s and no…
“Droxies” - what Keebler renamed Hydrox when they bought Sunshine, perhaps so wimmin wouldn’t schmeer the creme on their faces (‘super skin creme, with alphy-hydrox’)
And those Keebler “Classic” sandwich cookies, they came in chocolate cookies with chocolate filling, and vanilla with vanilla. Would buy in pairs, then put both in the cookie jar (ok…rubbermaid thing), then be sure to get the same number of each … did I mention my job involves a lot of analytical work??
To hell with Who Moved My Cheese… Where oh where are my cookies?
Do they even make “New” Coke anymore? Not that I miss it, I was just wondering. It would be interesting to taste it again just to remember how awful it was.
I remember how people hoarded “old” Coke when it was announced they would stop making it. I resorted to drinking Cherry Coke back then only because I knew that it was made using “old” Coke with cherry flavor added.
I also miss Snak Pak pudding served in the metal containers. For some strange reason, it’s just not quite the same in the plastic containers. Anyone else remember cutting lips or tongues on the metal lids? Or your mom saying, “Don’t lick the lids!!!” Ahhh, memories!!
My Mom used to buy the whole wheat pretzels when I was little. I can’t find them anywhere now, but man were those things good. She also used to buy these cookies called “Amaranth cookies” or something like that. They were so yummy. I would pay good money for some of those now…sigh.