Does Stella D’Oro still make its Margherite Combination cookies? I haven’t seen them in the stores in more than ten years. The chocolate ones were mediocre, but the vanilla - pure ambrosia!! (The package claimed the company also made a vanilla-only version, but I never saw any.)
You know Kraft Cheez ‘n’ Crackers in those little two-compartment packages? The regular flavor was okay at best, but for a while in the early '80s they had varieties with “Taco” and “Pizza”-flavored cheese. MMMMMMMMmmmmmm, those were SO good!! There were, in fact, only two places I ever saw them: in the vending machine at my junior high school (1980-81), and at a local Safeway (1984). The three-year gap is a mystery!
Stouffers (or Swansons, I forget) Italian Sausage Sandwich, also early '80s. This came frozen, in two parts, with the bun in a foil bag and the meat in its own little pan. It was kind of a pain to prepare because you had to cook them separately, then assemble it and pour on the sauce. (There was also a Meatball Sandwich which wasn’t nearly as good.)
Freakies Cereal. We had to eat boxes and boxes of the stuff, just so we could collect all the goofy, little, monster characters. They tasted almost like Cap’n Crunch.
A couple years ago I stumbled upon a wonderful Quisp-full shelf at a grocery store. I almost broke out in tears. Those folks clearly knew who would be buying the cereal- on the side of the box was an offer for a Quisp watch- a few boxtops and $2.00 shipping and handling? Hah! Try $39.95. I passed, but now regret it.
Does anyone miss Big Wheels? Sure, you can get Ringdings or Dingdongs or some such confection, but it is not the same without that pantonicly pleasing yellow wrapper with Chief BigWheel staring out at me.
What about Marathon candy bars? Those long, flat chocolate chains. So I’m a bit cynical now and realize they were selling me more air than chocolate at the time, but man were they good.
Do they still make bubblegum in those long strips? Can’t for the life of me remember what they were called. Not the wound up tapeworms they sell now, but the foot-long, eighth of an inch thick, solid slab O gum. Mmmmmmmmm.
What about Libbyland Dinners? Please tell me someone out there remembers these. What a delight for six year old me to be blessed with the occasional treat – fun dinner, cartoons, and a game all at the same time!
Ah, food.
For a quick nostalgic look check out this page. It has a slew of images of products fromt he seventies or so, great to stir up memories. Has several of the delicacies mentioned in this yummy thread.
Skerri, you’re living up to your name here, but if you truly miss Jolt, then I’ve done your legwork for you. You can buy Jolt Cola by the case online at the Geek Bazaar. You can also get the (allegedly) grape- and orange-flavored Jolts, along with a shocking variety of other caffeine sources. Jolt is about $19 + S&H per case of 20 oz bottles.
I miss many of the foods mentioned - now I am especially sad about Screaming Yellow Zonkers. Not only did they taste great, I used to love reading the box. I didn’t even mind that they glued your molars together for a good 20 minutes or so.
For my own part, I spent a fruitless afternoon recently, looking for that vanilla ice cream & orange sherbert checkerboard stuff. You know, the kind Mom would serve in slices for especially elegant occasions? And that were utterly ruined the minute some Visigoth of a brother dug in with an ice cream scoop?
Yeah, I know… But Jolt was an amazingly good way to keep myself awake through high school. I’ve never had the <gack!> grape or orange flavors, though.
Thanks for the link! One of these days, I may just have to order a case or two to get me through these hellaciously boring meetings.
I really miss the Orange Crush, though. I know they sell it somewhere, dangit! A scoop of vanilla ice cream in a glass of Orange Crush… yumm!
Hah! I can remember foods that were extinct before most of you were born.
Who remembers Flav-R Straws, those gizmos that had some sort of flavor wafer inside so that when you sucked milk up through them, the milk actually tasted like icky artificial strawberries?
Four words: “I want my Maypo!”
Does anyone know if Bosco is still made?
And if anyone is still making those candy cigarettes, I’d like to know about it.
Orange Crush was okay, but what I miss is Pineapple Crush. Ok, I don’t really miss it, as it would be to sweet for my tastes now, but I loved it as a kid. It was so sugary that I’m surprised it wasn’t more viscous, like soda concentrate.
Another childhood fave that I haven’t seen for awhile is the Big Hunk candy bar.
I thought I was the only kid who ever ate that stuff–none of my friends seemed to remember it. Interestingly, I was eating Nintendo cereal before I had a Nintendo.
(1) Dr. Brown’s CELERY SODA-is this still made?
(2) Diet MOXIE-very good for dieting-one bottle of this stuff will kill your desire for food!
(3) Campbells FROZEN seafood stews-Shrimp and Lobster were excellent!
(4) Fox’s U-BET chocolate syrup
Ooh! I remembered another food I miss (which might actually still be here, I just haven’t seen it, is all)
Sugar Dadies! The caramel pops that hade the power to pull out your teeth! Remember those? Man, I swear I came so close to losing permanent teeth with those things.
