Chocks apparently existed for a number of years back into the 1950s. So before my time. I don’t remember what brand Mom fed us as kids, but it wasn’t Chocks. I can still “see” the shape and colors of the pills & remember getting the “These aren’t candy” briefing. I must have been ~4.
Try this link for a real nostalgia hit: Chocks vitamins - Google Image Search.
My internet search for Buster Brown shoes has come up basically empty; all I see is Etsy pages or people selling reproductions. Does the Caleres company actually still make them?
Target is apparently selling Buster Brown Socks:
“sold and shipped by Prime Life Fibers Inc”
Prime Life Fibers Inc
Dating back to 2002, we began & continue to uphold a commitment to designing reusable products that offer leak-proof coverage for light to heavy incontinence. Our mission is to provide you peace of mind so that you can enjoy your golden years or any stage you are currently missing out on, wrapped up in worry We not only believe it but know that you can be yourself again.
Maybe Aunt Jemima? “To distinguish their pancake mix, in late 1889 Rutt appropriated the Aunt Jemima name and image from lithographed posters seen at a vaudeville house in St. Joseph, Missouri.”
Notably, “vaudeville performer Pete F. Baker, who played characters described in newspapers of that era as “Ludwig” and “Aunt Jemima”. His portrayal of the Aunt Jemima character may have been a white male in blackface, pretending to be a German immigrant, imitating a black minstrel parodying an imaginary black female enslaved cook.”
Product renamed in 2021, but apparently still mentioned in some slogans.
My mom bought us exactly one bottle of Chocks and quickly realized they were dangerous so we never saw them again. Her instincts were sharpened by the incident some time earlier in which I downed an entire bottle of St. Joseph’s Aspirin for Children (orange flavored chewable aspirin).
That’s such a remarkable sentiment! Canned spinach was added to the Popeye storyline in the 20’s to encourage consumption because of widespread malnutrition among children. Very clever, but I remember clearly how futile that promotion was in the face of such a vile product. Of course, tastes vary widely but for me “favorite canned spinach” is like “favorite poke in the eye.”
Loved that stuff as a kid. I exclusively eat fresh now, but I bet I could still kinda like it, even if not nearly as much. I still rather like canned green beans, the only canned vegetable I’ll still buy even if only once in a blue moon. But I grew up on canned sweet peas and creamed corn. There’s one in every crowd 
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That’s how I remember Flintstones being packaged circa 1972.
I’m guilty of taking @RealityChuck’s word on the shoes still being in production. Oops on me.
Upon further review …
I now think you’re right and they ceased production some time in the late 1980s to early 1990s. If we arbitrarily declare 1990 to be the shutdown year, then from when the comics stopped in 1923 to the shoes stopped in 1990 is 67 years.
So coincidentally, just shy of the Flintstone vitamins which are at 68 years.
I don’t think we can say for sure whether the shoes or vitamins are longer-lasting as of today. At least not without a bunch more research. But we can say the shoes’ record isn’t getting any longer while the vitamins are still going strong. So if the vitamins aren’t in the lead yet, they will be in a couple / few years. Unless they too suddenly succumb to a tragic marketing accident.
Felix Chevy in Los Angeles has been using Felix the Cat branding since 1923.
Skippy peanut butter. The Skippy comic strip character is no longer remembered.
This was the origin of the band name Betty’s Not A Vitamin.
I love Necco Wafers!
MHO: Spinach is meant to be an ingredient, not a free-standing dish, whether it’s cooked or not. I do know that some people really do like to eat cooked spinach; go for it, I guess.
There was a sequel to that 1994 live-action Flintstones film in 2000, titled Viva Rock Vegas. Didn’t have John Goodman in it, though.
This is an opportunity for me to share that I have nostalgic childhood memories of the 1994 film. I saw it in theatres when it came out, and the soundtrack CD was one of the first electronic media I ever bought myself. Still listen to it occasionally; includes an excellent rendition of the theme song by the B-52s.
I remember that the B-52’s did the theme for the movie, renamed the BC-52’s.
Was the B-side “Bedrock Lobster”?