Better than Nose’s Nad Wax.
And less painful. Ovaltine. I drank it (also ate copious quantities, dry with a spoon) as a kid, but I have yet to see anyone actually have any in their carts. Yet it remains on the shelf.
Olive loaf. I have never found anyone who likes it. But there it is.
Reusable. And make great gifts.
When I was poor, for some reason I had a large box of baking soda. 40#? Anyway, I used it for cleaning and washing clothes, using Fels Naptha on dirty spots. Worked quite well.
One of my aunts used to send me Christmas cookies in huge glass jars, some of which I still have, now used for flour & sugar.
The cookies never tasted very good. Mom said that was because auntie used lard instead of butter. Was she just blowing this out of her ass, or do we have it backwards? Maybe the cookies were stale by the time we got them (bulky shipping was slow in those days).
“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”
My kids have Ovaltine nearly every morning. Well, the 6 year old now prefers his milk “plain”, but the 4 year old insists on it.
Potted Meat Food Product. It’s the stuff two shelves down from tuna, one shelf down from deviled ham, and very possibly the cheapest meat-based food in any grocery. They typically have dust on the cans and prices that look like a misprint.
for the greasy look, I always used “Dippity Do” gel. Of course its a gel so it only looks greasy, but dries to a hard, industrially-applied hairspray-like feel.
The most unusual thing I’ve ever seen at a local grocer was prickly pear cactus. Not the super sweet, red colored, prickly pear fruits themselves, but the green prickly pear cactus plant leaves. They had little tear-away pad of different recipes stuck to the front of the cooler to use them with.
Lard, while limited in selection, was not unheard of.
A crummy commercial? On the Dope!
Son of a bitch…
I frequently just gawk, mouth open-puzzled look, at the section of a top shelf in the canned food section that has the potted “meats” and such. The labels of many of these “meats” are nightmare fuel.
Who buys this stuff?
Searching indicates that the proper term is “potted meat food product”. Read the Wikipedia page at your own risk. Never mind actually eating the stuff: “… make it unhealthy for regular consumption.”
raises hand
And not even so much me. I only have maybe 6 cans of Spam and related potted meat products in the house. My folks, good Eastern Europeans that they are, stockpile this stuff in case of nuclear war. If you ever find yourself in a Polish or Eastern European supermarket, or one that has a decent section that caters to them, your mind will be blown at the varieties of potted meats, pates, canned hams, mysterious meat and offal spreads you will find there.
Just like the lard that started the conversation, cactus leaves are extremely common in Mexican cuisine.
Twenty minute response time–not bad, not bad at all. 
Yea, nopales are widely available. Sometimes they’re the whole leaves (paddles? Tongs are provided), sometimes the spines are clipped, other times the fresh leaves are despined and cut into strips (rajas) before being portioned into a deli tray and wrapped. The rajas are also available canned.
A second hand is raised.
My local Vietnamese grocery caries a variety of the offal spreads, useful when preparing banh mi.
I found my old Hungarian cookbook a few days ago and was flipping through it. Virtually every recipe (apart from a few desserts) requires lard, often in large dollops.
That said, from what I remember of my (Hungarian) mother’s cooking she preferred bacon grease to lard, although obviously not for pastry - she used Crisco for that.
“But I want a Red Ryder BB gun!”
Indeed. Around here, you will usually find whole, despined paddles in the produce section. Then there’s usually plastic bags of the paddles diced into maybe 1/2 inch cubes. That’s usually in the refrigerated part of the produce section, IIRC. Then there’s the cactus salad you find in the jars (and I think at the salad bar, too). And also the canned cactus. I don’t think my grocery has the fresh cut-into-strips version from what I remember.
You can also find big leaves of aloe at the local grocery here, too. At least I think it’s aloe. I suppose it could be maguey, or something else, though I’m pretty sure it was aloe.