# Long-lost foods you have loved **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 25, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083 "2004-05-25T23:53:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/121 "2004-05-29T03:03:39Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > [Crispy Critters](http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0725/) Ooh, I think I love you … or that’s just the beer talking. I guess Krispy Kremes rotted my brain into thinking it was spelled with Ks. One problem though, that article says “1987” I was kind of adulty by then and I am sure I remembered these from my childhood. Maybe it was a second coming of Crispy Critters? Also I remember them as tasting more like Alpha Bits in animal shapes, not like animal crackers … even though they looked like them. Then again, maybe I am thinking of Post Toasties? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/122 "2004-05-29T03:20:14Z")
> [@Tiramisu](#): > > … > Then again, maybe I am thinking of Post Toasties? Oops, no, apparently Post Toasties are just corn flakes and they still exist. That’s odd because I thought we only ate Kelloggs cornflakes. But anyway, Post Toasties is just fun to say. Post Toasties! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/123 "2004-05-29T03:43:21Z")
> [@Tiramisu](#): > > One problem though, that article says “1987” I was kind of adulty by then and I am sure I remembered these from my childhood. Maybe it was a second coming of Crispy Critters? Also I remember them as tasting more like Alpha Bits in animal shapes, not like animal crackers … even though they looked like them. Yeah, that was “critters reincarnated”. Check out [this site](http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-post.html) for more Crispy Critter history, including the bits about Linus the Lion-Hearted, Pink Elephants, Grape Apes, and other cereal weirdness. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/124 "2004-05-29T03:59:44Z")
What about Rice Krispy Treats Cereal? Do they still make that? ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/125 "2004-05-29T04:11:35Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > I think you are thinking of what I came in here to contribute: Whip N Chill. It was a jello-like substance that was whipped and would settle into three layers, the bottomo being gelatin, the middle being fluffy gelatin, and the top being almost like whipped cream. Loved it. The lemon flavor rocked. The time period it was available was around 1964 to maybe 1970, something like that. When I saw the OP, I came here to post it myself Jell-O 1-2-3 it was called. The top layer was white. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/126 "2004-05-29T04:32:55Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Yeah, that was “critters reincarnated”. Check out [this site](http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-post.html) for more Crispy Critter history, including the bits about Linus the Lion-Hearted, Pink Elephants, Grape Apes, and other cereal weirdness. You mean like [Wackies Cereal](http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-generalmills3.html) which featured **banana** shaped and flavored bits? Gotta wonder why _that_ wasn’t a hit! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/127 "2004-05-29T05:01:01Z")
Canada must be some sort of vast dumping ground for beloved but rare foodstuffs. I’m pretty sure several of the foods mentioned in this thread are still available here (or have been over the last six months, anyhow). Toffifay is sold here as Toffifee. Made by the Sturck company, it’s still around. Dixie Cups are still around. Fruit Stripe isn’t sold in Canada but I buy it but the sackful when I go to Michigan and other northeastern states. Magic Shell is sold here. Lik-m-Aid might be still around at specialty candy stores. Pepsi Blue is still sold here, I wish they’d make a diet version. Other stuff too. I’m too lazy to re-read the whole thread. Aero, Mirage, evaporated milk and Snickers are here; the specialty Cadbury’s store at the local outlet mall sells Wispa. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/128 "2004-05-29T05:07:56Z")
I miss Fruit Stripe gum (no longer sold in Canada, still in the US), Keebler Tato Skins potato chips, Marks & Spencer Sizzles and Chiplets (still available in the UK), “Mr. Skinny” light ramen noodles (the chicken-sesame oil ones are available in Asian grocery stores here still), Canada Dry “Sport” cola, The Pop Shoppe (possibly extant in larger Canadian cities), Red Barn restaurants, Mothers’ (pizza and pasta) restaurants and Worcestershire Sauce flavoured potato snacks (still available in the UK). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/129 "2004-05-29T12:30:15Z")
I will mention that those little wooden paddles that came with Dixie cups still make me nauseous. I hate them so much that, if I see someone else using one, I will tell them to use a real spoon. I will even go get them a real spoon. Those things creep me out. I know another Doper (Coldfire?) has the same obsession. Ramen noodles use to make a Tomato-Vegetable flavor that was soooooo goooood. The “tomato” part was a red paste that stuck to the walls of the cup. If you dumped the noodles,poured in hot water, and swished it around, then put the noodles back, it was great. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/130 "2004-05-29T14:46:10Z")
I just thought of another: Apple flavored Kool Aid. I loved that stuff. I don’t know when it disappeared, because I stopped drinking Kool Aid around the age of 14 for some reason, then when I was around 23 I decided I liked Kool Aid again and looked for it, but they’d changed almost all the flavors to “Berrysaurus Crunch” and the like, and apple was gone. So was lime (a.k.a. Green, because everyone knows Kool Aid comes in colors, not flavors), though I heard a rumor it’s still available in other parts of the U.S. Apple Kool Aid made the BEST homemade popsicles. For some reason it formed a sticky gooey extra-sweet coating when it froze. mmm. That, and when you first mixed it up and it was a little foamy, it looked like Beer! ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/131 "2004-05-29T14:55:21Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > **Dixie Cups**. At least, that’s what we called them: a paper cup of ice cream, half-vanilla, half-chocolate. You ate them with a thin wooden spoon. Bah! That’s a Hoodsie! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/132 "2004-05-30T19:41:05Z")
A defunct restaurant chain called “Ollie’s Trolleys” used to make incredible spiced french fries. I’ve had spiced frinch fries elsewhere since, but none as good as Ollie’s. ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/133 "2004-05-31T01:09:32Z")
On the website that was mentioned (much) earlier, I saw something about the instant oatmeal that had the flavored…stuff…that you would swirl on top. The website mentioned strawberry, maple syrup (I think) and chocolate…I remember the first two. OH MY GOD I MISS THAT!!! I WANT SOME RIGHT NOW!!! I have no idea if it is still made, because I haven’t thought about it in years. I swear…I am hungry and that is the \*only thing on this earth \* I want to eat right now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/134 "2004-05-31T02:25:44Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Nabisco used to sell a cookie that was chocolate wafers with a chocolate filling. They were about twice the diameter of an Oreo and had concentric circles on them. I don’t recall the name right now (Wagon Wheels?), but I loved them. If it had a marshmallow layer as well, they were called Wagon Wheels and are still sold in Canada. At least I think so. I loathe “raw” marshmallow in its natural marshmallow-y state, so I haven’t paid a whole lot of attention. I miss a Cadbury brand chocolate bar called Wig Wag. It was 3 intertwined ribbons of caramel covered in chocolate. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/135 "2004-05-31T03:49:01Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > I _do_, however, remeber a cereal which featured a tree on the cover and small monster shaped cereal pieces underneath the tree, I’m wondering if that’s a box of [C]rispy [C]ritters or something else entirely. You’re thinking of [Freakies](http://www.retrocrush.com/monsters/98.html). **Annie-Xmas** : Bugles and Daisies were accompanied by Whistles. From [this thread](http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2034): > [@](#): > > I think the snack you are remembering is Daisies. They were introduced by General Mills in the late 1960s as part of a trio of new products. The others were Bugles, which everyone remembers and which are still available today, and Whistles, which were a like a short tube of Cheeto-like material, baked version. Daisies were very light, almost melted when you put them in your mouth, and had softly scalloped edges. They were a cupped shape as described. Actually, I’d say Bugles and their “sister snacks” originated in the mid-'60’s, as they were available when I was in first or second grade (1965-67). AFAIK, Pizza Spins came along a few years later. ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Time\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/136 "2004-06-03T19:13:42Z")
> [@vanilla](#): > > When I saw the OP, I came here to post it myself > Jell-O 1-2-3 it was called. The top layer was white. Today I was cleaning out my cabinets and thought of this thread, because lo and behold: a box of Jello 1-2-3 in all its unopened glory was waiting for me. I’m trying really hard not the think about how old it is, or the age of the other 23 ( 😕 ) boxes of JELLO that have obviously been procreating in the depths of my cabinets to take over the world. So, now the question is whether I whip up a batch and hope it doesn’t kill me, or, judging by the responses in this thread, head to e-bay… ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/137 "2004-06-03T20:01:54Z")
When I was 10 I lived in Leopoldville, now Kinshasha, in the Congo then Zaire, then the Congo. We went to the Mont Blanc ice cream shop, where I had citroen ice cream, which I can still taste to this day. It was not lemon sherbert, though I like that also. I had something almost like it once in London, but no ice cream place in the US even comes close. Anyone remember BirdsEye International vegetables? A couple of them had recipes for one dish meals that I made in grad school. And my mother and grandmother made killer blintzes from scratch. ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/138 "2004-06-03T20:30:16Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > And my mother and grandmother made killer blintzes from scratch. This doesn’t count because no one compares to mom. No one has ever made a tuna fish sandwich as good as my mom (can o’ tuna + mayo+white bread) Does anyone remember the fast food chain Burger Chef? They had an early version of a Happy Meal in the early 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/139 "2004-06-03T20:37:40Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > We went to the Mont Blanc ice cream shop, where I had citroen ice cream, which I can still taste to this day. I can see how that would be pretty unforgettable. 😉 Citron, maybe? [Citron](http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/citron.html) mmmmm. Blintzes. ---
**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083/140 "2004-06-03T22:31:04Z")
Blum’s Thin Mints. Square, dark-chocolate-coated, each one in a little tissue pocket in a standard pound box (like See’s boxes). Really nice. They changed hands and are no more. “After Eight” mints look like them but are too thick, and don’t taste at all the same. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lost-foods-you-have-loved/247083.md?page=6)