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?
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!
Yeah, that was “critters reincarnated”. Check out this site for more Crispy Critter history, including the bits about Linus the Lion-Hearted, Pink Elephants, Grape Apes, and other cereal weirdness.
What about Rice Krispy Treats Cereal? Do they still make 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.
You mean like Wackies Cereal which featured banana shaped and flavored bits? Gotta wonder why that wasn’t a hit!
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.
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).
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.
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!
Bah! That’s a Hoodsie! 
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.
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. 
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.
You’re thinking of Freakies.
Annie-Xmas: Bugles and Daisies were accompanied by Whistles. From this thread:
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.
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…
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.
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.
I can see how that would be pretty unforgettable. 
Citron, maybe? Citron
mmmmm. Blintzes.
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.