Yep, Tuna Twist makes tuna taste…fresh from the garden! I haven’t been able to find WheatNuts for ages. Forever Yours candy bars! Crane Potato Chips. Raisins Rice 'n Rye Cereal. Corn Nuts. Corkers (corkscrews? Corn chips shaped like corkscrews.) Boo Berry and Fruit Brute Cereals. Freakies! Toffifay! Rollo’s…you can roll a Rollo to your friend!
Quisp: I see it regularly at The Fresh Market. If you have one of those nearby, you may want to give it a shot.
Moon pies are ubiquitous around here. Mallo cups are fairly easy to find — they’re in a lot of convenience stores. If you’re jonesing for the chocolate/marshmallow combination, apparently North Carolina is the place to be.
I really liked the apple newtons, but for a brief time, they also had cherry newtons. Those were incredible.
I used to love a cereal called NutriGrain. Its ingredient list was pretty much 100% whole wheat. It tasted great, and was a very healthy cereal. Of course, they dropped it. I complained to Kelloggs, to no avail. When they reintroduced “new, improved” NutriGrain a few years later, they notified me, but they had ruined the cereal. It had a long list of ingredients, didn’t taste as good, and wasn’t as healthy.
And I don’t remember the brand name (Morton’s?), but when I was a kid (late 60’s), there were frozen cinnamon sugar mini-donuts to reheat in the oven. They were heavenly. If they were still around, however, I would probably weigh about 600 pounds.
Russell Stover’s Honeysuckle Straws. Crunchy candy sticks in lemon, lime, and cinnamon…similar to ‘reception sticks’ but bigger and thicker and not dipped in chocolate. I miss these like crazy. Also, Russell Stover Rosebud mints. Sigh.
Abalone is still available in some restaurants but most in the U.S. seem to be located on the West Coast. According to the Wikipedia page it is endangered in the wild and is generally farmed for commercial use. It is also pretty pricey these days on a menu. At this restaurant in Newport Beach an entree of abalone is $76. Kinda high for a giant sea snail but it is supposed to be delicious.
Sweeet! I hope ya get them!!
When I was a kid I loved Good n Fruity. They had a hard candy shell and a fruit flavored licorice center. They went away for a long time and I couldn’t find them, even online.
One day a few years ago I was shopping and saw them and I was beside myself, I was so excited! I bought every box they had in case I wasn’t able to find them ever again.
They were awful!! Not as in, now I am an adult and my tastes have changed awful, just awful. The coating was mushy and grainy and soooo sweet, and the licorice center is now sort-of…jellyish? Just heartbreaking.
They sell them everywhere now, and every time I see them for a split second I’m like :eek: then :mad:
This link hits a few for me, but Oreo O’s for sure. Cereal just isn’t the same anymore.
I definitely remember the hot ketchup, and no, it wasn’t chili sauce. Good stuff.
My submissions are:
Count Chocula. You can sometimes find it around halloween but that’s it. I try to stock up if I see it, but I really wish it was available year round again.
McDonalds “ranchero” quarter-pounder. Anyone else remember this? It came out in the late 80’s IIRC, and had a small flat crispy tortilla on it (not replacing the bun) and a spicy sauce that I remember as being similar to taco bell’s hot sauce. I’d probably think it was shite now, but back in the day that ranchero QP was my favorite McDonalds item.
I actually liked Zima too!
OMG… Wheatnuts are still around?? Sure wish they were available locally!
Another I thought of… bacl in the late 70’s or early 80’s, McDonalds dabbled in…pizza. They had a bacon cheesburger pizza for about $5 that was EXCELLENT! Wish they still made it.
Hardees also made really good fried chicken for a while in the 80’s…
Faygo Brau ginger beer has never been equaled in my experience.
Quaker 100% Natural With Raisins and Dates cereal was the best cereal I’ve ever tasted, IMHO.
CornNuts and Rolo are still available.
http://www.planters.com/cornnuts/flavor.aspx
http://www.thehersheycompany.com/brands/rolo/caramels-in-milk-chocolate.aspx
Also, the corkscrew shaped corn chips are still around. Frito makes Flavor Twist in Honey BBQ. I remember there were other flavors but apparently they don’t make them anymore. I think there was also another brand called Spirals.
http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/fritos-flavor-twists-honey-bbq.html
Aha! Korkers:
toll house chocolate chip candy bars. man i would take a box of those right now.
Kellogg’s Concentrate cereal. I think a single serving was only 1/4 cup of the cereal, but I used to fill up my bowl with a “regular” size portion, pour on the milk, and wait for it to get soggy.
I loved that stuff.
Hubster misses the Mountain Bar candy bars. Same shape as Cherry Time but with a vanilla cream filling.
~VOW
Peter Paul’s Caravelle candy bar. Best candy bar ever! Apparently, when Peter Paul was acquired by Cadbury it was discontinued.
Injun Orange and Chinese Cherry drink mixes.
I vividly remember these things from my childhood.
Rather impolite these days…
They have boxes of Quisp for sale at the Fresh Market here in Little Rock. I was shocked that they still made them.
That’s why (as I’m sure you recall) they changed them to Jolly Olly Orange and Choo Choo Cherry.
I never drank Funny Face – they were artificially sweetened (except for a very brief period, apparently) and tasted weird.
The Politically Correct switch also gave us Fritos spokesman W.C. Fritos in place of the Frito Bandito.
I was going to mentionFizzies, but apparently they are back. Since they are now sweetened with Splenda, instead of the original cyclamates, they won’t taste authentically vile and I’m not interested. The fun of Fizzies was watching them fizz, not drinking them, but mom/dad made you drink them anyway because_dammit!_they had paid good money for them.
Dear god,Fizzies cocktails! We are truly in the end times.