Lost foods

Here is a very cool site with candy you probably remember as a kid, and you can still order them!

Also made it to Ohio (including the Cleveland suburb where I grew up), in addition to Indiana, New York, and Florida. It’s apparently still available in the Detroit area. I especially remember the Cherry Nut (helpfully described on in-store signage as “similar to Dr Pepper”) and the chocolate (which was only available as a diet drink, for some reason).

Anyone else remember Sweet Wheats? As the commercial jingle requested, “So look for the picture of the blue kangaroo!”

If not mentioned before…

Doo Dads
Lemon Coolers
Zots
Marathon bar
Sugar Daddy, Momma & Babies
Koogle
Screaming Yellow Zonkers
JuJu Bees
Honey butter
Freeman Sea Kelp Shampoo and Conditioner
ect…

Some might be around someplace…too lazy to Google atm.

Also there’s another thread on this in the Zombie Archive. :wink:

That’s a pretty cool shop! My wife and I stopped in there a few years ago when we were in the area, and had some time to wait on the train back to Boston, and were very pleasantly surprised.

But yeah, here in Texas, the surest way to find sugar Coke is to go to a Mexican grocery.

Sugar Pepsi, Dr. Pepper and Mountain Dew are sold all over the place though.

When did they stop selling Koogle? I remember thinking the chocolate version was the bomb when I was probably 6 or so.

Zotz!!!

One of our posters didn;t care much for that product:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=381370&highlight=Diet+Pepsi+Jazz

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Join Date: Oct 2003
Anybody want a rim job?
Thanks to the fresh, new and exciting taste of Diet Pepsi, Jazz, Black Cherry & French Vanilla, and for a limited time only, I will be tossing salads like a mother fuck just so I can get the taste of this rancid chipmunk spunk out of my mouth.

With a hook like, “Indulge your senses.” on the label I was certain that I had found a new favorite among the already shitty diet soda catalog out there, but what I didn’t expect was that the only senses getting indulged were Rallo’s, the recent parolee who is more hung than a three-balled Himalayan yak and has a nasty habit of jammimg a flaming oil rag in my mouth and packing it down with a vigorous Fight Club face-fucking!

And just what is contained within the swollen root-shaped plastic mcnasty bottle that can be used to fuck-start you when you black out from sampling this anal seepage?

Let’s see: Carbonated waste water from a slaughter house septic tank, caramel color, natural & artificial flavors (extract of ass & burnt baby doll hair), phosphoric acid, ass-partame, potassium benzoate (maintains bile-like aftertaste), citric acid, potassium citrate, caffeine, acesulfame potassium (never heard of that one before, but I bet a plug nickel that it assists in rounding out the rotten haggis flavor that sits in the back of your throat for about 3 hours after you partake in this carbonated abortion), and the screaming souls of a thousand dead children.

“For comments or questions,” the label informs me, “Call 1-800-433-xxxx”. Oh, you bet your fur I got questions, I got questions like Van Camp’s got beans! Like how in the fucking fuck did you get a Johnny Cash song in a bottle? and did your marketing designers do enough R&D to catch on to the fact that if you whack yourself in the nuts with a stapler while partaking in this taste bud holocaust it actually minimizes the sensation of your tongue being gang raped? I got lock jaw and night vision after drinking this shit!

So back your asses right the hell up and “Indulge your senses” as I work your sphincter like fucking Zamfir on Desoxyn and a double shot espresso. Whatever the fuck it takes to get the taste of Pepsi’s new “Can’t-get-it-off-my-mind-or-the-back-of-my-fucking-throat” savory, septic, dog shit delight!

I did not try that flavor since I don’t like cherry-flavored drinks anyways. Which is why I specified the two drinks I did try and like.

It was intended for the purpose of this thing called “Humor”.

(Possibly one of the funniest rants ever posted on the SDMB, imho)

Most flavoured crisps (IMO) taste of either sawdust or dirt. The hedgehog flavoured ones actually tasted of meat. I don’t know what a hedgehog taste like though, so I can’t be sure it was ground up hedgehog, but they were very nice. IIRC they were thickcut crisps that still had the potato skins on them - extra nommy

OMG Yes! Double chocolate malted crunch was the best ice cream they had, and they were all pretty good. For those not lucky enough to have grown up in California, double chocolate malted crunch ice cream was chocolate chocolate chip ice cream with little tiny malted milk balls. Where I live now, we have a frozen custard stand called Massey’s. They have something similar, but I don’t think it’s as good.

This is a depressing day, for I have learned of the discontinuation of Wheat Crunch, an essential port of my childhood. I can almost feel my mouth burning from the salt and vinegar flavour.

I don’t remember the cereal but isn’t that basicallyShredded Wheat Lightly Frosted? If so, the cereal’s still around under a different brand name.

Barbecue Chicken in a Biscuit. Crack in a box, I tell ya.

I saw that they brought back Taco flavored Doritos. Do they taste the same as the original Taco Doritos?

I just had abalone Saturday night as an appetizer. Farmed, sold by the local Whole Paycheck for $20 a pound. That means the edible parts consisted of 4 pieces hammered thin, each piece a little smaller than a playing card. It was a snack at best - and cost me $20.

So? How was it?

This thread has been inactive a couple weeks, but I had to revive it to announce STRAWBERRY NEWTONS. Yesssirreeee! I saw them in the Wal-Marts this past weekend. That, and Apricot Newtons! We bought a box and they are delish. We’re getting strawberry next week. Gotta pace ourselves, you know.

Strawberry Newtons! :slight_smile: ~joy~ :slight_smile:

Kewl! I love Strawberry Newtons. Never heard of Apricot though.

Time to go shopping.

Bought some Moon Pies last week at a Cracker Barrel restaurant here in Missouri.

Moon Pies are readily available in Kentucky. Double-decker genuine Moon Pies, even. Available at the aforementioned Wal-Mart.

Plenty of Moon Pies here in Alabama.