# Lost snacks of your childhood... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196 "2018-11-28T09:21:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/21 "2018-11-28T20:39:28Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You can still get **Bonomo’s**. I read that as “you can still get bonobos” and I’m like “that’s probably true depending on what you mean by ‘get’”. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/22 "2018-11-28T20:43:31Z")
DinoSour Eggs The giant jawbreakers with kind of a SweeTart center. O’Grady’s Au Gratin potato chips. But at least Planter’s Cheez Balls came back! ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/23 "2018-11-28T20:50:18Z")
Took a look, and was surprised to see that [Zotz](https://www.amazon.com/Zotz-Power-Cherry-Watermelon-Flavors/dp/B000E7SYLG?th=1) are still available. These are hard candies that have baking powder at their center: you sucked on them until the hard candy shell was mostly gone, then you bit into them, creating a sweet bubbly fizz. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/24 "2018-11-28T21:06:41Z")
> [@BeeGee](#): > > Goetze’s Caramel Cremes are the same flavor. Just a blob instead of a snail. > [Caramel Creams & Cow Tales Candy](https://www.goetzecandy.com/products.html) > [@terentii](#): > > Yep, I was able to find those on the Internet. One of the few instances where looking them up on the Internet might be _less_ raunchy than trying to say it out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/25 "2018-11-28T21:20:38Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Anybody remember malted milk tablets? These were basically hard disks of sweetened malt (like the stuff that comes in a Horlick’s can) that came in rolls like Life Savers. I loved the damned things, but when I asked for them the last time I was in the US (2000), the guy at the candy counter said he’d never heard of them. I loved those too but I never had them in rolls. When I had them they were in a bottle kind of like a medicine bottle. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/26 "2018-11-28T21:27:08Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > I don’t know if it would qualify as a snack. But when I was **really** young, say 6 or so (I’m 50 now, if you must know:)) they used to have Pink Panther flakes. > > They were pink, and strawberry flavored, I remember. And the TV commercial said “it tickles your tongue, it’s fun…”. > > Anyways, they promptly discontinued them. And when I was about 8, I used to muse in my younger years, there used to be that cereal. > > Anyone else remember Pink Panther flakes? I have been craving them ever since… > > 🙂 Now that you mention it, I remember those. “Lost cereals of your childhood” could probably be a whole thread of its own. > [@TRC4941](#): > > Seven-Up (?) candy bar (chocolate covered bar with 7 different blocks of fillings - that sounds like a lot, maybe I’m wrong) I remember a candy bar that had _six_ different filled sections (thankfully, no coconut), but for the life of me I can’t remember what it was called. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/27 "2018-11-28T21:28:27Z")
They used to have candy and gum in the shape of cigarettes. But they stopped making them because people were worried that they were promoting smoking to kids. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/28 "2018-11-28T21:53:33Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Milk Shake candy bars (a Milky Way knockoff that were delicious frozen). It was delicious unfrozen too! And I actually remembered the song without the benefit of youtube! For those of you who have forgotten the song: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEG0m8-TJS4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEG0m8-TJS4) ---
**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:** [November 28, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/29 "2018-11-28T22:03:24Z")
[Merri-Mints!](https://otterlover58.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/merrimints.jpg) Damn, those things were good. I understand the Vermont Country Store makes a modern day knock-off, I’ll have to try it some time. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/30 "2018-11-28T22:11:03Z")
Anybody else miss [Shake-A Pudd’n](http://historysdumpster.blogspot.com/2015/01/shake-puddn.html)? OK, I’ll stop for a while . . . ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/31 "2018-11-28T22:11:10Z")
The Willy Wonka candy company still makes Nerds, Laffy Taffy, and Bottle Caps, but they discontinued for many decades my favorite candy growing up: **Wacky Wafers.** Imagine my surprise when this past spring, I saw Wacky Wafers appear again in a specialty candy store! But that didn’t last long, and now you’d have to go to eBay to find them or buy them in bulk at the current owner, [Leaf](https://leafbrands.com/product/wacky-wafers-24-count-display-box/). ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/32 "2018-11-28T23:40:06Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > [Merri-Mints!](https://otterlover58.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/merrimints.jpg) > Damn, those things were good. > > I understand the Vermont Country Store makes a modern day knock-off, I’ll have to try it some time. Yeah! I can’t quite recall the taste but I know I liked them. As for Bit-O-Honey, I find it all over the place in the Cleveland area. Even Walmart at times. Only the individual wrapped pieces, not the row of them wrapped in paper. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/33 "2018-11-28T23:48:02Z")
I had been looking for after dinner mints and have come up with a couple of good sources. The Walmart in Oberlin, Ohio, and only that one so far has them in a big bag as Howe Party Mints. In fact that store has a giant display pyramid of Howe products, they are all old fashioned candies. I also got some Wintergreen Lozenges. > **[Buy Nostalgic Candy Online | Old Time Candy Favorites | Free Shipping](https://www.georgehowe.com/nostalgic-candies/?mode=1)** > > Your source for nostalgic candy at discount prices. Old time favorites Mary Janes, Black Taffy, Brach's Jelly Nougats, Bit-O-Honey & more. Free shipping. Discount Drug Mart has real Butter Mints and my gosh, those things dissolve on your tongue in seconds. The ingredients are butter, sugar, mint flavor and I think corn starch. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/34 "2018-11-29T01:42:25Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I loved those too but I never had them in rolls. When I had them they were in a bottle kind of like a medicine bottle. I remember these. Never saw them in a roll, the ones I had came in a Bayer aspirin type bottle. Didn’t really care for the taste, but loved the bottle! We’d play doctor (no not that kind of doctor \) and these were the ‘pills’ we dispensed. A search brought up Horlicks Malties from Malaysia, but these are plain milk flavored, not chocolate. ☹ Which brings up a suggestion, check your local ethnic stores as some of these lost snacks either originated overseas or are still made there. If you loved the old Marathon bars (that braided chocolate covered caramel ‘bar’), it’s supposedly still available as Curly Wurly from England (where it originated and changed to Marathon when it came to the US). I ordered a box and despite everyone saying it was the same as the US version, I ate a few bites out of two of the 20 bars I received and tossed the rest. I don’t know if it was an off batch or because of the delayed shipping, but it was the nastiest candy I ever tried to eat. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/35 "2018-11-29T01:48:23Z")
Not lost in that it could be recreated at home, but Sears used to sell warm cashews and pistachios (the red dyed ones!) at their snack counter. Oh, there was nothing like walking around the store eating those! My parents would almost always get me popcorn, which I think was $0.15, $0.25 and $0.35 for small, medium or large. Remember those rectangular boxes? You’d be the envy of every other kid in the store if you walked around the with large. But the nuts were much more and were a special treat. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/36 "2018-11-29T02:07:38Z")
I remember the Shake-A Pudding commercials, but don’t think I ever tried it. How about Jello 1-2-3, that would separate into Jello on the bottom, foamy (milky?) Jello in the middle and foamy on the top. Also Screaming Yellow Zonkers!. Loved them! Yeah, they were definitely much more buttery than Fiddle Faddle and would stick to your molars like nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/37 "2018-11-29T02:11:53Z")
Chick-o-stick and Cowtails. You can still get them, they just aren’t the same. As a young girl with diabetes the candy I got to choose was real important to me. Now my taste is not the same or something. Good ol’ Hershey bar is about as adventurous as I can get. Funny I dream ( really, dream while sleeping) about eating the candy my sibs ate. My brother would put a whole pack of bubblelicious gum in his mouth at one time. He was a card. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/38 "2018-11-29T02:24:17Z")
**Oompas** , made by the Wonka company. They looked like large M&Ms with peanut butter in the middle, but they were way tastier than Reese’s Pieces. **Marathon bar** , though you can still get Curly Wurly, which is the same thing but smaller. **Carnation Chocolate Breakfast Squares** - I used to love coming home from school to have a pack of them (they came 2 to a pack) with ice-cold milk. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/39 "2018-11-29T02:47:15Z")
Sorry for the flood, everyone is bringing back such fond memorie! Frosty Malt, bought and eaten only at the movies. The red and white cup by I think, Carnation. The last time I had one about 15 years ago and it wasn’t the same. Not by Carnation and not as chocolaty as I remember. BTW, here’s a home recipe for Screaming Yellow Zonkers! Plus it’s low fat!🙂 [https://topsecretrecipes.com/sceaming-yellow-zonkers-screaming-yellow-zonkers-low-fat-copycat-recipe.html](https://topsecretrecipes.com/sceaming-yellow-zonkers-screaming-yellow-zonkers-low-fat-copycat-recipe.html) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196/40 "2018-11-29T05:23:06Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Milk Shake candy bars (a Milky Way knockoff that were delicious frozen). > Lik-M-Aid (basically, flavored sugar). (Born in 1950 here) Milk Shake bars: YES. I loved those. Delicious at room temp too. Lik-M-Aid was another one I’d get. Anyone else remember AbbaZabba bars? Specifically, the older wrapper with the extremely racist cartoon? Link to image: _[The Candy Wrapper Museum](http://www.candywrappermuseum.com/abbazaba.html)_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-snacks-of-your-childhood/825196.md?page=3)