Anyone recall Delfa Rolls? Basically red licorice but flattened and then rolled up (instead of sticks like Twizzlers). Also remember hard candy dots on paper but can’t recall the name of those…
Dots?
Looked it up - Candy Buttons, originally by Necco (I remember the wafers too)
My step mother bought a case of them (I think because they were being discontinued), and even though I was a sweet cereal fanatic I got sick of the damn stuff.
It tasted nothing like pudding but I still liked it. The process of making it (while singing the jingle) was have the enjoyment.
I was the only kid in the family (out of four) who liked Bit o’ Honey and Abba Zabba.
What I miss are two cookies: Sunshine Hydrox and Cup Custard.
Somebody supposedly came up with a substitute for the former, but, nah, they were not the same.
Dancing while shaking/making it was fun too.
And as I mentioned earlier, I miss Danish Go Rounds too. Their song wasn’t as good, though. But eating them in a spiral fashion was fun.
Amazing what we had to stoop to for fun, pre internet.
I went on a Meijer trip and looked for some of the candy from this thread, specifically the Bun bars since you mentioned Meijer was listed as a retailer. They didn’t come up on the app or when I searched for products by name but I eventually found them in the bagged candy section. They were $2.65 for a 9 ounce variety pack (salted caramel was included) on the bottom shelf below all the varieties of M&Ms and more popular candy bars. At my Meijer in Central Ohio this section is right across from the cereal.
The Bun bars were on the shelf right next to a $2.65 bag of Pearson’s Mint Patties, also mentioned here. These weren’t a big deal to me because I’ve seen them in Walmart a lot. I think last year a bought a bag only because they were much cheaper than York and I ended up liking them a lot more.
I went to Meijer’s yesterday too, and could not find the damn things. I’ll have to inspect the M&M area more closely.
I did find both Underwood Roast Beef and stroopwafels, though, so it was a worthwhile trip.
They also carry Liberte yogurt, that super rich high fat version of yogurt that’s so delicious it should be listed as candy.
Another drink. Exchange Orangeade and Grapeade. I think this was only available in Hawaii and California. Tomato paste canned size concentrate that was the primary source of vitamin C in the '60s since the only alternative was frozen orange juice concentrate which was way more expensive.
"The exchange goes round round round
and down down down
in your glass glass glass
makes your mind
think yum yum yum
It’s that Orangeade called Exchange
The exchange goes round round round
and down down down
in your tum tum tum
makes your mind
think yum yum yum
It’s that Orangeade called Exchange"
Sung by three(?) local kids playing ukeleles - The Termites
I think I hear the music in a new national commercial. Have to make note the next time I see it.
Jello had a version that separated into three layers. The top layer was similar to colored whipped creamed. The middle layer was darker. The bottom layer was darkest and regular jello.
It was intended to be made in a wide mouth glass. IIRC a box made three glasses.
I’ve searched and searched for it. I haven’t found it for sale since my late teens.
Similar to this homemade recipe. Notice the three shades of red jello.
https://goo.gl/images/2aiP9i
Jello 1-2-3
We tried it once and the didn’t find the top two layers too appetizing.
According to this article, it was discontinued in the 80’s. https://food52.com/blog/18270-in-1969-kraft-forcefully-split-its-jell-o-into-three-layers
This reviewer made and ate it in 2013! https://foodjunk.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/24-year-old-strawberry-jell-o-1-2-3-a-review/
Thank you. I’ve wondered about that product’s name for years.
I think the layered jello recipes made with cool whip are probably better anyway. Google lists several that look really good.
I plan to try the strawberry layered jello that I linked.
Jello Spoon Candy. And Birdseye Thick & Frosty. How I long for the days when I could eat dairy!
Powerhouse was one of the best candy bars ever. And not just because my first name is Peter-Paul. 
There was a short lived cereal called “OOOBopperoos”. It was made by Nabisco. I can find almost nothing online about it. My younger brother ate it all the time until they stopped making it. It had a Blue Kangaroo character who was a hipster and wore sunglasses on the TV commercial. "I’m a blue kangaroo, how do you do? I got a new cereal, called Ooobopperoos". Or something like that. It was around circa 1972 or so. It was blueberry flavored and had a weird, almost rubbery consistency when soaked in milk. They were tasty, though.
Indeed I do, and I’ve mentioned them in several similar previous threads, and came in here precisely to bring them up.
There’s nothing else quite like them, and you can’t recreate them with instant pudding (maybe instant pudding and powdered milk…). we used to take them on hikes and camping because they didn’t require cold storage, and only needed water to reconstitute them, but our scoutmaster thought they violated the Boy Scout ethic, or something. Heck, they’re pretty similar to a lot of packaged camp meals today.
The potato chip talk reminded me I really liked Kebbler O’boises potato chips.
Also as a kid we would have Charlie’s Chips deliver two giant drums of potato chips and pretzels every week. Maybe every two weeks. They came in trucks the size of a UPS truck with their logo all over the sides.
I know I am a broken record about these, but I absolutely loved the 7-up candy bars with the seven different fillings, each encased in its own chocolate lump. I would buy my bar on allowance day and eat one lump per day, keeping the bar in the refrigerator. That way I could have chocolate every day and be ready to buy a new bar when allowance day rolled around again.
I also miss Daisies and Whistles, two snacks that were introduced along with Bugles, but didn’t go the distance. Our area had been the pre-release test area for these snacks, and we had them available for almost a year before anyone else got them. Hence I always felt a bit proprietary about them.
You and me both, and you showed great restraint to stretch out one bar over a week.
By obsessively searching Google Images of old Seven Up bar wrappers, I was able to find the following 25 or so different (well, somewhat different) fillings used in the course of making the candy. I was unable to locate a good, zoomable image of the Seven Up Dark wrapper with the white lace borders to see if that particular one had different fillings from the other Seven UP Dark wrapper.
Butterscotch Caramel
Butterscotch
Caramel
Milk Caramel
Cherry Cream
Fudge
Fruit Jelly
Fruit Jell (OK, probably same as Fruit Jelly)
Orange Jelly
Jelly
Raspberry Jell (NOT jelly)
Nougat
Coconut
Coconut Cream
Butter Cream
Brazil Nut
Pudding
Chocolate Pudding
Mint
Maple
Walnut
Maple Walnut
Vanilla Cream
Triple Vanilla Cream
Roasted Peanut
Carnation Breakfast Squares - not the more recent sort of granola bar breakfast bars. These were sort of pasty and crumbly in the best possible way.
Sorry to keep breaking my own thread, but another drink. Hmm…I guess a drink could be considered a snack, right?
Anyway, only found at the carnival or fair, fruit juice in a fruit shaped plastic container. Not a cup as in flat on the bottom, but orange juice in an orange shaped container, grape juice in a container shaped like a bunch of grapes, etc. The top was a cap that you could poke a straw through.