# snacks/beverages you DONT miss from childhood **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427 "2018-12-02T01:31:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![slightly\_askew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@slightly\_askew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slightly_askew)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/41 "2018-12-03T20:51:50Z")
Little hug fruit “juice” barrels. Don’t know what was in those barrels, but it wasn’t juice. Awful stuff. Iced tea made with powdered mix. Ick. So glad to have an iced tea pot now. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/42 "2018-12-03T20:53:39Z")
nephew discovered these a while back … yeah there were 2 flavors I could swallow …… he didn’t try them a 2nd time …… ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/43 "2018-12-03T21:01:45Z")
All the kids thanks to dollar tree discovered a tortilia chip called "taki’s"a few years ago imagine a rolled up burnt tasting round tortillia chip that had artificial flavored (it even tasted fake as hell) “hotness” the fad died out after a while thank god ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/44 "2018-12-03T22:31:56Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I love Necco wafers, especially the dark gray ones. I thought they were licorice-flavored but have since found out that it’s actually clove. And if you were lucky, the store would sometimes have a _whole roll_ of them! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/45 "2018-12-03T23:12:35Z")
Any kind of fruity drink. Kool-Aid or whatever. I didn’t like fruity drinks at all when I was a kid, and I still don’t. Necco Wafers were vile. For one brief period when I was in fourth grade, I liked the chocolate ones, but then one day I tried them and couldn’t stand them. Never could stand the others. The clove ones were the worst of all. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/46 "2018-12-04T00:57:38Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > We were another family that had to TRY powdered milk for a while to save money. > Did milk get really expensive at some point in the 60s or early 70s? It was horrible. > I can still smell and taste it. My mom was defeated on that front. No one would > drink it. Sugar-coated cereal didn’t even mask the taste. > > (snipped) > > -Spumoni - my Italian grandma always had a carton of it in the freezer. She was very > disappointed that I wouldn’t eat it. I worked at Baskin-Robbins for a while when I was in high school, and they introduced that flavor in the late fall. Older people loved it; I thought it was one of the few flavors that was disgusting. I’m not sure what the thing was with powdered milk in the 1960s and 1970s, but I heard it was nasty, and my parents always gave us “real” milk anyway. I actually keep some on hand now, because I rarely buy fresh milk just because I don’t use enough to finish a container before it sours. The powdered milk I use, when mixed up properly, tastes and has the texture of skim milk. For a few years, there was a chicken additive called “Batter and Bake” that was NASTY. You mixed it up, soaked chicken in it, and baked it. I would always remove the chicken skin before eating it, and was glad when my mother said the store manager said it wasn’t made any more. It was just sort of crusty and tasteless. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/47 "2018-12-04T00:59:14Z")
> [@slightly\_askew](#): > > Little hug fruit “juice” barrels. Don’t know what was in those barrels, but it wasn’t juice. Awful stuff. Iced tea made with powdered mix. Ick. So glad to have an iced tea pot now. They still sell those “fruity juice” barrels. In the summer, it seems like litter is half composed of them, at least around here. To me, the worst thing about iced tea made from powder was the sediment at the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/48 "2018-12-04T01:01:39Z")
Speaking of vile beverages, does anyone know if McDonald’s still has Orange Ade? That wasn’t good on any level either, AND any kids’ event would serve it, probably because McDonald’s donated it. It didn’t seem to matter what the event was - Girl Scout camp, marching band competition, etc., there would always be coolers full of that horrible stuff. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/49 "2018-12-04T01:38:52Z")
> [@slightly\_askew](#): > > Little hug fruit “juice” barrels. Don’t know what was in those barrels, but it wasn’t juice. Awful stuff. Iced tea made with powdered mix. Ick. So glad to have an iced tea pot now. Little Hug barrels are closer to Kool-Aid to actual juice. I actually like iced tea made with powdered mix; I drink by the gallonful. However, I readily admit there is noticeable difference between it and brewed iced tea so if you don’t like it I’m not going to argue with you. It’s just not your cup of tea. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/50 "2018-12-04T01:59:19Z")
The whole genre of what I call “poverty food”, the stuff you eat because you were too poor to afford regular food. Either food surplus like government cheese, powdered milk, or its even more vile cousin powdered eggs–or stuff that was just really cheap like Vienna sausages, potted meat, and Shasta soda. I think we’d even drink watered down evaporated/condensed milk, but don’t remember if that was due to its cheapness or just kids in the kitchen desperation. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/51 "2018-12-04T02:02:24Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’m not sure what the thing was with powdered milk in the 1960s and 1970s, but I heard it was nasty, and my parents always gave us “real” milk anyway. Ten miles uphill from town and any stores. Also, we didn’t have a fallout shelter (not nearly far enough from Mount Weather) so we had powdered milk Just in Case. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > To me, the worst thing about iced tea made from powder was the sediment at the bottom. Wife only drank Tang while visiting Northern Wisconsin because it sucked the iron out of the water and left flakes in the undissolved sugar at the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/52 "2018-12-04T02:11:43Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Orbits, a soft drink you also have to chew…I can still remember what it felt like. (shudder) I’m not a fan of it’s modern descendent, either – the “honey boba” in bubble teas. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/53 "2018-12-04T03:00:04Z")
I make a pretty mean powdered hot chocolate mix with powdered milk, hersheys cocoa powder and stevia sugar. I can control the sugar content. The stuff on the shelf has way too much sugar in it. And the mix sweetened with ‘sweet and low’ is pretty nasty. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/54 "2018-12-04T03:35:51Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I can’t remember the name of the product, but in the late ’80s there was a gum that came in cute little pillow-shaped portions. At some point, the manufacturer starting filling them with nasty goo. I didn’t want to tell my Mom about this change for some reason (I think the gum itself was still really good?), so I would try to spit as much of the goo as possible into a tissue. She caught me and yelled at me for making a mess, thinking that I was just playing with the gum. > The gray ones are licorice…the purple ones are clove. If there’s too much powder (corn starch?) in the roll, the clove can look very gray though. Freshen Up gum. I loved that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/55 "2018-12-04T03:49:33Z")
shasta isn’t all that bad tho …… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/56 "2018-12-04T14:03:07Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Artificial sweeteners were used because, unlike sugar, they didn’t rot teeth and make people fat. Funny Face and Fizzies originally used cyclamate as their artificial sweetener until it was banned by the FDA in 1970 for causing cancer. As a replacement, the manufacturers turned to saccharine which has a bitter gag-inducing aftertaste. I’m guessing that probably why you didn’t like Funny Face and Fizzies. You see, I doubt this. Certainly people used artificial sweeteners as diet aids, but the Funny Face drinks were aimed at kids. Kids don’t care about calories (and often don’t like the aftertaste of artificial sweeteners) , and parents are (or were) wary of giving kids artificial sweeteners. I really do think that the reason Funny Face and Fizzies used artificial sweeteners wasn’t because they had fewer calories, but because, without the added sugar, the packages or tablets were significantly smaller. A non-diet Fizzies tablet wouldn’t be a neat, trim tablet, but at least a pair of Alka-Seltzer discs. Or maybe a urinal cake’s worth ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/57 "2018-12-04T14:28:18Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Ecto Cooler! No! How dare you! > > I do agree it’s got a weird flavor. Always thought that about SunnyD as well. Ecto Cooler was always my favorite Hi-C. I still have fond memories of it. > [@nightshadea](#): > > All the kids thanks to dollar tree discovered a tortilia chip called "taki’s"a few years ago > > imagine a rolled up burnt tasting round tortillia chip that had artificial flavored (it even tasted fake as hell) “hotness” > > the fad died out after a while thank god You think that Taki’s died out? They are still everywhere (and pretty tasty, IMO). Perhaps you don’t live in an area with a high Mexican population? ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/58 "2018-12-04T15:28:19Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Speaking of vile beverages, does anyone know if McDonald’s still has Orange Ade? That wasn’t good on any level either, AND any kids’ event would serve it, probably because McDonald’s donated it. It didn’t seem to matter what the event was - Girl Scout camp, marching band competition, etc., there would always be coolers full of that horrible stuff. Agree!!! It was horrible. Watered-down orangeade. Maybe it was Tang! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/59 "2018-12-04T15:36:42Z")
Black Jack Gum. Nasty licorice flavored gum. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427/60 "2018-12-04T15:44:56Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You see, I doubt this. Certainly people used artificial sweeteners as diet aids, but the Funny Face drinks were aimed at kids. Kids don’t care about calories (and often don’t like the aftertaste of artificial sweeteners) , and parents are (or were) wary of giving kids artificial sweeteners. I really do think that the reason Funny Face and Fizzies used artificial sweeteners wasn’t because they had fewer calories, but because, without the added sugar, the packages or tablets were significantly smaller. A non-diet Fizzies tablet wouldn’t be a neat, trim tablet, but at least a pair of Alka-Seltzer discs. Or maybe a urinal cake’s worth Kids didn’t care about calories and excess sugar but parents did. Even if the kids made the drink themselves, Mom and Dad would notice their bag of sugar disappearing quickly. Sugar is cheap, but having to buy more to feed their kids already hyperactive activity is frowned upon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-beverages-you-dont-miss-from-childhood/825427.md?page=4)