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.
nephew discovered these a while back … yeah there were 2 flavors I could swallow …… he didn’t try them a 2nd time ……
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
And if you were lucky, the store would sometimes have a whole roll of them!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m not a fan of it’s modern descendent, either – the “honey boba” in bubble teas.
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.
Freshen Up gum. I loved that stuff.
shasta isn’t all that bad tho ……
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
Ecto Cooler was always my favorite Hi-C. I still have fond memories of it.
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?
Agree!!! It was horrible. Watered-down orangeade. Maybe it was Tang!
Black Jack Gum. Nasty licorice flavored gum.
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.