I still dream about Original Taco Doritos but I don’t think they’ve been around for 20 years.
No one else remembers Chelsea (“Don’t just pour a soft drink, peel a Chelsea”) or Dip n Chips(actually more of a cracker).
More recently Kool Aid Oh Yeah Pineapple Orange. It was the one flavor of Kool Aid I liked. Crystal Light Pineapple Orange is close but not quite as good.
I have to admit, Chicken Tonight was one of my staples when my kids were younger.
I really didn’t like to cook, and I really didn’t know how, my kids were young, I was single, kinda broke, and so on. Lots of things in my kitchen were ‘slap together’ kinds of things, kid food, etc. Chicken Tonight was considered a ‘real’ meal.
I’ve come a long way, baby.
I struck out on my Pudding Pop search. I will try another store tomorrow.
I did bring home sugar-free fudgesicles for myself and sugar-loaded popsicles for the boy, however.
And there was a little dance that went along with it. My very elderly aunt said the dance reminded her of Phil Donahue (or vice versa) because of the way he flapped his arms in the studio while pontifficating.
I used to love candy cigarettes (before I moved onto the real thing).
Many years ago, there was a cereal that consisted of of Sugar Pops, Sugar Smacks, and Spanish peanuts mixed together. Probably mid 60’s. Can’t think of the name of it. I’d get up real early on Saturday and watch the Friday late-night movies (always either a monster or sci-fi movie) and eat the cereal.
I miss Chunky’s. Those little square chocolate bars with nuts and raisins. Nobody carries them anymore.
I miss the orange box of sunflower seeds that came with a little toy in them. You’d suck on the shell and then break it open for the seed. Might have been pistachios, can’t remember. I bought those in an actual Mom-n-Pop grocery store along with penny candy. That would have been 1961-62 era.
Thanks for all the replies so far. So many other products that I had forgotten about, or was not aware were no longer made, have been mentioned here.
I definitely miss the Jell-O pudding bars. Another Jell-O product that hasn’t been mentioned (unless I overlooked it) was Fruit & Cream Dessert Bars. If I recall, they came in different flavors (blueberry was my favorite).
Dude, get thee to the Safeway in Ballard, on 15th and Market. That’s where I shop, and two weeks ago picked up Mr. Stasaeon’s favourite: Frosted Cheerios.
Chunky bars are in every single CVS around here! They’re probably in other places, but I seem to notice them there as opposed to looking in other stores.
Grippo’s BBQ potato chips. I know they’ve got them in supermarkets in Indiana and Ohio, but there’s not a bag to be found anywhere in Missouri. They’re awesome by themselves or with a plate of ribs.
Back in the 1960’s, one of the first artificial sweeteners was cyclamates. It was used in all sorts of stuff until it was pulled from the market as being unsafe. If you ever had a diet or low-calorie soda with cyclamates, it tasted exactly like the regular sugared version. It was great.
TaB was basically original Coke with cyclamates for sweeteners. Used to drink it all the time. After cyclamates were banned, they started using other artificial sweeteners, but it was never as good. Original TaB was good stuff!
Another low-calorie soft drink available for six years in the mid to late 60’s was Pommac . Bottled by Dr Pepper, it was a Swedish import made from white grapes, although most people thought it had an apple flavor to it. It looked like champagne and had a very unique taste. I loved this stuff when I was a kid. I think its demise was also due to the banning of cyclamates and low sales. I believe it is still available in Scandinavia, but I don’t know if it would taste the same as the version sold over here.
I also used to use a granulated grape-flavored mix called Keen back in those days. It was much better than Kool-Aid. After a while it couldn’t be found anymore, but by the Funny Face fruit drink mixes came out and they were even better.
I really miss Pepperidge Farms’ Orleans cookies. Those were the plain wafers topped with dark chocolate icing. Open faced, as opposed to Milanos, which are a sandwich. I think they had quality control problems with the chocolate, because for a few years before they were discontinued, they’d suspend production for the Summer and bring them back in the Fall. But they were my all-time favorite supermarket cookie.
I would hope that was just a case of making it a seasonal cookie, rather than a quality control problem. It should take much less time than a whole summer to correct any kind of chocolate issue, especially for a cookie company.
I remember looking at a Snackwell’s yogurt nutrition label once and it was loooooaaddded with sugar. So it might have been low-fat, but it wasn’t low-calorie. Maybe that’s why they pulled them?