PB Captain Crunch does indeed exist; I ate it a couple of weeks ago. 
What?? When did this leave? :: Runs out to the store to see if I can find any::
Monopoly Cereal (Just like lucky charms, but with Monopoly icons - I collect monopoly stuff so this was another addition)
Which is why Fizzies disappeared. Artificial sweetener was a key to the Fizzie process and something about cyclamates enabled the tablets to be Alka-Seltzer sized. Any other sweetener would yield a Fizzie the size of a hockey puck.
Another company tried to bring Fizzies back in 1995, this time with NutriSweet and a new manufacturing process that once again yielded a managable size. It didn’t catch on though, the prominence of Kool-Aid probably had something to do with that.
So now we know why it no longer exists!!!
I forgot to mention mine in my previous post- Stouffer’s Scalloped Potatoes. Man, those things were good. They came in the large family size containers and I could easily finish one off alone. They disappeared a couple of years ago. I tried various boxed kinds and even making them from scratch but I can’t seem to replicate them. 
I could go for some right about now…
Superstore generic brand black cherry stirred yoghurt. In any size.
And I can’t believe no one else said they missed Kraft Squeeze-A-Snack!
Mmm, yes, I miss that too! Bacon flavor, in particular. (In case everyone hasn’t guessed by now, I’m a huge fan of bacon flavored semi-artificial cheese!!)
I thought of this before, but thought it was just a variant of Cheez Whiz. Forgot all about the Kraft connection…
After squeezing most of the cheese out into my mouth, I used to stick my tongue into the star-shaped plastic spout to try to get out as much as I can. Hey…I was a kid!!
I will gladly pay for a bag of original corn flavored Doritos if someone e-mails me!
They were my favorite salty snack back in the 70’s. I didn’t know they were still making the original flavor.
I also really loved Quake cereal. It had such a unique flavor, I can’t even describe it and they were so much fun to crunch.
Another favorite cereal I haven’t seen in years is TEAM. It was absolutely delicious! They were flakes that were thicker than Wheaties and stayed very crispy in milk.
I really miss the original formulation of KIX and Special K. The original KIX wasn’t sugar-coated like it is now and had a wonderful natural flavor. Special K’s flakes now are larger and sweeter then the original, which I really enjoyed.
TOAST-EMS aren’t the same anymore, either. I had them for breakfast almost every morning before school. Back then they looked different, too. They had cute little Xs across the front of the tart for ventilation and they just don’t taste as good as I remember from back in the 60’s.
I wish they still bottled soft drinks here in the U.S. (I’m talking major companies like PEPSI and COKE and whoever made CRUSH)
Soft drinks just seem to taste better out of bottles. Also I know they stopped using pure cane sugar to sweeten them because other sweeteners are less expensive, but doesn’t customer satisfaction count anymore?
Ahhh…I see you’ve watched that episode of Unwrapped as well. 
I’m guessing that you mean glass bottles? I see soda in plastic bottles all of the time. I could swear that I’ve seen glass bottles recently, but maybe it’s just wishful remembering.
Ooh does anyone remember a gum that came in a squeeze tube? I can’t remember what it was called but we used to get this at the stationery store all the time.
- Soft American Soft Drink - Anyone know where I can get Guarana soda in Chicago?
It tastes a little like cream soda but different. The guarana root is the source just as the sassafras used to be the source for root beer until the FDA discovered that it caused cancer in lab rats. Now wintergreen is the base flavor of root beer.
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Tickets to Ride the CTA Culture Bus - you could originally ride it for the cost of a supertransfer plus a little more a think, 3 routes. Later I became a commentator and did not have to pay to ride. So much fun. Then CTA had to cut it for budget reasons.
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Tickets to see Demolition Derby at Soldier Field on the 4th of July. My dad actually bought the tickets and we would see the derby, which started with all the cars circling the track with the current derby ‘queen’, then they would have the derby, then the fireworks show which was big and seemed to be really, really close. I was so young the first year I was really scared, but each year I liked it more.
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King Kastle hamburgers at LaSalle Street Station and on State just South of Lake. Very similar to White Castle but better grease. They tore down the LaSalle Street King Kastle when they rebuilt the LaSalle Street Station building and forgot to build a pathway from the El to the train station. The one on State Street lasted quite a few years longer, until the building which also housed WLS-TV was remodled I think. They seemed to have a little more meat and better grease that White Castle. They were replaced by a Frozen Yogurt place which should have been healthier but somehow wasn’t.
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TCBY yougurt which used to be everywhere.
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Arby’s at 98th and Western that lost thier lease as of today. Convenient and with a drive through which a lot of them do not have.
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Red Batman Clip-On Ties. I wore one in my third grade photo.
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80 page giants and 100 page giants. Not sure I would buy them today but I feel kids today are deprived because they are not issued anymore. Used to love to buy them and read Superman Story after Superman Story ) or Batman - whatever. Mostly a DC comics thing I think. Not sure if Marvel did these. I would love it if they would release the old issues on DVD-ROM. I could read for hours.
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Soda Fountain Coca Cola. Not like todays. It tasted a lot different coming out of an old style soda fountain didn’t it? Maybe they kept the lines cleaner? Maybe it was because it was served in a glass? Maybe there was more formula and less water. Its not the same.
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Snakes, punks, sparklers, dots and self-serve ice cream all from the same store on the first floor of a house around the block. Light a punk use it to light the snakes watch them grow burning up out of the black dots. Maybe light a sparkler. Eat some dots, maybe one of those wax tubes of flavored water.
By the way, you can still sometimes get bottled softdrinks. Sometimes you can even get your shopping center to order it, though often it is a special. Coke is most likely to do it. Pepsi may or may not. Do not know about 7-up.
I do know that there is a big taste difference.
Peter
Here you find glass bottles in lots of stores. Usually Coke and Sprite that has been bottled in Mexico and is made with real sugar and not HFCS.
I almost forgot, until I was almost 10 I lived only a few blocks from the Wee Folks toy store at 79th and Stony Island in South Shore. I used to buy lots of toys there.
I recently learned that the owner was murdered and that the store closed only 6 months after we moved away.
The owners daughter, Carolyn Lazar Amster, wrote a book about the store, the neighborhoods, the people and the racial change over the years before her father’s death called The Pied Piper of South Shore: Toys and Tragedy in Chicago which is worth reading for anyone with memories of the store or is curious about those times. But for me, a member of their birthday club, who used to go in their to get a free toy every year, and as often as I could otherwise, since they had a toy for every price and would offer kids credit(!) (kid-sized credit) it was a favorite place to buy squirt rings, police badges, balls, paddle balls, superballs, bubbles, all sorts of stuff.
My favorite birthday present at age 4 was picked there. It was a little driving toy that had a steering wheel, dashboard, horn, turnsignal, and fake street. With the birthday card and perhaps a little more from my dad it was mine. I loved it.
Can’t believe I almost forgot to mention this.
Peter
Oh, yeah, I can’t believe I forgot this, it’s the one thing I’d kill for: Josta!
Re: Jell-O Pudding Pops - they’re made by the PopCicle people (can’t remember the name of the company offhand) and while the flavor is good, the ice layer is gone…so it doesn’t taste quite the same.
Another item on the “ice cream” front that I miss: Good Humor Toasted Almond Bars. Apparently there are places you can get them within a couple hours of here, but they don’t appear to be made the same as I remember - the ones I remember were ALL vanilla icecream inside the coating but on the website they have sort of a brownish, almond-flavored (?) filling inside the icecream.
There was also, many years ago, a Dannon frozen yogurt bar on a stick that had raspberry flavored yogurt covered with chocolate. Yum!
But the thing I miss the MOST from the store are Mallowmars. You can’t get them here AT ALL. They’ve got these “pinwheels” things but they’re not the same. Do they even still make Mallowmars?
sigh Now I’m hungry.
Thanks for the link - they carry my Mallowmars but I can’t get them until October due to the real chocolate coating. Mmmmmmmm!
If you say so. I don’t remember where I heard it.
You can still get them. The rights were sold by Keebler to Poore Brothers Chips. In many markets they were re-branded as TGI Fridays Potato Skins. Essentially the same thing except I haven’t seen the baked potato flavor.
One thing I miss though is Swanson’s Chicken and Dumplings. No celery peas or other crap. Just chicken, dumplings, and sauce. Its been years since I have seen it in any store.
SHAKES, I think you’re referring to a Charleston Chew. It’s a long, chocolate-covered bar of very hard, chewy marshmallow. You can get them at the “everything’s a dollar” stores around here 2/$1, but I think I’ve seen them at Wal-Mart, too.
Hope that helps! 