This is a simple one. Everyone has something they can’t get anymore because it’s not marketed where you live, company went out of business, EPA closed down the restraunt,NASA/Immigration claimed the cook really WAS an alien. What one (or more) foods can you not get anymore, and you’re ticked?
For me, it’s those chilli-stuffed hot dogs they used to sell. Or a hambuger stand that sauteed onions fresh for your burger. I can still smell those things 25+ years later.
I could never eat a whole one because they were so sweet, but when I really need a sugar fix I miss those Ninja Turtles pies.
Fire-roasted Dodo bird. It just melted in your mouth. Man that was good.
Rhamboutans, Mangosteens, Mee Siam, Chiang Mai Noodles, Satay at the Satay Club, Hokkien Chicken Rice, and Wonton Mee.
I can almost taste them…oooooh.
There used to be a really good canned Irish lamb stew that doesn’t seem to exist anymore. Well, it wasn’t good till I added a lot of ingredients, but it wound up yummy when I got through!
I also miss being able to drink alcohol . . . Became allergic to it about 20 years ago when I had to start on a medication. And the older I get, the more I regret not being able to have a cocktail after a hard day’s work.
There used to be a really good canned Irish lamb stew that doesn’t seem to exist anymore. Well, it wasn’t good till I added a lot of ingredients, but it wound up yummy when I got through!
I also miss being able to drink alcohol . . . Became allergic to it about 20 years ago when I had to start on a medication. And the older I get, the more I regret not being able to have a cocktail after a hard day’s work.
I really miss Winchell’s donuts. Deeply and often. It’s a combo of fond memories and great breakfasts.
I also miss Lindy’s Quickbite, a fast food burger joint.
Both of these were in Colorado and apparently haven’t seen fit to expand into Georgia.
Of course, I won’t move back just for that, otherwise I would miss out on sweet tea.
What foods do I miss? Things they don’t make any more. At the risk of seriously dating myself:
Bonomo Turkish Taffy
Shake-me Pudding
discontinued Tastykake products
a note to WIGGUMS: The original Dutch word for “dodo” translates as “nauseating bird”. I think we can take it to be the rats and the dogs, and not the Dutch settlers, who were responsible for wiping the dodo out.
KFC used to make these little chicken sandwiches called “Chicken Littles.” Damn, they were good. I miss those occasionally.
Additionally, I miss Greek style yogurt - can’t seem to get it in the states (or at least in Colorado), and lots of my mother’s home cooking.
Hey! Where’d my post go? : grumble: sure hope I didn’t accidentally post about chicken in that thread about goose poop :grumble:
Well, at the risk of repeating myself, KFC’s rotisserie chicken. It made all other chicken pale by comparison. Who are they trying to kid with this current “tender roast chicken” crap? Perhaps in heaven the rotisserie KFC will be available again, with yummy biscuits.
Well, I’ve lived in New York City for close on 20 years now, and it’s the Food Capital of the Universe and you can get pretty much anything you want here.
EXCEPT
Kielbasa like they make it in Cleveland, Ohio, and
Bratwurst like they make it in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and
Italian Beef sandwiches like they make 'em in Chicago.
Other than that, I’m pretty well content.
In the mid-70’s in Atlanta, there used to be a sandwich emporium (sandwich shop is nowhere near appropriate) called Lotts that made a giant array of the greatest sandwiches, which you could further enhance from a sauce bar of dozens of custom sauces. For years, wheneven my family went back, we always made a point of dropping by, and I was never disappointed. I was certain it would go nationwide.
Sadly, when I returned as a fledgling driver some years later, the area had gone from a major commercial thoroughfare to a massive explosion of signs and businesses – a mile long sensory overload with 2-3 “turning” lanes in the middle. I couldn’t find it - the traffic was scary!- and now I always forget to check it out when I’m in town.
Any Atlantans out there? Does Lott’s still exist? Has it moved? I’d be willing to pay to have a big box’o’everything shipped up here, if only for old times sake.
[BTW, appropriate to this thread: Some airlines will accept food on commercial flights, for pickup on the other end. I did this once as a birthday surprise - Three hours from her favorite NY restaurant to the party table.]
I would kill for some geniune Memphis style barbecue. Corky’s will fedex some ribs & pork shoulder, but for the prices they charge, I might as well fly there. So, I make due with their bottled sauce & rub, and try as best I can to duplicate it, without a genuine BBQ Pit. It’s tasty, but nothing like the real thing.
BTW, my birthday is in two weeks, and I’m sure if all you dopers contributed a dollar or two, I could have myself one tasty birthday party. Just a thought…
Manapua, but particularly chicken curry manapua from any 7-eleven in Hawaii.
The thought of them is almost enough to make me want to move back there.
I’ve been a vegetarian for 10 years now, and I enjoy most of the meat-substitutes I’ve tried, but there are three things I miss: prime rib, kielbossa, and sommer sausage.
I’m not a vege-nazi, so I’ve tasted these things from time to time, and they never taste as good as they used to. Such a pity, to know that I can never go back.
HAM, when I’m travelling. It’s my favorite food at home.
For some reason, only a couple of countries know what ham is, notably Denmark and the Netherlands.
In France, England, and much of Germany, the ham is bad and sour and old, and considered a novelty meat.
In the rest of the world, it’s often unavailable entirely.
Black raspberries.
Here in SoCal you can get red raspberries, blackberries, Boysenberries, olalieberries, you-name-it berries…but no black raspberries like we used to get in Southern Michigan.
Saint Zero… not sure where you live. But in So Cal we have a place called In and Out Burger. Sauteed onions while you wait
I think the one thing I miss that I can’t buy here is Dolly Madison ice cream. My aunt used to serve that up to me everytime I went to visit . Black Cherry… with WHOLE cherries…wow, was that good stuff.
Fresh wild duck, killed in flooded Cache River bottomlands near Clarendon, Arkansas by my dad, roasted with rice. I still love duck, but the wild variety (usually mallards or wood ducks) has a very different taste.
Fresh Cache River catfish, pulled out of the river by my dad and I on the trotlines we ran every night from April to October, and fried in a cast iron pot on a gas burner mounted in a fifty-five gallon drum. As with ducks, the farm-raised fish are fine in their way and I’m glad they’re available, but fish that have been nourished on all the detritus of a muddy river have a unique, stronger flavor that makes the farm-raised ones seem sort of insipid.
I lost any enthusiasm I ever had for hunting and fishing when I was in junior high, and my family moved away from the area, so my dad doesn’t hunt at all and fishes only on rare occasions now; all of these are only memories that I’ll probably never experience again.
Watermelons and strawberries bought in the field where they were grown in Woodruff County, Arkansas. No grocery store produce should even be mentioned in the same breath.
Peanut butter, chocolate, and banana milkshakes from a now-defunct drive-in place in Conway, Arkansas, during my college years.
Yarnell’s Ice Cream, a brand made in Searcy, Arkansas and available only in Arkansas and very limited areas of Mississippi. Their homemade vanilla flavor may well be the best commercial ice cream I’ve ever had. This I do still get to experience on trips home, at least.
Shotgun Dan’s pizza: another Arkansas-specific item. At one time there were three or four locations; at least two are left, but I haven’t had a chance to go back in nearly fifteen years. In college, my girlfriend and I would drive from Conway to Sherwood (about an hour’s drive) just to eat there. Very thin, crispy crust and a mouth feel to the cheese and meat topping that I’ve never encountered in any other pizza. Don’t even know if I’d still like it now, but I do miss the pleasurable associations.
Reading this, you’d think I really miss Arkansas. In fact, reading this, you now know practically everything that I do miss about Arkansas. Great place to eat, but god help you if you have to live there.
In Atlanta, the only thing I miss that I haven’t found an equivalent or better substitute for is the boliche at a little Cuban place (now closed) I used to go to near North Druid Hills and Briarcliff. Actually, there’s one other menu item I miss – not as something to consume, but as a menu item: the “businessman’s breakfast” at a little breakfast/lunch place across the street from Emory University (also now closed); it consisted of a cup of coffee and a cigarette (price: 75 cents, back before either coffee or cigarettes got quite so expensive).
Genuine British pickled eggs, served out of a five gallon jar at my favourite pub…Sigh…
Also, in Nashville, Indiana, at the Nashville House, they serve the most awesome deep fried biscuits, with absolutely the best apple butter on the planet, and you can’t get it anywhere else. I finally aquired another jar after 4 years of doing without.