Is there a food or drink that is no longer being manufactured which you miss desperately?
In my case, Jello Pudding Pops come to mind, and the original formula pizza Combos with the pretzel shells, before they went through some kind of change and now look like scooby-snax. Also Eagle brand louisiana BBQ Crunch potato chips…
oh god I have to stop now before I short out my keyboard from drooling over it.
There used to be a pizza joint near where I went to college. Pizza Papa. I’d order the peperoni, extra cheese, it would arrive looking almost like cheese soup in a bread bowl.
Being an absolute fanatic for excess amount of good cheese in my diet, this was heaven. Nearly as good cold the next morning.
Sadly they closed and were replaced with trendy yuppy food.
-Doug
Jell-O 1-2-3.
Drink? Fizzies!
Bierly’s Orange Soda
[sup]UNCARBONATED ORANGE DRINK FROM THE 60’s[/sup]
All soft drinks made with real sugar
[sup]HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SWEETNER STINKS![/sup]
Black Jack Licorice Chewing Gum
[sup]STILL HAVE AN UNOPENED PACK IN MY COLLECTION[/sup]
Klene Dubble Zout Licorice
[sup]THEY ONLY IMPORT THE ZOUT DROPS NOW[/sup]
Fiske Frikadeller (fish meatball)
[sup]ONLY AVAILABLE IN SCANDINAVIA[/sup]
Vernor’s Ginger Soda In Glass Bottles
[sup]HAD A BETTER FLAVOR BACK THEN[/sup]
Canada Dry’s “Wink” Grapefruit Soda
[sup]BETTER THAN SQUIRT SODA[/sup]
Van Houten Orange Flavored Chocolate Bars
[sup]WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THESE?[/sup]
High Country Beef Jerkey
[sup]ONE OF THE FEW AUTHENTIC DRY JERKYS[/sup]
Junket Red Currant Raspberry Pudding
[sup]TART TANGY RED PUDDING MIX IN A GOLD FOIL BOX[/sup]
Danish Style Red Hot Dogs
[sup]SKINNY WIENERS AVAILABLE ONLY IN DENMARK[/sup]
Campbell’s Turkey Vegetable Soup
[sup]STOPPED MAKING IT YEARS AGO[/sup]
I miss Matilda Bay wine coolers. A nip of the smooth refresher!
Pomellos. I’ve not been able to find them in the States, but they’re the greatest citrus fruit known.
Mmm yes.,
OK Soda.
I really, really liked it for it’s marvelou8s placebo effects and because Daniel Clowes did all the artowrkl on those cans.
I have three cans of the stuff, unopened, sitting in my room. I think about drinking them on special occasions, but they are probably a bit expired by now.
However, if you shake the can a bit, you can hear it fizzing inside, after all these years.
Oh yes-
Zenster:
I don’t know if it’s only an East Coast thing, but they do make this wonderful stuff with a red-eyed tree frog on the bottle- it’s called Bonk! and it boasts that it’s made of real sugar and not high fructose corn syrup.
Thing they stopped making: Space Food Sticks.
Thing they still make (Local to Riverside, NJ): Drink Atoast. I miss drinking it.
PDQ-I loved this stuff when I was a kid. I remember 3 flavors, Chocolate, Strawberry, and Butterscotch I think.
It was basically just drink mix, but it was cool because it was lttle rock-like crystals that you could sprinkle over ice cream and stuff, or just scoop out with a spoon and eat (hey, I was a kid.)
I haven’t seen it around since I was about 10 or 11 years old.
The food I most miss is Frito-Lay’s Munchos, unavailable on the West Coast for several years now. They are potato chips made from dehydrated potatoes and are they only chip I really ever liked.
Although it’s still available, I miss Basic 4 cereal due to a recently-developed allergy to walnuts.
And I miss Dr. Smooth just for the name. (It’s a phosphate soda/Dr. Pepper imitation that is also no longer available in California.)
Coke.
Yes I know it still exists, but I live on a Pepsi campus and it drives me closer to suicide on a daily basis.
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Sandwiches, with french vanilla ice cream and hand-made walnut fudge wafers…
Josta. Does anyone remember Josta? It was a cross between coke and some kind of herb. I don’t know, but it was good and I miss it. Every once and a while, my friend and I find a bottle at a Co-Go’s WAAAAAAAY out in the middle of no where. Who cares if it’s three years old? THis is the ONLY stuff that got me through 28 rehearsals and 2 performances of “The Way of the World” at my high school. Bad play. Good soda.
This is something that is still made, but you can’t find in Denver: Taylor’s Ham. It’s more of a pork roll. It is meant to be heated and then served. Taylor ham on a Kaiser roll, it’s about the only thing from New Jersey that I miss. That and real Italian Ice.
My local market still has it in glass bottles.
Several, mostly because I’ve moved around a lot, and left a lot of acquired tastes behind…
Razcal
A raspberry/spice soda, which I found in the Boston area. Slogan: “Nobody famous drinks it.”
Branston Pickle
Nothing to do with pickles, as far as I know. A black, tarlike substance, eaten with a ploughman’s lunch of cheese and bread and such, which I got addicted to in England. The ultimate acquired taste.
Blackjack gum
I’ll second that one.
Double-salted licorice
A friend brought some back from Sweden, I think, when I was in college. By the end of the bag, I was begging him for some.
Apple Slice. 
Zenster, I bought a pack or two of Black Jack gum about 6 or 7 years ago, in a barbecue in Pennsylvania. My dad said it was popular when he was younger, and apparently the company had “reissued” it, so to speak. Not sure if its still around now, though.
Whip n’ Chill, lemon flavored with extra lemon juice.
There are at least two websites that specialize in selling brands that you may think are discontinued, but which are simply unavailable in your area. I feel pretty certain that they both carry Blackjack gum, for instance.
Lemme check my bookmarks…
The better one:
http://www.hometownfavorites.com
Check it out!