Chocolate Cream Pie from Baker’s Square/Villiage Inn resturants. Stuff was the food of the Gods. One day it disappeared. The would bring it back every few years and you would have to fight like gladiators to get it before they sold out for the day. Then it would disappear again “because it didn’t sell well enough”. Bastards.
Sweet, delicious Flakey Flix cookies
Emperor’s Choice tea. I shake my fist at the sky with impotent rage each time I think about it.
State Line potato chips.
Undina birch beer.
And B and J’s coconut almond fudge chip.
I loved those too! Not surprised they were taken off the market though. No one I knew licked or sucked them, you had to gnaw for full appreciation; and they lasted for hours. Major cavity promoter…
White Wine Worcestershire sauce by Lea & Perrins. I’ve found it on line, reasonably priced, but the shipping will cost…
Sugar Free Tang~
Chalet Lemon Creme Girl Scout Cookies.
Jovan musk oil in the little brown bottle.
I wore it behind my ears in high school and every cute boy in the class would flirt with me. I was the IT girl when I wore my Jovan musk oil.
I ran out of my last bottle just before I left to go to college, and the college boys didn’t give me a second look. I KNOW it was because I didn’t have my little brown bottle of Jovan musk oil.
If only I could find another bottle, I’m SURE I could recapture my youth…
Snyder’s “hot as the devil” ketchup-loved that stuff!
Snow’s clam crisps-to die for!
Old English cheddar cheese english muffins.
Now you done gone and made me sad. Google shows that it’s still made, but I haven’t seen it around my parts in a couple of decades. I still go on occasional quests to make the sandwich that epitomizes childhood for me (the one my dad first taught me to make, somewhere around the age of 6), but I can never find the right bread. I’ve had very well-meaning people approach me in the grocery store when I’ve stared overlong at the bread selection, asking if I needed help buying bread (yes, I can look like a clueless husband dispatched on an errand beyond his ability). I respond that “I’m trying to recreate a childhood memory, and looking for a suitable substitute,” and they understand (or at least pretend to).
That aside, Pete’s Wicked Mardi Gras was a favorite beer of mine for two years. It was an early-year seasonal, and I discovered it in its second year of production.
Beautiful ginger bite, though it’s been long enough that my memory may deceive. I loved it in '96 and '97… And then it was gone. I don’t know if I would even like it today. But I loved it then, and it was cruelly snatched away in its prime.
I’m guessing this is probably the wrong stuff, but it says it’s the 1972 formula: Amazon.com : Jovan Musk for Women Eau de Parfum 0.33 fl oz (Pack of 1), Notes of Jasmine, Amber, and Neroli, Women's Fragrance, Long Lasting, Everyday Fragrance, Travel Size : Colognes : Beauty & Personal Care
Nope, that’s the cheap imitation…I tried it and just didn’t get the same reaction from the fellas…
But thanks for looking for it!
Roman Meal bread is all over the place out here. In fact, there is half a loaf in my freezer right now. Great bread.
Curtains - We bought some that we really liked. We wanted another set for a different room and the fabric color wasn’t available anymore. Just when we found a pattern we really liked too.
But they keep making the stupid caramel ones because they know I hate caramel.
Apple Newtons
3D Doritos
Wendy’s had a burger called the Big Bacon Classic.
Just a few…
Probably why I like them, since I’m from “thar.” And Just-Rite chili—can’t find that either, here in the wilds of FL. But I did track down canned shelly beans (spelled “shellie” in memory.)
Tacos at Midnight Doritos
Andy Capp’s Hot Chili Cheese Steak Fries
Raisin Grape Nuts
Dr Pepper with real sugar
Tuna Pot Pie Tuna Helper. (I’d make it with canned chicken)
Jumpin’ Jack Cheese Doritos.
Crunchy Cheez Doodles. (They still have puffy ones but those aren’t DOUBLE FRIED.) I remember that being on the package. Cheetos are good but not the ascent into the ethereal bounds that those things were.
When I used to wear perfume, every one–EVERY SINGLE ONE–was dropped after I’d gotten complimented on it. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
Now I just use body sprays. Every time I like one and I get complimented, when I go back to get more? They’ve discontinued it.
EVERY SINGLE ONE!
They ARE watching us!!
Lemon Crush soda
Danish-go-rounds
Mitch Hedberg
Canon EOS 50mm F 1.0L
The US Middle Class
Firefly
Chick-Fil-A
My own Coffee brand.
Chocolate-coated pretzels. Flipz, they were called. Apparently they still exist elsewhere, but clearly UK palates aren’t sophisticated enough yet to enjoy that salty, milk chocolatey goodness.
Dr Pepper made with real cane sugar.
That’s all I got.