# Whatever Happened To ...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2000, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680 "2000-11-25T21:10:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/21 "2000-11-26T02:22:24Z")
Now that you mention it, I haven’t seen Boo Berry or the Frankenberry cereal in eons! Count Chocula goes on sale approximately every three weeks here in Columbia, MD. What I want to know is why Jello stopped making Pudding Pops! I **loved** them! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/22 "2000-11-26T03:27:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > **You see, back when I played with… _\_ … erector sets…** I’m afraid to ask, but curiosity got the best of me: WHAT is an “erector set”, and why would a KID play with it?? 😉 Holland Rusk is unknown to me, but your description made me think of [beschuit](http://www.paulussen.demon.nl/images/muisjes.jpg) for some reason. Anywhere near the truth? ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/23 "2000-11-26T04:01:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > **…Kenner’s “Girder and Panel” construction set.** I thought those were so cool! You could build your own skyscraper with an internal framework of girders. I miss all the toys, like Thingmaker® and Vacuform®, that allowed you to actually make things using a machine that got hot enough to set things on fire. Not that we actually used them for anything other than the prescribed purpose. To the best of my knowledge. [sub]Thass’ muh story an’ ahm sticken to it![/sub] Coldfire: “Erector Sets” were the American version of Mechano, IIRC. ~~Baloo ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/24 "2000-11-26T04:02:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > > **You see, back when I played with… _\_ … erector sets…** > > I’m afraid to ask, but curiosity got the best of me: WHAT is an “erector set”, and why would a KID play with it?? 😉 \*\*Pardon my lapse of Euroese. **Mechano** to you **Coldie**. (AKA Gilbert™ on this side of the pond.) [sub]WHEN I WAS A KID I DIDN’T HAVE ANY FRIENDS OR TOYS. I HAD TO PLAY WITH MYSELF![/sub] [sup]WHATEVER YOU DO, PLEASE AVOID THE JUXTAPOSITION OF _SNIP_ AND _ERECTOR_!!![/sup] > [@](#): > > _ **Originally posted by Coldfire** _ > Holland Rusk is unknown to me, but your description made me think of [beschuit](http://www.paulussen.demon.nl/images/muisjes.jpg) for some reason. Anywhere near the truth? \*\* Spot on **Clogboy** , that is if we’re both talking about the substrate that is carrying the unidentified gelatinous based meat related substance (or doughnut sprinkles, YMMV). That sure as Hades looks like a loadbearing rusk unit. ---
**Author:** ![Lego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@Lego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lego)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/25 "2000-11-26T04:13:32Z")
I miss Orbits, the drink with little jello spheres. Four years ago, they were extremely popular. Then they vanished really quickly! Was something wrong with them? ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/26 "2000-11-26T04:39:33Z")
Funny Face drink mix? Just like Kool Aid only a lot more fun. Thick-n-Frosty. This was frozen glop you spooned into a glass of milk, turning it into a shake. Spoon Candy. Anyone remember this? It was pudding, but the top would turn hard like a candy bar. 1-2-3 geletin dessert. Foamy top. Very strange. King Vitaman/Quisp cereal. I know Quisp is now available, but only in certain areas, and it’s not advirtised on t.v… Why not? Quisp commercials were a staple of my youth. 8 pack deposit bottles for soda. Remember lugging them things to & from the store? Why, in this day of recycling, aren’t they using them anymore? I don’t care what anyone says, soda (and beer;) ) taste better in glass bottles! ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/27 "2000-11-26T04:41:03Z")
The had that stuff in our local Kroger supermarket as recently as a couple of weeks ago. I just happened to notice it as I passed through the refrigerated juice aisle. Never really cared too much for it myself. What I miss are Hostess’ Donut-Os. They looked like your standard powdered sugar donuts but had a raspberry jelly filled core running through the middle. Tasty! ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/28 "2000-11-26T05:19:31Z")
Whatever happened to **Amy Carter**? You know, Jimmy Earl’s little girl. ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/29 "2000-11-26T07:20:54Z")
They brought back “Bugles,” but whatever happened to **“Whistles,” “Daisies” and "Pizza Spins?"** ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/30 "2000-11-26T08:29:18Z")
Yer all demented!..and I respect that in my fellow dopers. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/31 "2000-11-26T11:36:06Z")
I miss my old Commodore Vic 20! I know… I am a little weird, but it was **SO** cool at the time! It sucked writing a lengthy basic program, and losing it when you turned off the comp, tho… until I got the cassette tape drive for X-mas (thanks mom!), then, with just the expenditure of 30 or 40 minutes, I could save stuff! Wow!! ---
**Author:** ![cheezit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@cheezit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheezit)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/32 "2000-11-26T15:03:24Z")
What ever happened to **Pop Rocks** and **Fizzies**? I remember having “fizzie parties” with my sister when we were just wee little tykes. 😃 And “Black-jack” gum. Made my tongue black. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shiva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shiva)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/33 "2000-11-26T15:32:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cheezit \* > **What ever happened to Pop Rocks and Fizzies?** Didn’t you hear? The little kid that played Mikey in the Life cereal commercials died when the C02 from the Pop Rocks combined with the spider eggs in his Bubble Yum and formed a high-pressure gaseous ball of baby spiders in his stomach. After he died they took both of those products off the market. 😃 Anyone wanna buy a bridge in Brooklyn? **Zenster** , remember Shrinky Dinks? Draw your design on a sheet of plastic, cut it out, put it in the oven and it shrinks and thickens into a ummm… Smaller and thicker version of your drawing. Very useful. 😉 **woodstock** , if you really loved me you’d have fixed my typo. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/34 "2000-11-26T15:33:17Z")
Whatever happened to… **Jessica McClure** , the little girl who was trapped in the well in Texas for something like 36 hours? She must be closing in on 13 or 14 now. Is she just yer average, regular teen girl in Texas? Did she have any permanent mental or physical damage from the ordeal. And, most importantly, are she and her parents rollin’ in moolah from selling the rights to her story? As for **Amy Carter** … last I heard, she was in law school and had just gotten married. I’d imagine she’s a lawyer now. She’s, what, about 33 or 34 now? ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/35 "2000-11-26T15:45:50Z")
We still have Pop Rocks, Fizzies, Count Chocula and Mechano sets. I’m almost sure. We’ll, I’m positive about the Mechano sets, anyway. For a while, I thought I missed Nutella, but then I realized that they still sell it, they just don’t seem to advertise it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/36 "2000-11-26T15:51:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pkbites \* > **Spoon Candy. Anyone remember this? It was pudding, but the top would turn hard like a candy bar.** Dear God **pkbites**! Please tell me this is somehow different than just eating a really thick pudding skin! That sounds disgusting! And **Dr\_Paprika** I can get you some Fruit Stripe gum any time you want it here. ---
**Author:** ![jcarbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@jcarbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcarbon)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/37 "2000-11-26T16:05:41Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by beakerxf \* \*\*Hmmmmmmm, yeah you’re right. I’m remembering it wrong. After sitting her for five minutes trying to remember, it finally occurred to me. Burma Shave…I think. It’s a Saturday and the brain is working on all thrusters. Burma Shave is now Myanmar Shave. ---
**Author:** ![tevya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/38 "2000-11-26T16:15:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shiva \* > > …remember Shrinky Dinks? Draw your design on a sheet of plastic, cut it out, put it in the oven and it shrinks and thickens into a ummm… Smaller and thicker version of your drawing. Very useful. 😉 **Shiva,** I was fondly remembering Shrinky Dinks until you ripped off my rose colored glasses and reminded me of just how uselessly bizarre that toy was/is. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/39 "2000-11-26T16:35:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baloo \* > \*\* > I miss all the toys, like Thingmaker® and Vacuform®, that allowed you to actually make things using a machine that got hot enough to set things on fire. Not that we actually used them for anything other than the prescribed purpose. To the best of my knowledge. [sub]Thass’ muh story an’ ahm sticken to it![/sub] > > Coldfire: “Erector Sets” were the American version of Mechano, IIRC. > > ~~Baloo \*\* Dang, I miss the Thingmaker and Vacuform too. I loved those toys, and wanted to get them a couple of years back. I used to have an Erector set, too, as my parents just sighed and rolled their eyes and wondered why they couldn’t have a NORMAL little girl who wanted to play with her dolls. ---
**Author:** ![Shiva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shiva)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/40 "2000-11-26T16:57:14Z")
Hey, how about the Vertibird? They were small helicopters on a rigid tether that you could actually fly. They had a throttle control and a tilt control, so you could fly fast, slow, forward, backwards, hover, etc. My brothers and I probably destroyed 3 or 4 of these things just from the hours and hours we spent flying them. Of course, nowadays they go for $300 :eek: [http://www.whirlybirdcentral.com/](http://www.whirlybirdcentral.com/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680.md?page=3)