# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Azazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Azazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azazel)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/41 "2000-11-26T17:21:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pkbites \* > \*\*Funny Face drink mix? Just like Kool Aid only a lot more fun. > > \*\* These were the first products, in my memory, which had their names changed because of PC-ness. [li]“Injun Orange” became “Jolly Olly Orange” [_]“Chinese Cherry” became “Choo-Choo Cherry” [_]“Loudmouth Lime” disapeared for some reason.[/li] This must have been in the '60’s sometime; it seems like an eternity ago. ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/42 "2000-11-26T17:43:47Z")
Fizzies still exist. They have a website which I don’t know how to post. They were taken off the market because they had cyclamates, but are back with nutrasweet. Making them with sugar would make them HUGE! The Hostess donuts with raspberry filling are still available, I ate some yesterday. They come with or without powdered sugar. I still have a package of jello 1-2-3, if anyone is interested. ---
**Author:** ![schief2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@schief2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schief2)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/43 "2000-11-26T17:52:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pkbites \* > **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.** **King Vitaman** is still available at my local Schnucks here in Missouri…I have a friend who swears by the stuff, to the exclusion of all other breakfast cereals. Now, what I want to know is, what the devil happened to **Bubble Tape**? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/44 "2000-11-26T18:24:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rastahomie \* > \*\*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?\*\* I think that they had to remove something relatively unimportant (maybe part of a heel…?), but she’s doing well and doesn’t remember the event. Of course, I don’t remember where I read this… citeless as usual. ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/45 "2000-11-26T18:39:18Z")
[http://www.fizzies.com](http://www.fizzies.com) The Jello 1-2-3 is cherry. Cost me .54. My kid buys Bubbletape all the time. Grape or cherry. ---
**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, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/46 "2000-11-26T18:58:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cornflakes \* > \*\*I think that they had to remove something relatively unimportant (maybe part of a heel…?), but she’s doing well and doesn’t remember the event. > > Of course, I don’t remember where I read this… citeless as usual. \*\* This site says she has “scars she bears on her forehead, her thigh and right foot.” It doesn’t mention how she got them though. [http://www.caver.net/arch/J2.htm](http://www.caver.net/arch/J2.htm) This next site says the accident “claimed her right little toe and left some minor scars from skin grafts.” [http://www.caver.net/arch/jess14.htm](http://www.caver.net/arch/jess14.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/47 "2000-11-26T19:22:27Z")
The only question here is “What happened to (insert product here)?”, to which the answer in each case is either “They stopped making it” or “they’re still making it”. Since the rest of this thread is pretty much nothing but reminiscing and annecdotes, i’m moving it over to MPSIMS. ---
**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, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/48 "2000-11-26T20:01:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > \*\*The only question here is “What happened to (insert product here)?”, to which the answer in each case is either “They stopped making it” or “they’re still making it”. Since the rest of this thread is pretty much nothing but reminiscing and annecdotes, i’m moving it over to MPSIMS. \*\* That’ll teach me to try and diversify my posting forums. I’m back did anyone miss me?..?..? Oh, well! Sigh! ::shambles off muttering:: ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/49 "2000-11-26T20:16:48Z")
What ever happened to Mattels “Strange Change” machine? It was my favorite toy circa 1972.You put a plastic cube the size of a starburst candy onto a modified heat plate and it slowly grew into a T rex or an octopus or a skeleton.You could play with the figures,reheat them and squish them back into the cube shape with a viselike device.Way cool to a 7 year old. ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/50 "2000-11-26T20:28:17Z")
Oh, I loved that Strange Change thingie. We also had the Thingmaker with the little hot plate molds, but we were always running out of the bottles of plastic goo and having to beg the parents to buy more. Does anyone remember those art kits for girls that had names like Leather Art, Copper Art and Macrame Art? They were excellent kits, with lots of good-quality supplies, and there were dozens of different ones. They came in red boxes, IIRC. ---
**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, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/51 "2000-11-26T20:39:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > > > [@](#): > > > > _ **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. \*\* That is indeed what I was talking about. The “sprinkles” on top are called _muisjes_ (“little mice”). “Rusk with Little Mice”, or _Beschuit met Muisjes_, is the traditional thing to eat when a baby is born into the family. White & Pink for a girl, and White & Blue for a boy. But _beschuit_ itself can be eaten the year 'round. It’s a breakfast thing. Also, it helps when one has the, ahem, runs 😃 **Meccano**! But of course. Why in the name of Zeuss’ butthole[sup]1[/sup] do you call those _erector sets_, though?? Confusing stuff 😉 [sup]1[/sup] = I think **Lexicon** deserves full credit for this one. I love that one. However, I am too lazy to look it up. ---
**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, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/52 "2000-11-26T21:09:50Z")
Well, let me put it this way about \ _Erector Sets_, **Coldie**. Playing around with nuts, screws and rigid members is unsurpassed for teaching a young boy (or _girl_, hi **Lynn**!) the ins and outs (as it were) of erecting more significant things to come. \ ---
**Author:** ![Orshee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Orshee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orshee)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680/53 "2000-11-27T00:50:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pkbites \* > \*\*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! > \*\* I was really disappointed when they stopped making Pepsi in glass bottles. You’re right, pkbites, it does taste better. Even RC Cola tasted good in glass bottles. I miss Fisher Price Little People. Those little 2" tall tube-shaped people - they had a house, a jet, and a bunch of other toys, all with little round holes in them so the little people would fit. Then some kids choked on the little people so they made them fatter and wider, and they’re not so little anymore. I wish my mom had saved mine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/42680.md?page=2)