# Your favorite old food **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496 "2007-06-10T20:30:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/1 "2007-06-10T20:30:51Z")
I’m pretty sure that favorite foods have been done to death and their bones ground up for cakes that were passed all around. So let me try for a new spin. What were some of your favorite foods foods when you were growing up that just aren’t made any more? Commercially available stuff please. I’m sure your great grandmothers pineapple upside down beans were wonderful, but you couldn’t buy a package of them off the shelf at Piggly Wiggly. Food, candy, drinks, what do you miss? This thread brought to you by [Freakies](http://www.food.pop-cult.com/freakies.html) cereal and the letters XYZZY. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/2 "2007-06-10T20:38:46Z")
Forgive me if this is still available, but my brother and I used to make up two varieties of fudge with Junket packaged mixes. Damn good stuff. Easy. Quick. But I guess it’s been decades since then. I’ll try hard to remember stuff I liked that can’t be found anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/3 "2007-06-10T20:43:00Z")
Corkscrews? Not sure that’s the right name, but they were corkscrew shaped corn chips. Cheese Kisses. Individually-wrapped candy-size “cheese.” Grape Tang - I swear I’m not making this up! Raisins, Rice 'n Rye breakfast cereal. Forever Yours Candy bar - Dark chocolate over some kind of white nougat and caramel. Zots? Hard candy filled with something that fizzed when you reached it. Pillsbury Wheat nuts. Cookie Crisp Cereal. Waffelos Cereal. Gator Gum and Freshen Up Gum (the gum that goes Squirt!) If anyone knows where to find any of these, lemmeno! ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/4 "2007-06-10T20:45:45Z")
Tahitian Treat soda. I haven’t seen it in ages. Last time I saw it was the mid 90’s. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/5 "2007-06-10T20:51:29Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Forgive me if this is still available, but my brother and I used to make up two varieties of fudge with Junket packaged mixes. Damn good stuff. Easy. Quick. But I guess it’s been decades since then. I’ll try hard to remember stuff I liked that can’t be found anymore. [/QUOTE] A quick google give me this.. > [@](#): > > In 1938, Junket “Quick Fudge and Frosting Mix” was launched. It was later renamed “Minute Fudge” and today is known as Hansen Island Fudge > **[Home - Junket Desserts - Known and Loved Since 1874](https://junketdesserts.com/)** > > Junket products are authentic and time-tested, known and loved since 1874. Timeless products for making delicious desserts, ice cream, and even cheese. They have an order page. See if it’s as good as you remember! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/6 "2007-06-10T20:53:22Z")
[QUOTE=Hazle Weatherfield] Corkscrews? Not sure that’s the right name, but they were corkscrew shaped corn chips. Cheese Kisses. Individually-wrapped candy-size “cheese.” Grape Tang - I swear I’m not making this up! Raisins, Rice 'n Rye breakfast cereal. Forever Yours Candy bar - Dark chocolate over some kind of white nougat and caramel. Zots? Hard candy filled with something that fizzed when you reached it. Pillsbury Wheat nuts. Cookie Crisp Cereal. Waffelos Cereal. Gator Gum and Freshen Up Gum (the gum that goes Squirt!) If anyone knows where to find any of these, lemmeno! [/QUOTE] I don’t know where you’d find it, but I do know Cookie Crisp is still alive and well. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/7 "2007-06-10T20:53:34Z")
Oh yes. Raisin Grape Nuts cereal. And in the not so distant past, Gatorade snack bars, specifically the orange ones. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/8 "2007-06-10T20:54:26Z")
Suddenly S’mores. Please tell me someone else remembers these. ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/9 "2007-06-10T21:01:32Z")
Kickin’ Kiwi Lime Kool-Aid…sooo good and sooo green. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/10 "2007-06-10T21:07:00Z")
[QUOTE=Hazle Weatherfield] Forever Yours Candy bar - Dark chocolate over some kind of white nougat and caramel. [/QUOTE] You made me drool! I loved those too. I miss Mallow Cups – candy bar shaped like a cupcake. Marshmallow creme surrounded by chocolate. I also miss Campbell’s Cream of Vegetable soup. Mom mixed it with cooked ground beef and dumped it on a bun. The other Campbell’s vegetable flavors don’t come close. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blue-Sighted_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/11 "2007-06-10T21:20:52Z")
I think they were called Golden Fruit or Golden Raisin Bars. They were long cookie bars with raisin filling, and you broke off little rectangles. They were good, and not too sweet. I think they came in a couple of other flavors, but the raisin ones were the best. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/12 "2007-06-10T21:26:57Z")
Laffy Taffy - the grapiest stuff ever made. Candy Cigarettes Space Food Sticks Marathon Bars - chocolate covered caramel. Whacky Packs - like baseball cards, but had jokes on real products. Land 'O Quakes butter. I can’t remember any others… EDIT: and Quisp! Roof-of-your-mouth shreddin’est cereal ever. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/13 "2007-06-10T21:28:17Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/14 "2007-06-10T21:28:21Z")
[QUOTE=Flutterby] Tahitian Treat soda. [/QUOTE] I’m pretty sure that’s still available here. So is Cookie Crisp cereal. Mine is O’Grady Au Gratin potato chips. I loved them. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/15 "2007-06-10T21:31:47Z")
Jello pudding pops, and Pizzaria (sp) chips. I liked both of these as a kid, but who knows if I still would if they were brought back. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/16 "2007-06-10T21:32:18Z")
Zero candy bars. They’re still around, somewhere, just not around here. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/17 "2007-06-10T21:33:49Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Zero candy bars. They’re still around, somewhere, just not around here. [/QUOTE] We have those here in the east still. White chocolate with caramel and nuts and nougat. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/18 "2007-06-10T21:48:43Z")
My memories go back to two Mexican candies. One was like peanut brittle, but the candy part was pink and much softer. The other was a large coconut marshmallow stuck between pieces of graham crackers. (I know Arcotas make a very similar candy, but they have four small marshmallows instead of one big one, and it’s just not as good.) We have looked all around local Mexican stores, and even asked people going to Texas and Mexico, but we can’t find them. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/19 "2007-06-10T22:56:40Z")
Old time candy found [here](http://www.oldtimecandy.com/CandyList.htm) . ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/20 "2007-06-10T23:00:10Z")
Koogle banana-flavored peanut butter! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496.md?page=2)