# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/21 "2007-06-10T23:16:50Z")
Chef Boyardee Mini Cheese Ravioli in Tomato and Cheese Sauce. They have similar things now, but they all have meat in them somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/22 "2007-06-10T23:29:10Z")
Fizzies! And my favorite Junket product was … Junket. Can’t believe they still make it. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/23 "2007-06-11T00:07:48Z")
[QUOTE=Omega Glory] 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. [/QUOTE] Pudding pops are back, and they’re still quite good. They still have that unnerving tendency to bend as you lick them. As a kid, I used to love Campbell’s Wonton Soup - basically their same ol’ chickenesque broth with these thick doughy triangles with minced chicken inside. Haven’t seen that in years. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/24 "2007-06-11T00:22:12Z")
Old Tyme Jamaican Style Ginger Beer. It still exists, but not here. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/25 "2007-06-11T00:31:55Z")
Pringles made chips that were thick, made of corn, and had powdered cheese. Loved them. Susan ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/26 "2007-06-11T00:50:29Z")
Space Food Bars ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/27 "2007-06-11T01:30:16Z")
[QUOTE=Projammer] This thread brought to you by [Freakies](http://www.food.pop-cult.com/freakies.html) cereal and the letters XYZZY. [/QUOTE] I used to love Freakies! To this day the song from the commercial pops into my head from time to time. _We are the Freakies! We are the Freakies! And this is the Freakies Tree…_ My rat-bastard best **fiend** still has his Freakies club membership papers. I can’t really think of any favourite but unavailable old foods. I guess I liked Jack-In-The-Box’s Bonus Jack, which they no longer have. And the Peter Paul Caravelle Bar. I haven’t had a Straw Hat pizza since I was a kid, but I think there are still one or two stores around in SoCal. But if they still sold Freakies in stores I’d probably buy a couple of boxes a year. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/28 "2007-06-11T01:54:45Z")
A soft drink from the Coca Cola bottling company, called, _Simba_. With a lionembossed on the bottle. Oddly, I don’t believe I ever saw it in a can… Also Brew 102. Does beer count? I still try to remember where the brewery was when i drive through L.A. Kellogg’s OK cereal. Like Post Alpha-bits, except it only had Os and Ks, IIRC. And one of my favorite foods back in 1956 was Gerber’s strained carrots. Man, I haven’t had a jar of that for _years_… ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/29 "2007-06-11T02:00:35Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] As a kid, I used to love Campbell’s Wonton Soup - basically their same ol’ chickenesque broth with these thick doughy triangles with minced chicken inside. Haven’t seen that in years. [/QUOTE] I’ve seen Campbell’s wonton soup on and off for years. Has anyone seen Campbell’s beef noodle soup lately? I haven’t seen it the last few times I looked, and I miss it. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/30 "2007-06-11T02:14:45Z")
[QUOTE=if6was9] Whacky Packs - like baseball cards, but had jokes on real products. Land 'O Quakes butter. I can’t remember any others… [/QUOTE] They’re still made. My grandson showed me a stack of them the other day. Rhesus Pieces, Vomit Cleanser, Baddy’s Headache Powders, Poopsi Cola, etc. My item for the no longer made is Milk Shake candy bars. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/31 "2007-06-11T02:30:22Z")
Cracklin’ Oat Bran circa 1985. Somewhere before it went bye-bye they changed the formula and it kind of sucked after that, but before it was like eating cookie cereal. ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/32 "2007-06-11T03:19:29Z")
**Orbitz** , some kind of weird, noncarbonated transparent beverage. Inside it were little fruity jelly balls of equal density… They sort of… hovered in the liquid. I haven’t seen the chocolate kind of **Flintstone’s Fruity Pebbles** in a while. I hope it’s alive and well out there. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/33 "2007-06-11T03:35:14Z")
It’s probably still for sale, but **Lik-m-Aid** was my favorite treat to get from the pool concession stand when I was a kid (and we went to the pool every day). Colored/flavored sugar that you ate by licking a stick made of sugar and dipping said stick into the colored sugar. Then when you’re done, you eat the stick! What’s not to love? Just thinking about the amount of sugar in that gives me a headache 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![neorxnawange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f4b2a3/32.png) [@neorxnawange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neorxnawange)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/34 "2007-06-11T03:49:35Z")
**Dr. Pepper Gum** - it had Dr. Pepper syrup in the middle. **Circus Fun Cereal** - with horses, hoops, balls, bears, elephants, and lions (and tigers) **Crunch Tators** Mighty Mesquite Potato Chips - every time I watch _Home Alone_ I wish for them. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/35 "2007-06-11T04:06:37Z")
Hormel’s Frank’n’Stuff hotdogs, with a core of Hormel chili in the middle. Almost like a chili dog, and much, much neater to eat. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/36 "2007-06-11T04:14:30Z")
[QUOTE=racer72] > [@if6was9](#): > > Whacky Packs - like baseball cards, but had jokes on real products. Land 'O Quakes butter. I can’t remember any others… They’re still made. My grandson showed me a stack of them the other day. Rhesus Pieces, Vomit Cleanser, Baddy’s Headache Powders, Poopsi Cola, etc. [/QUOTE] Technically, [they’ve returned](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Packages). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Perro\_Fumando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e9c0ed/32.png) [@El\_Perro\_Fumando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Perro_Fumando)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/37 "2007-06-11T10:02:19Z")
[QUOTE=Foldup Rabbit] Orbitz, some kind of weird, noncarbonated transparent beverage. Inside it were little fruity jelly balls of equal density… They sort of… hovered in the liquid. [/QUOTE] I LOVED the one with the red balls. One day, **Orbitz** was here, then the next day it wasn’t. [QUOTE=ZipperJJ] It’s probably still for sale, but Lik-m-Aid was my favorite treat to get from the pool concession stand when I was a kid (and we went to the pool every day). Colored/flavored sugar that you ate by licking a stick made of sugar and dipping said stick into the colored sugar. Then when you’re done, you eat the stick! What’s not to love? Just thinking about the amount of sugar in that gives me a headache [/QUOTE] You’re right, it is still made. I can always find it up at the counter at CVS, Rite Aid, etc. To add my own, I’ve had a hard time recently finding Keebler’s Soft Batch cookies (dangerously undercooked chocolate chip cookies in a red bag). What I wouldn’t give for a bag right now. ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/38 "2007-06-11T11:39:59Z")
Quisp Cereal. Sorta like Cap’n Crunch, but didn’t tear the roof off your mouth. Oh yes - it’s still available, sorta, at [http://www.quisp.com](http://www.quisp.com) ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/39 "2007-06-11T11:47:11Z")
_“…In the afterlife, you will be headed for some serious strife…”_\* For me it is Delfa Danish Rolls, a strwaberry licorice, and banana flavored marshmellows. Mmmm! \*_Thanks for the Squirrel Nut Zippers reference, **Projammer**!_😃 ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/40 "2007-06-11T14:34:35Z")
Mr. Fip’s Pretzel Chips. If they still exist, please tell me where. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496.md?page=3)