# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/61 "2007-06-12T04:40:12Z")
Krispy Kritters cereal I don’t remember what it tasted like, I think it tasted like Alpha-bits, but I didn’t care because I could play with the little animals. Some website called it the worst cereal ever but I don’t think it was. Then again I probably wouldn’t eat it if it were around today. Bar None Mars bar - not the same as the UK version, supposedly it’s a Snickers Almond now but I’ve never seen one of those. PB Max _sigh_ Do you think we could get a letter writing campaign going to bring these back? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/62 "2007-06-12T04:50:57Z")
[QUOTE=Projammer] (I know they still make it, but which game show had it for the consolation prize?) [/QUOTE] Either Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune. Funny \*\*silenus \*\*that you should mention Zero bars. I was just chatting with my nephew tonight about them. The last time I saw them was visiting **Cheez\_Whia** in CO, so I guess I’ll have to go out there this summer and pick some up. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/63 "2007-06-12T04:52:46Z")
Okay, I am upset now. I was googling for info on PB Max and found this quote on a review of a book about the big chocolate companies > [@](#): > > Also, it talked briefly about PB Max. I think I get the most questions about PB Max and why Mars doesn’t sell it anymore. Turns out the Mars family doesn’t like peanut butter. They hate it. And they can’t fathom that Americans love it. So, even though PB Max sold ok (not great, but profitable), the Mars family dropped it because they don’t like peanut butter. The book portrays the Mars family as pretty odd, and if what the book says is true, I would agree. This is an outrage! The PB Max was taken from us because of anti-American sentiment! Sounds like they’re still upset about that whole tea thing. Who’s up for storming the castle? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/64 "2007-06-12T05:38:32Z")
The only food I can remember fondly missing is McDonald’s Cheddar Melt. Good times. I haven’t seen this burger since the late 80s, but a quick Google seems to suggest that it’s been around as recently as 2004 or 2005. I sure as heck haven’t seen it. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/65 "2007-06-12T05:47:29Z")
[QUOTE=Yookeroo] I think the UK version of Snickers is very different than the US version. Probably the same for Marathon. [/QUOTE] Indeed they are and Marathon bars were renamed Snickers way back in the mists of time. ---
**Author:** ![Intravenus\_De\_Milo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Intravenus\_De\_Milo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intravenus_De_Milo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/66 "2007-06-12T06:13:40Z")
I used to love fruit snacks when I was a kid, and it seems that back then (late '80s-early '90s) they actually tasted more like fruit than sugar. I’m a little rusty on the names of these, but one of my favorites was a fruit snack shaped like sharks. They were tropical punch-flavored and quite yummy. I also loved these dense, chewy strawberry fruit snack bars (which you could tell had actual strawberry material in them because they still had the seeds) that had a vanilla swirl in them. And they were widely available, non-organic snacks, too. Those disappeared sometime around 1990, I think. I also loved a Kool-Aid flavor called Rainbow Punch. The packets (in the early '90s at least) had a picture of the Kool-Aid Man in a raincoat and galoshes and carrying an umbrella. The taste was different form the regular Tropical Punch, and I remember liking it a lot more. Sadly, the flavor was discontinued all too soon ☹ Here’s [a modern review of Rainbow Punch](http://www.x-entertainment.com/kool-aid/reviews/rainbow_punch/index.php), though. (P.S.: [Sharkleberry Finn](http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0929/) was pretty dope too 🆒 ) ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_Samaritan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bad\_Samaritan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_Samaritan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/67 "2007-06-12T07:32:18Z")
I miss the old Oompah’s, the ones that were like giant m&m’s except with peanut butter under the hard candy shell. The new Oompah’s aren’t even the same candy. ---
**Author:** ![pendgwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@pendgwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pendgwen)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/68 "2007-06-12T08:32:52Z")
Wheat Hearts hot cereal. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/69 "2007-06-12T11:31:04Z")
Saddest of all is when they change the formula of a favorite product. Then you know there is no hope of ever getting it again. I’m talking about plain old Tang. It now has a quotidian orange-like flavor, not that anyone would mistake it for the real thing. But in the old days, it used to have note of strangely chalky/bitter flavor, not entirely dissimilar to chewing on a vitamin c tablet. Definitely designed to keep the astronauts on their toes. I miss that indescribable artificially-flavored edge. ---
**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 12, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/70 "2007-06-12T14:22:38Z")
That is almost pitworthy. I was royally hacked when they changed the cheese in the little packages of crackers and cheese. And then they had the gall to redesign the package so you were getting less cheese but making it so that it wasn’t apparent when looked at from the top. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/71 "2007-06-12T15:28:00Z")
This thread is making my teeth hurt. 😛 I miss Bubble Yum chocolate gum, and Bubble Yum mint chocolate gum. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/72 "2007-06-12T15:33:51Z")
I miss those dark chocolate covered ice cream bombes on a stick with banana and strawberry ice creams inside. Yum! Wetson’s french fries. Shoestring magic! Woolworth’s pound cake with chocolate frosting from the bakery counter on 34th street directly across the street from Macy\*s. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/73 "2007-06-12T17:20:04Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Marathon are alive and well, known now as “Snickers” [/QUOTE] The Marathons I meant was pure caramel, covered in chocolate. They were long and flat and in a braid shape. **racer72** , I remember Milkshakes. The concession stand at my cousins’ baseball field shoved popsicle sticks in them and froze them. YUM! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/74 "2007-06-12T17:57:35Z")
For other fans of old (and not forgotten) candy bars, including the one I went searching for – Long Boy Kraut – here’s some nostalgia: [The Ghost of Candy Bars Past](http://www.citypages.com/databank/19/942/article6825.asp). Two places where old candy was located: the theater and the swimming pool. I remember the Long Boy Kraut was so fine after a swim. Those large suckers that Charms made (like the Life Saver sized ones but bigger) and Sugar Babies, Milk Duds, Sugar Daddy, B-B-Bats and Necco Wafers were major theater treats. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/75 "2007-06-12T17:58:10Z")
Someone mentioned candy cigarettes. What _were_ they thinking?? ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/76 "2007-06-12T18:02:20Z")
[QUOTE=Fiddle Peghead] Someone mentioned candy cigarettes. What _were_ they thinking?? [/QUOTE] “Get 'em while they’re young.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/77 "2007-06-12T18:04:03Z")
[QUOTE=Fiddle Peghead] Someone mentioned candy cigarettes. What _were_ they thinking?? [/QUOTE] Hey, how about bubble gum cigars? ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/78 "2007-06-12T18:17:46Z")
[QUOTE=Fiddle Peghead] Someone mentioned candy cigarettes. What _were_ they thinking?? [/QUOTE] I remember a pouch of candy tobacco in the UK, made of toasted coconut I think, rather than bubble gum like the Ball Park Chew over in the States… It came in a pack with a pirate’s ship on the front. My mother freaked when I came home with it. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/79 "2007-06-12T18:28:00Z")
[QUOTE=Fiddle Peghead] Someone mentioned candy cigarettes. What _were_ they thinking?? [/QUOTE] I loved playing with candy cigarettes, pretending I was cool. Never did pick up the real things, though; I’m not sure where I got the idea they were cool. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/80 "2007-06-12T19:17:56Z")
When I was young there used to be a tetrazzini mix in a box. Just add hot water, chicken and bake in the oven. My mother and I loved it. (There was also a stroganoff mix by the same company but it wasn’t as good.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496.md?page=5)