# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/101 "2007-06-13T20:00:49Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] Powerhouse Candy bars were advertised as a quarter pound. Thats why I chose them over 3 Musketeers. [/QUOTE] My brother always chose Charleston Chews because they seemed so large. And they were good frozen and shattered. ---
**Author:** ![Freezair\_SilverEye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Freezair\_SilverEye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freezair_SilverEye)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/102 "2007-06-13T22:59:14Z")
It has been ages–AGES–since I have seen a box of Berry Berry Kix. My heart weeps! Kix itself is a mightily good cereal, but the addition of sweet berry goodness made it truly the mightiest of all breakfast cereals. Also, I’ll agree that fruit snacks today are just… really different somehow. I’m not even sure I could tell you what’s changed. But I seem to remember fruit snacks shaped like… whistles? Or am I imagining these? ---
**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 14, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/103 "2007-06-14T01:50:23Z")
[QUOTE=cher3] Check your local health food type stores. Annie’s Naturals has a cheese version. [/QUOTE] I bought them, I ate them, and they were delicious. They were not quite like the Chef Boyardee ones–they were much larger and less glutenous. However, they are probably a lot better for me than the Chef Boyardee version. You, sir or madam, have served me well. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/104 "2007-06-14T16:59:06Z")
[QUOTE=Freezair SilverEye] But I seem to remember fruit snacks shaped like… whistles? Or am I imagining these? [/QUOTE] I just remember wax whistles, wax harmonicas and wax bottles filled with sugary goo. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/105 "2007-06-14T17:22:47Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] I just remember wax whistles, wax harmonicas and wax bottles filled with sugary goo. [/QUOTE] Also teeth and lips. Wax was some bodacious stuff in the old days. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/106 "2007-06-14T17:26:09Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Also teeth and lips. Wax was some bodacious stuff in the old days. [/QUOTE] I always thought I wanted it but after half an hour of gnawing on a growing wad of wax…I always ended up tossing it in the street. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/107 "2007-06-14T17:32:42Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] I always thought I wanted it but after half an hour of gnawing on a growing wad of wax…I always ended up tossing it in the street. :smack: [/QUOTE] Should have saved it to make a candle. Or wax your yo-yo string. ---
**Author:** ![8675309](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ea5d25/32.png) [@8675309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/8675309)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/108 "2007-06-14T17:40:40Z")
[Mararthon](http://todayslessons.blogspot.com/marathon-bar.jpg) which was 8 inches of braided caramel, covered in chocolate. The best candy bar ever! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/109 "2007-06-14T17:50:48Z")
[QUOTE=BobLibDem] Sweet tarts the size of a child’s fist. [/QUOTE] Swee-Tarts, period. The _original_ ones, lens-shaped and packaged in a gold foil envelope. The modern ones (concave on both sides and packed in a tube) look and taste completely different, and don’t even have the same texture–they’re too hard. Similarly, the original Five Flavor LifeSavers (cherry, orange, lemon, lime, pineapple)…and while I’m at it, the original Tropical Fruits roll (coconut, pineapple, mango melon, banana, tangerine). ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/110 "2007-06-14T21:13:28Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Swee-Tarts, period. The _original_ ones, lens-shaped and packaged in a gold foil envelope. The modern ones (concave on both sides and packed in a tube) look and taste completely different, and don’t even have the same texture–they’re too hard. [/QUOTE] I preferred Spree. Talk about making your teeth hurt, in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![RoniaBorkason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@RoniaBorkason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoniaBorkason)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496/111 "2007-06-14T22:37:42Z")
Strawberry Jam-filled Mini Shredded Wheats. They have them in strawberry frosted now, but the jammy filling made them great even without milk. Mmmm, red 40 and artificially flavored gelatin! I had them in Oregon in 1994, and haven’t seen them since. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-old-food/407496.md?page=5)