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.
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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?
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.
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
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?
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.
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, though.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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