# Your favorite retro/forgotten/by-gone foods **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [January 4, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611 "2024-01-04T21:56:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/181 "2025-10-03T05:07:40Z")
I’ve seen Braunschweiger. I don’t think it’s exactly the same thing as Liverwurst. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/182 "2025-10-03T05:18:51Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > I’ve seen Braunschweiger. I don’t think it’s exactly the same thing as Liverwurst Liverwurst is the general name, with or without smokiness. Braunschweiger is smoked a little (almost imperceptively, IME). I’ve had braunschweiger and liverwurst in the same brand side by side and couldn’t notice a difference - can’t remember anymore whether they were Oscar Meyer or Morrell. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/183 "2025-10-03T05:35:07Z")
Thanks, maybe I’ll try it! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/184 "2025-10-03T13:19:45Z")
> [@sunacres](#): > > Shake-a-Puddin’ > [@Spoons](#): > > Space food sticks. Those plus Danish-Go-Rounds were some of my favorite junk foods back in the 60s. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/185 "2025-10-03T14:17:13Z")
When I was a kid in the 80s my parents would buy these saltine squares for me. Not the small squares they sell in stacks today but a big square that was composed of four of the small saltine squares. Anyone else remember these? [https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/6c0xgl/remember\_when\_saltine\_crackers\_looked\_like\_this/](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/6c0xgl/remember_when_saltine_crackers_looked_like_this/) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/186 "2025-10-03T15:03:31Z")
Apparently, Maurice Lenel Pinwheel Cookies are gone forever. ☹ 😞 ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/187 "2025-10-03T15:20:02Z")
🫂 The Committee strikes again. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/188 "2025-10-03T15:28:36Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > You can find—or at least, you used to be able to; I haven’t looked recently—frozen individual Chicken Cordon Bleu and Chicken Kiev for relatively cheap. The ones I’m familiar with come two to a box, sometimes four. Not bad, considering what they are. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/189 "2025-10-03T15:30:32Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Now places often put coleslaw on a reuben. That’s a Detroit thing, AFAIK. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/190 "2025-10-03T15:31:17Z")
One answer for me: Product-19. There is nothing even remotely close to replace it and and unlike an old recipe you cannot replicate it. One retro food I didn’t realized I missed until it was on a menu in a restaurant: pot roast on cheap-ass white bread covered in brown gravy. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/191 "2025-10-03T15:40:37Z")
I do live in the greater Detroit area, so that checks out. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/192 "2025-10-03T15:46:40Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Product-19 +1, like, QFT, etc. To this day my favorite breakfast cereal. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/193 "2025-10-03T15:46:54Z")
I still look for those. It was a real skill to butter one without it breaking up. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/194 "2025-10-03T16:24:28Z")
There are at least two brands easily had in my area: Tyson or Barber. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/195 "2025-10-03T17:11:19Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Spaghetti carbonara is another one that I can’t find in local restaurants, probably because it involves using raw eggs. I never thought of the raw egg connection. Every carbonara around me is just Alfredo sauce except for one restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/196 "2025-10-03T17:14:07Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > One retro food I didn’t realized I missed until it was on a menu in a restaurant: pot roast on cheap-ass white bread covered in brown gravy. And you can get a pot roast sandwich at Culver’s > **[Beef Pot Roast](https://www.culvers.com/menu/sandwiches/beef-pot-roast)** > > This simple sandwich packs a whole lot of succulent flavor. We use premium chuck roast, slow braised in a classic blend of herbs and spices. Hand-shredded in our restaurants so it’s always perfectly tender and moist. Served on our signature bun. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/197 "2025-10-03T17:16:40Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > When I was a kid in the 80s my parents would buy these saltine squares for me. Not the small squares they sell in stacks today but a big square that was composed of four of the small saltine squares. Anyone else remember these? I have found them foursquare from the Philippines at Asian food markets. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/198 "2025-10-03T17:23:56Z")
My Beloved, raised back east by wild kosher delis, says that she can easily tell one from the other-braunschweiger is spicier. ---
**Author:** ![mtnmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/199 "2025-10-03T17:33:05Z")
Good Humor Toasted Almond Bars, which were discontinued a few years back. I actually wrote to Trader Joes to try to convince them to recreate them for their brand. One of my favorites growing up that I can no longer find is pre-mixed Pineapple/Grapefruit juice. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611/200 "2025-10-03T17:38:55Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Liverwurst is the general name, with or without smokiness. Braunschweiger is smoked a little (almost imperceptively, IME). I’ve had braunschweiger and liverwurst in the same brand side by side and couldn’t notice a difference - can’t remember anymore whether they were Oscar Meyer or Morrell. Occasionally I have a taste for liverwurst (on rye with thinly sliced onion). Generally I settle for John Morrell Braunschweiger, which is what my local grocery store carries. However, the local Wegman’s carries real Liverwurst, if I feel like splurging; it costs $8 for a 1-lb chub. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-retro-forgotten-by-gone-foods/995611.md?page=11)