Your favorite retro/forgotten/by-gone foods

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.

Thanks, maybe I’ll try it!

Those plus Danish-Go-Rounds were some of my favorite junk foods back in the 60s.

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/

Apparently, Maurice Lenel Pinwheel Cookies are gone forever.

:frowning: :disappointed_face:

:people_hugging: The Committee strikes again.

The ones I’m familiar with come two to a box, sometimes four. Not bad, considering what they are.

That’s a Detroit thing, AFAIK.

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.

I do live in the greater Detroit area, so that checks out.

+1, like, QFT, etc.

To this day my favorite breakfast cereal.

I still look for those. It was a real skill to butter one without it breaking up.

There are at least two brands easily had in my area: Tyson or Barber.

I never thought of the raw egg connection. Every carbonara around me is just Alfredo sauce except for one restaurant.

And you can get a pot roast sandwich at Culver’s

I have found them foursquare from the Philippines at Asian food markets.

My Beloved, raised back east by wild kosher delis, says that she can easily tell one from the other-braunschweiger is spicier.

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.

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.