Your favorite retro/forgotten/by-gone foods

Fifteen cents for Postum? Outrageous!

If anyone has new additions to this thread I would be interested.

I saw one a few days ago with Thousand Island, Dijon mustard, and pepperjack cheese. At least they used sauerkraut and corned beef.

Oops, didn’t realize this was an old thread.

I only discovered earlier today that Bosco chocolate syrup is still available. I thought it had vanished back in the 1960’s. This is now my quest, to obtain some. It was my chocolate syrup of choice starting around age 5 thru 9 when it seemed to vanish.

Amazon has it.

Yeah, but supposedly 3 grocery chains near me that we actually shop at are supposed to have Bosco, so I’ll hit Meijer, Schnuck’s and Pick ‘n Pay before going online. Gives me the chance for other impulse buys/immediate caloric gratification. :grimacing:

I still miss the Chun King Egg Foo Yung kit from the early 80s. Tasted good and easy for even a novice cook to get right.

wasn’t it Kraft that had the meals in a box Spaghetti and Chow Mein dinners

If you want split-pea soup, with or without ham, you’re probably going to have to go to the gluten-free section. That’s where I’ve purchased it in recent years, anyway.

They’re still open, just in a different location.

Per the old picture, Bosco is a “milk amplifier.”

It was wonderful on a dish of vanilla ice cream.

Kraft Noodle Classics Chicken. There are plenty of chicken flavor noodle mixes - but none match how I remember KNCC. It is very possible that:

  1. The KNCC wasn’t as good as I remember and and/or
  2. My palate has changed since I last ate these

Brian

Jell-o 123

:musical_note: Mama puts it in my milk to try and poison me…:musical_notes:

Shake-a-Puddin’

I was addicted to Root Beer Kool Aid. I discovered that it was best if it were allowed to age for a day or two. Drunk fresh-made it wasn’t that great, which probably doomed it.

Space food sticks. I’d get a couple in my lunchbag when I was a child. No idea what they were exactly, or how nutritious, but they were pretty good.

Something I haven’t seen in a long time: Liverwurst. When I was a kid it was a staple. My dad made sandwiches from it for lunch all the time. But I recently went looking for it, and none of the major supermarkets around here carry it.

Nabisco Heyday Caramel Peanut Bars. Always my first choice as a kid.

That’s strange. Liverwurst/Braunschweiger is almost all of the supermarkets here in the Seattle area. John Morrell brand is the one I see most often, more so than Oscar Meyer. This area isn’t exactly known for delis like the Midwest or East coast.