foods you used to love but can't find anymore

[shelly3girls]

Were the Marathon bars the ones that were chocolate covered caramel braided?

 

[Michelina]

I miss the deep-fried apple pies from McDonalds, sometimes the filling would be so boiling hot that you'd burn your tongue!
I used to love grapefruit Squirt but haven't seen it in forever.

 

[OK!]

Better Cheddars, flat baked tortilla chips (I don't like the scoops), Wild for Mild Ole El Passo salsa. Also, I loved Space Food Sticks when I was a little girl and they're not made any more. Of course I might not like them if I tried them again.

Oh, and Ice Cube chocolates. They're hard to find, but I do see them every once in a while. YUM!

I just noticed this--don't despair of ever seeing Better Cheddars again; they still sell 'em here in St. Louis, at any rate! Same with the ice cube chocolate thingies, though I mainly have seen those at one gas station near me (that also sells Fruit Stripe gum all the time!) and at places like Ben Franklin (the craft store), that has bins and bins of "loose" candy.

 

[Narnian_Princess]

Dole Sparklers fruit juice soda. They were around for about 3 weeks earlier this year, and I bought nearly 30 of them! Now I can't find them at any store I go to, and believe me I've searched.

There was some kind of cereal they had when I was a kid in the early '90s. It had a robot on the box (the box was bluish green, if I remember correctly) and they were pillows of cereal that either had green filling, red filling, orange? filling, or no filling, and the box said that each puff was a surprise but we kids could always tell which was which because the tint of the filling would show through.

 

[OK!]

Oh man. You're all making me so hungry!

I swear I've seen marathon bars lately but I could be wrong. I know Snickers makes 2 bars now they CALL a marathon bar.

Yeah, those are more like PowerBars than candy bars. VERY tasty, though...I had one for lunch today, actually! I think they come in peanut butter and chocolate; PB's the only one I've tried.

 

[Bethy Lou]

I went to high school in the Netherlands, and there was the absolute best french fry place right off campus. They had the best curry ketchup in the whole world and I have never been able to find it here in the states.

 

[GraysMom]

These cookies by Keebler, Mini Middles. SO good! They were itty bitty bite-sized crispy chocolate chip cookies, filled with chocolate um, fudge? Like chocolate icing sort of, in consistency. I used to bite open the cookies and take the middle part and "frost" another cookie with it. I would end up with this big choco-monster cookie.

Oh, I love Mini Middles (I always called them Magic Middles for some reason )! In fact, I had a coupon (no expiration date) for them that I finally got rid of about a year ago.

For those of you who long for candy from the past, you might check out the Vermont Country Store catalog http://www.vermontcountrystore.com. When someone writes in to the company, they will try and track down/get someone to reproduce items from the past (or so it seems from looking at their catalog).

 

[OK!]

Dole Sparklers fruit juice soda. They were around for about 3 weeks earlier this year, and I bought nearly 30 of them! Now I can't find them at any store I go to, and believe me I've searched.

There was some kind of cereal they had when I was a kid in the early '90s. It had a robot on the box (the box was bluish green, if I remember correctly) and they were pillows of cereal that either had green filling, red filling, orange? filling, or no filling, and the box said that each puff was a surprise but we kids could always tell which was which because the tint of the filling would show through.

That reminds me of Pop Qwiz microwave popcorn! It always tasted so much more buttery than normal popcorn, and what color it'd be was a surprise till you'd popped it and opened the bag. I know purple, green, and blue were some of the possible colors.

Oh, and I lied earlier--that unnamed microwave mac 'n' cheese and Pop Qwiz were the only 2 foods I requested my parents send me at school. I'd forgotten all about that.

 

[disykat]

Morton's Doughnuts. I think they were sold in the frozen food aisle, and they were these little doughnuts (maybe 6-8 to a box) and were coated in granulated sugar. Yumm!

I don't know if the brand was Morton's - but I remember the doughnuts you bought in the frozen food section and served warm from the oven. Man, those were good!

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

Fudge Town cookies.
There are others that look similar, but none are the same

I had heard Burry's (of NJ?) who also used to produce cookies for the Girl Scouts sold the recipies off to Dare in Canada. They have a number of cookies that suspiciously look like the old Burry's cookies:

I'll have to take a road trip with the kids some day.

Fudge Towns...you took the words right out of my mouth...LOVED those. No other cookies compare. The pic you posted don't look exactly like them, but they are similar...maybe they are the same recipe!

Also loved Cheese Tidbits.

And, pretty recently, DH & I were addicted to Guacamole Doritos. Then they disappeared. I actually cornered the Frito-Lay guy in the supermarket and asked him where they were. He said they stopped making them.

 

[#1hockeymom]

A Quaker Cereal...

Crunchy Corn Bran?...

I loved to snack on that stuff.

I LOVED that cereal! I'm surprised DS didn't come out looking like a corn bran because I ate it so much when pregnant with him. I still look for it about every other month when shopping. I pray they bring it back!

 

[OK!]

I LOVED that cereal! I'm surprised DS didn't come out looking like a corn bran because I ate it so much when pregnant with him. I still look for it about every other month when shopping. I pray they bring it back!

Coincidentally, Quaker Corn Bran was one of the foods mentioned in the "strange foods that you buy that you think no one else eats" thread that made me start this one. I also used to love QCB, but haven't had it in years.

 

[themepark]

Chips Ahoy Cookie Bars. They were available about 4-5 years ago and we ate tons of them. I haven't seen any in at least 2 years. I also miss Munchos. I can never find them around here, but do see them sometimes when we travel.

 

[D L and K's Mom]

Aunt Jemima Corn Sticks. They were so good. Corn bread sticks but they had a sweet taste and they looked like little corn on the cobs. Loved them!!!

 

[goofygirl]

Munchos are still around, had some recently.

Stella Doro Kiechel(sp?) cookies (tan colored, light, square and bent cookies). I spent a good deal of my childhood eating those. They discontinued that item a long time ago!

 

[My2Cinderellas]

Quaker Corn Bran is still around, I have seen it in several grocery stores here.


My longed for food is Pepperidge Farms Capucchino cookies. they were crispy coffee cookies with a chocolate hazelnut filling between them. Haven't seen them in about 15 years.

 

[Catzeyes]

Green River Soda, I would kill for a bottle of that.

 

[debloco]

Dressler's Eclairs. They came in a box in the freezer section of the grocery store. We used to have them for New Year's Eve every year when I was growing up. They just disappeared.

Stouffer's Creamed Chicken.

Quisp...but I think you can order that online somewhere...

 

[debloco]

Green River Soda, I would kill for a bottle of that.

I've been able to get this, but I had to get special order it from Dominick's (Chicago area grocery chain)

 

[Planogirl]

I loved an ice cream bar called a Sidewalk Sundae and another with the name Mississippi Mud. I usually found them in convenience stores, most often those in the boonies for some reason but I haven't seen either of them for years.

I also miss the Stouffers Salisbury Steaks mainly because DS just adored them. They sell a teeny single serving only nowadays but it would take about four just to fill up DS!

I agree with the poster that mentioned the Healthy Choice ice cream. It was good but I guess that the fact that it was healthier scared people away.

Wow, I'm on an ice cream kick.