foods you used to love but can't find anymore

[jaame]

From my childhood:

Danish Go-Rounds (like pop tarts but shaped different)
Chipsters
King Vitamin
Birdseye Frozen Chocolate pudding (it came in a brown tub and you had to deforst it)

And a local favorite - Grunning's Hot Fudge - sooooo delicious!!

They still sell King Vitamin in our grocery store! That is some good cereal.

I miss PDQ. I would love to be able to find it somewhere. My great-grandma always had it at her house and would make us a big glass of it when we came over. Such fond memories....

 

[perdidobay]

Vacationing in Amsterdam, I became addicted to fries with garlic sauce, and have never been able to replicate the sauce anywhere here in the US.

My fave missing food is Nutter Butter Creme Patties (not the peanut-shaped cookies; these looked like a little row of wafer raviolis filled with peanut butter). I hear that they are still made, but no shops seem to carry them; netgrocer is the only place I have seen them on the order form.

I swear I saw some in the last month.. I don't remember what store...Dh loves those too.

 

[perdidobay]

Kraft used to make a cheese spread/dip that was ranch flavored and came in a 8 oz tub. It was made with Neufchâtel cheese and I used to eat it with fritos.. sooo good. This was about 15 years ago.... I haven't been able to find anything that tastes close to it.

 

[aprilvaca04]

Marathon candy bars. I've heard there's a similar candy bar sold in Epcot and I'm bound and determined to get one next visit.

Fun Fruits. They were the orignal "fruit snacks" and they were yummy. They weren't all these fancy shapes, just little jelly bean looking things.

OMG Marathon bars...I loved them as a kid...actually I'd love one now!!!! When we were kids we could stop for a treat after church and that's what I would pick...great memory!

 

[1rockinmamato2]

My fave missing food is Nutter Butter Creme Patties (not the peanut-shaped cookies; these looked like a little row of wafer raviolis filled with peanut butter). I hear that they are still made, but no shops seem to carry them; netgrocer is the only place I have seen them on the order form.

I love those! They must be a regional thing as we still have them here in the south.

 

[aprilvaca04]

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

Yes they were the best!!!

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

I remember Ice Teasers!

We have Screaming Yellow Zonkers in the Dollar Tree about 30 mins away. My brother loves them b/c they don't have nuts like most other sweet popcorn mixes.

I miss Mr. Phipps' pretzel chips and Potato Crisps. They were baked, not fried and were really good!

I also miss the old Seven Seas Red Wine and Vinegar Light Dressing in the red and white striped bottle.

 

[MissMinnie]

Reggie Bars-my mom & I used to love them, maybe it was a east coast/NYC/tristate area thing since they had Reggie Jackson on them.

Mars Bars-I know they are sold somewhere but not here in CT or not where I can find them.

Hors D'evors-these I really miss. The last I recall of them was in the mid-1980's (I was in my teens-I am 35 now). They came in a box, frozen & were the puff pastry type of thing & there were 3 boards of them.

One was bacon, one was chives (I think) & one was cheese, my favorite.

Each board had little squares pressed into them & you broke the squares & put it on a baking sheet & baked them & they rose up (like those sponges when they get wet they get big).

I keep looking for them but I can't find them.

My mom used to make these all the time when I was growing up! I haven't had them in years! I haven't seen them in the stores, now that I think of it. My sis and I would devour these things!

 

[daannzzz]

Pomac

A soda that was around for a short itme in the early - mid 60's. It a golden color and had some apple flavor and I remember it was great. Might be that Martinelli's is much like it now. I think you can still get it in France.

 

[Southern4sure]

I cant remember the name but it was a bacon flavor chip. It also looked like a 1 inch piece of bacon. I loved these as a kid.

Nutter Butter Creme Patties are still available.

 

[aprilvaca04]

I went to Reggie Day at Yankee Stadium maybe 10-12 years ago and they sold Reggie Bars that day--we all got them, still as yummy as I remembered!

I miss Fudgetown cookies most of all. Why do they not make them anymore? Ugh!
Also, I think they were called Giggles--vanilla cookies and chocolate cookies that had a smiley face on each.
Actually I remember those in the mid 80s, I think they were just like something simlar i had as a kid in the late 70s which is what I really miss more, but I can't remember that name.


There was another cookie, sort of like chocolate covered mint Oreos, but they weren't Oreos. Mint Meltaways maybe? They were so good!

I remember Reggie Bars from back in the day! My family lived in NY and we would go to Yankee Stadium for games. It's tough being a Red Sox fan among a family of Yankee fans!!

 

[OK!]

P.B. Max candy bars
Hardees Boss Burgers
Surge Soda (goes down well with the Boss Burger)
Fun Fruits/Fruit Wrinkles
The ORIGINAL pudding pops

I used to loooooove chocolate/vanilla swirl pudding pops...I haven't tried the new ones since they brought 'em back.

Speaking of ice cream, I was greatly disappointed when I recently bought a box of bomb pops at the grocery store. I was expecting the ones that're like the ones you get from the ice cream man--you know, the ones as big around as your arm? Red, white, and blue? But no. These were the size of normal popsicles. When my brother and I were little, my family took a trip to Washington, DC, and I got my dad to buy me a "real" bomb pop. Half an hour later, I was still trying to finish the thing, and had to throw half of it away because we were going into the Smithsonian. I couldn't believe the Smithsonian was so rude as to prohibit me from bringing in my bomb pop!

 

[Bumpy Grumpy]

I bet you are a New Yorker. I haven't had Hoffman cream soda in years. Loved that stuff.

Yup, guilty. I lived in Brooklyn

 

[OK!]

If you want another trip down memory lane, check out this place, the Vermont Country Store. I remember back in the day that Charles Chips (the one in the big tins, like the size of the popcorn tins they have out at Christmas every year) were the only chips my family ever ate. Man, were they good!

 

[perdidobay]

My fave missing food is Nutter Butter Creme Patties (not the peanut-shaped cookies; these looked like a little row of wafer raviolis filled with peanut butter). I hear that they are still made, but no shops seem to carry them; netgrocer is the only place I have seen them on the order form.

After searching the web, I think what I saw at the store were these...

 

[solferino]

Vacationing in Amsterdam, I became addicted to fries with garlic sauce, and have never been able to replicate the sauce anywhere here in the US.

I'm certain that Trader Joe's has the fries with the garlic sauce you toss on after baking. Yum!

 

[ter-moo]

Jello 1.2.3! Foam, sauce and jellyjammy!!!

pinnie

This is what I was going to say! I loved Jello 123!!! My mom used to make it with half water/half 7-up, so it had a sort of tanginess to it, too.

I wonder why they stopped making this? It was really cool how it formed the layers.

 

[Mady/Sophiemom]

Green Goddess salad dressing. I have a taco salad recipe that uses this, and the salad is definately no good without it.

 

[perdidobay]

If you want another trip down memory lane, check out this place, the Vermont Country Store. I remember back in the day that Charles Chips (the one in the big tins, like the size of the popcorn tins they have out at Christmas every year) were the only chips my family ever ate. Man, were they good!

Neat website! I remember Charles Chips! We had two big cannisters and the CC guy would come around every two weeks or so and see what we wanted and pull them off his truck. IIRC, the truck was a UPS brown color.
This was in the 60's.

 

[Southern4sure]

Green Goddess salad dressing. I have a taco salad recipe that uses this, and the salad is definately no good without it.

Is this it?

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/...SubCat=171&iProductID=11938&searchid=inceptor