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What formerly available foods do you wish were still available? Off the top of my head, here are 2 of mine: Morton's mini doughnuts (oh, lawsy), and Ideal chocolate peanut bars (this may not be the full/correct name)--how I miss thee!
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33 Comments:
Regal Crown Sour Cherry Candy. Oh my goodness those things were good.
chisai at 3:47PM on 01/25/08
C-3PO cereal. Please don't remind me that I'm a grown-up. It was some gooood cereal.
Kerosena at 4:11PM on 01/25/08
Oh gosh, I've got a list of things we've loved, but are now discontinued!
Some of the food items are
- Flaky Flix. Rumor has it Mother's Cookies has started making them again, but I haven't seen them in an AZ grocery store just yet.
- Betty Crocker Coconut Pecan frosting mix in the box. I used to be able to order it from BC directly, but they don't make it anymore. I grew up on this (never would have considered making it from scratch as a teen) and I just haven't seemed to be able to replicate the taste making it myself now. Any great recipes out there you'd like to share, I'm up for testing them!
- McCormick Mexican Seasoning. I just learned this month that they discontinued it last June. Sad. I have about a 1/8 teaspoon left in the jar to use to try to replicate it myself.
jmoilanen at 4:17PM on 01/25/08
McRib?
Chaoss at 4:50PM on 01/25/08
Another vote here for Flaky Flix. Also Big John's Beans 'n Fixin's and Sugar Jets cereal.
MrCheese at 5:34PM on 01/25/08
DooDads snack mix. It was the only snack mix that had the right combination of components and salt. No snack mix today came close. They disappeared about 10 years ago.
bravian at 5:48PM on 01/25/08
Screaming Yellow Zonkers. Okay so I've done some bad things in my life but I think I could still enjoy these things again without any artificial stimulus. Fiddle Faddle doens't do it for me; never did...
czken at 5:56PM on 01/25/08
I can't think of one that I loved but my mom was crazy for Royale chocolate bars.
lexophile at 6:10PM on 01/25/08
I'd like to see Bonkers make a comeback or maybe I'd just like to see the ads again.
drastic at 6:47PM on 01/25/08
Mystic mint cookies and those little frozen donuts that had a cinnamon sugar coating and would come out of the oven a little crispy. Were those the Morton donuts? Haven't been able to recall the name of them to do an online search to try to find them.
mrsmoosie at 7:23PM on 01/25/08
Ebinger's blackout cake. Not just a dessert, but a work of gooey pudding-filled chocolatey art. SIGH. A moment of silence, please.
CookiePie at 10:02PM on 01/25/08
sara lee banana cake.
cybercita at 11:03PM on 01/25/08
Screaming Yellow Zonkers, Ebinger's ladyfingers, and--this one is hard to admit--Buitoni's toaster pizza. I used to toast one, split it in half, then top each half with mozzarella and parm. Then--and this is the scary bit, I would place the halves on TOP of the toaster, then set the toaster to "high" to melt the cheese. You can tell right there that I was in college in the pre-microwave era.
BaHa at 11:14PM on 01/25/08
Spanish Bar cake....it was dense, full of raisins & spices, with a thick cream cheese type frosting on the top. It sold in the bread aisle, and disappeared many years ago. I used to love that cake.
Also Sara Lee Coconut cake....I rarely ate the cake....but the frosting was so yummy!
mepolo at 12:26AM on 01/26/08
I'm a Haagen-Dazs die-hard, but Ben & Jerry's has a graveyard full of ice cream flavors...fun to read:)
JEP at 6:59AM on 01/26/08
Frusen Gladje white chocolate ice cream with red raspberry puree swirls was a scoop of heaven. It was elegant and nothing like it exists.
frederika at 9:06AM on 01/26/08
Forgot about doodads..I LOVED those! Mortons too escaped my memory & I now recall there were both cinnamon & glazed; the latter being my favorite. Also, they had a cream pie that was awefully {literally} yummy for a 'tweenage's sweet tooth.
stigcr at 9:47AM on 01/26/08
What the heck are Flaky Flix? Oh yeah, Doo-dad's were great. My parents always had a bowl of them out for "cocktail hour".
And on another note, why do they have to so drastically change the formulations for something so perfect? Kraft macaroni and cheese back in the day was so good and now is just a mere shadow of its' former self. It got us through poor college days and was so great to have around for an occasional yummy memoir. I've given up on it. So sad...
frederika at 3:07PM on 01/26/08
The teenage mutant ninja turtle chips and Crystal Pepsi
TheFlyingTangler at 7:39PM on 01/26/08
Frederika, Flaky Flix were a cookie that Mother's made - it is a wafer-type construction with either vanilla or chocolate filling, covered in chocolate and then rolled in corn flakes. YUM! I can't wait to find some now that they seem to be back in production.
jmoilanen at 11:17AM on 01/28/08
The Swedish Chef's Croonchy Stars cereal...I think it was just cinnomonn & sugar cereal but so, so good.
earlybirdkate at 11:25AM on 01/28/08
Ebinger's blackout cake. Not just a dessert, but a work of gooey pudding-filled chocolatey art. SIGH. A moment of silence, please.
Have you tried Gale Gand's version from Butter Sugar Flour Eggs? I made it and it's a winner. (You can probably get the book deeply discounted from a used book site.)
I forgot all about Frusen Gladje!
I used to eat something called a Rally Bar when I was a kid. It was a really good candy bar but haven't seen hide nor hair of it in decades.
chiff0nade at 11:27AM on 01/28/08
mrsmoose-
yes, those cinnamon/sugared frozen doughnuts are the Morton's-- I never saw/had the glazed version. (and yes! Mystic Mints! forgot about those)
Lilla at 1:25PM on 01/28/08
Back in the 80s, there were these round, barrel shaped salty snacks that were similar to "Combos" but they were called Cornquistos (not sure about the spelling) they had different flavors, but there was a picante flavored one that I just loved!! I would eat them by the bagful. Man, I miss those.
pirick at 6:21AM on 02/03/08
Carnation Breakfast Bars, and not the chewy ones that came out at the end of their reign, but the Peanut Butter Crunch, or the Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter flavors. My college roommate and I lived on these things. We've done extensive internet searches to find out why/who we can contact about bringing these things back.
Also, Morton's Cinnamon Donuts (too funny, we were just talking about these at work the other day) and those Howard Johnson's Corn Toasty things.
thefoodporncess at 10:50AM on 02/03/08
Chocolate and caramel pudding cake mixes. The start from scratch ones are not as good.
The Spanish bar cake was a specialty of the A&P and sold under the Ann Page name. I miss it also,
Half coffee ice cream/half orange sherbet, I think it went by the name of Harvard or collegiate.
Sara Lee's orange cake.
CapeCodBob at 1:38AM on 02/04/08
Flaky Flix are only about the best cookie ever made! They are like a fudge-filled sugar wafer covered in chocolate fudge and sprinkled with something like crushed corn flakes.
And YES!!!!!! They are back!!!!!!! I am sitting here finishing off my first bag in over a year and am settling in to chocolate bliss! I found them today in my SaveMart in Paradise , CA (that's Northern California for those of you who aren't familiar with California towns), but have heard that they won't be available in Southern CA until later this year. Not sure on the release date for other areas. I can't find a website for the company. But be patient and, if your very lucky, they will be coming soon to a store near you!
Audio51 at 10:31PM on 02/06/08
The only thing I even remember is the McRib sandwich and Screaming Yellow Zonkers kind of rings a bell. Don't think I ever tasted either one, though. In what parallel universe have I been living?
PerkyMac at 10:43PM on 02/06/08
Can't wait for Fiddle Flakes. Really miss Van De Camps frozen Mac and cheese. Its had the little cruchies on top. Nothing evev compares. Anybody remember?
snoze at 8:45PM on 03/10/08
Charles' Chips. A Philly delicacy. They were put in a large can and they actually used to deliver them to peoples' homes. My grandparents used to get them all the time. This is when chips were fried in lard, but man o man, so good, y'all.
BITTER at 9:13PM on 03/10/08
Gardetto's mustard pretzels. Though technically not discontinued, I have not been able to find them anywhere - and I've looked in every gas station and grocery store I've gone to for the last five years.
Also, Coke II. I used to live in American Samoa (where, apparently, it's still sold), and drank it daily. It was the only soda I ever drank on a regular basis, and I really liked it. I was sad to find out that it wasn't sold in the contenential States.
jenilowrance at 9:22PM on 03/10/08
Regal Crown Sour Cherry candies. Oh my god, they were awesome. And McDonald's Cherry Pie, deep fried, which was so ridiculously good I could barely stand it. Also, (head hanging in shame) Butoni used to make these toaster pizzas that I was addicted to. Even as I ate them I knew they were crap, and didn't care.
I'm noticing a theme here. Garbage. But, oh, so tasty garbage.
chisai at 9:33PM on 03/10/08
My favorite cereal of all time ...
General Mills "JETS" (when they were shaped like Trix or Kix )
They changed the shapes to space vehicles and planes.
The taste and texture changed to something like Alpha-Bits. Not nearly as good.
I'm 56 and I still miss them!
wizzie at 3:44AM on 04/13/08