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I miss the S'mores cookies and Fudgies, the little Kraft chewy candies in a gold wrapper. Does anyone remember the cereal, Double-Dip Crunch? I was like a "frosted" Crispix. Mmmmm!!! Oh, and the Quacker "strawberry" snack/dessert bars that looked like Nutri-Grain but had a little "squiggle" of white "icing" on top. I'm hungry now.

I miss everything on the top ten list with the exception of the C3PO's-never had those. I also miss Planters Cheeseballs and Cheesecurls, and O' Boises (those were by far my favorite potato chip growing up-especially the sour cream and onion).
But I'm super surprised that one of the most amazing foods of the 80's was left off of this list and wasn't named by anyone. I want to know what happened to Red Devil Cheese Puffs. My mom would buy them every year for New Years Eve and we were so excited to take them out of the freezer and bake them-and even if they were burnt they were still good. I really miss those and can't find them anywhere.
As far as fast food restaurants, I was very happy to find a Roy Rogers a couple of years ago (to only have it taken away from me) but all of their food from my childhood all tasted the same right down to the french fries and the pickles in the fixin bar.
Also, I don't know if any one has noticed but the good old "two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame bun" (of course I'm referring to the Big Mac), the special sauce is different from when I was a kid-which I kept telling my mom about and she thought I was crazy, but I saw something on food network recently that said McD's lost the special sauce recipe in the 90's and the sauce is different now-so that being said I also miss the original big mac.

I totally remember Doo Dads. I grew up in Michigan and my father loved that snack. Since moving to Florida 15 years ago I've never seen it again.

I'm also glad to see others that remember Cinnamon Chachos. I loved those and when I explain them to people (to see if they remember them) they look at me like I'm insane.

I didn't realize that Planter's discontinued Cheez Balls. That's a bummer.

sable42, I'm happy to report that here in Florida Little Caesar's has had a huge resurgence thanks to cheap $5 take-away pizzas. Years ago Caesar's started closing up, but in the last year or so they've exploded all over my area, even opening a Drive Thru location! Now all the pizza places in the area are trying to copy them (usually with a bigger $6 pizza) but L.C. is doing business like gangbusters.

Also, if you never had GatorGum don't worry, it was terrible.

Burnt cookies don't smell nice!

I hosted a White Trash Christmas party and some people were offfended that I made used refrigerated cookie dough for the dessert.

i put sugar in my rice instead of salt and the bottom was all burned

Mistakenly added sugar instead of salt. Sweet cheddar chive biscuits are not nice.

I was feeling the pressure of preparing a birthday dinner AND a layer cake for my wife's birthday. The dinner prep was done cooking in process. I was hurrying to get the cake and as I was beating the dough the rubber scrapper I was cleaning the sides with got caught in the beaters and bent them beyond use. I ended up finishing with a hand held mixer. Luckily it was not my fingers.

I was taking a baking class and we were making pie crusts and mine got all cracked and crumbly. =(

The first Turkey I cooked for Thanksgiving I forgot to remove the giblet pack. Later checking on the Turkey I noticed paper inside the turkey.

Not sure if this is funny - but, while trying to impress my in-laws one year, I made the entire turkey dinner. If I had been someone else watching this happen, I might have laughed. Instead, I was very embarrassed - I dropped the turkey while moving it to the serving platter! It sort of reminds me of watching an episode of "I Love Lucy" - except that I was Lucy! Thanks for this chance.

While flipping through Nancy Silverton's "Pastries from La Brea Bakery" at the book store, I saw a recipe I just HAD to make right away - Nancy's Crotin de Choclat yeasted muffins/cupcakes. But I was too cheap to spend money on the book that day (the fact that I'm trying to get the book from this contest for free is suggestive of a trend...) - plus, I thought a test run of one recipe from the book wasn't too much to ask - if I liked the recipe, I'd go back and buy the book.

I memorized the recipe as best I could and wrote down a few notes. I mentioned that these were yeast-based muffins - in my notes, I wrote 1 Tablespoon yeast... though the recipe called only for a teaspoon. After adding yeast to the batter, one is to wait 30 minutes for the batter to expand - my batter expanded... and spilled onto the counter. A disaster indeed. And either a strong case for karma... or proof that I'm careless...

Never skimp on crust when baking a pie.