Stuff you wish they still made - Revisited

I've noticed the rubber bands aren't durable and strong like they used to be.

AFTER DARK magazine.

Snacks:

Nabisco Twigs

Nabisco DooDads

Nacho Cheese Tostitos

Nabisco Swiss Cheese Crackers

Raisin Squares shredded wheat cereal. They still make it in the UK I think.

O'Gradys Potato Chips

Callard & Bowser Butterscotch

It feels like things disappear from store shelves every day. I googled the raisin cookies a few minutes ago and it went to a petition page to sign *plus* donate money for the petition. NO THANKS. I will be fine without the damn cookies.

Nabisco cheese flavored saltines. At least I think they were Nabisco. They had just a hint of cheesy deliciousness.

Sprite Remix Berryclear. The only time I'll spend $7 for a 12-pack of cans again.

Quaaludes

After Dark Screensaver

Flying toasters!

Dr Pepper bottles that say 10, 2 and 4.

Mother’s English Tea, and Taffy sandwich cookies.

Regal Crown Sour Lemon, Orange, Cherry. Not the crap they sell now that tastes like cough drops, the real thing that disappeared decades ago.

Also, tangerine Lifesavers.

Hard candy now mostly tastes like chemicals.

McDonald’s Hot Mustard sauce

Philadelphia Cheesecake Bars

Van de Kamps baked goods, especially the sugar cookies and raspberry tarts.

Stoned Wheat Thins

Yes, yes, that name, but they were good.

[quote] The only time I'll spend $7 for a 12-pack of cans again.

$7 does not sound like a lot for 12 cans.

I wish they still handed out barbiturates like candy.

Quisp cereal

Bacon Thins; Ritz Bacon-Flavored Crackers.

1, 2, 3 jello

123 Jello was funky. The foamy stuff at the top got gummy.

There used to be a really decent Boston Cream Pie boxed mix. It was seriously delicious. I don't remember which company made it but this was back in the 1960s or 70s. I'd love to have one of those cakes again.

Chocolate Vanilla Creme Poptarts

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pies.

I used to buy these by the basketful at the Hostess Bakery Thrift Store behind the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond when I was in college.

[3] Nabisco Swiss Cheese Crackers.

My MIL loved nothing more than a hot cup of tea, her Swiss cheese crackers and cream cheese. Snacks, her cigs and ashtray at the ready she’d settle in for a nice long and exceedingly vicious gossip session. God I miss those crackers and I miss that crazy lady.

Entenmann's Banana Crunch Cake

Johnsonville Sausage Corn Dogs

Nissan Pulsars

That's what those were, R30. I never bothered to look for a logo.

Raspberry Zingers and Sno-Balls ca. 1999 before that company was sold and sold again until the current owners made their products inedible.

Shamrock Shakes, or Orange Artic Blasts. Does McDonalds still have these season treats?

This car is hotter than any gay guy I've had sex with in the last few years.

Ripplin's potato chips.

Team cereal.

R5 Loved O'Grady's. Frito lay cancelled them due to cost. Something about them requiring an extra dip in a separate fryer, hogging up valuable space in the factory.

Also miss O'Oboisies, a short-lived 'bubbly' chip from the early 90s.

[quote]I've noticed the rubber bands aren't durable and strong like they used to be.

Just buy a cock ring, cheapskate.

Carnation Breakfast Bars.

Jazz Diet Pepsi. I loved the Strawberries and Cream flavor.

This. The gel too!

O'Gradys were the bomb!

Pepperidge Farm Croissant Pastry Pizzas. Like Hot Pockets, they'd scorch the roof of your mouth but they were SOOOooooo worth it!

Entenmann's Pumpkin Pies.

Kuntz Korn Dogs

[quote]Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pies.

How many pies does one Turtle make?

Carefree youths.

Men with FULL BUSHES

Anheuser-Busch potato chips. They were the best.

Keebler used to make these little flour tostito-type things that were flaky and light. They were much better than the corn ones.

Diet Vanilla Coke

Ruffles "Cajun Spice" chips

Hires Root Beer

Big American Cars

Boston Creme Rolls

MGF Magazine - A young 1980's man's magazine I subscribed to in college, titled 'Men's Guide to Fashion'. Though aimed at the 'straight guys' in their 20s-30s, it was mostly cute guys in their 20s and 30s barely in clothes. They had grooming tips about combing your pubic bush and chest ('Manscaping' wasn't in yet) and health tips on how to put on a condom. It was very gay with a straight curtain over the gay vibes.

Their advice column was mostly about gay sex of the 'my buddy at the gym said he wanted to suck me off - what do I do ?' to which the advice columnist would answer, 'It may not be because he's gay...he just may feel 'close' to you.'

Date Nut Bread ! There was a time in the 60s - 90s when you could buy a delicious loaf of date nut bread in any Supermarket. Thomas' was one of the best brands. Slice it up and smother it in cream cheese - delicious for breakfast or a snack. No one seems to make it anymore - haven't found it in a store in decades (someone once said it's because dates are so expensive in the past 20-25 years).

r55 Date nut bread is pretty simple to make.

Diet Coke w/Lime

I love lime cokes, r57. It isn't all that hard to achieve on your own.

Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Cherry Garcia Frozen Yogurt. That stuff was awesome.

R55- I liked the Date Nut Bread at Chock Full O Nuts which they served with cream cheese.

Diet Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray.

Fat whores mourn.

Pretty much everything that is made of plastic that used to be made out of metal and/or glass. Especially old-tyme gumball machines.

R62- Like those GIANT water bottles at the water cooler in offices all over the USA up until the mid 1980's.

Marathon bar.

Nabisco Mr. Salty Pretzel sticks.

Untrimmed male pubic hair.

Ben And Jerry's Wavy Gravy

Altoid Sours, deliciously acrid

R49, Keebler Chacho's! I loved the original ones. OMG! so good.

Wish we had those back

Most items listed are CRAP. They’re gone because they SUCKED!

R68- I'm a FAT WHORE and I resent what you said and I spoke for all of the datalounge FAT WHORES.

Chocolate Custard Hostess Pies, exactly like the fruit ones but chocolate-covered & custard-filled.

Maybe the McDonald's deep-fried apple "pie."

Chicken snack wraps at McD's. Small and perfectly sized for a quick bite. Maybe I'll recreate these at home.

My mothers suggestion: Betty Crocker’s Noodles Romanoff.

R72 don’t recreate shit

Life Savers

Fancy Fruits

Please click on the pic then click the pic again to get a great close up of this MAGNIFICENT car.

R34

Stouffers frozen dinners are being discontinued in Canada.

[quote]Chocolate Custard Hostess Pies, exactly like the fruit ones but chocolate-covered & custard-filled.

The only chocolate Hostess pie I remember had chocolate filling (like chocolate pudding) but no chocolate on the outside.

Obedient serfs.

Good n' Fruity

Chocolate Babies they could have changed the shape like Chocolate Rolling Pins or something

Jelly Beans that don't taste like pure fructose

R78 they were around in 1986, I remember the packaging was blue & white. I’d bite a corner off the tip, suck the custard out, then eat the shell last,

A&P Spanish Bar Cake

Turkish foot candy

Coca-Cola with real cocaine in it.

Le Menu frozen meals.

Asshole candy

Poppycock- not the LAME ASS product today but the high quality big cans they sold in supermarkets in the 1990's that were packed with roasted almonds and roasted pecans.

Another vote for Le Menu dinners.

R36 I LOVED O'Boises and once got grounded because I opened and ate half the bag my mother had bought for company she was expecting the day after....I still don't regret it.

As for myself, I LOVED Pudding pops..I would prefer them 100 times over regular ice cream popsicles.

Interesting (hopefully) trivia re "Mothers Cookies". In the early 80s I worked for the attorneys for the owners of Mothers Cookies, in San Diego. Where I found out that "Mother" was 2 60-something Italian brothers! They also owned almost all of the car dealerships in San Diego. Pretty cool old dudes, too...

[quote]Chocolate Babies they could have changed the shape like Chocolate Rolling Pins or something

They probably couldn't change what children called them in the 60s and 70s though, huh?

Hostess Banana Flips

Dolly Madison French Pastries

Both were sublime!!

Are Archway cookies still produced? I loved the ones with the raspberry filling, they were more like pastries than cookies.

I loved the Maurice Lennell cookies too, their almond crescent shaped cookies with the powdered sugar were great!

[quote]$7 does not sound like a lot for 12 cans.

Actually that was a lot back in the day. Around the holidays, I always buy soda for guests to make mixed drinks. This past holiday season, three 12 packs of Canada Dry were $10.99 at Walgreens.

I was home from college on break and microwaved something to eat on a Le Menu plate my mom had washed and saved. Ate the food and thought, “Ugh, something tastes weird. Oh well.” Washed the plate, put it back. Same thing the next day. And the next. I assumed it was something I was doing wrong with the microwave. Until my mom was home and in the kitchen and saw me loading up food on a Le Menu plate and laughs. “Honey, we use those plates for the cat’s food!”

Oh, that’s why everything tastes like shit on them.

Kudos granola bars. They were delicious and good size in the 80s and early 90s but sometime around the mid-to-late 90s they shrank. I didn't like the smaller size, so stopped getting them. Then they disappeared completely.

r90 Must have been a different Mother's Cookies, which was always based in Oakland and never owned by some car dealership guys.

I didn’t know McDonald’s discontinued Hot Mustard sauce — what a bummer. I can’t imagine McNuggets without it.

Koala Springs sparkling water.

I used those Le Menu melamine plates for years as microwave plates till one by one they cracked and I threw them away.

Then I tried out plates about the same size with a low shoulder and I found it with Corelle small plates. They're great.

YSL cigarettes.

Soooo chic.

Even if you use a plate or bowl for cat food, seems like a washing would clean off any residual flavors.

Sheen. With the original recipe.

Keebler Magic Middle Cookies. They made them in chocolate chip too, but I liked the ones pictured. Melgt in your mouth shortbread like vanilla cookies with oozy chocolate ganache middles. Damn travesty that they were discontinued.

[quote]R62- Like those GIANT water bottles at the water cooler in offices all over the USA up until the mid 1980's

Oh god. Those glass ones were so heavy NO ONE wanted to be the one that had to change them. You may be the only person on the planet that misses those.

Hormel Top Shelf meals. They were sold right off the supermarket shelves, no refrigeration or freezer needed, and the ribs were to die for.

Oregon Farms Carrot Cake.

HoJo’s blueberry toaster muffins.

MAD Magazine - from the golden years with the best artists and writers (1950s - 1980s).

William's Shaving Soap™. Best one I ever used: lathered well, smelled great, each cake lasted a long time. They stopped making it after 140 years. 🥲

Nabisco Triangle Crackers™. Chockful of poppyseeds.

Crabtree & Evelyn Birch Shampoo™. Nice lather, great smell.

Trader Joe's™ Orange Marmalade. Just the right degree of bitterness. Great on English muffins, panettone or with peanut butter on Triscuits™.

Nine Flags™ Cologne. Manzanilla, the one from Spain.

Does anybody remember those cupcakes that were in the freezer section in the 70's or 80's? They came in a six-pack. One strawberry frosted, one coconut frosted, chocolate, vanilla, can't remember the rest...

Our roller rink in the 80s was right down the street from a Maurice Lennell r93. The smell was just divine!

Those Oregon Farms carrot cakes were good.

Dannon Fruit on the Bottom Yogurt. You got a waxed paper carton containing eight ounces of plain yogurt, with a couple tablespoons of Smuckers preserves at the bottom, and you mixed it up. So much better than the crap filled blended flavored yogurts you get now.

Stella D'Oro cookies now taste like cardboard. The company was located in the Bronx for many years and the cookie were delicious, not anymore. Since they moved out of NY state their cookies are absolutely disgusting. They are obviously now using cheaper ingredients.

I loved their apple and apricot cookies with the preserves inside. Their almond cookies were also delicious.

R90 & R97, it's the Mother's in your link R97. The iced rains were so good... very chewy. My guess is there are lots of people out there that aren't raisin fans and maybe the cookies didn't sell well. It seems Mother's is known for their iced circus cookies.

Milkshake Candy Bars

Jane Parker Spanish Bar Cake

R114, why not just buy the yogurt of your choice and a jar of Smuckers jam or jelly? E.g., Mountain High whole milk, plain yogurt, which has a nice, custardy texture.

Pastorelli pizza kits in the original box. I'm not saying they were especially good, but they were fun and easy to make, and the box was still almost exactly like the one in the picture into the late 1980s. I remember buying one in the supermarket on one of my first grocery shopping trips for my new (first) apartment, and it was kind of awesome to cook a pizza with almost no effort.

R117 I loved Milkshake candy bars!

You can still buy Chef Boyardee pizza kits at Walmart and Dollar General.

We used to make them on Saturday nights.

FAT WHORES LAMENT!

Keebler Chocolate Cookies in the white paper bags.

No one serves Lady Baltimore cake any longer.

Betty Crocker Answer Cake mix

R67, that’s it! I’m amazed anyone would have a picture of them!

R111, Sara Lee made cupcakes like that. They were so good. Now Sara Lee stuff is mostly shit.

Mystic Mint Cookies

Pepsi Light

Entenmann’s cherry topped cinnamon rolls

Kellogg’s Danish Go Rounds

R117, I loved Milkshake candy bars. When I was a kid in the 70s, the snack bar at our public swimming pool sold them along with the other Hollywood Candy Company bars - Zero, Payday and Butter-Nut. A Sprite and a Butter-Nut was always my go-to.

Chum Gum. OMG so good

Jets cereal.

R102: Cat food Le Menu plate poster here. Something in the canned fish-flavored cat food soaked into the plates over time, and microwaving it brought it out. Mom washed the plates thoroughly but, you can ask DL’s least favorite frau, Cheryl…fish funk is hard to get rid of.

Man, do I miss Oregon Farms Carrot Cake - man, they were so good.

I know that Entenmann's is still made, but I think the flavor and quality has seriously declined over the years. I used to buy something of Entenmann's every week - now? I can't recall the last time I made a purchase.

There was a date nut bread, it was round and made with dark flour, or maybe it was molasses. Anyway it was in supermarkets beginning in the Fall until maybe February, and I loved it. I would smear cream cheese on it, and eat half of it in one sitting. It was rich, and sticky and delicious. And they announced they were going out of business and retiring and the little round breads wrapped in cellophane were no more. I still miss them. They were discontinued about 8-10 years ago.

Sara Lee is still around, but it isn't the same. I remember 30 years ago their cheesecakes, coffee cakes and their pound cake were just amazingly good. Now, not so much.

I think this is what happens when big corporations buy off the small guys R136. Cheapen production AND the ingredients.

R137 As someone who used to work for a big food corporation, I can say that I think you're right.

Premier Magazine US Edition

^^^^ SPY magazine for me, as well as The National Lampoon.

Dr. Colon's Monster lives!!!

BronzeAgeGay, let's always thank SPY magazine for calling the previous president a "short-fingered vulgarian" - and that was in the 1980s!

All bow down to SPY.

And my personal fave, Black Inches.

r142

More votes for Milkshake candy bars and Thomas's Date nut loaf. I don't know if my date nut loaf would taste as good. People were raving about Stouffer's lasagna. I was not impressed. I used to like the little frozen pizza rolls which were delicious. I don't think they make them anymore. At least the brand I liked. Tried another recently and they were terrible.

Marie Calendar's pot pies are becoming more starchy. They were good once. And Hostess was once wonderful especially Yankee Doodles. The last time I tried them years ago they were awful. I don't think my taste buds have changed because there is still stuff that is as good as I remember.

Brigham's (local NE chain/brand) ice cream.

It was wonderful for about a century, and then for the first year after the hedge fund people bought it.

They still make it now but it's not at all the same: much cheaper ingredients.

Pepperidge Farm no longer makes an iced Raisin Bread. I remember it as a child and that's something I'd love to have again. That creamy cinnamon roll-style icing was perfect with the cinnamon-raisin flavors.

r146 reminds me how much I used to like Pepperidge Farm turnovers. I think I'll see if I can still buy some, next trip to the store.

I saw them and almost bought some the other day, R147. They look the same as ever but I haven't had one in years. $3.49 now

Picked up Hostess cupcakes as an impulse purchase. Revolting. I didn't want to toss the stuff so I left it out in the breakroom at work, people at work eat anything.

Those junk foods we ate as kids taste disgusting now.

R149 I wouldn't touch a Hostess Snowball now.

R140, I miss SPY magazine, too. I think they originated the term "fat-fingered vulgarian" to refer to Trump.

Starbucks years ago used to have mini lemon bundt cakes completely covered in lemon icing. So good.

McDonalds salads which came with Newman's Own salad dressing, depending on the type of salad. I guess I was the only one who bought them.

Kit Kats are truly awful now and I say that as someone who generally enjoys waxy, mass produced American chocolate candy.

Someone mentioned this but, Carnation Breakfast bars from the 1979’s with the foil wrapper. Loved them.

Original Hostess Suzy-Q’s. We’d visit my grandpa in the nursing home every Sunday in the ‘80’s and the vending machine had these for $0.50. I loved my grandpa, but those stupid snacks were a close second.

Personal Pan Pizzas from Pizza Hut. Served in the little greasy cast iron pan. You could also win a certificate for one from the local library for reading a certain number of books over the summer.

Good movies that don't exist to kill millions on screen while "supporting" political placement of unfit actors to appease every subgroup on the planet.

And I'm not talking about black Hamlet.

-Banquet brand boxes of frozen large individual different pieces of oven-heated fried chicken, plus another brand’s that began with “C” that I can’t for the life of me recall or find online.

-Hoods cocoa-powder covered “Chippety-Choclatey” vanilla ice cream bars on a stick with a delicious slide of chocolate bar inserted in the middle.

-U Need A Biscuit soda crackers, which my mom used to make the best simple turkey stuffing with basically only just also celery, other seasonings and cooked mushrooms.

-Along with previous poster, MacDonald’s salads!

-Qwik-Make Pancakes in a pint-sized carton that you simply poured out and that were so delicious and easy to use/make, sold under the former “Aunt Jemina” brand first in frozen form needing defrosting and then finally refrigerator-ready relatively shortly before being finally discontinued.

-Sealtest Ice Cream in those golden-colored gallon sized cartons.

-And R93, yes there are still Archway cookies including the raspberry filled ones!

Whoopee,

I ate those McDonald's chicken salads with the Newman's Own dressing. They were maybe 400 calories and there was a McD's across the street from my old workplace. So, I ate that every so often.

Pizza Hut still has personal pan pizzas that taste the way they did decades ago, at least where I live.

[quote]HoJo’s blueberry toaster muffins.

Ohmygawd, I lived on these as a kid and teenager. I'd toast two and por maple syrup (likely pancake syrup) over them. Delicious.

I was also a big fan of Danish-Go-Rounds.

R144 I think the appeal with Milkshake candy bars ... well, for me at least, was the SIZE! They were the same price as other candy bars but they were huge. I had a nickel to spend (yes it was the Dark Ages) and I wanted the most I could get for that little nickel.

Jello Pudding Pops, I'm surprised another company hasn't made a version of them

St. Ives Apple Mint shampoo and conditioner, all their hair products were nice

Citre Shine shampoo and conditioner

Body Shop Ice Blue shampoo and Cocoa Butter body butter, it's hard to find a good cocoa butter lotion now

Does anyone remember a creme filled golden cake treat called Sweetie Pies? This was back in the mid 1950s I think. They were huge and they were the bomb.

The original Carnation Instant Breakfast bars. Seriously, they were so good.

[quote] I miss SPY magazine, too. I think they originated the term "fat-fingered vulgarian" to refer to Trump.

SHORT-fingered vulgarian.

All the mother's cookies are still available, what's the problem?

Post Fortified Oat Flakes.

Nature Valley granola cluster bars. I loved the ones with raisins. Nature Valley recently discontuonrf their soft granola squares. The dark chocolate with peanut butter was quite tasty

Lawn darts.

Mrs. Smith’s Coconut Custard Pie

Worthwhile DL threads.

Hostess pies. Not the little ones that come in a box.

Has anyone mentioned Thomas' Date-Nut Bread?

Or Mary Janes candies, which are still made but without the old ingredients.

Does Sara Lee still make those classic brownies with walnuts?

Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies 🍪 ca1980- they were 😊.

Years later they were mass produced and low quality.

The date nut bread has been mentioned. Sara Lee has, about other items if not the brownies they used to make.

But Mary Janes? They break your teeth no matter what they’re made with.

Old London cheddar waffle snacks.

Haagen-Dazs crème brûlée ice cream.

The old Mary Janes would soften as you'd suck on them. And then that gorgeous peanutty caramel inside would be revealed. Was it mixed with sesame seeds?

Oregon Farms Carrot Cake

Haagen Dazs Banana Split Ice Cream

[quote] Haagen-Dazs crème brûlée ice cream.

What, you can’t make an umlaut too?

Satanic daycare centers

hellmann's mayonnaise that was made by "best foods".

Yum Yums by Sunshine

Pussy with lots of hair

Dark chocolate Snickers bars.

Do they still make Peanut Chews? Have they been mentioned? That was my favorite candy when we'd go to the movies.

We don't go to the movies any more,

Women with long flat tits

Packards.

Sunshine Lemon Coolers - the 70s/80s version that had tart lemon-y sugar clusters inside. Every once in awhile I'll see a generic version of lemon coolers at Big Lots or Cracker Barrel but the lemon flavor is so minimal it's hardly worth calling them "lemon." Truthfully even by the 80s Sunshine brand was skimping on the lemon bursts in the cookies but they were still a childhood favorite.

Diet Apple Slice soda. Nectar of the calorie conscious gods

Bireley's Orange Soda. Was my favorite when I was a kid.

Aydes

Figurines

Farrah Fawcett Shampoo

Will Ferrell's Sexy Hot Tan...

Bullfrog sunblock—the old formula that used to smell a lot like paint thinner.

Good memorable commercials .

Doo-dads.

Other people have tried to recreate them, but they always miss. Probably some MSG powder that gave them something extra....

Racist candies.

I bet no one but me remembers Coffee Time Soda! So damn good.

Wrong R167. I dare you to find a source for Mothers Iced Raisin Cookies. You can't.

To be fair, if you look for Mother's Iced Raisin Cookies you'll see a link on Amazon foods BUT go to that link. There are NO iced raisin cookies. Maybe they once had them, but no more. The link lies.

R136, the banana cakes with banana frosting was TDF.

And let me add that every Lent I existed on fried shrimp and Mrs Paul's crab cakes.

[R185], I’ve never heard of Yum Yum cookies. Were they kind of like the Girl Scout cookie Samoa? Well, they call them Samoas where I live but Caramel Delites in other areas I think.

Like a few others have mentioned I miss Doo Dads. They had the little cheese flavored cracker things mixed in that looked just like little Nabisco Tidbits. Which of course they don’t make anymore either.

Back in the 80s Domino's Pizza had these fantastic deli sandwiches on their menu. Nothing like the sandwiches they have now, these were cold cuts with fresh shredded lettuce and tomato on a hoagie roll. I always got the ham and cheese but there was also an Italian style and maybe a turkey and cheese. They were delicious but I suppose didn't sell well enough to justify keeping them on the menu since the ingredients didn't translate to their other menu items.

r98, they briefly discontinued it in 2015, but so many people complained that a lot of places brought it back. It depends on what article you read but it sounds like at least half the McDonalds' in the US have it. I had some just two or three weeks ago.

There was a short-lived Snickers version called the Snickers Cruncher which was made with puffed rice, and it was delicious. There was a similar version called Snickers Crisper released a decade later and that didn't last long, either.

[quote] Chocolate Babies they could have changed the shape like Chocolate Rolling Pins or something

R80, I miss these so much. I loved them.

Aunt Jemima coffee cake. Such a good weekend breakfast.

A small regional candymaker, Sanders, made peanut butter crispy chocolates....a much better version of Reese's but with a bit of a center to it.

They discontinued it a few years ago, sadly.

Scotland here. I loved rhubarb and ginger jam when I was little. I can’t find it in supermarkets, and I’m not tempted to order it online in case of breakage.

The Pontiac G 6. Great Car. Fuck you GM!

Honda CRX (type of Civic). The Honda electric car looks similar, but the CRX looked better.

Penis-shaped gummies. Which, if you look at them closely, sort of resemble what they're advertised as: lighthouse shaped gummies.

They were great for gifting to people who didn't look at them too closely. An older colleague put a bowl out on her desk and invited everyone to have some "lighthouses." With predictable results.

The best response I heard was from her boss: "This is what lighthouses look like now?"

[quote] Aunt Jemima coffee cake. Such a good weekend breakfast.

raci$t le$bian troll alert!!

R212 I'm from a Detroit suburb in Michigan, and Sanders was everything. We'd walk to their store, they had a long counter with those round seats a little kid could spin on, and we'd order Sanders hot fudge sundaes or cream puff hot fudge sundaes. It was heaven. Their chocolate bumpy cake was so rich and good! I know I can order the hot fudge sauce on Amazon, now, and I know that Sanders salted caramels are for sale at Costco, but they had a f ull line of baked goods, and cakes and ice cream and toppings and they were the absolute best. Sometimes we'd get a gallon of their vanilla ice cream and drop a couple of scoops into a glass of V ernor's ginger ale, and make Boston Coolers. Sorry for the rapturous post, but you brought back a lot of memories.

Hisamitu

R218 here...and they had chocolate candies!! Sanders' chocolates were legend. How can I ever forget them. The regular, assorted box of filled chocolates, or the easter eggs, and bunnies.

Why is she dead? What the fuck was the short illness??

R218/R220 I'm sure their other stuff was good too, just loved those peanut butter crispies and was pissed when they discontinued.

Andes Toffee Crunch made -- as it once was long long ago -- with real chocolate, not that fake waxy stuff made of palm oil mixed with cocoa.

Those tiny 'oyster' crackers which were added to soups.

Oysterettes. Yes.

Velati’s caramels

Nabisco still makes oyster crackers, R224.

Jeez, even Aldi has store brand oyster crackers.

I remember Oysterettes when I was a real kid. It's kind of a nostalgia thing. I have a bag of 'oyster crackers' in my pantry right now but though I was small it seems to me that the brand called Oysterettes had a much nicer taste than the ones I have, which are put out by Nabisco.

[R224] You can still get oyster crackers, at least in NJ. I have a full container in my pantry right now.

[R90] here. I DID misspeak above when I said I knew the owners of Mothers Cookies in San Diego. It was in San Francisco. And their factory is in Oakland (where I lived for a while). Sorry for the confusion. And I still think it's hilarious that the "Mother" in cookies was actually 2 Italian middle-aged men!

R216, Seriously, you can't find penis-shaped gummies? I did a Google search and found lots of links for them. These look pretty nice! What would all the ladies do at those pre-wedding parties if there were no bowls filled with penis gummies?

The original recipe of Campbell's tomato bisque soup. For years, it was so tasty. I don't know what they did to it, but it doesn't taste that great any more.

Lord help me… REVLON FLEX SHAMPOO!!!

Oh, and OP didn’t say it had to be food…

r233, was it a victim of the anti-MSG nonsense?

R236, I'm not sure because I can't remember when the anti-MSG nonsense was, but I doubt it since other Campbell soups seemed the same. The tomato bisque soup went from being so sweet, tomato-y, thick, smooth (except for the tomato bits), and appetizing - I could literally eat it from the can with a spoon if I was too lazy to wash a pot and bowl - to having an off, kind of metallic taste and a thinner texture.

Another Campbell's soup that tastes like shit to me now is cream of chicken.

r237, the shift from beet sugar to HFCS?

Cheez Waffies, I loved these when I was growing up.

There was a valiant and brief rally to suggest STUFF that is not CRAP FOOD.

But sure enough, this DL thread turned into a CIRCLE JERK ABOUT CRAP FOOD NOSTALGIA.

I didn't like Franco American spaghetti as a kid because, even as a child, I found it bland and tasteless. But, for some reason, I liked this stuff, which hasn't been made for many years.

Well OK R240, what non-food thing do you wish was still being made today?

I want the cheez waffles.

Ideal Bars by Keebler.

Jell-o Puddin' Pops were my childhood. They briefly returned about 5-6 years ago for a few months, then disappeared again. SAD. They were so delicious.

Yeah, that Franco-American canned spaghetti is nothing to shed tears over. Even as a child, I thought it was too sweet and the noodles were super soft.

Fellow Canadians, please reassure me that Stoned Wheat Thins are not discontinued here?! I bought a box last week but if that's one of the last times I see them I'm going back to buy out the rest of the stock. They (and saltines) are staple crackers for me.

Also, R15, McDonalds here has a strong/hot mustard dip - is that what you're referring to? It's the only standard dip I ever get from them, don't like sweet and sour or BBQ.

Honda Cub Mopeds. "You meet the nicest people on a Honda."

Prell Shampoo. It once had an 87% share of the American shampoo market. Talk about a marketing triumph.

Close-Up Toothpaste.

R213, you're just cheap.

[quote]St. Ives Apple Mint shampoo and conditioner, all their hair products were nice

This shampoo has the distinction of being the only fruit-scented product I have ever actually tasted out of curiosity. It was SO strongly apple scented I had to know if it tasted like apples, too.

It did not.

R249 You can still by Prell! The brand was purchased, but it smells and performs identically to the P&G version. I picked up a bottle around nine months ago for nostalgia's sake.

R250 I wasn't aware Close-Up was disco'd... perhaps check the dollar stores. I recall seeing at Jewel-Osco recently in Chicago.

Since we've had these nostalgic posts for toiletries, I'll add that I really miss that pearlescent Wella-Balsam shampoo that smelled like a pine forest.

Alberto Vo5 hair gel for men... not the pomade. It had a light balsam-y and lavender scent, and was lovely and cheap.

Also Lever 2000 original bar soap made in the US. Their reformulated Mexican version barely produces any lather, and the fragrance is different.

R213 Try St. Dalfour's Ginger and Orange marmalade. I think you'd like it.

Sunshine Golden Raisin biscuits. Long flat kind of bar cookie, very chewy.

I used to love “hermits”, a different kind of bar cookie, spicy soft molasses with little bits of raisins.

^^ they were a version of “garibaldi” biscuits. Those are due for a comeback.

R256 I love Garibaldis with my tea.

Barbasol Cool Menthol shaving cream

Very lightly coat a pie plate with olive oil, then dump some oyster crackers on to it. Add extra salt, some garlic or onion powder and put them in the oven for about 10 minutes on 400. Don't let them burn. They make a delicious snack. Better than chips.

Sounds like homemade Goldfish crackers!

Wisconsin Style vegetables. Broccoli , carrots and onions in a tasty cheese sauce.

[quote] Very lightly coat a pie plate with olive oil, then dump some oyster crackers on to it. Add extra salt, some garlic or onion powder and put them in the oven for about 10 minutes on 400. Don't let them burn. They make a delicious snack. Better than chips.

I make a variation of the above using a packet of Ranch dressing mix for the seasoning. Guests devour it in short order.

Is there a keto version?

R262 Thank you.

I've wanted to try this recipe but online mostly they seem to say put it away for a night and not baking it so I'm thinking 'soggy' . Going to try your recipe :)

I bet it won't be soggy that way, R264. Leaving it overnight is probably just to let the flavor particles (whatever you put on it) stick to the crackers.

A number of colognes. Tsar - Van Cleef & Arpels. Patou pour Homme.

Bvlgari Black. Alain Delon - Samourai.

Wow, thank you, R266. I remembered Tsar by its green box but haven't been able to remember its name for years. I LOVED it on someone I was dating way back when. Very sexy fragrance to me.

Yes R12 I to miss the 10 2 4 Dr Pepper bottles and the shape of the bottles was cool too.

R268 it smelled like hippopotamus piss

R266, I just found a vintage miniature on Etsy for $25.

Alain Delon is still alive. But everyone else in that golden age of French cinema is dead.

It was an Alain Delon fragrance. Which had long disappeared from Europe but was sold in Japan up to 5 years or so ago, in a weakened formula of course.

Tsar can be found but you'll pay a very pretty penny and very difficult to test a bottle before forking over your 200-300 bucks. I wouldn't buy a miniature though.

Delon is a Neo Fascist POS.

It's so strange because when he was young he defended homosexual love when nobody else would publicly dare to and I believe admitted to gay sex. He was close friend of Jean Claude Brialy who was known as a homosexual. Who knows if they had a relationship?

I have given up hope of wearing fragrances I remember, or “heirloom” fragrances. They all have been reformulated. Now I just hope to find a new one that can work, but most anything in department stores are garbage. It’s too hard to find one of those niche fragrances without being able to try them out.

R277 Perhaps consider purchasing the cologne deodorants? They give you the sample vials when you do. I've found a few new ones I quite like, and I'm as picky as you are, having loved the old formulas.

Loving strawberry douche

Songs with lyrics like this.

Faberge' made a men's fragrance that was sublime. It went off the market, must have been back in the early 70s and I've not seen it since. I think it was just called Faberge' for Men. Does anyone else remember it? I bought as much as I could once I realized it was discontinued but by then it was nearly impossible to find.

Record changers, although that surely would be a niche market these days. Oh well, plenty of existing ones still around that can be restored.

Young people without upspeak.

Close-Up is still available, I saw it at Dollar Tree. The DT stock is probably from Canada and/or India.

Years ago, I bought an interesting blue liquid gel Close-Up in small squeeze bottles, that was from Japan. I got a few bottle at a NYC liquidator store.

Don't forget TICKLE antiperspirant.

Wheatsworth crackers. My mother would mash them up and use them for breading pork cutlets.

Baked Doritos and Zima

Quaker Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat.

Multi Bran Chex

I LOVED puffed rice. I find this very strange now. Thanks for the reminder about my favorite cereal while growing up. I'd forgotten about it and now I'm going to attempt to find some!

Clean bottoms.

Lancome Aroma Tonic Technically this was a ladies fragrance but it was very fresh, fruity and fun (just like me).