Food of the Seventies
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In the 70's , we would go fishing in a small town on the west coast of Florida ,below Naples Everglade City. Thats the only place we could find it down here in the 70's.It was the one in the can and it tasted so much better than yo-ho.yo-ho was bitter compared to chocolate soldiers memories!
BRING IT BACK! People want the 7up candy bar. They were GREAT!
Please, please! Bring back the yummy breakfast bars!
I am from Dartmouth Nova Scotia, Canada, and I am very dismayed that farmer's Dairy is discontinuing Beep. I grew up on this stuff in the great orange carton....ah, the smell of sweetness when you first pulled open the carton. They changed it to a screw top years ago, but its still Beep. I(and my able niece Jessica) have started a FB Keep the Beep campaign.People please visit and express your deep emotions for the love of Beep!
WORMS! It was the best. My brother and I found it at "The Locker" in North Freedom, WI. We would buy some on the way to our Grandparents house(when we would bike out from rural Baraboo to La Rue). I thought it had Charlie Brown on the Label though, holding a can of real worms. They had that right in the pop machine with White Lightn'. Another classic taste before its time. I also thought they had pulled Worms from the market in our area because kids were "eating" worms. Ahh, the good old days.
THey don't still make these, do they" I've wanted to try them since I was a child, and first heard about them. I thought the commercials were funny.
I'm from the Phila. area, and I could have sworn there was a Halloween seasonal juice in a can -- green like the citrus cooler -- called witches brew. Anyone remember this?
They had fizzy soda pop flavors too. Rootbeer and orange were my favorites.
I remember a pudding that you shook but it had a bear shaped lid. You held on between his ears on top. The cup and lid were brown. I also remember Wyler's rootbeer mix, and carbonated orange too. They came in a kool-aid type package and were powders..
Nice to see I not the only person who has fond memories of the Scrunch Bar. " BRING THEM BACK !!! "
The Banana Dreams by Langendorf/Mickey are long gone, My Dad used to drive for Langendorf Cakes-Cookies, they were bought out by Dolly Madison who quickly did away with most of the good cakes the Langendorf baked, Dolly was subsequently bough by Hostess, no specialty baked goods remain, just Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Zingers...that truck you saw on the 15 was probably a Merita (Langendorf in the South) trailer, beigh with red and blue stripes, the Merita label in a red oval, and a sad rendition of "Mickey" right?
The Victory Old Time Candy Store has a nice page that shows all the sour flavors. They had Apple, Cherry, Grape, Lemon, Orange, Pineapple and Strawberry. I wish they would bring them all back.
As I remember it- There are rainbows in the flavors of Good N'Fruity candy. The Cherry makes you laugh 'til the 4th of July, The Lemon pulls the sun right out of the sky. The orange makes you laugh tillthe sun goes down, and lime is love and love is green and love is all around! So take a box and open it, and you'll see, There are rainbows in the flavors of Good N' Fruity Candy!"
I remember it but no one else does.....Thank God for this web verifing that there was a product like this
My favorite candy of the period!! I loved sweettarts but the big pucker was my favorite! I used to buy them at Woolworths for a dime........
Of the three snacks, Daisies were my favorite, and I could swear they were in a bright green box and the Pizza Spins were in a red box. Bugles were my least favorite, so, of course they are still available. Is this democracy????!!!
I'm trying to remember a brand of milk. The carton was black. the lettering was colorful. The commercials played some groovy party music. The camera was frantic, and the mods were on the go. The only name that comes to mind is Viva. Does anyone have a better recall than I on this?
The reason these cookies were discontinued was because the chocolate would melt during shipping which caused a quality problem. You would think in the year 2010 they could figure out some solution to the melting problem. There are some cookies called Nutter Butter, if you melt some semi-sweet chocolate chips and dip these cookies in the chocolate, it comes fairly close to the Ideal cookie.
I am so excited to see how many remember these cookies. I thought I was the only one. My husband did not remember them and for the last years I have looked every where for them every where. I remember the tast the smell and the crunchy goodness. I too wish they would bring them back. I used to hide them has a teen,I was not going to share, and they went everywhere I went. They were my favorite snack. Everyone should write to Keebler.
Growing up in a small town in the early 70's, a person had to make the most of an opportunity when one arose, such as the case in my first trip to McDonalds. My little league team traveled to the big city to play a team one day, and after the game we were treated to McDonalds, each of us were given a dollar by our coach. At that time the one of the promo's was a Big Mac, fries and a softdrink, and you got change back from $1.00. Got up to the counter, placed my order and got a dime back in change, just like they did on tv. Pretty cool stuff for an eight year old.
In the seventies, I lost weight on the vanilla figurines, and I felt great. Now I am 50 and need to lose weight. Figurines where are you? I wish they would come out with more figurines. I want to lose weight and stay healthy.
i grew up drinking chocolate soldiers and have wonderful memorys of going to a store with my grandpa everyday in the summer time just to get one..my little boy is 10 and likes yoo-hoos but i told him just the other day they have nothing on a chocolate soldier...i live in tennessee and i can't find them anywhere...
I loved Danish Go Rounds! Best item on the market, by far, from Kelloggs. Great product. Wish they were still here. They should bring these back. The brown sugar cinnamon were the absolute best. My brother and I would fight over the last one!
I have such fond memories similar to those already mentioned. I lived blocks away from a Modern Dairy store. I would walk or ride my bike there to get these giant sweet tarts. The grape ones were my favorite. I have looked all over for them, but have been unable to find them. Please someone....start making them again! I, too, would stock up!
I ate the Skillet Lasagna all the time! My whole family loved it. And then they stopped making it!
I thought I just imagined that it existed, until I saw this blog!
Too funny! Talk around the dinner table turned to junk food we remember from the 70s. I was sure I was going to once again, be laughed at for my apparent hallucination of fruit flavoured chips. Me and my dinner companion were so relieved to both have experienced this hallucination that we had to google the chips and see if we weren't alone. Bonding over bad food choices. Gotta love the internet. :)
Yes it was a sort of thirst quencher. The sloan was to slam it down fast. They even put T-shirts in cans as a promotion at one time
We had the chewy caramel, chewy chocolate and the hard butterscotch in Iowas, too. I really wish I could find those again. I miss them!!
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Had this as a kid. Put it on sandwiches instead of regular cheese, a Cheez Whiz and peanut butter sandwich was great. Hadn't had it since then, but a few years ago I bought a jar of it and had one of those peanut butter and Cheez Whiz sandwiches and about, well never mind. Either they changed the taste of Cheez Whiz since that time or my taste buds matured, cause unfortunately the rest of that jar of Cheez Whiz sat untouched in my fridge for a long time after that.
Can you still buy shake a pudding?
I totally remember "Banana Dreams" they were by Mickey's. They were 2 round, brown cakes, much like the shape of a shortcake, topped w/ pale yellow banana cream. God they were delicious. I just saw a truck on the 15 Freeway last week that had Mickey's Snacks and the same boy w/ a big smile just like the "Banana Dreams" wrapper. I'm searching non-stop to find them. I will keep all of you posted.
I would LOVE a ChocoLite bar right now! I am so glad to find that I'm not the only one who remembers it so fondly. Strange, why do so many people not know what we're talking about when we all remember it so well?? I love the details some people are giving, like the fan shaped design on each section, and how the bubbles were somehow "crispy". I remember so well - the yellow wrapper, the thick milk chocolate sections with those magic little crispy bubbles. Dang, ChocoLite, come back to me....
I agree. The Marshmallow Sandwich Cookies were simple and GREAT. I've been looking on the internet for years with just a few sites with these stories. I think a larger input to Nabisco would probably be needed. Someone has to organize the Baby Boomers to get it going to bring them back.
We used to eat Hamdingers frequently in California in the 80s and early 90s. I have not seen them for quite sometime, but think of them every so often. Maybe we learned of them from Wisconsin, since my Mom was from there, but we'd buy them at Vons in LA, and they became a favorite of all who came over. My Mom would fry them up and put them on an onion bun with some thin sliced sweet pickles, thin sliced onions and a white cheese of some sort.. awesome! Wish i could have seen the commercial!
I found two Long Tom bottles while helping my uncle clean up dump site on his property at Lake Barkley.Most of the trash appeared to be from the 60s&70s. Looking for info also.
I remember all of the above! We use to go to the Kraft Grocery Store and get them frozen on a stick every day! Unbelievable that they even thought of discontinuing them! Suppose we could all petition to get them back? Hmmmmmmmmmmm.... Yummmmmmmmmm....
I have been trying to find just one person who remembered this great peanut butter spread and finally last night I asked a group of women and 1 said she remembered it. I was so excited I got up and hugged her. People have been telling me I was crazy for years trying to make me believe that I drempt of the best peanut butter ever. Yes Kraft should bring this product back.
i was talking to my wife about favorite breakfast and snack foods and i told her about breakfast squares. they are to this day my very favorite snack i have ever had. in junior high, i had hypoglycemia, so after school i ate a two pack and was of to the races for track and gymnastics. my poor wife has never gotten to experience the greatest breakfast bar the word has ever known. big ole bummer.
I too remember these.My favorite was the strawberry with the white frosting. I've asked many people over the years if they remember Toaster-go-Rounds,but until now no one has.
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