Amazing snack/junk food you miss
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(The Oranges are only sold here during Christmas)
More than Crystal Pepsi, I miss this.
1: Hawkins cheesies are the bomb-diggity
2:Holy shit, how'd I forget about Sm'ores bars? Those were so good. I used to microwave 'em just for 10seconds, let them get nice and gooey...
3: I don't understand any of this reminiscing about Jolt cola. It's AWFUL. Or do you just miss the old Jolt Cola (I never tried Jolt until two years ago, so I don't know) that didn't taste more or less like an orangutan drank a bottle of Mountain Dew and then peed it back out?
4: Crispy M&Ms. I heard they were supposed to come back this year but I haven't seen it happen.
5: On the subject of chips, I just want to make sure Miss Vickies and Old Dutch both get props here. They are definitely still around, but so are Hawkins so I figure I'm allowed to mention 'em.
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Terry'c Chocolate Oranges are sold here year round, in a few of flavours (milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and there's one that's either rasberry or cherry... I forget. Around Christmas there's white chocolate ones though ("snowballs" that mysteriously look exactly like oranges)
2:Holy shit, how'd I forget about Sm'ores bars? Those were so good. I used to microwave 'em just for 10seconds, let them get nice and gooey...
3: I don't understand any of this reminiscing about Jolt cola. It's AWFUL. Or do you just miss the old Jolt Cola (I never tried Jolt until two years ago, so I don't know) that didn't taste more or less like an orangutan drank a bottle of Mountain Dew and then peed it back out?
4: Crispy M&Ms. I heard they were supposed to come back this year but I haven't seen it happen.
5: On the subject of chips, I just want to make sure Miss Vickies and Old Dutch both get props here. They are definitely still around, but so are Hawkins so I figure I'm allowed to mention 'em.
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Crystal Pepsi... I wonder if it would still tast as good as I remember it, now that I've made the switch to Coke?
(The Oranges are only sold here during Christmas)
Terry'c Chocolate Oranges are sold here year round, in a few of flavours (milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and there's one that's either rasberry or cherry... I forget. Around Christmas there's white chocolate ones though ("snowballs" that mysteriously look exactly like oranges)
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Well, I've heard there's an imitator that tastes just like Crystal Pepsi. It's called Not See Kola. Just be careful where you drink it.
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I used to love New York Seltzer. I think the cream soda and root beer were my favorite, but there might have been an orange cream I loved as well.
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They still sell these, but they're not the same recipe as when I was a kid, especially the coconut versions. It's not just nostalgia either, I remember when they made the change and I was so disappointed.
Home Delivered Potato Chips. And DAMN they were good.
That was Josta.
Quisp cereal has been back in production for quite a few years and can be found at many supermarkets in the Midwest USA.
Sun Drop is gaining in popularity, and it is a pretty close approximation of Surge.
I also miss the Take 5 (5 Max in Canada) bars. They were one of the most proteinaceous for a candy bar.
What do I miss? Here's a partial list:
-Buc-Wheats cereal
-Choco-lite bars (The modern Aero just doesn't taste the same to me)
-Marathon Candy bar (I could eat one fast, no matter what the commercials said)
-Orbitz fruit drinks (chewy!)
-Arch Deluxe (Yeah, it's just a burger with added black pepper, but I loved the soft bun)
-Raisins, Rice, and Rye cereal
-Snyder's of Hanover Hamburger chips (They actually tasted just like hamburger)
-Combos Egg McMuffin pretzel snacks (Frighteningly enough, they tasted exactly like an Egg McMuffin)
-Trix cereal (when it still looked like multicolored Kix instead of fruit shapes. Berry Berry Kix isn't the same)
-Ocean Spray Cran-Blueberry juice (sweet, tart, juicy, and just the thing to refresh)
-151 bars (contained 151 ingredients, looked like baked dog puke, tasted fantastic)
-Bar None (taming the chocolate beastie)
-Häagen Dazs Deep Chocolate ice cream (or Ben & Jerry's Deep Dark Chocolate as a close second)
Kati would like to add that she misses Purplesaurus Rex Kool-Aid.
--Patrick
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Yes, that potato-flour bun was pretty good.
IronBrig, you can't see it, but I am delivering Respect Knuckles like the Fist of the North Star over here...
Probably in the minority here.
Oooh, yeah I remember that stuff!
Probably in the minority here.
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Joe Johnson
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Wasabi Poptart
Oh, NOW I remember Max5 bars! Those were delicious!
That was one of those weird here today gone tomorrow products. But my Aunt lived in San Antonio and for some reason the product stayed on the shelves for a couple of more years there. She would bring me a case of those each summer when she would come and visit.
For you Mike Judge Fans, that is the product that he was parodying with Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator.
That looks awesome... I would drink that...
Oh man, Mike's obsessed with chocolate oranges and we can never find them in grocery stores. The places that always carry them though are JoAnns and Hancock Fabrics WTF?! Every once a while we'll find them at Trader Joe's too.
While these aren't discontinued, they're also hard to find... Bugles! <3 Love, love, love them.
While these aren't discontinued, they're also hard to find... Bugles! <3 Love, love, love them.
Patrick beat me to it, but I saw Quisp cereal at Target down the street from my apartment last weekend. Maybe we could work something out and I could ship you a couple of boxes
Used to love this cereal as a kid
I found that soda! Turns out that it IS Hansen's, but I could never find it because:
A. I remembered the name wrong
B. Image searches under Hansen's soda never turned up anything, but that's because it was from their Signature line.
The package design is distinct, and never shows up when the search terms are limited to "Hansen's soda"
C. It also never showed up on the Hansen's website.
I have now learned it never showed up on their website because the line got discontinued sometime after 2006. Fuuuuck.
A. I remembered the name wrong
B. Image searches under Hansen's soda never turned up anything, but that's because it was from their Signature line.
The package design is distinct, and never shows up when the search terms are limited to "Hansen's soda"
C. It also never showed up on the Hansen's website.
I have now learned it never showed up on their website because the line got discontinued sometime after 2006. Fuuuuck.
Soooo what's the name of the soda?
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