retro foods from your childhood — Page 3

Grape Nuts - you haven't been able to get them here (Australia) for about 30 years.

I also remember that you could buy drinking straws that you'd put into milk, stir and the milk would become flavoured. They had a sort of flavour tablet concealed (inside)at the bottom of the straw, chocolate, pineapple and strawberry.

Buitoni made spinach pasta in the shape of Popeye.

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Jujubes (those little tiny candies)

Red Hot Dollars (the quarter-sized ones that were a penny apiece). I used to save some allowance money and buy a whole box of 'em at our camp store, and would have them all summer long.

Hood's rockets (they were a push-up ice cream treat in a tube-like container that you would push the stick from the bottom of the treat, and the ice cream would come out on the top.) Would have one almost every night at camp sitting around the fire. We used to give our dog one, too. :)

Sky Bars

Fizzy tablets - they had different flavors like root beer that you would put a tablet in water, and it would effervesce and make a carbonated drink.

Cap'n Crunch cereal
Corn Pops cereal
Fruit Loops cereal

There's just sooo many to think about :)

How could I forget -

Bottlecaps
Gobstoppers
Candy cigarettes

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Sugar Snaps, yes! Reminds me of Grandma and Grandpa's house - they even had a stuffed Sugar Bear I used to sleep with when I spent the night. No wait, Sugar Snaps was the frog - Dig'Em. Super Golden Crisp was with the bear.

and speaking of cereal and grandparents, my other Grandma always had those fun size boxes of cereal that came in a 12 pack or something. i tried looking for those when my little cousins spent the weekend, but not as good as i remembered.

why is it that food is so strongly tied to family and memories?

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Sugar babies and sugar daddies! :)

I miss a lot of the foods I ate when I lived in Israel.

Akiva

Moon Pies

I also have an addiction to Mary Jane's. (no marijauna jokes) My grandma loved those little candies and got me hooked on them.

Can't forget the little wax bottles with liquid inside.

I also had this candybar in England once that was like a milky way with rice crispies mixed in with the nuget. So good!

Werthers Original! I know they are still around, but my grandma used to have a jar of them stocked for when we came over.

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Updated On: 3/15/06 at 01:27 AM

Snacks:
Coogle (I liked the chocolate flavor)
Jiffy Pop
Cornquistadors (everybody spells it wrong)
Screaming Yellow Zonkers
Kool Aid
Wyler's
Country Time Lemonade

Cereal:
Freakies
Wheelies
Smurfs
Pac Man
Moonies
Malt-o-Meal
Cream of Wheat

Candy:
Gold Rocks bubble gum (little gold nuggets in a fabric miner's bag)
Big League Chew
Bottlecaps
Charleston Chew
Chick-O-Stick
Chunky
Ice Cubes (little chocolate truffles)
Charms Sweet 'n' Sour Pops
Nerds
Now and Laters
Pixie Stix
Ring Pops
Smarties
Pop Rocks
Marathon Bar
Choco-Lite
Wacky Packs
Astro Pop (corn syrup lollipop with three different colors shaped sorta like a rocket)
Zotz
Bubble Yum
Bubblicious
Hubba Bubba (don't stick to yo' face)
Freshen Up (he didn't know the gum was loaded!)
Watchamacallit (What do you call it? Watchamacallit. I asked you the name. I told you the name. You said watchamacallit! That's right. Awww!)

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Do they still make Big League Chew?

Look, kiddies! Now you can pretend like you're chewing tobaccy, just like the big-time baseball players. Except this will just rot your teeth, not cause cancerous sores to appear on your gums.

I was always kinda disappointed they didn't have lemonade-flavored steroids to inject to complete the illusion.

Of course Tater Tots still exist - as anyone who's seen "Napoleon Dynamite" can attest.

"I was really addicted to that myster color popcorn. You never knew what color you'd get, but after 3:20 in the microwave, you could have pink or blue or green or purple popcorn. I think it was a candy coating or something. I loved it; can't remember the name though."

I remember that!! I loved that when I was little, it was really good...it was like something special put out by like jiffy pop or one of those I think, but I could be wrong. I used to always get those though...

mand they don't make food like they used to!


well remember when cereal actually had PRIZES inside, like GOOD prizes? now most cereals don't have anything, it's kinda sad.

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