garbage food from my childhood.

[scottobear]

Junk Foods that are gone, and I'll miss them. In alphabetical order. (yay database sorting!)

1-2-3 Jello
A & W Root Beer Gum
Adams Sour Apple/Sour Orange Gum
Banana Flavored Quik
Beech-Nut Spearmint and Wintergreen Gum
Beeman's Black Jack and Clove Gum
Bubblicious Banana, Chocolate Mint, Orange and Raspberry flavors
Carnation Breakfast Bars/Breakfast Squares
Combos -- Peanut Butter
Dark Clark Bars
Doritos Salsa Verde flavor
Dr. Pepper Gum
Freakies Cereal
Fudgetown Cookies
Gatorade Gum
General Mills Fruit Brute Cereal
General Mills S'Mores Graham Cereal
General Mills Yummy Mummy Cereal
Grape Tang
Hershy's Bar None Candy Bar
Jello Orange Tapioca
Jello Pudding Pops
Kellogg's Unfrosted Cherry Poptarts
Lime and Chile Tostitos
Nabisco Mr. Salty Pretzels
Orville Redenbacher Sour Cream/Onion flavored Microwave Popcorn
Pepsi Kona
Quake Cereal
Quik Banana - Cookies & Cream
Quik Ready to Drink Shake
Raspberry, Tangerine Flavored Kool-Aid
Reggie Bar
Snickers Peanut Butter Bar
Twix Cookies & Cream
Wille Wonka Oompahs (chocolate version)
Willie Wonka Dinosaur Eggs
Yoo-hoo Chocolate bar
York Wintergreen Patty

Comments

[zoe.livejournal.com]

I miss pudding pops the most.

And you can in fact get black jack and clove gum, you just really have to search for it. I get blackjack for my mom everyyear for her birthday.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

coolio!

I just haven't seen it in *forever*.

pudding pops amaze me that they're gone... soooo goood.

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[zoe.livejournal.com]

I will try and think of where I have found the gum. I always wondered if you/I could make my own pudding pops. But somehow I just don't think that they would be the same.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I bet you could... chill, whip when coldest, then freeze?

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[zoe.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I would miss that icy crust that built up. Besides the consistancy just wouldn't be the same I think. I dunno, maybe I will have to go and get some molds at the container store and try that this weekend. I have been hording the banana popsicles because those I haven't found again....

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

you're probably right... worth experimenting, though... pudding is still good!

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[zoe.livejournal.com]

ummmmm puddin'

[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

The corne store down the street from us bought the last huge order of Beeman's last year before Christmas and froze it!! I bought the last pack of Clove gum they had last week and stuck it in the fridge to look at.. That was my favourite gum of all time. *pout*

[nbbmom.livejournal.com]

Mmm...I used to love the Reggie Bar when I was a kid. :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

yeah... better than goo goo clusters or 100 grand.

[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

HEY!! Do they still make the Clark Bar? I haven't seen one in forever.. and I saw that Zoe can get Beeman's still? Wow! That's cool! Where Zoe, where?

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

you can get clark bars out of vending machines... sometimes at 7-11s...

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[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

Cool! I liked that one, not my fav, but it was good.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Here's a scarier thought than their disappearance: Not one of those items every appeared in the UK, so nobody here even got to try them for the time they were in existence...spooky! lol

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

not even pudding pops, or freakies cereal?

man, you guys missed out!

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I live in a land that has never known simple delights like Reeses peanut butter cups. Pity me. lol

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

EEeeEEEEeEEEE

*hugs*

my poor dear!

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you... just glad I have right-thinking US friends who have educated me on the wonders of peanut butter based confectionary :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

well, let me know if you'd like to try some... I'd be happy to send you a few peanut butter cups!

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Thats very sweet, but I am kept well supplied with such important delicacies :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

okie doke. :) Happy to offer.

[zoe.livejournal.com]

you can special order from www.candydirect.com. Beemans makes their gums in hits and spurts, usually around the holidays for gift giving I suppose.

PS I ordered something really funny, I am totally shocked that stupid dot com doesn't have it yet. So you will be the first on your block. When I get it...I will send it your way!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

oh, neato! I can hardly wait to see!

*dances

[missv.livejournal.com]

Pudding Pops always got that solid ice layer on the outside....I hated that. I was more of a Fudgicle kid.

The crazy Chinese convenience store in my 'hood still sells Blackjack and Clove gum (alongside the weird Asian ginseng stuff)....but their supply is sporadic. I love that stuff. The only sugary gum I'll chew.

Speaking of sugary gum....word on the Bubblicious Orange and Raspberry. Just smelling that stuff used to make my mouth water when I was a kid!

Oh, and I think you can still find Salsa Verde Doritos (they're still listed on Frito Lay's website). Josh and I ate tons of them when we were in Mexico a few years ago.....muy sabrosa! And when we got home, we bought a big bag at the grocery store. They weren't as good, though. Not as spicy...and too much cilantro. Poo. I still get a regular jones for Mexican Doritos and Cheetos (Torcaditos...spicy Cheetos...yum!)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

yay for crazy chinese convenience stores!!!

I still get pocky at the market every here and again.

all of your stuff sounds yummy! I'll have to look harder for the salsa verde.

[dorkgirl.livejournal.com]

Oooh...Pocky is the best stuff. I adore it!

We still have Lime & Chile Tostitos in our stores here in AK....wonder if we're that outta the loop here, or if those are just *really* stale chips! =)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I think the lime and chile chips are around here, too. :)

oompahs

[eebomb.livejournal.com]

Oompahs made a very deep impression on me. I miss them so. Peanut butter m&m's seem to close to my memory of what they where like but still fall short in the key mouth feel category.

I have been lamenting their departure for decades and have never met anyone else that remembered them.

Re: oompahs

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

sooo yummy... I wonder if they vanished *because* peanut butter m&m's appeared?

oh man!

[shoo.livejournal.com]

I remember 1-2-3- Jello....

My Dad found Mister Salty Pretzels last year....I wil ask him where...

I remember some cookies called "yum yums"...they were so good.....

Re: oh man!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

yumyums!!!

verry good... I liked mr salty, just because the name was so bad. :)

*pout*

[destroll.livejournal.com]

I miss my clear as water addiction:

Crystal Pepsi

It was the best soda ever made.

May it rest in peace.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

*salutes the fallen soldier.

[ckirkman.livejournal.com]

They still make Dinosaur Eggs... I saw some the other day. Of course, Willy Wonka candy is hard as hell to find.

I miss all of those things... I really liked Dr. Pepper Gum, especially. mmmmmmmmm

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

wow... folks are finding stuf I thought long lost!

great nostalgia, though.

[ldy.livejournal.com]

My goodness! I remember a LOT of those... maybe a little too fondly ; )

Here's one of my faves that no-one else seems to remember for some odd reason...



I also have fond memories of a candy bar in Canada called "WUNDERBAR." I think I just liked saying that really loudly : P

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

yu,! space food sticks!!

no, I've never heard of 'em either, but they look fun!

Wunderbar is a great exclamation, too... :)

[sida-al-hurra.livejournal.com]

I DO remember Space Food Sticks!!! I remember they weren't that good but I ate 'um anyway.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Keen! welcome to my journal... were they like tootsie rolls?

[ktm]

Hey do you remember the "Chester's Cheese" doritos? They were doritos with Cheeto's cheese on them! They were in a yellow bag.

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVED THOSE!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

no! I missed those... sound really yummo!!

Adams Sour Apple and Cherry gum is back.

[(Anonymous)]

It's just been reintroduced. Go to groovycandy.com.

Re: Adams Sour Apple and Cherry gum is back.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

awesome! thanks!