Foods that are no longer available that you miss?

[FurnaceFace]

Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

Grape Hehi. Not because I've ever had a grape nehi. But because it was Radar's favorite drink on MASH. It sounded pretty good. I think it was part of what made America great.

Just get a grape Fanta in a bottle. That has to be a pretty close substitute for grape Nehi.

[Johnny199r]

Mini sips - Maritimers know.

[SportsJunky]

Ha I spent many summers as a kid in New Brunswick. Mini sips were awesome. When you finished the drink, you would re-inflate it using the straw and then stomp on it. It would create a very satisfying popping sound.

[Manhattanboy]

These still might be available, not sure, but awesome when I was a kid:

Pepperidge Farm chocolate layer cake.

Count Chocula Cereal.

See a trend?

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Tell me more about this please

Basically how my family makes it is with spice packets from the Dutch cash and carry. Then we boil rice and mix in the spices after. In a separate pan, we will cook a meat (personal favourite of mine is smoked ham cut into cubes). After the meat is cooked it is mixed in with the rice and spice blend. Finally we fry everything together (rice spice and meat) until the rice is gently crunchy.

It is then topped off with a fried egg sunny side up so it gets the gooey egg yolk mixed in with the rice. Feel free to add soya sauce to taste.

[cSpooge]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Basically how my family makes it is with spice packets from the Dutch cash and carry. Then we boil rice and mix in the spices after. In a separate pan, we will cook a meat (personal favourite of mine is smoked ham cut into cubes). After the meat is cooked it is mixed in with the rice and spice blend. Finally we fry everything together (rice spice and meat) until the rice is gently crunchy.

It is then topped off with a fried egg sunny side up so it gets the gooey egg yolk mixed in with the rice. Feel free to add soya sauce to taste.

most coops carry the spice mix in the Asian isle, failing that you can go to the Dutch store in ogden or Edelweiss on 19th ST NW and pick it up.

[Wormius]

Dutch Store is awesome. Love the variety of Cup A Soups they have there... and reasonably priced Gouda.

Anyway, something I have noticed haven’t been around in a while are the Fritos Corn Chips. I think they sell the skinny ones here, but the wide ones are better for dipping.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by Johnny199r

Mini sips - Maritimers know.

Originally Posted by SportsJunky

Ha I spent many summers as a kid in New Brunswick. Mini sips were awesome. When you finished the drink, you would re-inflate it using the straw and then stomp on it. It would create a very satisfying popping sound.

Or bite than end of the bag and pull it to make it into a long neck so you had better aim when squirting at people. (In retrospect it almost looked like a long penis coming out of the bag).

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

I thought I had lost a family recipe for nasi goreng (brilliant SE Asian dish) but found a place in the middle of the Ogden industrial park that carries packets of the spices. This stuff is to die for:

That's mie goreng, you can see all the noodles.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by kermitology

That's mie goreng, you can see all the noodles.

Ahh I assumed it was some variant, noodles vs rice

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Ahh I assumed it was some variant, noodles vs rice

I mean Nasi/Mie Goreng translates to Fried (Goreng) (rice/noodles) from bahasa

I’d love to have some true nasi goreng. So good in Jakarta.

[bob-loblaw]

My uncle always used to buy me Thrills gum when I was young. I used to love it for the first few seconds before I realized it tasted like grape soap. I haven't noticed it for awhile, but I guess I don't really chew a lot of gum now.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by bob-loblaw

My uncle always used to buy me Thrills gum when I was young. I used to love it for the first few seconds before I realized it tasted like grape soap. I haven't noticed it for awhile, but I guess I don't really chew a lot of gum now.

That was at the Kensington store too. Advertised as still tasting like soap.

That’s what I remember too, but I don’t think it ever had a nice taste before the soap taste came through. Why did people buy this again? Bubblelicious, Hubba Bubba, Juicy Fruit were all around then.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by bob-loblaw

My uncle always used to buy me Thrills gum when I was young. I used to love it for the first few seconds before I realized it tasted like grape soap. I haven't noticed it for awhile, but I guess I don't really chew a lot of gum now.

They sell thrills gum at 7-11

[puffnstuff]

Thrills has always been a horrible taste experience, saw them last week at the counter of the local conv store. No way I was buying those.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by bob-loblaw

My uncle always used to buy me Thrills gum when I was young. I used to love it for the first few seconds before I realized it tasted like grape soap. I haven't noticed it for awhile, but I guess I don't really chew a lot of gum now.

An Urban Legend suggested Thrills threw off breathalyzers.

[GordonBlue]

Originally Posted by bob-loblaw

My uncle always used to buy me Thrills gum when I was young. I used to love it for the first few seconds before I realized it tasted like grape soap. I haven't noticed it for awhile, but I guess I don't really chew a lot of gum now.

they sell it at Bulk Barn.
along with a lot of other items from when I was a kid. they also have "dip sticks", the bags of gum that look like gold nuggets, pez, nerdz, ring pops, pink elephant popcorn, big league chew, popeye cigarettes (although they call them candy sticks now), pop rocks

tons of cool stuff. lots good imported british stuff, too.

What I've been looking for that I don't see anywhere is PREM.
we used to eat a fair bit of that when I was a kid. especially with Kraft Dinner.

[OMG!WTF!]

I'd kill for an Astro Pop

[CliffFletcher]

Betty Crocker Snackin' Cake. Since you could mix, bake, and eat out of the same pan, it was easy stuff for kids to make themselves - I think I started making it about age 9 or 10. Banana walnut, hot out of the oven with butter slathered on it, for the win.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by bob-loblaw

My uncle always used to buy me Thrills gum when I was young. I used to love it for the first few seconds before I realized it tasted like grape soap. I haven't noticed it for awhile, but I guess I don't really chew a lot of gum now.

People actually liked Thrills? I always thought it was for pranks. We all called it the soap gum. Sen sens were in the same vein. Probably a legit product, but we as kids all thought it was something you'd get to trick others to eat for a laugh.

I don't recall the name, but there was also some type of gum ball when I was a kid that would dye your mouth a certain color (black, blue, green, red etc.). I think it was ultimately banned from our school after a while because parents got freaked out by kids having crazy colored poops and/or kids staining clothing after chewing and spitting the dye all over the place.


I miss the Big Xtra from McD's at times. But the quarter pounder BLT isn't too far off.