Discontinued foods
Sue M. Ford
>>A occasionally disconcerting experience is when some food you've known,
>loved,
>>and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with no explanation.
Yes, Mrs. T's Jalopeno Pierogies. Nabisco Ideal Bars (chocolate covered
peanut butter logs). Dannon's Tropical Fruit yogurt. Whitney's Chocolate
yogurts (Cappuchino, Choc. Raspberry, etc.). And other things that I'll
start remembering now that you brought the topic up <g>. One almost has to
not get too attached to any food or product because they're liable to
discontinue it.
On 11 Aug 1995 in article <re: Discontinued foods>, 'di...@nyc.pipeline.com
(D. Unterspan)' wrote:
>does anyone remember bonbons? these were small domes of ice cream covered
>in chocolate
Oh yes! They were in the grocery stores 5-6 years ago? About the same
time Dove Bars and some of the other ice cream treats made their
appearance.
Sue
Lead me not into temptation.... I can find it myself.
Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
*
*A occasionally disconcerting experience is when some food you've
*known, loved, and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with
*no explanation.
*
*To me, the example that comes to mind is "Stoned Corn Thins."
I dunno what happened to Stoned Corn Thins (and yes, it is "thins"..
we get Stoned Wheat Thins here...but the exact same thing happened
for me with Brown Sugar & Cinnamon Frosted Mini Wheats. I rue their
demise to this very day.
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To me, the example that comes to mind is "Stoned Corn Thins."
There was / is a company called "Red Oval Farms," which was
based in Canada, which sold a cracker called "Stoned Wheat Thins."
(Suddenly I'm having doubts about the word "Thins" in there.)
After doing this successfully for years, they branched off into
several other varieties, such as "Stoned Rye Thins," and
"Seseme and Onion Thins," and of course my favorite, "Stoned
Corn Thins."
Well, 5 years or so ago, "Stoned Corn Thins," disappeared.
I really liked them. I hoped it was just something temporary,
but it wasn't. I hoped it was just regional, but it doesn't
appear to be. I wrote to the company (which I think has since
been bought by someone else) and never received an answer.
The people in the grocery store were ignorant and indifferent.
1. Does anyone know what happened?
2. Does anyone have any suggestions for corn crackers?
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loved,
>and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with no explanation.
>
vividly recall popping them into my mouth and letting them melt as i
watched the Shaggy Dog. Then for a while one could buy them in the
supermarket. I was in hog heaven. And now i cannot find them anymore.
waaaaaaaa....the nerve.
D.
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Kierkegaard
Henry Hillbrath
>A occasionally disconcerting experience is when some food you've
>known, loved, and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with
>no explanation.
Something that I run into a *lot* it seems to me.
>To me, the example that comes to mind is "Stoned Corn Thins."
>There was / is a company called "Red Oval Farms," which was
>based in Canada, which sold a cracker called "Stoned Wheat Thins."
>(Suddenly I'm having doubts about the word "Thins" in there.)
I am sitting here, my security blanket wrapped around my head, and my box
of "Red Oval Farms Stoned Wheat Thins" cuddled safely under my arm as I
write this. Clutch! Clutch!
>After doing this successfully for years, they branched
off into >several other varieties, such as "Stoned Rye Thins," and
>"Seseme and Onion Thins," and of course my favorite, "Stoned
>Corn Thins."
>Well, 5 years or so ago, "Stoned Corn Thins," disappeared.
>I really liked them. I hoped it was just something temporary,
>but it wasn't. I hoped it was just regional, but it doesn't
>appear to be. I wrote to the company (which I think has since
>been bought by someone else) and never received an answer.
>The people in the grocery store were ignorant and indifferent.
>1. Does anyone know what happened?
I think so.
I have been buying SWT's for a lot of years, and am totally dependent on
them. They are my "baseline" cracker for eating cheese, the one I try
first, and fall back on. I never paid any attention to who made them,
except that I knew that they were made in Canada (Two sides of the box
say "Wheat Crackers" and the other two say "Craquelins de Ble Concasse.)
More recently, a couple of years ago, I was writeing up a "cheese eating
guide" and wanted to give a good "cite" for them. On checking the box, I
found in the fine print "Christie Brown & Co., Toronto, Ontario M8V 1A3
*Division of Nabisco Brands LTD*. My goodness, my favorite cracker maker
had been gobbled up by the conglomerate octopus, one of the more
rapacious tentacle of it. Now I was totally subject to the whims of some
faceless marketing MBA wienie in some corporate tower in North Carolina,
or who knows where, who never ate a SWT. Gave me the creepy crawlies, it
did, but, so far, no change that I detected.
>2. Does anyone have any suggestions for corn crackers?
I tried them, but, they were "not my thing," sorry.
I do recall that at one time, they were selling "Some of Each" packages,
which had wheat, rye, and corn in one box.
An interesting side line on this, some years ago, another baker that
Nabisco snarfed up made a different specialty cracker. One that was not
selling very well. This particular cracker had already been shuffled from
one obsolete, inefficent plant to another, and Nabisco moved it again, to
a more modern facility, but, they were having trouble making it, and it
wasn't selling very well. Nabisco was on the verge of dropping it, when
the demand skyrocketed out of sight, and they couldn't keep up. The
cracker (biscuit, actually) was made, and had only really ever been
marketed in England, but the demand surge was from the U. S.
On investigation, Nabisco found that the crackers, called "Bath Olivers"
were the sole food of a "different" stuffed bear in a series of
childrens stories. All the kids had to try them, and had parents all over
the country searching for them. Nabisco had to retool their plants to
keep up with the demand.
That was minor offset for what the "Cookie Monster" did in England.
Before SS arrived, there were hardly any "cookies" made there. Now,
someone estimated that 70 percent of the sweet biscuits on the shelves
are "cookies."
An earlier example was in the 19th century when Edward Lear wrote a poem
which mentioned a "runcible" spoon. Every kid in England wanted one, and
there were none to be had. (Lear had made up the word to fit the pattern
required by the poem.) So, the silversmiths got busy and invented one,
which is actually, strange to say, a sort of fork.
Everyone familiar with conspiracy theory knows that everything from
Linclon's Assassination to Pearl Harbor to the latest outrage in
Hertzogrovina are all the result of plots by an international cabal of
goose quill merchants who are still getting even for the introduction of
fountain pens (remember those?)
But, in the case of disappearing corn crackers, I think there is a
simpler explaination.
Every now and then, companies "test market" new products. Most of them
are not popular, and most flop. But, every one must hook *someone.* When
the product is dropped, there is always a residual of addicts left
behind. I have often thought that all corporations should have to have a
"Support Hot Line" for 20 years or so, after they remove products from
the market to alleviate the pain and suffering of these poor souls by
sending out care packages, COD.
A couple that I have been caught by are "Barbados Jack Pepper Sauce"
which was in all the supermarkets one day, and was in none of them the
next. And, a brand of Irish whiskey, "Dunphee's," I think, which a friend
and I discovered by the straight forward process
of trying all the Irish whiskeys in a large "Irish" bar in Seattle. Turns
out the one we liked was being test marketed by one of the giant
distilleries, the invention of one of those marketing wienies, and they
dropped it. *Heavy* withdrawal symptoms! (Turns out, as I found out
later, all other Irish whiskeys, except one, are made in a single,
government owned, plant in Ireland, anyway. They have the Jamison's still
over in this corner, and the Murphy's one over there, and the the
individual character of each is carefully maintained. Sure it is. So,
another place we are all vulnerable, and to a faceless government
bureaucrat of a foreign power!)
Of course, there is a long list of vanished cheeses. Liederkranz for one,
Coon, as discussed in another thread here, for another. Mostly the victim
of the MBA wienies.
So, I think that yearing for disappearing products is just one of those
cruel facts of modern life.
Sorry!
Souris
Mimi & JB Hiller
>From: ha...@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Robert M. Hamer)
>Subject: Discontinued foods
>Date: 11 Aug 1995 14:26:17 -0400
>A occasionally disconcerting experience is when some food you've
>known, loved, and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with
>no explanation.
I can't help you with the crackers, but I do know what you mean about
discontinued foods. I've had two such experiences of late.
The first was the Best Foods Creamy Italian dressing mix (comes in a small
mayonnaise-looking jar). Naturally, that was the only one they've axed, too.
The second was the Wesson Stir-fry oil. Primo stuff. It's a combination of
peanut, soy and sesame oils, but for the life of me, I can't duplicate it.
(Can anyone help on this?)
Mimi Hiller
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Claudia Breves
: does anyone remember bonbons? these were small domes of ice cream covered
: in chocolate, they were sold in the movie theatre when i was a child. I
: vividly recall popping them into my mouth and letting them melt as i
: watched the Shaggy Dog. Then for a while one could buy them in the
: supermarket. I was in hog heaven. And now i cannot find them anymore.
: waaaaaaaa....the nerve.
They do sell them in the movie theatres here (NYC) and I think, in the
supermarkets. However, they just don't taste the same and I'm not sure
if it's because it's not the good old days anymore, or if, in fact they
are of lesser quality.
Claudia
cbr...@amanda.dorsai.org
Mimi & JB Hiller
> does anyone remember bonbons? these were small domes of ice cream covered
>in chocolate, they were sold in the movie theatre when i was a child. I
>vividly recall popping them into my mouth and letting them melt as i
>watched the Shaggy Dog. Then for a while one could buy them in the
>supermarket. I was in hog heaven. And now i cannot find them anymore.
>waaaaaaaa....the nerve.
They didn't discontinue them....they still sell them out here. Had one about
a month or so ago.
Katie E Green
them out and sometimes, Carnation--I think the other company is. Some
of these confectionairys are a seasonal think--like with the Hagen D.
Carrot Cake. Another is the B&J Apple Pie...which I did find by the
way in the B&J Yogurt (hee hee, I got mine!)
I found Bon-Bon's at Safeway's, Albertson's and QFC. They come in
three flavors to the box. The Chocolate Bon Bon's are really wicked!
Katie
On 11 Aug 1995, D. Unterspan wrote:
> In rec.food.cooking ha...@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Robert M. Hamer) said:
>
>
> >A occasionally disconcerting experience is when some food you've known,
> loved,
> >and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with no explanation.
> >
Miche
di...@nyc.pipeline.com (D. Unterspan) writes:
> does anyone remember bonbons? these were small domes of ice cream covered
> in chocolate, they were sold in the movie theatre when i was a child. I
> vividly recall popping them into my mouth and letting them melt as i
> watched the Shaggy Dog. Then for a while one could buy them in the
> supermarket. I was in hog heaven. And now i cannot find them anymore.
> waaaaaaaa....the nerve.
We still have 'em in New Zealand, in vanilla, mint and orange flavour.
The next time I buy a box, I'll think of you.
Miche
>
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Blacksun21
was "Buck Wheats," which were buckwheat flakes with a very light maple
glaze. Later they changed the glaze to honey, which wasn't as good, and I
don't recall if they're still around bcuz I stopped eating them when they
changed.
I remember "Quisp" and "Quake" and "King Vitaman" too, but I wasn't so
keen on those to begin with.
OH! This may be another East Coast thing: in the bread aisle near the
English Muffins, you could get Thomas's Toaster Cakes in Bran, Blueberry
and Corn: round, flat muffin-like cakes. I was deeply enamored of the corn
ones and have thought about dabbling with some recipes but I don't know if
I could reproduce that slightly sweet, cakey, greasy, crunchy-round-the
edges, corny delight.
*Heavy* sigh.
Dave Breece
D. Unterspan <di...@nyc.pipeline.com> wrote:
>In rec.food.cooking ha...@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Robert M. Hamer) said:
>
>
>>A occasionally disconcerting experience is when some food you've known,
>loved,
>>and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with no explanation.
>>
>in chocolate, they were sold in the movie theatre when i was a child. I
>vividly recall popping them into my mouth and letting them melt as i
>watched the Shaggy Dog. Then for a while one could buy them in the
>supermarket. I was in hog heaven. And now i cannot find them anymore.
>waaaaaaaa....the nerve.
You can still get bonbons around here (Indianapolis, IN). I'd be happy
to send you some, but I don't think they'd make the trip!
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Sue M. Ford
(Blacksun21)' wrote:
>OH! This may be another East Coast thing: in the bread aisle near the
>English Muffins, you could get Thomas's Toaster Cakes in Bran, Blueberry
>and Corn: round, flat muffin-like cakes. I was deeply enamored of the corn
>ones and have thought about dabbling with some recipes but I don't know if
>I could reproduce that slightly sweet, cakey, greasy, crunchy-round-the
>edges, corny delight.
I'm pretty sure those are still made (I see them in NYC); maybe your stores
just stopped carrying them. There is a bit of variation in what stores
carry. For example, I have to stock up on Duncan Hines Orange Supreme cake
mix when I visit my parents (central NY) because it's not carried around
here (except, according to DH, in a particular store in Manhattan).
Katie E Green
*:)
Katie
On 13 Aug 1995, Miche wrote:
> In article <40ga4r$t...@pipe3.nyc.pipeline.com>
> di...@nyc.pipeline.com (D. Unterspan) writes:
>
> > does anyone remember bonbons? these were small domes of ice cream covered
> > in chocolate, they were sold in the movie theatre when i was a child. I
>
Kim Allen
Discontinued foods that I still mourn:
* Yum-yums. These were chewy cookies that came in a bag like a
Pepperidge Farm bag, but I don't know what company made them.
They had caramel and rice crispies on the inside, and were
covered with chocolate and coconut.
* Star bars. Like a snickers, but with a difficult-to-describe
difference. I think the caramel might have been a different
flavor-- malted somehow. Anyway, there is no candy bar that
resembles a Star Bar these days. Sigh.
Kim
Miche
am...@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (A Gale) writes:
> In article <40jiu3$o...@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>
> michelle...@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Miche) writes:
>
> [wrt icecream bonbons]
>
> > We still have 'em in New Zealand, in vanilla, mint and orange flavour.
> > The next time I buy a box, I'll think of you.
>
> But we no longer have
>
> * jaffa quik (but, oh cruel irony, banana quik is still going strong)
Sigh. It was my favourite too!
>
> * chips with BROAD crinkles
Try O'Ryan's. I think they're as close as one can get these days.
>
[snip]
> * rectangular pink biscuits with hundreds and thousands on (the circular
> ones are inferior)
I totally agree here!
>
> * Cadbury's Fudge Bars. You have to buy a box of Roses and take out
> the two or three fudge centres. Hrumph.
I don't remember those, but I wish they'd bring back mint flavoured
Crunchie bars. And Grande Seville chocolate (bitter orange flavoured).
I was overjoyed when they decided to re-release Icebreaker!
>
> * L&P made with Paeroa water and a smidge of lemon, not some ghastly
> carbonated sugar muck(*).
Yes! To me the new stuff tastes horribly medicinal.
>
> * Those blossom-shaped biscuits Miss Grant used to bring in for us
> when I was in J1 (**)
I vaguely remember those. If memory serves, they were orange flavoured
and had white icing on them. Those were the days...
Blacksun21
was home on LI, I have a vague memory of whimpering and pacing up and down
the bread aisle bcuz a sudden nostalgic urge had come upon me and they
were nowhere to be found...
And now that I live in San Francisco, forget it. They have Thomas's
English Muffins, but no Toaster Cakes so far as I can tell. Maybe I can
get Mom to search them out and have them drop shipped...
Lauretta Nagel
Hey, I just SAW ice cream bon bons at a local movie theater! I can't remember
which company (theater) it was either....darn. For those of you in
the Baltimore area, it's the theater at Security Square Mall (we went
to see Operation Dumbo Drop...good movie).
I used to really enjoy Whitney's Cappuchino and Chocolate Rasberry yogurts;
I didn't realise they'd been dicontinued! Hmmmn, back to Chocolate Jello
Pudding Pops I guess.
Lauretta Nagel
Robert M. Hamer
>I am sitting here, my security blanket wrapped around my head, and my box
>of "Red Oval Farms Stoned Wheat Thins" cuddled safely under my arm as I
>write this. Clutch! Clutch!
Had I known, I'd have bought cases of Stoned Corn Thins. I did
manage to make my last box last a year or so.
>I do recall that at one time, they were selling "Some of Each" packages,
>which had wheat, rye, and corn in one box.
Unfortunately, now "Some of Each," contains, wheat, rye, and onion/
seseme.
Mary f (Pud in Pavlova's kitchen)
>D. Unterspan (di...@nyc.pipeline.com) wrote:
>: does anyone remember bonbons?
>:. I was in hog heaven. And now i cannot find them anymore.
>: waaaaaaaa....the nerve.
>
>They do sell them in the movie theatres here (NYC) and I think, in the
>supermarkets. However, they just don't taste the same and I'm not sure
>if it's because it's not the good old days anymore, or if, in fact they
>are of lesser quality.
>
>Claudia
>cbr...@amanda.dorsai.org
They don't taste the same, because now Dove is putting out those little
nuggets. Now that is heaven!!!!
Mary f.
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>In article <40g7c9$j...@gandalf.rutgers.edu> ha...@gandalf.rutgers.edu
(Robert M. Hamer) writes:
>>From: ha...@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Robert M. Hamer)
>>Subject: Discontinued foods
>>Date: 11 Aug 1995 14:26:17 -0400
>
>>known, loved, and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with
>>no explanation.
*sigh*. My ultimate comfort food, growing up, was noodles tossed
with a little butter and sprinkled with Borden's powdered red cheese.
I think it was called American Cheese, and it came in a cylindrical
dark blue container. I loved this so much! Sure, it would make souris
shake his head in despair, but I thought it was delicious. Still
remember the taste.
Borden stopped making it, and I've never found an equivalent. Kraft
has a bright yellow powder that's similar to what they put in their
Macaroni & Cheese boxes, but it's not the same. (I do sometimes toss
it on noodles, however. Especially Japanese buckwheat noodles. So
sue me!)
Dan Schwarcz
Mary f (Pud in Pavlova's kitchen)
>*sigh*. My ultimate comfort food, growing up, was noodles tossed
>with a little butter and sprinkled with Borden's powdered red cheese.
>I think it was called American Cheese, and it came in a cylindrical
>dark blue container. I loved this so much! Sure, it would make souris
>shake his head in despair, but I thought it was delicious. Still
>remember the taste.
>
>Borden stopped making it, and I've never found an equivalent. Kraft
>has a bright yellow powder that's similar to what they put in their
>Macaroni & Cheese boxes, but it's not the same. (I do sometimes toss
>it on noodles, however. Especially Japanese buckwheat noodles. So
>sue me!)
>
>Dan Schwarcz
>
Okay, I can't help it, I'm a purist with this...I wish they'd make that
a discontinued food (the dried parmesan stuff). (Sorry Dan, I know
you like it). To me it's like putting a little bit of cardboard
on your pasta or salad, and have you ever had that stuff when it's
gone sour :-P. PA-tooey!
Mary f.
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: When I was a kid in the early/mid seventies, my favorite breakfast cereal
: was "Buck Wheats," which were buckwheat flakes with a very light maple
: glaze. Later they changed the glaze to honey, which wasn't as good, and I
: don't recall if they're still around bcuz I stopped eating them when they
: changed.
: I remember "Quisp" and "Quake" and "King Vitaman" too, but I wasn't so
: keen on those to begin with.
Don't know about the rest of them, but when i went shopping Saturday i
happened to go down the breakfast cereal aisle (an area i rarely venture
into) and i remember seeing "King Vitamin" cereal. (I remember it because
it was a somewhat odd box.) So that one, at least, is still available in
Philadelphia, PA.
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Mary f (Pud in Pavlova's kitchen)
>NO NO NO! I wasn't talking about the dried parmesan powder junk at all!
>I don't use that either - it's easy enough to buy pre-shredded fresh
>parmesan for even us lazy cooks. No, the powder I was referring to isn't
>white or off-white, it's more like a bright neon yellow-orange, and it
>has a flavor, albeit one that refined folks might not be able to tolerate.
>And it's vastly inferior to the old Borden red powder that I loved.
>
>Dan Schwarcz
>
Sorry I misunderstood (sheepishly puts tail between legs). I think I know
what you are talking about. I sure know about the stuff they use in
Kraft Mac and Cheese. They must put some addictive element in it that
makes the kids want more. I do the velvetta gook. But need to start doing
from scratch. Hey maybe I'll check out the archives and see what's there,
yeah, that's the ticket. Now you're going to have me looking for Borden
red cheese or a similar product :-) (not to buy just to see what's out there!)
Mary f.
(sheepishly has crawled under the bed)
Nancy Howells
re: the bonbons (ice cream) - Dove bites (bits?) are pretty good, and
are very similar...
--Nancy
Dan Schwarcz
says...
>
>Dan_Sc...@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dan Schwarcz) wrote:
>>Borden stopped making it, and I've never found an equivalent. Kraft
>>has a bright yellow powder that's similar to what they put in their
>>Macaroni & Cheese boxes, but it's not the same. (I do sometimes toss
>>it on noodles, however. Especially Japanese buckwheat noodles. So
>>sue me!)
>Okay, I can't help it, I'm a purist with this...I wish they'd make that
>a discontinued food (the dried parmesan stuff). (Sorry Dan, I know
>you like it). To me it's like putting a little bit of cardboard
>on your pasta or salad, and have you ever had that stuff when it's
>gone sour :-P. PA-tooey!
NO NO NO! I wasn't talking about the dried parmesan powder junk at all!
Miche
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Katie E Green <kgr...@u.washington.edu> writes:
> Mint and orange, how novel. I have vanilla, cherry and chocolate...yummm!
> *:)
Shoulda made it clearer. You can get them in vanilla, mint OR orange
flavoured!
Anne Elizabeth Callery
: When I was a kid in the early/mid seventies, my favorite breakfast cereal
: was "Buck Wheats," which were buckwheat flakes with a very light maple
: glaze. Later they changed the glaze to honey, which wasn't as good, and I
: don't recall if they're still around bcuz I stopped eating them when they
: changed.
Oh yes! I *loved* Buck Wheats! That maple flavor... mmmmm. Another
favorite of mine was Fortified Oat Flakes. I haven't seen that one
either...
Anne
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Nicole
Craig McCulloch
That reminds me of a unique flavour combination I noted awhile back at a
local ice cream parlour...the place has apparently been run by one family
for several generations and they make some of their own flavours. The
one I'm very tempted to try is mint-cherry-chocolate.
My, that *does* sound intriguing, doesn't it?
-Tracy
Nancy Howells
And I was surprised to find bonbons (the ice cream kind) in Star
Market here in Boston yesterday!
--Nancy
Jill Hollifield
mine when I was a kid:
I can't remember what it was called, but it fell under the "Pop Tart"
toaster pastry family. It had the same basic makeup - crust, "fruit"
filling, and varnish-quality frosting - but it was shaped like a rolled
pastry, say a flat cinnamon roll. Actually, more like a rag rug. :-)
The great thing about them was that if you were careful, you could
carefully unroll the pastry and have a really long, crumbly strip left
when you were done. More fun for me than the person who had to clean up
after me. :-)
Jill
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Andy Pforzheimer
In article <40o8rc$r...@gazoo.sdd.comsat.com>, Pud in Pavlova's kitchen (mary...@cts.comsat.com) writes:
>Dan_Sc...@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dan Schwarcz) wrote:
>
>>NO NO NO! I wasn't talking about the dried parmesan powder junk at all!
>>I don't use that either - it's easy enough to buy pre-shredded fresh
>>parmesan for even us lazy cooks. No, the powder I was referring to isn't
>>white or off-white, it's more like a bright neon yellow-orange, and it
>>has a flavor, albeit one that refined folks might not be able to tolerate.
>>And it's vastly inferior to the old Borden red powder that I loved.
>>
>>Dan Schwarcz
>>
>what you are talking about. I sure know about the stuff they use in
>Kraft Mac and Cheese. They must put some addictive element in it that
>makes the kids want more.
*New Food Discovery Alert*
Annie's Shells n' Cheddar is completely natural -- dried Wisconsin
Cheddar, salt, and something else, no more. Add milk and it's
done. Pasta's good, the kids love it, same preparation time, same
everything. $1.19 instead of $.69. Made by a tiny company that
makes natural popcorn, too. Can't recommend it highly enough if
you want to get the kids to stop eating the orange stuff.
APforz
Lauretta Nagel
In article <40qesc$k...@earth.njcc.com>, ji...@pluto.njcc.com (Jill Hollifield) writes:
<snip>
|> I can't remember what it was called, but it fell under the "Pop Tart"
|> toaster pastry family. It had the same basic makeup - crust, "fruit"
|> filling, and varnish-quality frosting - but it was shaped like a rolled
|> pastry, say a flat cinnamon roll. Actually, more like a rag rug. :-)
Toaster Strudel? You squeese the frosting on afterwards??
I think they still sell them,
Lauretta Nagel
MB Marchese
>OH! This may be another East Coast thing: in the bread aisle near the
>English Muffins, you could get Thomas's Toaster Cakes in Bran, Blueberry
>and Corn: round, flat muffin-like cakes. I was deeply enamored of the corn
>ones and have thought about dabbling with some recipes but I don't know if
>I could reproduce that slightly sweet, cakey, greasy, crunchy-round-the
>edges, corny delight.
>
>*Heavy* sigh.
Oh yes!!! These were always found at my grandmother's house. The ONLY
way to eat them was to lightly toast them and slather with butter and
honey that dripped all down your chin as you ate them.
MB (who's mouth is watering right now!!)
Elizabeth MacInnes
> *sigh*. My ultimate comfort food, growing up, was noodles tossed
> with a little butter and sprinkled with Borden's powdered red cheese.
> [snip]
> Borden stopped making it, and I've never found an equivalent. Kraft
> has a bright yellow powder that's similar to what they put in their
> Macaroni & Cheese boxes, but it's not the same.
> Dan Schwarcz
Dear Dan,
A friend gave me a recipe for a pasta salad that uses this reddish-
paprika colored seasoning called Salad Supreme made by McCormick.
I don't know if it resembles the cheese you're talking about at all,
but it may be worth a try. The main ingredient is romano cheese, and
it also has salt, celery seed, paprika, garlic,and poppy and sesame
seeds. I found it in the spice section of the grocery store.
Sophie Best
>>In rec.food.cooking ha...@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Robert M. Hamer) said:
>>>A occasionally disconcerting experience is when some food you've known,
>>loved,
>>>and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with no explanation.
>
>Yes, Mrs. T's Jalopeno Pierogies. Nabisco Ideal Bars (chocolate covered
>peanut butter logs). Dannon's Tropical Fruit yogurt. Whitney's Chocolate
>yogurts (Cappuchino, Choc. Raspberry, etc.). And other things that I'll
>start remembering now that you brought the topic up <g>. One almost has to
>not get too attached to any food or product because they're liable to
>discontinue it.
You'll be able to email Nabisco soon and ask why, they're in the
process of setting up a web site.
From memory the URL is: http://www.nabisco.com
cheers,
Sophie
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Carla Oexmann
Robert M. Hamer <ha...@gandalf.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>A occasionally disconcerting experience is when some food you've
>known, loved, and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with
>no explanation.
>
My favorites that suddenly disappeared :
Dairy Crisp : a granola made with yogurt so that it was nicely tart
Almond yogurt : in the little single serving cantainers.
and, the last, latest, and greatest : Lay's Salt & Vingar Potato Chips
They sell them in Kentucky. They sell them in New York. They sell them
in every other place in the US where I have relatives, but here in Dallas,
where the only member of the family that loves them lives ? NO !
Sigh.... Maybe I can get Mom to send me a carton every once in a while.
Ritual disclaimer : My opinion and mine alone ! Convex, as best I can tell,
doesn't have opinions, being a corporate entity...
Carla Oexmann {allegra, sun, harvard, uiucdcs, ctvax}!convex!oexmann
Convex Computer Corp. 3000 Waterview Parkway P.O. Box 833851 Richardson, TX
Barbara Laffan
cake--the one-layer ones with the thick icing, about 8x8. I loved
them. They seem to make only two-layer cakes now, and they are too
large and don't taste as good. They also had a chocolate one, too.
Blacksun21
filling, and varnish-quality frosting - but it was shaped like a rolled
Weren't they called "Danish-Go-Rounds" ??? They did look like a rag rug!
There is still a version called something like "Toaster Pastries," but,
alas, unbraided.
SusClawson
ofcourse, and nibble them, starting at their end until we reached the last
"round" in the center.
does anyone remember Shake-A-Pudding?
Shawn Hansen
>
>In article <40g7c9$j...@gandalf.rutgers.edu> ha...@gandalf.rutgers.edu
(Robert M.
>Hamer) writes:
>>From: ha...@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Robert M. Hamer)
>>Subject: Discontinued foods
>>Date: 11 Aug 1995 14:26:17 -0400
>
>>known, loved, and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with
>>no explanation.
>>
>
different varieties of Kool-Aid (Mountain berry punch, Purplesaurus Rex),
a Post brand cereal Fruits and Nuts, I can't remember the name, but it
was peach flavored, My favorite bottled water, a chocolate macaroon
cookie, etc. I also have trouble shopping at just one supermarket
because they never carry the same things. I went to a Smitty's
supermarket, and they don't carry Spaghetti-o's with franks, and I go to
Albertson's and they don't carry my breakfast drinks. AAAAAhhhh! How
frustrating!<g>
Teri
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ToniDonahue
writes:
Discontinued foods that I still mourn:
* Yum-yums. These were chewy cookies that came in a bag like a
Pepperidge Farm bag, but I don't know what company made them.
They had caramel and rice crispies on the inside, and were
covered with chocolate and coconut.
* Star bars. Like a snickers, but with a difficult-to-describe
difference. I think the caramel might have been a different
flavor-- malted somehow. Anyway, there is no candy bar that
resembles a Star Bar these days. Sigh.
Kim
Does anyone remember Reggie Bars - a candy bar named after the baseball player Reggie
Jackson. I had caramel, chocolate and whole peanuts I believe. And also my other
favorite discontinued candy bar. The Marathon Bar, just chocolate and caramel. "It
lasts a good long time" Is there anyplace in the country where you can still get these
candy bars
toni
David Bowser-Chao
Wow! For five years I've been meaninglessly teasing my wife about these things,
which she swears she grew up with in D.C. and I've never seen (CA and TX). Is
there *anybody* out there who has a clue how to make these? (I'd try, but I'm
handicapped by not knowing what they're supposed to be like).
David
PBARGE
(obviously). I'm from Mass so maybe it's a regional thing. Legal Seafoods
(restauant chain here in Mass) is famous for their bonbons too.
Claudia Breves
layers, somehow, magically (maybe it wasn't magic, who remembers, mom
used to make it anyway, and didn't tell me the secret).
Claudia
cbr...@amanda.dorsai.org
Christine Neidecker
>
>Discontinued foods that I still mourn:
>
> difference. I think the caramel might have been a different
> flavor-- malted somehow. Anyway, there is no candy bar that
> resembles a Star Bar these days. Sigh.
>
Oh gosh, well if we're going to talk about candy... :-) My favorite
discontinued candy bar was the Willy Wonka Super Scrunch, a chocolate covered
scrunchy peanut butter bar, followed by Willy Wonka Oompa Loompas, which were
similar to peanut butter M&Ms (but *way* better -- or at least I remember
them that way).
I still see Willy Wonka Everlasting Gobstoppers, but haven't seen the Super
Scrunch or Oompa Loompas in years. Sigh...
Chris
Kristin Espinosa
And what about Nut 'n' Honey Crunch? Is it still available anywhere? When
we moved to Philadelphia and couldn't find it, I thought maybe it was regional.
But on a trip back to Chicago and Wisconsin, I couldn't find it there,
either.
Too bad. It was great for a relatively harmless late night snack.
Kristin
Sue M. Ford
'dave...@cteq07.pa.msu.edu (David Bowser-Chao)' wrote:
>> Oh yes!!! These were always found at my grandmother's house. The ONLY
>> way to eat them was to lightly toast them and slather with butter and
>> honey that dripped all down your chin as you ate them.
>>
>> MB (who's mouth is watering right now!!)
>
>Wow! For five years I've been meaninglessly teasing my wife about these
things,
>>which she swears she grew up with in D.C. and I've never seen (CA and
TX). Is
>there *anybody* out there who has a clue how to make these? (I'd try, but
I'm
>handicapped by not knowing what they're supposed to be like).
>
>David
I saw them in the store today and couldn't bring myself to buy them, when
this is a better substitute (although die-hard Toaster Cake fans might
disagree <g>):
Country Cornbread- from Parade Magazine, 196?, Beth Merriman, Food Editor
**********************
Preheat oven to 400 deg. Grease an 8x8" baking pan.
1 carton (8 oz) plain yogurt
1/4 c vegetable oil
1 egg
1 c enriched cornmeal
1 c all purpose flour
1/4 c sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
Sift together dry ingredients (I just put them in a bowl and mix them with
a big spoon). In another bowl blend yogurt, oil, and egg. Add dry
ingredients and mix just until blended (do not overmix). Pour into
prepared pan. Bake 20 min at 400 deg.
This is excellent when hot and fresh. For breakfast, cut a piece of the
bread, split it down the middle and toast cut side up in a toaster oven
until lightly browned. Slather with butter (and orange marmalade <g>).
Sue
Lead me not into temptation.... I can find it myself.
Sue M. Ford
Duncan Hines Orange Supreme cake mix (an essential ingredient in the Harvey
Wallbanger cake) so I called the 800 # on other products. They told me
that they had discontinued it for a while but due to consumer response they
were now making it again. They took my name/address and sent me a little
pamphlet ("Dear Consumer, due to the large request for this product....")
with a coupon. Unfortunately, stores in my area still don't carry it, but
at least I can stock up when I visit my parents in Central NY.
Nan C Collins
We also have a Weber and we just love it. Have had it for about
4 years now. One of the best things we do is a turkey breast or a pork
tenderloin. Usually the turkey is done just like we would do in a
regular oven with whatever seasoning on top. The pork usually is
marinaded with rosemary, some olive oil and any other seasoning you
like. Both come out extremely tender and just great.
Good luck.. I'm fairly new to this newsgroup. Have been
reading things for the past couple of weeks. Its been great and really
interesting. My hubby is really the cook in our family, so everytime I
see something I think he'll like I print it. Keep the good ideas coming.
Nancy Dooley
>From: di...@nyc.pipeline.com (D. Unterspan)
>Subject: re: Discontinued foods
>Date: 11 Aug 1995 15:13:31 -0400
>In rec.food.cooking ha...@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Robert M. Hamer) said:
>
>
>>A occasionally disconcerting experience is when some food you've known,
>loved,
>>and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with no explanation.
>>
> does anyone remember bonbons? these were small domes of ice cream covered
>in chocolate, they were sold in the movie theatre when i was a child. I
>vividly recall popping them into my mouth and letting them melt as i
>watched the Shaggy Dog. Then for a while one could buy them in the
>supermarket. I was in hog heaven. And now i cannot find them anymore.
>waaaaaaaa....the nerve.
>
Diane, go find some Dove bite-sized ice cream nibbles in the freezer section.
Very good!
Nancy Dooley
-- There is no love sincerer than the love of food. (George Bernard Shaw)
Nancy Dooley
>From: sou...@blkbox.COM (Henry Hillbrath)
>Subject: Re: Discontinued foods
>Date: 11 Aug 1995 20:51:50 -0500
>ha...@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Robert M. Hamer) writes:
>>A occasionally disconcerting experience is when some food you've
(Henry says)
>Every now and then, companies "test market" new products. Most of them
>are not popular, and most flop. But, every one must hook *someone.* When
>the product is dropped, there is always a residual of addicts left
What about Rockwood Mints? I have a cookie recipe that calls for these thin,
solid-chocolate mint candies, and haven't ever found another candy like them.
They were packed in a green box, in a double stack.
Now, I melt mint chocolate chips, and make my own wafers, to insert in the
cookies. Thankfully, I only make the cookies at Christmas.
Mimi & JB Hiller
>They sell them in Kentucky. They sell them in New York. They sell them
>in every other place in the US where I have relatives, but here in Dallas,
>where the only member of the family that loves them lives ? NO !
>Sigh.... Maybe I can get Mom to send me a carton every once in a while.
Better yet...why not write to Frito-Lay and tell them how you feel.
They might send you a case of them.
Or they might let you know where in Dallas they're sold.
Mimi Hiller
hil...@smartlink.net
http://www.smartlink.net/~hiller/food/
Hundreds of food-related links and my personal collection of recipes
Blacksun21
Who remembers "Choc-A-Lite"?? It was like crunchy whipped chocolate, kind
of foamy, inside a chocolate shell. Came in a brown and yellow wrapper...I
can only vaguely remember the jingle.
And maybe starting another sub-thread:
how about Pepsi Light? The blue can with the lemon slice on it. It came up
in a novel about five years ago and I freaked-- I had forgotten all about
it. One of the only diet sodas that ever tasted pretty darn good.
The time is right
For Pepsi Light
Lemony
Pepsi Light
They put a little lemony taste in
And took out half the calories!!!
Sometimes I can't believe the stuff I can dredge up from my
seventies-infused brain.
Carrie Eager
Carrie
Carrie Eager
We got it here in San Diego...Want me to send a case for you?
Always willing to help!
Carrie
In article <40tks6$6...@netnews.upenn.edu>, espi...@stable.pop.upenn.edu
Valerie Stark
oh, my God, that was a quarter of a century ago! Sob! Excuse me, I've
got to go find some chocolate...
Val
My warranty has expired.
Valerie Stark
>Scrunch or Oompa Loompas in years. Sigh...
>
God, those were great! Scrumdidiliumptios Bars! I love that movie. My
mom bought us a case of the candy. It disappeared in no time flat. Then
she bought cases of Charleston Chews... After a few weeks, we couldn't
stand the sight of them. Our friends would come over and Mom would tell
us to have some candy and we'd whine and moan. Our friends thought we
were nuts!
Val
Still can't eat those things!
Valerie Stark
Blacksun21 <black...@aol.com> wrote:
>...holding with the candy bar sub-thread:
>
>Who remembers "Choc-A-Lite"?? It was like crunchy whipped chocolate, kind
>of foamy, inside a chocolate shell. Came in a brown and yellow wrapper...I
>can only vaguely remember the jingle.
I do, I do! Sorry, wrong candy. Yah, their schtick was that their candy
bar was twice as thick because of their whipped chocolate. I guess we
all caught on that the rest of it was air, huh?
Val
Yep, yep, chocolate.
Matt & Germaine
>And what about Nut 'n' Honey Crunch? Is it still available anywhere? When
>we moved to Philadelphia and couldn't find it, I thought maybe it was regional.
Oh is that discontinued? I still hear that ridiculous commercial in my
head, "what are you eating?" "nuthin' honey". Blah, one reason I
never bought it.
Blacksun21
things,
which she swears she grew up with in D.C. and I've never seen (CA and TX).
Is
there *anybody* out there who has a clue how to make these? (I'd try, but
I'm
handicapped by not knowing what they're supposed to be like).>
Ha ha! I hope your wife is gloating like hell... and I hope she can
describe for you our discontinued manna (I will try): picture a deep
golden, slightly rich (greasy), sweetish (probably corn syrup) and very
corny muffin, about half an inch thick and maybe four, five inches in
diameter? When you toasted them, they got *crunchy* around the edges. I
have fooled around with cornbread recipes, but I can't seem to get them
rich and corny enough.
If you hit it, please please please post a recipe!
Julia Hendricks-Mueller
writes:
>(In my best Homer Simpson voice) MMmmmmmm... Marathon Bars.....
>
>player Reggie Jackson. I had caramel, chocolate and whole peanuts I
believe. And
>also my other favorite discontinued candy bar. The Marathon Bar, just
chocolate and
>caramel. "It lasts a good long time" Is there anyplace in the country
where you can
>still get these candy bars
>>
>> toni
>
if I remember correctly. They were actually a popular regional candy bar
which was bought out to use in the middle of the Reggie Jackson craze to
save development time. It must have really torqued people who were fans of
the original bar to have it picked up nationally (when quality control
always seems to suffer) and then discontinued...
My husband (from the Detroit area) is still in mourning over what Pepsi has
done to Vernor's, which he swears to me was at one time the pinnacle of
gingerales...
Julia Hendricks-Mueller
Not a big candy fan, but I got many hours of constructive, educational fun
from Everlasting Gobstoppers. (What color are the layers on this one? How
many are there? What color is that blob of sweet-tartish gritty stuff in
the middle going to be this time? Does that correlate to the color of the
outside? Actually, I never did get enough of them to figure that one
out...:p)
PBARGE
favorite but they stopped selling them years ago. Now I compensate with a
Baby Ruth bar.
Karen Colleen Savitzky
--
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(=.=) col...@starport.com
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May your roses never die!
The Raven In The Storm
Still on the chocolate thread.... can someone help me with this one
before I go crazy:
I remember eating these Devils Food cookies when I was younger... about
5 years ago. They were packaged in like red and yellow and I *think*
Nabisco distributed them. I have looked for them since then, but can't
seem to find them now. (This was when I was in NYC, and I'm in
Rochester now)
Also the Joya bars... YUMMMMMMMMMM (But those are still around).
Chris
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Margaret R Thomas
Janis Lane <La...@monty.rand.org> wrote:
>
>Does anyone remember the straws that were filled with chocolate, and when
>you sucked milk
>through them it made chocolate milk? (they came in Strawberry too).
<delurk>...Janis, think those were called FlavRstraws..they came in
strawberry and vanilla, too!
Margaret <back to lurking>
> Janis
Sue M. Ford
Janis Lane
col...@starport.COM (Karen Colleen Savitzky) wrote:
> How bout Fizzies and and lime koolaid. My brain must still asleep.
Does anyone remember the straws that were filled with chocolate, and when
you sucked milk
through them it made chocolate milk? (they came in Strawberry too).
Janis
MudBug701
>you sucked milk
>through them it made chocolate milk? (they came in Strawberry too).
<delurk>...Janis, think those were called FlavRstraws..they came in
strawberry and vanilla, too!
Oh, Yes, Yes, YES! (sound of orgasme de nostalgie) FlavRStraws! And
when I pulled them apart to get at the little chocolate filter inside, it
tasted HORRIBLE! Bitter and nasty. (Of course, I had to do this multiple
times to prove to my eight-year-old self that it wasn't a fluke the first
six or seven times....)
--Maggie
New Orleans
J Matthews
: A occasionally disconcerting experience is when some food you've
: known, loved, and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with
: no explanation.
I had that experience twice in my life and it's been a real bummer.
1. Krafts Spicy Italian Spaghetti dinner...it came in a box that had
spaghetti, a packet of spices that you mixed with tomato paste and
water, and it had a packet of parmesan cheese. I absolutely loved this
stuff. When I was first married that was all I would cook. I'd have it
for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Then one day I couldn't find it on the
shelves anywhere. I'd do almost anything if they would bring back that
product..I've never found a sauce, not even home made, that I like as
much as Krafts.
2. A couple of years ago they had a soda that I really liked...it was
Slice Diet Apple Soda. I used to buy it all the time and then it was
gone.....but not forgotten <sigh>.
Judi
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. SLMR 2.1a . Doc/Happy/Sleepy/Sneezy/Bashful/Dopey/Grumpy: I Did It!!
Ray Bruman
: Does anyone know what company made Fizzies?
And PopRocks[tm] !!!
Are they still available?
My sister just gave me the coolest birthday present:
"Special Effects Cookbook" by Michael E. Samonek
... which relies heavily on them, and dry ice, etc...
--
Ray Bruman rbr...@netcom.com
Rosemarie Ventura
In a previous article, dave...@cteq07.pa.msu.edu (David Bowser-Chao) says:
>In article <40r23q$o...@Sierra.onr.com> marc...@onr.com (MB Marchese) writes:
>> In article <40kbo0$4...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, black...@aol.com
>(Blacksun21) says:
>>
>> >OH! This may be another East Coast thing: in the bread aisle near the
>> >English Muffins, you could get Thomas's Toaster Cakes in Bran, Blueberry
>> >and Corn: round, flat muffin-like cakes. I was deeply enamored of the corn
>> >ones and have thought about dabbling with some recipes but I don't know if
>> >I could reproduce that slightly sweet, cakey, greasy, crunchy-round-the
>> >edges, corny delight.
>> >
>> >*Heavy* sigh.
I've seen them within the last year, but only sporadically.
--
Rosemarie Ventura
aa...@freenet.buffalo.edu
ah...@freenet.carleton.ca
Sue M. Ford
'kelly_...@Carleton.CA (Kelly McGahey)' wrote:
>
>Again for the 1-2-3 Jello -- if anybody knows if it's still possible to
get
>this stuff, please let me know! It seems to me that when we were kids my
mom
>even had special cups to make this stuff in -- I'm not sure if she got
them in
>
>some Jello promotion, or if they were tupperware, but they went together!
>
>cheers,
>Kelly
Here's a recipe that looks like it (this is the stuff with 3 layers, right?
from my Jello brochure)
Pour 3/4 c boiling water into blender container. Ad 1 pkg (4 serving)
sugar-free Jello and blen at low speed until dissolved, about 30 sec.
Combine 1/2 c cold water and ice cubes to make 1-1/4 c. Ad to gelatin and
STIR until ice is partially melted, then blend at high speed for 10 sec.
Add 1/2 c thawed Cool Whip and blend 15 sec. Pour half the mixture into 6
straight sided dessert glasses, then fill the glasses w/remaining mixture.
Chill until set, about 1 hr.
Nancy Howells
In article <40v698$l...@pipe3.nyc.pipeline.com> null...@nyc.pipeline.com (Julia Hendricks-Mueller) writes:
Julia> My husband (from the Detroit area) is still in mourning
Julia> over what Pepsi has done to Vernor's, which he swears to me
Julia> was at one time the pinnacle of gingerales...
True, too true. I'm from Michigan originally, and I remember the old
Vernors - so sharp it could burn your nose easily. It was wonderful
stuff -= you could actually heat it in winter, and have it warm and it
didn't suffer. I can't imagine doing that now with the insipidness it
has inherited. It's still slightly better than other gingerales, but
not by much and not in the "burn your nose" category.
--Nancy
Kelly McGahey
Janis Lane
kelly_...@Carleton.CA (Kelly McGahey) wrote:
Kelly,
I told my kids about 1-2-3 Jello. I was dying to try it out again.
I DID find it in the grocery store. It tasted EXACTLY as I remembered (hmmmm
don't know if that is good or bad, but it did bring back good memories)
Janis
ke...@library.brandeis.edu
(Nancy Dooley) writes:
[snip]
>What about Rockwood Mints? I have a cookie recipe that calls for these thin,
>solid-chocolate mint candies, and haven't ever found another candy like them.
>They were packed in a green box, in a double stack.
>
>Now, I melt mint chocolate chips, and make my own wafers, to insert in the
>cookies. Thankfully, I only make the cookies at Christmas.
>
>
>Nancy Dooley
>
> -- There is no love sincerer than the love of food. (George Bernard Shaw)
>
Nancy,
Could you substitute Andes mints for these? They have a thin layer of mint
fondant (or something kind of like it) in the middle but are mostly
chocolate. There's a recipe for wonderful meringues in one of the Silver
Platter cookbooks that uses Andes mints--they hold their shape (roughly) in
the cooking process.
Charlotte
Katie E Green
by whipping half the mixture on high for about 2 minutes to a froth.
You pour this over the other mixture and it will separate as it sets.
Katie
On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Claudia Breves wrote:
> Haven't seen 1-2-3 Jello in a while. Remember that. It settled into
> layers, somehow, magically (maybe it wasn't magic, who remembers, mom
> used to make it anyway, and didn't tell me the secret).
>
> Claudia
> cbr...@amanda.dorsai.org
>
>
Scott D. Scheufler
> layers, somehow, magically (maybe it wasn't magic, who remembers, mom
> used to make it anyway, and didn't tell me the secret).
>
> Claudia
> cbr...@amanda.dorsai.org
One day I accidently discovered the secret to jello 1-2-3. Mix up the
jello as you normally would then fold in whipped topping--like cool
whip. Use about as much cool whip as you have jello (1:1 ratio) then
put it into what ever you want to cool it in and refridgerate. As is
sets the layers seperate. It does not work though if you quick set the
jello (using ice cubes) it doesn't have enough time to seperate into
the layers when you do that.
Grace (on husband's account)
Matthew Coon
J Matthews <j.mat...@factory.com> wrote:
>
>2. A couple of years ago they had a soda that I really liked...it was
>Slice Diet Apple Soda. I used to buy it all the time and then it was
>gone.....but not forgotten <sigh>.
>
Ah, yes. Apple Slice was one of the best sodas ever!
I still miss it:-(
m@t
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Have you ever paid your taxes - at a Coke machine? You will...
Katie E Green
Bitter Lemon and mixers/beverages aisle of the grocery. Has anybody
seen this? Sigh, I just can't seem to get around to brewing my own.
Katie
SHutt
wonderful place. We feasted on French buns,English scones and something
that sounded like Sambiosas. We had gotten them last time and I thought
maybe they were Samosas ( I have a Samosa recipe but these don't taste
like the recipe sounds,) ( Does that make sense?). When she told us
today, it sounded like Sambiosa. They were mild onion filled triangular
pastries. ( deep fried but who cares ) Please if anyone knows what they
are or can give a recipe, I would love it.
We also bought smoked turkey sausage and cold smoked salmon that had been
marinated in brandy and dill and I forget what else. I can't stop
tasting.!!
If anyone in this are hasn't been yet, you have to go. It's on Sunday
until the week before Christmas. I can't give times but we get there
about 8:30 and it is packed.
Sue
SH...@AOL.Com
Anne Elizabeth Callery
us would call it)... How about Champagne Brus? I think I'm remembering
that correctly? It came in regular and diet. I think it was supposed
to be a fruit-flavored drink, and tasted sort of apple-y. This would
have been in the early 80s, I suppose, in Minnesota...
Anne
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Anne Callery
Palo Alto CA USA
cal...@leland.stanford.edu
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Nancy Dooley
>From: ke...@library.brandeis.edu
>Subject: Re: Discontinued foods
>Date: 18 Aug 1995 23:55:18 GMT
>In article <nancy-dooley....@uiowa.edu>, nancy-...@uiowa.edu
>(Nancy Dooley) writes:
>[snip]
>>What about Rockwood Mints? I have a cookie recipe that calls for these thin,
>>solid-chocolate mint candies, and haven't ever found another candy like them.
>>They were packed in a green box, in a double stack.
>>
>>Now, I melt mint chocolate chips, and make my own wafers, to insert in the
>>cookies. Thankfully, I only make the cookies at Christmas.
>>
>Could you substitute Andes mints for these? They have a thin layer of mint
>fondant (or something kind of like it) in the middle but are mostly
Charlotte...I tried these once, but they just weren't the same - not bad, you
understand, but just not the same. Sigh. Thanks for the idea, though.
Katie E Green
That's rather dating myself. Remember those little squares of fudge,
licorice pipes and baby dolls, waxed red lips and black mustaches.
Candy whistles, brown sugar fudge too. And I miss Nehi Grape Soda.
I don't think I can spell it! I miss the Shasta Soda line too.
I miss butter mints. I have not seen them in the store lately. I
miss Switzer's licorice, in the candy bar size package. I miss the
really SOUR lemon drops. Even the lemon heads are not doing it for me
lately. Black Crows are still around, but getting hard to find. I only
know of one store that carries them. I miss circus peanuts. Remember
those? And campfire marshmallows used to come in the half formed boxes,
all covered with paper. They were powder sugar frosted. Remember those
...they were soooo good. I miss waxed red lips and black mustaches. I
miss those molasses chews with the peanut butter inside. I miss the
fondant balls with the hazelnuts inside (guess I have to keep making my
own). (I think I must be having sugar withdrawal--better stick with the
focaccia!)
Thinking of bread, I miss the date nut bread that came in long rippled
cylinders in the bakeries. I haven't seen this for many years. And,
I also miss a decent stewing hen. Sure made good broth and soup! I miss
good old fashioned cream, with the butter fat clinging to the top of the
paper disk. *sigh*
Linda Snow
called Whip-n-Chill which was great -
the chocolate flavor was a pretty good approximation of Chocolate Souffle.
RCM...@delphi.com
>In rec.food.cooking ha...@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Robert M. Hamer) said:
>>A occasionally disconcerting experience is when some food you've known,
>loved,
>>and eaten, suddenly disappears from the market with no explanation.
>>
In my long-ago childhood, I loved a brand of cookie made by
Keebler. They were called Dutch Apple Cookies (or something
similar). They were thick and crumbly, with a wonderful
cinnamon-apple flavor. Haven't seen them in years. ::sigh::
Harper *%*%*%* rcm...@delphi.com
"Mostly Harmless" -- Douglas Adams
J. David Holmes
>
> In my long-ago childhood, I loved a brand of cookie made by
> Keebler. They were called Dutch Apple Cookies (or something
> similar). They were thick and crumbly, with a wonderful
> cinnamon-apple flavor. Haven't seen them in years. ::sigh::
They were my sister's favorite, mine were the Cocoanut Chocolate Drop-
chocolate chip cookies with cocoanut. They disappeared around the same
time. The CCD's made a brief comeback last year, apparently a marketing
experiment, but are now gone again. :-(
--Dave
BK4Leg
And from Drake's - Creme cups (sort of like a ring ding, but in the form
of a cupcake, choc covered ), and Ring Dings (full size, not the Jr they
now make).
The college I attended had them in a refrigerated vending machine - cool
choc
on a hot day !!
More recently, the Cajun Coookin' line of foods is no longer carried by NY
area
supermarkets - chrimp creole, crawfish etoufee, etc.
the river flows ...
Alan R. Holbrook
Tailgate2
<Pine.ULT.3.91j.95082...@stein1.u.washington.edu>, Katie
E Green <kgr...@u.washington.edu> writes:
>Well, I miss
(snips a wonderful bunch of childhood memories and wishes they were back)
I think I miss old fashion Ice Cream counters most. When you were taken
by your folks on a warm night to the Ice Cream Parlor or when you went to
the local drugstore and sat at the counter and had a Sundae. Drug stores
with counters were one of my favorites for just about everything. You
could get great grilled cheese sandwiches with a, so- thick- your-
eyeballs- poped, chocolate milk shake. Homemade (well drugstore employee
made anyway), chicken salad sandwiches on toast with chips. Banana splits
made in every different fruit combination as well as the traditional.
Nickel cokes with a Reese's Peanutbutter Cups. Cokes in flavors like
cherry, chocolate and vanilla. Ice Cream Floats, Ice Cream Sodas and
Malts. I miss that the lady behind the counter and the pharmacist knew
all the kids and parents by name.
Wishing for a gentler and kinder world. (ok so I do that sometimes - shoot
me)
Bobbie
Holly Francis
>From: tail...@aol.com (Tailgate2)
>Subject: Re: Discontinued foods
>Date: 22 Aug 1995 22:19:17 -0400
>In article
><Pine.ULT.3.91j.95082...@stein1.u.washington.edu>, Katie
>E Green <kgr...@u.washington.edu> writes:
>>Well, I miss
>(snips a wonderful bunch of childhood memories and wishes they were back)
>I think I miss old fashion Ice Cream counters most. When you were taken
>by your folks on a warm night to the Ice Cream Parlor or when you went to
>the local drugstore and sat at the counter and had a Sundae. Drug stores
>with counters were one of my favorites for just about everything. You
>could get great grilled cheese sandwiches with a, so- thick- your-
>eyeballs- poped, chocolate milk shake. Homemade (well drugstore employee
>made anyway), chicken salad sandwiches on toast with chips. Banana splits
>made in every different fruit combination as well as the traditional.
>Nickel cokes with a Reese's Peanutbutter Cups. Cokes in flavors like
>cherry, chocolate and vanilla.
If you're ever in south-central Ohio, go to a little town called Chillicothe
(my hometown), to Allen's Pharmacy (known locally as Gib's). They have an
old-fashioned soda fountain and make their own flavoring syrups. So you can
have a cherry or lime or vanilla (my favorite!), etc., Coke. Enjoy!
Helayne
by Cadbury's. It was essentially a Flake covered in white chocolate.
I was seriously addicted to these when I was a kid, but one day they
just disappeared. Over the past 20 years I have dreamt about how
good they were, and lo and behold, they reappeared just recently.
Naturally I bought one and rushed off to enjoy it. But I guess the
build-up and hype in my mind were greater than the reality. It was
good chocolate (like all Cadbury's) but nothing outstanding.
I guess this is a cautionary tale for all of you pining for your
fave chocolate/candy (we call them lollies in Oz).
By the way, for those of you who don't know what a Flake is, it looks
like someone made a thin sheet of chocolate and then concertined (sp?)
the sheet into a tube of folded chocolate. Hence, when you eat it,
bits flake off.
H (who is moving to Tucson and can't wait to get at
those Skor bars :-)
Libby
> Well, I miss penny candy *looks sorrowful and glances at her feet*.
>
> I miss the
> really SOUR lemon drops. Even the lemon heads are not doing it for me
> lately.
sour candy is really hip right now; if you like sour, try sour jacks,
sour patch kids, warheads, cry-baby gum, and shock tarts. there are
others too, which I can't think of right now.
--
Dwathome
They were dropped into cold water and produced fizzy soda pop, sort of.
I'm sure they were awful, but nostalgia is worth quite a bit.
LI Endell
(Kim Allen)
: writes:
: Discontinued foods that I still mourn:
: * Star bars. Like a snickers, but with a difficult-to-describe
: difference. I think the caramel might have been a different
: flavor-- malted somehow. Anyway, there is no candy bar that
: resembles a Star Bar these days. Sigh.
: Kim
Hurrah! For once I can jump into this! Stars Bars are still available in
the UK. Well, they are at the snack bar of one of the seven colleges of
the University of York. Okay, so this isn't *wide* availability, but
it's the only place *I* can get them with regularity :-)
Lindsay
Amy Trout
>
>I remember getting phosphates as a kid--they were flavored soda water.
>Vanilla, chocolate or cherry -- 3 cents to drink it there in the drug
>store or 5 cents for a take out cup.
I miss the *REAL* original Coca-Cola. I swear when I was young and I used
to sneak it on the sly, it had more of a "bite" to it than it does now. I also
remember a serious "burn" when --- with my baby brother--- we used to
burp afterwards.
Ah yes, the good old days!
Amy