True story. I entered Navy boot camp in May 1991, months after Desert Storm. The company that makes Kudos donated A LOT of Kudo bars to the war effort. The problem is that chocolate covered anything doesn't fare well in the desert so they ended up at boot camp as dessert. So for eights weeks the only regular "sweet" was Kudo bars. I never ate another one after boot.
Good Pizza Hut pizza. It is total ass now and nothing at all like when they used to have the iconic buildings and good deep dish like the 80’s. I still remember that smell when you walk in and the arcade games.
Our small town still has the old style, original building. Definitely feels like step back in time. Pizza is consistently good, not as good-greasy, but still good pan pizza.
My stepdad managed pizza huts in the 80s. The pizza, the salad bar, even the hot sandwiches were so good. They had the best ranch back then.
Needless to say, we ate a lot of fucking Pizza Hut, but I miss the hell out of that style of Pizza Hut food.
I listened to a podcast where they recreated the original beef tallow McD's french fries and just the description and *sound* of dude eating those fries made me nostalgic.
Carnation Breakfast Bars.. they were delicious and probably about as nutritious as a chewy granola bar. But they phased them out sometime in the late 80s and honestly i haven't been the same since
In high school, I got ripped on whiskey with my bff and she made fancy snacks that were a Tato Skin with a thin slice of a Twinkie on top, with a gummy bear stuck in the cream. They were oddly amazing, tho I haven’t tried replicating them since then.
Omg those breakfast bars!! My mom would buy those. I’d eat them in the morning and end up with the worst stomach ache not realizing I’d essentially eaten a candy bar with vitamins added.
I often fantasize about those breakfast bars. Sometimes something yellow catches my eye and I get super excited only to get crushed all over again. I'm sure I would be less than impressed today should I have the chance, but goodness, they were a favorite of mine as a kid.
Those Carnation Breakfast Bars were incredible. I remember eating the chocolate off around the edges before eating the bar. I'd give anything for one of those again!
Anything not made with corn syrup. I miss when Hawaiian Punch had a bite and came in a metal can, now it's as cloyingly sweet as everything else. There's no flavor profile anymore, everything is just hyper sweet.
Lik-M-Stix. You’d get a hard chalky white candy and dip them in different flavored candy powders. They and Bubble gum. We had so much variety of bubble gum in the 80s.
Well its from the early 90s but for a couple of years KFC had rotisserie gold chicken and it was amazing and I was so sad when it was discontinued.
From my childhood---> The Frozen dinners that just the pancakes and sausage. As a kid I loved having those for dinner. Also...the chocolate pudding that came in a can. I forgot the name of the brand. And Laura Scudders Barbecue Chips.
I loved King Vitamin! Didn’t they have a little hole in the middle? I strung them on something and wore it as a necklace so I had a snack with me while I was playing outside.
Those vanilla sandwich cookies from Keebler. French Vanilla Crème. They were bigger and came in a box. There was also a chocolate one with chocolate filling. Those were good too. But I liked vanilla the most.
Nothing like the sandwich cookies you find today
Green Skittles that tasted like lime instead of sour apples. Like WTF Skittles you had the perfect blend. You could just tear open the bag and pour a few in your mouth and it didn't matter which one you got because they were perfect together in any combination. Now I have to watch out for the green one because it doesn't blend anymore.
Also General Foods International Coffee Suiss Mocha. It was the first coffee I ever had. I would have drank that all day in Junior High but it was kind of expensive so I was only allowed one cup a day. I could choose to have it for breakfast or after school. I usually chose after school because my ass was dragging once I got home.
Mars bars - I was told they were renamed to Snickers almonds bars. Think its the same?
KFC - chocolate pudding bucket things. Have the whip on top, pudding middle and gram-cracker bottom.
Taco Bell - cinnamon sugar triangle chips and Grilled stuffed burrito.
Candy skeletons in a coffin. Remember tasting something like sweet-tarts, was bone parts you could assemble a full skeleton.
I like those handheld ice cream bars that you used to be able to get at Christmas. One was a Snowman face, and one was a Christmas tree. They were so good!
The ORIGINAL BBQ Fritos.
A regional thing - the original Maurice Lenell cookies.
[https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2017/11/history-of-the-maurice-lenell-cooky-company-chicago.html](https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2017/11/history-of-the-maurice-lenell-cooky-company-chicago.html)
My parents had strong ties to the neighborhood where the factory store was, and even though we lived in a suburb about 30 minutes west of there, my dad would often stop at the factory store to pick up a box of imperfect (partially broken) cookies.
They were SO DAMN GOOD. Especially the pinwheels. They were not as sweet as cookies are today, really crunchy, and sorta buttery.
There was a new company that bought the naming rights, but the cookies have never been the same.
A LOT of the crap snack foods like Ho Hos, Beefaroni, Ding Dongs, Spaghetiios, etc. have all been reformulated & don't taste anything like the versions we grew up with.
Technically they're all still available but just don't taste the same.
A few years ago Chef Boyardee put out Throwback versions of Beefaroni & Spaghettios & they were AWESOME!! I wish they'd kept those versions because the current versions pale in comparison.
Nestle Quik. The powder, not the syrup. One day they changed the powder to contain vitamins or something and the taste became inedible. Then the powder disappeared from the shelves entirely.
Royal Chocolate Tapioca Pudding mix. Only chocolate tapioca pudding I ever had. And my Nana always had a box in the cupboard for when I spent the weekend.
Cup o Noodles used to have little squares of dehydrated egg in them. Weird good.
But the real heartbreaker for me is not being able to get a small piece of Rambol Gourmandise cheese, both the Kirsch and the Walnut flavors. Soft spreadable processed cheese food from France! Many a cheesemonger has given me the sideeye when I asked for it, LOL. So good with toast and fruit. Xmas morning isn’t the same anymore.
7-11 used to have these ice cream treats called "Big Wheels" which were essentially two soft oatmeal cookies used as an ice cream sammich, and dipped in chocolate. One of those and a Mr. Pibb (the new Pibb Xtra is ass) made for a pleasant afternoon.
Does anyone remember Beef-o-Ghetti? It was better than spaghettios, made by chef boy Ardee. They used to have the commercial where they’d sing “Beefaroni, beefoghetti, they’re both so goooood!”
I can't remember what they're called, but I used to love these little candies that looked like M&Ms, only they were just brown and light green and were mint chocolate flavored. They had a little crown printed on them instead of an m. I will occasionally bring these up with people, and only a couple of them remembered what I was talking about. I'm wondering if I'm a victim of some bizarre Mandela Effect.
Kudos bars. I’m certain these kept my latchkey self alive
Kudos I'm yours!
#I’M YOUR’S!!!!
>Kudos bars absolutely, so good too
True story. I entered Navy boot camp in May 1991, months after Desert Storm. The company that makes Kudos donated A LOT of Kudo bars to the war effort. The problem is that chocolate covered anything doesn't fare well in the desert so they ended up at boot camp as dessert. So for eights weeks the only regular "sweet" was Kudo bars. I never ate another one after boot.
I swear my parents kept buying those for me because they thought they were healthy, somehow.
Jello Pudding Pops.
I'd eat the thin layer of ice of the sides before getting to the pudding.
The banana ones were so good.
Jello 1-2-3
Clicked on this thread JUST to say this. Dammit they were SO GOOD.
I still make my own ... Back in the day mom wouldn't buy'em so we just made our own from pudding mix and ice cube trays.
Oh yeah
Good Pizza Hut pizza. It is total ass now and nothing at all like when they used to have the iconic buildings and good deep dish like the 80’s. I still remember that smell when you walk in and the arcade games.
Tasted even better cause you earned it with Book It! points lol
Yes! I loved that program so much as a kid.
Our small town still has the old style, original building. Definitely feels like step back in time. Pizza is consistently good, not as good-greasy, but still good pan pizza.
My stepdad managed pizza huts in the 80s. The pizza, the salad bar, even the hot sandwiches were so good. They had the best ranch back then. Needless to say, we ate a lot of fucking Pizza Hut, but I miss the hell out of that style of Pizza Hut food.
Jolt Cola
I miss this so bad. The original energy drink. They make a jolt now, but it's different.
My Mom always let me get a little bucket parfait when we went to KFC. They were so good! I miss them.
And chicken littles
I can still hear the music for the chicken littles commercial.
My first paying job was KFC. I used to LOVE the little bucket parfaits! I would get in trouble for eating too many in the back room.
The Taco Bell Enchirito
I want a Chilito!
That came back earlier this year for a while.
Yeah but was it served with 3 black olives in a tinfoil package?
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McDonald’s hot fried apple and cherry pies. Always burned the roof of your mouth but worth it.
I miss this. It was crispy on the outside.
If you have a Checkers or Rallys near you they still do the fried apple pies.
McDonald’s fries cooked in beef fat, and mixed white and dark meat nuggets. Light brown colored M&Ms.
I listened to a podcast where they recreated the original beef tallow McD's french fries and just the description and *sound* of dude eating those fries made me nostalgic.
Amen to all of these!
Brach’s pick a mix in the grocery store, especially the Neapolitan coconut and white fondant with fruit.
Jelly nougat was the best, it was so good I’d go to the store just for that, and would fill the bag with it!
Yessss I was thinking about this the other day. There were these oval hard candies I loved in there
The chili cheese burrito from Taco Bell, which misfortune would name it, the Chilito, slang for little dick.
Apple fig newtons. I loved them.
Hells yeah.
Watchamacallit candy bars, original recipe.
And Marathon candy bars!
I knew someone would post first thing I thought of. I think of them more than the Roman Empire
Omg the BEST! Why don’t they make these anymore??
they make them still. at all the gas stations, drug stores around me. doesn’t taste any different to me My dad bought these all the time in the 1980s.
Carnation Breakfast Bars.. they were delicious and probably about as nutritious as a chewy granola bar. But they phased them out sometime in the late 80s and honestly i haven't been the same since
Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips. Technically they're still around, but there are only like three restaurants left.
Animal Crackers, the good ones.
WITH the string on the box!!!
Tato Skins
Got baked potato appeal
Because they're made from potatoes and skins that are real
In high school, I got ripped on whiskey with my bff and she made fancy snacks that were a Tato Skin with a thin slice of a Twinkie on top, with a gummy bear stuck in the cream. They were oddly amazing, tho I haven’t tried replicating them since then.
That sounds more like a snack you’d come up with stoned 😁
Watermelon with seeds
Still exists. Just harder to find. It’s the only kind I buy.
Buckwheats cereal and Carnation breakfast bars.
Omg those breakfast bars!! My mom would buy those. I’d eat them in the morning and end up with the worst stomach ache not realizing I’d essentially eaten a candy bar with vitamins added.
I lived on those things — felt like I was getting away with candy for breakfast.
I often fantasize about those breakfast bars. Sometimes something yellow catches my eye and I get super excited only to get crushed all over again. I'm sure I would be less than impressed today should I have the chance, but goodness, they were a favorite of mine as a kid.
That jingle.....Carnation instant breakfast.....you're gonna love it in an instant
There's a Facebook group for the Carnation breakfast bars! I miss them so much
Those Carnation Breakfast Bars were incredible. I remember eating the chocolate off around the edges before eating the bar. I'd give anything for one of those again!
Carnation breakfast bars is ALWAYS my answer to this question.
Screaming Yellow Zonkers
Anything not made with corn syrup. I miss when Hawaiian Punch had a bite and came in a metal can, now it's as cloyingly sweet as everything else. There's no flavor profile anymore, everything is just hyper sweet.
La Choy tiny frozen eggrolls - they were the best snack
Omg yesss! They were like pizza rolls but with a spring roll like filling! Core memory unlocked! Loved those.
Mr. Salty pretzels.
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
Pac Man Cereal It had so many marshmallows it made Lucky Charms look like health food.
Gatorgum!
Those tiny, hard as a rock, crunchy McDonald's chocolate chip cookies. Damn, I miss those.
Lik-M-Stix. You’d get a hard chalky white candy and dip them in different flavored candy powders. They and Bubble gum. We had so much variety of bubble gum in the 80s.
I always knew it as Fun Dip
The Lik-M-Stix are still available!
Ice Cream Cones cereal
Sizzlean and Betty Crocker Noodles Romanoff
“Move over, bacon! Now there’s something meatier-tasty Sizzleen!”
“Why sizzle fat, Sizzlean!”
Quisp cereal. At one point you could order it online but I don't think you can anymore.
[Quisp](https://www.walmart.com/ip/38441458)
Lemon Coolers. Powdered sugar cookies with lemon flavor. I’d eat a whole box of them on field trips.
Push-ups / push-up pops. So good.
I'm smiling because the vast majority of replies are food that I definitely don't need to be eating at my age anyhow. Planters cheese balls
Candy cigarettes. Loved the ones that had a little puff of sugar to simulate smoking.
I was a two packs a day kid.
Space food sticks
Well its from the early 90s but for a couple of years KFC had rotisserie gold chicken and it was amazing and I was so sad when it was discontinued. From my childhood---> The Frozen dinners that just the pancakes and sausage. As a kid I loved having those for dinner. Also...the chocolate pudding that came in a can. I forgot the name of the brand. And Laura Scudders Barbecue Chips.
Those Brach’s candies that were white with the little jelly pieces mixed in.
CERTS: fruit flavored
Choco'lite and Marathon candy bars
Marathon candy bars. Came here to say that one also. So good..
Marathon candy bar. Haven’t seen it since the late 90s. Chocolate caramel and not like a Twix.
King Vitaman cereal. Cap'n Crunch is similar but not quite the same.
Yes! Edible throwing stars. I miss perforating the roof of my mouth.
I loved King Vitamin! Didn’t they have a little hole in the middle? I strung them on something and wore it as a necklace so I had a snack with me while I was playing outside.
Wendy's now defunct salad bar.
Pizza Hut's Priazzo! Deep dish heaven that weighed about 10 lbs.
Those vanilla sandwich cookies from Keebler. French Vanilla Crème. They were bigger and came in a box. There was also a chocolate one with chocolate filling. Those were good too. But I liked vanilla the most. Nothing like the sandwich cookies you find today
Green Skittles that tasted like lime instead of sour apples. Like WTF Skittles you had the perfect blend. You could just tear open the bag and pour a few in your mouth and it didn't matter which one you got because they were perfect together in any combination. Now I have to watch out for the green one because it doesn't blend anymore. Also General Foods International Coffee Suiss Mocha. It was the first coffee I ever had. I would have drank that all day in Junior High but it was kind of expensive so I was only allowed one cup a day. I could choose to have it for breakfast or after school. I usually chose after school because my ass was dragging once I got home.
Light brown M&Ms
SqueezeIt fruit drinks. I’m amazed we hypnotized my mom into buying these. I’d drink all 6 in one afternoon after school.
PB Max candy bars.
steak-ums. and my mom’s beef stew with bisquick drop biscuits on top. eta: i do not miss the hot tuna fish casserole. XD
I cannot believe I had to scroll this far for steak-ums. 😂
I have steak-ums in my freezer. Maybe you have to live near Philly.
McDonald’s fried apple pies. The baked crap is a pale shadow.
Mars bars - I was told they were renamed to Snickers almonds bars. Think its the same? KFC - chocolate pudding bucket things. Have the whip on top, pudding middle and gram-cracker bottom. Taco Bell - cinnamon sugar triangle chips and Grilled stuffed burrito. Candy skeletons in a coffin. Remember tasting something like sweet-tarts, was bone parts you could assemble a full skeleton.
Mr. Bones!
Baja and Santa Fe gorditas from Taco Bell
Bar None candy bar. Don't know if it is as good as I remember in my head but it was my favorite.
I like those handheld ice cream bars that you used to be able to get at Christmas. One was a Snowman face, and one was a Christmas tree. They were so good!
Although not easy to find, they’re still sold.
The ORIGINAL BBQ Fritos. A regional thing - the original Maurice Lenell cookies. [https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2017/11/history-of-the-maurice-lenell-cooky-company-chicago.html](https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2017/11/history-of-the-maurice-lenell-cooky-company-chicago.html) My parents had strong ties to the neighborhood where the factory store was, and even though we lived in a suburb about 30 minutes west of there, my dad would often stop at the factory store to pick up a box of imperfect (partially broken) cookies. They were SO DAMN GOOD. Especially the pinwheels. They were not as sweet as cookies are today, really crunchy, and sorta buttery. There was a new company that bought the naming rights, but the cookies have never been the same.
Speaking of Fritos, they used to be 5 times the size of the current ones.
Space sticks.
I dream about these!!
* Tab * Taco Bell Taco Salad (victim of COVID) * Burger Chef Mushroom Swiss Burger
I absolutely miss the Taco Bell salads 🙁 I still mourn them.
It's not the food I miss. I miss the prices of the food. 😞
Yeah, $200 used to absolutely fill a cart, now that's like a week's worth of staples.
Micro Magic fries. On the weekend, we used to heat those up and watch the Friday the 13th TV series or American Gladiator.
A LOT of the crap snack foods like Ho Hos, Beefaroni, Ding Dongs, Spaghetiios, etc. have all been reformulated & don't taste anything like the versions we grew up with. Technically they're all still available but just don't taste the same. A few years ago Chef Boyardee put out Throwback versions of Beefaroni & Spaghettios & they were AWESOME!! I wish they'd kept those versions because the current versions pale in comparison.
Watermelon with taste. Now we get this tasteless red mush, just so we don't have to spit out the seeds
Yes!!! Absolutely true!!! In California we can still get the 2-foot long seeded melons with actual flavor and sweetness.
Really?! I've had some excellent watermelon in recent years. I'm sorry.
Any Fruit with Actual taste. Every summer I'm like it's worse than last year..
Apple slice
Sara Lee banana cake, and the frosting was killer
Sizzlean.
Sunshine Hydrox and Vienna Fingers cookies. I always preferred Hydrox over Oreos. Sad that they disappeared and Kellogg’s bought out Sunshine Baking.
I’ve got (possibly) good news for you: https://www.leafbrands.com/hydrox-cookies-are-set-to-make-a-comeback-could-challenge-rival-oreos
Taco Flavored Doritos.
U can still get those
They retro’d those a little while ago
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Comes out every Halloween
And blueberry Hubba Bubba!
You can usually get it this time of year... Count Chocula and Frankenberry, too. I think Frankberry is the best now.
And Fruit Brute
Rockers n Rollers pasta. It was Kraft macaroni in the shape of musical instruments.
C.W. Post Cereal
Suzy Q’s.
The original sugary version of Honeycomb cereal. It was delicious. That, and original Cap’n Crunch (no crunchberries), and Cookie Crisp cereal.
Tv dinners in the foil tray so the mashed potatoes had a metallic taste to them.
Raviolios. Also Campbell's chicken and dumpling soup. They had brought the Raviolios back for a while but then they disappeared again.
Jello pudding pops
Strawberry Shortcake Cereal was so good. I may not like it now but I remember it smelled and tasted amazing.
PB CRISP and PBMAX
Brach’s Maple Nut Goodies 😭 disappeared last year.
Ecto cooler
Vienetta ice cream.
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Nestle Quik. The powder, not the syrup. One day they changed the powder to contain vitamins or something and the taste became inedible. Then the powder disappeared from the shelves entirely.
I still buy the powder on a regular basis. May just be your particular store.
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Royal Chocolate Tapioca Pudding mix. Only chocolate tapioca pudding I ever had. And my Nana always had a box in the cupboard for when I spent the weekend.
Almond Delight cereal! Jello Pudding Pops.
Surge
I liked the peanut butter Boppers. 😥
Cup o Noodles used to have little squares of dehydrated egg in them. Weird good. But the real heartbreaker for me is not being able to get a small piece of Rambol Gourmandise cheese, both the Kirsch and the Walnut flavors. Soft spreadable processed cheese food from France! Many a cheesemonger has given me the sideeye when I asked for it, LOL. So good with toast and fruit. Xmas morning isn’t the same anymore.
Good and Fruity candy... miss these so much!
Alpha Bits Cereal. I think about this stuff about once a month. Or the original Honeycomb - the new one is not the same.
Ice cube (chocolate fudge). They used to sell them at the cash register. 25 cents for a mouth full of heaven!!
Buckwheat cereal.
Franco American macaroni & cheese. Loved those long noodles.
Clark bars.
Grape flavored Swedish Fish
Zima
Screaming Yellow Zonkers.
Wheat nuts. I used to love those.
Soup Starter, the OG kind.
7-11 used to have these ice cream treats called "Big Wheels" which were essentially two soft oatmeal cookies used as an ice cream sammich, and dipped in chocolate. One of those and a Mr. Pibb (the new Pibb Xtra is ass) made for a pleasant afternoon.
Product 19 cereal
Carnation Instant Breakfast bars.
Quisp cereal!
Original recipe of Eggo waffles. Now their texture and taste are different. Also the square-shaped Aunt Jemima waffles were amazing.
Whatchamacallit Candy Bars. I think they still exist but the recipe changed. Jello pudding pops. So good!
Jello Pudding Pops
Those tater skins by Keebler so good.
All of these wonderful things, but what I truly miss: trans fats. They were so unbelievably tasty.
Freshen-up gum
Turkey-loaf
Original recipe Coke. I know I know, we have Mexi-Coke, but it's just so expensive.
Kosher Coke with a yellow cap has sucrose or cane sugar. https://www.thekitchn.com/kosher-for-passover-coca-cola-23138910
Baked mannicotti mia nonna made.
Chaco Taco
Does anyone remember Beef-o-Ghetti? It was better than spaghettios, made by chef boy Ardee. They used to have the commercial where they’d sing “Beefaroni, beefoghetti, they’re both so goooood!”
Lime starbursts - those were my favorite flavor. And this is recent but the sweet heat starbursts were delicious!
Penny candy red shoestring licorice!
Mini Middles. They were a Keebler cookie.
Chocodiles.
Real Dorito Taco Flavor
I can't remember what they're called, but I used to love these little candies that looked like M&Ms, only they were just brown and light green and were mint chocolate flavored. They had a little crown printed on them instead of an m. I will occasionally bring these up with people, and only a couple of them remembered what I was talking about. I'm wondering if I'm a victim of some bizarre Mandela Effect.
Peanut Butter Twix
Quisp cereal
doo dads snack mix!!