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By: Dee

Dee — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:15:41 +0000

I got a real kick out of reading these comments and it brought back lots of memories and although I am now 55 I still love most of these items so I guess I am the strange one. But I haven’t read anything about the rock candies – nothing but pure sugar but I sure loved them plus the rock gum that came in those sacks. This is probably why my mouth is full of silver fillings – I think everytime I went to the dentist I always had at least one cavity and sometimes more.

The worst thing for kids today is those fruit snacks – just ask a Dentist what he thinks of children eating them.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:56:27 +0000

Necco wafers are the single most disgusting candy available. I’m more likely to eat one of those stupid tequilla lollipops with the worm trapped inside before I would eat a Necco wafer.

I also agree with the Miracle Whip comment. Gross.

Also, as a Kentuckian I love that people think just because the first franchise was started in Utah that Kentucky Fried Chicken was invented in Utah. I guess we can’t all be scholars, now can we?

By: toby crow

toby crow — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:00:28 +0000

As a kid I would love to eat Quisp cereal. I’m 37 now and two years ago sent off to the cereal company to have them special make a box for me. You know to teleport back in time to eat a big bowl and watch Saturday morning cartoons (are their still cartoons on Saturday morning?).
Well…the taste was not like I remembered. Kinda made me sad.
At some point in life you can never go home again.

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By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:57:01 +0000

Great list. I still love Fig Newtons but that may be because I never had them growing up. I don’t know if anyone here ever ate glue, but I think it would be interesting to see what those who ate it found so appealing and what they think now.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:50:55 +0000

Re Pixifoods —

What a great blog; has generated many memories. First, a joke:

Beverage for old folks who would like to maintain healthful regularity: Prune-Tang!

Heard in an AA meeting:

Q: “What’s the most fucked-up thing you ever drank when you were desperate for a drink?”

A: Vodka and Tang, with a chunk of frozen peas (there were no ice cubes available). John Stodalka knows whereof I speak.

Who remembers David Letterman’s man-on-the-street giving out samples of a drink called “Spang”? It was Spam and Tang, mixed in a blender. He actually got people to try it!

My 22-year-old daughter loves Kool-Ade (fruit punch flavor): if she’s mixing a pitcherful when I come in the house, it smells just like FINGERNAIL POLISH !!

I tried to give my kids strawberry-banana Jell-O and they said it tasted like amoxicillin. But we love Circus Peanuts occasionally.

What about those awful Chicken Bones (now called Chick-O-Stick)? Never tasted them; the very idea horrified me as a child, and still does.

Boston Baked Beans are not candy; they’re horribly stale peanuts in a shell of carnuba wax and Red Dye #2.

I loved that “Laugh In” revived Walnettos. (Tyrone F. Horneigh on his trike)

I love Good N’Plenty.

My kids talked me into trying a Nuclear Warhead once: OW! I thought my salivary glands were going to implode … like a black hole.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:14:21 +0000

I would nominate one other item for your list: Kix brand breakfast cereal: “Kids like Kix for what Kix has got; Moms like Kix for what Kix has not.” What a catchy jingle? As a teen, I loved the taste and loved to eat Kix every day. These days, I know it’s just puffed air masquerading as corn cereal. I could never eat enough bowls on a given morning as an adult to avoid being ravenously hungry by 9 am.

By: horker1

horker1 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:35:37 +0000

Back in the day FunDip wasn’t a Willy Wonka product, that’s a fairly new phenomenon. Nestle (Willy Wonka) purchased the brand in 1989. It was manufactured by Sunline inc. and marketed by Sunmark Brands.

Why no mention of that horrible Fruit Stripe gum? It was (and maybe it still is) delicious for about 10 seconds/10 chews and then turns to horrible rubber flavor.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:33:08 +0000

Here is the solution to making all of these things taste just as good as when Hall and Oats still owned the top 40.

Smoke a fatty and enjoy!!!