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As I sit here dunking a Hobnob in my tea and waiting for it to disintegrate before managing to get the said biscuit in my mouth, it got me wondering about times gone by.
Many products that have been stopped for some unaccountable reason and I have been thinking up a list of things in the food department that I would love to be able to try again; here are a few of my favourite things as Julie once sang.
Royal Scot Biscuits
Spangles
Jubbly ice thingie
Opal Fruits (made to make your mouth water)
Fry's Chocolate Sandwich
M&S Chocolate Crunch biscuits
Fruit Salads and Black Jacks
Smiths Crisps with the little blue salt packet
Top Deck Cider Shandy
That's just a few. I'm sure others from the UK and other countries have there favourites too, but the above are just a few of mine.
Hugs
Sue
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Hi Sue
Hi Sue
I have seen Jubbly ice thingie's still around today although it is rare to come accross them, also the Smiths salt and shake crisps were bought out by Walkers who still make them.
If I could bring anything back it would be Beef Monster munch although you can buy them in multipacks it is rare to buy them individually and I can't stand the other flavours.
One thing I would do is take the recipes back in time if I could, there are things today that I loved as a kid but every so often they ruin them by stating new and improved recipe, things like Ringo's and even walkers crisps have changed they seem harder if that makes sense.
Hugs
Megumi :)
P.s: there are things I wish we had from other country's like Peanutbutter Hearesy and snickers bars, american waffles and pancakes and varous other yummy things. Although I think I would get fat lol.
Bailey's Angel
The Godmother :p
For waffles, all you need is an iron...
...and pancakes require a frying pan. You could do them in a teakettle, but it would be hard to turn them to brown the other side.
Here's a waffle iron that makes tiny waffles, so one doesn't get fat quite so rapidly:
http://www.nordicware.com/store/products/detail/silver-dolla...
Cheers,
Puddin'
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A Great Waffle Maker
The Presto 03510 FlipSide Belgian Waffle Maker (about $40 at Amazon (US)) is a great waffle maker. We had a larger, more elaborate, and much more expensive Waring model that broke after a couple of years. The Presto makes great 7" dia waffles.
How on earth ...
... would you cook pancakes in a kettle? Perhaps American 'tea-kettles' are different from the kettles we use here in the UK? The only unconventional use I've put an electric kettle to was to boil eggs because the Wee Baby Belling cooker I had in my bed-sitter was incapable of keeping a saucepan of water boiling it was so inefficient. And yes, I used the water to make my coffee afterwards - waste not want not when you're young and poor :)
Having been brought up with sweet rationing I never acquired a sweet tooth but we used to buy what we called 'chewing wood', which I think was licorice root, with our pennies because it was (unsurprisingly) unrationed. Not seen any for years. I used to like pikelets too but they seem to have been replaced by muffins which are smaller and fatter.
Geoff
would you cook pancakes in a kettle?
Well, you'd have to use chopsticks to flip them, so it would require a certain amount of dexterity...
The most difficult part, though, is buttering them and slavering them with maple syrup...
And of course it does give a whole new meaning to "pouring out..."
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Puddin'
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Creamola Foam
was a real favourite when I was a child in the sixties. It came in a tin in the form crystals that you dissolved in water to make a foamy drink. Haven't seen any for ages - not sure if you can still buy it anywhere.
Bet it was full of 'additives' though...
Pleione
Horlicks Malted Milk Tablets
These may still be available in the UK, but they haven't been available in the U.S. for, maybe, 30 years. Maybe due to some trade agreement with Carnation (or Nestle, which now owns Carnation)?
Jujubes
The original, of which it was said, "Jujubes are 'a nearly inedible delicacy that has less in common with gummis than with those prehistoric amber droppings that were always trapping insects.' "
The original maker was the Heide Candy Company, and they were wonderful, delicate little things with subtle fruit flavours. They sold out first to Hershey, and then to Farley & Sathers, who progressively turned them into brightly-coloured lumps with ghastly cloying flavours suitable mostly for attracting rats and cockroaches, each successive incarnation more odious than the previous one.
These days, they're what you'd get if you left a pile of gummi bears out on a hot summer day.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
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Boo Berries.
With no marshmellow's or one's ok for Vegans. Also I'd change the cover back to the old one where he looks melancholy instead of that terrible new one where he looks like "Casper, the Friendly Ghost". He shouldn't be smiling, he should look sad as that's the classic look.
Oh and I'd like to try the other two Three Musketeers flavors as well, Vegan again of course.
Real Spam
When I was a Child, I hated SPAM, but now, every once in a while, I buy a can, fry it and use it in a sandwhich; it just takes about one a year. :)
I crave "real" old fashioned licorice, "Log Cabin Syrup" in the funny bottle, "Kraft" American Cheese the way it used to taste, and real Ice Cream; home made in the cranky thing with eggs and vanilla and all the good stuff. People get quite angry with me when I tell them that most ice cream now days is mainly latex paint. If you don't believe me, paint something with the melted stuff and you will see.
Gwendolyn
Log Cabin Syrup...
http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/peddler/items/VINTAGE_100TH_A...
Of course, this one is empty, but that's how I remember them as well.
>> "real" liquorice...
Easy to come by around here, with boutique liquorice available from all around the world.
http://www.oldtimeconfections.com/Licorice/Gourmet%20Licoric...
I've seen it in local stores from Australia, Denmark (salt liquorice a speciality), Finland, the Netherlands, and lots of places around the world. Some of the best is made in Alaska, as I understand it, which has the highest per-capita consumption of liquorice in the world.
https://www.licoriceinternational.com/
You might try the Halva bars from Finland...
>> melted stuff ...
Now, now. White wash is made with real milk, as were many other paints and paint-like coverings in the days before artificial ingredients. Anyone who's left an "empty" tumbler of milk out for a day or two and then tried to wash it can testify as to the durable finish milk will impart even to glass. It sticks just like glue to wood. One organic thickening and emulsifying agent added to many paints these days (milk has gone out of style) is carageenan, made from seaweed. The same stuff is used in many foods.
http://www.realmilkpaint.com/
In many cases, the artificial ingredients in paint were put there because they were something like milk, but cheaper, because they were made with heavily-subsidised oil products.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
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Which brands would I like to see come back?
Bounty brand canned chili with beef. The BEST canned chili I ever tasted.
Mr. Salty Thin Pretzel Sticks.
Kraft FUDGIES!! Almost sinfully chocolaty.
REAL Pepsi Cola. Actually, Pepsi Throwback is very close to the original taste of Pepsi.
REAL hamburgers, not the tasteless patties you get from the fast food joints.
REAL potato chips. What's being made today all lack flavor. The last ones I had that tasted good were GROFFS.
Sugardale Coney hot dogs. No chicken or turkey in them.
and WHAT is the deal with the new wrappers on Hershey bars? The old ones allowed yu to eat part and save the other part. Now you gotta strip the whole thing down.
One more thing. Does anyone else despise the new pull-tab cans of spaghetti sauce and soup? It always seems I have to scrape the inside of the can to get all of it out! Grrrr!!!! LOL
Okay. That's my two cents worth.
Hugs 'n love,
Catherine Linda Michel
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.
Funnel cakes
Funnel cakes are like pancakes except they are actually in a funnel and let loose into hot oil, the cakes come out in different shapes, no two ever alike. There is a difference between a tea kettle and a kettle. a tea kettle is used to boil water, has a spout and a tiny cap on the hole where the water is poured into the tea kettle. kettles can be copper and even stainless steel, large, small and in between.
Back to funnel cakes, they are usually topped of with 10x/powder sugar.
Jill Micayla
May you have a wonderful today and a better tomorrow
Jill Micayla
Be kinder than necessary,Because everyone you meet
Is fighting some kind of battle.
In Mexico and the American Southwest, and other places...
...around the world, you can find a type of funnel cake called a churro, served in much the same way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churro
http://www.cooking-mexican-recipes.com/churro-recipe.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_cake
1. Ingredients for Funnel Cakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keg_LbO1I74
2. How to Make Batter for Funnel Cakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzmuKq-P8pk
3. How to Drop Batter into Hot Oil for Funnel Cakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-y-qVncrFA
4. How to Fry Funnel Cake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcxi8wd8Ga8
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
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Fizzies
Toss your favorite fizzie tablet into a glass of water watch them fizzle and bubble and float to the top of the glass. I may be almost sixty but if they still made them I'd still be using them.
Jill Micayla
May you have a wonderful today and a better tomorrow
Jill Micayla
Be kinder than necessary,Because everyone you meet
Is fighting some kind of battle.
I remember those!
The root beer flavor were really good!
They know they can survive
These?
Fizzies Candy Drink?
You're in luck. They're back...
http://candy-crate.stores.yahoo.net/ficadr8ac.html
Here's the diet version with zero calories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX-rGlcfP0
http://www.bad-candy.com/candies/fizzymilk/
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
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--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Those!
Thanks for the info! Only problem now is the store is closed until Monday!
m
They know they can survive
Developed a Taste...
...for Ocean Spray Cranicot juice drink about six months before they discontinued it. Haven't seen any other cranberry-apricot (or cranberry-nectarine or cranberry-peach, for that matter) drinks on the market.
Noodle Roni Romanoff -- again, haven't found anything like it from anyone else. (The Stroganoff flavor isn't very similar.)
Ghirardelli mint milk chocolate bars (selling at regular candy bar prices) and mint wafers. They discontinued them and switched to "boutique" dark chocolate mint bars and wafers, which IMO don't taste nearly as good as the ones from Lindt and judging from the retail prices, cost local stores more than the imports.
Flicks, Ghirardelli's giant milk chocolate chips in a foil-covered cylinder (again, at candy bar prices), also went by the wayside; someone in the (California) Central Valley apparently bought the rights -- the local Cost Plus/World Market had a case last year -- but downgraded them to "chocolate flavored".
Dark Russet potato chips haven't exactly disappeared; they just aren't sold on the West Coast since Cape Cod stopped shipping out here. (Found three brands online, none of them made within 2000 miles of San Francisco.)
Actually, I'd like to taste Laura Scudder's Blue Bird Potato Chips, from the 50s and 60s, again -- they were more robust than any of the brands that succeeded them out here. (Potato chip brands here in the U.S. tend to be regional, except for Lay's/Ruffles.)
Didn't see Reed's Root Beer candies for a long time, then they turned up a few years ago at corner grocery/liquor stores for a while before disappearing again. Haven't looked online.
My favorite canned/bottled root beer was Hires; it was sweeter than many of the others. But the sweetest one that I've found on the market now, Diet Hansen's, seems TOO sweet. (I didn't think that was possible.) So I'm wondering whether my tastes have changed on that, or whether Hires really did it better. (They used real sugar back then, of course, and Sucaryl for the diet version.)
Not sure I've seen it since about 1958: a sweet powder called Lik-M-Aid (sp?) that resembled fruit drinks that one mixed with water, except that this one was made to be eaten right out of the foil packet, licked off one's fingers. (Not sure it'd sell to anyone over, say, ten years old.)
There's still plenty of Breaded Mystery Meat out there in freezer cases, but the first ones I ever saw, Rath Beef Chopettes, tasted really good back a half-century (yike!) ago, with or without gravy or sauces and such. They were a cute shape, with a little curve at the top right that seemed made to be your starting point in cutting it with a fork.
Eric
Lik-m-Aid
Wonka has Fun-Dip aka Lik-m-Aid although I don't think it tastes the same
candy
Lik-m-Aid is actually called Fun Dip they just renamed but it is the same. Here is a link to a site that says all the old time candy that everybody liked as kids including bubble gum cigarettes.
http://www.oldtimecandy.com
Hugs,
Jenna From FL
Hugs,
Jenna From FL
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