Discontinued/Unavailable Foods that you miss (2 Viewers)

[where yat brah]

Product 19

The Long Death of Product 19, the Most Beloved Cereal You've Never Heard Of

Despite a devoted fanbase, it has disappeared.

www.google.com

 

[Eeyore]

 

[Dan in Lafayette]

Fizzies were popular in my youth. Alka-seltzer type fruit drink that at one point outsold Kool-Aid. Drop a couple of tablets in cold water and a carbonated fruit drink appeared.

From Wikipedia:

Origin
Ruth Millard invented the idea for Emerson Drug Company, manufacturer of Bromo-Seltzer, by adding a fruit flavor that children liked. Lem Billings, a close and long-time friend of President John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy family, has also been given credit as inventor. "As Vice President at the Emerson Drug Company in Baltimore, he was responsible for inventing the 1950s fad drink Fizzies by adding a fruit flavor to disguise the sodium citrate taste."[1] Once perfected, Emerson named the creation Fizzies. The tablet was dropped into a glass of water, then fizzed and dissolved, creating a sweet, effervescent drink.

Fizzies were first introduced by Emerson on a regional basis in July 1957. In 1962, the Emerson Drug Company was acquired by Warner–Lambert, which sold the product nationally that same year.[2]

In the 1950s and 1960s Fizzies came in seven flavors: grape, orange, cherry, lemon-lime, strawberry, root beer, and cola.

Fizzies' sales grew both nationally and internationally until 1968, achieving more than double the sales volume of Kool-Aid.[2][full citation needed]

Fizzies was one of the sponsors for The Shari Lewis Show on NBC-TV in the early 1960s and pitched by Lewis herself.

The successful beverage became a cultural icon of its time. In the motion picture National Lampoon's Animal House, set in 1962, Dean Wormer reads a list of pranks committed by members of the Delta House fraternity, which included dumping "a truckload of Fizzies" into a swimming pool during a swim meet

In hindsight, Kool-Aid was actually better but didn't have the early kid-appeal of dropping the fizzing tablets into a glass.

 

[boutrous]

Product 19

The Long Death of Product 19, the Most Beloved Cereal You've Never Heard Of

Despite a devoted fanbase, it has disappeared.

www.google.com

I used to love Product 19. It was way better than corn flakes and knocked Total out of the park. It was my must have cereal until I went away to college, then we lost touch.

 

[Yatman]

+1 on Product 19. The name never struck me as odd until seeing it just now. Sounds downright Soviet. ??

My list includes anything from Royal Castle, especially birch beer.

 

[Optimus Prime]

+1 on Product 19. The name never struck me as odd until seeing it just now. Sounds downright Soviet. ??

My list includes anything from Royal Castle, especially birch beer.

I’ve never seen birch beer by any company other than Pennsylvania Dutch

 

[hockey2112]

McKenzie's Halloween cookies. By far.

Oh man, absolutely. With the hardened poured icing... they were my favorites. Their red Valentines Day heart cookies as well with the same icing. I remember when my mom sent a box of them to me in college. They didn't last long. I still can't believe Tastee didn't bring these back along with the McKenzie's king cakes etc. I think they own all of the McK recipes.

FYI, Planters Cheez Balls (and Cheez Curls) are back! You can get them at Rouses. I had a can of the balls this past weekend. Tasted like delicious, crunchy, cheesy childhood.

 

[boutrous]

Oh man, absolutely. With the hardened poured icing... they were my favorites. Their red Valentines Day heart cookies as well with the same icing. I remember when my mom sent a box of them to me in college. They didn't last long. I still can't believe Tastee didn't bring these back along with the McKenzie's king cakes etc. I think they own all of the McK recipes.

FYI, Planters Cheez Balls (and Cheez Curls) are back! You can get them at Rouses. I had a can of the balls this past weekend. Tasted like delicious, crunchy, cheesy childhood.

The Tastee on W. Esplanade and Transcontinental has the McKenzie's king cakes. Not sure about the cookies.

 

[zeetes]

The Tastee on W. Esplanade and Transcontinental has the McKenzie's king cakes. Not sure about the cookies.

but are they old enough?

 

[zeetes]

The Tastee on W. Esplanade and Transcontinental has the McKenzie's king cakes. Not sure about the cookies.

oh and there is a daiquiri "cafe" in the same parking lot.

also the best popeyes in metry is across the street on transcontinental.

 

[Optimus Prime]

spicy chicken biscuit from chick-fil-a

that biscuit with a slice of pepper jack was far and away my favorite thing they served

Spicy Chicken Biscuit is back!!!

The new commercials make no mention that it's returning - they're acting like it's always been there

 

[Semper]

Spicy Chicken Biscuit is back!!!

The new commercials make no mention that it's returning - they're acting like it's always been there

I had a spicy chicken deluxe for lunch.

 

[Sailorsaint]

I miss the McDLT.

 

[Semper]

I miss the McDLT.

Is that the one they advertised the hot stays hot and cold stays cold thing?

 

[Semper]

OMG it’s George!