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If You Could go Back in Time...

tharpdevenport

tharpdevenport

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...and bring back one food product no longer made, what would it be?

Say you "borrowed" JAyson's "time machine" and took a trip back and could get what ever food product you wanted that was discontinued and bring it back, which would it be?


So many to choose from. Years ago I had a post in Misc. about what people have against peanut butter, since peanut butter flavored product after peanut butter flavored product was discontinued.

Right now it's a tie between, for me, Reese peanut butter flavored Whoppers and Planter's PB Crisps.

PB Crisps were these delicious peanut-shaped candies with a light flaky "shell" and yummy peanut butter inside. I started a petition years ago (I don't think it exists anymore) to try and bring it back. Kraft Foods said if there was enough interest they'd consider bringing it back. So, I guess I'll go with this one.



So many others I'd love to be able to buy again, such as:
* Sonic Sour cream Doritos.
* Skippy peanut butter covered granola-like bars. I think these went the way of the Dodo back in about 2008.
* Skippy peanut butter flavored Fiddle Faddle (though I'd rather have Skippy flavored puffed popcorn).
 
I'd bring back Planter's Dry Roasted peanuts in glass bottles. I swear by all that is holy, they don't taste the same now that Planter's has switched to plastic.
I'd also being back Snyder's Bacon Cheddar pretzel pieces. Damn them all to hell for discontinuing those.
Finally, and numero uno on my list, would be Snapple's Cherry Lime Rickey soda. Elixir of the gods. Oh how I miss it
 
Just one!!?

Anyway, these babies tasted excellent when I was a kid... peanut butter, please:

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tharpdevenport said:
and bring back one food product no longer made, what would it be?
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Pepsi Blue. Hands down. Which is awkward, since I don't drink any pop anymore. But if I went through the effort to violate the integrity of the space/time continuum, I would make an exception.

tharpdevenport said:
Years ago I had a post in Misc. about what people have against peanut butter, since peanut butter flavored product after peanut butter flavored product was discontinued.
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Presumably with all the schools banning peanut products due to allergies, the market demand for peanut butter products has shrunk a fair bit?

Have you tried the peanut butter filled M&Ms, though? Those things are amazing.

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"Food sticks", OMG... :lol:
 
Original Hardee’s Monster Burger. (This may exist elsewhere, but the last Hardee’s in my vicinity closed years ago.)

Snapple diet snap tea (Tried some once, loved it, next time I went to the store it was gone forever.)
 
Dog N Suds root beer from the original drive in stands. There was one in Charleston, IL a few years ago, but the last time we were through there, it was gone.
 
I'd go wayyyy back, in fact I'd go back to pre-pre-industrial times to pick up anything that isn't filled with insectiside, fungiside, drug residue, micro plastic, preservatives, artificial colouring, artificial tastes, sugars (or other 'sweeteners') or 'fillers'...
 
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I have a serious sweet tooth, and although I loved PB Crisps (I had NO idea they were called that, and I had NO idea they weren't being made anymore (boo!)), I'd bring back a staple of my school lunches when I was in high school: Hostess Blueberry Pies. I had two of those, two Pizza Hut Pepperoni Pan Pizzas, and two chocolate milks every day that I could afford them.

Is it any wonder I'm diabetic now! LOL.
 
I'd steal Pemberton's original 1886 formula for Coca-Cola with at least 9 mgs of cocaine per glass. Pour four of those into a 50 oz Double Gulp, chug it down, and you should have a good buzz going to assuage your guilt for when you time travel back to assassinate baby Hitler. Yes, I know it's Hitler, but it's still a baby dammit. Yes, I already tried encouraging emo teen Hitler to pursue a career in the arts. It didn't work.
 
I would like to go back in time to get some of these Pizza Pockets they made at the local hospital. My mom has worked there for many years as a cook and so I would sometimes go eat at the hospital. They stoped making them and I don't know where you can even find the brand whichever one that it was.

Jason
 
Doom Shepherd said:
Original Hardee’s Monster Burger. (This may exist elsewhere, but the last Hardee’s in my vicinity closed years ago.)

Snapple diet snap tea (Tried some once, loved it, next time I went to the store it was gone forever.)
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Carls Jr. is the same company as Hardee's, is it not? We have the former on the west coast.

Amyway, I would bring back Nalley potato chips. I don't know if this was a regional thing, or what. They were ridged, and were packed in a wax-paper bag inside a cardboard box, almost like cereal. They tasted fantastic. The company still exists, but they mainly make chili.

Kor
 
Jayson1 said:
I would like to go back in time to get some of these Pizza Pockets they made at the local hospital. My mom has worked there for many years as a cook and so I would sometimes go eat at the hospital. They stoped making them and I don't know where you can even find the brand whichever one that it was.
Jason
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A lot of cafeterias get their food from food service companies and they generally don't carry any brands other than their own, even if they purchase from somewhere else, they sell it as their own.


Velocity said:
Dog N Suds root beer from the original drive in stands. There was one in Charleston, IL a few years ago, but the last time we were through there, it was gone.
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I found some Dog 'n' Suds brand root beer in a store several years ago. I grabbed a bottle remembering how good the original stuff was. Worst root beer ever. Not even close to the original formula.

For me, a few sodas would be the way to go. Swiss Creme like it tasted 10 or 20 years ago, it's not good anymore. dnL, the upside down 7up that was green, lime flavored and caffeinated. Cherry Pepsi 1 or 2 versions back was a lot bette rthan what they have now (though I drink the current version all the time).

We had something called Glen Rock soda a long time ago. You could go to where ever they carried it, fill up a 24 case with whatever of the 18 flavors for something like $5. They were a very local company (Waukegan, IL.) and the bottles were only 7oz, so you could go through a lot of it.

The original imported Red Stripe lager, or at least the domestic version they had a few years ago. The now imported (again) stuff isn't nearly as good.
 
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