things we liked but can no longer find

[sunspun]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Scruffers [/i]
[B]Oh my gosh! I have been talking about Marathon bars for YEARS!!! Remember they were "a foot of fun" and had a ruler on the back! Oh, yum! And Googly peanut butter! Oh man, I loved that stuff! The new Jiff Sensations are a good substitute. How about Oompa Loompas--not the ones that are out now. They were like really big M&Ms but were half chocolate and half peanut butter. I loved those. I always wanted those stilt things. I had a Lemon Twist! It was a plastic lemon attached to a rubber "rope" which then went around your ankle. You swung it with one foot and hopped over it with the other. They make Skip-Its now instead; same concept, no lemon. And one more. This is one that no one remembers the name of! There was a cartoon that had a bunch of misfit superheros. One was a guy that stretched and another was a baby who used to swing his bottle around. Does anyone remember it?
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Yep, that cartoon was Plastic Man I bet - there was a girl sidekick kind of character who I guess was his girlfriend too - they made them out to be real "groovy" hipster-types; he was always calling her "Babe" and she called him "Plaz-Baby", and it seems like later on in the show's episodes, there was the baby you mentioned - I can picture him sort of. Maybe that was where I got the "Plaz Baby" name.
Seems like it was on during the same years (months?) that another superhero cartoon was on - Wonder Twins. Remember "Wonder Twin powers Activate/Deactivate!"? And then he would say "Form of... ----" and fill in the blank with something in some form of water. like iceberg or watefall or whatever.
And at the same time, I think was Captain Caveman - the girls he ran around with called him "Cavey".
I never liked any of those, but I guess I must have watched enough of them LOL.

I had a LemonTwist - I was wondering if someone was going to mention them. I remember skipping it in my driveway and counting skips, like up into the thousands. Probably was a great way of keeping in shape.

When someone mentioned those stilt can toys and wondered where to get them now, I thought you should just make your own - they sounded like you could make them. Then someone else said they had made their own.

And I think one of the very first posts mentioned this taffy candy - if it's the same kind I used to buy all the time, it's Tangy Taffy and it was good. I would get that and those Rings made of some hard candy that you sucked on almost like a pacifier, and I also liked those things - now I forget what they were called, but I think they still make them -- like some big chewy sour round thing. Kind of chalky looking - I thought I remembered that name, but I guess not. I just really liked their texture - chewy, but not exactly.
The cereal I liked that I guess has been gone for a long time was Cinnamon Capn Crunch.

[beckilynn7]

Rally Burgers sells fried pies similiar to the old style Mickey D's. Haven't had one in over a year, but I do remember it to be pretty good. I just saw a sign in front of Weinersnitzel (sp?) advertising apple pies. I think I'll make a trip over there this weekend!!

[telos2000]

Cherry Mash! Chocolate and nuts covering a cherry nuget center.:(

[freesurfer]

[QUOTE=dianemarie]It was a taffy we used to buy as kids...very thin (like 1/4") and long (maybe 12") and the wrapper was liked waxed paper. :)[/QUOTE]


They have this stuff out again!!!

[Twinplets]

I never know if I should feel old or young when I'm reading this board, but since people named off most of the TV shows I used to watch, I must be just about right. The Wonder Twins were on a show with a whole pack of DC comic superheroes, which I think was called Superfriends (or at least that's what they're called on the sheets I had as a kid, that my mom now uses for MY kids when we visit). He (Zan?) was always water or ice, she (Jana?) was always an animal, and the monkey was just funny.

My dad painted the whole downstairs of our house (not all at once) while I was watching the Scooby Doo All-Star Laff-O-Lympics, and a few years ago he was repainting and searched the channels for more Scooby Doo.

I think Electric Company was my favorite educational show, but I liked Kimba, Speed Racer, and Battle of the Plantes (with those child heroes G-Force).

My parents have been married for 43 years, my in-laws have been married longer, and hubby and I have been married 12 years. My brother has been married 13 years, and his in-laws have been maried about as long as my parents. It's a shame to think that we're exceptions, and not the norm.

[freesurfer]

I liked Electric Company too!!

And yes, I always wanted to be the exception but totally fit into the norm now!! I wonder how many exceptions we actually have here. Sounds like a great poll!

[eldo]

I miss the small cups of Fantastic Foods brand Jumpin' Black Bean soup that you heat in the microwave. They discontinued them and now only sell the big cups, which are way too much for me.

[jimskathy]

[QUOTE=pandybat]What was the cereal with the weird little monsters as the characters? I loved that stuff but can't remember the name.
OOOOOOOOoooo.....and the McDonalds fried pies?? LOVED 'EM!! Wish they would bring them back...hee hee hee Everybody got so health concious(sp?) about eating fried foods that they changed them and for the worse, IMHO....lol[/QUOTE]

They are called Boo Berry, Count Chocula, Franken Berry and I can't remember the other one.

[katlnhats]

I miss the phone booths that aren't even usually around anywhere, but if you find one, it's not a quarter anymore, it's 50 cents - that's inflation!
I miss the baby food (used to wish our son didn't finish his! lol), that actually HAD sugar in it and tasted good ;)

Kat ;)

[rogue420]

[COLOR="Red"][QUOTE=Pipanella]Both of these from the early 70's, when I was in high school:

Carnation Breakfast Bars - no, not the ones that were granola bars covered in chocolate, these were before those. They were kind of like layered cake/cookies - very dense and moist - and were covered with a thin layer of chocolate coating. [/QUOTE]

OM GOSH YES!!!! I LOVED those breakfast bars, I would eat a WHOLE box of them for breakfast!! I used to sneak money from my parents then sneak out of the house to go to Savon drugs across the street to buy them, it was the only place I knew of that carried them and PIG OUT on them!! Then they just stopped having them around the time the whole Carnation instant breakfast" jingle /product came out, then whats so screwed up is, when they reintroduced them, they SUCKED ***!!! Now they suck and are not even worth looking at much less purchasing. They were covered in thin chocolate, very dense, moist, but not TOO dense and not too dry, they were absolutely the most perfect snack bar ever made, and if I remember they wer fairly nutritious, but who cares they tasted soo fruking good.... DAM I am soo PISSED off about that! Also, Bucc-Wheats cereal they had when I was a kid, my grandmother found them when I was about 6 years old, and used to buy 4 or 5 boxes at a times, I used to LOVE going to her house to eat them, I would eat bowls of it til I burst open, they had a wonderfull honey/maple type flavor, or no more like mollasses/raw cane sugar flavor, with texture sorta like well, not really like ANYTHING else but kinda like wheaties and frosted flakes crossed, but they were almost shiny and hard, but not too hard that you cut the inside of your mouth up, but they had a coating on them that was soo tasty and kept them from getting soggy in milk. This one REALLY PISSED ME OFF!! It was my favorite cereal of all time and I have been craving them ever since they stopped making them those *******s, My grandmother and I craved them soo much that she actually called the company, Ralston I think made them , anyway, she called them and found out where there was stock left of them in the COUNTRY and somehow found some out of the way indie grocery store in Malden , Massachusetts that had like 8 boxes left that were still in date for some reason they had not sold but had sat there on the shelf and she ordered them. This was about 6 months after not being able to get them in California, so my grammy and me would get together every saturday morning and she would toast me up some nice buttered egg bagels, homemade hot chocolate (she made it with really good unsweetened super high quality baking chocolate, whole milk from the GLASS bottle and suger until it was just right, then bring it to me while I watched saturday morning cartoons with a big heaping bowl of buccwheats and milk. Those years I spent with my grandmother were more precious than a one ton gold brick ****ting a 10 ton platinum bar and made me the man I am today, she gave me some of the only love I ever had as a child, completely unconditional, unending love of a grandmother for her grandson......:o :cry: :( ;) :roll: she is such a wonderfull person and I am forevor gratefull to her for all she has done for me, I dont know many grandmothers who would search the world to get discontinued cereal for her grandson because she knew how much I enjoyed them! *sniff* that kind of love is soo rare nowadays its almost unheard of. This world we live in is soo callous and cold, heartless and without much of a soul left that is shocks me to think about it and what we as a race have become. But you have to visualize "Whirled Peas" you know>? Because if you dont then you tend to go crazy just thinking about all the bad ****. Anyway its late and I never knew how much I could ramble on and on about cereal food items that no longer exist and never will exist ever again. But it is funny, if you think back you can almost still taste them if you try hard enough, (dont try too hard though, I ended up in the ER last time ) :laugh:

So I hope you have enjoyed reading my lengthy rambling crazy stupid stinky spongyraunchy gassy toejammy gouty gaudy proctologyistic post!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you, and finally thank you, I glub you all from the bottom of my heart! But I swear I am completely sane and normal, really, I am, and if you dont believe me then why dont you try to figure out how many pancakes it takes to reshingle YOUR doghouse if your sailing through the dessert (not desert) on a canoe with no sails, because some say it takes around 8, but only because iced scream has no bones, or so they say, and that is what they say, but then again, who exactly IS they?? And what exactly IS the meaning of the word "is"? or "Um" Or "OR"?? Yes, please explain the meaning it the word "Or" for me please. I am thinking that it may explain the origin of existence... Beep-beep-beep-beep,,,,beep-beep-beep-beep-beep.... My alarm just went off reminding me to take my MEDICATION!! Which I have been off of for nearly 83 and 1/16th hours and 400th of 1 millisecond. Crazy I am crazy im not crazy I am crazy im not CRAZY I AM!!!! (COOL!@)[/COLOR]

[buni]

i found a link that sells sensen candy (sin sin) i remember i loved it as a kid....gonna order me some right now here is the link if any one would like it
[url]http://www.oryans.com/sensen.html[/url]

[buni]

[url]http://www.oryans.com/sensen.html[/url]


here is a link that i found that sells sensen candy (sin sin) i remember i loved it as a kid......gonna order me some right now

[Shainie]

[QUOTE=jskarp;526514]Remember when the man at the grocery store bagged your stuff and put them on the roller belt. You drove your car up and they put your bags in the car..........I used to think that was the greatest thing when I was little. :)

and here's something we definately can't find around here......pay phones! :([/QUOTE]

Okay this was posted a long time ago - but our grocery store in town still has drive-up service. They bag your groceries and then give you a number. You pull up to the roller-belt thing and they load the groceries in your car for you. Nice!

[whitequeen96]

My waistline! (sniff . . .)