This might place me more regionally than temporally, but I used to have these in my lunch all the time.
They still make them! But either I'm 800 years old, or the recipe for most Tastykake flavors don't taste the same/as good as when I was a kid.
There's so many frozen desserts I used to love. Vienetta. This Friendly's watermelon roll.
At my cousin's wedding 10 years ago they had those chocolate/vanilla ice cream cups with the wooden spoon, they were a huge hit. We all skipped the other desserts to have those.
My family ordered a LOT of Shwanns or however you spell it. My entire 6th - probably 11th grade is made up of silver mints and the stuffed chickens, lol. We got lucky with the same delivery driver for years too. I think my mom even made him cookies.
Soda if that counts...Surge. One of my best friends (aka mega crush) was obsessed and bought Surge merch.
We still get Schwanns! In fact he was by last night LOL We've had the same driver for years, we even still had him after we moved about 10 miles away.
Post by Jalapeñomel on Apr 23, 2024 15:13:19 GMT -5
I’m also convinced that the breadsticks at Olive Garden used to be really delicious, but the last time I went there (and the time before that lol), they just tasted like preservatives and freezer burn.
I got excited and misunderstood the assignment lol. I was just naming random drinks that are no longer around from childhood, not particular things I liked. Whoops!
OK soda. I am almost certain I never drank it but I loved the commercials and me and my sister were obsessed with them as kids but it always seemed like no one else remembers. I feel vindicated though because there was just a Slate podcast episode about it.
I remember OK soda! The commercials were awesome, I know I tried it once, but I can't remember if I liked it. It was only available briefly, apparently it was only released in a handful of test markets, which is probably why a lot of people aren't familiar.
I remember Po Folks. I always hated the mason jar glasses. And looking back on it, I have some kind of feelings on taking the traditional meat and 3 and branding and franchising it with the implication it was poor folks food.
Post by Velar Fricative on Apr 23, 2024 15:39:32 GMT -5
WWE ice cream from the ice cream truck. The cookie part was so good, and you were the cool kid on the block for a day if you got Hulk Hogan on your ice cream.
I’m also convinced that the breadsticks at Olive Garden used to be really delicious, but the last time I went there (and the time before that lol), they just tasted like preservatives and freezer burn.
I concur with this statement. Whenever we get Olive Garden (not often!) I have noticed the same thing about the breadsticks! Now they just taste like disappointment.
Post by midwestmama on Apr 23, 2024 15:53:58 GMT -5
Schwepp's raspberry ginger ale. ('80s, maybe into the '90s)
I don't remember the name, but I remember there were sandwich cookies with chocolate and vanilla filling and the cookies were smiley faces. I loved those cookies. ('80s)
Vienetta ice cream treat, for when you wanted to be fancy. ('80s and '90s)
I miss Bill Knapp's restaurants. I believe it was only in the Midwest (I'm in MI), but we often went there for birthdays because they took a % off of the birthday person's meal which was reflective of the person's age, and a free birthday cake (chocolate was the best). Everyone got biscuits and honey, and they were so good. (At least to me as a kid.) ('80s and '90s, but maybe the last one closed in the early 2000s?)
I miss the pita wraps/sandwiches at Wendy's. (Late '90s)
Schwepp's raspberry ginger ale. ('80s, maybe into the '90s)
I don't remember the name, but I remember there were sandwich cookies with chocolate and vanilla filling and the cookies were smiley faces. I loved those cookies. ('80s)
Vienetta ice cream treat, for when you wanted to be fancy. ('80s and '90s)
I miss Bill Knapp's restaurants. I believe it was only in the Midwest (I'm in MI), but we often went there for birthdays because they took a % off of the birthday person's meal which was reflective of the person's age, and a free birthday cake (chocolate was the best). Everyone got biscuits and honey, and they were so good. (At least to me as a kid.) ('80s and '90s, but maybe the last one closed in the early 2000s?)
I miss the pita wraps/sandwiches at Wendy's. (Late '90s)
I remember those cookies! Not the name, but the cookie.
Also, Little Debbie had a tiger cake that was yellow cake, chocolate filling, and chocolate icing. I can still sometimes find them, but rarely. Like they seem to be seasonal now. But the ones in the snack machine got me through grad school. And Wendy’s chili chips and cheese.
Schwepp's raspberry ginger ale. ('80s, maybe into the '90s)
I don't remember the name, but I remember there were sandwich cookies with chocolate and vanilla filling and the cookies were smiley faces. I loved those cookies. ('80s)
Vienetta ice cream treat, for when you wanted to be fancy. ('80s and '90s)
I miss Bill Knapp's restaurants. I believe it was only in the Midwest (I'm in MI), but we often went there for birthdays because they took a % off of the birthday person's meal which was reflective of the person's age, and a free birthday cake (chocolate was the best). Everyone got biscuits and honey, and they were so good. (At least to me as a kid.) ('80s and '90s, but maybe the last one closed in the early 2000s?)
I miss the pita wraps/sandwiches at Wendy's. (Late '90s)
WWE ice cream from the ice cream truck. The cookie part was so good, and you were the cool kid on the block for a day if you got Hulk Hogan on your ice cream.
Maybe they still exist?
OMG I can still taste these but had forgotten they had existed until you said so. They were def. my favorite from the ice cream truck, and we frequented the ice cream truck a lot. I was also known to get a Flintstones push up pop or a minute maid freeze pop if they were out of those, but they were my #1. I always laughed at my friends who picked the clown face thing with the bubble gum ball nose because I knew they picked it because it looked so fun, but it tasted nasty and I was never tempted.
Post by expectantsteelerfan on Apr 23, 2024 16:20:09 GMT -5
Also, when I'm looking at Target Circle offers (which I guess I won't be doing anymore since you don't have to physically add them anymore), I often see one for Clearly Canadian flavored water. I *think* that's the first flavored water that I remember from my youth that I LOVED, and every time I see the offer it makes me crave it, but I've never actually seen it in my store.
My first thought was jell-o pudding pops, lavenderblue, and my second thought was Taco Bell meximelts, snowflurry.
My third thought was a super obscure candy bar called a Goonies bar, that definitely came out around the time the movie came out. It was marshmallow-y and caramel-y and delicious.
Post by snowflurry on Apr 23, 2024 16:35:42 GMT -5
I don't remember what they are called but they were frozen ice cream treats shaped like christmas trees and they also had snowmen ones too but those weren't as good as the trees.
my family never did fast food with one exception: baked potatoes at Wendy's lol. I have not been to one in decades, but I have to assume they do not still sell baked potatoes covered in cheeze whiz with broccoli or bacon, haha.
They Wendy's salad bar was so good! But I wonder if it was *actually* good, or if it is a cleaned up memory in my mind, lol. Like, would those little ham strips still hit the spot?