Post by litebright on Apr 23, 2024 19:46:44 GMT -5
Man, pudding pops were great.
I loved Dinosour Eggs, which came in packs of two and had a sweet color-changing candy shell and then the inside was sour. We used to ride our bikes to the closest gas station to buy candy, and I always got those.
Occasionally I think about how much McNuggets have changed. Like, they used to be a mix of white & dark meat, and twice as thick. I saw a picture on FB recently of the old McDonald's styrofoam packaging--orange and white!--and that was a total flashback.
The chocolate vienetta was the first thing that popped into my head. They brought back vanilla, but chocolate was far superior and should have been brought back too.
Remember the crackers with the little red stick that spread the cheese? I loved those. I would probably think it was absolutely revolting today, but it gave me a lifelong love of real cheese and crackers.
I drank a lot of cherry clearly Canadian as my pre-game food at softball tournaments. What were my parents thinking?
The mention of Chili’s - the original chicken sandwich with bacon, cheese and some kind of light sauce. That plus the ice cream sundae in a small cinnamon and sugar taco bowl. I remember my first trip to chilis with my grandparents.
I loved the chef salad from McDs with the Newman dressing, right after they first came out.
Salad bars. Specifically the one at Sea Galley. We’d go there as much for that as the main meals!
Astro pop candy. I’d get one and suck on it while I was reading and then wrap it up and do it again the next day. LOL
Remember the crackers with the little red stick that spread the cheese? I loved those. I would probably think it was absolutely revolting today, but it gave me a lifelong love of real cheese and crackers.
They still have these in my grocery store - I remember a little while back I bought some for DS for lunches. He…did not like them, so I ended up eating them. Same with Twinkies - I bought him some as a lunch treat once and he didn’t like those either, so guess who ate their way through a box of Twinkies…
Does anyone remember Burger King having fish nuggets in the 80s? I really, really enjoyed them. We always went out to fast food, after our early morning kids bowling league. I was disappointed when they discontinued them. But, every time I mention them, no one ever remembers them at all. I know I'm not making it up.
What other foods do you all miss from your childhood?
I remember these. There weren’t as many chicken and fish fast food options back then and my family didn’t eat any other kinds of meat.
Burger King had a grilled chicken sandwich that was so good in the 90s.
I also remember McDonalds doing a promotion in probably 1986 where your chicken nuggets came with chopsticks. I don’t remember what the exact Chinese tie in was for the promo. I have an image burned in my brain of a 9 year old boy eating his nuggets by stabbing it with the chopsticks and 6 year old me thinking “that’s not how chopsticks work ugh.”
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 actually do! My DD hates all fast food--except for Wendy's because of their baked potatoes!
Orbitz, a clear drink with blobs in it. I didn't like it but I loved the attention I got when I would drink basically a lava lamp and would buy it when I found it. I'm pretty sure I am the only one who did.
I came to this thread to talk about Orbitz! I also thought they were gross. They sold them at the clothing store The Weathervane when I was in middle school, which is confusing looking back on it.
In the 70s and 80s, gas stations had not one but two kinds of candy cigarettes. These really crappy chalky things with a red tip that you ate and another that was gum wrapped in paper that had some sort of powder that if you blew really hard looked like smoke coming out the end. I loved the gum ones. Yes, Virginia, the 80s were all about white powder in all its forms!
Also Jack in the Box had a breakfast pita with bacon, ham, eggs, and cheese that was flipping amazing. So good. And Arby’s had a ham and cheese melt that was so good with horsy sauce.
Post by RoxMonster on Apr 23, 2024 21:56:33 GMT -5
Mine is Koala Yummies. I Googled and apparently you can still buy them places in the Asian food aisle marketed as Koala’s March. I may have to get some. I don’t think I’ve eaten any since I was about 8!
Post by ellipses84 on Apr 23, 2024 22:38:48 GMT -5
Does anyone remember OK Soda? It was the same era in the 90s with clear Pepsi. They had commercials with a 1-800 hotline where you could leave a message with a story about how ok soda made it ok for you and they would play them on the radio. None of my college friends ever heard of it. My sister kept an old poster so I know it was real. I think it may have only been test marketing some major cities including ours.
Post by oregonpachey on Apr 23, 2024 22:46:10 GMT -5
Taco Bell had these amazing nachos for a while in the 90's. The chips were orange (not Doritos) and the toppings came in a separate container. Volcano nachos or something like that? They were amazing.
I grew up eating Big John's baked beans. They got discontinued sometime in the late 90s/early 00s. I remember them being so good.
Pepperidge Farm also used to make a frozen German chocolate cake that was delicious! My mom bought it frequently and then it was just gone. Such a bummer. That cake was the best.
Does anyone remember OK Soda? It was the same era in the 90s with clear Pepsi. They had commercials with a 1-800 hotline where you could leave a message with a story about how ok soda made it ok for you and they would play them on the radio
I called the hotline at the time! 1-800-I-FEEL-OK I think it was.
Also, I can't remember what it was called, but it was the McDonalds burger where it was split in to two sides of a Styrofoam package to "keep the hot side hot and the cold side cold". That was a good burger.
I only know this one because of someone pointing out a while ago that it was Jason Alexander in the commercial. 😆
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.
Baked potato and chili is my standing Wendy’s order. They definitely do still have bacon and cheese, but I think the broccoli might be gone.
This was mine too, in college at least! I don't really go Wendy's anymore but now I kind of want to.