Food you can no longer get

glemon · Feb 5, 2018

Some people's tastes run to fine wine, cognac, and cavier, while I have nothing against this stuff (especially the wine) my tastes are a little more basic. I crave Kraft Chicken Noodle Dinner, a guilty pleasure that is apparently nls, as we say in the old parts business. Anybody remember that stuff, or have a similar longing for some taste they have loved and lost? Is there a secret source that I may be missing?

JPSmit · Feb 5, 2018

glemon said:
Some people's tastes run to fine wine, cognac, and cavier, while I have nothing against this stuff (especially the wine) my tastes are a little more basic. I crave Kraft Chicken Noodle Dinner, a guilty pleasure that is apparently nls, as we say in the old parts business. Anybody remember that stuff, or have a similar longing for some taste they have loved and lost? Is there a secret source that I may be missing?

Never even heard of it. In Canada we have Kraft Dinner - which is literally what it is called here as opposed to Kraft Mac 'n Cheese in the US of A. Didn't realize there were variations.

Basil · Feb 5, 2018

Campbell’s Pepper Pot Soup.

elrey · Feb 5, 2018

Schweppes bitter lemon. Also... Sunshine raisin cookies, thin flat, light tan squares with raisins mashed in. We called them pressed fly cookies!

Roger · Feb 5, 2018

Schweppes Bitter Lemon is still around. Try Amazon if you're stuck.

elrey · Feb 5, 2018

Roger that. THANK YOU ROGER! Growing up, it seemed a staple at my house, along with English muffins, Scottish marmalade and Robertson's lemon curd. Not to leave out Major Greys chutney. A fine childhood! Where is the fresh dark pumpernickel hiding?

Gliderman8 · Feb 5, 2018

elrey said:
Where is the fresh dark pumpernickel hiding?

Behind the beans.
https://m.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/what-is-pumpernickel-bread_n_7019078

pdplot · Feb 6, 2018

Kellogg's Krumbles.

JPSmit · Feb 6, 2018

elrey said:
Sunshine raisin cookies, thin flat, light tan squares with raisins mashed in. We called them pressed fly cookies!

Pretty sure these are still available here in the colonies

Popeye · Feb 6, 2018

My grandmother's roast and potatoes! Not available at Amazon or Trader Joe's!

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mikephillips · Feb 6, 2018

Mine used to make this great potato salad. Had the recipe on a card tucked in with other ones but something about the card reacted with the papers next to it and when I went to get it out it had turned to little paper crumbs. She's been gone almost 25 years now but I can still mentally taste it.

Bayless · Feb 7, 2018

Now you guys are making me hungry. I can still taste grandma's fried chicken. She also dispatched the chickens herself.

glemon · Feb 7, 2018

Most of the people I know who had to prep and cook chickens "from start to finish" have kind of lost their taste for chicken, including my wife and father. As a city kid all I have had to do is cook it and eat it.

NutmegCT · Feb 7, 2018

Fortunately, you can still find fried chicken, greens and bacon, mac and cheese, corn, and biscuits!

(But I still miss old-fashioned Life Savers with lemon, lime, cherry, pineapple, and orange flavors ...)

Boink · Feb 7, 2018

And if you can still get Top Ramen, what about Bottom Ramen? :wink-new:

waltesefalcon · Feb 8, 2018

"She also dispatched the chickens herself."

My grandma usually made me dispatch and pluck the chickens.

mikephillips · Feb 8, 2018

Reminds me of a time with the boy scout troop I was part of as a kid. After I aged out I helped out in the summers while in college and one year at a district camp with about 100 boys someone decided to have them kill and prepare chickens. Was supposed to be 1 chicken for every 4 boys. Now most of these kids were in town type and had never prepared a meal from the start like that. Fortunately wiser heads prevailed, mental pictures of 100 kids chasing 25 chickens round this field probably helped, and they decided boxes of ready to cook chicken parts made more sense. Although it probably would have been amusing to watch...

Gliderman8 · Feb 8, 2018

Someone chicken out.... sorry, couldn't help it.

elrey · Feb 8, 2018

Dead Richard the Plumber had an old Ford van with a hatch in the floor that used to cover a battery. May have been a 65 or so. Anyhow he used to show up with various kinds of fresh fowl now and then and we'd cook em and eat em. One day we were taking his van to work and he had a goose and a duck in a coupla boxes in the back of the van. The smell hit me when I jumped in. Ducks! Yuck. Well...it turned out he'd been nabbing waterfowl at the park by pulling up where they fed the ducks, chumming with bread through the hatch, and yanking the unwitting bird up into the van. But the key take away from this story is; bigger ain't better, get the young ones.

judow · Feb 8, 2018

Royal Lunch Crackers with sugar and milk. Anytime of day or night. Goggled them and sure enough found them. Was so excited I bought six boxes. Found out that many food items I can't get in New Mexico can be purchased on line. Shipping is expensive but its worth it. Andrulli's Farmers Cheese and Gaspar's linguica are two that come to mind. Oh and Friendship Brand Farmers Cheese. Need to google farva beans, the giant ones used in Portuguese soups. Just thought of that. Wrote it down so I didn't forget. Well shucks who started this thread? I am now hangry. Yes hangry.

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