The graveyard of dead foods

An interesting list of products no longer made, like Oatbake.

I can only wonder why Act II "Corn on the Cob" Popcorn is no longer made. Hard to pass those cobs, perhaps?

What!? They don't make Dreamsicles anymore?

no more zaps?

the potato chips???

ab wrote:no more zaps?

the potato chips???

The Zaps reference either isn't referring to the potato chips, which are definitely still sold (I've seen them in Chicago at Fox & Obel within the past week and in Louisiana in the past few months), or is just wrong.

It's an interesting list but suspect. On a casual peruse I found:

Williams Lectric Shave Menthol
Williams Lectric Shave Ultra

between "Wille Wonka Skrunch Bar" (sic) and "Willie Wonka Dinosaur Eggs."
-ramon

What?! No Space Food Sticks (Pillsbury)? Next thing you know they'll do away with Tang. For all of you suffering Dreamsicle fans, there is a recipe for Tang Pie that tastes just like an orange Dreamsicle.

Matt wrote:

ab wrote:no more zaps?

the potato chips???

The Zaps reference either isn't referring to the potato chips, which are definitely still sold (I've seen them in Chicago at Fox & Obel within the past week and in Louisiana in the past few months), or is ust wrong.

Ah, good

I thought I saw them at the Green Eye recently too.

Josephine wrote:What?! No Space Food Sticks (Pillsbury)?

Wow, those were terrible. Even for a kid who loved fake chocolate and banana flavored foods, they were hard to choke down. They had the texture of half-dried playdoh, but were nowhere near as tasty. I remember they had a distinct metallic aftertaste. Yuck.

Yeah, those Space Food Sticks were awful, but we ate them anyway because it made us feel like astronauts. If you washed them down with Tang, you REALLY had a space meal.

Suzy

Josephine wrote:What?! No Space Food Sticks (Pillsbury)?

At the Kennedy Space Center, we bought Space Food, now in bite-sized pieces. I was very bummed to find it has a kind of metallic flavor I don't remember from the Pillsbury sticks, which were sort of like compressed chocolate cake.

OK, should have read more thoroughly. I didn't remember the metallic taste as a kid - loved them then!

Don't get me wrong, the metallic flavor wasn't enough to keep me from eating them. They were way too cool to let the flavor get in the way of my space-age enjoyment. I think the aftertaste actually came from the galactic vitamins and cosmic minerals they added. Besides, space food wasn't supposed to taste good.

Another great item on the list is Whip n' Chill. My Mom was really big on that stuff. She would make all kinds of deserts with it. I remember some kind of elaborate trifle/parfait made with different flavors of Whip n' Chill interspersed with layers of fruit, sponge cake and Cool Whip. I think there was some kind of Whip n' Chill "cook" book you could send away for.

d4v3 wrote:Another great item on the list is Whip n' Chill. My Mom was really big on that stuff. She would make all kinds of deserts with it. I remember some kind of elaborate trifle/parfait made with different flavors of Whip n' Chill interspersed with layers of fruit, sponge cake and Cool Whip. I think there was some kind of Whip n' Chill "cook" book you could send away for.

I remember one dessert made with Whip n' Chill & probably jello that had 3 layers in different shades. That might be the parfait thing you are thinking of. We also went through a Cool Whip phase, until we discovered that Cool Whip was made with something even less healthy than butterfat.

Dave, if your Mom was anything like mine, she never met a convenience food product she didn't like. Our house was full of them in the early 60's, especially those metallic Swanson TV dinners (Swiss Steak was the most reviled) and the boxed side dishes like dehydrated au gratin potatoes. I guess you could say that my Mom was an early adopter. But I actually preferred the canned asparagus and such that was the convenience food of my grandmother's generation. In the late 60's and early 70's my parents graduated to canned camembert and Lancers or Mateus rose. Still, what would my childhood have been like without Space Food Sticks, Grape Fizzies and Red Ball Jets?