Food For Thought

It's snack time!

Any time is snack time! Sadly, many of our favorite culinary delights of the past, no longer exist. I will have vengeance on those responsible for the corporate axe!

Sorry, I'm calm now, here are ten things that I recall. Let's eat!

1. McDLT. The Big Mac can shove it. While other kids were ordering
Happy Meals, my young self always got this. Why did they get rid of it?

2. Hidden Treasures. Some pieces had filling, others didn't. It was a mystery in
every bowl!

3. Surge. Tasted like sludge, but oh so good sludge.

4. Josta. This stuff is memorable because it was nasty. The label was pretty cool, though.

5. PB Crisps. If anything needs to be reborn, it's these things.
Peanut butter inside a graham cookie shell. God forgive Planters
for ending them.

6. Handi Snacks. After school snacks didn't get any better than
crackers and cheese-like paste.

7. Twix. Yeah, they're still around, but once upon a time, they came in four flavors! The peanut butter survived the ax, but the cookies and cream was pretty excellent too.

8. Lunchables. Oh lordy, if you walked into the cafeteria with one of these bad boys, everyone
wanted to be your best buddy. It was almost as cool as having a Trapper Keeper!

9. Ecto Cooler. The ultimate beverage. I found it was best served with a side
of Teddy Grahams.

10. PB Max. Even today, I mourn for the loss of this candy treat. Mars made millions on this hunk of deliciousness, but they eventually discontinued it because they, the Mars family, didn't like
peanut butter. May they suffer horribly.

Honorable Mentions: Rice Krispie Treats Cereal, Crystal Pepsi.

Who's hungry? Thanks for reading.

~ TheOutlaw

Comments

Oh god... the ones i most loved were Surge And Lunchables

I can't believe you were able to eat entire McDLTs as a kid. I know I wouldn't be able to finish one of those as a kid. Great article.

Others couldn't believe it either. My cousin and I were there once, I'm 8, he' 7..he asks for a happy meal, I get a McDLT. He's all "WTF??". I miss those things.

Me and a friend were just having fond memories of the McDLT a couple of days ago! Man, that was a good sandwich.

Wow I have not thought about PB crisps for a long time, those things were the best. Surge was something else all together, we used to drink that all the time.

Good article and fun read. I have to mention that the PB Crisps came in chocolate as well and they were so delicious. I remember the day I realized they weren't in the supermarket anymore. I used to go grocery shopping with my mom every week and pick up a bag of those. Then one week, they weren't on the shelf. I thought maybe they sold out, but they never returned... Sad story. But I recently found a YouTube video explaining to make your own Ecto-Cooler. It was fun and tasted great. so at least I got the chance to have the chance to taste something that has been discontinued. Great article

I hadn't seen Handi Snacks in quite awhile, so I assumed they weren't around anymore. Oh well.
I know Lunchables still are, but they're a past object as well as present. One thing I forgot about til now...Hostess Fruit Pies!

Turtle Pies. Oh and before Ghost Busters, Ecto Cooler was called Citrus Cooler.

I loved Hidden Treasures and have been lucky enough to have tasted both Ecto Cooler and Surge though I never got a chance to try Crystal Pepsi. I never got to try the Mc D.L.T. either but I do wish they would bring back the Arch Deluxe, it was a great sandwich. Good read but you could have added more details about these items and it could have been a little longer.

Ecto Cooler was a Tangerine Orange flavor...and Crystal Pepsi was awesome...especially the Van Halen commercials!

I remember, but I could be remembering incorrectly, Crystal Pepsi tasting like regular Pepsi. My favorite was 7up and Sprite back then so I didn't drink much of it though.

Great look back on some of the snacks from the past. However I would have liked to read a little more about them.

Fun Dip, Now and Laters, Dunkaroos, Doritos 3D, Warheads, Fruit Stripe gum, Pepsi Blue, Gogurt

Fun Dip, Now & Laters, Warheads, Fruit Stripe gum, Gogurt - all still around.

Does anyone remember how Ecto Cooler actually tasted? I remember liking it but for the life of me can not remember how it tasted. Was it just Orange flavored?

I remember really liking Crystal Pepsi.

So are Lunchables.

http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_query=lunchables&ic=16_0&Find=Find&search_constraint=976759

Handi Snacks are still around.

http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_query=handi-snacks&ic=16_0&Find=Find&search_constraint=976759

I remember having a McDLT when I visited the USA for the first time back in 1997, I also remember the handi snacks.
Nice read!

Great snack choices. Ecto Cooler was all I drank for lunch time and when I got home from school. I also enjoyed Kudos with my Ecto. I could eat P.B. Crisps all day, those bastard were excellent!!'Nilla Wafers were also on my snack list; I would dump some in a glass and fill it up with some milk and spoon it out, YUMM! I still do that occasionally!