The Death of Beloved Snack Foods

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I miss a chip called O'Grady's. They were thicker.

Some snacks are bound to last, but others fade after awhile. Which favorite snack foods have become unavailable? And which ones rightfully so?

― andy, Monday, 5 January 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized last night that Hostess Potato Chips no longer exist!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Do Munchos still exist?

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Like the Hostess Munchies?
http://www.collectorman.com/images/BG013.jpg

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

DB, they DO....in massive 1/2 pound bags at the local Target

But what about Cottage Fries?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I meant Muncho's (sorry, missed the apostrophe, I think), this preconstituted salty potato product chip snack think that I consumed in mass quantities as a kid.

I do kinda miss candy cigarettes though. Thankfully that chalky saccharin stuff they're made out of make an appearance every valentine's day in the form of candy hearts.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

DB, they DO....in massive 1/2 pound bags at the local Target

I shudder in glee.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Popeye "candy sticks" are still around, here at least.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I do kinda miss candy cigarettes though

I've got some in my kitchen pantry, I think. Want them?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I know Munchos still exist. They're one of the last foods fried in deadly palm oil.

― andy, Monday, 5 January 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean aside from a ton of Asian snacks and ramen products..

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of which, I think this death/birth cycle of snacks is far more rapid in Asian markets than Western markets, I'm guessing. I haven't been able to find Boring Pie in a long time, for example.

(Boring Pie was this nugget shaped MSG/sugar/salt fried rice cracker. Their logo was "Get Out Of Boring Time. Dig Into Boring Pie").

(Not that there aren't a ton of other similar fried MSG/salt/sugar rice cracker nugget snacks out there already)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.oldtimecandy.com/images/candypix-pages/candy-cigarettes_small.jpg

― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I would buy a Boring Pie.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 5 January 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://users.mikrotec.com/g3boy/wwwpages/Media/charles%20chips%201.jpg

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Bugles

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure Bugles still exist in Canada.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Bugles still exist and haunt me in every corner of every convenience store around these parts. (they're the only snack food that have made me physically ill, second to Pepperoni-flavored Combos)

(My theory about American snacks is that NONE of them are extinct, it's just that the markets for each one have radically shifted around.. *SHAZAM*)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 5 January 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

these still exist apparently, but I never see them anywhere
http://www.taquitos.net/dbimages13/Andycapp-HF-clean.jpg

― Aaron A., Monday, 5 January 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

oops
http://www.taquitos.net/dbimages13/Andycapp-HF-clean.jpg

― Aaron A., Monday, 5 January 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I just had Bugles a few months ago!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 5 January 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

You may be right, DB - you see the strangest, most obscure foods when you travel. Be careful, however, when that dusty box of Quisp has Mork & Mindy trivia questions on the back, and says "Best if used before Nov 82"...

― andy, Monday, 5 January 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

You can find any snack on the internet

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 5 January 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

oh how i miss the days of pudding pops.

― maura (maura), Monday, 5 January 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Bugles are wonderful. They even make low fat ones now, so even though they're not so common, they don't seem dead to me.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 5 January 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Are Super Lemons and Super Colas still around?

― Leee Smith (Leee), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Bugles still exist in the UK as I deal with the theoretical transportation of them across Europe (ie this ain't Vicky posting neither)

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.oldtimecandy.com/

I used to like something called "choco-bliss"

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 5 January 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i think every house in northeastern ohio had a charles chips cannister in the basement as a storage tin.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 5 January 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Some days I can still almost taste Pink Panther candy. Fucking e-number banning health bastards.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 November 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

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