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Spiced Crab Apple Rings and other hard to find foods

caflowerluver
12 years ago

DH and I were talking about how we grew up with those and always had them when we had pork. Maybe it is a regional thing in the East or Midwest, but could not find it at Safeway in CA yesterday. I haven't had them in over 40 years. I did a search online and know they are still available but it was something that was at every grocery store growing up.

After my search for Spiced Crab Apple Rings was a bust, DH and I got to talking about other foods we grew up with that I have either never bought or are not as common anymore. Or at least not out here in CA. In the 40+ years of being on my own I have never bought these.

What other foods are no longer around that you remember? Or do not buy any more?

Spices

Mrs. Dash

celery salt

onion powder

artificial vanilla extract

Accent or Adolph meat tenderizer

Canned foods

Chef Boyardee (Formerly Chef Boy-Ar-Dee) Beefaroni and Ravioli

condensed soups

pickled Herrings in sour cream or oil

Oscar Meyer chopped ham

anchovy paste

anchovies canned

sardines canned

oysters canned

salmon canned

oysters in the jar

dried beef in a jar

La Choy canned Chinese

canned corn beef

SPAM and Treet

Vienna Sausages

canned fruit cocktail - had it ALL the time, especially in jello salads

freeze dried onions

Kraft Parmesan Cheese in the green can

canned spinach

canned asparagus

Bacos bacon bits

Underwood Deviled Ham

bottled lemon juice

Box foods

Mrs. Grass's or Lipton's Chicken Noodle soup packets

Appian Way Pizza Kit in a box - topped with the Kraft Parmesan Cheese in the green can

Jiffy muffin mix

Jiffy pop

Dream Whip

instant rice

mixes - spaghetti sauce, sloppy joes, taco mix, gravy mix

potato stixs

dried prunes - made into stewed prunes

instant jello gelatin in boxes - hate the stuff (I have bought the puddings.)

Rice a Roni

Beverages

Canned Hi-C and Hawaiian Punch

Frozen concentrated orange juice

jugs of wine

Tab and Fresca - (I liked Fresca)

instant iced tea

Kool-Aid packets

Tang

Postum

Sanka

PDQ Chocolate Or Strawberry Milk Crystals

Artificial foods

Fluff

International Creamers

nondairy coffee creamer

Cheez-Whiz

Cool Whip

General foods

lard

margarine

ice milk

iceberg lettuce

Swanson TV dinners

Wonder white bread

Velveeta American Cheese - big blocks or slices

olive loaf lunch meat

Twinkies and Hostess chocolate cupcakes

marshmallows

shrimp cocktail- in little parfait glasses

baloney

Really weird food that my parents ate but I wouldn't. Can you still find these?

head cheese

pickled pig's feet

kidneys

calf's liver

sweetbreads

brains

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