Does anyone remember 7UP GOLD?????

I live in Sacramento and we are considered a test market city. So we get alot of things that sometimes never go national.

Therefore, since I was only about 10 when it came out I have no idea how many cities or states got this most awful beverage

it literally tasted like carbonated cough syrup

we bought a 6 pack of which I had 2 sips

I only took a second sip cuz I couldn't believe a soda could be so BAD

My mom tried one with the same results and told me to give them to my firends

this was fun

I talked the soda up and made em all think I was bringing a treat

so after about 2 hrs of Basketball on a hot summer day I threw my buddies a cold one

they all poppped the top and started to guzzle. their thirst over rided their brain for a few then basically in unison they started spitting it out and cursing me

good times

I also remember LIKE Cola ad Josta which I loved and miss

The Cap Snaffler?

Remember Slice?
How about Cherry Cola Slice?
How about Crystal Pepsi? "Right now..."
How about Like Cola?

ya

I said Like Cola I loved it

clear Pepsi was shit

we also got
Pepsi Razzle it was like tropical punch mixed with Pepsi horrendous stuff

this is a thread for more then just COLAS though

chips, snacks, cookies, cereals etc

Word. How about...
those chocolate Carnation Breakfast bars? Those were awesome...

O'Grady's potato chips? They were amazing, totally think, O'Grady's The Works were the food of the gods!

Almost Home Cookies
Apple Slice soda
Barrelhead Root Beer
Bonkers Fruit Chews
Chewels, the jizz in your mouth gum!
and finally,
Summit Candy Bar

I used to love Summit Bars and forgot about chewels...ugh...

Like Cola and 7Up Gold sucked. So did Double Cola and King Cola.

I have a habit of killing off products I like. Remember Salsa Rio Doritos? My fault.

Dolly Madison makes fruit pies - they used to make a "pecan" flavor with a liquid filling. Gone.

O'Grady's chips freaking rocked. Gone.

Remember Royals? They were mint flavored M&Ms.

We had Pepsi Light - a lemon flavored Pepsi. Horrible.

Restaurants - ChiChis, Burger Chef

Faygo made a "Blue berry" pop - can't find it any more.

I'm sure I'll think of more of these...I used to eat "Freakies" cereal as a kid too.

This thread is like a good "I Love the 80's" episode...

Granola Clusters were granola bars with a honey-based nougat center...yummy.

Anyone remember the bubble-gum cigarettes, wrapped in rolling papers that you could blow "smoke" from? Who the hell invented that?! Must have been RJ Reynolds!





They still do... http://www.faygo.com (use their "Pop Finder")

Those candy cigarettes were awesome! My mom wouldn't let me have 'em, or play with toy guns. And look at me now!

Zots - grape or cherry candies that have some sort of sweet powder in the center that fizzles when it gets wet. You can still find them sometimes but it's tough.

I loved them, and would eat them by the dozen, but I still can't believe they were never sued out of business. On multiple occasions, spit would get in the inside of the candy, and the powder would expand into gas causing the hard candy shell to explode. Never seemed like a very safe product, but they tasted damn good.

I have a box of those 'smokes' at home right now. Jess gave me them around Xmas.
They are still the worst bubble gum ever.

King Vitamin- Cereal
PDQ- Choclate Milk Powder
Sambo's- Restaurant

The original Sambo's Restaurant is still open in Santa Barbara, CA.

Didn't Sambo's become Denny's?

gold nugget gum

jell-o pudding pops damn i miss those

No. It is possible that Denny's purchased some of the Sambo's locations when the latter declared bankruptcy in 1981, but otherwise there is no connection between the two.

KOALA YUMMIES!!

they still make 'em somewhere. my gf's friend brought her back a few packs from somewhere (eurpoe, i wanna say?) about a month ago.

they're still fucking awesome.

while i'm posting:

anyone remember BURPLE? you made a kool-aid like drink and put it in a bottle that could expand and contract making a burping noise.

Must have been made by RJ, before i knew it i had graduated from the bubble gum cigarettes to the cigars even though those didn't blow smoke...

Am I the only person on this thread who knows how to Google?
Jello Pudding Pops

Sooper Sip, this kind of Kool-Aidish drink that came in a pouch. You'd poke a straw in it and sip away. For the kids in my neighborhood in the 70's, that was the going thing for a MINUTE. They even had a competitor, Sippity Doo Dah.

And as far as THIS:



Those were around for a long-ass time, from the same folks that gave you Ovaltine. The gimmick was that it was a milk chocolate drink, but you could sprinkle the flakes on your ice cream. I remember it as early as the seventies, but remember sneaking the occasional drink as late as 1996 or so, which I think was when they folded. CRYPTIC NOTE: one now-defunct convenience store in Chicago's Hyde Park area was selling leftover PDQ cans well into 2000...I'll bet there were nine different species of maggots running through them things...



I thought there was a Denny's connection, too - same logo (yellow box with the restaurant name written in cartoonish red letters).

Not even close...

the thing is they are now made by Popsicle Brand

they are no where near the same

Corn Bran (hard to find)

Toilet Duck (extinct?)


I made a thread about this a few months ago that got zero responses. Google offers up no information about it (except for random message board postings where people ask "anyone remember Burple?" and such).

From what other people have told me, I think the only places you can find them now are in Korean grocery stores.

loved me some King Vitamin back in the day, pretty much a superior Cap'n Crunch.

Ghostberry Crunch and Vanilla Crunch I'm pretty sure isn't around anymore.

I also remember Pepsi Light (lemon), I remember it being pretty tastey.

do the still make Freshen Up gum, the gum with the gooey center?
I also remember The "Reggie" bar after Reggie Jackson. Delicious!

O'Boises potato chips. Damn those were great. Used to eat a bag in one sitting without any of the bloated side effects.
BTW, a google image search for O'Boises result:

Once upon a time in the 80s... there was a C3P0 cereal - in addition to the 6 million other stars wars products sold purely to make Lucas rich. Anyway, when I was 9, I thought that shit was the bomb diggity.

sorry i missed that thread -- i was trying to explain Burple to someone just last week and they had a complete WTF look on their face. burple was great!

When I said that I remembered 70's era Sambo's and Denny's having identical logos, somebody replied:



I'm afraid these examples that East Bay gave are "not even close." I specifically meant the logos as they looked in the mid- to late seventies. That pic appears to be Denny's as it is today. I don't know when that Sambo's pic was taken, but it looks way earlier than what I'm talking about (the sixties, maybe)?

Who is this whore in your sig?? Looks cute.

she was busted with 13 other strippers in Tampa for prostitution

I'm sure she's free by now and working again

there an even better one where the girl is smiling so big she looks proud to be arrested for prostitution

Oh man, I remember those. Plus, of course, bubblegum cigars and those awesome Popeye cigarettes, which are now being marketed as politically correct "candy sticks", without the red tips.

I would have said 5-Alive juice, but have found it again recently down state, or in bargan stores upstate.

And cancy cigarettes were awesome as a kid. Can't see why they'd ever be taken off the market.

Asian stores do have them. But you can also get them in Meijer. If they're not in the snack aisle, check the "world foods" aisle with the other Asian foods.

Although I was always upset that the tips on the side were ones I already new.

Damn! I loved those things.

i can buy koala yummys at my local ASIA SUPERMARKET

I rember these too.

rufus, let's get on the whole let-us-edit-thread-titles thing.

This stuff is all over Canada. I love it

Good call on the O'Boises. They were a precursor to the kettle-cooked craze


This was great. Kix + Marshmallows

Slowly fading away....

Immortalized...

Have you previews for the Will F. NASCAR spoof? Oh man.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/talladeganights/

Also came in chocolate flavor too.

Yummy!

WTF?!

I'm pretty sure that Warheads were some sort of cultural phenomenon as some point. In first grade, no one cared about girls or pot or Panic! At The Disco. Candy was the shit. And this shit was sour, damnit.

Sixth grade for me, I remember when our teacher tried one, she nearly died.


i didn't like them, I didn't get the point of a sucker that was sour to the point of nearly painful. Is it some sort of manly testerone thing to subject yourself to a painful treat? Or was it a BDSM thing? Beats me.

Same here. My brother kind of liked them, but I think he was trying to be part of the fad more than anything else. I remember he would keep the individuals wrappers inside the larger bags after he ate them. I still don't get it.