My Favorite Nostalgic Food

As of right now, I am coming near the end of my 5th pregnancy, and during these past 35 weeks I have only been craving chicken cheese steaks and Resse Peanut Butter Cups. Usually when I crave something, now or before I was pregnant, I just get off my lazy ass and go get it. Somedays I don't have that option though. It's during those times when I have just remembered a product or something I ate long ago and all I can do is hold that empty craving since a lot these snacks are long gone.


"Doritos Cheetos Flavor"
Okay, so this wasn't from my childhood, more so my teenage years when I thought that LSD was fun. But, I had to add these because they were so good, even though I only ate them one time. One time, but I have never forgotten it. I was at my friend's house back in 1996 when I found a yellow bag of Doritos in his pantry closet after raiding it. I could remember all these years was the yellow bag and the Cheesy Cheetos flavor. That and that they were good as all hell. I kept telling people about the Doritos in the yellow bag which I swore had Chester Cheetah on it some where. I couldn't find any info or pictures of them at all. All I found was this forum showing some of the discontinued Doritos Flavors, in which they describe them as tasting "odd." http://www.brunchma.com/archives/Forum2/HTML/000299.html  I liked them though. They were kind of like cheddar Doritos.

For the most part, I prefer chocolate over vanilla. Not chocolate and vanilla twist... just chocolate ice cream. But in this case, it was allowed. Some thing about this popsicles made them so friggin' good. I would bite off the hard chocolate part around the ears and would eventually make Mickey's head look like a white and brown round ball on a stick. They even had these little games on the back of the box that you could do. It was only connect the dots or drawing disney characters but still, it was something that took up 15 seconds of my childhood.

From what I understand, these were no longer available unless you went to DisneyWorld where you could buy one. I've seen videos and pictures of people eating a very similar Mickey like these, (That so didn't sound right), though recently it looks like they may have updated the Mickey bars to look like this:

Now renamed "Mickey's Preminum", the ice cream has been changed from hard chocolate coated ears to the whole face being coated. I will never know if they taste the same as the old ones, unless I go back to Disney World anytime soon. Only time will tell.

What else can I say about Jell-o Pudding Pops except that they were great! I actually found them not to long in my local Shoprite but then they suddenly vanished? They weren't the same as they used to be but at least it was something! The original Pudding Pops were way bigger.

Original Pudding Pops

New Pudding Pops

EEven though they pops were skinnier, they still satified the Bill Cosby in me. Once again, Vanilla out shined the beloved chocolate that I always prefer. I always ate the vanilla ones first, then the swirls, then lastly the chocolate. I could eat a whole box of these so easily. Last time I looked in Shoprite, they were no where to be found. It's still unknown to me if they were discontinued a 2nd time after 2004. Hopefully not.

Chocolate puffs. Vanilla puffs. Chocolate covered marshmallows. As the commercial slogan went, this cereal made "Your breakfast sing." The mascots consisted of three little edible cartoon characters that made up their own rock band: Choco was the guitar playing chocolate puff.

Van was another guitar playing puff but a vanilla one.

Marsha was the chocolate covered marshmallow singer. (Who doesn't enjoy eating their food after it just sang to you?) The best part of this cereal was of course the chocolate covered marshmallows. To my recollection the marshmallows weren't soft and chewy, they were more like hard and crunchy. Still the marshmallows is what made this cereal. I'm betting an instinst instense sugar rush to kids everywhere was the blame for this cereal to be discontinued. A sad ending to a great one thousand calories a bowl cereal.

Every weekday throughout the summers of the 1980's until the early 90's, I would be found sitting in a grass field trying to quicky eat a Jack & Jill's Twin popsicle before it turned into a sugary puddle in my hands. You see, during my childhood my mother sent me and my brother to a daytime summer camp, which I will always have fond memories of. At the end of each camp day, a councilor would excort us to the front lawn, (which was huge) to wait for our parents to get us. In the meantime, they would break out the coolers and would hand out the Jack & Jill's Twin pops. Some times they would run low and only the normal "crappy" flavors would be left, like cherry, orange, or grape. Soon enough though, we would see the back of the Jack & Jill's delivery truck leaving the camp and we would know that our stash was up again. One of the favorite flavors in my circle of friends was vanilla. It wasn't vanilla like vanilla ice cream, but like a water ice flavored vanilla. For whatever reason, we all thought those vanilla popsicles were magical, almost like the lollipops from "Santa Claus: The Movie" that made the kids fly. Second best from vanilla, was Bubblegum flavor, then Rasberry. They also had Root Beer flavors, which I wasn't too crazy about but I would eat them if nothing else was left. After age 12, camp was done for me and saw the Jack & Jill Twin Pops a few other times. I would spot them at gas station stores once in a while and when my oldest daughter went to camp I would hear stories of the new generations eating the popsicles. Now that all my girls are in camp, I've been told they switched to Fla-vor Ice because they were cheaper. However, when I searched for the pops online, including Jack & Jill's offical website, they seem to be nonexistent. I emailed them but have received no response. I guess the twin pops were left behind in the days of when I was in camp.