Thread: Nearly Extinct Foods (was: REC: Crabbies)

On 5-Oct-2012, David Harmon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 23:49:15 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, Sqwertz
> <[email protected]> wrote,
> >There's tons of others I just can't think of right now. But I'm sure
> >most of them are stocked in Sarasota, Florida.
>
> Postum is already gone. My grandfather often drank it with
> breakfast.
Postum, like many other things popular in the past but nearly forgotten
today, is available from The Vermont Country Store.
http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/s...t/Postum/64003
--

Change Cujo to Juno in email address.

On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:05:06 -0700, David Harmon <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 23:49:15 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, Sqwertz
><[email protected]> wrote,
>>There's tons of others I just can't think of right now. But I'm sure
>>most of them are stocked in Sarasota, Florida.
>
>Postum is already gone. My grandfather often drank it with
>breakfast.

I see Postum in the coffee aisle all the time.
http://postum.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Postum-Origina...eywords=postum

Christopher Helms wrote:
> On Oct 4, 11:49 pm, Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:28:30 -0600, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>> The Old English cheese is a fairly old product. It came out at a time
>>> when marketing of food products in general was new and due to a
>>> variety of reasons, a lot of people didn't have access to any kind of
>>> "special" cheese.
>> Old English Cheese is one of those products that is destined for
>> extinction once the current generation gets older and moves on. Just
>> like Armour dried beef, TAB cola (sorry Melba), Cheerwine soda,
>> horehound candy, Ovaltine, wheat nuts, Underwood deviled ham, Cracker
>> Jack, and shredded wheat.
>>
>> There's tons of others I just can't think of right now. But I'm sure
>> most of them are stocked in Sarasota, Florida.
>>
>> -sw
>
>
> Some others that are disappearing or gone:
>
> City Chicken
> Beechnut Gum
> Postum
> Canned hams are getting rarer all the time.
> Smelt
> Unstriped watermelons
> Persimmons
> Mincemeat
>


Sunshine Lemon Coolers cookies. (Keebler bought-out Sunshine Bakeries
about 20 years ago just to kill all of Sunshine's products.)

I've recently seen counterfeits, but they are not very good. The look
the same, and the box is an obvious ripoff of the original, but taste bland.

This thread is depressing. :'-(

Bob

"zxcvbob" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> Christopher Helms wrote:
>> On Oct 4, 11:49 pm, Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:28:30 -0600, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>>> The Old English cheese is a fairly old product. It came out at a time
>>>> when marketing of food products in general was new and due to a
>>>> variety of reasons, a lot of people didn't have access to any kind of
>>>> "special" cheese.
>>> Old English Cheese is one of those products that is destined for
>>> extinction once the current generation gets older and moves on. Just
>>> like Armour dried beef, TAB cola (sorry Melba), Cheerwine soda,
>>> horehound candy, Ovaltine, wheat nuts, Underwood deviled ham, Cracker
>>> Jack, and shredded wheat.
>>>
>>> There's tons of others I just can't think of right now. But I'm sure
>>> most of them are stocked in Sarasota, Florida.
>>>
>>> -sw
>>
>>
>> Some others that are disappearing or gone:
>>
>> City Chicken
>> Beechnut Gum
>> Postum
>> Canned hams are getting rarer all the time.
>> Smelt
>> Unstriped watermelons
>> Persimmons
>> Mincemeat
>>
>
>
> Sunshine Lemon Coolers cookies. (Keebler bought-out Sunshine Bakeries
> about 20 years ago just to kill all of Sunshine's products.)
>
> I've recently seen counterfeits, but they are not very good. The look the
> same, and the box is an obvious ripoff of the original, but taste bland.
>
> This thread is depressing. :'-(

I haven't bought cookies in quite a while. The last few I tried were
cheapened up to the point that they tasted nothing like what they used to.

On Friday, October 5, 2012 12:02:59 PM UTC-5, Steve Pope wrote:
> In article <k4n3kv$r9e$[email protected]>, Tracy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
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> >
>
> >On 10/5/2012 12:50 PM, Steve Pope wrote:
>
> >> Tracy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>
>
> >>> I saw wheat nuts recently at a local grocery store. It's been a long
>
> >>> time since I last saw them stocked.
>
> >>
>
> >> Are wheat nuts the same as wheat berries? If not, what exactly
>
> >> are they?
>
> >>
>
> >> Steve
>
> >>
>
> >
>
> >Not like wheat berries. Difficult to describe - a processed snack
>
> >food meant to taste like nuts, but are nut-free.
>
> >
>
> >http://www.wheatnuts.com/
>
>
>
> Whoa. 85% calories from fat! So, nothing like wheat berries.
>
> You're healthier eating potato chips.
>
If that 85% came from healthful, high monounsaturate oil instead of crappy, high omega 6 soybean oil, it would be very good for you.
>
> Steve

--Bryan

On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 01:47:20 GMT in rec.food.cooking, "l, not -l"
<[email protected]> wrote,
>Postum, like many other things popular in the past but nearly forgotten
>today, is available from The Vermont Country Store.
>http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/s...t/Postum/64003

$16.95 a jar? I think the decimal point is off by one place.

On 10/6/2012 8:30 PM, David Harmon wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 01:47:20 GMT in rec.food.cooking, "l, not -l"
> <[email protected]> wrote,
>> Postum, like many other things popular in the past but nearly forgotten
>> today, is available from The Vermont Country Store.
>> http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/s...t/Postum/64003
>
> $16.95 a jar? I think the decimal point is off by one place.
>


No. The Vt. Country Store has many unusual or long-discontinued items
for which they charge dearly. Still when you are desperate to find
something (like your Grandmother's favorite perfume) they may have it.

gloria p

On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:30:27 -0700, David Harmon <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 01:47:20 GMT in rec.food.cooking, "l, not -l"
> <[email protected]> wrote,
> >Postum, like many other things popular in the past but nearly forgotten
> >today, is available from The Vermont Country Store.
> >http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/s...t/Postum/64003
>
> $16.95 a jar? I think the decimal point is off by one place.

That stuff isn't cheap! http://postum.com/how-to-order/

--
I take life with a grain of salt, a slice of lemon and a shot of tequila

On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:52:46 -0600, gloria p <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On 10/6/2012 8:30 PM, David Harmon wrote:
>> On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 01:47:20 GMT in rec.food.cooking, "l, not -l"
>> <[email protected]> wrote,
>>> Postum, like many other things popular in the past but nearly forgotten
>>> today, is available from The Vermont Country Store.
>>> http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/s...t/Postum/64003
>>
>> $16.95 a jar? I think the decimal point is off by one place.
>>
>
>
>No. The Vt. Country Store has many unusual or long-discontinued items
>for which they charge dearly. Still when you are desperate to find
>something (like your Grandmother's favorite perfume) they may have it.
>
>gloria p

We're going up to Vermont next month and that is one of the stops we
are making. Some of the prices seem very high, but they have the
raisin cookies I like too.

On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:52:46 -0600, gloria p wrote:

> Still when you are desperate to find
> something (like your Grandmother's favorite perfume) they may have it.

Chloe body soap, for example. It comes in a Turtle-Wax container with
a buff pad.

Grandma will love this for $55! <click!>

-sw

"Sqwertz" wrote in message news:[email protected]..

On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:28:30 -0600, Janet Bostwick wrote:

> The Old English cheese is a fairly old product. It came out at a time
> when marketing of food products in general was new and due to a
> variety of reasons, a lot of people didn't have access to any kind of
> "special" cheese.

Old English Cheese is one of those products that is destined for
extinction once the current generation gets older and moves on. Just
like Armour dried beef, TAB cola (sorry Melba), Cheerwine soda,
horehound candy, Ovaltine, wheat nuts, Underwood deviled ham, Cracker
Jack, and shredded wheat.

There's tons of others I just can't think of right now. But I'm sure
most of them are stocked in Sarasota, Florida.

-sw

Brown Edge Wafers

On 2012-10-05, Mark Thorson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Spoon-size is fine....

But soooo boring. Kick out the jams!

Find a box of the full-sized biscuits and put two on an oven proof
plate/pan. Put two full pats of real butter on top of each biscuit,
and put them under a hot broiler until butter is fully melted and
there is a slight toasting to the biscuit top. While still hot, put
in bowl, drizzle with a sickeningly generous covering of honey, then
top with cold whole milk. Partake.

I have been known to suffer through times of my life when episodes of
this affliction have reached levels of pure nirvana. Fortunately,
these attacks have become fewer in occurance and intesity as I age and
sadly forget the pedestrian existence of the lowly whole shredded
wheat biscuit.



nb

--
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"Eff you! I got mine."
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Kswck wrote:

> Old English Cheese is one of those products that is destined for
> extinction once the current generation gets older and moves on.

You can buy sliced sharp cheddar. How is Olde Englishe different?

George M. Middius wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Kswck wrote:
>
> > Old English Cheese is one of those products that is destined for
> > extinction once the current generation gets older and moves on.
>
> You can buy sliced sharp cheddar. How is Olde Englishe different?

It's a particular brand that tastes better is all.

--

George M. Middius wrote:
> Kswck wrote:
>
>> Old English Cheese is one of those products that is destined for
>> extinction once the current generation gets older and moves on.
>
> You can buy sliced sharp cheddar. How is Olde Englishe different?
>


It's like Velveeta (but lower moisture) made out of extra sharp cheddar.

Did you get one of those 5# loaves of government cheese back in the
80's? It's like that, only much sharper.

Bob

zxcvbob wrote:
>
> George M. Middius wrote:
> > Kswck wrote:
> >
> >> Old English Cheese is one of those products that is destined for
> >> extinction once the current generation gets older and moves on.
> >
> > You can buy sliced sharp cheddar. How is Olde Englishe different?
> >
>
> It's like Velveeta (but lower moisture) made out of extra sharp cheddar.

It's mild cheddar, definitely not sharp. I just tasted it last week.

G.

On 7-Oct-2012, Gary <[email protected]> wrote:

> zxcvbob wrote:
> >
> > George M. Middius wrote:
> > > Kswck wrote:
> > >
> > >> Old English Cheese is one of those products that is destined for
> > >> extinction once the current generation gets older and moves on.
> > >
> > > You can buy sliced sharp cheddar. How is Olde Englishe different?
> > >
> >
> > It's like Velveeta (but lower moisture) made out of extra sharp cheddar.
>
> It's mild cheddar, definitely not sharp. I just tasted it last week.
>
> G.
Sliced Old English? If so, where did you get it; my local cheesemonger
claims it went out of production several years ago.
--

Change Cujo to Juno in email address.

On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 02:22:56 GMT, l, not -l wrote:

> Sliced Old English? If so, where did you get it; my local cheesemonger
> claims it went out of production several years ago.

Which is probably right because I haven't seen the slices for a while.
Kraft doesn't even list the Old English spreads on their website.
Extinction may be sooner than expected.

I think it's kinda ironic that a cheesemonger offered up information
about Old English Cheese without looking at you funny.

-sw

On Oct 5, 6:49*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:05:06 -0700, David Harmon <sou...@netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 23:49:15 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, Sqwertz
> ><swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote,
> >>There's tons of others I just can't think of right now. *But I'm sure
> >>most of them are stocked in Sarasota, Florida.
>
> >Postum is already gone. *My grandfather often drank it with
> >breakfast.
>
> I see Postum in the coffee aisle all the time.http://postum.com/http://www.amazon....E/ref=sr_1_1?s...

The story on their website makes it clear this is a reproduction or re-
creation of Postum.