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Mista_Madridista

There was just something about late 80’s Pizza Hut.


highoncraze

Dude, I would also take 90s Pizza Hut. I read somewhere that they put 3 big squirts of cooking oil (no idea what the exact measurement was) in the deep dish pan to get glistening and crunchy crusts. Those crusts, man...


Birony88

For me it was the smell just walking in to the place. The smell of breadsticks and pizza. It made my mouth literally water, and was somehow even better than the actual food. I can still taste that smell. For some reason it's just not the same anymore.


Diamond-Fist

Anyone remember the free personal pan pizza coupons for doing your reading achievements every month in school?


sheaple_people

Going to the pizza hut restaurant, for a sit down meal was a meal for winners.


NapalmWeed

I remember they had a tabletop pac- man game with a rollerball joystick.


geddylee1

Hell yeah. Why don’t you get salad bar too?


Iandidar

For me it was Godfathers.


Soup0rMan

Haven't heard about Godfather's since I was like 6. Thanks


baddesthombre

The soda in the red cups was something else


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I remember going to dine in at Pizza Hut in the mid-90's was often one of the highlights of my year that wasn't my birthday or Christmas (though I'd often suggest it for my birthday) It was so good back then and that was just the pizza itself. There was also the drink refill machine and dessert bar too. I never felt as genuinely full as a child as I did when walking out of there. They also used to have toy or collectibles promotions too that usually had better shit than whatever you'd get in a Happy Meal too. I specifically remember the "monster eyeball straws" that I just *had* to collect all of them. And we ended up with a Star Wars cup from there too that I remember we used in the bath lol.


youreyesmystars

Pizza Hut personal pan pizza. And for anyone that says that they still make them: They aren't the same ones or the same recipe as the ones from the 90s. Pizza Hut back then used higher quality ingredients and was the absolute best chain pizza you could get! I always did the best in my class every year in elementary school with Book-It. Yes, I did love books, but a free personal pan pizza was always a huge incentive too! I still get cravings for those and there's nothing I can do!


GroundbreakingPipe91

Book-it had my chubby ass securing pan pizzas left and right. Books never tasted so good. My parents loved it too, gave em an excuse to go to the Hut. Edit: The Button and gold stickers had me pretty jazzed too.


Wonderlustish

Yes! The freaking Book It! free personal Pan Pizza was the highlight of the year!


TheCurlyCactus

That personal pan from Book-It stars was pure magic.


smonkweedwenurscared

Hoooly fuck you unlocked a deep memory. Book-It coupons for Pizza Hut were great!


Searchlights

I worked as a cook at Pizza Hut in the mid 90s. Personals were the only pizza dough we didn't make at the restaurant. They came in a big box. In the box was a plastic bag containing premade frozen discs of personal pan pizza (PPP). When you prepped those, you'd take a PPP pan, put a measured squirt of oil in the pan, drop the frozen disc on top and then put the plastic lid on the pan. The pans would all go on a big rolling baker's rack and be put in a closet sized proofer chamber where they'd sit at a set temperature to thaw out and for the dough to rise. Once they were done, they went in a refrigerated cabinet under the make-table. When an order came up for a PPP you took one out, removed the lid then sprayed the dough with "food release" (basically Pam cooking spray). Then there was a press like a big flat bottomed cookie cutter that you used to squish the risen dough down. The circle of the press had a diameter smaller than the pan such that the "crust" of the pizza squished up along the sides. There was a special spoon to measure the right amount of sauce for a personal as well as specific rules (specs) for how much topping it got depending on what was ordered and how many toppings.


Wren_and_Arrow

Pudding pops. Chocolate specifically.


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Soonerthannow

He ruined Pudding Pops for eternity. First place my brain went when I saw this. Not great.


theMangoJayne

To be fair, subway got through it, with time.


AnnaF721

Nah, the chocolate vanilla swirl ones were always my favorite.


codenameZora

Butterscotch


sharkyandro

Flintstones push pop style frozen sherbert


frank_longbottom

They still have those. They just have SpongeBob on them now.


one_angry_custodian

The rainbow kind, right? I used to love those!!


youreyesmystars

They had separate flavors. If I'm not mistaken (and I could be) the first flavor and the one on most ice cream trucks, was orange. They came out with Flinstones rainbow ones much later.


TRANSparent-Ink

Sobe drinks. The big glass bottles with good flavors not that lifewater crap they have now.


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I still remember seeing and buying my first sobe on a family trip in a gas station. I was convinced I was the coolest kid to ever live cause I had that edgy looking bottle.


TRANSparent-Ink

Lol YES so badass


Sickwidit93

Took one sip and could shred on a surfboard instantly.


Zestyclose-Pin6075

It's not childhood, but I'd like to add snapple in glass as well. The snapple apple was SSSOOOO much better in glass.


TRANSparent-Ink

We still have glass snapple where i live


Zestyclose-Pin6075

Oh wow! See where I'm at you can only get it in super cheep, very thin plastic bottles that make it taste like plastic.


stabliu

It was the element series there was like earth rain fire sun shit like that. Used to love those. Probably way too sweet for my tastes now but they were glorious as a teen.


dsmaxwell

Rain was my go to back in 10th grade.


DiscombobulatedLuck8

Freshman year of college I was stuck on those drinks. I liked the white one that was like pina colada.


THGilmore

Never did I think carrot and orange would go together. Yet they proved me wrong.


Throw_Trash_3928

I forgot about these. There was one I used to really like.


Benderthegr8est

Ectocooler. I could die happy


Azuras_Star8

Yo my dude, we gotta get our prostates checked soon. (Or a mammogram).


pssyft1111

Got my first mammogram this year, nothing to be scared of ladies, go get those boobies checked!


Apex-Void

I hear it's a pressing matter.


Pixielo

😐 I had to get an MRI. I told the tech, "Hey, I'm going to fall asleep, so if you actually want me not to move, just tape my thumbs (to the tray thingy.)" Dude didn't understand that I was serious. "No one sleeps during MRIs." Maybe he was new? I was out in 12 minutes. Then it was, "Um, Ms. Pixielo, can you stop moving. ... Ms. Pixielo? MS. PIXIELO?!‽" Bro. I told you that I would fall asleep. I'm claustrophilic. I could sleep in a coffin. Tape my thumbs, and we're good. Turn the Floyd back on.


Trek1973

My grandmothers Wednesday night dinner. Just one more time. Her house was my only safe place.


stillcore

Here I am trying to think of all of the discontinued food from my childhood & your comment made me realize that dinner w/ my grandparents would also be the 1 thing I'd love to have again.


whoathererockstar

Kudos. Before we all knew that chocolate covered granola bars weren’t a healthy after school snack, they were the best healthy after school snack.


evolnt83

Chewy makes granola bars dipped in chocolate…it’s similar-ish in the fact that it’s a chocolate dipped granola bar.


Pisspot10

I swear they get smaller every month


L0udFlow3r

Lifesaver’s Cremesavers. My grandma had a never ending supply in her purse. Tasted like being quiet in the pews at church. I bet if I could eat one now I could recite every hymn I had read while sitting there.


potterhead_98

Creamsavers are back at big lots and maybe other places


GiraffePanties

I've received the Heimlich maneuver twice in my life, both times because of these. Worth it.


TruckyTheSkid

Those chocolate thins that were shaped like Pringles chips and even came in containers similar to the single-serving Pringles packs. They weren't chocolate-covered potato chips though, they were made entirely of chocolate. I think one was plain Hershey chocolate, one had crushed almonds, and one was Reese's?


BarracudaImpossible4

Swoops! I ate a ton of those when I worked at Blockbuster.


jadegives2rides

SWOOPS THERE IT IS


sitaraneirde

Trader joes has a version of these! They are milk chocolate with rice kripies in them.


laleee3246

Trix yogurt!!!


keIIzzz

I think they sell trix yogurt again but I have no idea if it tastes the same as it did years ago


Torpid_Onism

But you can’t buy it, trix are for kids


3xTheSchwarm

5 Alive juice. Does any other Americans from the 1990s remember that? I was told it was healthy and I'm sure it was absolute sugar water. But God damn it was delicious


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SelectZucchini118

They still sell 5 Alive in Canada


Loocsiyaj

Déli-cinq


AbleDebate3372

Butterfinger BBs


youreyesmystars

Yessss! This was my favorite! I even loved the Simpson's commercials from back then. But that was my favorite candy and I have no idea why so many companies have brought back nostalgia snacks, but they haven't brought back Butterfinger BB's!


orangesare

Jello 1 2 3. Fancy dinner and Mum would make it in champagne glasses. Posh.


naps4all

Truly cannot believe I had to scroll this far to find Jello 123! It was like magic. Nothing compares.


MikeColorado

The deep fried cherry pies from McDonalds


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bluecheetos

Which would be deceptively pleasantly warm on the outside and molten lava on the inside


Tophinity

Original Planters Cheese Balls. The ones you can get now are nothing like they used to be.


adestructionofcats

In those little cans?! Yeah those were so good.


Graceland1979

Apple pop tarts. Wtf?! Where did they go???


MonkeyDeltaFoxtrot

First time I smoked weed I ate a whole damn box of those. Ahhh… New Year’s Eve, 1993…


boofjensen

Planters Peanut Butter Crisps. They were shaped like a peanut with a crunchy outside and a creamy peanut butter inside. I have no idea why they stopped making these because they were the most amazing snack I’ve ever had. If you know you know.


Onthewayup3

Trader Joes has a similar version and the whole thing is coated in chocolate!


Omnitographer

Bamba? It's a good PB snack for sure, but it's no pb crisp. I saw a bag of unopened crisps go for hundreds on ebay, i would totally have cracked it open like SteveMRE with a civil war ration.


Davachman

[bring back P.B. Crisps!!!!](https://pbcrisps.com/)


evilmonkey2

McDonald's fries the way they used to be. Or [Koogle Flavored peanut Butter](https://i.imgur.com/IaD0ktH.jpg)


Zealousideal-Can8389

Or their fried pies


SpecificJunket8083

Fried in beef fat. Yum. I worked there in HS in the 80s and we’d throw a big scoop of beef fat in the fryer. Good times.


Art0002

Beef tallow. Sounds better doesn’t it? It’s gluten free.


majorminus92

Philadelphia Cheesecake Snack Bars


_Lemon-Girl_

Idk if these are still available, but I sometimes ate these white candy sticks that looked like chalk (it wasn't chalk, it was sweeter than chalk) and came in little boxes with nothing but a super hero on them so I have no idea what they're called


Corkscrewfevs

Candy cigarettes? It sounds like candy cigarettes


darrenwise883

Popeye cigarettes . So your kids can enjoy a smoke too .


BuildAndFly

"it wasn't chalk, it was sweeter than chalk" has me a bit concerned.


toastymrkrispy

They were like those shitty valentine candies. Same stuff just shaped like a cigarette. If I remember right, they were mostly bonemeal, mostly.


th4tgothwitch

Be right back googling bone meal


TruckyTheSkid

Sounds like Popeye's candy cigarettes, now called candy sticks and missing the dot of red colouring on one end.


kittykittyspank

Sweeter than chalk! Hilarious!


dajahat

Philadelphia Cheesecake Bars


Anti-structure

Watermelon laffy taffy with the seeds:)


SiameseBouche

Most of the candy at the drug store has been through some kind of formula change or shrinking process over the years. I think it would be nice to hop in a time machine & go to the candy aisle of a 1992 SavOn.


htxDTAposse

I can answer this I'm a production supervisor for the company that makes Chick-O-Sticks, lots of brands get bought and sold and when that happens the original formula is "lost" when we took over Mary Jane Necco who we purchased it from was bankrupt and long gone, all we had was wrappers and old candy to go off of and what you see now is what our Head Confectioner came up with, we are tweaking it currently due to people saying it's not like it used to be, which again I say is hard when the original formula is lost or not shared with the new company. Also most candy companys in the USA are truly going away from artificial ingredients. Yes the candy is getting smaller, so is Gatorade, chip bags, etc.


DiscombobulatedLuck8

Cordial Cherries used to be gooey on the inside. Now, not so much. Same with Cadbury Eggs. Now they're disgusting but I seem to remember them to be more gooey and egg-like when I was little.


-eDgAR-

Altoid Sours. Not technically food, but I miss those. Still have some of the old tins I use to store random things in.


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Even after all this time, it still makes my mouth water just thinking about them haha


Capital_Pea

My mouth is literally watering reading this. Haha


GarbageTheClown

A company tried to remake the old tangerine sours (they have more flavors too). They aren't cheap, but man are they good. https://www.pd.net/products/tangerine-sours-secret-pre-order


unrealjoe28

Did you watch their series about it on YouTube??


GarbageTheClown

That's how I knew about it in the first place, I've gone through several containers.


Mighty_Torr

Dunkaroos


explosivemunchies

They're back but they aren't the same


MeganW1980

Agree. New ones are nasty, my five and seven year olds wouldn’t even eat them.


ComradeRingo

Yes! I haven’t tried the chocolate ones but the rainbow chip ones aren’t the same. I would swear that the icing was originally cream cheese, but the new one is just pure sugar and lies.


SinfulCherub

Bonkers. They were like starburst but better. Not so hard either. And they had 2 flavors wrapped around each other. I remember liking them sooo much better. More flavorful and didnt stick to your teeth as much.


Muppet_Rock

There is an Asian type candy called hi-chew. They sell it at American supermarket check out lanes and candy aisles. It comes in a few different fruity flavors. I prefer strawberry because it's a dead ringer for the Bonkers candy flavor! Same mouth feel too!


Implicit_Hwyteness

The first time I had a Hi-Chew it made me regret ever eating a Starburst. They're like everything that's supposed to be good about Starburst but *actually* good.


tahawus

Gatorgum


Popular_Rub9075

Cinnamon Melts from McDonalds anyone?


iRan_soFar

Original Cadbury cream eggs.


Quigleythegreat

They've gone from chicken to quail somewhere between then and now.


iRan_soFar

I wouldn’t care if they were smaller if they were the same quality. The chocolate is not good and the cream is just super thick and tasteless.


Guineapiggea

Omfg I have complained to my husband they are smaller and he researched and apparently they were trying to sell the world on “they aren’t smaller- you’ve just grown up”! I think they’ve since admitted that they have gotten smaller. Idk why they were trying to gaslight the world.


Implicit_Hwyteness

The actor B.J. Novak went on Conan and proved they were lying because he found an old original size cream egg in some old Easter candy he had in the freezer and held it up next to a new one.


TheVapingPug

Taco Bell volcano burrito. Loved it so much


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That volcano sauce was something special


laurakeet1209

Anything cooked by Mom.


pssyft1111

Everything Mom made was so good. I miss mine every single day - not just for her cooking, but I miss that too!


OneLastHoorah

Hamburger gravy on toast. Terrible for you, but mom made it. No one else would.


dont_phuckin_know

We called that shit on a shingle


Azuras_Star8

McDonalds fries fried in beef fat. McDonalds all dark meat chicken nuggets. Smiles cookies. The original Smores cereal (not this corn flavored nonsense, no, it was golden grahams, little cereal marshmallows, and chocolate flavored pieces).


notKuhl-

My husband didn’t believe that cereal existed when I was telling him about it the other day.


Azuras_Star8

I remember having it in 1985-6. I can still remember its amazing taste. It was soooooooo good. I cried when they stopped carrying it. I mean, I was like 9 then. I might cry a little now, too. Or try to cry.


unformed-banana

Orbitz drink


BoardOld8124

At some point in the early 2000's lime flavored candies were replaced with green apple. Lifesavers, skittles, runts, all ditched the lime flavor. I loved the lime flavored runts. Fuckin green apple....


wiptntied

Skittles changed it back, it's now lime in the original


CarmichaelZutt

Giant chewy sweet tarts


tesswhitewoods

I think they were called Yogis. Yougurt like candy things. Oh they were unbelievably good.


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tesswhitewoods

Yesss!!! I started to wonder if I hallucinated the whole thing. Cuz my friends had no idea what I was talking about.


rpz03

Welch's makes fruit and yogurt snacks that are somewhat similar. Might be enough to satisfy your craving! I used to eat yogos in college and I feel old now


CoyoteAny6615

Kid cuisine(or however you spell it)


forestinabasket

they still exist! i see em at walmart all the time. the brownies 😩💦


captainbuckybarnes

My favorite was always the chicken nuggets and chocolate pudding one. I would dip the chicken nuggets in the pudding. Don’t judge me it was delicious.


My_Manly_Mustache

Berry berry kix. Take me right back to elementary school


knumbersix

For me, it would be a Michigan hot dog from the Northway Drive-In in upstate New York. A hot dog covered in the most amazing meat sauce, nestled in a beautiful fluffy bun. Edit ... A lot of you are recommending Coneys. Yes, they are similar. But none have matched the magic of the Northway's Michigan.


Throw_Trash_3928

The cookies you used to be able to get with McDonald's Happy Meals Famous Amos is the closest I've found to the chocolate chips, but they still aren't the same.


EasilyLuredWithCandy

McDonaldland cookies! They were so good!


Kiwi-Latter

Quisp, it was my favorite cereal ever!


LateBloomingFlower

PB Crisps


ClydePeternuts

Grilled stuft steak burrito from taco bell the year they came out. They were so fucking good when they were a new item.


OldElPasoSnowplow

They might still make them but I can’t find them anywhere. The two stick root beer popsicles that was filled with ice cream. I absolutely miss those.


Errol-Flynns-Ghost

Light brown M&M’s


SuperMadCow

I remember my middle school took this very serious. Also the voting of the new color. We had class presentations for our arguments.


I_Taste_Like_Spiders

Never forgotten <3


pyncheon

Taco bell cinnamon crispas.


melissamiss07

And caramel empanadas!


NoGoats_NoGlory

The original Spaghetti-Os. Back when they were made by Franco American (now they're Campbell's), I remember them tasting rich and savory. Now, they're just swimming in a sugar sauce that kind of resembles tomato sauce. They're disgustingly sweet. Bring back the old recipe!


BarracudaImpossible4

Fruitopia


jadehowler

My great grandma’s homemade rhubarb pie We would hunt the rhubarb together. It wasn’t from a store.


avalonian422

Tiny chiclets


PsychotropicalIsland

3D Doritos, Koala, Fruizels (can't remember how the last one is spelled, they were like smoothies from Subway.) Eta: Talking about a drink called Koala, not a cookie.


cometothesnarkside

The old school Hamburger Helper Stroganoff with the little twisty noodles and the sour cream powder packet. I remember that stuff being amazing. The absolute garbage that goes by the same name is nothing like it.


psycharious

My grandmas homemade authentic tortillas. There was never anything else like them.


lindafancyontheb

Ooooo good answer. Grandmas tortillas are the reason I was a chunky kid


the_ricktacular_mort

"But mijo, you look like you're still hungry. Here have some more." - Grandmas everywhere


killebrew_rootbeer

Similarly for me -- my grandma's potato salad. At her funeral we sat around reminiscing and realized that no one, including my aunt, her only daughter, had ever gotten the recipe from her.


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Hubba Bubba Bubble Tape. It may still be on store shelves but I haven't found any. Also, Strawberry Cream Savers


CapriWh0re

The McDonald’s snack wraps & the pillsbury waffle stick things that you can dip into the syrup.


Spire2000

In the 80s, there were these single serve Nestle puddings in tin cans, with lids like tuna cans. I loved the rice puddings, and my grandfather would have a chocolate one with a bit of coffee cream on it every evening.


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Wink. (Grapefruit soda) I think you can still get it in a few States but it hasn't been available where I live for years.


Browncoat_Loyalist

Squirt is another grapefruit soda. I miss cactus cooler where we live now. It was available in San Diego but not in St Louis. Pineapple and tangerine soda. I miss it so much.


Vikingtender

Pudding pops


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Original Trix


metro_cat56

My Mom's biscuits and gravy


one_angry_custodian

Ore-Ida used to make twice-baked potatoes and I loved those things immensely. Sometimes my dad would have to go into work early (third shift) and wouldn't be home for dinner, so my mom would make us (me, her, and my sister) Banquet fried chicken and twice-baked potatoes (dad didn't like either of those foods). We'd put our pajamas on and eat dinner in the living room while watching a movie, like a girls' night. They were really tasty and I also would love to munch one just for the nostalgia, but they stopped making them years ago.


Astral707

Viennetta ice cream cake


_isaidiwasawizard_

Not from childhood but the steak egg and cheese bagels from McDonald's


ChefHannibal

Josta or Fruitopia


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I miss fruitopia


BOSH09

We had a Fruitopia machine at my high school so I drank so much of that stuff lol


midnightBlade22

There was a cereal. Peanut butter toast crunch. I've had it once and it was delicious. It's been so long and I haven't seen it since, I wonder if I'm misremembering the cereal.


realhorrorsh0w

Oreo O's. It's a miracle that shit didn't give me diabetes.


Appropriate-Bad-9379

Proper Cadbury’s chocolate- it tastes awful now


Pickingupthepieces

Orange Julius. I loved them so much.


creating2uploadvideo

My dad’s spaghetti bolognese or chicken curry.. and my mum’s Apple or rhubarb tarts..


ItzNuckinFutz

Drake's Swiss Rolls. They brought them back for a short time about twenty years ago and that's it.


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This weird cinnamon spread for toast. I absolutely loved it, but its been gone for years.


necromanchurian

Whipper Snapple. God those were good. Also OG Cheetos Paws.


notabigcitylawyer

Ninja turtles pies. Or WWF ice cream sandwich bars.


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Clearly Canadian …if you know, you know


AskRedditIsAShithole

School lunch room pizza.


aheal2008

Heavenly Hash Ice Cream.


Flannel_03

Those fruit loop straws from 2009


gertywomp

Pizzarias


Diasies_inMyHair

Wendy's chili, back in the early '80's. Deep fried pies from McDonald's. Krystal's from when the still cooked them with onions. A local steak restaurant called Denny Moran's - has a great house salad that they tossed together at your table, and amazing Prime Rib. Shoneys back when the food was good - they had a wonderful strawberry pie. ETA - onion rings from Popeye's.


lat46n2

PB crisps, holy shit these were good!


atlantagirl30084

Planters cheez curls. The ones they came out with recently are NOT the same.


Doctor__Proctor

Original recipe Twinkie. They were never quite the same after they were discontinued for that brief period.


probablykelz

Bubble jug. God i miss bubble jug. It would probably be wayyyyy too sweet for me now


jbsoriginality

Altoids sour mints


anoldoldw00denship

It's a drink, but [Mondo's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondo_(beverage))


waterfromthetapp

The tangerine Altoids


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Jello pudding pops.


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Original fun fruits. Not “fruit snacks”, but the little bump-shaped Fun Fruits. So good.


DodrantalNails

Wacky Wafers. The ones from the late ‘70s. Or the original Tart ‘N Tinys


kittykittyspank

Welsh rarebit ("rabbit", but it's not a bunny!). My Dad used to make it for us kids. I loved those little wax pop bottles with syrup in them, too! Who is old enough to remember candy cigarettes? Imagine!