20 Discontinued Snacks From The 1970s That Made A Comeback!

[@VintageLifestyleUSA]

Which snack would you love to see make a comeback?

[@vashtikelly6837]

The marathon man but they have the same candy called curly wurly bars but they not like the original marathon man 😢😢😢😢😢

[@judyjones5089]

PIZZA SPINS!!!!!!!

[@lee120458]

The Sweet tart sour gummi candy that had vitamin C in it. Also the Hostess Spice Apple cupcake 🧁

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

Buitoni Toaster Pizzas

[@nicholastychek0813]

planters PB crisps

[@vlrissolo]

It seems to me a lot of the recipes have changed when the company changed. Hostess products do not have the fluffy cream inside instead there is some sweet thick sickening cream that kind of destroys the original taste. I'm sure it has something to do with shelf life

[@propertyofpeter]

I saw a video on YT about the comeback of Hostess and one of the owners said shelf life of the Hostess products has been increased since the products are no longer shipped directly to stores but to distribution centers first, so you are 100%

[@vlrissolo]

@hisava well I certainly can tell. The Fluffy cream that used to be inside all the hostess products is a thick sweet mush I think Drake's cakes has them beat but I don't need to be eating that anyway LOL! I just assumed make my own chocolate cake with whipped cream icing which I don't need to be eating either!😁❤️👍

[@Miss_Kisa94]

I'm not sure where you live but if you're around a lot of Mexicans you can find submarinos which is really similar to the original Twinkies.

[@vlrissolo]

@@Miss_Kisa94 no, never heard of them... I'll be looking

[@Miss_Kisa94]

@@vlrissolo their most popular flavor is actually a strawberry filling but they do have vanilla too....and I think chocolate 🤔

[@CherylBlack-s4t]

Ding Dongs will never be the same without the foil wrapping. PS. These ads with some guy talking at me waving his arms around like a maniac is a deal breaker for me.

[@TLowGrrreen]

Preach, snack- cake brother!!😊

[@joedirt1965]

While a product with same name returned, Ding Dongs were reformulated and repackaged. They are not the same product from the 70's.

[@lnspotts1]

I've never heard of yodels, but I do remember loving Swiss Cake Rolls

[@DennisHiitt]

Swiss cake rolls are the knock offs

[@sheenae.9134]

Sunkist fruit gems, put them back in local stores. I also remember the full line of Brach's candies available in bulk.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Butterscotch and chocolate strawberry peppermint brachs candy 😋

[@ABugsyLife]

Fruity Pebbles and Saturday morning cartoons (on youtube) is something I will do until Im 100. Slush Puppies, fruit roll ups, pudding pops, Corn Pops, Ritz Bits (the peanut butter or cheese) Alphabets soup, strawberry quick, Freeze pops…

[@raynardabraham7831]

I remember back in the 60s and 70s. Life Savers candy came in 22 or 23 different flavors such as grape, orange, lemon, cinnamon,tangerine, fancy fruits,and many others. In addition I also wish that they would. bring back Life Savers lollipops and chewing gums. Let us also not forget Dolly Madison's cakes and fruit pies😊.

[@TLowGrrreen]

I always loved the butter rum flavor and the blueberry swirl lifesaver suckers. I was super sad when the Dolly Madison chocolate pudding "fruit" pies went away.

[@TheRatedOniChannel]

the chewing gum was so damn good!

[@zvbx]

Bring back orange flavored Ding Dongs and Screaming Yellow Zonkers!

[@redrose1721]

Hostess Fruit Pies

[@dallasalice1170]

Before the comeback, Whatchamacallit originally was just peanut crisp and chocolate. I loved it. I like the current version, but I’d love one of the originals 😊

[@Brianscoronet]

All the hostess products taste like crap now, not the same as before. Not buying them anymore.

[@scasey1960]

Hostess went bankrupt to break the union - don’t forget

[@patriciastein3627]

A lot of snacks and candies are NOT the same recipes. Hostess is definitely one of them. I am a baby boomer . So i have seen a lot of changes.Now a lot of snack cake frosting taste like WAX. Cake does not taste the same. Chunky went from pecans to peanuts. Although that is still one candy I love. Cadberry had a fruit and nut bar too Use to love it. Now its just ah. Plus the shrink of all these goods is unbelievable. More money less product and less quality😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@BilliePennyH]

I liked the grape Hubba Bubba which came out in the late 70s with the original Hubba Bubba. Moon Pies: My aunt’s babysitting fee, in the late 60s and early 70s was an RC Cola and a Moon Pie. Those two thing were popular together. 😆

[@michaelbaucom4019]

Ding Dongs came back, but, the formula/recipe changed. Still pretty good though.

[@judyjones5089]

What was the name of those cheese-filled pretzel nuggets? I discovered them in 1980, shortly after my husband and I were married. I was looking for a snack for him at the store, found those, and he loved them. Wonder if they are still around today? Decades earlier, in the fifties I remember my grandma had a tin full of these pretzel balls, about the size of cranberries. My five-year-old self loved those! She would also give me coffee-flavored charms, like square life savers with an indent instead of a hole. Hubby and I still miss the Yum-Yum cookies, coconut-flavored, chocolate-covered cookie ovals in a box. Last snack remembrance, state cookies. They came in a box, the same cookie-type as the girl scout trefoils, but shaped like the various states of the union.

[@sheenae.9134]

I think you’re referring to Combos. They’re still around. You’ll probably have to order them online at Amazon or Walmart. But I think I’ve seen them in some Dollar Tree stores from time to time.

[@BarzOnTheWindow1]

Chunky, I know a bit about the reason they were removed from shelves. I was neighbors with a biologist. His original job was health inspection. Inspecting a Supermarket “Pathmark,” he sighted Chunky’s in violation, because the original packaging wasn’t sealed, as it sat on the shelf. It was like a waxy foil that was folded.

[@laurabailey1054]

I remember when Ding Dongs were called King Dongs. That is why the image in the ad had a crown on his head. The Marathon bars are called Curly Whirly in the Uk. I loved Funny Face drink mix. I drank it all the time when I was a kid. I remember Whacky Packages too. I found some of the stickers not to long ago. My nana loved Fun Dip.

[@mommamaria2895]

Not all of these snacks ended, especially with Hostess selling their recipes to other bakery companies for production. Production continued at Hostess, but they were scaling down while the legal paperwork was being administrated. Once the paperwork was signed and legalized, the new bakery companies that bought the Twinky and Ding Dong recipes (and some others) were put into full production as Hostess stopped. I lived off Ding Dongs most of my life. But when Hostess sold some of their recipes, these other companies changed many ingredients to cheaper more chemically constructed ingredients. And Ding Dongs didn't taste the same, nor did they have the same consistency or the same amount of filling in them. They also shrank in size. My favorite snack cake was dead to me after that. What I miss the most though, are Tangerine Lifesavers. I was MAJORLY addicted to those! They disappeared in the late 80's. Sad.

[@RCMN-2024]

Hubba bubba has never stopped in Australia, along with ringpops

[@sheenae.9134]

Entenman’s Banana cake as well as their German chocolate cake. Buttermaid donuts. The original Hostess snacks.

[@mochimochi82]

Drake’s Ring Dings! Trying to smooth out the super thin blue and silver foil the chocolate puck came wrapped in with the back of your thumbnail without tearing it. Yodels, too, though not as rewarding, foil-wise. But Funny Bones!! The best snack cake ever created. Nothing beats Drake’s Cakes. Last I knew they were only sold in New England, maybe NY and NJ. Unfortunately, I don’t live that far north anymore and, as it turns out, I’m allergic to gluten. Oh for those simpler times.

[@tetsukomono]

I was so glad that Twinkies came back, they have been my favorite for a long time. My "birthday cake" at two years old was a pair of twinkies with a candle stuck in each one. Moonpies are great too, microwave a chocolate one for like 30 seconds and it's gooey and delicious.

[@marymichael7811]

Stop using hfcs in these treats!!!!

[@floydsemlow8253]

Great Video 💯

[@lee120458]

What about Willy Wonka peanut butter Srunch Bar? It was alot better than the Butterfinger bar.

[@judyjones5089]

I think the Fifth Avenue bar tops that. :)

[@lee120458]

@@judyjones5089 yeah I liked that bar too. But I still miss that Willy Wonka peanut butter bar.

[@maximusmorphine2418]

Always liked those "Banana Flips"...

[@UndeadEggmiester]

Honestly the planters cheese balls are probably the best cheese ball/snack food out there

[@luisreyes1963]

They're back, but unfortunately they're bland due to them being reformulated for cost cutting reasons.

[@redrose1721]

Banana Suzy Q’s Tiger Tails Chocodiles

[@dhollongstreet4725]

Nickles Banana Flip

[@Christina-yq7xg]

I just bought some bottle caps and big League chew lol

[@luisreyes1963]

There's a strawberry Big League Chew bubble gum that features a female baseball player on the package.

[@luisreyes1963]

Why is there still a demand for Necco Wafers? They taste like antacids. I recall Chicago briefly had Drake's snack cakes in stores back in the early 2020's. I miss their Devil Dogs. 😋

[@lashonnawallace8689]

All Hostess Snack cakes, are gross now 😢 they are hard and stick fluffy middle

[@RCMN-2024]

Ive tried Twinkies, they are overated and not that impressive, apparently they use to taste good, but recipe has changed

[@catdogbirds7110]

What about my old favorite -- peanut butter Tandy cakes, popular in old New Jersey.. I would love to see them again

[@NancyB-wx8fv]

PLEASE BRING BACK HOSTESS SUZI Q's!!!

[@tomstruble7380]

They did, but they sucked so bad they abandoned them yet again. The new hostess is ALL ABOUT PROFIT and none of their reborn snack cakes taste like the original they all just TASTE BAD.

[@btetschner]

A+ video! LOVE IT! Awesome snacks, glad they made a comeback!

[@marylist1236]

Big League gum got a bad reputation because it was packaged like chewing tobacco, which adult baseball players used, and parents were afraid that young'ns would start chewing tobacco. Cadbury had the Curly Wurly in the U.K.They had to change the faces on two of the flavors, as they were, in today's terms, racist

[@shermano2153]

Hostess settled with the teamsters. The bakers wanted too much. Hence, they went out of business

[@lee120458]

Also didn't the Ding Dong went under two different names? One name was King Dong and when I was in the Navy in 1983 stationed in Norfolk Va it was called Big Wheel.

[@vashtikelly6837]

They messed up the whatchamacallit by adding caramel to it 😮😮😮😮

[@luisreyes1963]

Sad, ain't it? ☹️

[@vashtikelly6837]

@@luisreyes1963 yes

[@LelaHolliday]

Fruity Pebbles are way more than a cereal. They're a FEELING!

[@nadiaborzacchini1987]

Love Necco 9ne 9f my favs alone wirh banana taffy mm

[@dhollongstreet4725]

Nickles Banana Flip PLEASE!

[@JChow-e1c]

I had the new cheez balls - they are not as good as they used to be. 9:35

[@B.Dazzeled-cj4ss]

Bring back the PB Max 👍💯😋

[@Nanetteb]

I had fun dips myself.I had some of those in the 90s.

[@JChow-e1c]

Neco wafers tastd gross.

[@freedomdove]

I remember almost all of these obesity-causing snacks. I'm sad that any of them made come-backs. They should all be shelved, for health reasons....

[@davidpar2]

I have a better idea-people going back to taking responsibility for their own actions, including gluttony

[@freedomdove]

@@davidpar2 That would be nice but it's easier said than done. It's a very complex topic. The food manufacturers long ago learned how to get people addicted to their "treats", and their lobbyists blazed the trail. Sugar and certain additives are as addictive as drugs, and they know this. Our food pyramid is purposefully upside-down. You really do have to be a smart and informed person to get past all of it. And yes, you have to be disciplined. That comes from education, and our system is sadly lacking. The food kids get in schools is abhorrent, and they're never taught about real nutrition.

[@hxycdsa576]

Sugar babies, ding dongs.

[@michellefarrell4493]

Definitely Yodels and Twinkies.

[@sw80q3]

Just one word...Twigs

[@SisterrScrabbit]

Great Video

[@freedomdove]

Yay for tooth cavities! 🙄

[@tomstruble7380]

It's called brushing your teeth after eating sweets, perhaps you should look into it.

[@freedomdove]

@@tomstruble7380 It's not only the sugar on the teeth, genius. The lack of minerals and nutrition in junk food also contributes. Perhaps you should look into it. 🙄

[@rogertemple7193]

I remember all of these snacks and have eaten many of them over the years and I really like seeing them all again here thanks for the memories. 🇺🇲🍩🍪🧁🍧🍨🇺🇲

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

Bring back Buc Wheats Cereal and Buitoni Toaster Pizzas

[@GhostKilo36]

I recall the Whatchamacallit debut… bought 2 at the liquor store for post baseball practice! Damn😊…. Gen Xr- ‘69. hey…Fun Dip.. bought it all the time @ Walgreens/Woolworths.

[@FRACTUREDVISIONmusic]

We miss chewing on Super Elastic Bubble Plastic like bubble gum. Kinda washed down the flavor of the homemade gummies we made with our gummy kits, the ones that used chemicals that are all probably illegal now. That's okay, we then could chew on non-toxic Silly Putty, never mind we did so after copying comics and stuff off of newspapers who all used toxic inks. That's okay, we could then gag on non-toxic Play Dough we shaped into pretend food, washing it down with non-toxic white glue, and then use the white glue to ineffectively seal off wounds we made when using the right handed safety scissors with our left handed hand.