So what is it about childhood memories of food that make us fondly think back, man that was delicious, but while we are in the grocery store never actually pick up and buy. Is it that we do not want to taint our childhood memories with cold hard reality that this food is actually about 32% stuff you shouldn't put in your body but do anyways cause its cheap and because, hell, you are a kid you don't know the difference? These are some of the examples of foods that I remember fondly but have since gone under.

Flintstones' Push Pops
Sherbet in a tube, with a little stick to push it up to eat. I have not had this stuff in years but can clearly remember the package and how awesome the stuff was. Except for purple, it totally did not stack up to the orange flavor. This is my number one candidate for food as a child that I wish was brought back. That and the Flintstones need to expand their market share past vitamins again.

Squeeze Itz
An attempted competition entry for Kool Aid. These simple sugar water bottles employed a selling tactic of making the bottle little faces that you squeezed while you drank to push that delicious sugar water into your mouth. Lets face it, we could taste test this with sugar water and food dye but as to not dilute the awesomeness that was in our school lunches let us just fondly think of our favorite face as we gulped down everything in the bottle in under two seconds.

Surge
Now while I personally never was a drinker of Surge, this was a favorite of some of my buds back in the Middle School days. Rumors of how much caffeine was in it, and how totally hyper you would get after drinking it was enough to get most of my adolescent friends to buy it. Apparently the only way to try and taste test it would be to go to Norway, the only remaining home of Surge.




Its almost as if it is better off for these products to have gone under before we reached adulthood. The rosy glasses of childhood leave these brave lunchtime and dessert companions with just the fond memories of how good they were with a childish palette. The real question will be in 20 years will children be blogging about their lost favorites not even knowing the tasty goodness they missed, or would my favorites even stood a chance in today's cafeteria?