not going out to work

[fflo]

I've got to get to the library by 8:00 to pick up my home code sign---they printed it, which is a clue to my home code this summer.  (Last summer's was MASKTASTIC, which may still work.)  Toyed briefly with getting dudded up for the pool and taking my chances (with capacity limits), and also thought of a café, but I had the leftover half blender of the yummy smoothie I made this morning (secret ingredient:  , but inspired by the smoothie at the Silver Diner in Laurel, Maryland), so I've just revived that with a few extra frozen strawberries and frozen banana sections (banana bread, shmabana bread--- make banana cubes!), and I'm gonna sit in front of the fan with The Blue Gardenia (which I've seen) on the TV while I finish the week's side hustle.  I've already got the litter box & dishes & payroll done and the trash & recycling out at the road.

I've been re-watching Breaking Bad, just cuz I so want the next season of Better Call Saul.  Borrowed season 5 of that from the library when Netflix pooped out on the most recent year.  I hear it's filming and will come out in 2022, and that gave me---poof!---another bucket list item.  Last long enough and see the last season of that show.  It's so much better than Breaking Bad.

In recent Adventures Back in the World, I've found out that Hollander's (the cool paper shop) is gone, and the ReUse Center is all boarded up, closed for good.  Somehow I hadn't heard about those.  No doubt I'll run into more of these local world changes.  Last night I saw that the Carpenter Road Meijer's's is remodeling.  I found that out on a mission I gave myself, for something to do, of going to multiple groceries stores and one drug store to see if any had a certain cereal in stock.

None did, despite online indications that they supposedly had it in stock.  It's a cereal I discovered during the pandemic, and now I want it, so much that when i have it I don't even mix cereals, which's been my practice since college (and the cereal bar).  It's called Smart Start.  Just a regular Kellogg's cereal.  Hope it's supply chain issues and not another discontinuation.

When we were kids my brother and I were big fans of a cereal called Fortified Oat Flakes:

Don't know when they stopped making that.  We also used to love when the folks would buy Bacon Flavored Thins:

I think I've written about these here before, so forgive me if somehow you remember that and are bored.

Any no-longer-existing food products you miss?

Comments

[susandennis]

welchade

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I don't remember Welchade. But YouTube has commercials, to taunt you with how you can't get it any more.

When I was looking up Fortified Oat Flakes I saw a strange old B&W commercial for them with Van Johnson, who starts out kissing the woman next to him at a table, and then turns away from her to tell us how he has to fuel up to have strength for all the passionate love scenes he has to do. So he pours some Fortified Oat Flakes and eats them, in order to have enough stamina to kiss women with gusto.

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Pineapple Melba Cakes! It's not that they no longer exist, it's just that it's been over a year since I've been able to visit the food hall at Marks & Spencers in the nearest big town.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, those sound good. Something for you to look forward to!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Nabisco's Bacon Thins are available in Canada under the name Christie's Bacon Dippers/Dippers au Bacon. They can be found online as well. I discovered them (along with the Canadian Christie's version of the Nabisco Swiss Cheese crackers in the consuite of a filk convention in Canada a decade ago. I let my passport expire, but until the pandemic ruined it the past two years, I asked friends who went to that con and stayed at my house to pick up a few boxes of each for me. Both are damned fine crackers, and they are even better if you mix or alternate them.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I just ordered a box! Thanks for the tip.

Those "all dressed" potato chips can be bought here in Michigan. This seems like something one could direct out-of-town visitors to, now that all the cool places in town are gone.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

OK, here's a weird thing that I miss. A comfort food from childhood. They lasted long enough so that I found them as an adult and learned their name. Stella D'orao 'dietetic egg biscuits." I was kind of annoyed to find out that they were sold as dietetic, but they were crunchy/foamy toroidal things not too far from donuts in size and shape, but not at all like them in flavor or texture. In fact I know of nothing like them in flavor or texture. They are not at all like the still-existing non-dietetic egg buiscuits.

Enjoy the Bacon dippers!