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Can't listen to the whole show!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by TheRadioHead

What hour will Shane Nelken be on, SVP?

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by melshim

I miss those Asian lychee jelly candies. They were delicious.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Silvorgold

We need an episode that's all about restaurants that have closed down! Oh Pizza Pros.. I miss you, sure you were a pizza joint in a small house in a small farming town, but you made the absolute best pizza I ever had in my entire life, nothing will ever compare..

I miss crispy M&Ms, my sister misses vanilla coke

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Satori

I remember there used to be caramel chocolate chip rice cakes that Quaker used to make. Sadly, that deliciousness doesn't exist anymore. Made me sad, I used to eat them all the time.

Also, sundae-flavoured Smarties. Loved those things, and then they vanished.

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Mmmm, McRib

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

Anyone remember McDonald's pizza? When we could buy cherry coke in Canada.

I can't remember anything right asides cherry coke right now, it'll come to me though.

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no favourite discontinued foods...

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by kn0ttyn3rb

only foods from back home that aren't available in Canada. like stinky tofu. there used to be a store or two in the lower mainland but all have been forced to close due to - surprise - the smell.

(I'm sure eating stinky tofu isn't classy.)

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

what's stinky tofu? what does it stink of?

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

Wig Wag - remember them? they still exist in England (their source) as Curly Wurly. Sometimes you can find them in classy candy stores

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@krib

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

It stinks of fermented tofu :P

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@AofA

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by rhiannonevelyn

The #1 thing I ask of people going south of the border is to bring me some cherry coke (among other variations of coca cola).

I also miss Apple Jacks. Those, too, still exist in the US of A, but no longer in Canada ... That I know of. At least not in SK.

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Coke Blak

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by arcticwoman

I may be the only person in the world to love Coke Blak, but there it is. Sometimes I mix Kahlua and regular coke to simulate the flavour (pretty close, actually).

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

I missed that 'cuz I was typing. Who's talking about the wig wag?

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@TheRadioHead

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Lana Gay

Around 3:30, but it's just a clip. Do you also share the love of the WigWag?

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Lemon-lime

I loved crystal pepsi as a kid. I don't understand the hate, it was like sprite but BETTER.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by deeglowbot

BEEP!!

I miss beep. It was a delicious drink that the milkman would bring to our door in the morning. but now it is gone...

I live in Saskatchewan, but a friend of mine moved to NovaScotia and he says that BEEP is alive and well there.

I want Beep!!! all the kids were hooked on it.

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@krib

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by kn0ttyn3rb

yep, fermented tofu. served with a side of pickled cabbage and carrots. so smelly messes all around!

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@melshim @lemon-lime

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by arcticwoman

We used to get the yummiest lychee jelly candies, along with muskmelon, mango, and some other flavours, at our local Asian market, but alas, no more. WHAT HAPPENED?

Also - another Crystal Pepsi lover. I wonder if I would like it now that I'm all grown up. It makes me sad that I will never know.

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I bet it doesn't taste as good as the memory of it does but

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

The Nintendo Cereal System! It was TWO cereals in one, awesome.

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kn0tty

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

cool - is it salty fermented? it would probably be tasty if that's the case. like pickled tofu

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I remember Wig Wags!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by loweeda

and there was another chocolate bar that I used to love, that had peanut butter and jelly in it, on a wafer, surrounded by chocolate. Yes, I know it sounds horrible, but c'mon, I was a kid!

Also, for a verrry limited period of time, I remember being able to buy - wait for it - fruit-flavoured potato chips. Seriously. Grape and cherry and stuff. They were, as you might imagine, horrible. Even for a kid with weird taste.

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@Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

Tucj Table Thursday?

I could name loads and noone would have a clue if they were real or fake

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Dear Shane loves the wigwag?

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

you know if you're at the Calgary airport, the candy store down in the Westjet area (where they have all those gates in that big area where the wind-up planes are) has Curly wurly

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by victornovemberlima

My former McDonald's eating self missed McDonald's personal pizzas. I never noticed when they quietly disappeared off the menu, but one time may 7 or 8 years ago I suddenly remember them and was sad to realize they were no longer available.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

caramac is another one I miss. it was brought here but didn't last

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Oh How I Miss Them.

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by MusicSoop

Number one is Trader Joes' Soy Chorizo/Potato Taquitos. They were very flavorful. Excellent with Salsa too, of course.

A close number two is an ice cream flavor Baskin Robbins had out for a while which then disappeared. Happy Camper. Vanilla ice cream with peanut butter swirl and granola trail mix. Best ice cream I've ever had. When it went away their explanation was that it was a seasonal flavor and those come and go. But that season has passed several times and it never came back. I wrote several emails to their headquarters but I never heard back. Maybe I shouldn't have started both emails with the words "How dare you!"

Now I realize I can create it myself at Cold Stone but Cold Stone's ice cream is weird. Like too gooey or something. I've tried but it's not even close to Happy Camper.

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altoids and macintosh toffee bars

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by tazlundh

i have recently noticed that stores stopped selling Altoids, as well as macintosh toffee bars. you can find bags of hallowe'en candy-sized, individually wrapped toffee pieces, but no more regular, chocolate bar-sized ones. I had given up all hope on altoids after my favourite corner store had told me they were discontinued, but there seems to be an endless supply at the stores on the BC ferries. maybe they bought many packs, but the true altoid lovers are the only ones that purchase the curiously strong little mints. now they're curiously gone?

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@Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by TheRadioHead

No, no shared Wig Wag love, but shared Shane Nelken love :)

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by victornovemberlima

Oh and Pac Man cereal. I used to look forward to that all year for when we went to visit the cousins in Québec. I'm fairly certain that was discontinued circa 2001.

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dear theRadioHead

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

have you had a wig wag/curly wurly?

it's hard to have one and not love it

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by dualie

KFC Corn Fritters.

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@krib

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by kn0ttyn3rb

Wikipedia describes it better than I can.

"From a distance, the odor of stinky tofu is said to resemble that of rotten garbage or manure, even by its enthusiasts. In some instances the taste has even been compared to rotten meat. In spite of stinky tofu's smell, most say the flavor is surprisingly mild. It is said the more it smells, the 'better' its flavor.[2] Some few people have compared it to the taste of blue cheese.[7] It has also been compared to foie gras."

we call it stinky tofu not to advertise, but affectionately... and to call it anything else is an absolute lie :p

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Brach's Red Twists!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

I'm gong to keep this short because I've been known to rant on this topic. Brach's Red Twists were my favorite licorice of all time. Nothing else tastes like it, and I miss it terribly. I used to bite the ends off of it and use it as a straw when I went to the movies (usually with cherry coke, naturally). Thanks to Twizzlers, however, most licorice mass-marketed in the US now tastes like plastic-flavored Red #5. Ugh.

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Mmmmmm

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

Curly wurly, caramac & macintosh toffee. Shame its gone 10pm and the shop nextdoor is closed

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Oh man, I just had a flashback

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

Anyone remember O'Ryan's chips? Thick cut and delicious, used to have a leprechaun on the front and I think there were cheddar and bacon flavours too. Used to practically only find them at the ski hill in Nelson and they were the best thing ever.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

The 8 Worst Discontinued Foods Ever Produced

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by tazlundh

there also used to be chicago-style pizza flavoured chips. they had huge flavour! i think they were Arriba (?).

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McD's Personal Cheese Pizzas

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by jodyg!

Loved them. Even though you had to pull over and wait in special parking because they took so long. My mom hated it.

xo

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@arctic @jody

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by melshim

Arctic - There was that story where a couple of children choked to death by eating those lychee jellies and I think they are banned from the States by the FDA. Not really sure how you would choke on them....unless you ate them without chewing first!

Jody - Yes! I have never liked McD's burgers, so I would always go for the pizza. The best.

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@ jodyg

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by victornovemberlima

Yeah! I don't even remember the types. I mostly remember the mcdonalds' that had the Pizza light signs outside.

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@garfield

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by loweeda

omigod, Orbitz! I'd forgotten about that unfortunate drink. And I think the fruit-flavoured potato chips should be on that list, too.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cereal

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by mattyjames2001

cookies that turned the milk green. Delicious. Nutritious. Body Break!

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@garfield

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

Wow, I forgot about Zima. I used to love it when I was a fresh-faced teenager. Now I'm reliving the taste of alcoholic Fresca. Thanks.

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@alexofanders @victornovemberlima @melshim

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by jodyg!

I am not alone!

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@Alex

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by mattyjames2001

O'Ryans chips were the best!!!!! So good. Maybe too good for their own good?

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@tazlundh & @Wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Lemon-lime

@tazlundh Wait. They stopped importing MacIntosh toffee? I loved eating them when I was a kid, but had to stop when I got braces.

@Wapuche Zima is still around, and awful.

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Caesar Salad Potato chips

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by arcticwoman

They were so garlicy and cheesy and vinaigry! I miss them.

The disappearance of Mac toffee bars is a big pain the neck, actually. I make some recipes using mac toffee but I just can't bring myself to deal with all the packaging waste (and time waste) that is individually wrapped bites. Ugh.

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@mattyjames2001

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

The munchies got them

@McD's pizza lovers - It was funny cause that was the year I wouldn't touch fast food burgers so it was perfect cause they were awesome!

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by dualie

@garfielduk

You can get Mcintosh toffee, and all kinds of other cool brit stuff, at fun-o-rama on Denman.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by collar2

Surge cola. I actualy called the Coca-Cola company to ask them to bring it to Canada when I was little. I think it lasted a year or two. Yummy stuff.

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McD's Pizza

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

the first prize I ever won of the radio was a McDonalds pizza!! Soul Asylum's Runaway Train was at the top of the charts at that time...

@talundh - Discontinued the full bars? How sad, I love that hard toffee....bought a bag of the Halloween sized ones, blech..Guess I'll have to take the ferry.

I know someone on the blog remembers Beep! fruit drink (came up before somehow). My parents were pretty disciplined with sugar and sweets for the kids, the odd time when my mom bought the stuff my siblings and I would go crazy for it..Rod and Todd Flanders having pixie stix for the first time crazy...

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@lemon-lime

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

I haven't seen it here in a LONG time. It sold better in Canada anyway, so perhaps it is more available up there.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by pangea

I haven't seen Kellogg's Just Right cereal around anymore, tho I haven't really scoured the aisles either.

I liked that stuff, and they had an awesome commercial with and Tori Amos!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D43vgHLRiUU

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I don't think you can even get Wheaties but what about

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

Maple Wheaties! We were nuts for them but they lasted like 6 months.

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Runaway Train was at the top of the charts back then...

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

It was a different time, a world before the complicated, technological wonders of today. A simpler, slower world, foreign to our modern eyes and yet all too similar to the primitive hearts that beat within our chests. a lost and distant civilization. The world of 1993.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by dualie

I live in the states. I can't get SHREDDIES. Damn i miss those malty little fellas.

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arcticwoman

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

if you go to a loblaws/extra foods/superstore and find the president's choice chips, they have a new one called Greek Style that's pretty good. Not Caeser, I know ,but it's garlic and feta

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@pangea

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by kn0ttyn3rb

Just Right is still very much on the shelves... at least in Vancouver!

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

Alpen.

I know, technically, it still exists, just not for sale in any of the grocery store I go to. Last time I bought it was at London drugs

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Shreddies

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

For our U.S. friends who may not have seen the campaign, "In January 2008, the company started a new ad campaign for new "Diamond Shreddies"*, Consumer reaction to the campaign has translated into a statistically significant sales increase, according to at least one media report on the campaign's success.[2] The campaign won the 2008 Grand Clio Award for Integrated (i.e. multiple media) Campaign.[3]"

*My asterisk. Yes, it was a complete lark, complete with on-camera polls as to which shape each interviewee preferred, the old or the NEW DIAMOND SHAPE! Hilarious. See this.

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aww

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

it's Jon. I miss him, was so great having him in town. Hope his tours going well

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@kn0ttyn3rb

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by pangea

Sweet - that's where I am!

Knowing this now, I may start eating breakfast again...I keep being told "it's the most important meal of the day!"

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

Bovil flavoured chrips

Aztec Bars

Cresta (soft drink)

Biscuit Yorkie

Shandy 'Top Deck' cans of pop

Cider-flavoured iced lollies

Tudor Crisps

Fizz Bombs

toffos

Trios

Refreshers and Fruit Salad fizzy drinks.

Coconut Booster

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Sauce

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by darbarspecial

I miss IGA's Peach Habanero Sauce.....it was sooo good and now it is gone....still searching for a suitable replacement....have come close but not yet.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by darbarspecial

Oh and Mike's Hard Ice Tea......i loved that flavour and wish i could get that one again.

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re: Aidan Knight's tale of juice devotion

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Podahkins

THANK YOU! I love that juice. We used to make these amazing popsicles with it when I was little. Best ever.

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@garfield

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

Hi....o? Are those foods? Olde sea ailments? Euphemistic British terms for naughty things? I just can't tell.

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kn0tty

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

and how does one eat this stinky tofu?

I usually fry the snot out of tofu and put it in a stir fry. My kids will eat it that way.

by the sound of it, you eat the stinky stuff more like cheese

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@dualie

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

I'll ship you some shreddies if you like

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@Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

foodie Thursday...blast. My brain was actually telling me it was Friday...and today has such a Friday feel to me as it is....very hard to drag my body back indoors from lunch..

I'll sing along with Aidan to cheer me up!

@Wapuche - ah '93...that was great, thanks!

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

is 'tudor" a flavour of crisp? if so, what flavour?

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by evensteven

Hi Lana!!!

I miss Captain Crunch and Crunchberries with just the red crunchberries. When they added the green crunchberries they ruined it for me.

And... This is pretty obscure but... I miss Jean LaFoot's Cinamon Toast Crunch (a doomed Captain Crunch spin-off - Jean LaFoot is his pirate antagonist). Although it's been so long since I had some, I doubt It's as good as I remember it being.

@Rhiannonevelyn: No Apple Jacks in Canada!?! That's rough!

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I great topic if I do say so myself

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by tagish156

Chili in a breadbowl is my number one favourite discontinued food item. I mean, it was just so awesome. I never got tired of "and then I ate the bowl" jokes. Plus in Whitehorse Timmy's was the only restaurant open 24hrs so we'd always stumble in after hours and get some chili. Bring back the breadbowl!

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3D Doritos!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by cacophonously

I miss 3D Doritos SO MUCH... and then they came out with those Baked Doritos, which taste almost the same, and now I can't find them anywhere locally :(

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Baked Doritos exist in Ottawa

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

Just saw a standalone rack of them at my Metro (new name of Loeb, ex-IGA, stores)

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@tagish

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

can I come to jugtown with you (profile pic) We can have a good ol' hoe down....tomorrow!!!

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ORBITZ!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Tandy Sean

But it's actually the WORST drink I ever tried. It was vile! Suspended bits of tapioca floating in a thick sugary liquid. ARGH! I remember gagging at the texture when I first tried it. It was so slimy!

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@evenstevens

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

I know a guy who knows a guy

okay, that guy is me who knows my Dad who brings me Crunchberries from the states. So awesome, I love the stuff.

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discontinued pop

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by tagish156

Cherry coke has been mentioned several times on the blog, and I share that pain. Fortunatle I miraculously found some at a Fairway Market in Vic yesterday. It was very obviously bought elsewhere and then driven across the border and it cost 3 bucks for 2 cans, but it was so worth it.

But I also miss Vanilla Coke, Wild Cherry Pepsi, and Pepsi Twist. Pepsi Twist was the best summer pop ever. Also vanilla and cherry coke went well with rum. Why can you buy vanilla vodka but not vanilla rum?

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McRib

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

Just my note on the (eeeeeeyyoooooooooo) original. Tasted like pig, I thought. Ate about a third of it. Threw the rest away. Was the better for it.

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Soda Pop/Soft Drinks

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by MusicSoop

Teem. Kind of like a fizzier 7up?

I have a bottle of JOLT cola next to my desk at work. My friend gave it to me about 5 years ago. I remember liking it when I was a kid but not sure I can handle it as an adult. I think their marketing tagline was "All the sugar and twice the caffeine".

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@boders

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by tagish156

The growlers will be making an appearance this weekend, I'll be grabbing one more for Alex if there's rasberry wheat available, would you like one as well? They're 20 bones and consist of just under a sixer of beer.

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Pepsi variations

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

I dialed this up, got wiki and was flabbergasted.

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@tagish (78)

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

Two things- $3 for 2 cans?!?!?!? I seriously have to get into a new line of work: Wapuche's Contraband Surplus, featuring Cherry Coke, Apple Jacks, Other Things...

Also, if you want a vanilla rum and coke, you can make a fascimile with just the right proportion of Captain and coke. I'd tell you what it is, but it's more fun to experiment.

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Green Ketchup

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by mattyjames2001

Do they still make it? did anyone try it?

Did anyone like it?

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

President's Choice can be frustrating. They're always making new stuff and then stopping.

they made these great rice chips. triangular shape and in all kinds of wicked flavours: curry, sweet thai chili...

and then they stopped. now it's just the boring flavours like cheese

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@wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by mattyjames2001

I believe the proportion is 1:1 Spiced Rum to Cola.

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@musicsoop

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by darbarspecial

Jolt was what I used to get me through hangover days at work way back when. My coworkers weren't sure what was up with me on those days.

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Green Ketchup

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by tagish156

Was awesome. It tasted exactly like regular ketchup but it was green. And it came in the special squeeze bottle that made drawing things with ketchup super fun. The purple ketchup was equally enjoyable.

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@tagish

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

If available, I'm on that train!

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@krib

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by loweeda

I totally agree re President's Choice. When I'm feeling paranoid, I decide that what they do is just watch what I buy repeatedly and then stop making it.

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green ketchup [84]

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by rhiannonevelyn

I definitely tried this. As tagish notes, it just tasted like ketchup. But it still grossed me out. I couldn't separate how WRONG it looked from my taste experience of it, so I never had it again.

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@mattyjames

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by mcfflyer

So how are the Roughriders?

Unlike tagish, I was the opposite. The green ketchup tasted like ketchup, but the colour was so offputting that no one, not even the kids (and they were kids then) would eat it. I think it was eventually thrown away.

Lee

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@matty; @benoit

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

Matty- Dammit, man, don't ruin the surprise!

Benoit- That is some list. And not a one of them sounds good at all.

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@tagish

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

Awesome, thanks for the Growler! One of the few times I'm glad someone's giving me the raspberry :P

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Teddy Grahams!!!!!!!!!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by left and leaving

specifically the chocolate ones, although in a pinch honey would do.

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re President's Choice

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by rhiannonevelyn

krib, agreed! No consistency. They'll introduce some really great flavour of soda or potato chips, and just when I've converted all my friends, it disappears.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by eastcoastgirlinwestcoastworld

rice crispy squares cereal...mmm!

i'll cross the border just to get pizza pringles.

ps. altoids available at shoppers drugmart and i enjoy beep every time i'm back in NS. good stuff.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by calculust

I absolutely loved the Haagen Dazs Bailey's Ice Cream. I think I bought out the entire supply at Safeway when I found out that it was a limited run.

As for discontinued pop, how about the Orange and Raspberry flavoured 7-Up? I remember it being pretty good, and I imagine that it would have made a pretty wicked mix for adult-type beverages.

@cacophonously: Yes! 3D Doritos!

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@left & leaving

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

They still make Teddy Grahams. I have a friend who eats them all the time, they're one of his favourite snacks.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by mattyjames2001

All this talk about discontinued products makes me kinda wonder who thought of them in the first place?

And what the heck was even in them?!

...probably not good to be ingested. Especially when we're kids.

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@darbarspecial

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by MusicSoop

I drank gallons of Jolt at University. I had this philosophy for writing papers where I didn't believe in doing drafts. I always thought I'm going to write it well the first time so why bother? Which resulted in a lot of late nights. Jolt got me through.

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Dairy Queen

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by tagish156

The DQ closed in Whitehorse almost two years ago and it was sorely missed. I hid one dilly bar in the back of the deep freeze at home and told everyone in my house to leave it be as it was the "last dilly bar in the Yukon." Its still there, growing ever so wise with time

Growlers, I'll get one or two extra regardless, consider them an investment and an excuse to come to Vic to get them refilled

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

if they take away the buffalo wing & blue cheese chips I'll be driving to Galen Weston's house to pay him a visit

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@east coast girl

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by rhiannonevelyn

Oh my goodness. Rice Crispie Square Cereal. You just brought on a crashing wave of nostalgia for that deliciousness. So, so terrible for you, most likely. But unbelievably tasty. Wow. I never would have thought of those things again in my life, probably.

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@alexofanders

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by evensteven

You mean they don't have capn crunch and crunchberries in canada? - whoa!

Did the ones you got from the states have just Red Crunchberries? or do they have the green ones in there too? (Haven't seen them with just red ones in years)

Funnything is the red ones prob taste the same as the green ones, just not to my brain.

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@Wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

Do these help?

Refreshers and Fruit Salad fizzy drinks.

Coconut Boost

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Close Call

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by MusicSoop

I was pretty concerned when Peanut Butter M&M's disappeared for a while but they seem to have come back. Thankfully. For the uninitiated, they are not the same things as Reeses Pieces. Reeses Pieces don't have chocolate in them. At least here in the States that's how it is.

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@garfield

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

Nice try, but you can't trick me into looking at British pornography.

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green ketchup still made?

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

no

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by eastcoastgirlinwestcoastworld

why are bbq ruffles only available on east coast? my mom has to mail them to me.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by mattyjames2001

How come we don't have the McLobster in Saskatchewan?

You'd think McDonalds would figure out a way to freeze-dry deep-fried lobster.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by tazlundh

flintstones fruity pebbles, and choco-pebbles! long-lost cereals, especially the rice krispie squares, where have you gone?

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Cherry Coke

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by arcticwoman

We have a poutine place in my small town in the middle of the prairies, and THEY SERVE CHERRY COLA, fountain even. My fave.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

Toffos look an awful lot like Rolos

my wife misses penguin bars - can't get them here. Although you can often find tim-tams, which are kind of like the Australian equivalent

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Prostars!!!!!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by left and leaving

Both the cereal and the cartoon.

Bo knows....

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@matty; @arcticwoman

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

Matty- The better question is, why would anyone eat lobster at McDonalds?

Arcticwoman- I'm surprised that there aren't more generic cherry colas available in Canada. Why is this?

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@s

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

@wapuche at least check out the cresta soft drink (think 2 girls 1 cup)

@krib Toffos don't have chocolate on them and rolos are have caramel not toffee in them

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@ Alex of Anders [99]

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by left and leaving

You may have just irrevocably changed my life....

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Rice crispy treats cereal

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

I remember only being able to find it in the funpacks, they were the most awesome cereal I'd ever eaten as a kid. It was amazing. Sadly, funpacks don't have random new and different cereals, just the standard big kellogs flavours.

@evenstevens - Nope, no crunchberries in Canada. They have four colours of berries now green, red, purple and blue.

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@krib

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by MusicSoop

We have a World Market kind of place that sells Tim Tams. But for some reason they change the name to just the company name, Arnotts? Don't get them near my roommate or he'll eat the entire package.

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@garfield

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

You had me at 2 gir

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Peach Clearly Canadian

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by cacophonously

Peach Clearly Canadian in the glass bottles was my favourite drink as a kid, although I only was allowed to have it every once in a while. The blackberry was awesome too. Can't find any CC around here anymore...

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dear arcticwoman

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

is that small town anywhere near Saskatoon? I'd drive for poutine and cherry coke (well, maybe not cherry coke as I'm not a huge pop drinker)

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@wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by arcticwoman

I have no idea. Superstore comes out with one ridiculous flavour of pop after another (lychee? pomegranate? They all just taste like sugar) but won't do cherry cola. Sad face.

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@krib

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by calculust

One grocery store chain here in Victoria sells both Tim Tams and Penguin cookies, but the Tim Tams are in the cookie aisle and the Penguins are in the imported food section.

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@krib

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by arcticwoman

No, sadly. But if you are ever in the Lethbridge area I'll take you out for some fabulous potine and cherry cola.

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What is your favourite discontinued food item?

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by lounge_act

Creamex Ice Cream Bars.

Does anyone remember them? Came in a white wax paper wrapper with red writing. They were white and were shaped like a fudgesicle. Might have only been regional to the area between Winnipeg and Thunder Bay, Ontario.

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re: Tim Tams

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by arcticwoman

Superstore carries Tim Tams in the cookie aisle. They even have the best ones - Caramel.

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@garfield

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

I'm honestly surprised that it's still legal to show stuff like that on the internet. There could be children watching, for god's sake!

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A discontinued beverage I wonder about to this day

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by mcfflyer

Not something that any one of you have ever heard of, except maybe for MusicSoop, but there used to be a beverage company here in California named Bierley's. When I was a child, and we'd leave the cool Bay Area and drive into the hot Central Valley, where I am now, my parents would let me have a bottle of Bierely's Non-carbonated orange drink. It was wonderful and a favourite. They also had other flavours like cola, grape and the first chocolate carbonated drink that looked like chocolate milk. But when I returned to California in 1988, it was gone, and I've never found out whatever happened to the company - and that great orange drink.

Funny how childhood memories still linger.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

rolos have caramel in them? show's the attention I pay, and how long it's been since I've had one

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@cacophonously

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by left and leaving

I completely forgot about Clearly Canadian....there was a man on the corner of my street when I was a kid who worked for them. Every Hallowe'en he'd give out bottles of the stuff. Blackberry was definitely my fav

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by darbarspecial

I still get Cap'n Crunch for a treat. Clearly Canadian may be Canada Pure now? I drink the Wildberry flavour of that and I believe it is the same. mmmm

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@lee

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

Say that again, but as the voiceover from "The Wonder Years"

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3D Doritos!!!!!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by MoniSki

Anyone remember those?!? Was this already mentioned!? I totally remember eating these...

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@Wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

That stuff used to be shown between childrens programs on ITV over here

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

anyone remember New York Seltzers?

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@garfieldduk

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by MoniSki

so are you sending in that coloured pic of Lana in or what?!

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By the way Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by calculust

Foodie Thursday is really throwing me for a loop here! Today totally has a Friday vibe to it now.

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wapuche (134)

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

that's classic! where's winnie cooper?

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

I need chips - STAT!

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@calculust

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Lana Gay

Perhaps I should remind everyone to go to work tomorrow?

Sorry! It's like a Friday to meeeee!!!

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

Since I'm taking tomorrow off as well, it's just like Friday for me. Yay for fake Fridays!

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@MoniSki

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

Can I take a what on that (It's terrible there is a total of 3 minutes work in it)

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by evensteven

@tazlundh These cereal shortages seem regional. Still have plenty of fruity and choco pebbles here in New Jersey.

@taggish I like the last dilly bar in the yukon story! I have a coconut froze fruit and an ice cream sandwich in my freezer that I've been keeping for years for silly some reason.

@calculist Ur right. Forgot it was Thursday for a while.

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Dear cacophonously @ 122

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

Clearly Canuck coming back, or still around.

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@Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

I think you should...very envious of you and krib, I want to go there (weekend) now!

Have a great extra long weekend!

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

British Biscuits

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off-topic

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by mattyjames2001

did anyone see the job posting for R3?!

How's that for a kick in the pants of awesomeness?

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by tagish156

I have no class tomorrow, its my friday too, he he he

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@Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by calculust

It's all good, just means that I get two Fridays this week followed by a (potentially very awesome) long weekend!

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@garfielduk

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by MoniSki

As long as you get something in before the due date,

I'm sure lana would love to see what you come up with :) heeh

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and...and...

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

I'm spending it at a cottage.

and...it's going to be HOT and NOT RAINING, if you believe the forecast.

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that's being said...

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by MoniSki

if you haven't already..... go here to check out how you can submit your coloured Lana for the R3 Host Colouring Contest!!! Lana is even providing some prizes, right Lana? hehe

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oh yeah, that reminds me....Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

can you say "where are moose and squirrel" in a Pottsylvanian accent?

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@garf; @krib

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

@garfield- That's disgusting. I mean, I knew British culture was decadent, but I wouldn't have believed it had gone that far.

@krib- "The last time I saw Winnie she was in her '76 GTO Convertible, heading off into the Sunset to take up residency at an art institute in southern Nevada. No one ever heard from her again. But sometimes, late at night, when I'm lying in bed and wondering where my life went horribly, horribly wrong, I think about Winnie, and that GTO, and the trunkful of mescaline she was carrying and sigh, whistfully, as I ask myself, 'I wonder where you can score some mescaline these days?"

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

I should've added "pretty please?" to that

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by breezergirl

I miss McDonalds pizza too..

Does anyone remember Bonkers Candy? I used to love that! They discontinued it around the same time that they took Fraggle Rock off of the air.. That was a bad year for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnarE_i6FI

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

Chocolate available in Britain

The last time I saw (the girl that played) Winnie Cooper was on The Big Bang Theory

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@breezergirl

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

BONKERS!!!! So goooood!!

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@Wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

Well we are European (as much as we try to deny it)

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@breezergirl

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

Bonkers were good. They had the commercial with the crazy old lady. And they had print ads on the back of every Marvel comic from 1984-1986.

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@ BODERS

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by breezergirl

Noone I talk to seems to remember Bonkers! Thanks you for remembering! Man they were delicious ;)

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Dear mcfflyer

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

Google "Bireley", spelled like that, and you'll get hits including wiki.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

Beep - a five-alive type of drink

if you haven't had a new york seltzer, I can't really describe it. It was a fizzy drink, obviously...clear and in a bunch of different flavours: root beer, etc.

I recall it not being as sweet as pop, but then it was a while ago

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@ Wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by breezergirl

I just watched a couple of the commercials on youtube, I don't remember then, but man that lady is freaky!

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@Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

Beep! see third paragraph at [50]

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by OldGuyAtTheBar

O'Grady's "au gratin" potato chips!

They were big, super crunchy and cheesy. They were so crunchy my mouth would get all scratched up.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by CDNz1

Slightly off-topic:

Much to my chagrin, the Candwich may not even exist. I found this today:

The company has gained public attention due to a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into a money manager’s allegedly fraudulent activities, some of which were invested in Mark One Foods, the company that owns Candwich.

In the meantime, Candwich is still on hold and, sadly, not yet available to consumers.

So, patiently I wait...

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How about discontinued food-related venues?

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by melshim

Did anybody ever have a birthday party in the McDonald's caboose? THAT was perhaps the best birthday ever.

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Bonkers

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

Seems a classic story, according to wiki. They stopped advertising, sales waned, they stopped production.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by eastcoastgirlinwestcoastworld

deeglowbot reminded me of beep. orange flavored drink in orange carton brought by milkman. similar to sunny d minus chemical taste.

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@krib

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

That is my memory of New York seltzer as well. Basically a lightly flavored fizz drink.

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Ah, New Yawk Seltza!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

Indeed, classic stuff.

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@taggish; @evensteven

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by tazlundh

i have a can of beans in molasses that i took camping with me 6 full years ago, but didn't have a can opener, so never ate. it slowly became a kind of mascot for my enormous collection of random things. it sits in the middle of the mantlepiece in the art room in my house. the can o'beans has moved with me 18 different times over my university career, and it still has its label and everything.

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@CDNz1

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

slightly off topic? Off with your m$%#erf@#!%&g head!!

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@Benoit

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by mcfflyer

Thanks. Maybe would have helped if I spelled it correctly.

Unfortunately, there is no wiki page for Bireley's. I wanted to know whatever happened to the company, and it may be on the web, but I haven't found it! That one link showed the clear bottles with the orange soda in them, and that's certainly what I remember.

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Wait, There's Topics We're Supposed to Discuss?

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

I'm totally going to fail this exam.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

for some reason the talk of Seltzer keeps making me think of sasparilla...which of course makes me think of..

the Dude abides..

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Jorge Adot

So in keeping with the McPork Rib, i present carnitas. The cutest bacon you will ever see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F26H5n7tRFw

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by breezergirl

I'm in NS and BEEP is HERE!

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@Jorge Adot

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

a little too fresh for me

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@Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

Spices are nuts, seeds, bark, root, etc

Herbs are leaves and plant bodies

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@boders

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

that part of the film always irks me, because I lived in Sioux City for 5 years and, let me tell you, the bottle is very misleading. Also, the company that makes it is from New York, and I never saw one cent for their appropriation.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

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Where's the Beep?

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Jorge Adot

Carnitas makes tiny pork chops

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dear Lana re: Beep

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

I was kinda hoping you say "where are moose and squirrel" in a Pottsylvanian accent. I think you'd do a great Pottsylvanian accent

all the info you need re: beep.

it was a juice, not milk

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@Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

it's a very sweet and sugary five-alive type drink

what's more concerning to me is the filter you've added that hides my comments...don't tell everyone else how to do this please...wait, you aren't going to see this either

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

Think something like Sunny-D, but not nearly as gross

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BEEP!!!! BEEP!!!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by eastcoastgirlinwestcoastworld

post 172

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by dualie

I remember BEEP. I seem to remember it being sort of like fizzy, tangy Mountain Dew.

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@ Wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by breezergirl

HERE! lol

Man that was cute bacon whoever posted it.

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@breezergirl

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

The blog krib linked to has a story from earlier this year saying it's being discontinued!! Stock up now!

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Jorge Adot

I posted Carnitas. Apparently Carnitas means meaty in Spanish. His owners are very twisted. My kind of people.

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Re: Carnitas

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by CDNz1

Breakfast that has not found a plate yet.

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@ BODERS

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by breezergirl

The link didn't work fo rme.. I better stock up while I can! I used to live off of that stuff when I was a kid. It's amazing I'm not morbidly obese with the sugar content.

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Re: Beeeeep!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Lana Gay

Thanks all! I was starting to wonder if it was top secret, or just chocolate milk.

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@breezergirl

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

whoops, dead link, my bad, I just grabbed it from the blog...they excerpted this though from March of this year:

End of the road for Beep drink -- By BILL POWER

BRACE YOURSELVES, Beep lovers. This is not good news.

To the disappointment of sugar-charged fruit-drink lovers everywhere, the people at Farmers Co-Operative Dairy Ltd. in Bedford confirmed Friday they are indeed proceeding with plans to discontinue Beep fruit drink.

"It is sort of a sad day. Lots of people are nostalgic about the drink. Lots of us here at Farmers are very sad to see it go," Derek Estabrook, vice-president of marketing and business development, said in an interview.

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Beep

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

"Like Sunny D without the chemical taste" - a perfect description from eastcoastgirlinwestcoastworld

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Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

no, Vico was chocolate milk here in Saskatchebuzz (if you got your milk from the co-op dairy). Palm dairies (the one my parents used) had plain old boring chocolate milk, but co-op had Vico!

(all just plain old chocolate milk, really)

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by breezergirl

Perfect description. Thanks for the info borders. I'll have to pick some up on the way home :)

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my food looks funny

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

http://myfoodlooksfunny.com/

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

man, there's even a facebook fan page for beep.

I didn't really think it was all that...it's just a mixed citrus juice

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by keco86

Apple creamsicles.

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@Garf

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by CDNz1

I like the NOMSKULLS

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@Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by CDNz1

Did you swallow another fly?

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@CDNz1

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

I liked That Cake’s Not For Noms, Kitty!

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Jorge Adot is my alter ego...

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by CDNz1

Bacon, true.

McRib & Carnitas, false.

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@CDNz1

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Lana Gay

Tried to inhale my beverage. Clearly I'm meant for breathing above water.

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@Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

Don't sell yourself short. I'm sure, if you really put your heart in to it, you could breathe anything you want.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

Rainbow Bacon Looks Healthy

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@keco86

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

just hearing that such a treat once existed but no longer does makes me sad and I never had one...I love all things apple flavoured...mmm, artificial apple

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@CDNz1

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

Hey, are you and Yort planning on going to The Sadies on the 19th?

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Bireley's (dear mcfflyer @ 177)

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

Still available in Japan. See this.

Import it yourself (ya right)? (They bought the trademark, so who knows if they're not producing it in umami version.)

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@Wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by CDNz1

Let me check my calendar. Um, not sure about that one. Jon & Phog Phest 2 the week before, and Mosport the following week, my regular camping holiday.

Are you doing Phog Phest?

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Dancefloor

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

I can't work when this song comes on. Hannah Georgas channeling Chrissie Hynde = brain no work so good.

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dancefloor

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

hey, this song's kinda dirty!

how's boders doing? Is there a cold shower at your work?

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Yay!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Smashley27

Yay Wapuche a shout out for you!

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

Still trying to catch my breath...yikes

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I hear...

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by CDNz1

Becky Nincovic.

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Dan Mangan

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Tandy Sean

Did anyone head down to English Bay and see Dan Mangan perform last night?

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No, Lana, it's true

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

Hannah Georgas is the sexiest thing in the indie world right now. I mean sexiest. She blipping SOUNDS sexy, let alone the way she looks at her shows.

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@Tandy Sean

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Smashley27

Dan Mangan was in town?!

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@Cam

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by CDNz1

Breathe into this paper bag...

* N-i-n-k-o-v-i-c

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Tim Tams

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

I just realised that there was talk of Tim Tams but not of the Tim Tam slam! Bite off both ends of a tim tam and slurp hot tea through it, once as the tea hits your lips you better slam it back otherwise it'll dissolve and fall into your cup.

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speaking of dirty

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by krib

tried a tim tam slam?

I haven't. I'm still a tim tam slammin' virgin

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Dear CDNz1

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

Then, I wanna hear Becky too, if she sounds like... (Vaguely know of her -- she of the hair, right?)

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@krib

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

Man, you gotta do it! You won't wanna stop, it'll have you even wanting to slam in public!

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@Smashley27

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Tandy Sean

Yep. He performed before the fireworks on the coastFM stage for free. I listened to it on the radio, should have gone. Wish I'd known. Why did no one mention this!

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@CDNz1

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

I'm not going to make PhogFest, unfortunately. It's 5 days before my exam and I still have so much work to do. Also, between now and October I'll be living on about 1/4 of my usual cash flow. I'm going to have to cut several shows out of my plans, and that is one of them. I'm still planning on TM&TT, and I already have my ticket for Dan Mangan. If you guys aren't catcthing the Sadies, I'll wait and try and hit them up on their next tour. Probably a better idea anyway, since I refuse to miss Holy Fuck or Basia Bulat.

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Pizza Bundles

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Vertigo

Used to get pizza bundles from M&M meats. I'm not sure if they have been discontinued, but havent seen them around in years. They were always a tasty afterschool snack; the kind that you HAD to share but didnt want to. Kinda like bringing a plate of nachos out to a coffeetable.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by JenniferBhogal

O'Grady's Sour Cream & Onion chips! There was so much flavour powder on those chips you almost couldn't lift them, and they were ruffled. They're only now starting to create rippled/ruffled flavoured chips again.

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@Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Tandy Sean

Did you know that Dan Mangan was putting on a free show last night?

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@Tandy Sean

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Smashley27

Agreed! I'm so sad I missed it now. I know a few other Manganites who would have gone for sure!

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by lowlow

Banana Kitkat, oh how I miss you... xoxo yours forever

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Apparently putting an O' in your chip name is a sure sign of being discontinued

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by AlexOfAnders

as both O'Grady's and O'Ryans were extremely awesome chips, both went the way of the Dodo, only available in Wackyland

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@Smashley27

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Tandy Sean

It was so cute. He was teaching the lyrics to Robots to the audience and trying to get them to sing along..

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@Tandy Sean

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Smashley27

Aw! I would have sung along. Loudly. I would have been that annoying girl who kept shouting "I love this song!"

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@Tandy Sean

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Lana Gay

I did! It was right in the middle of fireworks craziness at Engllish Bay!

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@smashley

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

And I would have been the annoying, horribly confused guy who kept shouting "Play Robots!"

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@Lana

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Tandy Sean

I know. It's crazy down there but not as bad as on Saturday.

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@Tandy

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

yep. I was there, the wings of stage right. Was glorious. Christine McAvoy took some pics and video....Robots ended just as the sun was dipping below the mountains. Sublime. Sorry you missed it.

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@wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Tandy Sean

That's what I was shouting at the radio.

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@Tandy

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

It's a great song. I celebrate his entire catalog.

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@boders

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Tandy Sean

Argh! I know! I live right by the beach too but got home when it was almost over. Just in time to hear the last couple songs on the radio. Oh well. Next time.

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@Wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Smashley27

Niiiice lol

Well I think my little heart is a bit broken now that I missed it lol

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Ooh, lookee, the premier of Ontario is buying me off...

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

...with my own money!

Just received a cheque for $100 (two more to come in December and next June (this one, dated 27 July, is referred to as having been paid in June 2010!)). This is (after some bee-ess about the economy in the covering letter) to help ME in MY transition to paying the recent Harmonised Sales Tax, rather than the two previous, fed and prov. Like I said in the first sentence...

I AM SO GRATEFUL.

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Tata!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Smashley27

Alright everyone, work is done and thus my internet connection dies. See you all tomorrow!

Wapuche...STUDY!

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@Tandy, Smashley

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

my apologies for not noting this yesterday on the blog...that's a fail on my part bigtime...mentioned on FB or twitter perhaps...geez. Really sorry again. Yukon Blonde is playing before the fireworks this Saturday

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@smashley

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

Thanks for the support. It's down to 121 books in the next 20 days, so I have that going for me. Which is nice.

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@ BFO

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by CDNz1

Is this the Becky we dream of?

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Shorefest (music before fireworks in Van on Saturday)

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

8:00 Jim Cuddy

7:00 Patrick Brealey

6:00 Yukon Blonde

On Sunset Beach at the foot of Jervis at Beach Ave

4:45 Jim Byrnes

3:45 Barney Bentall, Tom Taylor, Shari Ulrich

3:00 Headwater

2:15 Scott Valentine

1:30 Robert Wilson

12:45 Reid Jamieson

12:00 Quest Poetics

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@boders

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Tandy Sean

Cool! I'm there. Unless it's like last Saturday which was nightmare in the west end. If I can't see the stage forget about it!

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Dammit, CDNz1...

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

I'm trying to work here. Now brain back Stone Age.

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@Wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by CDNz1

Heeheeheehee...

We're in for Holy Fuck, Hey Rosetta!

Yort's in for Dan as I'll be in TO/Mosport

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@Tandy

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

will be in Whistler this weekend, unfortunately missing their set and the tribute to China. A bunch of us went to Kits for the Saturday show, much better than being in the heart of the beat in English Bay..actually, last night we headed to Kits after Dan's set, there was ample time.

Dan went on at 8, I walked up to the side of the stage at 7:55 and was right at the barrier on stage right...once the set started there were lots of people behind me, but people weren't crowding the steps before music started..I'd suggest trying to go there if possible

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Ooglies

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by garfielduk

here

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@CDNz1

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

No Basia? Oh well, less competition that way. Hey Rosetta is a probably, but it is on the cusp of no. TPC and Arkells is already out, which hurts.

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re: Today on Lanarama: Foodie Thursday! Your Favourite Discontinued Foods

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by atlantictiger

If we're still talking about discontinued treats...FLINSTONES ORANGE PUSH-UP POPS.

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Speaking of Pops...

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

Jello Pudding Pops! My childhood on a stick, individually wrapped but not for resale.

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@Wapuche

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by MusicSoop

If I get a vote you're going to Hey Rosetta. Don't miss it! Do I get a vote?

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@boders

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Tandy Sean

Thanks for the advice! I used to be a professional concert photographer when I lived in Montreal so I have some experience with sneaking up to the stage and not getting my lenses smashed to death in the mosh pit. I'll let you know how it goes!

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@Tandy

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

cool beans! Leverage those credentials into a place shooting on stage then!

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Hey Rosetta!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by breezergirl

They are great live! I saw them at the Paragon in Halifax :)

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@Soop

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by CDNz1

They're opening for Hot Hot Heap!

#cantfuckingbelieveit

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@boders

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Tandy Sean

I usually just jump up and pretend I should be there. Just taking a VIP attitude and looking like you belong has gotten me into quite a few places that I shouldn't have been!

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@musicsoop

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

You don't get a vote, but you do get to participate in the primary. It's a great venue and advance tickets are pretty cheap.

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G'Night All!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Wapuche

My inner-Wapuche demands tacos, and I still have two more books to read tonight. See you tomorrow, same R3-30 time, same R3-30 station.

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HR!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by boders

any words on the new album release? I believe it is all recorded (not certain though)....

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no favourite discontinued foods...

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I bet it doesn't taste as good as the memory of it does but

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Dear Shane loves the wigwag?

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Oh How I Miss Them.

altoids and macintosh toffee bars

@Lana

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@krib

Brach's Red Twists!

Mmmmmm

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cereal

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I don't think you can even get Wheaties but what about

Runaway Train was at the top of the charts back then...

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I great topic if I do say so myself