old candy bars were called lunch bars?

[HudsonHawk]

I can walk into any convenience store, gas station or supermarket and find a shelf full of RC. Many vending machines have it as well. I'm surprised at the lack of availability in some parts.

 

[LizzieMaine]

We're about as far from traditional RC territory as it's possible to get, but it's still widely available in the big 2-liter plastic bottles or 12-packs of cans in any supermarket.

If I had to choose a soda other than Coke, I always chose RC over Pepsi -- the sicky-sweetness of Pepsi was never something I liked, but RC seemed quite a bit less sweet.

What I haven't seen in stores in many years is the Nehi line of fruit flavored sodas. These were from the same company that made RC, and were very common in bottles here up thru the '70s. Then they vanished, and haven't been seen since.

 

[HudsonHawk]

We're about as far from traditional RC territory as it's possible to get, but it's still widely available in the big 2-liter plastic bottles or 12-packs of cans in any supermarket.

If I had to choose a soda other than Coke, I always chose RC over Pepsi -- the sicky-sweetness of Pepsi was never something I liked, but RC seemed quite a bit less sweet.

What I haven't seen in stores in many years is the Nehi line of fruit flavored sodas. These were from the same company that made RC, and were very common in bottles here up thru the '70s. Then they vanished, and haven't been seen since.

You can still find Nehi occasionally around here, but they're pretty rare. It is now owned by Dr. Pepper/Snapple, but I'm not sure if they bought the whole works or just the name and now market something with that name. They're still fruit sodas though. Fanta was the fruit soda competitor of Nehi.

On a side note about RC...they were the first soft drink in a can, and they made the first diet cola.

 

[LizzieMaine]

For much of the Era, RC had a solid Number Two position among cola drinks-- until after the war, it was the only one besides Coke to have truly national distribution, and it had a very aggressive national advertising campaign. Pepsi, meanwhile, went bankrupt twice in the thirties, and was reduced to selling its product in used beer bottles before it finally turned around just before the war. It was dogged well into the fifties, however, by its reputation as a cheap substitute for Coke, and it didn't really become popular as a drink on its own merits until they changed the formula in the early fifties to be far less sweet. Given how sicky-sweet it is now, 1930s-40s Pepsi must've been a rather revolting product.

 

[Fading Fast]

Re Pepsi's sweetness: can't even image it being sweeter than it is now - that had to be insane

Re a candy bar meal. To this day, I can have a candy bar (or two) or a moon pie or similar item and a soda for breakfast or lunch and be good to go most days. Two Drake's coffee cakes and a can of coke was a my default breakfast through four years of college. Many times, I don't want a "meal" or even a sandwich and just want something to take the edge off.

Everyone is different, but for me, I have never had the appetite to eat three square meals a day. Part of that might be my metabolism and part of that is that, growing up, my mom hated cooking and only made one meal a day - dinner - other than that, I was on my own to make or take whatever was in the kitchen into a meal. There was always food, but no one was making me breakfast or lunch, so I evolved into a snack eater for breakfast and lunch.

And I love moon pies. Don't see them often now, but when I do, I always buy a few.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Lizzie named it, some days ago. So, I would say: God bless America!

http://www.candywarehouse.com/assets/item/large/giant-hersheys-5-pound-chocolate-bar-125685-tp31.jpg

http://www.hersheysstore.com/product_detail.do?q=7452&promoCode=HSHVMLFDWEBMACSS

Woohoo! A "lunch-plate(bar)"


Snickers is one of the most popularest bars in Germany. Their commercials, too.

"Wenns mal wieder länger dauert." (If it's going longer, again.)

"Du bist nicht DU, wenn Du hungrig bist"! (You aren't YOU, if you are hungry!)

 

[LizzieMaine]

Re a candy bar meal. To this day, I can have a candy bar (or two) or a moon pie or similar item and a soda for breakfast or lunch and be good to go most days. Two Drake's coffee cakes and a can of coke was a my default breakfast through four years of college. Many times, I don't want a "meal" or even a sandwich and just want something to take the edge off..

For many years, my youngest cousin's favorite snack was a full sized Drake's Coffee Cake and two bottles of Mountain Dew. That he is still alive today, and doesn't weigh 600 pounds, is one of nature's lesser miracles.

 

[Trenchfriend]

But, I like a slice of bread with nut-nougatcream still very much, too.

 

[Fading Fast]

For many years, my youngest cousin's favorite snack was a full sized Drake's Coffee Cake and two bottles of Mountain Dew. That he is still alive today, and doesn't weigh 600 pounds, is one of nature's lesser miracles.

I weighed 150lbs when I left college and weigh 150lbs today at 51 years old. That said, I eat, give or take, half of what I used to back when I left college and work out, at least, twice as much. I haven't change what I eat that much (less red meat), but still have candy bars, Drake's cakes, etc. - it is just that the portions have shrunk to match my appetite having shrunk.

And I remember the Drake's coffee cake option - the large sized one or two of the smaller sized ones (college vending machine alternated so, most of the time, I didn't have a choice). I thought, overall, two smaller ones provided more crumb topping to cake ratio (sometimes the large ones had big crumb-topping gaps - a break in the crumb topping where the cake broke through that was meaningfully bigger than the gaps in the two smaller ones). It was always about the crumb top.

 

[Fading Fast]

But, I like a slice of bread with nut-nougatcream still very much, too.

This is something - Nutella, is how I believe it is marketed in the US - that has really taken off in the US in the last five or so years. I hardly remember it before then, but now it is everywhere in supermarkets, convenience stores, etc. and kids (and plenty of adults) seem to love it. I've bought it packaged with little cracker like sticks (you use the crackers to scoop it out of the other side of the container) in airports for a quick snack.

 

[HudsonHawk]

I first noticed Nutella being everywhere when I traveled to the Middle East. They eat that stuff on everything. You can buy an 11-lb tub at the airport in Doha. Who buys that much at one time...at the airport...heading out on an international flight? Where would you put it?

 

[LizzieMaine]

I don't care for hazelnuts, so I certainly don't want hazelnut flavor messing up my chocolate. But the kids at work swoon over the stuff, and will dunk anything in it, from a stick of celery to their fingers. I think it's icky, but they think my habit of eating tuna fish straight out of the can is icky. The Generation Gap.

 

[GHT]

Walmart has all kinds in the health food dept

I can't believe that no one has not noticed the irony of Walmart, health foods and candy bar in the same sentence.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I don't care for hazelnuts, so I certainly don't want hazelnut flavor messing up my chocolate. But the kids at work swoon over the stuff, and will dunk anything in it, from a stick of celery to their fingers. I think it's icky, but they think my habit of eating tuna fish straight out of the can is icky. The Generation Gap.

Nougatcream is the typical german breakfast-product and every day, maaany tons of it are consumpted all over the country.

And the funny thing about the german Nutella is, that exactly this famous nut-nougatcream tastes not like nougatcream, but rather than usual bittersweet-chocolate, I tell you.
There are cheaper storebrands at every supermarket (all with 13% hazelnuts, too) and all of them, which I tested, taste more near to real nougat, than Nutella. And there are some premium-brands around, which taste like real http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2013/02/nougat-brown.jpg nougat, indeed.

Sellerie-sticks with nougatcream?? Maybe, that should be imported to Germany. Usually, Germany hated Sellerie(salads).

Is "Currywurst" available in the US?

And the lovely classic https://www.colourbox.com/preview/1537172-hazelnut-and-chocolate-on-a-white-background.jpg got the problem, that it usually damages your gingival, on chewing it.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Okay, you did it. I just had to go out and get a Moon Pie. I probably haven't had one since I was 10. Now taking a bite.
Reasonably chewy, but not as much filling as I remembered.
Could be moister, but at least not too sugary.
Chocolate coating is undistinguished.
Fourth bite now. Can't really distinguish what that filling is.
Now I'm just finishing it because it's there.
I can't say the mystique is justified. A Hostess Twinkie is more pleasing to the palate. But nothing tastes like it did because our tastebuds deteriorate along with everything else.

 

[dh66]

I love Moonpies and, as they are readily available at any quick mart around here, eat them on a regular basis. I'm very partial to the banana flavor ones. They don't really taste like bananas, but then, the chocolate coated ones don't really taste that much like chocolate either. RC is fairly common to find down here, too, but some years back I eliminated sodas from my diet altogether. I will on rare occasion indulge in one (I have kind of a taste for the mandarin flavor Jarritos, and since none of the taco trucks down here serve beer.....) but after I lost over 20 pounds by doing nothing other than eliminating sodas, I am motivated to leave them alone.

Nutella (more often the cheaper store brand from Aldi) on a banana is a favorite breakfast of mine. I used to make sandwiches with it but these days I usually skip the bread to save time.
I also eat the tuna straight out of the can. Sometimes I throw a little Texas Pete on it and scoop it out onto saltine crackers, but to me it is a food unto itself, not an ingredient. I'd rather eat nothing at all than to eat tuna salad (or chicken salad or pretty much anything else salad that's glued together with mayonnaise) and I only have a slightly higher opinion of tuna casserole. But I digress...were talking about candy bars, not canned fish. There was a time in my life when a snickers and a mountain dew was lunch fairly regularly, but I haven't had either of those in years.

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[Trenchfriend]

Nutella (more often the cheaper store brand

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Gimme five!

Nutella, to me:
-much to sweet
-too "oily"
-maybe kind of rancid taste
-no taste like nut-nougat (too much kakao)

All store-brands seems to be better.

 

[dh66]

Gimme five!

Nutella, to me:
-much to sweet
-too "oily"
-maybe kind of rancid taste
-no taste like nut-nougat (too much kakao)

All store-brands seems to be better.

Agreed. I prefer the store brand. It is usually thicker and less sweet. Except for the walmart store brand. It's so runny its almost like a jar of syrup. Still less sweet, though.

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[HudsonHawk]

Okay, you did it. I just had to go out and get a Moon Pie. I probably haven't had one since I was 10. Now taking a bite.
Reasonably chewy, but not as much filling as I remembered.
Could be moister, but at least not too sugary.
Chocolate coating is undistinguished.
Fourth bite now. Can't really distinguish what that filling is.
Now I'm just finishing it because it's there.
I can't say the mystique is justified. A Hostess Twinkie is more pleasing to the palate. But nothing tastes like it did because our tastebuds deteriorate along with everything else.

The filling should be marshmallow. If you think it might have been anything else, you'll want to get a shot.

 

[HudsonHawk]

I love Moonpies and, as they are readily available at any quick mart around here, eat them on a regular basis. I'm very partial to the banana flavor ones. They don't really taste like bananas, but then, the chocolate coated ones don't really taste that much like chocolate either.

I'm a traditionalist when it comes to Moon Pies. Chocolate.

On a side note...my wife and I were sitting by the fire last weekend, and she suggested we make s'mores. Which we did. I tried explaining that a s'more was basically just a homemade Moon Pie on a stick. She didn't appreciate the history lesson and found it offensive to her Girl Scout sensibilities.