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Originally posted by KappaKittyCat
Munchkin's right about Orangina in Italy. I lived in Florence and my friends used to get that every day with lunch. Munchkin, where did you live?
Not that they've been discontinued-- as far as I know they still exist-- but I miss book orders. Remember when you were in elementary school and you got to order books straight from the publisher for cheap every month? We got them from tons of publishers, something like three every month, and I always ordered at least three books from each order. Books are one thing my mother never refused to buy me. But now I'm too old and there are no book orders for me any more. 
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I am happy to say that book orders are alive and well.....I loved them too, and I really felt old when my daughter brought her first Scholastic Book Club order form home in her little backpack.
Speaking of old, this may really date me, but does anyone remember Chocolite candy bars? They were partially segmented, like a caramello is, but they were just a chunky, normal candy bar shape. They had these tiny bubbles in them that gave them a lighter, sort of crispy texture. They had this very typically 70s sunburst pattern on them, and the wrapper was like that, all these colors in a sunburst pattern.....ahh.....
And how about Skor bars???? Ooooh, my mouth waters just thinking of them......they were that really thick, heavy toffee covered in chocolate. You'd bite into it and it would just kind of crumble off into your mouth in a big hunk.....and when you chewed it, invariably the toffee would get stuck in your molars and you'd practically need a power drill to get them out.......good times!!!!!!!!
And last but not least, what about Red Barn? Maybe it was a local thing, but when I was little (and actually all the way up into high school) we had these restaurants that were actually big red barns, and it was called Red Barn. They had burgers and chicken and fish, and they had little cartoon burgers and chicken and fish that were their symbols just like Ronald McDonald and Grimace. They were the first place out there to get a salad bar.......ooh, a salad bar!!!!!! What an innovation!!!!!!! But we thought it was really groovy at the time. LOVED Red Barn. (Burger Chef too, now that I think of it.)