Laura had a great topic started under Drake's cakes- still exist but not available everywhere outside of NY. How about products from our life in the Bronx that are no longer around? Things like Lux soap, Cashmere bouquet and Dier Kiss body powders- used to be in metal cans before plastic. DelMonte or Libby canned vegetables, Gleem toothpaste, Halo shampoo, Tab soda, Modess feminine products, Tussy deoderant, Tame creme rinse. Can't remember the laundry detergents that used to have towels or washclothes in the box, plaid stamps, S&H green stamps. Can you name more?

JELLO 1 2 3 .....DUZ DETERGENT....AJAX CLEANSER....PRELL SHAMPOO.....LUSTER CREME SHAMPOO

Yes-Prell shampoo- sometimes can still find it- does not smell the same and isn't sold in the tubes that were advertised to float in the water.

Ipana toothpaste.

Kraft tangy Italian spaghetti (came in a green box). Can't get it up north but they still sell it in Florida.

And remember dictophones? I used one years ago.

Eight-track players

Aluminum siding

THere was a Nabisco Marshmellow filled sandwhich cookie that I loved that no longer exists..I don't remember the name.

THAT MARSHMALLOW SANDWICH WAS SOOO GOOD. SO ARE MALLOMARS, BUT THEY ARE STILL AROUND.

OMG...Modess! You know, there is actually a MUSEUM about that stuff. It is called "MOM", Museum of Menstruation", started by a guy, no less, and has all the feminine hygiene products, gadgets, commercials, newspaper ads, going back to the early 1900's. Interesting to see what the ladies wore back then.

Gosh, you guys remember so many products! Maybe it's because I'm away from the Bronx for so many years that I've forgotten so much.

I am glad for one thing we get down here: Boar's Head cold cuts...otherwise known as lunch meat down here. We also get brusiutto can't spell it, suprasot, can't spell that either, mortadola, cappacola. I miss the mozzarella in water, we don't have that here.

We don't have the mozzarella in water down here either. No dried sausage, no Italian delicacies of any kind. I really miss that a lot. I also can't get Fontina cheese, which I use in a lot of recipes. My brother brings me a few wedges when he comes to visit and I hoard it as though it were gold.

Cahmere Bouquet and Delmonte and Libby vegetables in cans are still sold.

Some others come to mind: Sealtest, Breakstone, Breyer's. Remember the dairy farm, was that Tremont Ave. or Webster Ave.? Is it still there?

Sunday, January 23, 2005, 10:36 hrs. pst.

"Sun-Dew Orange Drink". I loved that stuff. It can't have tasted as good as I remember. It came in a conical waxed cardboard container of about 6 ounces, reinforced at the smaller top and and the bottom with circles of metal. After one youthful pyrolytic experiment, I discarded the remains of the Sun-Dew container down my Parkchester apartment john, necessitating a visit by the Parkchester plumber. "Are you sure you didn't throw something down here kid?" "No-o-o-o-o" It took him about twenty minutes of hard work with the snake to force the unburnt rings down the waste pipe. Fortunately, everything went down, so there was no incriminating evidence.

Cordially,
YOGI

I remember those Sun Dew drinks, I always had them in my lunchbox. And Mike those cookies were the best with the soft yellow cookie and sticky marshmallow. Good stuff.

How about Cott and Hoffman sodas.I remember my family bought these regularly and sarsparilla was a favorite.They seemed to prefer Hoffman's to Cott's for that.Does anyone make sarsparilla anymore? It's very similar to root beer if I recall correctly.