A sorrowful biscuit caveat and some more food reminiscence
I’ve received several comments in this thread, as well as emails, alerting me to the fact that Garibaldi biscuits might just be the fabled raisin cookie I’ve been looking for.
I thank one and all for your help—but alas, they’re not. The Garibaldis are softer, although they’re probably the closest thing made at present and I aim to try some.
And as dedicated as I am to the quest, I cannot even imagine going to all this trouble, but I include the recipe for the more ambitions among you.
And no, Sunshine Golden Raisin Biscuits (now defunct, of course!) were not the same either. The package was wrong, and according to those who have tasted them the cookie was not as flat.
But Keebler, who took over from Sunshine—how could you have pulled the plug on the raisin biscuits? Hearts of stone.
Keebler is hardly the only offender, though. Feast your eyes (because unfortunately you cannot feast anything else) on The List of the Fallen. There are the Sunshine Golden Raisin Biscuits, but so much else as well.
I can’t say I miss Lipton Giggle Noodle Soup, but apparently somebody does. I missed it first time around.
But oh no, Sara Lee’s German Chocolate Cake! Say it isn’t so, Sara! I hesitate to describe how I used to eat this cake back when I was a teenager, but let’s just say the frosting was mighty good, the cake part only so-so, and a great deal of the latter ended up going down the disposal.
And Pom-Pom’s, my favorite candy as a child! Look on my works ye mighty and despair. And Nabisco Devil’s Food Cakes, about which I was just reminiscing the other day, gone. All, all are sleeping on the hill.
But in case you’re getting too depressed, here are some survivors. I recall that these were much tastier than lifesavers, but that didn’t ensure they’d win out (although apparently they are still available in esoteric places):
And these always promised much but the paper stuck to the blasted things—or perhaps they stuck to the paper. Either way, not very fine, but they’re still here:
And yet… i still hear once in a blue moon, the phrase “has more than carters has little liver pills”.
though the atlantic and pacific tea company is still around… its A&P now… 🙂
did you know that guldens is older than frenchs?
and this might be fun for you too
List of oldest companies
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
for instance… Kongo Gumi is a corporation that has been around for 1400 years… (before it was purchased)
and the key? its a dynastic firm… that is family dynasties are what makes them possible… just as “stubbs” in the south started as a small barbecue joint after the war… and now supports a whole african american family since then, and is worth millions and millions…
A 10-foot 17th century scroll traces the 40 generations back to the company’s start. As with many distinguished Japanese families, sons-in-law often joined the clan and took the KongĂ…ÂŤ family name. Thus, through the years, the line has continued through either a son or a daughter.
however, only a family dynasty can do such things..
maybe this explains why the policies of those on top and the left is to destroy families.
after all, walmart is from what?
Mars candy is from what?
The company fell on hard times and went into liquidation in January 2006. Its assets were purchased by Takamatsu Corporation.[1] [2] Before its liquidation, it had over 100 employees and annual revenue of ÂĄ7.5 billion ($70 million) in 2005; it had still specialized in building Buddhist temples. The last president was Masakazu KongĂ…ÂŤ, the 40th KongĂ…ÂŤ to lead the firm. As of December 2006, KongĂ…ÂŤ Gumi continues to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Takamatsu.
care to list out the biggest firms… and those who are oldest?
you will find a who’s who of those who move the world…
the ONLY way to prevent this and secure the place on the top of the hill is either to compete like kongo gumi and maintain merit and competition..
or
you work to destroy the engine that creates dynasties and competitors while puting your money into tax free trusts which keeps socialists from gettign to it like everyone else.
as you can see on the lists that some of the oldes are breweries, hotels, taverns, and construction.
restaurants/ food came a bit later… then pharmacies…(after all have to invent medicine before someone can dominate that).
you may notice that contrary to public opinion the movers and the shakers of the world are hotel owners!
then in the 1500s came infrastructure giants… but hotels and others still move on..
so your take on products also leads to an interesting line of inquiry to history, economics, etc.
AND it also shows you why the US is hated… the US has only appeared on this list within 300 years of now..
yet the list goes back 1400 years…
maybe the US was hated more for the fact that it disproved that such positions of dynasties could be held any more…
the great american economic machine allowed a country that was all new, to create companies and dynasties that put similar out of business in other coutries and in essence destroyed the dynasties with them.
one only needs to read about the origin of hershey chockolate… it was started by a man who knew nothign about chockolate!!! he ended up souring the milk used in it, and the classic taste of hersheys was born… you would gag on lunch if you knew how much product they make and use.
the oldest USA company on the list is the Shirley Plantation. the ultimate Kulaks.
Shirley Plantation, settled in 1613, is the oldest active plantation in Virginia and said to be the oldest family-owned business in North America, dating back to 1638. Occupied by the Hill family and their descendants since 1738, the mother of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Anne Hill Carter, was born at Shirley and in 1793, married Light Horse Harry Lee in the mansion’s parlor. Construction of the present mansion began in 1723 when Elizabeth Hill, great-granddaughter of the first Hill, married John Carter, eldest son of Robert “King” Carter. Completed in 1738, the mansion, referred to as the “Great House,” is largely in its original state and is owned, operated, and lived in by direct descendants of Edward Hill. The Carter family has lived in the house for ten generations, with the eleventh generation currently occupying the house.
in fact if you study your details, you may notice that the last century was shaped by inter-related people from all these dynasties… and mergers of new wealth with old to secure it.
the wealthy know that the only game in reality is dynasty. you cant be immortal, and your genes are the important ones (if you care), and so dynasty is the only real game… so everything is designed to prevent that from happening. from destruction of family, high taxes, minimum wages, patent office changes, education that makes workers not thinkers, and on and on.
after all, they are all voting their self interest, and they all know each other. the coumn from sci american, later a book and series, called connections 2 would give you an idea of it.
want to know whether your likely to succeed in an endeavor? are you connected to any of these.. if so, you may be ‘lifted up’ to take a place. they dont care about race, or antyhing other than dynasty…
you can start anywhere and trace back…
lets say the beatles… sir paul.. neveau rich…
who did he marry? oh yeah… linda eastman.. who was no related to eastman kodak (as popularly told), but was part of dynasty through her mother… lindner eastman… the lindner department store fortune…
http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=SC10
The Lindner Co., once the largest women’s specialty store in Cleveland, was begun by Max Lindner, Max Hellman, and MORRIS BLACK†in Apr. 1908 on E. 9th St., and by 1915 Lindner had built and occupied a larger store at 1331 Euclid Ave.
so you can trace them… you know where max lindners kids came from… and how about max hellman? ever hear of lillian hellman?
this is what made connections 2 even more interesting… as everyone that did soemthing kind of knew or were related to others that did.
there are dynasties all over… jane fonda is part of what? mariel hemmingway?
it becomes depressing if your from a nothing family or like me your family lost its connection thanks to the wars…
you can do this with almost any major hitter…
so from the products you love stem the finances that support dynasties… the longer the dynasty lasts, the longer your likely to see your products.
Mars is a candy operation owned by the Mars family… they make the bars that we have loved for generations…
families and dynasties live by culture and traditions… and so they see the loved products as being made in a way that reflects tradition of their family. to change the product is to change the work that great grandad did, and so let the air out of the machine that established them and their posterity.
oh… the other thing that comes from all this is the knowlege or loss of knowlege that capitalism is about making others happy.
the reward of doing this is wealth and preservation…
those that make people happier, even a short while, make more.
a baseball players salary makes no sense unless you measure it against happiness… then it makes perfect sense. he makes thousands happy, while i make about 10 people happy… he makes a thousand times more than me, because he can make 1000 times more people happy than i can.
so dynasty is the reward of a family that plays together and works together rather than follwoing the neo concepts.
you cant destroy culture, without destroying products and things we love in culture.
conserving that is a no no… cause its change change change until its changed so much that only a few have power adn then they lock it down.
from 1917 on, most russians had little hope…
so next time you enjoy a cookie, or a product that is pretty old… like heinz ketsup… think of all the history that surrounded it to create a dynasty who saw their money making and business as a tradition that supported them.
then think of how the system now prevents the majority from doing this.
The item missing from my shopping cart for over 10 years now – and regretted each trip – is the Sunshine Ginger Snaps.
They were crispy, very gingery, and quite low in fat.
Keebler discontinued them on acquiring Sunshine, and I have never forgiven them.
Back in the 780’s and into the early 80’s Charms were packed as part of the survival equipment in our personal vests that was part of a pilot’s equipment. Somewhere there is still a pack from 1975 that’s probably still edible.
And just this afternoon at the drugstore I saw a Sky Bar, which I hadn’t seen, or at least hadn’t noticed, in years.
Then there are the regional offerings no one even recalls… I am the ONLY person alive, I’m convinced, who remembers “Carnation Breakfast Squares.” Not “Breakfast Bars,” which looked like candy bars even unto the chocolate coating, nor “Quaker Breakfast Squares,” which are dried oatmeal, but Breakfast Squares: 2 to a package, I think four packages to a box, a squatty square comprising two very dense, rather un-sweet, kinda chalky cake-like layers with a “cream” filling that was likewise not very sweet and certainly not very creamy, topped with a “frosting” that was – likewise – not very sweet and had no passing acquaintance with butter. I LOOOOOOVED these things. This was in Iowa between 1974 and 1976 (thank you, USAF, for giving me a useful timeline against which to project the significant events of my childhood!).
Wait, wait, at least a few people remember them, according to Google! The Internet is fabulous.