Arch Deluxe

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1990s, Arch Deluxe, bacon, Big Mac, cheese, expensive, Food, lettuce, McDonald's, onion, quarter pound beef patty, sesame seed bun, special sauce, tomato

Arch Deluxe (McDonald’s, 1990s)

During the 1990s, McDonald’s threw a $150 million “away” to market their newest burger that contained a quarter-pound beef patty, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, peppered bacon, tomatoes and onions on a sesame seed bun. Does this sound very familiar to you? If so, you’re not alone; the Arch Deluxe was very much similar to their staple Big Mac. In fact, most customers dubbed the Arch Deluxe as “A More Expensive Big Mac” and steered clear.

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Spicy Chicken Biscuit

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breakfast, Chick-Fil-A, Egg White Grill, flaky, Food, Spicy Chicken Biscuit

Spicy Chicken Biscuit (Chick-Fil-A)

Another breakfast menu item but with a twist. If you head into Chick-Fil-A, you can still get the Chicken Biscuit, but you cannot get the Spicy Chicken Biscuit anymore. What it was was a flaky, butter-laden biscuit with a spicy filet of chicken inside. They removed the Spicy Chicken Biscuit to make way for the Egg White Grill, which contains an egg white, grilled chicken breast and a slice of American cheese on a toasted nultigrain English muffin.

Waffle Taco

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2010s, biscuit, Biscuit Taco, breakfast, curl up, egg, Food, sausage, Taco Bell, Waffle Taco

Waffle Taco (Taco Bell, 2014-2015)

In 2014, Taco Bell offered you up a breakfast item with their Waffle Taco. It was essentially an egg and sausage breakfast sandwich atop a waffle novelty biscuit that you could curl up like a taco. The item was nixed in 2015 when Taco Bell introduced their Biscuit Taco.

Space Dust

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1970s, candy, Food, General Foods, lack of sales, Pop Rocks, powdered, short shelf life, Space Dust

Space Dust (General Foods, 1970s)

Space Dust is a similar candy product to Pop Rocks, but was in powdered form. Pop Rocks is, of course, the hard candy that creates a small popping reaction when it dissolves in your mouth. Pop Rocks was patented in 1961 but not manufactured to the public until 1975. It was withdrawn in 1983 due to its lack of success in the marketplace and since it has such a short shelf life. Many many times distribution led to consumers receiving out-of-date products.

Lemon Coolers

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cookies, crumbly, Food, Keebler, Lemon Coolers, Niche Foods Company, Old Time Favorites, online recipes, powdered sugar, Sunshine

Lemon Coolers (Sunshine Biscuits)

Lemon Coolers were crumbly lemon cookies coated with powdered sugar and sprinkled with lemony bits. They disappeared (much to the dismay of the public) from grocery store shelves when Sunshine Biscuits merged with Keebler in 1996. As tends to happen, there were many online petitions to bring them back and Niche Foods Company have attempted to do it. Niche Foods Company is dedicated to bringing back many “Old Time Favorites” foods when they introduced Lemon Cookies with the tagline “Cooler than ever.” Are they the same? Fans say they’re close. They aren’t as chewy or as lemony and they aren’t quite as tart. If you’re interested in trying to make your own, there are also numerous recipes online.

Blood Pancakes

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bind milk and flour, blodplattar, Blood Pancakes, breakfast, dense, egg substitute, extra protein, Food, iron, metallic taste, molasses, savory, Scandinavia, veriohukainen

Blood Pancakes (Scandinavia)

Scandinavians are a hearty bunch — they had to be to survive those sometimes harsh and brutal winters. While modern Scandinavians may not fight so hard anymore, their ancestors had to make the most of every animal hunted; meaning nothing was wasted. Hooves were boiled down into gelatin, hearts were fried into nuggets and blood was baked into pancakes. Blood acts as an egg substitute and kicks in extra protein and binds the milk and flour together. Without eggs, these pancakes are dense, savory and dark — and loaded with iron. To counteract a metallic taste, cooks throw in spices or sweeteners like molasses. In Finland, where blood pancakes are believed to have originated, they are known as veriohukainen. In Sweden, they are known as blodplattar. Most modern recipes call for pig or cow blood, though the blood of any animal will do. Remaining popular in Finland, the Finnish can skip the entire preparation process and buy ready-made frozen blood pancakes.

Baby Mice Wine

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12 to 14 months, Alive, Baby Mice Wine, bei jiu, bottle, China, Drink, eyes closed, fermented, Food, health tonic, Korea, possible contamination, rice wine, tastes like gasoline, three day old, traditional

Baby Mice Wine (Korea)

Baby mice wine is a traditional Chinese and Korean health tonic. As little as three-day old mice, whose eyes are still closed are stuffed alive into a bottle of rice wine (bei jiu). After fermenting for 12 to 14 months, hopefully they are finally safe to drink. Some words of caution: If not properly collected, the mice can end up contaminating your drink. If you’re still interested in giving this a try, be warned the wine is said to taste like gasoline.

Stinkheads

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Alaska, buried underground, cloth sack, delicacy, e. coli, fermented, Food, salmon, Stinkheads, week

Stinkheads

Stinkheads are a favorite in Alaska and are fermented salmon heads that really and truly do stink. The heads are placed in a cloth sack and buried in barrel underground for about a week to ferment. When dug up, they are slightly mashed with a fork and consumed as is.

Stinkheads were responsible for a spike in E. coli outbreaks in Alaska in the mid-1980s.

Witchetty Grub

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aboriginal, almonds, Australian, cooked until crispy, Food, high in protein, raw, witchetty bush, witchetty grubs

Witchetty Grub

These grubs are named after the bush they feed on (the witchetty bush) and are a staple in the diets of Aboriginal Australians. They are said to taste like almonds or any lightly cooked nuts and are high in protein. The grubs live about 2 feet under the ground. When handled they release a brown liquid as their defense mechanism. After they are dug up, the witchetty grubs can be eaten raw or cooked in hot ashes so their skin goes crispy. Their cooked center goes yellow like a hard boiled egg.

Big Time

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3 cents, Big Time, caramel, chocolate, chocolate bar, Food, Frank Mars, Hershey's, Hollywood Brands, Mars Incorporated, Milky Way, nougat, Peanuts, Zero

Big Time

Another candy bar produced by the Hollywood Brands company was the Big Time bar. It was a bar with peanuts in a nougat center topped with caramel and chocolate.

The Hollywood Brands company was notable because they discovered a method of making fluffy nougat for candy bars that Frank Mars copied for his Milky Way bars. (Frank Mars founded the Mars, Incorporated company which makes Mars, Twix and M&M’s among others.) In the beginning as well, by using real and quality ingredients, company founder Frank Martoccio was able to sell his candy bars for 3 cents, undercutting Hershey’s 5 cent bars at the time. (This was back in the 1930s until 1955.) He sold the company in 1967 and the quality standards were not continued. Today, Hershey’s retains all the brands owned by Hollywood. The only bars that still exist today from Hollywood’s line are Zero and Milky Way.