When I was little Hawaiian Punch only came in big, family sized cans. They were made with sugar, rather than high fructose corn syrup, and therefore, tasted quite different. Now it comes in plastic bottles and leaves a chemical after taste. Yuk!
Before I stopped eating meat, way back in the 70’s, Taco Bell had this menu item called an Enchirito. It was basically their version of an enchilada. It was kind of like their ground beef burrito and it was covered in enchilada sauce and melted, shredded cheese, with slices of black olives on top. They also had another item called a Bell Beefer, which was their beef taco filling put onto a bun with lettuce and cheese. I think they might have recently brought it back. It was kind of like a Mexican sloppy joe. Del Taco had something almost identical called a Bun Taco.
Doritos recently came out with a retro package version of their Taco Chips and to my delight, they tasted just as I remembered them. I only bought the one bag, because they’re so not good for you, but I just had to try them.
They still have Shakey’s Pizza Parlors out here, but they’re not the same thing as the Original, in fact, I believe the Shakey’s business was defunct for sometime, and then made a comeback, but the restaurants and the pizza are completely different. Shakey’s used to be my favorite pizza of all time, it was New York style and covered in ooey, gooey mozzarella cheese with a nice tangy sauce. Now it tastes like the stuff you get a Cici’s, it’s fine, but nothing to write home about. The original Shakey’s pizza was like pizza nirvana. The new restaurants might as well be sports bars, the original restaurants had more of a British pub feeling to them and they had a player piano that you could put quarters into and play old timey songs and on the weekends they had a live banjo player.