So, Posse! This is a vaguely Get Off My Lawn post – about food(s) that just… vanish. Not our Beloveds of Yesteryear (aka childhood favorites – that’s for another post) – this one is .. you know when you find something at the grocery store you end up adoring? Only to have it vanish! – usually some packaged good that isn’t really even seasonal – just regular stuff, GAWN!
Saturdays Francine and I were discussing this a few days ago, when she was mourning her lost love, Jewel Foods Signature Select Bourbon Barrel Aged Syrup.
according to her, this stuff is THE stuff! But now it’s gone. Which reminded me of mine own Lost Loves – like these lovely little (teeny) dark chocolate covered round caramels I used to get on the ‘gotcha’ shelves at Trader Joe’s checkout. Rich and creamy, juuuust big enough for one to sate my sweets craving on the Long Slog Home… gone. (sidenote: this really is a GOML Moment – folks of a Certain Age nearly always say ‘hmmm… I don’t know that one (if they don’t know X) but I don’t think we have it anymore – let me check’ whereas the young’uns? They will want to FIGHT! about it ever having existed! As if Earth couldn’t possibly have existed before they entered into it. Reminds me of when the youngest cub was sooo excited to introduce me to this INCREDIBLE NEW ARTIST! The artist? Marvin Gaye. Who’d been DEAD 5 years before the cub was born! Yah. He, too, wanted to FIGHT! about it. Oh, my FLOYD! I am That Old Lady. Well, and what of it!! Y’all still need to get off my lawn.
One of my other mourned loves? The brownies at Marshall Field & Company, back when it was still & Company and had a full in-house kitchen and bakery. Huge, fudgy brownies, packed with walnuts and a not-quite-homemade (but close enough) chocolate frosting. It would take all day to finish one (they really were huge) but oh, so good. I make brownies all the time (from scratch) and they are actually better than the MF&Co brownies… but they aren’t the MF&Co brownies! if that makes any sense.
And these little fellas 
the perfect yuzu tart/sweet gummy candy
I’ve got a bad feeling about these – they’re becoming less and less accessible at my Asian Market and I don’t eat them often enough to warrant buying them in bulk… I dunno… what do you think? Should I spring for several bags to hold Just in Case? I mean… it’s gummy candy! It’ll probably still be here when my great grandchildren are in their dotage. Right?
What about you? Is there anything (relatively recent) that you’ve fallen in love with, only to have it vanish?
Photos: pexels, Saturdays Francine and I stole the yuzu off the interwebs