Resurrecting The Classics

It's in the news that those wonderful, chalky candy Valentine hearts are in short supply this year. In fact, after the ownership debacle at Necco in 2018 (auction, with Spangler Candy Company the winner, then Metropolous buying, then secretly selling to back to Spangler), Sweethearts were not produced in time for this Valentines Day. No doubt they will be back next year.

The plight of this nostalgic candy got me thinking about other classics. For example, in the food space (pardon the upcoming pun), what ever happened with Space Food Sticks? Talk about deliciously gritty! These 3-bite snacks were the food of astronauts, right? In all the years of launching folks into space, this is still the only inter-planetary food to hit our supermarket shelves? That's disappointing.

And as sedentary as we complain about our kids being, it would seem to be a perfect time to resurrect Shake-a-Pudd'n. You want a pudding snack, kid? Work for it! And with new science, we could time the exercise-congealing process to be 1 second longer than the calories in the snack, thus a net benefit to the consumer's health. Genius!

But don't stop there. Let's bring back the original Mustang Hatchback, too. What a dream: Rollin' down the highway in a 'Stang, chomping on a Space Food Stick while big rigs crisscross the highway as their drivers shake their puddin's.