Sir Chomps-a-Lot
There's oddball foods from my childhood that stand out in my mind. There's the obvious things like Magic Middles and PB Crisps, and then the more obscure things like Pizza flavored salad dressing and my good friend Sir Chops-a-Lot. While the product is still being made under the title "Micro Ravioli" it dons a label no more interesting than a can of generic brand tomato soup. Now as an adult when I eat it all I can taste is high fructose corn syrup, but in the early 90s, it was one of my biggest staples. It was one of those foods I knew how to make myself and I felt really big because of it. I loved Sir Chomps-a-Lot so much that I often didn't even chew the dime-sized pasta, I swallowed them whole as I assumed Sir Chomps did himself.
Whether he was an alligator or a crocodile, I can't tell you. I was never an expert on reptiles, surprising as that may be with all the photos of me as a child holding snakes. Why I have so many photos of me holding snakes and what exactly my parents were thinking when they decided taking their kids off for an afternoon with deadly animals is just one of the many unsolved mysteries of my foggy childhood memories. I was never a sharp child, I couldn't even keep track of which days the music teacher was supposed to come and teach us how to play 3 Blind Mice on our flutophones. I was too busy trying to teach ants how to swim in plastic bottlecap pools.
Sadly I don't recall seeing the Sir Chomps-a-Lot character in many, many years so it's entirely possible that he was destroyed by Y2K. I miss that British son of a bitch with his bowler hat and pimp cane. There's far too many good products these days going without cute and marketable mascots.
So who wants me to go to Little Caesar's this weekend and blog about it? Everyone? Yes? Pizza pizza?
Um, hell yes! Do those even exist anymore??
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I also remember pizza flavored salad dressing. There was also a nacho, super creamy ranch, and a taco one. I ate alot of salads because of those things.
Please blog about Little Ceasars. That went out of business years ago here when Papa Johns and Murphy's came.
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There is still a little Caesars here. Its about 15 minutes away. You can get a pizza for $5. All the crazy bread and crazy sauce is still around as well.
As for the taco flavored salad dressing, I loved that stuff. But then I moved out of my grandpa's house when I was a kid, and left the dressing in the fridge. That dressing was there for 2 YEARS, lol...
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OMG hell yes on blogging Little Ceasars! The one here is white trash (scary) central in K-Mart here. I remember the pizza flavored salad dressing... I thought it was scary bad... but I was a ranch kid... I ate EVERYTHING with ranch during that time... we had the little shaker and made Hidden Valley packets like no tomorrow. I don't remember Sir-Chomps though... but I clearly remember Nintendo Cereal and some other random junk food junk.
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Man, do I miss Little Casear's! We also had one in our K-Mart and used to go after church and pick up their pizza and breadsticks. Mmm...their breadsticks rivaled Olive Garden's and their pizza was way the hell better than Pizza Hut's (at least to me they were)! The last time I genuinely had it was my 15th birthday, which was nearly a decade ago.
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I have been trying to find someone who remembers the pizza, taco, and nacho flavored salad dressings! I used to live off of those in the early 90's... Who made them??
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