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1920s Food Products You Can Still Buy Today By Jay Wilson Nov. 19, 2025 6:19 pm EST

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It's no secret that food products come and go. Nowadays, it can feel as though every few months, your favorite new item is wrenched from shelves before you can stock up. This is the reality of the ultra-competitive food industry, in which new brands are constantly battling for your attention: It's estimated that about 15,000 new food products are introduced to the market each year, and 90% of all of those will fail. So it's pretty amazing when brands can last not just a decade or two, but a century. And what's even more amazing is that so many of the items we love today have managed to do so.

We're not quite sure what was in the water during the 1920

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