Pickles
When I first moved to Cincinnati in the early 80s, my sweetheart introduced me to hot dill pickles that could be purchased at bars & pony kegs around the town. Establishments would have 5 gallon jars with hot or mild pickled cucumbers, pickled eggs & pickled pigsfeet. It was fairly common to see groups of kids walk into dark smoky bars to purchase these delights that were served up wrapped in paper.
Over the years, the pony kegs either got cheap & seedier than tolerable or went corporate, the bars went seedy or trendy, regardless, the pickled crap disappeared. King Kwik sold out or went out of business, I forget. The remaining convenience stores might have carried individually packaged hot dills from some far off corporate pickling plant but they just were not the same.
Bill's or Bob's or whatever that place was that later became The Comet sold the crap as late as the mid 90s. Does anybody in Cincinnati still sell the pickled goodness?