It’s frustrating when they stop making some sort of mass produced food product that you enjoy. Some things are generic enough that you can find a passable substitute. But it’s usually impossible to get the right combination of chemicals and industrial textures that your memory craves. What is your favorite long lost food item?
Apple Jacks will never die.
Lunakrypt and Radical Edward know what’s up. Oreo O’s were amazing.
Planter’s Cheez Curlz. Cheetos just ain’t the same.
And Now Little Debbie has destroyed my favorite cupcakes and turned them into Hostess copies.
@everyone who misses Surge
Man that stuff was Nasty. Well, IS nasty. They still sell where I’m at. I miss my MELLO YELLO. They had the gall to replace that with Surge. NOT a good substitute. Neither is Mountain Dew, so don’t go there lol. It just isnt the same.
How I miss thee, oh sweet deliciousness that was Mello Yello. I always loved you. XD
When I was in Mexico about ten years ago, I was addicted to the apple joya’s. Can’t get them here in Missouri, not even at the specialty pop store in the St. Louis Mills mall. I tried a different flavored apple pop…and it just wasn’t the same.
A little known cereal called corn bran. It was like little brown pillows of amazing.
Plantars made P.B. Crisp which I barely remember from my early childhood. Flaky crispy soft shell around a peanut buttery center sweet enough to be candy. Nutter Butters can’t even compare.
Anyone seen these anywhere?
@Snook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEbpgLEcz_M
Whoh. I actually remember Mello Yello.
I’d hate to see the look on Biff’s face when it finishes.
Oreo O’s, 3D Doritos, and a few others will all be missed…
But what I miss most is Chili’s High and Mighty Ice Cream Pie. Apparently they discontinued it because too much melted during shipping. By now I can barely remember what it was like, but I know it was good. I’m only 18, but it’s gotten to the point where no Chili’s employees even know about it anymore.
Jalapeno Dorito 3D’s and Pepsi Blue
Of course Dorito’s Jalapeno 3D’s were the best. I have never found anyone who didn’t like them. This past year when they were releasing a new flavor I thought they got their senses back, however it was just 5 or 6 strange new flavors. I tried the late night Jalapeno poppers, but That was a swing and miss.
I went through Army basic in the past 6 months and heard about a new blue soda. My heart skipped a beat as i imagined the orgasmic taste of Pepsi Blue. It turned out that it was just Mountain Dew Voltage which is delicious but I can no longer get due to being stationed in Germany. Besides it’s too good so it’ll be discontinued any day now.
I miss Jack-in-the-box tacos, none left in the midwest, or at least Michigan.
When I’m on the road and find one I always stop and get a few.
Jello Pudding Pops.
Jones’ Soda is going out of business?! *cries… and goes out to buy a lot of it.*
Other than that, Garlic Butter Ritz are a food item I will miss forever. ;A; They were so gooooooood…~ I love garlic, I love salt, and I love Ritz, and they took away that lovely combination.
The product I will likely miss for the rest of my life was a Pepsi soda called Josta. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josta
That soda was incredibly delicious, but alas… it will likely never return.
Highliner Fish-rings, kind of like onion rings, but with generic processed fish inside.
@Tetsudai
Rice Crispy Treats cereal is the best! I can still get it every now and then, but the whole box is gone in a day.
Also, Dunkaroos. Especially the kind with confetti icing. How I miss those!
Cinnamon french toast. the taste has haunted my dreams for years. if they ever remake it though, it’ll probably suck. Like honey combs changed.
I miss my beloved Oreo cereal and those cheap but massively chocolaty, Wonka Chocolate Donuts! T_T They were like 25 cents! Why?!
Ugh, I have a bunch! I miss Vault, that Mountain-Dewish energy drink thingy? I dunno what the difference is between that and Amp, but sometimes I just want a plastic bottle lol.
My store actually sells Dunkaroos! If they ever get rid of it, I would be devastated D:
WOW I forgot about the Oreo Os! They were my favorite! And Doritos 3D… mmmm
Haha, my store actually sells Quisp as well. It’s pricey, though… maybe it will make a comeback elsewhere.
I’m just happy to see Boo Berry back on the shelves during Holloween, it used to be that they would only release Count Chocula and Franken Berry. Of course it wastn’t the flavor I liked, it was the fact that he was blue.
Carnation Breakfast Bars are what I miss the most (not the chewy ones they morphed into later, but the original firm and somewhat crumbly ones). I was partial to the Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter kind. It seems silly but they were far better and more flavorful than anything out there now. *Sigh*…
Ecto Cooler, again.
I don’t know if I’d call them my “favorites”, but the holiday-dinner-flavored six packs Jones used to sell around Thanksgiving were certainly different.
@SilentDragon – Reed’s Dairy was mentioned in Saveur Magazine recently for, among other things, having black licorice flavored ice cream. http://www.reedsicecream.com
Keebler used to make these mini chocolate chip cookies with chocolate cream filling.
For about a year there was a delicious “butterfinger bites” cereal as Simpsons cross-promotion.
Ecto cooler.
Butter Brickle icecream and soda with real sugar. PepsiCo will be producing another run of Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback this December, made with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. I got some Mt.D throwback the first time, that first drink was a flashback to the 1970′s when soda was real soda and little furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real little furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. As for Pepsi Throwback, I only managed to get one bottle. Dayum! That stuff is actually better than CocaCola!
Yeah the fruit shaped Twix is utterly wrong. Looks like it’s been coated with non-osmotic, semi-permeable, non-nutritive cereal varnish. I miss the Crunch Berries that was just the berries. When they ended that they put other ghastly flavors in the regular Crunch Berries.
I don’t think I have anything too out there, but Ravioli-Os were recently discontinued as far as I can tell. I also loved Count Chocula. Archway chocolate chip cookies(the crunchy ones) are mostly dead and only appear in stores once every three months or so. Not gone, but they changed the pepperoni in Red Baron’s Deep Dish Singles, it’s actually regular pepperoni now, but the diced cubes worked so well. Totino’s did something similar. Is there some market for sliced and cubed pepperoni that I don’t know about that fluctuates?
Crystal Pepsi
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pies
S’mores Crunch cereal (the currently available Smorz is a poor substitute)
I miss Pepsi Blue ;_;
The original Trix cereal.
And a sort of gummy fruit candy that came in the shape of little ellipsoids. I think I miss its smell most.
I second that longing for Crystal Pepsi.
Food: Care Bear Waffles. I know they were just ‘miscellaneous fake berry’ flavored, but they were awesome, and no other frozen waffle has ever tasted as good to me.
Drink: The Matrix flavor of Powerade – it was black cherry and lime, it was bright green, and it was the tastiest beverage known to mankind. Hell, the drink was better than the second and third movies… I keep hoping that they’ll bring back that combination, but honestly, I keep seeing less and less Powerade of *any* flavor around here.
My fiancee would give his right arm for the return of Crystal Pepsi. He’s absolutely obsessive about it.
I have so many, it’s hard to know where to begin.
Breakfast foods? How about a granola cereal by Post called “C.W. Post.” The new Just Bunches caramel flavor comes close…but there is still something missing. I also miss a LOT of the non-frosted PopTart flavors. I like to fix my PopTarts with melted butter, and the frosted kind just don’t have enough butter absorbing surface area. Anymore, I can only reliably get the Strawberry flavor and the Cinnamon/Brown Sugar (which I hate) in unfrosted.
Drinks? Zelter Seltzer, Orbits (what WERE those little balls made of?), Someone above mentioned the Snappel Elements series. Air flavor in the GLASS BOTTLE, please! Even Diet Air was good, and I usually hate the diet version of any beverage.
Fast Food? Well, they’ve closed all the Dariy Queens where I am, so just put me down for missing ANYTHING on the DQ menu. It drives me CRAZY when I see a commercial for DQ Blizzards on cable, I want one so badly. Hardee’s hamburgers…Carl’s Jr IS NOT THE SAME. The McDonald’s McChicken that was made with a chicken patty that was just an OLD STYLE chicken nugget, not the spicy “Cajun McChicken” holdover patties we have now. And speaking of that…OLD STYLE chicken nuggets, too. I would also trade an entire trunkfull of “baked” pies just to have ONE of McD’s FRIED cherry pies again.
For just general snack foods, I know I’m going to be showing my age on this one (I’m not really THAT old), but I also miss when Sears stores had candy counters where you could get seasame crackers that were kept warm under heated lights. Some of the specailty candy stores in mall’s still sell seasame crackers that way, but I’ve never found any as good as the one’s I used to get at Sears. And I second whomever mentioned the strawberry and cream Twinkie, too.
On the plus side, a few things I like went away and came back again, most recently the Carl’s Jr. Teryaki burger.
Dr.Pepper released a cherry vanilla cola in diet form that I haven’t been able to find anywhere since. It was wonderful, had no aftertaste, was sufficiantly vanilla AND cherry flavoured and had zero calories – a nice feature for somebody who doesn’t drink pop often but doesn’t need the 400 calories it can empty into you for no reason. I really wish I could find it in Canada again.
Sky Bars(Chocolate Bar With 4 Sections. One having fudge,one having vanilla filling, one having caramel,and the last having a penuty-type filling). Apparently they still make em once a year, or something like that…. My mom got me a whole box (32…or was it 16?Or even 62?!?) of them 2ish years ago.
also,Vanilla Coke, Among other things
Oh, and Cherry & Cherry Vanilla Coke.
Sprite Remix.
Clearly Canadian Blackberry flavored water. I think they relaunched them in 2006, but they taste different. Oh, and while not discontinued it is something I can’t get anymore, the pizza they served when I was in school. If I could by those things, I would.
*agrees with Lanigh about the pizzas of school* I think they put crack in the crust because folks that never had a quarter to lend you always had the extra money for those pizzas.
Foods:
Strawberry honecombs – awesome. Chocolate? Not so much
Blueberry pancake cereal – Kroger sold it then stopped
Honey bunches of oats. – even if it cut the inside of your mouth like razors, it was tasty and NEVER went soggy in under 10 hours in milk.
sharp cheddar cheese spread. – for this I weep. Heavily.
strawberry banana juice – walmart sold it then stopped selling it. I weep and I rage. I need a hug.
light blue sprite or was it mountain due?
peppermint coffee creamer – hate its seasonal. So good in tea
powdered eggnog – see above but in milk, brownies, chocolate milk, etc
Personals (non food i know but still, i miss them so)
Suave medicated facial cleanser. – it was sooooooo good for my skin!
sunripened raspberry ANYthing from suave – i love that scent
berries and cream ANYthing from suave – notice a trend to suave? They just break your heart all the time.
vanilla mint crest – i can’t find it near me.
@Hershey: I soooooooo agree! Mexican pizzas just aren’t the same without green onion.
My big one: C3PO eyes cereal. I loved that stuff. I was so mad when the last box of it we had got infested with ants. My parents couldn’t find it anymore at the store. T_T
I also miss the original honey nut cheerios. I swear it had a real honey glaze, you could see it left a film in the middle of many of the O’s, now it’s just this bland honey like flavoring thing.
balsamic red wine salad dressing.
about 2 weeks after i discovered it, it was off the shelves.
i was pissed >(
Yes to Crystal Pepsi and Pepsi Blue. And 7Up Gold was really good, too. I also remember from about a million years ago a cereal called Freakies. I can’t even remember what it tasted like, but I remember my mom bought it for me when I was a toddler.
My b/f has been aggravated for years now that his Desert Spice deodorant was discontinued.
I remember there used to be a bagel accomplice to toaster strudels, shaped the same but with a bagel-y outside and fruity cream cheesy inside. I miss those so, so much.
Also, I hardly ever see frutopia anymore, and I remember this soda released briefly when I was little, black with a picture of a jaguar on the side but I can’t remember the name, only that it was really good.
And I remember getting crave from the local gas stations, little plastic vials filled with powdered candy goodness that turned your tongue black. Amazing.
BUTTON CANDY!!!!!!!!!!! Gods, how I miss my button candies. :’(
and those plastic vials that Fuzzy mentioned.
wow alot of posts for this one id guess id have to say pebbles ceral from the flinstones it was like fruit loops but just better
Mountain Dew Pitch Black II-the sour one, Watermelon Pop-Tarts, Oreo Os, and to Laurels, we still have Vault in Indiana
They still have the banana twinkies.
Dunkaroos. i really miss Dunkaroos. I tried regular frosting and graham crackers for a while but it wasn’t the same…
I also remember these little tubes filled with liqued sour candy that had a gummy worm in the middle of it all. i dont remember the name of those tho.