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?
Edy’s (or Dryer’s on the West Coast) Blue Ribbon Chocolate Cake Ice Cream. FOOD OF THE GODS.
And I also share the sentiment that new Trix tastes nothing like old Trix. :< What were they thinking when they replaced it?
@John Roberts
You can still get Moxie with cane sugar, but you need to find a specialty shop that carries it. I know of a good one in Illinois (south of Buffalo Grove) but I’m sure if you looked you can find someone to get it for you.
Man, I hate it when they discontinue things. My favorite cereal was Timon and Pumba’s Mud and Bugs cereal. It was basically a chocolate Lucky Charms cereal, but it tasted a lot better than Lucky Charms. Unfortunately, it got discontinued some time ago and I rarely eat cereal anymore.
Also, Hershey use to make these Gogurt like tubes filled with pudding instead of yogurt. Some of the best pudding I’ve had. Disappeared some time ago as well.
when i was a kid they made these miniature frozen pizzas that were about 3″ or so in diameter. they weren’t a bagel bite, they were actual pizzas on actual tiny pizza crusts. haven’t seen those in years.
Ben & Jerry’s “Cool Britannia” ice cream.
Quisp cereal. I loved that stuff. Probably the closest I can get now is Cap’n Crunch, but it’s not quite the same.
And the original Doo-Dads snack mix. They changed the flavor a couple decades ago and I didn’t really like it much any more. And now I think it no longer exists at all (probably b/c they changed the formula! It was awesome the way it was when I was a kid, why couldn’t they leave well enough alone??!!)
I certainly hope jones never goes out of business.
Or gatorade.
I drink so much of both that I can’t stand the taste of plain water anymore O_o
@buzzme;
Cinnamon Carnation Breakfast Squares! Yes, I remember them – I didn’t get to eat many, ’cause my sisters always raided the cupboard first…
Also had forgotten the banana-flavored ‘Nilla Wafers. Those were most excellent!
Regular tart’n'tiny’s. The new ones are candy coated like m&m’s. They were like sweetarts, only tiny. Come to think of it, I haven’t seen the candy coated ones in a while.
I also liked when the Sour Patch Kids fruits were available separately at the Sweet Factory. You know, where you can get a whole scoop of just the one you want. They still have most of them, but not the Grapes. I love the grapes! They still make them, but I have to sit and pick them out of the mix. They don’t come by themselves anymore.
I forgot. Ocean Spray had a limited run of Cran-blueberry juice that was only available at their factory in Vegas, or Seattle. I lived in Seattle for a year, and when I moved back to CA, I packed all I could fit in my suitcase!
I know they have the 100% cran-blueberry, but it’s somehow not the same. Tastes funny. But I make my own now-one bottle of cranberry juice, and half a bottle of blueberry juice. Tastes great.
Tis disquiet morning in the mess deck, when the lucky charms are absent from the cereal dispensers.
Four words: Rice. Krispie. Treat. Cereal.
3D Doritos. I miss them so much.
not sure if I really ‘miss’ them or if they were jsut way cool products but:
S.N.A.F.U. flavored Ice Cream from Ben and Jerry’s
Mister Salty super thin Pretzel sicks
Crystal Pepsi
Also, I know you can still get them but on the West Coast where i am, you simply cannot. That being said Mezzo Mix soda is simply the greatest thing ever put in a can and for all you East Coasters:
WILLOW TREE CHICKEN SALAD. Count your blessings if you can get it, because I would sell a kidney to have some fresh.
Not a food so much as a condiment: Brown Cow chocolate syrup. It was delicious on ice cream, sweet and tangy at the same time, and it made for great chocolate milk. Now you can only get Hershey’s syrup or liquid Quik. Nowhere near as good.
Planter’s cheese balls in the can
New York seltzer
Oh, also Ripple
Fudgetown cookies and Edy’s Dreamery brand Cherry Budda Bing ice cream
Tim’s Dill Pickle flavored potato chips. Tim’s has just the right balance between Lays’ wafer-thinness and Kettle Chips’ gouge-the-roof-of-your-mouth-out thickness, but they discontinued my favorite flavor.
i don’t remember eating anything that they don’t make any more, but it’s just as frustrating when they change things. like i used to love Tony’s frozen pizzas for one, but they recently changed to a thinner crust and the crust was the best part, so now they suck. every frozen pizza i’ve ever really liked has changed something so that they are now unpalatable; i don’t know what i’m going to do for frozen pizza anymore.
As far as discontinued cereals go, “Rocky Road” cereal was the best ever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aaZFp0SK0k
Yeah, Surge! It was the closest thing I found to Rondo, another missed soda. Once they had a contest, where you peel off the label, and find a scratch-off on the inside. I won a pair of Motorola Walkabout radios. And you’re right about never quite finding the right combo of elements again. Kind of like when someone uses your car or computer, and changes some of the little things without telling you. It just doesn’t seem to feel right afterwards, no matter what you do to get it back to normal.
now i remeber discontinued stuff! i would like to second BandusGeekius on Surge and add Jolt. i miss sodas with guarana in them
I miss the bacon cheeseburger burrito from Taco Bell. Other foods I miss because they are regional to my home town and I can’t get them down here in Florida. One is Grandma Brown’s Baked beans which my family has to bring to me when ever they visit and the other is all the different flavors of Adirondac Soda. Thank you to Reese’s for bringing back the dark chocolate peanut butter cups.
Yoplait Banana flavored custard-style yogurt. Oh, how I miss it.
Dusin- You can keep your kidney, but I live half a mile from Willow Tree and I ate there on Wednesday.
I miss Oriental flavoured mr. noodle ramens, they were my fave
I miss Oops All Berries. I’d have filled the house if I knew they were going away like that. It still makes me sad, it was the best ever and now it’s gone. I try to drown my sorrows in Fibre One, but it’s very much not the same.
Tomato Salsa flavoured Shapes. (Australian Product)
It’s going on 10 years since I tried them last, and I’ve been slowly going insane ever since.
I know this is an old one– Blue Nehi Cream Soda. God, I loved that as a kid.
Not exactly discontinued, but I remember when I was in Lagos in Portugal, they had this Fanta Grape that was divine, I brought home a six pack with me because you couldn’t get them in Ireland, and the Fanta Grape in America ain’t got nothing on Portugal’s one.
@heinrich
Jones is going out of business!?
*runs of to hoarde Soda*
omg I HATE that. My dad and I have come to realize that acme, the local supermarket, is keeping tabs on me and anytime I come in for a certain product often enough, they discontinue it. I can count at least like, 15 evidences at this point of certain food items I love and absolutely devour as soon as I get them, and then somehow the world ends their short, delicious lives too early. This saddens me deeply.
in fact one of my favorite doritos, smokin’ cheddar bbq, just came out again so I’ve already bought like 5 bags. I remember eating them like 10 years ago and they were the best, and only within the past year have they been brought back, discontinued, and revived once more.
others I miss: the life-saver lollipops, this brown-maple cured ham stuff, a large variety of chocolate chip cookies from different companies, (I love chocolate chip cookies) hershey’s made little milkshakes for a while that were astounding, and some others I can’t remember.
Pop-Tarts Cereal. When they said “limited time only,” they meant it, but it was absolutely delicious.
Canada Dry Cranberry Ginger Ale. It was sold during the (IIRC) 2002 and 2003 Christmas seasons, but I haven’t seen it since. (Yeah, one can always mix ginger ale and cranberry juice; but it’s a *lot* more expensive that way…)
I can think of a few… Trillian reminded me of Planter’s Cheese Balls; Also, Tyson’s Riblets; Texans may remember H-E-B’s Bratwurst Bites; Patio Mini Tacos (TV dinners still came in foil back then); Taco flavored Doritos, which was gone for twenty years, then came back in a limited run this year renamed “Tacos at Midnight”; and, lastly, the Arch Deluxe.
I am with CasualOtaku I miss the Bar None bar so much. It was my favorite candy bar to date. Whatchamacallit is a very poor substitute. But I have recently found out that they are still being sold in Mexico… But I am nowhere near mexico. And as cereal goes, I miss Oreo O cereal.
Vanilla Coke and this imported raspberry beer that got bought by another company that doesn’t want to import. :/
Although I heard vanilla Coke still exists in Rocking Johnny’s restaurants?
I miss lime flavored Coke (not the diet lime, which they still have). Vanilla was good too.
reynard61: they still sell Canada Dry cranberry ginger ale in BC, but mostly just during the winter months. I had some extra stashed at my dads place after new years, so i last had it in april. mmm. can’t wait for more in november!
And I thought I was the only one that was cursed with “if you like it then we’ll discontinue it.” Silly me, guess there’s a lot of us squirreling away stashes of the last of something….
my long lost food item was when they stopped selling hot pockets and vanilla coke in canada. Hot stuffs just aren’t the same
I’m with Lunakrypt. I miss eating that Oreo cereal. I thought it was great until people started complaining that it wasn’t nutritious.
I remember the Pop Tarts with yogurt in them, they were insanely delicious, if they still made them I would always buy them, but I have to stick to Hot Fudge Sundae for now.
Peanut Butter Twix (Twix PB with the chocolate cookie sucks)
Jolt
Sourdough bacon cheeseburger at BK
I keep worrying that ben + jerry’s might discontinue Oatmeal Cookie Chunk ice cream……
Crispy M&M’s, anyone?
@ CalliopeJane: They still make Quisp, you just have to buy it direct from the company. They no longer ship it to distributors. You might be able to get it from a specialty store, but it would be easiest (but probably not cheap) to order it from the company online.
Surge was one of those I liked. Muntain Dew is good too, but the flavor is just too different (and curse you, PespsiCo, for continually discontinuing the flavors of Dew I like and only keeping them with different recipes or the flavors I don;t like!).
…Haven’t been able to find my Sobe Power at any store recently… that was my favorite…
And Sobe Grape Grog. God that was good stuff.
Where to start? Hokay. Pizza flavoured Pringles. White-Cheese Cheese Balls. I offered some of these special limited edition Cheese Balls that I loved to a friend. He ate a couple and informed me, almost spitting them out, that they tasted like ‘monkey spunk’. Go figure. Salsa flavoured Mammoths (corn snack with an AMAZING and badly missed flavour). Vanilla Coke, which apparently was trialed here in New Zealand, and then released in Australia (DAMN YOU!). Sometimes I even miss Raspberry Coke. And DEFINITELY Cherry Coke. Original L&P (before the Coca-Cola Company got to it). I kinda miss Salt and Vinegar popcorn. Strange product, but tasty. And finally, original Swiss Maid Dairy Food, especially Vanilla (not seen since the 80s).