What food or drink do you miss the most because the company discontinued it?

[Sun-Moon]

Mine is Entenmann’s Cheese filled crumb coffee cake.

Oh I miss it so much.

[wryter2000]

1. Welcome to DU

My husband loved the extra-large Kit-Kats. We got them once at Costco, and we could never find them again.

[Evolve Dammit]

2. Original Shake n Bake BBQ. They fucked with the original. Don't get me started on tuna and 11.2 ounce beers.

[pioche4]

3. Trader Joe's Asian Peanut Salad deessing

I know they change things up a lot, but this was a staple…could use it for salads, marinade… haven’t found anything close in the market!!

Oh and a close runner up: TJ’s hickory bbq potato chips!

[pat_k]

40. That was so good!

One of my regular meals was a bag of baby spinach and some TJ's Just Chicken tossed with TJ's Spicy Peanut Vinaigrette.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I don't recall the name, but it was made by Quaker. It was

a thick, creamy Greek yogurt with a little side partition of nuts and honey.

[sorcrow]

5. Coca Cola original

You know, the one that had cocaine in it.

Regards,
Sorghum Crow

[ProfessorGAC]

81. Geez, You're Really Old!

Coca-Cola took the cocaine out 121 years ago!
I know a lot about their history in this regard. I don't want to put too much information on a public forum, but you can PM me if you're interested.

[Evolve Dammit]

85. "Have a lift and a smile." Yeah baby!!

[GreenWave]

6. This one was highly addicting...

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. I loved that

There's a Dad's root beer flavor drink mix. It's usually in the dollar section. 5 singles per box. It's good.

[Shermann]

17. $14 for a six-pack of powdered mix on Amazon??

I can get a sixpack of a killer craft beer for less. No mixing required.

https://www.amazon.com/Singles-Fashion-Cream-bundle-Drink/dp/B08FZTT9WV

[GreenWave]

18. My dentist is going to love you!

[Beartracks]

34. I read that label backwards and first saw "Beer Flavor"

I was wondering, "How did I miss that one as a kid?"

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[marble falls]

42. Made my first pot tea with this, put it into a plastic milk container and went to a Hawkwind ...

... outdoor concert.

Very entertaining night. Oh for the late 60s and early 70s, when concerts were cheap (Hawkwind was a free concert), and no one was videoing a concert.

[Dan]

8. Candies...

Big Time
&
Butternut candy bar

[NBachers]

47. Bring Back Butternut!

[Shermann]

9. Heluva Good! clam dip

This and other brands of clam dip were readily available in supermarkets 20 years ago but have fallen out of favor and are seemingly nonexistent today.

[CCExile]

10. I'm not normally considered feeble or insane...

But I loved the 1980's Jack in the Box deep fried bean burrito. It was perhaps the most unhealthy thing they had, but jeez, they were good.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

11. Fizzies.

Drop one (or two) in a glass of water and they made a soft drink. Put one on your tongue and you got a real blast.

[Different Drummer]

66. Here ya go!

[soldierant]

12. This must be decades ago, but I still miss it -

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King Soopers (which now belongs to Kroger - I'm not sure whether it did then) used to make a powdered coffee creamr in chocolate walnut flavor. Nothing else even comes close.

[Beartracks]

33. King Sewers? I think you missed the "P".

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[soldierant]

62. Yeah, my fingers missed the "p". That happens a lot. Sometimes I see it and sometimes I don't

[XarmyGal]

13. Archway

Strawberry filled cookies! DELICIOUS! Can't find them anymore.

[hlthe2b]

14. Discontinued for decades but even the 5 yo in me could remember my Mom making 'Hunt's Skillet Dinners'

They had a skillet lasagna that I've never been able to replicate, a Mexican one, a Stroganoff, and probably some others I don't remember. They were so superior to the "hamburger helper" meals that have been mass-marketed since then.

Seriously, I can almost taste the lasagna one from memory. Why the hell Hunts discontinued them, I'll never know.

Every once in a while I google and there appear to be quite a few out there still who remember them! 'Wish that Hunts would at least provide the recipes.

Here is an old ad:

[crud]

15. CoffeeMate Vanilla Nut flavor

It was me and my wife's favorite. had to switch to vanilla but we still call it vanilla nut.

[eppur_se_muova]

16. Peanut Butter Frost candy bar ... Milk Duds (completely changed) ... Black Cow (completely changed) ...

I liked candies that lasted a good long time. Companies want candies that you eat in a hurry to make room for more.

[SWBTATTReg]

19. Enchiritos from Taco Bell. Loved them. They rarely have them as a special one-time thing.

[Luciferous]

21. I felt the same way about the Mexican

pizza. The day they brought them back I got one 😄

[SWBTATTReg]

22. Those are gone too! Oh man...Jesus...they're taking all of the good stuff away.

[Luciferous]

23. They were gone for a while, they

brought them back about a year ago

[SWBTATTReg]

63. Well, thank goodness for small miracles. This is one of the things I regularly got, but to be safe over the last

recent few years, we've been just getting a dozen tacos (too hard to make at home) and that's it. I'll have to start expanding my menu order again. Even the lack of green onions won't stop me as one follow-up poster mentioned on our trend, I'll try a couple, and see how they taste. Man, I don't know what's driving them to change their relatively simple menu, perhaps as the one person said, the green onions were bad (but then order them from another location and use those onions?).

Another driver of changes too, to their menus probably is keeping their profit margins up.

Well, me and my other half have cut out fast food out to the bare minimum. Mainly, because of, prices. You might as well go and have a nice sit-down Mexican Food dinner (and we have lots of choices, some damn good Mexican Food places that give you tons of food and thus, you get 3 meals instead of 1 when you order a meal there). There is something to be said about good sit-down diners, they are still there and going.

Thus, 1 nice sit-down Mexican meal (Mariachi's, on Gravois Road, in the city of St. Louis) equals at least several Taco Bell take outs (and if you've eaten the day after Taco Bell food, especially Tacos, it's not really good). I recommend this place highly for those of you coming to the city, wondering where to eat. We don't get any of the drinks, but they also look good too. The service is literally out of this world, you'll barely are able to sit down, get your order in barely, and viola, it's there! It's that quick.

[Shermann]

24. They still won't make those with green onions

Taco Bell removed green onions from their Mexican Pizzas in 2006 due to an E. coli outbreak. They aren't the same without them, they used to be my go-to thing to order there.

[CrispyQ]

32. Oh man, those were discontinued years ago!!

I loved them, too. They came in that aluminum tray with the plastic top.

[SWBTATTReg]

65. Yes. I'm still recovering from the shock of them gone. Maybe some big shot from Taco Bell is online, sees these

remarks? One can only hope...

[Luciferous]

20. Sour cream and onion baked lays

[Different Drummer]

67. Those are gone, too?!

I *loved* those!

[Lulu KC]

25. Pillsbury Figurines

I actually wrote a letter asking them to please make them again. No reply.

[Sneederbunk]

26. Forever Yours bars.

[Beartracks]

31. So "forever" was a lie?

[Freddie]

53. I think Milky Way Dark is the same thing

Of course I haven’t seen those in a while either

[Cartoonist]

27. Sara Lee chocolate chip bagels

I put peanut butter on them.

[fierywoman]

51. Do you know Liza Minelli's ode to Sara Lee?

[CrispyQ]

28. Pepperidge Farm's Brussels Mint cookies.

I love Brussels too, but the mint was divine! Milano's are a totally different texture, mealy, not crisp like Brussels.

[brewens]

29. Pot pies before they were junk. I know the Marie Collander are pretty good now but not the old Swanson. Those

were pretty good back in the day.

I'm a homemade whole foods fanatic now so I don't miss a whole lot of what I used to eat.

[Beartracks]

30. BBQ Beef Hot Pockets

Spouse loved those, but they cut back their production during COVID and then ended it completely. Now it seems they mainly just make "kid lunch friendly" ones like pepperoni-n-cheese, and ham-n-cheese, and cheese-n-ham, and cheese-n-some-other-cheese...



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[vanlassie]

35. Alden's coffee chip ice cream.....

……….. ………..,,sorry,, pulling myself together………,
Also Trader Joe’s square wheat crackers. I curse them to hell for killing those.

[nikatnyte]

36. Taco Bell Fiesta burritos

On their bargain menu. Mostly vegan. Delicious and crunchy. Now they're gone!

[yourout]

37. Dubuque plumper hot dogs.

[pat_k]

38. Three Twins Bittersweet Chocolate Ice Cream

The pandemic put them out of business and I'm still on the lookout for a dark chocolate ice cream that's as good for a decent price

[marble falls]

39. Nobody makes green tea ice cream anymore.

[NBachers]

48. You can find it in Asian grocery stores here in San Francisco. Try some in your area.

[marble falls]

74. Thanks for the chuckle. I live in the middle of Texas, 80 miles west of Austin. Have two good sushi places, no green ...

... green tea ice cream.

[Dulcinea]

75. Haagen-Dazs makes matcha green tea ice cream.

Check it out!

[Evolve Dammit]

86. They do in China! Had some a few years back

[BComplex]

41. Baskin Robbins Lemon Custard Ice Cream

I would do all kinds of extra chores so my folks would take me to Baskin Robbins so I could get one of those lemon custard ice cream cones. O man! Was that ever the best!

[thucythucy]

43. Well, it's not a product of any particular company,

but I find it increasingly more difficult to get a good tequila sunrise when I go out.

I've actually had bartenders ask ME how to make one.

I guess the world now prefers beverages made from pre-fab mixes.

[IbogaProject]

44. French Meadow Spelt Bread

They got blasted by the federal government for claiming 'low gluten', while the bread was actually good for those sensitive to regular bread they company got backed into a corner. She made a deal to sell with a fixed guaranteed time that the specific bread wouldn't be discontinued. Big corp eventually ended it an the original owner turned her bakery in Minneapolis into a Veg Restaurant.

French Meadow Bakery Bread, Organic Healthseed, Spelt

[Chipper Chat]

45. Sugar Crisp

Powerhouse candy bars.

[TlalocW]

46. I would like a Hostess Blueberry Pie

From my childhood - late 70s to early 80s.

[Different Drummer]

68. Loved those!

[TlalocW]

70. I need to just make my own

I taught myself to bake during COVID, and I've made regular blueberry pies. A Hostess version wouldn't be difficult... they would just be missing the yummy, yummy preservatives.

[moniss]

49. Schweppes

Bitter Orange.

[NBachers]

50. I would actually like to go out and get some original Bird's Eye or Swanson's TV dinners. I dutifully ate all the main

course before I'd dig into the "dessert."

This picture's inaccurate because it doesn't have a rime of frost around the walls of the freezer. "I'm defrosting the freezer."

[Frank D. Lincoln]

52. Here are two of mine.

Team Flakes cereal. I use to love those. This multi-grain cereal that stayed crunchy in milk had a unique and very pleasing taste.

Fudge Town cookies. Oh, man, did those things taste scrumptious, especially if you were a chocolate lover. I so miss them. Burry's, the company that made them, went out of business many years ago. They also once produced great-tasting Girl Scout cookies.

[Freddie]

54. Post Fortified Oat Flakes

Uniquely delicious and healthy too. You’d think they’d have resurrected the brand with the oat bran craze of a few years back, but no.

[RobinA]

61. Yes! Yes!

That's what I came here to write. I never imagined anyone else would remember them!

[sinkingfeeling]

73. There was an excellent oat muffin recipe on the box as well.

[Freddie]

55. Nabisco discontinued the best snacks!

Tid-Bits cheese crackers

Doo-Dads, a “Chex mix” clone (but better)

Mister Salty Tiny Thin pretzels

Bacon Thins

Cheese Ritz (not the little cheese sandwiches but actual cheese-flavored crackers)

[surrealAmerican]

71. doo dads ...

... I still remember seeing them shelved upside-down in the convenience store: "spap oop"!

They were a decent snack, though.

[vanlassie]

90. I was getting ready to say this!

That’s what we called them in our house!

[pansypoo53219]

56. dutch apple poptarts + king vitamin cereal was good. salerno alyce's mint cookies.

[Elessar Zappa]

57. Fruitopia!.

It was a fruit-flavored drink that I’d get out of vending machines when I was in high school. It was really good, I’m not sure why they discontinued it.

[PJMcK]

58. McDonald's original French fries

They got discontinued because they used animal fat in their cooking oil. The flavor and consistency changed immediately for the worse.

In general, I don’t care for fast food. It’s expensive and unhealthy. But every now and then, a Big Mac is required!

[Evolve Dammit]

89. true dat. I think they may have used peanut oil for awhile and they were great. Not sure what they use today. Prob don't

want to know...

[vanlassie]

91. It was lard.

[HoosierDebbie]

59. So Many

Walnettos chewy wrapped candy. Basically a caramel with chopped walnuts. Used to be referenced on
Laugh In. I could find them for a while online, but they disappeared nearly 10 years ago.

Packages with three varieties of lunchmeat like bologna, old fashioned loaf and one other. I can find all
three types separately sometimes, but three packages of lunchmeat for just me guarantees that a lot
will spoil before I can eat it.

Prime Selection Peppercorn BBQ sauce. Not long ago. I bought one bottle and never found it again.
Recent.

Simple type of Fruit-on-the-Bottom Yogurt. It is a daunting task to try to choose from the giant
array display of yogurt, and I can't seem to find my favorite any more from any brand.

Frusen Gladje brand ice cream. Specifically Chocolate Ice Cream with chocolate covered almonds.
Late 80's.

Sun Chips - Black Bean flavor. Found once in a grocery store but never again. I could get snack size
from Amazon. Recent.

Wendy's in the late 70's had a delicious apple dumpling. Served with a small amount of milk.

Taco Bell Salads and bean tostados. There is a rumor that tostados might return for a short amount
of time.

My grandmother's epic meals. My mother's meatloaf, chili and of course her family-famous cookies,
especially around Christmas.

That is a long list. The sad thing is that I will probably think of more throughout the day.

[Boomerproud]

64. Taco Bell taco salad-yes. The original, not with rice mixed in.

nt

[vanamonde]

60. General Mills Breakfast Squares

and Carnation Breakfast Bars.

[Different Drummer]

69. I can think of three.

1) Crispy Critters Cereal: I'm not sure it was around after "Linus the Lionhearted" was canceled, in part for being little more than an advertisement for Post cereals.

2) Sealtest Ice Cream: Still technically around, but rebranded as Breyers.

3) PB Max:

[BWdem4life]

72. Cinnamon Jolly Ranchers

Ben & Jerry's Coffee Heath Bar crunch. And I don't know what they did to Reese's peanut butter cups, but they ain't the same.

[blm]

76. Quaaludes

[Evolve Dammit]

87. HA!!! Made me smile

[tblue37]

77. Teaberry gum.

[Evolve Dammit]

88. Got some a few years ago along with Black Jack and Beeman's

[Oysters]

78. wink

[ProfessorGAC]

79. We'll Both Go With Your Pick

I was unaware they had stopped making it.
No wonder we can't ever find it at the supermarket!

[Permanut]

80. Mountain bars..

Not gone but have turned into molehill bars.

[riverbendviewgal]

82. CHI CHI'S original Margaritas.

I miss them so much. My husband did get close to their receipe. Sadly he is gone too.

[brush]

83. Dark chocolate Snickers...even better than the milk chocolate ones.

Can't find them anymore.

[malthaussen]

84. "Most?" Well, Walmart had great frozen cheeseburgers...

... which I loved, being of lowbrow tastes. Then a couple of years ago they stopped making them, then later replaced them with an inferior product masquerading under the same name. They're so terrible (and expensive!) I won't buy them, but I ate the originals frequently.

-- Mal