Me first: in the early 80s, I remember the Vons supermarket chain had their own brand of sour cream dip for potato chips, one flavor that people I know loved was fresh pismo clam, it still had chunks of clam meat in there. One day it got yanked from the shelves and I’ve never seen it again.
More recently, about a decade ago, Trader Joe’s carried cheddar-and-horseradish potato chips, then one day they were gone.
I would love… LOVE… to dip those horseradish chips into that clam dip… sigh.
Bring them back
Orbitz, the drink. The one with the little flavor balls floating in it. That shit was awesome.
What’s irritating about it’s discontinuation is that the reason cited was people didn’t like the little tapioca balls. And then boba became a craze. 😬
At one point in the very early 90’s, the Keebler elves stopped making cookies for a few minutes and made the best fucking pizza flavored chips to ever grace this planet. The crafty little shits figured out how to make chips from actual pizza dough, and they called them Pizzerias. It’s been over 30 years and I can still taste them now.
From last decade, Sour Cream & Onion Baked Lays. ;_;
From the eighties, does anyone remember pudding cake mix? After you baked the cake it had pudding (sort of like…custard I guess if you’re English?) inside the cake. Oh man that was good.
Jolt Cola, “All the sugar, twice the caffeine!”
Crystal Pepsi.
Do any of you remember Orbitz? It was a clear drink with little gel balls that were floating in it. I don’t know if actually miss it, but I just really want to try it again.
Sobe. I really liked the pink juice that looked like bubblegum cough syrup. It apparently still exists… somewhere. The website is still around. But I haven’t seen any Sobe anywhere in the US for years
Fanta green apple. I loved it, but Fanta killed it. Now I don’t drink Fanta.
In Colorado there was a burger chain called Red Top and by god, it was amazing. The burgers were the size of plates and they’d use shredded lettuce and the perfect cheese that was always so wonderfully melty.
And then they disappeared.
Similarly, there used to be a candy shop called Michelle’s that has the best truffles and the best sundaes. But womp womp, they didn’t pay some taxes and were shut down. No more candy. No more magic. No more perfect ice cream.
Altoid sours
Mentadent toothpaste. I enjoyed how the dispenser combined the white and blue gels as you applied it to your toothbrush. I liked the taste too.
Also Cremo men’s face moisturizer. I haven’t found another that suits my skin so perfectly before or since.
In both cases I wrote to the companies about bringing back the products, and both wrote back to blow me off.
Dr Pepper made with real sugar, the taste with HFCS is just not the same.
SteakEze had these microwave angus burgers that you could get at BJs that basically mimicked McDs flavor. Whenever one of us was craving fast food, we could pop it in the microwave and it scratched that itch and was much cheaper, easier and faster. Sadly haven’t seen them for sale anymore and they got taken off the website.
The thing I miss the absolute most is some fruit nectars I used to get that came in big glass bottles, by Fruit of the Nile. They had mango, strawberry guava, guava and orange mango and they were all so incredibly good. My favorite was the mango, it was rich and thick and luxurious, almost just a fruit puree. They made the best mixers. I still use the bottles around the house. I don’t think the company made it through Covid 😫
Back during the Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles craze, there was a third cereal in the line, a cinnamon themed one. I had that whenever I could, but it has been gone for years.
Was it a blue box w/ Bam Bam as the character on it? I vaguely remember something like that…
