# Discontinued food **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825 "2010-04-03T15:18:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/61 "2010-04-05T16:05:35Z")
Kraft Roka Blue spread in the little glass jar. RIP 2009. Cheeseballs will never be the same ☹ Yeah, you can blend blue cheese into cream cheese yourself but the flavor won’t be quite right. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/62 "2010-04-05T16:54:52Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > My vote goes to that cereal with the alien in a beanie. I thought it was called “Quix” or something similar, but my Google-Fu is lacking this morning. ☹ It used to be in all the grocery shelves in the Metro Atlanta area back in the 70s, and I don’t think I’ve seen a box in 25 years. ☹ Believe it or not, you can still buy the stuff: [http://tinyurl.com/dmfg7p](http://tinyurl.com/dmfg7p) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/63 "2010-04-05T16:56:11Z")
:sniff: Bless you, **MTCicero**. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/64 "2010-04-05T17:05:17Z")
Trader Joe’s has discontinued so much of my favorite stuff that I can’t even tell you. My favorite that was discontinued years ago was their Vegetarian Pad Thai. The chili garlic fish sauce was so, so good that I used to dip my fingers in it before I could even pour it over the noodles. Recently they seem to have discontinued my Trader Joe’s lunch staples: the chicken sausage calzone and the turkey sausage stromboli. I’ve basically stopped shopping at TJ’s because I know I won’t be able to pick up these easily transportable lunch foods. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/65 "2010-04-05T17:05:37Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > :sniff: > > Bless you, **MTCicero**. De nada. ::blushes:: ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/66 "2010-04-05T17:06:42Z")
Not so much a food item, but a nifty place to buy decent food - **Sambo’s**. > **[Sambo's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo%27s)** > > Remaining chain sold to Vicorp (1984) > Sambo's was an American restaurant chain, started in 1957 by Sam Battistone Sr. and Newell Bohnett in Santa Barbara, California. Though the name was taken from portions of the names of its two founders, the chain also associated with The Story of Little Black Sambo. Battistone and Bohnett capitalized on this connection by decorating the walls of the restaurants with scenes from the book, including a dark-skinned boy, tigers, and a pale, magical unicycle-ri... ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/67 "2010-04-05T17:20:55Z")
Wasabi funyuns- they must have only been market testing them since I only found them at one Albertson’s five years ago. They were great though. I heard an interesting radio story about Trader Joes and why the discontinue items all the time. They buy food materials in bulk and at a discount. So if they can’t get an ingredient for cheap and enough of it to manufacture an item they drop it. So take that cranberry chutney from the OP. The Trader Joe’s buyer was probably offered a really great price on cranberries because the cranberry crop overproduced. So TJs bought it and created the chutney around it. Then cranberry prices went up and TJ’s decided it wasnt’ woth the price so they just dropped the item. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/68 "2010-04-05T18:38:44Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] [Wonder Bread is] (s)till put out by Interstate Bakeries, apparently. [/QUOTE] > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yeah, I was surprised to see that listed as well. Did Wonder Bread go out of business in certain areas? Not so much out of business as pull out of the market in certain areas (e.g, the Pacific Northwest). In terms of varieties available in the supermarket, the type of bread you can buy has expanded considerably in the last 25 years or so. It used to be just white and wheat and a few specialty breads. Now, it seems like your typical local or regional bakery has a line of a dozen bread varieties or more. Wonder Bread (and Home Pride which was also made by Interstate Bakeries) came in only white or wheat and just could no longer compete with the local and regional bakeries. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_of_the_Lake)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/69 "2010-04-05T19:49:47Z")
I haven’t been able to find Totini’s pizza rolls **chicken quesadilla** flavor for several years now. It was the only kind I liked, perfect for snacking! I’ve also noticed the change in **Jell-o pudding pops**. I remember thinking they were the best when Bill Cosby was the spokes person. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/70 "2010-04-05T20:20:36Z")
Kool Aid Invisible Cherry… in the packets. I don’t want the premixed with sugar kind, just the packets. I make kool-aid by the gallon, and use splenda. I want the flavor, not the calories. All they have is the Watermelon Kiwi in invisible, as far as I can tell… In fact, why are ALL the flavors of Kool-aid not available in invisible? I hate the stains, but love the drink. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/71 "2010-04-05T20:53:35Z")
I’ve been missing Snapple’s Cranberry Iced Tea for years. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/72 "2010-04-05T21:03:48Z")
More Trader Joe’s stuff: Macadamia/cashew nut butter. Cashew butter rocks, but it’s even better w/ the macadamias. If they ever get rid of Tom Yum Cashews, I’ll cry. I love those things, and they come in nice little packages for taking to work. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/73 "2010-04-05T21:21:59Z")
PB Crisps were good. Am I the only one that remembers when Funyuns came in a bag that was black and had all kinds of neon yellow and hot pink colors all over the bag? ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/74 "2010-04-05T21:27:58Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > If you’re looking for ramen flavors, go to the nearest grocery store to a college campus. You’ll find every ramen flavor under the sun. > > I haven’t had ramen since I was in college, but I used to love the shrimp flavor. That doesn’t work where I live. I’m six blocks from a college campus. You’d think that the supermarkets would stock more dorm type food. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/75 "2010-04-05T22:07:09Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > And the bitch of it is that Zantigo’s is still open in some parts of the country Holy Shit. They’re local and I didn’t even know it. The closest one is only 4 blocks from my attorney’s office! ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/76 "2010-04-05T22:10:09Z")
Betty Crocker’s _Snackin’ Cake_ and _5-Minute Fudge_. (Yeah, it was really crap and not good for you, but hey, I was younger then!) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/77 "2010-04-05T22:48:00Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > The closest one is only 4 blocks from my attorney’s office! Is that your usual standard of reference? :eek: Still, it’s a bit better than “it’s only 4 blocks from my parole agent’s office”. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/78 "2010-04-05T23:06:04Z")
Yay, I finally found shrimp flavor ramen noodles at Walmart, 17 cents a packet! Still no lime chili, though - I found those last year at a Real Deals, but they have a big turnover of items according to what they can acquire cheep. Wasn’t it Wendy’s that had a huge Angus burger with mushrooms and swiss cheese? I had one once, loved it, and planned to go back but now there’s nothing but hamburg, cheeseburg, and bacon cheeseburg, in different sizes. I predict right now, Taco Bell is going to drop the shrimp taco like it was radioactive in the very near future. It needs special handling and it’s relatively expensive, someone is going to get exposed to a shrimp and drop dead from an allergic reaction, and the customer who buys burritos by the pound at midnight isn’t going to buy it. If anyone wants one, better get there fast. Oh, and I miss a few flavors of Snapple. The cream soda, for one. It all has to do with money, I suppose. Go with the lowest common denominator, push what sells the most and is cheapest to prepare. ---
**Author:** ![RoniaBorkason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@RoniaBorkason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoniaBorkason)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/79 "2010-04-05T23:20:28Z")
Mini Shredded Wheat with jam in the middle. I loved the strawberry kind, and I think there was blueberry, too. It may sound virtuous, but for a little girl who never got cold cereal, it was mind-blowingly awesome and decadent. The new-fangled kind with colored spackle “frosting” is nowhere near as good. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825/80 "2010-04-05T23:47:51Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I predict right now, Taco Bell is going to drop the shrimp taco like it was radioactive in the very near future. It needs special handling and it’s relatively expensive, someone is going to get exposed to a shrimp and drop dead from an allergic reaction, and the customer who buys burritos by the pound at midnight isn’t going to buy it. If anyone wants one, better get there fast. Too late. My Beloved and I were at the Bell yesterday to grab a bag of the 89 cent 5-layer burritos, and overheard the clerk telling a customer that they have already been discontinued. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discontinued-food/534825.md?page=5)