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.
Believe it or not, you can still buy the stuff: http://tinyurl.com/dmfg7p
:sniff:
Bless you, MTCicero.
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.
De nada.
::blushes::
Not so much a food item, but a nifty place to buy decent food - Sambo’s.
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.
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.
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. 
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.
I’ve been missing Snapple’s Cranberry Iced Tea for years.
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.
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?
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.
Holy Shit. They’re local and I didn’t even know it. The closest one is only 4 blocks from my attorney’s office!
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!)
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”.
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.
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.
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.