# Favorite products which have mysteriously vanished from store shelves **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 19, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822 "2007-02-19T16:36:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/41 "2007-02-19T21:42:15Z")
Mudd brand mud mask. Why I can’t find it any more, I have no clue. Also nearly impossible for me to find ginger Altoids, although Target has them on occasion. I have yet to find chocolate covered ginger or cinnamon Altoids although the peppermint ones are in abundant supply. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/42 "2007-02-19T21:46:36Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] While we are on Altoids, have you seen the new Dark Chocolate Dipped Cinnamons and Peppermint(?). I wuvs the cinammons. . [/QUOTE] They make the chocolate covered ones in ginger, too! I think liquorice are the most elusive of all altoid flavors. I used to be ablet to find this shampoo & conditioner called Mane & Tail. It came in giant bottles, was cheap, and gave my hair amazing body & shine. I know it’s still made, but I can never find it. ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/43 "2007-02-19T21:57:10Z")
[QUOTE=badbadrubberpiggy] They make the chocolate covered ones in ginger, too! I think liquorice are the most elusive of all altoid flavors. I used to be ablet to find this shampoo & conditioner called Mane & Tail. It came in giant bottles, was cheap, and gave my hair amazing body & shine. I know it’s still made, but I can never find it. [/QUOTE] Try pet stores or feed stores. I think it was originally intended for horses, so those places would be my best guess. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/44 "2007-02-19T22:04:44Z")
Before the fine folks at Healthy Choice decided they had to retool their ice cream line to mimic Ben and Jerry’s, they had this WONDERFUL raspberry chocolate truffle flavor – raspberry ice cream with little dark chocolate mini-cordials filled with raspberry goo. Damn, that stuff was good! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/45 "2007-02-19T22:12:00Z")
Night Spice cologne Fizzers like smarties. Not fizzers that were a hasrd candy with a center that foamed when saliva got inside. A wine cooler that was different from other ones when they firt came out. The name was something like Weise and you could get them in a 12 oz can. Many places prohibit glass bottles. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/46 "2007-02-19T22:20:03Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] For a dismal period a year or two ago I found myself completely unable to locate any metric graph paper (5 mm). I love this stuff for my various weird interests and was distraught at being unable to find any. When I finally did find some I bought ten notebooks. [/QUOTE] I haven’t looked in a good decade, but for nearly 25 years I haven’t seen any _books_ of hex paper. When I noticed it was hard to find, I made my own hex paper when necessary, so I have over half of my original notebook left! (What can you say, I don’t make hex-based outdoor maps too much.) ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/47 "2007-02-19T22:30:35Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Now that Kroger can keep track of what we’re buying, by way of the Kroger Plus Card, I get the feeling they monitor stuff I buy regularly and then discontinue it. Seriously, they just stopped carrying any number of products I used to get on a regular basis. The products may still be produced and available elsewhere, but they tend to vanish from Kroger if I’m too good a consumer. [/QUOTE] That sounds exactly like what happens with my wife. Kroger has regularly discontinued the products she likes. She tries really hard to like Kroger, but gets REALLY irritated when they discontinue things like shampoo or baking supplies that she regularly uses. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/48 "2007-02-19T22:56:33Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] This isn’t a supermarket thing and it could be just a regional thing: **Towne Club Soda** God, I miss going in there with a twenty four pack of empty bottles in the case and picking out 24 new and exciting flavors. Whatever happened to Towne Club Soda? [/QUOTE] Um, darlin’? Where’s your region? ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/49 "2007-02-19T22:57:55Z")
Tom of Maine’s fennel toothpaste. It was their best kind imo. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/50 "2007-02-19T23:17:31Z")
Seven Seas Creamy Italian Salad Dressing is gone. I used to buy in CA then it was only available by begging my mom in Illinois to mail me some, and now it is gone, gone gone … discontinued. Sigh. It was the best. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/51 "2007-02-19T23:25:19Z")
Excellent thread! 1. The old style Tostitos chips. They totally revamped their line. The rounds are marginally acceptable for nachos, but not as good as the bigger chips in days of yore. 2. Red Barons breakfast pizzas. The same size as the individual pizzas that came two to box, but for breakfast. Gone. ☹ 3. (Maybe just regional.) Hamburger Relish - the kind that’s redder than what I get in California. I need to look when I go to DC this week. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/52 "2007-02-19T23:33:24Z")
Haagen-Dazs Extraas Cappucino Commotion–ice cream of the gods ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/53 "2007-02-19T23:36:58Z")
I drink cocoa daily. I use cocoa powder rather than the mixes because the slightly greater time and effort involved helps to limit my consumption. I settled on Hershey’s Dutch Processed Cocoa because I didn’t like the taste of regular cocoa, which tastes a bit fruity to me. It came in a container that had brown lettering on a silver background. They replaced it with Hershey’s Special Dark Dutch Processed Cocoa. Container with gold lettering on a brown background. A stronger taste, but I adjusted. They’ve just replaced **that** with a “blend” of Dutch Processed Cocoa and regular cocoa. This is apparently to get in on the bandwagon of the supposed health benefits of the flavonoids in regular cocoa. Dutching destroys them, and I guess they’re among the things that give regular cocoa a fruity taste. 1. This new “blend” has that fruity taste. 2. The new container is the same as the previous Special Dark except that the lettering is gray. I didn’t notice this until I got the container home. 3. If I were interested in health benefits, I probably would be drinking something else. Now I have to use this new stuff or pay more for a premium product. Mutter mutter mumble mumble. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/54 "2007-02-20T00:12:23Z")
The original Prell conditioner. This stuff was cheap, did a good job, and rinsed out easily. I’ve tried other conditioners, but all of them have only one or two of these qualities. YELLOW corn tortilla chips. I don’t want white, or red, or blue tortilla chips. I want YELLOW corn in them. I think yellow corn tastes the best. Tootsie pop drops. These were Tootsie pops, without the stick. I also like the mini Tootsie pops, but they seem to only be produced for Halloween. Semi-hijack…I used to love deviled ham when I was younger. Now, however, it tastes incredibly fatty and peppery. Did it change, or did I? ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/55 "2007-02-20T00:37:42Z")
I miss C2. I keep trying Coke Zero in the hopes it will eventually have the real Coke taste everyone says it does, but so far it just tastes like nothing. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/56 "2007-02-20T00:42:22Z")
[QUOTE=Dewey Finn] Another one I thought of. There’s an ice cream treat called Klondike that’s about four inches square and about 1 1/2 inches thick. I think it’s sold in packages of six. It’s OK, but I remember another product called Polar Bar that looked almost identical, but was much better. [/QUOTE] There still available here in the Northwest. They also have a light version that’s not too bad. I miss Paul Newman’s steak sauce. Had a nice flavor without being overpowering like A-1. It went from all the stores to one small chain to gone. Newman’s website still shows it being made, I just can’t find it. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/57 "2007-02-20T00:46:59Z")
[QUOTE=Dewey Finn] Another one I thought of. There’s an ice cream treat called Klondike that’s about four inches square and about 1 1/2 inches thick. I think it’s sold in packages of six. It’s OK, but I remember another product called Polar Bar that looked almost identical, but was much better. [/QUOTE] Klondike Bars? THey’re still sold at my school’s cafeteria… so I guess I could find them in some supermarket around here in Louisiana… ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/58 "2007-02-20T00:56:04Z")
[QUOTE=Dewey Finn] Another one I thought of. There’s an ice cream treat called Klondike that’s about four inches square and about 1 1/2 inches thick. I think it’s sold in packages of six. It’s OK, but I remember another product called Polar Bar that looked almost identical, but was much better. [/QUOTE] I’m curious where you’re located, because these are quite easy to find in any local food store for me. Amusingly, the company’s website has a [store locator](http://www.icecreamusa.com/products/product.cfm?u=75856-00110&b=3), if you enter your zip code. Assuming you’re in the US, and there’s anything within 20 miles or so, you’re welcome. **Taters** , as I understand it, Old Bay is a mid-Atlantic regional thing. Around Baltimore (where it’s made), it’s a common ingredient. I think we have a giant tin and a small shaker for the table in our kitchen. (A [Regional Foods](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=249628&highlight=regional+food) thread from 2004, in which I praise Old Bay in the second post to the thread, among other Maryland/mid-Atlantic foods) ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/59 "2007-02-20T00:57:20Z")
Team Flakes cereal. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/60 "2007-02-20T01:05:08Z")
**Trader Joe’s must bring back my Portuguese Sweet Muffins!!!** \* :😭:\* Also, from my childhood, Hostess Chocodiles and SkyBar. SkyBar is weird in that it doesn’t taste all that good, but all the kids felt compelled to buy it anyway. Maybe something about getting multiple flavors made you feel you were getting more for your money? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822.md?page=4)