# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/161 "2007-02-21T07:50:43Z")
[QUOTE=Jelymag] However, the Ben & Jerry’s flavor Fossil Fuels, which has tiny chocolate DINOSAURS(!) is about as good. [/QUOTE] OMG. Chocolate dinosaurs? That is clearly the greatest idea ever. I _must_ have this ice cream. If this flavor is discontinued before I get back to the US, I’m blaming all of y’all. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/162 "2007-02-21T08:30:03Z")
Josta, man that was tasty. PB Max candy bars, or as I to call them “chocolate covered heroin.” Buffalo Trace BBQ sauce, pure, unadulterated liquid crack. Those Starburst licorice whip thingies. Vegetable flavored crackers (shaped like bell peppers and the like). This one brand of burritos, I don’t remember the name, but the wrappers looked like the cans of Arizona lemon tea. Cheap and oh, sooooo tasty. Onion McNuggets. The Turkey Jack at Jack in the Box. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/163 "2007-02-21T10:03:44Z")
[QUOTE=Kyla] Ben & Jerry’s made a flavor called “Bovinity Divinity” for awhile. [/QUOTE] I went to a very small Dopefest once. How small? There were three of us. We went to Ben & Jerry’s. The others ordered Chunky Monkey and Chubby Hubby. I had to keep the theme going, and there was only one other rhyming flavor on the menu. Some time later, I captured the moment in haiku. ---
**Author:** ![Secret\_Volcano\_Lair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Secret\_Volcano\_Lair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Secret_Volcano_Lair)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/164 "2007-02-21T10:19:20Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Those Starburst licorice whip thingies. [/QUOTE] Oh man, those were great. I tried looking for them online a while back, but sadly, no luck. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/165 "2007-02-21T11:54:51Z")
Oh, I thought of another one - o.b. **applicator** tampons - super plus were the most absorbent ever, which I need. They were the best and now they only make the non-applicator ones. Can I just say, ewwwww! I need an applicator, thankyouverymuch. Especially on those “super-plus” days… Sorry for the TMI. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/166 "2007-02-21T15:08:49Z")
Czeckvar beer. The very best pilsner in the world. Way better taht Urquell. It _used_ to be Budvar, but damn Anheuser-Busch made them change the name. Too close to Budweiser. Now, the two companies have made a deal to have A-B distribute Czechvar, but where the hell is it? Also, Dr Marten’s boots discontinued the only style that works for my strange feet. Great googly-moogly that looks like a U-H manly man list of complaints. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/167 "2007-02-21T15:20:37Z")
Where do I begin? Chocolate Velamints (sometimes they show up but they are rare) BubbleYum Sugar Free Mint bubble gum (sometime I find it at interstate convenient stores) Capio Bottled Cappucino (an idea that came long too early and forgotten) Twister banana orange strawberry Light Delfa Rolls - yummy red licorice rolls in a strawberry flavor. I’ve ordered them on line but they have finally vanished And finally - **Original** Celestial Seasonings Red Zinger (before they jiggered the recipe). I drank gallons in college and even more when I tried it with a dash of Amaretto. I wrote a furious letter to the Celestial Seasonings company about this outrage. They wrote back and thanked me for being such a loyal customer and included a catalog of merchandise and a coupon for 50 cents off. Grrrrr… ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/168 "2007-02-21T15:25:52Z")
Add me to the list of folks that miss the Bar None. It was my ideal chocolately goodness, and I’m not a HUGE fan of candy bars. I miss the 16oz glass bottles of soda, I quaffed many of them in High School. Not the classic “coke bottle” shaped ones, I’m talking about the short, squat 16oz bottles. Keebler made a chip called “Pizzeria”, pizza flavored chips. These combined with the 16oz bottles of Mt. Dew pretty much kept I and my friends alive on the weekends. Long gone now, it would appear. I haven’t seen a bag since 1994. Dang it. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/169 "2007-02-21T15:45:06Z")
Wow - four pages and I still have some originals to add: Entenmann’s Fudge-Iced Devil’s Food Filled Cupcakes. Those were the BEST Entenmann’s products, and we’re talking about a company that makes lots of delicious stuff. How the heck could they have stopped making them??? Entenmann’s Fudge-Iced Crullers. Addictively delicious, but at least these were a relatively new product that may have just bombed in the marketplace despite my love for them. The cupcakes above, though, had been around forever before they stopped making them. Nestles Mocha-flavored Crunch Bars. Not around for long, maybe only from 1999-2000 or so, but I was crazy about them. Pepsi Lite. The best implementation of Cola-with-a-twist-of-lemon ever. The current Pepsi Twist is good, but not quite as good. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/170 "2007-02-21T16:09:50Z")
[QUOTE=Bridget Burke] However, reading the label is necessary; sometimes corn syrup is used. But mostly, pure can sugar is the sweetening. [/QUOTE] Which label? The translated one with the nutrition facts on them? Ignore that - oftentimes the lazy bastards that slap those things on there out of legal necessity apparently copy the exact same info from their domestic counterparts, regardless of accuracy. Reading the ingredients printed on the bottle in the original language shows a discrepancy. In fact, since it’s we as a nation who uniquely make the price of high fructose corn syrup so artificially low, there’s no reason to expect soft drinks from any other place to use it as a sweetener, so you can safely assume that all foreign manufactured soft drinks are sweetened with sugar (or maybe something else that may be cheaper in a certain country). ---
**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 21, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/171 "2007-02-21T16:22:13Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Michigan. [/QUOTE] I thought so. I haven’t heard of a product by that name… ..this is where you appeal to age and call me a “whipper snapper”. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/172 "2007-02-21T17:30:32Z")
[QUOTE=Surly Chick] Oh, I thought of another one - o.b. **applicator** tampons - super plus were the most absorbent ever, which I need. They were the best and now they only make the non-applicator ones. Can I just say, ewwwww! I need an applicator, thankyouverymuch. Especially on those “super-plus” days… Sorry for the TMI. [/QUOTE] They have “Ultra” now, which I guess surpasses Super-plus, but sadly only in non-applicator. [QUOTE=Tuckerfan] PB Max candy bars, or as I to call them “chocolate covered heroin.” [/QUOTE] \ I forgot to remember to miss these until now. Man were they something special. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/173 "2007-02-21T17:35:58Z")
“Lifestyles Large” is now “Lifestyles King Size XL”. I guess that might be flattering to some but think it’s a bit ridiculous, and intelligence-insulting knowing there’s nothing between their original and “King Size XL” size wise. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/174 "2007-02-21T18:39:48Z")
Two things, one food, one not. Bonnomo’s Turkish Taffy. Came in banana, vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry flavors. A flat bar of taffy. Q-Tips with wooden sticks. Yeah I know you’re not supposed to stick them in your ears, but they are also good for cleaning other cracks and crevices. No, not there! I mean for firearms and such. The plastic and paper sticks are just no good. CVS sells them as Classic Cotton Swabs, but there aren’t any CVS in the St. Louis environs. ---
**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/175 "2007-02-21T19:09:55Z")
While I was in college, I got hooked on Celestial Seasonings “Fast Lane” tea. Or, as my friends and I called it, the “[Flying people](http://www.celestialseasonings.com/products/black-teas/fast-lane-pop.html)” tea. Black tea with ginsing, a bit of cinnamon and nutmeg, and a caffeine content higher than drip coffee (110 mg per serving vs. 90). Caffeine was listed as an ingredient, how could a college geek resist? 🙂 And then around 2000 or so, it started being hard to find on the tea shelves of the local grocery store. And then it was gone. I tried their “Morning Thunder”, but it just wasn’t the same. But last Saturday, my girlfriend and I decided to go do the Celestial Seasonings factory tour. Well, I went to their web site to get their address for driving directions and saw the happy words: Fast Lane is Back! For now, it’s apparently only available online and at their headquarter’s tea shop (needless to say, I picked up two boxes when the tour was over), but it looks like I wasn’t the only one depressed by it’s removal from their product line. I’m hoping it makes it’s way back onto store shelves. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/176 "2007-02-21T21:27:10Z")
I just remembered another product I miss: Hostess chocolate-chip mini muffins. Also Burger King’s Burger Buddies - mini burgers that came three to a pack. My siblings and I devoured those back in the 80s. Also count me among those who wonder what happened to Orangina. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/177 "2007-02-21T21:57:01Z")
Suddenly Smores. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/178 "2007-02-22T03:03:01Z")
[QUOTE=Dewey Finn] If it’s not too much to ask, can you verify that and get back to me, including what the price is? To review, I’m interested in Peek Frean Rich Tea Cookies. This might be worth a trip north. [/QUOTE] Hey there. Went to the shops after work today. I have good and bad news. The good is that I did indeed see Rich Tea on a PF box. The bad news is that they’re part of one of their mixed boxes; the ‘Peek Frean’s Assorted Tea’ mix so you get a bunch of Nice, shortbread, and other cookies in with your Rich Teas. > [@](#): > > An assortment of Peek Freans finest plain biscuits - Digestive, Shortcake, Nice, Fruit Shortcake, Rich Tea and Petit Beurre. [http://www.kraftfoods.com/peekfreanscanada/Products/assortedtea.asp](http://www.kraftfoods.com/peekfreanscanada/Products/assortedtea.asp) Mind you, they are all pretty tasty.. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/179 "2007-02-22T03:13:53Z")
[QUOTE=Lucky 13] Also count me among those who wonder what happened to Orangina. [/QUOTE] Just last Friday I noticed it’s in the vending machine at my YMCA. 😕 (Maybe the word “orange” makes someone think it’s good for you?) ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822/180 "2007-02-22T05:40:04Z")
[QUOTE=kayT] 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. [/QUOTE] [Here](http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Seas-Creamy-Italian-Dressing/dp/B00061EQYO) you go. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-products-which-have-mysteriously-vanished-from-store-shelves/392822.md?page=10)