Is this regional? BBQ Fritos are fairly common.
Hm. Now that I think of it, they’re Frito Twists. Are we still on for the corn-chip swap?
Roy Rogers Fried Chicken and French Fries. Both were the best. The chain still exists but not near me anymore.
I forget which cheese company it was: Sargento, Kraft… one of them. I used to buy bags of shredded cheddar that had bits of jalapeno embedded in the cheese. That stuff was awesome, and I haven’t seen it in years.
I wasn’t aware that Hardees didn’t do fried chicken anymore. We don’t have one nearby. It was good chicken, and their BBQ beans went fantastically with it.
For a while, there was something called Salsa and Cheese Dorito Thins, which was the best variety of Doritos ever developed. But it disappeared more than a decade ago, replaced by an endless cycle of same-tasting gimmicky flavors often containing no attempt at cheese flavor at all.
Carnation breakfast bars used to have a crumbly peanut inside. They were so good. Then they changed to a chewy rice inside. I don’t know if they are sold at all anymore.
Original New York Seltzer. Out of business. Probably my favorite beverage of all time, followed closely by Minute Maid Orange soda, discontinued.
A story about Minute Maid Orange soda - when I was in 7th grade in the early 80s, 7-Up invited us to their office in my hometown of Clayton, MO to do taste testing. We all drank orange soda and voted on our favorites, based on texture, carbonation, juice content, etc. That product turned into Minute Maid Orange soda, so I liked to say that it was my personally designed soda.
Wow, I’d totally forgotten those. Vaguely nasty tasting yet addictive. I love how they were marketed as a sort of vitamin-packed health food, and the first two ingredients are sugar and fat (and not being content with sugar being the #1 ingredient, they also contain sorbitol, brown sugar syrup, and dextrose).
One only Aussies would get is the Polly Waffle.
Picture a waffle wafer formed into a tube about an inch across and ~four inches long, filled with marshmallow, and then coated in chocolate. God they were tasty.
That was me. I thought it tasted a little better, though I never tried a blind taste test. I certainly liked that it meant that caffeine free non-diet cola was widely available, though.
I’ll add Maple and Brown Sugar-flavored Life cereal. It tasted absolutely vile dry, but wonderful with milk. It must still be available somewhere, since the kiddy games on the back of the box of regular Life list it as a possible flavor, but I haven’t seen any in years.
In the 90s, my mother told me that Hardees had purchased Roy Rogers, or some holding company had acquired both. RR started offering “Hardees breakfast”, and some Hardees started offering fried chicken, which I assumed was the same recipe.
I had chicken at a Hardees in Charlottesville just a few years ago. So if they’ve stopped carrying it, it’s only recently.
I had to jump in and add this complaint: Tato Skins chips in Original Flavor.
Yeah, I know TGI-Fridays puts their name on the manufacturer’s Tato Skins for the Sour Cream n’ Onion flavor and the Cheddar n’ Bacon flavor, but those two alternatives use onion powder (yeah, even in the Cheddar n’ Bacon version) and I can’t stand that flavor on my chips. So I know the company still exists and still sells to a market, but they’ve dropped the one I really like.
—G! :mad:
ETA: Same with the Pringles Thick cut chips. The brand still exists but my preferred variant got dropped.
I remember those! They looked like urinal cakes!
Hydrox cookies. Oreos are an inferior knock-off of Hydrox.
i liked crystal pepsi, but i think it was the reformulated citrus version that i liked. i could go for some right now.
i miss hi c ecto cooler, which apparently existed under another name until like 2007 or so. if only i’d known…
planters PB crisps. little peanut shaped cookie shells filled with peanut butter. yum!
I don’t remember the brand, but in the mid-eighties there was a processed cheese spread that came in a plastic “sausage” casing like polenta. There was an asterisk-shaped cutout nozzle in the middle of the tube that the product was squeezed through onto crackers for fancy-looking hors d’ouevre. It was more paste-like than say, Cheez-Whiz, and came in different flavors (cheddar-bacon was the best!) Man, I miss that cheese.
I don’t know if it’s ecto cooler, but we still have ecto-green Hi-C around here. Also Tato Skins but I’m not sure about original.
Seems the only thing they yanked here in the midwest was my beloved Planters cheez balls. I’d pay extra shipping to get some of those, if they were anywhere to be found. Thanks, OP, for reminding me.
Seven Seas Creamy Italian Dressing. This dressing was available regionally for several years after being discontinued in California where I lived, and at one point my mom was mailing it to me from Illinois, along with some homemade cookies.
Kraft Olive Pimento Cheese Spread. The idiots at Kraft now sell just plain Pimento Cheese Spread. Why? What the hell good is pimento without an olive to be in?
If I ever find out who removed the** Baja Gordita** from Taco Bell, I very well may have to choke him/her until they bring it back.
They do still make Bugles, for whoever mentioned those. Even better, they now make chocolate peanut butter Bugles- my ultimate PMS snack. I hide those.
Twenty or so years ago, Taco Bell made a bacon cheeseburger burrito. I don’t like cheeseburgers, but I loved that burrito. I wish they’d bring it back.
It hasn’t been that long since they discontinued them, but I already miss McDonald’s Chicken Selects, their version of deep-fried chicken fingers. Those were tasty, and very crispy.
I sorely miss a few things people have already mentioned.
Carnation Breakfast Bar AND Squares
New York Seltzer
Plus - Royals min chocolate candies
P.S. BBQ Fritos (non-twists, regular shape Fritos) and impossible to find here in Boston, but a friend brought me a bag from Atlanta recently. Heaven.