# Food/beverages you like that have been discontinued **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [November 15, 2019, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469 "2019-11-15T03:05:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/141 "2019-11-17T08:27:00Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > La Choy frozen mini egg rolls. They were just like Pizza Rolls, but filled with cabbage and pork or shrimp. Oh, I loved those things! I’d kill for them to bring them back. I’ll add Stouffers’ White Garlic French Bread Pizza. It had this absolutely divine white garlic sauce, and tons of cheese. I can’t imagine WHY they’d stop making it. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/142 "2019-11-17T09:55:52Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Heinz Hot Ketchup. They later brought it back, but now it’s just ketchup with Tabasco sauce; it used to be much more akin to cocktail sauce. I recently discovered, quite by accident, that cocktail sauce is just ketchup with horseradish (although I like to add a little Worcestershire and Sriracha). ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/143 "2019-11-17T14:21:27Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > **Yesssssss!** I’m not the only one! I ordered mine online. Two mini bottles of so-called Classic and Diet Coke, and two cans of New Coke (normal sized). I shudder to think what I paid for it. Was it really available in stores? A very very few scattered around the country apparently. I was willing to drive 700 miles if I had to but every time I found a place that had some, by the time I called them it was “sorry- sold out and we have no idea if or when we’re getting any more”. I was visiting a friend in Indy and he had some — which I guilted him out of right then and there. > [@panache45](#): > > Healthy Choice canned soups have drastically reduced its variety. For those of us on restricted diets, we’re faced with just a few boring choices. I wish they’d bring back all the original flavors, even temporarily as a special edition. Until I read your post I had forgotten ---- Great American Soups. The soups themselves were really good but the commercials with Legs Miller were fantastic! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5jU2pl7bqKg/hqdefault.jpg "Ann Miller Great American Soup 1970 on Yahoo! Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jU2pl7bqKg) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/144 "2019-11-17T14:23:32Z")
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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/145 "2019-11-17T14:33:37Z")
[Kellogg’s OKs cereal, with Yogi Bear on the box. I KNEW I didn’t dream it!](https://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_detail.asp?id=263) Simba, a soft drink from the Coca Cola company. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/146 "2019-11-17T15:48:05Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Kraft Dinner is still around, but recently they changed it to be ‘new and improved, with no artificial coloring!’ They replaced the food coloring with Turmeric, and it changed the taste for the worse. Also, they appear to have also either changdd the thickness of the noodles or the composition, because they now break down into a mushy mess if you cook them anough to make them not chewy. I don’t know what to tell you about the noodles, but you may want to check out Bulk Barn for the powdered cheese stuff. ---
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/147 "2019-11-17T17:58:10Z")
7-Up Gold, available from 1987-89. A cinnamon-ginger soda with a sort of ‘earthy’ undertone. God, I loved that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/148 "2019-11-17T21:37:34Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Healthy Choice canned soups have drastically reduced its variety. For those of us on restricted diets, we’re faced with just a few boring choices. I wish they’d bring back all the original flavors, even temporarily as a special edition. I have a friend on a seriously reduced sodium diet, and as low fat as possible, for him I make a variety of soups, all based on my homemade chicken stock [bone in skin on chicken, a large onion, 3 whole large not baby carrots, 3 or 4 ribs of celery and a tablespoon of italian herbs. SImmer for a couple hours, remove all the solids, stash the liquid in the fridge for long enough to float the solidified fat which gets skimmed off. When I cook it into soup with other ingrendients, I can tweak the seasoning with pepper and other herbs like cumin, cilantro, sage or whatnot as needed.] I find that if you slice veggies paper thin or use fine dice or julienne they cook quickly at a simmer. A favorite of his is ‘spring soup’- a green onion, a carrot, a rib of celery, lettuce cut into julienne strips and fine dice of white meat chicken and added seasoning is cracked black pepper and a tiny dash of dill. If I store the stock in the freezer in 12 oz pucks [I mold in those chinese soup containers I get off Amazon], the stock is thawed and to an almost simmer bu the time I finished slicing and dicing the ingredients, and if I go with precooked chicken [I poach a bunch ahead of time in my sousvide and freeze it] I can get a bowl of soup on the table in about 20 minutes. I personally like having 4 large chest freezers, it lets me premake and store stock - I also have currently beef stew, beef barley soup, chicken congee, pork rischert and pureed artichoke to make into soup. I have to admit, I tend to cook with minimal salt normally as a force of habit, if salted to taste it would get dangerous because I am a salt junkie [been known to lick the salt out of a pretzel bag] I found that Campbells changed their flavor profile - the regular whole sodium chicken soups taste like dish water, the only soup of theirs I even bother to have on hand is the tomato soup [ingredients are basically tomato and water] not the bisque or anything fancy, but it is still the original profile and what I crave with grilled cheese sandwiches [made with Kraft singles, other cheeses just don’t taste right and the only time other than on toasted english muffins I like Kraft singles.] ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/149 "2019-11-17T22:19:41Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Hostess Suzy-Q’s didn’t seem to survive the Hostess bankruptcy. They rivaled the Hostess cupcake for pure chocolate goodness. Though probably they would have messed with the recipe so it wouldn’t be as good. My friend Dave found out the hard way in our high school cafeteria once that Suzy-Qs were flammable. Got a three-day inside suspension. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/150 "2019-11-17T22:32:34Z")
Sometimes I think I made this one up, but I swear that in the 70s my grandmother would purchase canned barbecue beans. I think that they were Campbell’s, with the red and white label, but also with a silhouette of cowboys at a campfire. Not baked beans, but barbecue beans. I really liked them. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/151 "2019-11-17T23:16:39Z")
**[Moderating]** > [@24KARAT](#): > > AnyThing that was then yet today uses the “high fructose corn sweetener” dangerous crap. {Remember margerine? Refined so to have infinite “shelf life”? Refined so not even of a chemical resemblence found out in nature? Refined so not even the bugs / microbes would eat it! Geeeze, ain’t that a hint in & of its’ self? > . > AnyThing that was then yet today uses any “artificial sweentner” in place of the original cane or refined sugar. Biochemically trying to deceive the body? Improving the health of the populace? Driving customers into the “health care” system? {Billy Bob Clinton coined this phrase during his / her attempt to mutinize America’s medical system. Then B.O. {remember the zombie thing he did & laughed of & became a fad nation wide? Any relation? And I had been thinking along mutiny as on a sea worthy vessel.} Then B.O. took over & Ms. Pelosi added in that no body is allowed to read it until after it becomes the law of the land. Not a sucker punch but a far reaching straight right followed with oh so many combinations. So how long we gonna rope-a-dope it?} > . > And then GMO. Is any corn on planet earth that has not been {genetically} infected? > [https://www.croptrust.org/our-work/svalbard-global-seed-vault/](https://www.croptrust.org/our-work/svalbard-global-seed-vault/) –\> “. . . man-made disasters”. They know something we commoners don’t? > Where does high fructose corn syrup come from? > . > I’ve digressed > I’ve digressed into a conspiracy theory like as if there is some Washington D.C. deep state or something. > . > Scooter Pies in that large box. No -not today’s little gross tasting cookie-like Scooter Pie want-a-be. Today’s ain’t nothing like the original. Today’s is like the remake of a great movie that’s been cut short & is a piece of junk & turns the stomach. I’m not sure what you’re talking about in that big paragraph, but I am sure that it’s a political rant of some sort. This is not the place for political rants. This is an official Warning. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/152 "2019-11-17T23:20:24Z")
[Not moderating] [This is what non-GMO corn looks like](https://me.me/i/teosinte-the-original-corn-554a39afbc354e60873c26914186bcb8). I doubt it was very common in your childhood, either. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/153 "2019-11-17T23:45:03Z")
We all remember **Bugles** , they’re still around. But who remembers **Whistles**? I liked them quite a lot. **Daisies** and **Pizza Spins** , not so much. But all 4 of those products were brought out at the same time in 1965 by General Mills. Only **Bugles** made it past the 1970’s. ---
**Author:** ![alfonzos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alfonzos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfonzos)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/154 "2019-11-17T23:53:03Z")
Kellogg’s Puffa Puffa Rice: lightly sweetened cinnamon-flavored puffed rice cereal. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/155 "2019-11-18T00:04:51Z")
> [@24KARAT](#): > > AnyThing that was then yet today uses the “high fructose corn sweetener” dangerous crap. {Remember margerine? Refined so to have infinite “shelf life”? Refined so not even of a chemical resemblence found out in nature? Refined so not even the bugs / microbes would eat it! Geeeze, ain’t that a hint in & of its’ self? > . > AnyThing that was then yet today uses any “artificial sweentner” in place of the original cane or refined sugar. Biochemically trying to deceive the body? Improving the health of the populace? Driving customers into the “health care” system? {Billy Bob Clinton coined this phrase during his / her attempt to mutinize America’s medical system. Then B.O. {remember the zombie thing he did & laughed of & became a fad nation wide? Any relation? And I had been thinking along mutiny as on a sea worthy vessel.} Then B.O. took over & Ms. Pelosi added in that no body is allowed to read it until after it becomes the law of the land. Not a sucker punch but a far reaching straight right followed with oh so many combinations. So how long we gonna rope-a-dope it?} > . > And then GMO. Is any corn on planet earth that has not been {genetically} infected? > [https://www.croptrust.org/our-work/svalbard-global-seed-vault/](https://www.croptrust.org/our-work/svalbard-global-seed-vault/) –\> “. . . man-made disasters”. They know something we commoners don’t? > Where does high fructose corn syrup come from? > . > I’ve digressed > I’ve digressed into a conspiracy theory like as if there is some Washington D.C. deep state or something. > . > Scooter Pies in that large box. No -not today’s little gross tasting cookie-like Scooter Pie want-a-be. Today’s ain’t nothing like the original. Today’s is like the remake of a great movie that’s been cut short & is a piece of junk & turns the stomach. You’ve made a compelling case! Where do I sign up? ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/156 "2019-11-18T00:39:28Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > [https://www.bevnet.com/reviews/sobe/SoBe\_Zen\_Blend](https://www.bevnet.com/reviews/sobe/SoBe_Zen_Blend) > > I drank a couple every morning while studying in college. Loved em. This, over and over… this. When I was about 17-18 (1997-98) I studied for a few terms at my local community college. I always had an afternoon break between classes, so every day I would walk down to the bookstore and buy a SoBe Zen Blend. I absolutely loved that stuff. I actually remember the last time I had one: I was working a graveyard shift ca. 2002 and stopped at a convenience store on the way to work to get something to drink. They had a SoBe display with my old favorite right there in front. I picked one up out of nostalgia and since I was quite thirsty I drank it quickly after arriving at work. Had I known it would be the last one I’d ever have I would’ve savored it. Man, I miss that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/157 "2019-11-18T01:04:57Z")
Progresso Chickarina soup. Available online, but I haven’t seen it in a store for years. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/158 "2019-11-18T05:30:49Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > I hadn’t seen a Mars bar in years. In the U.S. Mars was discontinued circa 2002 and replaced with Snickers Almond. Snickers Almond is not quite the same and not as good as Mars. > [@madsircool](#): > > Lowenbrau beer. Takes me right back to 21. You can still get it in Europe. I had it on tap in Italy and it was celestial. In the U.S. it was made under contract by Miller. I really liked it and it accounted for half the beer I drank in the 70’s and 80’s. When Miller lost the contract to brew it some Canadian company made it for awhile but it wasn’t as good. I don’t believe you can get the European version in the USA. I saw the Swiss version here back in the early 80’s. If nobody has mentioned it I’d like to bring up [Josta](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/513379851936739328/9Kpytc-J_400x400.png). It was a unique flavored soda made by Pepsi in the mid-late 90’s. Only had about a 5 year run. Was one of the only non-diet sodas I drank. I’m aging myself here, but I miss [Jello Spoon Candy](http://www.inthe70s.com/food/images/user-image-1190768180.jpg) and Birdseye [Thick & Frosty](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/70/27/5b/70275baf4df3d46cfb3220824b01272e.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/159 "2019-11-18T06:02:42Z")
KABOOM! cereal … it was a goofy fruit-flavored circus-themed cereal with marshmallows … Do they still make good and fruity candy? I miss all the flavors of bubbleyum and bubblelicious… ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469/160 "2019-11-18T09:12:29Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > Do they still make good and fruity candy? Yes. But the only place I ever see it sold is at Woodmans. It’s one of the best fruit candies ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beverages-you-like-that-have-been-discontinued/843469.md?page=9)