Food/beverages you like that have been discontinued

Apparently 3.

Fresca soda. I loved it in the 70’s. It disappeared from the stores for a long time.

It’s back and doesn’t taste like I remember.

Fresca is the only diet soda that I liked. I started drinking it because my mom ran out of Coke. Faced with water or Fresca I went with the diet soda.

Too bad the current stuff isn’t the same. I bought one six pack and was disappointed.

You can get Cracklin’ Oat Bran from Amazon.

Oreo flavors come and go so fast you can get whiplash trying to keep up with them.

Is that the one that weirdly had cheese in it?

You just took me back…to elementary school. The TV commercial for Frosted Mini-Wheats had a kind of drum and fife band and animated characters marching, 1776 style. Their song said the cereal was “crisp and toasty, sugar or cinnamon…”

I liked the cinnamon flavor. Used to eat the biscuits dry, on the floor of my dining room, waiting to go outside to meet the school bus.

Now there’s only the “sugar” kind, and it’s been that way since, what, the 1980s?

Yes, I’d forgotten all about them. I almost wish you hadn’t re-opened this old wound. :wink:

I see that Entenmann’s now sells individually-wrapped creme-filled chocolate cupcakes, but they look like Hostess knockoffs and I don’t want to take a chance and be let down.


More recently, I’m still in deep mourning because Kellogg’s discontinued its Special K “Nourish” cereal with coconut, cranberry, and almond.

As a coconut lover, I realize that coconut-based cereals aren’t very popular and usually aren’t around for long. But when I stroll down the supermarket cereal aisle these days, I always stop to shake my fist at the Special K display.

To add insult to injury, Special K now has about twenty different varieties-- and yet they eliminated the only one that didn’t taste like crap.

Actually, I’m mentioning Hires Root Beer on behalf of my sister (we’re both 60something), who really loves her Hires Root Beer.

It had a distinctive, appealing taste. I use the past tense although it’s another item that is, or was, still manufactured.

When I researched it a while back (for a Christmas present for my sister), I discovered that Hires was a victim of corporate Philistinism: apparently Schweppes bought the company, or formula, or however that goes, then decided not to mass-produce or promote it because they didn’t want it to cut into their A&W Root Beer sales.

There’s a special place in Hell for such corporate bean-counters.

There’s a local soda company in the DC area called “Rock Creek,” and they used to have a ginger ale called “Tiger Ale.” It was outstanding; the ginger taste was right up front and very strong, as opposed to say Canada Dry, which tastes like it might have been in the same building as some actual ginger at some point in time, very long ago.

You are the second person to say this. Can you provide a link please? It is listed as unavailable on amazon.ca and I can’t find it on amazon.com.

Just stop by my house next time you’re in Wisconsin, I’ll give you a couple of boxes.

Or next time my daughter visits from Vancouver, I could send some back with her. You near there? Otherwise the Mrs. and I will probably get up to Saulte Ste. Marie eventually.

This is for a package of 10, but it says “In Stock” and I can get it delivered to me tomorrow.

jello pudding pops… I ate more of those as a kid than i did fudgesicies

Not from my childhood, but…

Nalley’s Horseradish Mustard. Best “hot” mustard ever. Company was bought by X which was bought by Y which…and now all they make is chili and mayo. Grrrrrr

Sylk — it was a Scotch Creme Liquor. Like Irish Creme Liquor, but so very very much tastier. Made by the Drambuie folks. Was around awhile, then !POOF! gone for ever. :-(°°°

https://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Cracklin-Oat-Bran-Excellent/dp/B07PXGJ6Q9?pf_rd_p=dd4f5b57-ba5b-418b-a348-64ec62df14cc&pd_rd_wg=VuPDo&pf_rd_r=E1BGJN82QXWADJMSCRZ6&ref_=pd_gw_cr_simh&pd_rd_w=hdZQ7&pd_rd_r=776880f7-d28b-4974-a29d-8565d1cd73f6

What was that stuff like? Was it like a yellow mustard with a zing? If so, you may enjoy Weber’s Horseradish Mustard. The ingredients of both are similar (from what I found looking up Nalley’s Horseradish Mustard and finding a photo of an empty jar of it with the ingredients on it), but the ingredient list only tells you so much.

another one … screaming yellow zonkers …popcorn crack in a box…

-Clearly Canadian – they brought it back, but it isn’t sold around here. :frowning:
-Cheetos Paws
-Mint flavored Skittles
-Sesame Chicken flavored instant ramen (can’t remember who made that)

This reminded me of Susan’s Horseradish, which I enjoyed with roast beef when I was a child. It was a prepared horseradish, available in Toronto mainly, and it remains the hottest horseradish I’ve ever tasted. Unavailable here in western Canada, if it is even still being produced (it seemed to be the product of a family farm in southern Ontario).

Thought of another one: Canada Dry Lime Rickey. A refreshing soft drink when I was a child; great to mix with gin when I became an adult. Now, it’s no longer available.

I remember those. Their demise was because of the “cod wars” between the UK and Iceland the head company substituted a lesser quality fish. Plus bad business decisions and feuding with franchise owners.

The fast food joints I miss are Burger Chef , Red Barn, and Randys Drive In.

That Barn Buster commercial was hokey, but man, that was a good burger!