Lost foods

Cafe Society
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A conversation with a friend today reminded both of us of one of our favorite camping foods: Big John’s Beans & Fixin’s. Great stuff to make over a campfire. Sadly, Con-Agra discontinued the product a few years ago. :frowning:

This got me thinking of other foods that have bitten the dust over the years, despite my vigorous objections. I’m sure my fellow Dopers have their stories to tell as well. So let’s take a stroll down Memory Lane, shall we? What products do you crave on occasion that they just don’t make anymore?

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Oooh, we’ve had whole threads about discontinued products.

I loved the soda-pop Surge and its followup Vault. I think both are more or less gone now.

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I used to see these in supermarkets around here, next to the crackers:
Pågen Krisprolls

But I haven’t seen them in a long time. I loved those with butter and jelly in the morning, with cheese at dinner, with capers / lox / creamcheese.

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There was a brand of soda called Orbitz, I believe, that had little floating balls of deliciousness suspended inside it. I miss those.

Pepsi Blue, I miss as well, but I am one of the few who liked it.

Moon Pies seem to be nearly impossible to find outside of Louisiana anymore, but luckily you can order them online.

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Regal Crown Sours. I wrote about them on my blog, and it’s consistently among my most popular posts.

Someone posted to say they’re trying to bring them back.

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When I was a kid, I really liked several of a line of canned soups that were sold as “Great American Soups” by Heinz. They disappeared somewhere in the early to mid-1970’s.

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They don’t even have to be discontinued - only absent. One of the greatest beers in the world is no longer imported to the colonies: Bishop’s Finger Kentish Ale. I’d sell my mother to the bedouins for a case of that brew.

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Loco soda!

Great flavors, enhanced with capsaicin! I still have two bottles. The fizz is pretty much gone, but the kick lingers on.

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I still miss Alpine white chocolate candy bars.

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These are all over the southeast, IME. They’re made in Chattanooga and on every store, convenience market and farmer’s co-op’s shelves most places I travel in the region.

What I miss isn’t so much any one product, but sodas, in general in the 16 oz. heavy glass returnable bottles. If you iced those babies down in a cooler, they would stay cold for a couple of hours once you got them out and opened them.

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I ran across that in Canada some years back. Really foul. Always reminds me of this Simpson’s quote:

**[Homer](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0144657/)**: Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it? You know, Skittlebrau?

Apu: Mr. Simpson, you just made that up.
Homer: Oh. Well, then just give me a six-pack and a couple of bags of Skittles.

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If you had a Sodastream, you could bring the fizz back to those sodas, Qadgop.

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Moon Pies are in every gas station and grocery store around here but considering I live just outside Chattanooga, that’s not too surprising.

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I still have an unopened bottle of that in my fridge. I’ve been moving it from house to house for the last 15 years or so. The balls have migrated down so they only float about halfway up the bottle.

I tried another bottle of it once, back when it was still around. I thought it was the most vile substance I ever tasted. Different strokes, I guess. :stuck_out_tongue:

What I miss, though, is Carnation Breakfast Squares. When I was a teenager I used to come home from school and have a pack of chocolate Squares (they came 2 to a pack) and ice cold milk. It was heavenly.

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And Danish-Go-Rounds. How Pop-tarts survived and those didn’t, I’ll never understand.

I once worked for a distributor who sold Orbitz. That stuff sold like hotcakes. Moldy hotcakes.

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Quisp Cereal. Used to love it as a kid. Supposedly it’s still made, but Quaker Oats seems to have employed some sort of bizarre guerrilla, hit-and-run marketing strategy, and I can’t find the dang stuff.

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Malt-nut power bars. Everyone seemed to hate that flavor except for me.

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I’ve mentioned these in a similar thread: Sunshine brand Lemon Coolers were the cookies of the gods, and Nabisco Lemon Thins were nearly as good.

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Oh man, I remember those. 16 oz bottles of Pepsi in slightly-worn glass bottles. So cold it almost hurt to drink them. Yeah, I miss those.

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Tuna Twist - the only thing that could get me to eat tuna fish sandwiches .