# Recent products that have gone away that I will miss **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536 "2023-10-13T20:46:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/1 "2023-10-13T20:46:37Z")
Pre-Pandemic, Walmart had a wonderful cookie from it’s Great Value brand called Sugar Free Frosted Oatmeal cookies [https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Sugar-Free-Frosted-Oatmeal-Cookies-11-25-Oz/36073906](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Sugar-Free-Frosted-Oatmeal-Cookies-11-25-Oz/36073906) Cheap and absolutely delicious. I always bought several packs whenever in Walmart. Now…gone. Been gone since the pandemic. I MISS them. Also, Fiber One Original cereal may be gone. There are conflicting reports. Some say discontinued, others say unavailable do to supply chain issues. Either way, unavailable. It was by fr my favorite high fiber cereal. Others? ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/2 "2023-10-13T21:20:32Z")
Two I can think of, for some value of recent. For decades I used something call Red River cereal. I used it mainly for the multi-grain bread I make once a week, but also occasionally cooked it and ate it. About five years ago, they abruptly stopped. Presumably out of business. I now use Rob’s Red Mill multi-grain cereal which seems an adequate substitute. The second, there is no adequate substitute. Ever since I was a kid, I enjoyed munching on Trenton crackers. Hard balls about an inch in diameter and, IMHO, delicious. Sea food restaurants in Philly always put them on the table and supermarkets carried them in bags. I once bought a whole case. Then the bakery in Trenton went out of business (maybe 20 years ago and sold their ovens to a company on Lawn Gisland (you know, that long narrow strip of land east of NYC) which made them for a number of years. Then stopped. Maybe 10 years ago. They claimed their special oven stopped working and could not be replaced. So no more OTCs (O = original). In Wegman’s one day, I saw what looked like the package, but what was inside didn’t look anythink like the original. Sad. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/3 "2023-10-13T21:49:16Z")
I had to google Trenton crackers, and they appear to be oyster crackers. Were they a special kind of oyster cracker? Or are oyster crackers in general gone? ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/4 "2023-10-13T21:50:31Z")
Chocolate Cream of Wheat. You can still get the instant variety, but the original one is no longer made (as far as I can tell). Chocolate Malt O Meal is not nearly as good. Instant Chocolate Quaker Oats, which is obviously not a farina cereal, tastes like they put the chips from Chips Ahoy in plain oatmeal. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/5 "2023-10-13T21:54:25Z")
I haven’t seen Stewards Diet Orange Creamsicle in the stores since the beginning of covid. They have 6 packs on Amazon for $33, but I suspect they are old stock. Meijer has them on thier website, but they are out of stock for over a year now. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/6 "2023-10-13T23:05:01Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Fiber One Original Nooooooooooo! Although as long as Publix sells the generic version I’ll be fine. I’ve eaten Fiber One or the knockoff every day for over a decade. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/7 "2023-10-13T23:16:29Z")
I can get a box on amazon for 40 bucks. I like it, but not THAT much. Basterds. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/8 "2023-10-13T23:47:32Z")
Trader Joe’s had the best blue cheese dressing/dip that disappeared about a year ago. I’ve tried all the others (refrigerated) available around here but none are as creamy or richly studded with cheese chunks. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/9 "2023-10-14T00:04:38Z")
Caffeine Free Diet Dr. Pepper. I know drinking diet soda is supposed to be evil, but Diet DP is the closest in taste to the original formulation of just about any soda, and the absence of caffeine makes it perfect for an _apres le diner_ libation for those of us who don’t drink alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/10 "2023-10-14T00:27:39Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Frosted Oatmeal cookies I love those, any off-brand. They’re a little cardboardy, though with coffee, they’re tasty. But I’ve had to stop cold turkey, because if I buy a package, I eat the package. . > [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > For decades I used something call Red River cereal. Red River! I spent a decade going to a camp on a bay of Lake Huron, where breakfast didn’t _include_ Red River, it _was_ Red River. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/11 "2023-10-14T00:37:18Z")
Harris-Teeter had their own brand ( HT Traders ) of red slaw which they called ‘Carolina Slaw’ that was fantastic. Cayenne spiced crunchy, coarsely cut cabbage, tomatoes, some onions I think, a thin tomato-ey broth slaw. Almost Pico like maybe. One of the few store bought condiments I had any use for. Alas I haven’t seen it available for about a year. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/12 "2023-10-14T01:12:34Z")
The only Triscuits that were worth buying and eating were the ones originally labeled “Deli-style Rye” and in later incarnations “Rye with Caraway Seeds”. They killed them a couple years ago. Not only will I never buy any more Triscuits, I will never buy another Nabisco product unless they resume those. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/13 "2023-10-14T03:15:05Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > For decades I used something call Red River cereal. I used it mainly for the multi-grain bread I make once a week, but also occasionally cooked it and ate it. About five years ago, they abruptly stopped Then you might be happy to learn this: > **[Arva Flour Mills set to revitalise historic Red River Cereal brand](https://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Article/2022/07/20/Arva-Flour-Mills-set-to-revitalise-historic-Red-River-Cereal-brand)** > > North America’s oldest continuously operating water-powered commercial flour mill has acquired the almost 100-year-old Red River Cereal brand from Smucker Foods of Canada Corp., a subsidiary of The J.M. Smucker Co. I too remember Red River cereal fondly~discovered it when we lived in Boston in the ‘70s. Tasty and sticks to your ribs on a cold morning. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/14 "2023-10-14T03:23:06Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > Chocolate Cream of Wheat. You can still get the instant variety, but the original one is no longer made (as far as I can tell). Can you get Coco Wheats? ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/15 "2023-10-14T04:13:04Z")
CoCo Wheats are better than Chocolate Malt O Meal, but still not at the level of Chocolate Cream of Wheat. A client of mine heard me rave about Chocolate Cream of Wheat at a restaurant one morning. We had just finished a successful project, so he ordered two boxes of it to be delivered to my house. Problem #1: He misremembered and ordered Malt O Meal. Problem #2: He didn’t order two boxes…he ordered two cases. I’m up to my armpits in chocolate hot cereal. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/16 "2023-10-14T04:45:24Z")
I haven’t been able to find Stouffer’s products in the supermarket freezer. They were there a few months ago, but no more. Not that they were anything special, but they were just so easy to prepare, and required no thought. An easy meal that you had because you didn’t know what else to have. ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/17 "2023-10-14T07:58:06Z")
I used to buy the Healthy Choice frozen dinners a lot (the ones with actual mains, sides, and desert) but they seem to have gone extinct. At the very least, I don’t see them around anymore. Their website still lists them, though. > **[Quick Healthy Food - Classics | Healthy Choice](https://www.healthychoice.com/complete-meals)** > > Check out quick healthy food options from Healthy Choice. These easy-to-cook meals remind us that little decisions make all the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/18 "2023-10-14T09:37:54Z")
There are lots of brands of oyster crackers available. You might also try Vermont Country Store’s Common Crackers which are oyster crackers writ large. I can’t keep them in the house because I’ll just eat the whole bag. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/19 "2023-10-14T09:38:55Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Not only will I never buy any more Triscuits, I will never buy another Nabisco product unless they resume those. That’ll show 'em. They’re cowering in fear now. ---
**Author:** ![nofloyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nofloyd/32/2870_2.png) [@nofloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nofloyd)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536/20 "2023-10-14T09:40:22Z")
I still look forlornly at the triscuit section. The rye were the best. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-products-that-have-gone-away-that-i-will-miss/991536.md?page=2)