# Stuff you loved that was discontinued. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157 "2011-08-02T06:11:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![PalJuicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@PalJuicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PalJuicy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/181 "2011-08-05T10:28:43Z")
Oops – nevermind. Sorry. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2011, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/182 "2011-08-05T10:37:02Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Holy shit, there actually [was](http://austinthompson.org/Thingmaker/FishingLures.shtm) a kit similar to the Thingmaker _specifically_ designed for making fishing baits! This looks like it would be AWESOME to own! I wish I had one. hm, wonder if it survived the house fire and if we still have our thingmaker. Although I love love love the molds, I would so get them and use them for some sugarwork … it would make a great bunch of decorations for a kids cake or a batchelor cake =) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/183 "2011-08-05T11:02:03Z")
California Pizza Kitchen’s frozen Thai pizza…they don’t even sell the non thin-crust frozen ones, anymore. Luckily, I found a recipe for the Thai that pretty closely replicates the original, but it’s a PITA to have to make it from scratch. ☹ Also, KFC’s “Chicken Littles” from about—ooogh—20 years back. Cheap little chicken sandwiches, but I used to love 'em (And as it turned out, disturbingly, so did the ducks at the local park, as we found out by accident one day). ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/184 "2011-08-05T13:15:05Z")
> [@VitrolicBump](#): > > Do you know what I remember and I wish it was still made? The lip balm that was made in sliding tins. I know there are a few companies that are bringing them back but it was nothing like the one they used to make of course. 😛 [Fourth Grade Nothing: Village Lip Lickers | Lip Balm or Gloss in a Tin](http://www.fourthgradenothing.com/2011/05/village-lip-licker-lip-balm-or-gloss-in.html) Wow, I remember those! They were great! ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/185 "2011-08-05T14:35:32Z")
Quaker Soy Crisps in BBQ and White Cheddar. We had them here for a few years and then they disappeared around 2008 or so. If any of you Americans have them in stores near you, I’d seriously pay to have you buy me a box and ship them to me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/186 "2011-08-05T15:16:53Z")
What boy wouldn’t love an [erector](http://www.rfgco.com/erector/cover.jpg) [set](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Erector_Set_Ad_1922.JPG) or [chemistry](http://theodoregray.com/periodictable/Images/ChemcraftSet.JPG) [set](http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/ChemMicroSet.jpg), from back when they were made best, by the [A. C. Gilbert Company](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Gilbert_Company)! I’m not quite old enough to have the models linked to above…although, I do miss my old lumbago remedy, [Chief Tan-to Elixer](http://101nights.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/snakeoil.gif). ---
**Author:** ![happycamper\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@happycamper\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happycamper_5)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/187 "2011-08-05T15:20:52Z")
> [@VitrolicBump](#): > > Do you know what I remember and I wish it was still made? The lip balm that was made in sliding tins. I know there are a few companies that are bringing them back but it was nothing like the one they used to make of course. 😛 [Fourth Grade Nothing: Village Lip Lickers | Lip Balm or Gloss in a Tin](http://www.fourthgradenothing.com/2011/05/village-lip-licker-lip-balm-or-gloss-in.html) Yes. Those were the best and, now that you’ve reminded me of them, during my next trip home I’ll be ransacking my old room to see if I still have the tins! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/188 "2011-08-05T15:48:26Z")
> [@Tibbytoes](#): > > What boy wouldn’t love an [erector](http://www.rfgco.com/erector/cover.jpg) [set](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Erector_Set_Ad_1922.JPG) or [chemistry](http://theodoregray.com/periodictable/Images/ChemcraftSet.JPG) [set](http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/ChemMicroSet.jpg), from back when they were made best, by the [A. C. Gilbert Company](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Gilbert_Company)! > > I’m not quite old enough to have the models linked to above…although, I do miss my old lumbago remedy, [Chief Tan-to Elixer](http://101nights.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/snakeoil.gif). An acquaintance of mine is into collecting the old Gilbert Erector Sets. There are groups on-line that buy up old Erector sets and re-assemble them into the original kits. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/189 "2011-08-05T16:32:46Z")
> [@Tibbytoes](#): > > What boy wouldn’t love an [erector](http://www.rfgco.com/erector/cover.jpg) [set](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Erector_Set_Ad_1922.JPG) or [chemistry](http://theodoregray.com/periodictable/Images/ChemcraftSet.JPG) [set](http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/ChemMicroSet.jpg), from back when they were made best, by the [A. C. Gilbert Company](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Gilbert_Company)! > > I’m not quite old enough to have the models linked to above…although, I do miss my old lumbago remedy, [Chief Tan-to Elixer](http://101nights.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/snakeoil.gif). > [@CalMeacham](#): > > An acquaintance of mine is into collecting the old Gilbert Erector Sets. There are groups on-line that buy up old Erector sets and re-assemble them into the original kits. Interesting. I had a chemistry set, whatever the largest sold by FAO Schwartz back in the very early 70s was. It came in a great metal box that opened into 3 sections. It was more like the second set but no microscope. My brother and I shared an erector set, it came with little tiny plastic wall panels in window, half window and no window types, a couple of electric motors and lots of girders and stuff. We also had a huge bin of [Lincoln Logs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Logs). I’ll be damned, who knew that Lincoln Logs were invented or at least marketed by the son of Frank Lloyd Wright. I do remember one year us getting the huge everything by hotwheels, we got a ton of the cars, and all the different track setups. We tended to go make highway systems out in the dirt more than playing with the tracks, though our playroom once had a huge system set up when a bunch of cousins were over one christmas vacation. [Mom and Dad took the formal front parlor in the house and declared it our playroom so we were downstairs from the nursery during the day and turned the original nursery day room into an extra bedroom for the nursery area for visiting cousins. Our playroom was about 20 feet x 20 feet and had a gorgeous fireplace and was the front corner of the house. Plenty of light and it was symmetrical so we each had a toy storage area flanking the fireplace, though most of our toys were shared.] In retrospect, it was decidedly odd that Bro and I shared ownership of the toys instead of getting all individual toys. It did tend to prevent arguing over whos toy whatever was. I was never into dolls, and had all of 2 dolls, both given to me by non-family - one was given to me by a hospital in Rochester when I was admitted for pneumonia when I was about 5 [we had just rotated home from Germany] and one was from a friend of my Grandfather when we did a Christmas vacation at their house. The end result was a fairly non girly girl I guess. As you can tell, in general we got fairly educational toys, though I am not sure how to classify the [snoopy sno-cone maker](http://www.perpetualkid.com/the-original-snoopy-sno-cone-machine.aspx), the [creepy crawler maker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepy_Crawlers), the [cotton candy maker](http://www.ht-express.com/catalog/catalog_detail.asp?CID=100&PI=35427&ser=Froogle), [ex bake oven](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy-Bake_Oven) or the [pretzel jetzel](http://mostlybrightideas.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/twisted-values/) [I can’t believe I actually found information on it!] Fun though they were, kids love snacking, and making your own snacks was always a blast. The sno-cone maker got heavy use in the summer 😃 and my brother also had the little army man placques for the creepy crawlie maker. If memory serves there was in addition to the plastic, some sort of edible gelatin goop for making edible worms and stuff also. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/190 "2011-08-05T16:37:34Z")
> [@](#): > > My brother and I shared an erector set, it came with little tiny plastic wall panels in window, half window and no window types, a couple of electric motors and lots of girders and stuff. In the early 1960s there was a (non-Gilbert, non-Erector) building set called **Panels and Girders** , made by Kenner. Are you sure this isn’t what you had? [http://www.girderandpanel.net/](http://www.girderandpanel.net/) [http://www.girderpanel.com/](http://www.girderpanel.com/) [http://users.rcn.com/ed.ma.ultranet/gphistory.html](http://users.rcn.com/ed.ma.ultranet/gphistory.html) I ask because I don’t recall any Gilbert Erector sets having panels, and if you wanted real 3-D girders you had to build them up out of flat stock. ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/191 "2011-08-05T17:07:42Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > In the early 1960s there was a (non-Gilbert, non-Erector) building set called **Panels and Girders** , made by Kenner. Are you sure this isn’t what you had? > > [http://www.girderandpanel.net/](http://www.girderandpanel.net/) > > [http://www.girderpanel.com/](http://www.girderpanel.com/) > > [http://users.rcn.com/ed.ma.ultranet/gphistory.html](http://users.rcn.com/ed.ma.ultranet/gphistory.html) > I ask because I don’t recall any Gilbert Erector sets having panels, and if you wanted real 3-D girders you had to build them up out of flat stock. I got a Girder & Panel set handed down from my cousin. It even came with a very cool pre-maple leaf Canadian flag to put on the top. Odd because my family all live in the U.S. I had hours and hours of fun with that toy which was the perfect thing to keep me occupied on rainy days. Thanks for helping me remember those long-gone childhood moments. Bri2k ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/192 "2011-08-05T17:16:53Z")
**aruvqan** , I hated the EZ-Bake oven. Just as much mess and fuss when I could use a real oven. Plus it was a pain getting things out with that stupid u-shaped grabber. Oh and the produced stuff tasted nasty. UGH And I liked the Snoopy Sno-cone set…tho I think it was because I would use Kool-aid as the syrup and ended up just drinking it out of Snoopy’s head. It was a squishy top so it was perfect for my oral fixation. lol ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/193 "2011-08-05T17:33:36Z")
> [@VitrolicBump](#): > > Do you know what I remember and I wish it was still made? The lip balm that was made in sliding tins. I know there are a few companies that are bringing them back but it was nothing like the one they used to make of course. 😛 [Fourth Grade Nothing: Village Lip Lickers | Lip Balm or Gloss in a Tin](http://www.fourthgradenothing.com/2011/05/village-lip-licker-lip-balm-or-gloss-in.html) As soon as I saw the picture I remembered those. I bought a Cotton Candy one in Gastown on a trip to Vancouver when I was 9 and I think I might still have it - I’m 37 now, LOL. My friend in Grade 5 had a lip gloss with a slidy-lid container, the container was green plastic and the 2 lip glosses inside were spearmint-flavoured. We loved that stuff. I can still smell it in my head… Speaking of Lip Gloss: Bonne Bell’s “Kissing Potion.” It was in a glass container with a little roller ball. My cousins gave me a bubblegum one when I was 10 and I loved the texture, it was kind of crackly. I miss those containers because the regular Chapstick-like tubes melt inside and I hate wand lip glosses because I have to use two hands to apply it, LOL. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/194 "2011-08-05T17:36:20Z")
I can’t believe we’re pushing 200 posts and no one has said Firefly! Though, for me, it was discontinued before I knew I loved it. It was kinda depressing watching through the first time - loving every moment, but knowing it wasn’t going to last ☹ ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/195 "2011-08-05T18:53:31Z")
> [@brewha](#): > > I can’t believe we’re pushing 200 posts and no one has said Firefly! > > Though, for me, it was discontinued before I knew I loved it. It was kinda depressing watching through the first time - loving every moment, but knowing it wasn’t going to last ☹ This was me, too. It took me forever to watch them because I didn’t want to waste any. I miss Boo Berry cereal. Some quick searching suggests that it is still available somewhere in the states… I really miss Oil of Olay Total Effects Blemish Control moisturizer. It kept the occasional pimple I still get at bay and helped with my wrinkles. Now I have to choose between pimples and wrinkles. And Marcelle loose powder. I hate compacts and it was the perfect consistency (not heavy just a setting layer). ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/196 "2011-08-05T19:11:19Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Speaking of Lip Gloss: Bonne Bell’s “Kissing Potion.” It was in a glass container with a little roller ball. My cousins gave me a bubblegum one when I was 10 and I loved the texture, it was kind of crackly. I miss those containers because the regular Chapstick-like tubes melt inside and I hate wand lip glosses because I have to use two hands to apply it, LOL. 😃 The Bonne Bell Kissing potion takes me back to Junior High! It was so wet and sticky, but all the girls used it. I’m with you on the two-handed application thing. It seems incredibly lazy, but it’s a pain in the ass. I like Chapstick (and Carmex and Burt’s Bees) for that very reason. > [@brewha](#): > > I can’t believe we’re pushing 200 posts and no one has said Firefly! > > Though, for me, it was discontinued before I knew I loved it. It was kinda depressing watching through the first time - loving every moment, but knowing it wasn’t going to last ☹ Me, too. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/197 "2011-08-05T19:21:51Z")
I vaguely remember Kissing Potion but I think that was kinda out of my mindframe at the time. Also, if we are talking about TV series, I wish ["The Invisible Man "](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220238/) were still running. Same with [“Farscape”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187636/). _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![rostfrei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@rostfrei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rostfrei)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/198 "2011-08-05T19:57:39Z")
LA Looks used to make an excellent hair wax stick. It left my short hair really coiffed and styled with precision. But, they stopped making it 3-4 years ago. I found some on ebay and bought it, but it’s gone. Now, I use Tigi Bed Head Wax Stick. It’s ok, but not like the LA Looks stuff. Also, I miss nacho cheese Tostitos. They were so good. Doritos are good, but the Tostitos had a very nice crispy crunch, unlike the Doritos. Like Cola. 7-Up Gold. And I doubt anyone will remember this, but back in the 70’s, early 80’s Lipton (I think it was Lipton) used to make a product called “Lite Lunch”. It was dried spaghetti, with powdered tomato sauce that got really creamy when you added hot water to it. It came in individual packets. I would often combine 2-3 packets and have a huge bowl of spaghetti. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/199 "2011-08-05T20:02:43Z")
> [@brewha](#): > > I can’t believe we’re pushing 200 posts and no one has said Firefly! > > Though, for me, it was discontinued before I knew I loved it. It was kinda depressing watching through the first time - loving every moment, but knowing it wasn’t going to last ☹ You didn’t miss anything. Those of us who saw it in its first run also know it wasn’t going to last, since it was a good show on Fox. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/200 "2011-08-05T20:07:01Z")
Sally Hansen used to sell a fingernail polish called “No More Peeling”, which did seem to help my peeling nails. I can’t find it any more. This was fairly recent, not from my childhood. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157.md?page=11)