# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/101 "2011-08-03T08:25:05Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Kellogs’ Frosted Bran - a really good-tasting bran cereal. Think of it as the baby boom meets middle age. Reading this as I eat my generic sugar frosted flakes, I was reminded of C.W. Post cereal. Haven’t seen it in decades. ☹ Bri2k ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/102 "2011-08-03T08:43:29Z")
P.S. Has anyone seen Bottlecaps candy? I think the last time I has these was back in the 80s. A sad start to my Wednesday. Bri2k ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/103 "2011-08-03T09:49:34Z")
I’m not claiming to have loved this, but does anyone remember [Ayds?](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l84JU4L9Xow/TAcDfyTV59I/AAAAAAAAAEc/PHE5ihlxDV0/s320/a96682_ayds.jpg) mmm ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/104 "2011-08-03T10:26:41Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > My local Pathmark put up a display within the last week, Beeman’s Blackjack and Clove gum, 59 cents a pack. Had to get the wife a pack of Blackjack, she’s a big licorice fan. > > School Paste. Not that I loved it, but I did expect to be able to buy some official Elmers School Paste for my son to make construction paper whatevers with, but it appears that they don’t make it anymore. Glue Sticks? Bah! I got some about a year ago for nostalgia. Maybe it’s been sitting on the store shelf since 1976?! As an aside, it’s pretty terrible. Stuff my daughter made is already unglued. The glue - as it did then - dries and seems to flake off. It still has that stick that never reached the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/105 "2011-08-03T11:01:37Z")
> [@No\_umlaut\_for\_U](#): > > Wendy’s veggie pitas: heck, all of their pita sandwiches. Also, their cole slaw from the salad bars. I came in to mention the same thing. My favorites were the chicken Caesar salad and the Greek feta ones. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/106 "2011-08-03T12:20:35Z")
> [@howye](#): > > As a former Hut delivery driver, I want to assure you that you do not want the bigfoot back. Interesting tidbit - the bigfoot pan was bigger than the typical resturant dishwasher. We just wiped our pans down with clean wash rags, usually while they were still piping hot from the oven, and we moved them around the store in stacks by pushing them around on the floor. Yummy … I could have gone my entire life without knowing that… … 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/107 "2011-08-03T13:01:11Z")
> [@shellofmyformerself](#): > > They still have these at my local Publix but they are over by the deli, not on the bread aisle. You can still find them every once in a while, but they used to be everywhere before. The next time I see them, I’m going to buy a bunch and freeze them, sad on so many levels. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/108 "2011-08-03T13:09:11Z")
> [@typoink](#): > > I’ve been terrified that one of my favorite current products (TrueLemon, TrueLime) will suffer a similar fate. It’s little packets of lime and lemon flavor. One packet is enough to make a quart of water subtly fruity and it’s been a great tool to drink less soda and juice. I’m the only person I’ve ever met who’s ever heard of it. We have TrueLemon packets in the break room at work for adding to tea. I imagine they’ll stick around of corporate coffee/tea suppliers carry them. ---
**Author:** ![PalJuicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@PalJuicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PalJuicy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/109 "2011-08-03T13:31:51Z")
From the 70’s: Pepsi Light, which was lemon-flavored. (Squirting lemon juice into regular Pepsi doesn’t quite cut it.) ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/110 "2011-08-03T13:43:58Z")
> [@Bri2k](#): > > P.S. Has anyone seen Bottlecaps candy? I think the last time I has these was back in the 80s. > > A sad start to my Wednesday. > > Bri2k bottlecaps are still around. i see them all the time in dollar stores and 5 belows. i really liked the “paper towel in a tissue box”. bounty rolled them out for a year and then they were gone. i even wrote the company about them. they claimed they weren’t flying off the shelves and discontinued them. after just a year! i though they were the best thing. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/111 "2011-08-03T13:46:58Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > Not the [red, white and yellow Nestlé “$100,000” bar](http://www.flickr.com/photos/60585948@N00/4337992166/) (now renamed “100 Grand”)? Wow, my memory is t_terrible_. I think the bar I was thinking of was (ironically) a “Watchamacallit,” though I don’t find a photo that resembles the package I remember. (Maybe a difference in Canada.) I remember the change to “Special Crisp,” which Wiki says still exists - but I haven’t seen one of those in fifteen years or so. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/112 "2011-08-03T13:50:51Z")
> [@typoink](#): > > I’ve been terrified that one of my favorite current products (TrueLemon, TrueLime) will suffer a similar fate. It’s little packets of lime and lemon flavor. One packet is enough to make a quart of water subtly fruity and it’s been a great tool to drink less soda and juice. I’m the only person I’ve ever met who’s ever heard of it. I buy both regularly. They also have grapefruit and orange flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/113 "2011-08-03T14:03:42Z")
Oh, I just remembered another one: Kellogg’s [Raisins, Rice, and Rye](http://www.flickr.com/photos/bolio88/5522753809/) cereal. Apparently, it was only around for a year or two, but I remember it very well. It was so good! ---
**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:** [August 3, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/114 "2011-08-03T14:45:34Z")
> [@brainstall](#): > > Popeye candy cigarettes. I know they still make something vaguely similar and call them Popeye candy sticks, but they’re not the same. Not as crunchy, more fruity tasting. And no red end anymore. Also killed by PC and the war on drugs – Hippy Sippy. I still have a couple of the syringes and a bunch of the buttons somewhere. The old British Knight sneakers people were (literally) killing each other for. They were damn fine shoes and wore like iron. Luckily when Harley was discontinuing their sneakers I stocked a closet with my size. > [@Clothahump](#): > > I loved my Saturn ION. I had a SW2 and a Vue. I just may go car-less for a few years until someone comes out with something that good again. Anyone else for Circus Pops? I think that’s what they were called. It was a soft icecream in this toilet-paper-sized tube and the stick had a circus animal or themed top. Once you ate several you could stick them in the ground making a sort of circus train. And at 100 yards with a .22 they made fun shooting. There was also a brand of animal crackers back then I remember as being especially good that came in several different boxes so you could make a train of them as well. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/115 "2011-08-03T14:54:04Z")
Pretzel Flipz - salty pretzels, covered in milk chocolate. Appeared briefly here in the UK a few years ago, in a shiny blue bag, then disappeared. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel_Flipz) says they are still available in the US, though. Also, pop-up headlights on cars. Indefinably cool in a 1980s kind of way, but sacrificed at the altar of health ‘n’ safety. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/116 "2011-08-03T15:08:25Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Also, pop-up headlights on cars. Indefinably cool in a 1980s kind of way, but sacrificed at the altar of health ‘n’ safety. Heh. I have a 1985 Corvette. The headlights don’t just pop up, they rotate over and up from the hood. Rather like a headlight flip. It’s indescribably cool. ---
**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 3, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/117 "2011-08-03T16:12:53Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > New York Seltzer - squat glass bottles, a styrofoam label to peel I remember that stuff! I was 13 when it came out and I collected the bottles. My favourite discontinued things: Lancome “Hydrative” moisturizer. $45 a jar was expensive-as-hell for a minimum-wage retail worker back in the day, but worth every penny. I nearly cried when the cosmetician told me it had been discontinued. “LouLou” perfume. Back in my meat-eating days I loved these little square salmon filets by Captain Highliner. There was garlic & butter, broccoli and cheese, and bbq flavour. Eventually I couldn’t find the bbq one, my favourite, anywhere. Juicy Fruit, Doublemint, and Big Red gum in the foil-wrapped strips. Now Juicy Fruit is little rectangles in a blister pack and I haven’t seen Doublemint or Big Red in years. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/118 "2011-08-03T16:19:37Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > [Breakfast Squares.](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3233/2999975591_c967eb1f5e.jpg) That’s what I came in here to mention. I used to love the chocolate ones when I was a kid. They went great with ice-cold milk. I still have an unopened bottle of Coke Blak in my fridge. I doubt it’s any good anymore, but I can’t bring myself to throw it away. Secret solid vanilla deodorant stick. They still have the gel version, but the solid smelled so good and vanilla-y. Quisp cereal. I know you can still buy the generic version that’s exactly the same thing, but they don’t seem to carry it in my area anymore. ---
**Author:** ![marup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@marup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marup)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/119 "2011-08-03T16:29:21Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > And Donna Karan Black Cashmere perfume, also very incense-y. (It would smell heavenly on a man, too.) They still sell it. I love this stuff. [http://www.donnakaranbeauty.com/templates/products/sp.tmpl?CATEGORY\_ID=CATEGORY20862&PRODUCT\_ID=PROD13878](http://www.donnakaranbeauty.com/templates/products/sp.tmpl?CATEGORY_ID=CATEGORY20862&PRODUCT_ID=PROD13878) ---
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From my youth: **Shake a Puddin** – pudding mix that you put in a cup, added water to, snapped on the lid, shook it up, and in a couple of minutes you had pudding. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/60/215110593_5869898010_z.jpg "Shake-A Pudd") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/60585948@N00/215110593/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157.md?page=7)