# 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:** 9
**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, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/161 "2011-08-05T01:01:32Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > New York Seltzer - squat glass bottles, a styrofoam label to peel. > > I miss the peach flavor very much… > [@Joey\_P](#): > > [Suddenly S’mores](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qd3D5B4Ycs), not only are they gone, no one but me even seems to remember them. FTR, I usually didn’t microwave them, but rather eat them right out of the package. > [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > 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. > [@Doug\_K](#): > > Giant Sweetarts. Not the horrible chewy things they have now, but real Sweetarts – the convex on both sided type – scaled up to about 2" in diameter. They came 2 in a package, cost about the same as a candy bar, and there was no biting them. You pretty much had to lick them to soften them a little and gnaw them down gradually. They were wonderful and I hated it when they went away. Awww, you guys make me want to go eat as much as possible just in case it’s not here tomorrow. The NY Seltzer is something I so miss..can’t get anything that compares. There are so many kinds but nothing that comes close. **SoylentJuicy** , my mom has gotten DoubleMint since I was a kid and I remember the foil. Plus, they don’t use sugar, they use aspartame. Ugh…changes it. **Doug** , I remember those. Were my fave because I loved whacking them on a table but since they were a little chewy, it hardly ever worked. OMG…I miss them. ☹ **Joey** , I totally forgot about those smores! I loved them because our fam are smores addicts. They were so easy. 😛 As for what things have been discontinued, off the top of my head, I have two perfumes I’ve held onto. One was Fresh’s Memoirs of a Geisha…smells so light but sweet. No other cherry blossom perfume compares. I even have a pearl dusting powder that I could use instead. God. ☹ Another just got discontinued by Crazy Libellule and the poppies, it smells like sugared lilacs and it was a solid perfume. ☹ In addition I have found Adidas discontinued a cotton deodorant that worked perfect. Now they put triclosan in it that ends up making you smellier due to more bacteria coming out to play. Plus, Origins reformulated their concealer and it is horrible for oily skin. ☹ On the fashion side, Bali and several other brands have discontinued bras that worked soooo well. I was sad because now I’m stuck trying to find a bra that works and have yet to when I found bras that fit so well before. All that stupid foam out…who the hell cares if I have nipples? I don’t. I’m human. I’m sure there’s more but that’s enough depression for a bit. lol ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/162 "2011-08-05T01:29:33Z")
I just remembered: Snyder’s of Hanover pretzel bites in the New York Reuben flavor. Christ, I swear, they were _rye_ pretzels. They were divine. I don’t think they tasted anything like a Reuben, which is good, 'cause I don’t like Reubens. But man, I loved those things. They were discontinued sometime in 2005. ---
**Author:** ![zephyr9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9fc348/32.png) [@zephyr9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyr9)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/163 "2011-08-05T02:31:27Z")
> [@Peanuthead](#): > > Beeman’s chewing gum. Made by the same company (Clarke?) that also made BlackJack and Teaberry gum. I loved Beeman’s because of the unique flavor (it was called pepsin) and because it could cure heartburn in an instant. Oh, I loved the Teaberry AND the Blackjack! And I HAVEN’T seen that in awhile! THey stopped making that? ---
**Author:** ![zephyr9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9fc348/32.png) [@zephyr9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyr9)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/164 "2011-08-05T02:35:54Z")
> [@happycamper\_5](#): > > The Edge at Pizza Hut. I was a firm believer in the ‘more crust on a pizza, the better’ until this came out. > > Snapple’s Cherry Lime Rickey Soda. Remember when Snapple had a million different flavors? This one didn’t survive the cut. ☹ > > Coca Cola Black. My first taste of this was wretched, but I bought it, so I was gonna drink it. By the end, I was wishing I’d bought two. I wonder if they still sell the Mint Snapple. Oh, I loved it! Never see it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![zephyr9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9fc348/32.png) [@zephyr9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyr9)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/165 "2011-08-05T02:38:52Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > Burt’s Bees bay rum soap > > Ben & Jerry’s Rainforest Crunch ice cream Used to like the Bay Rum Cologne. THink they still have it at Whole Foods. ---
**Author:** ![zephyr9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9fc348/32.png) [@zephyr9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyr9)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/166 "2011-08-05T02:40:28Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > jovan’s frankencense and myrrh perfume. just simply the best. now coty owns the scents from jovan. > > willy wonka’s wacky wafers. the banana ones, so very good. Oh so I have to take the COTY company hostage to get “Andron by Jovan” back? ---
**Author:** ![zephyr9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9fc348/32.png) [@zephyr9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyr9)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/167 "2011-08-05T02:44:10Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > 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. **The Watchamacallit.** Was so mad when they added caramel to it!! It’s just not the same now… ---
**Author:** ![zephyr9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9fc348/32.png) [@zephyr9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyr9)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/168 "2011-08-05T02:49:15Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > OHMYGOD!!! I had started to think I was the only kid who ever heard of either of those things! I would mention them to my friends and they would give me the you crazy look! > > VACUFORM! That was weird and cool and stuck in my head forever! Strange plastic sheet with SUCH a distinct smell… fold over the iron thing or something? Lay it on top of the mold and fold something over it and poof, melt into the new shape! > > Then I remember the Thingmaker - and my memory is that you could buy the new Thingmaker complete, or you could, if you were a kid like me who had the Vacuform, re-purpose the heating element to work with the Thingmaker molds..I loved that toy! I had bug molds and flower molds and aws it monsters? The smell of the Thing Liquid (my name for it, I can’t remember if it had a proper name) permeates my memories of life as a 6, 7, 8 and 9 year old! > > Okay, now it’s time for my other **Weird Toy From My 1960’s Childhood Involving Likely Toxic Substances:** do you, Lynn, since we seem to share a fascinationg with goop that can be shaped into stuff, recall some toy that involved wet colored sand in squeeze bottles being squeezed onto a special disk that in my memory looked like a roll of gigantic brown tape? You would squeeze the very wet colored sand out and make a mound of it and the moisture would sort of be absorbed by the platform… I don’t remember anything like that, but I loved Shrinky-Dinks, and when I was about 7, I thought my Incredible Shrunken Head kit was the best. (You made shrunken voodoo heads out by drying out apples, putting hair on em and little black beads for eyes.) ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/169 "2011-08-05T02:59:18Z")
Was the Thingmaker the same as [Creepy Crawlers?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepy_Crawlers) I had one of those back in the early 90s as a kid. Now that I think about it, one of those would be awesome for making plastic fishing baits, if they had a more sophisticated mold system that would allow you to mold both sides instead of just having one side be flat. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/170 "2011-08-05T03:00:57Z")
Just My Size used to have the nicest ladies’ underwear and shapewear, now it’s just crap, and they discontinued their shapwear line. Their jeans were long wearing and fitted well and went the same way. Avon’s just as bad. They used to have a gel moisturizer that moisturized my skin and didn’t make it oily and they no longer carry it here in the US. And that’s the least of their sins :x ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/171 "2011-08-05T03:06:14Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > Like the Mexican lollipops? > > Joe Like the Australian ones… ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/172 "2011-08-05T03:13:41Z")
Doritos Light. I loved those things. I’d get those and some light sour cream (NOT fat-free, that stuff is disgusting) and have myself a guilt-free snack. Baked Doritos are just not the same and they have more calories anyway. Dunno why they stopped selling them. It can’t simply be because of the Olestra used to make them, because I can still find the Light versions of both Lay’s and Ruffles (which I can eat, but don’t like as much because they tend to leave a tallowy feeling in my mouth). Sometimes, life just ain’t fair! 😉 ---
**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, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/173 "2011-08-05T03:33:55Z")
> [@zephyr9](#): > > I don’t remember anything like that, but I loved Shrinky-Dinks, and when I was about 7, I thought my Incredible Shrunken Head kit was the best. (You made shrunken voodoo heads out by drying out apples, putting hair on em and little black beads for eyes.) Awww…I loved Shrinky Dinks. I would buy some everytime I went to Michaels or Disneyland. It was my souvenir. They were pointless besides the awesome craft you do with them. Other than that, they cluttered like crazy. I feel a gut-wrenching regret I didn’t get more. ☹ ---
**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, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/174 "2011-08-05T03:44:37Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Was the Thingmaker the same as [Creepy Crawlers?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepy_Crawlers) I had one of those back in the early 90s as a kid. > > Now that I think about it, one of those would be awesome for making plastic fishing baits, if they had a more sophisticated mold system that would allow you to mold both sides instead of just having one side be flat. The Thingmaker made a variety of things. Creepy Crawlers was one set of the things it would make, which consisted of Icky Bugs, and was marketed to boys. The Fun Flowers set consisted of of flowers and “cute” bugs, like butterflies and ladybugs. As for making fishing baits, you could always glue two halves together, and in fact some Thingmaker toys required the maker to glue fronts to backs, or tops to bottoms. However, the Plastigoop smelled nasty, and I’m not sure any self-respecting fish could bring itself to bite it. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/175 "2011-08-05T04:24:36Z")
Ambush cologne by Dana. The old stuff from the 70’s not the reformulated crap they have now. Tussy roll-on deoderant. Supercheap and worked great. In fact it’s almost impossible to find ANY roll-on anymore. I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/176 "2011-08-05T05:36:51Z")
Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific shampoo, Agree shampoo, and the original formula for Herbal Essence shampoo. In fact, every time I’ve found a shampoo that I like, it’s been discontinued. I like shampoos that leave a noticeable but faint scent behind (I don’t wear perfume). Not a single shampoo or body wash available in this day and age does that. And yeah, I know that GYHST shampoo is supposedly available online but it sells for about 14.99 an 8oz bottle, and I’ve heard from people that it doesn’t smell at all like the original. Grrrrr ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/177 "2011-08-05T06:20:58Z")
Wow, this thread brings back memories. One of my favorite desserts when I was a kid was [Spoon Candy](http://www.inthe70s.com/food/spooncandy5.shtml). It was only out for a really short time but it was some good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/178 "2011-08-05T06:28:03Z")
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. ---
**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, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/179 "2011-08-05T06:41:05Z")
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) Another product I loved was Tinkerbell makeup…It was so cute! I loved that it smelled appropriate for girls. It was so fun! ---
**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, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157/180 "2011-08-05T10:13:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific shampoo **CanvasShoes** , The Vermont Country Store catalog sells this. It’s like $14-something a bottle, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-loved-that-was-discontinued/591157.md?page=10)