PB Max candy bars. Thanks for making me remember they’re gone.
curls up in a ball and cries
Seemingly every single food product (and some non-food products) that I like gets discontinued eventually:
South Beach Diet cereal bars - I’m not on the South Beach Diet, and I generally try to avoid processed foods, but damn these were tasty! (All my meals are home-cooked from scratch, but I do like my snacks.)
The Forkless Gourmet - a frozen meal from around 2004. A hollow bun (seemingly completely sealed) with meat and sauce inside. I loved the chicken chipotle one.
Aveeno shaving cream. Discontinued after I bought only one bottle.
Concord Foods used to make these “fruit & soy shake” mixes that my grocery store carried, which were really tasty. They now make a “smoothie” mix but it doesn’t taste the same.
Jalapeno Popper flavored Doritos. Not exactly discontinued, but every store in a 50-mile radius stopped carrying them after I bought one bag and became addicted. Luckily the Doritos website lets you search for stores that carry specific items, so sometimes when I travel for work, I’ve been able to pick up a bag (or 5).
Victoria’s Secret Cashmere Vanilla Jasmine perfume. Discontinued after I only bought one bottle. Luckily, after I found out, I managed to snag another one at the store before they were gone, and then bought another on Amazon.
Godiva milk chocolate liqueur. After I concocted some nice dessert drinks with this creamy liqueur, they discontinued it, although they kept the white chocolate one, and the non-creamy chocolate one.
Crystal Pepsi. (hangs head in shame)
Oat Thins (a delicious Wheat Thins spin-off, thankfully Bran Thins were discontinued much more quickly. Those were nasty.)
Sigh. What a bittersweet thread.
I loved the Body Shop’s Leap perfume. Slightly sweet and creamy, yet also green and fresh. I still have a little bottle of it, about half-gone. It’s now selling on eBay for about ten times the original price. Even better than the perfume oil, though, was the scented moisturizer. I’m not sure what it was about it that changed the fragrance slightly, but it was perfect. Lighter, with an added almond-y note. Alas.
I also loved Feu d’Issey, mentioned upthread. When I was very young and very poor, I asked an older friend who always smelled amazing what she wore, and it was that. She even gave me a little sample bottle (empty), so I could remember the name. I resolved to buy it when I could afford it. Then I forgot about it. Recently, I found the bottle in an old jewelry box, and was bummed to find out it was discontinued. I sprang for a couple sample bottles on eBay, and was even more bummed to find out that for whatever reason, it didn’t smell nearly as wonderful on me as it did on her.
Suave Awapuhi Shampoo and Conditioner made my hair look and smell fantastic, and they were less than $2/bottle. I’ve never found anything like them, at any price. When I started noticing them disappearing from stores, I would buy up whatever they had in stock. The day I used up the last of my stash was a very sad day.
I know I’ve brought this up before, but I still miss Apple Newtons - the original ones, not the ones they stuffed with [del]grease paste[/del], I mean, “cheesecake filling”
Another one - Kit-Kat put out a coffee flavored version for one season a few years ago. They were wonderful.
I still miss:
McDLT (it keeps the hot side hot & the cool side cool)
McDonald’s breakfast bagel sandwich with ham
Wond-r Roast rotisserie chicken in the foil bag
Wendy’s breakfast sandwiches made from toast, fried egg, bacon & cheese
(their newfangled “artisan” and pannini sandwiches don’t even come close)
Burger King’s Big King Deluxe
their attempt at a Big Mac which was less plastic & tastier
Local to the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh - George Aiken’s breakfast sandwiches
(on your choice of bread or english muffin & with your choice of meat)
Andy Capp’s Pub Fries
(why oh why can you get the Hot Fries, Cheese Fries, & Steak Fries but NO Pub Fries?!!!)
Three Castles un-filtered cigarettes
(the paper was like silk and the tobacco so rich yet mild they were heavenly)
Zagnut bars made on the North Side
(the old Clark Candy plant is a sports bar now sob)
I feel a little misty-eyed…maybe I need a brewed in Lawrenceville Iron City. Oh crap!
Bri2k
For foodstuffs, mostly stuff from my younger days… Purplesaurus Rex Kool-aid, Ben and Jerry’s Wavy Gravy, OK Soda.
In the 80s there were so many personal computer platforms. Microsoft and Apple were in the game, of course… but then you had Commodores and Ataris of various generations. And in the early 80s, there were countless platforms available sold by everyone from Tandy to Mattel. I was a big Amiga fan back in the day, I felt they were very ahead of their time. I often wonder what it would be like if the platform had stuck around. Not that I’m not happy with Linux, though!
Won’t even get started with cars I liked that are no longer made, there are too many.
Seconded.
Burt’s Bees bay rum soap
Ben & Jerry’s Rainforest Crunch ice cream
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.
FYI, cremini, portobello, and button (white) mushrooms are all the exact same thing just a week or so apart in growing. It’s like calling a green and a red bell pepper a different thing when they taste the same.
Kellogs’ Frosted Bran - a really good-tasting bran cereal. Think of it as the baby boom meets middle age.
Would Daddy Ray’s Fruit Bars be acceptable? Because they’re in every Dollar Tree - fig, apple, blueberry, and strawberry. They’re a little dryer than Newtons, but I think they taste just the same.
You’re right about the species being the same, but red bell peppers certainly do not taste like green ones! Nor portobellos like criminis. As foods, these are different things.
Twizzlers Twerps. They were little sections of citrus and strawberry flavoured licorice filled with tangy goo. I was so sad when I found out they were gone, I used to eat them all the time.
Sprite Ice. Mint flavoured Sprite. Everyone I knew hated it and said it tasted like toothpaste. I thought it was delicious and refreshing.
Too Faced Magic Wand foundation in Paris Light. I’m pretty difficult to match for foundation colors, so this was a godsend: it was semi-sheer, noncomedogenic, fit my greasiness/dryness needs, easily adjustable to light or heavy applications, and matched my skin 90% of the time. I got hooked and then found out it was discontinued when I went to buy more. So annoyed.
Me too. My mom used to be able to get it in Illinois long after it was gone from California and would mail it to me. But now it’s really gone everywhere and there is nothing else like it.
They still have these at my local Publix but they are over by the deli, not on the bread aisle.