# What discontinued items do you miss? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 9, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434 "2015-01-09T20:47:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/182 "2015-01-18T14:23:12Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > T-shirts with label tags in the back of the collar. > > Sometimes you need to put a T-shirt on in the dark, and with the newfangled tagless labels that means you might need a flashlight or something just to be sure of putting it on the right way around. Really, having the tag at the back of my neck wasn’t that horrible. > > I’m alluding mainly to the sort of Ts sold by Gap, American Apparel, and so on, usually meant to be worn as regular street wear. Undershirt-type Ts might still have tagged labels, but I wouldn’t know. Oh I totally disagree with you on this one. I love not having a sharp-edged tag poking me in the neck or sticking out of the collar. The possibility of putting a shirt on backward or wrong side out is minor compared to that. In fact I wore a t-shirt to the gym recently and realized halfway through my walk that it was on backward. I just went to the ladies room and turned it around. Not a big deal. ---
**Author:** ![May\_20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@May\_20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/May_20)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/183 "2015-01-18T15:25:41Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > T-shirts with label tags in the back of the collar. > > Sometimes you need to put a T-shirt on in the dark, and with the newfangled tagless labels that means you might need a flashlight or something just to be sure of putting it on the right way around. Really, having the tag at the back of my neck wasn’t that horrible. > > I’m alluding mainly to the sort of Ts sold by Gap, American Apparel, and so on, usually meant to be worn as regular street wear. Undershirt-type Ts might still have tagged labels, but I wouldn’t know. With the exception of undershirts, all of the “tagless” T-shirts I have purchased recently, have had a tag somewhere on the lower left seam. Of course, YMMV, but if yours have that tag also, it may help with when you are dressing in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/184 "2015-01-18T16:20:49Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Sometimes you need to put a T-shirt on in the dark… Oh, you do? _waggles eyebrows_ ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/185 "2015-01-19T00:25:46Z")
> [@May\_20](#): > > With the exception of undershirts, all of the “tagless” T-shirts I have purchased recently, have had a tag somewhere on the lower left seam. > > Of course, YMMV, but if yours have that tag also, it may help with when you are dressing in the dark. Mine usually do, but I have a few that don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/186 "2015-01-19T00:31:02Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Oh, you do? > > _waggles eyebrows_ It’s for when I get cold at night. I usually go to sleep without wearing any kind of top/shirt, but have an old T-shirt ready on my nightstand just in case I do need it. I’m much more comfortable doing that than turning up the heat. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/187 "2015-01-19T00:33:27Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Oh I totally disagree with you on this one. I love not having a sharp-edged tag poking me in the neck or sticking out of the collar. The possibility of putting a shirt on backward or wrong side out is minor compared to that. In fact I wore a t-shirt to the gym recently and realized halfway through my walk that it was on backward. I just went to the ladies room and turned it around. Not a big deal. I’d have thought this would bother a woman even more than me, though maybe not if you like to wear extra large T-shirts for working out, as many people do. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/188 "2015-01-19T01:35:51Z")
Nope, being poked by the label bothers me a lot; all the rest, not at all. ---
**Author:** ![InsomniaMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ad7895/32.png) [@InsomniaMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsomniaMama)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/189 "2015-01-19T01:41:29Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Button-up sweaters (men’s style). It’s been thirty-some ++ years since I last found one. (To be sure, I gave up even looking for them a long time ago. Do they still exist anywhere?) All I ever see anymore is pullovers. Just saw them in the sale catalog for Lands’ End. Get 'em cheap(er) while you can. ---
**Author:** ![hyperspaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hyperspaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperspaz)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/190 "2015-01-19T05:21:31Z")
Tid-Bit cheese crackers Lime Kool-Aid Those Qiana shirts we used to wear with our designer jeans in the 70’s. They were silky and comfortable and I liked the patterns on the fabric. I would still wear them if I could find something like them. (I’m a woman BTW; not so fond of Qiana on guys.) ---
**Author:** ![No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_umlaut_for_U)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/191 "2015-01-19T05:33:16Z")
Seldane (antihistamine) Corn flakes with freeze-dried fruit Whole-milk mozzarella Aliage perfume N’Ice throat lozenges Mrs. Paul’s frozen seafood, especially the clam strips Root Beer Float flavored ice cream; Chicago Brick (orange sherbet, caramel, and vanilla) ice cream 8 oz cartons of yogurt Station wagons Just about anything I’ve ever bought at Trader Joe’s, because anything I liked never appeared again. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/192 "2015-01-19T17:39:38Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > Taco flavored Doritos Are these a recent discontinuation? They’d got rid of them when I was a boy, but brought them back a couple of years ago, and last time I checked, [they’re still making them.](http://www.fritolay.com/snacks/product-page/doritos/doritos-taco-flavored-tortilla-chips) And… yeah, a Saturn was more like driving a Chevy for the price of a Kia. They weren’t bad, but weren’t awesome either. (my roommate drove a succession of Saturns from about 1995 through about 2005, so I’m well familiar with them) ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/193 "2015-01-19T18:22:39Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Button-up sweaters (men’s style). It’s been thirty-some ++ years since I last found one. (To be sure, I gave up even looking for them a long time ago. Do they still exist anywhere?) All I ever see anymore is pullovers. Well … you could just go to LL Bean, Jos A Bank, Brooks Brothers, etc and type in Mens Cardigan sweater. It’s a very common item. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/194 "2015-01-19T23:19:39Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Oh, you do? > > _waggles eyebrows_ But, of course! After I’ve seduced the hot blonde and listened to her tell her boss’ secrets in her sleep, I need to get my T-shirt on (as well as the rest of my clothing) before climbing out the window to kill two guards, seduce the supervillain’s wife, climb back into the mansion through another window, break into his safe, and steal his secret plans. And if I can’t get my T-shirt on properly in the dark, well, either the blonde is going to wake up and delay my exit (throwing all the timings off) or the wife is going to laugh at the way I dress (precluding her seduction and my discovery of the combination to the safe) and that’s just not the way the story is supposed to go, you see. —G! 🆒 It’s all right. I’m a government agent. On whose side?!! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/195 "2015-01-20T01:40:42Z")
Phenylpropanolamine nasal decongestant in my OTC cold medications. Unstuffed me right up, without the palpitations and jitters of pseudoephedrine. Also was a pretty decent “legal speed” for late night study in college. Oh, sure, this one was discontinued because the FDA determined it was unsafe (IIRC a few hundred people died every year of strokes :eek: ), but I still miss it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/196 "2015-01-20T21:31:18Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Ginger Altoids. Trader Joe’s has [Gingermints](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71qr44rbt2L._SX425_.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/197 "2015-01-21T17:58:28Z")
> [@Melvin\_Munster](#): > > God damn right. Green apple can piss up a rope. Booooooo. Fuck green apple. I think the green Runts candies are still lime-flavored. > [@May\_20](#): > > You are not alone. Three-fourths of my household are already bemoaning a Cadbury Eggless Easter. > > The one-fourth not in mourning does not eat chocolate so is not affected by this change. Wait. WHAT?!?! :eek::mad::eek: ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/198 "2015-01-21T22:14:16Z")
I don’t know about everyone else, but I want lime lifesavers & lime safe-t-pops. And while I’m on a rant about it, what the hell happened to lifesavers anyway? Not only have they cut back to 4 kinds (cherry, butter rum, Hawaiian-whatever that is- and 5 flavors) but that the 5 flavors are not the 5 real, good, original, destined by God flavors. Where are the lemon and lime and why would I want mango melon anyway? What’s wrong with mango on its own and why is it always mixed with something and like I said, WHERE IS LIME? I miss lime and I miss fancy fruits, with their pear and blackberry yumminess. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/199 "2015-01-22T01:16:56Z")
Yeah, I still remember the thrill of taking a lifesaver and realizing that LIME is NEXT! (assuming this roll is all mine and I don’t have to share with someone). Bring Back Lime. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Winkler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@The\_Winkler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Winkler)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/200 "2015-01-22T07:17:12Z")
VCRs. I have many tapes I want to convert to digital and I’m having trouble finding a working VCR without having to buy a really old one online. Then I have to also pay for shipping. ---
**Author:** ![highrollinwooded](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/71c47a/32.png) [@highrollinwooded](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/highrollinwooded)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434/201 "2015-01-22T19:57:30Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Blueberry Pop-Tarts > Fried Rice flavored Rice-a-roni > > LOL. I couldn’t remember the brand name so I googled “The San Fransico Treat” and [this](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1558/why-is-rice-a-roni-called-the-san-francisco-treat) was the first hit. Both of these are still available [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-items-do-you-miss/709434.md?page=11)