# What stuff did "They" stop making just because you like it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643 "2013-08-07T23:24:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/241 "2014-04-06T13:10:32Z")
Taco Bell Frito Burrito Supreme. (And, for that matter, the Chili Cheese Burrito in general, though they bring this one back occasionally.) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/242 "2014-04-06T16:02:35Z")
Extra-sour sourdough. Visitors from California bring me a few loaves, and we travel with oversized suitcases to bring back as much as we can. I got my last loaves of Colombo extra-sour maybe a year ago, and when Mrs. B. went out early this year, it was after Colombo was tanked by the Hostess implosion. I sure hope someone is preserving the mother loaf for someday. Nothing else comes close to Colombo green-wrapper. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/243 "2014-04-06T18:10:49Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I just remembered I’ve had that stuff before. It was terrific! Didn’t the Fire flavor have dragonfruit in it? I used to drink that all the time. I had forgotten about the Snapple Elements until just now. I loved the Fire and the Rain. I would save the bottles and paint them to turn them into vases. Made some inexpensive Christmas gifts that way. ---
**Author:** ![delsina363](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@delsina363](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delsina363)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/244 "2014-04-07T16:49:58Z")
Zarex, Corn Syrup, Suzie Q’s. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/245 "2014-04-07T17:40:57Z")
Royalex. Any whitewater canoes made in the next few years will be made of polyethylene and will be less than 11 feet long. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/246 "2014-04-08T02:03:52Z")
Update: I found the Tampico Peach punch I’ve been looking for for EIGHT YEARS at my local Wal-Mart!! First time I saw it, I bought 3 gallons. Now I get at least two every time I go in. My idea is that if I keep buying it, they have to keep restocking it. Here’s hoping I’m right. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/247 "2014-04-08T02:16:37Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Update: I found the Tampico Peach punch I’ve been looking for for EIGHT YEARS at my local Wal-Mart!! First time I saw it, I bought 3 gallons. Now I get at least two every time I go in. My idea is that if I keep buying it, they have to keep restocking it. Here’s hoping I’m right. I hope so too, because I do the same thing. My local Lucky has stopped stocking Pepsi One, but Safeway still carries it. I don’t usually shop at Safeway, but every time I run out of Pepsi One I go there and buy them out (usually 6 to 8 12-packs). I figure if they’ve got someone buying that many, they’ll keep stocking (and since it takes me two or three months to go through that many cans, anybody else who likes it too has plenty of chances to get their stock in between my hoarding trips. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/248 "2014-04-08T02:20:06Z")
Eagle potato chips. Damn, those were good. The classic example of a product bought to take it off the market. ---
**Author:** ![MrSBaldrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@MrSBaldrick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSBaldrick)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/249 "2014-04-08T02:31:58Z")
I can’t remember precisely the last item that this feeling applied to (the distress has obviously erased it from my memory), but it has happened to me and my wife so much that now whenever we try something new that we both really like (which is not all that common), our usual shared response is: “Well, they must be going to take it off the market then?” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/250 "2014-04-08T12:59:46Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Eagle potato chips. Damn, those were good. The classic example of a product bought to take it off the market. Do you mean [this Eagle brand](http://www.c3brandworks.com/files/gimgs/14_package001web.jpg), made by [Anheuser-Busch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Snacks)? If so, your understanding of why they were taken off the market is incorrect. As the linked Wikipedia article explains, A-B had a niche market for them with bars and airlines, which was profitable because they were already selling stuff to bars and airlines. When they tried to sell them direct to the public, they found that the public would not pay the premium A-B set their price point at, and they couldn’t make any money. Eventually, A-B sold off the brand to quit bleeding money. My dad worked for A-B (through a subsidiary, which also happened to distribute Eagle snacks) at the time all of this happened, and he predicted the fate of Eagle snacks being sold to the public from day one. You are correct, however, in how delicious they were. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/251 "2014-04-08T13:36:43Z")
I’ll take your word and the brief wiki description as accurate, but at the time “everyone knew” that P&G bought the brand to take it off the market. It certainly did disappear; they didn’t buy it to continue its presence. If it was just unprofitable, AB letting it go would have been enough; that a conglom bought it and deep-sixed it is telling. IMVHO. I am not usually sensitive to quality issues in snack foods, but Eagle chips were a substantial cut above everything else and even today’s premium, kettle-cooked, etc. brands are not as tasty. I suppose it was because they used some absolutely deadly fry oil or something. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/252 "2014-04-08T17:45:38Z")
16-ounce bags of chips, 2-quart containers of ice cream, 32-ounce jars of Mayo . . . ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/253 "2014-04-08T18:38:14Z")
Vidal Sassoon used to make the perfect shampoo for my thick, normal hair. No extra moisturizers or oil stripping detergent. Just normal. I guess it’s not coming back because it’s been almost twenty-five years now. Sadly, my thick normal hair is also long gone. The Dillards house brand bra that was freaking perfect. Wide side and back panels. Three hooks. Just the right amount of padding. Gone. The sales gals said it was selling too well. Look, I am a 38D. Are you kidding me with all the 38D bras with skinny, flimsy side panels and two hooks? ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/254 "2014-04-08T19:02:48Z")
Sorrell’s Pickard peanut butter. In one of the weirdest episodes of my life, my wife and I were looking at some items at a Safeway several years ago when up popped somebody, seemingly out-of-the-blue, to tell us about how great something called Sorrell’s Pickard peanut butter was. My wife and I bought a jar of it and decided that we REALLY liked it so we kept buying it for a while whenever we felt the “need” for more peanut butter and then after what seemed like not a very long time we could no longer find it on grocery store shelves where we live. I looked it up once and I think I found out that had been sold in the state I live in only on a test basis and, apparently, not enough other people thought it was as awesome as my wife and I did. Bummer. That was some GOOOOOOOOOD peanut butter!! ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/255 "2014-04-08T19:18:06Z")
> [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](#): > > Look, I am a 38D. :: peering intently and expectantly at screen:: ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/256 "2014-04-08T21:17:33Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I’ll take your word and the brief wiki description as accurate, but at the time “everyone knew” that P&G bought the brand to take it off the market. It certainly did disappear; they didn’t buy it to continue its presence. If it was just unprofitable, AB letting it go would have been enough; that a conglom bought it and deep-sixed it is telling. IMVHO. > > I am not usually sensitive to quality issues in snack foods, but Eagle chips were a substantial cut above everything else and even today’s premium, kettle-cooked, etc. brands are not as tasty. I suppose it was because they used some absolutely deadly fry oil or something. 😃 I didn’t know the details about Eagle’s departure from the supermarket snack food aisles but I do remember it being rather abrupt. Where I lived, Eagle’s section at stores was as big as Frito-Lay’s and within about a week, it was suddenly cleaned out and empty. I don’t think they tried to get rid of them by having the products discounted for clearance. They were just _gone_. Vanished. Local supermarkets were scrambling to fill the space and had to bring in regional brands from the other side of the country like Barrel O’ Fun. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/257 "2014-04-08T21:21:38Z")
Flat Earth Tangy Tomato Ranch vegetable chips Doritos Sour Cream ‘n’ Onion New York Seltzer Burger King’s Veal Parmesan sandwich Jack in the Box pizza pockets KFC rotisserie chicken Probably for the best as I watch what I eat now. ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/258 "2014-04-09T17:45:57Z")
> [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](#): > > Vidal Sassoon used to make the perfect shampoo for my thick, normal hair. No extra moisturizers or oil stripping detergent. Just normal. I guess it’s not coming back because it’s been almost twenty-five years now. > > Sadly, my thick normal hair is also long gone. > > The Dillards house brand bra that was freaking perfect. Wide side and back panels. Three hooks. Just the right amount of padding. Gone. > > The sales gals said it was selling too well. > > Look, I am a 38D. Are you kidding me with all the 38D bras with skinny, flimsy side panels and two hooks? As a 36DDD, I found that buying bras at plus size stores is the way to go. They get that boobies need support. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/259 "2014-04-09T17:56:31Z")
Hershey Tastations. They were hard candies that tasted like chocolate. I still get cravings ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stuff-did-they-stop-making-just-because-you-like-it/665643/260 "2014-04-09T18:23:11Z")
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