Discontinued food products you miss

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ponyo

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Yesterday I went to Trader Joe's to buy the Bold & Smoky Kansas City Style BBQ sauce but couldn't find it on the shelf. I think TJ's discontinued it. That was my favorite store sauce for pork ribs.
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Ichinisan

Lifer
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My Mom sent me across the street to get a box of cereal way back in the 70's. I was told they don't sell it anymore. I ran home crying my eyes out.

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I think I remember seeing a newspaper that day saying Elvis died. Not a good day
This and Count Chocula still seem to come and go.

Everyone always says: "You remember Count Chocula / Boo Berry / Franken Berry?"
...and I think: "Yeah. From like a couple months ago. And a year before that. And a year before that."
 

bfun_x1

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Here are two of my childhood favorites.

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Also

McD Big and Tasty
Taco Bell chilli cheese burrito (sometimes it comes back)
The original 1990's Taco Bell breakfast menu.
 

Ns1

No Lifer
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THEY DON'T MAKE COOKIE CRISPS ANYMORE?!??! WHAT THE HELL


oh man that Taco Bell chili cheese burrito, I probably ate thousands in jr high/hs.
 

GagHalfrunt

Lifer
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It's ironic that half the things mentioned here are breakfast cereals and Taco Bell items when there are no really unique breakfast cereals or Taco Bell items. Taco Bell has like 3 proteins, cheese, lettuce, beans, sour cream and like 1000 different shells/wraps and all their menu items are just those things combined in a new shape with a different name. Same with breakfast cereals, take your generic crispy, sugar laden semi-oat-based cereal and combine it with small shapeless marshmallows and call it Marshmallow Krispies. Change the shape of the generic crispy, sugar laden semi-oat-based cereal and use marshmallows shaped like moons and stars and call if Lucky Charms. It's all parts-bin engineering. "Hey!!! We've never done octagonal cereal bits with green marshmallows in the shape of platypus heads, call marketing stat!!"" Odds are your dearly lamented lost cereal is out there in exactly the same formulation, just with different shaped pieces in a different color box.
 

bfun_x1

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THEY DON'T MAKE COOKIE CRISPS ANYMORE?!??! WHAT THE HELL


oh man that Taco Bell chili cheese burrito, I probably ate thousands in jr high/hs.


They still have the chocolate chip version of Cookie Crisp but the Vanilla Wafer was only made for a few years.

It's ironic that half the things mentioned here are breakfast cereals and Taco Bell items when there are no really unique breakfast cereals or Taco Bell items. Taco Bell has like 3 proteins, cheese, lettuce, beans, sour cream and like 1000 different shells/wraps and all their menu items are just those things combined in a new shape with a different name. Same with breakfast cereals, take your generic crispy, sugar laden semi-oat-based cereal and combine it with small shapeless marshmallows and call it Marshmallow Krispies. Change the shape of the generic crispy, sugar laden semi-oat-based cereal and use marshmallows shaped like moons and stars and call if Lucky Charms. It's all parts-bin engineering. "Hey!!! We've never done octagonal cereal bits with green marshmallows in the shape of platypus heads, call marketing stat!!"" Odds are your dearly lamented lost cereal is out there in exactly the same formulation, just with different shaped pieces in a different color box.

Nah, the new cereals are different. Less sugar, less artificial ingredients, more whole grains and of course no awesome toys. This was one of my favorites.

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MrSquished

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not really discontinued but may as well be are the home-cooked meals from my momma, since she moved overseas. sniff. all that home-cooked greek food the way nobody else could do it.
 

sactoking

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The chocolate chip Cookie Crisp was superior to the vanilla but even then every time I got it I was disappointed.

Also the Big N Tasty was neither big nor tasty.
 

Chaotic42

Lifer
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The chocolate chip Cookie Crisp was superior to the vanilla but even then every time I got it I was disappointed.

Also the Big N Tasty was neither big nor tasty.

I worked at McDonald's when the Big N Tasty was out. A non-trivial percentage of customers thought they were being cute by ordering a "Big N Nasty! Hurr hurr hurr"
 

local

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Jun 28, 2011
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Snickers Blizzard
Jell-O 1-2-3
Apple Newtons
Planters Cheeseballs, didn't know they were gone until this thread and it made me sad.
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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They still have the chocolate chip version of Cookie Crisp but the Vanilla Wafer was only made for a few years.



Nah, the new cereals are different. Less sugar, less artificial ingredients, more whole grains and of course no awesome toys. This was one of my favorites.

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It worked too!
 

GagHalfrunt

Lifer
Apr 19, 2001
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They still have the chocolate chip version of Cookie Crisp but the Vanilla Wafer was only made for a few years.



Nah, the new cereals are different. Less sugar, less artificial ingredients, more whole grains and of course no awesome toys. This was one of my favorites.

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I'm fairly certain that you can still get mutant spiders in your cereal. Just look for stuff packaged in Mexico or China.
 

SamQuint

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Long time ago Carl's Jr had French fries that were crinkle cut fries. They were called Frispos by the manufacturer but just called fries in the store.

"That french fry product was called "Frispos". My recollection is that the Frispos pellets came in a large bag, not unlike a bag of oats. We poured the dry Frispos into the top of the machine. When you pushed the button, it measured an amount of Frispos into a tube, injected warm water to form a paste and then it was pushed through a grate (think squeezing play doh out of one of those play doh machines) and as the Frispo "dough" came out the grate, a cutter went back and forth shaving off the "fries", which were then put into the fryer."
http://www.junkfoodblog.com/2008/01/frispos-original-carls-jr-fries.html

Also the old Wendy's fries were better.
 
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RLGL

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Jan 8, 2013
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How can you miss old products when one can't remember them................
 

Ichinisan

Lifer
Oct 9, 2002
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"Satisfries" at Burger King.

Tasty crinkle fries that were actually much better than their standard tastes-like-cardboard fries. They weren't around for very long :(
 

KB

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The only decent chef boyardee product and they got rid of it. Might have been because of the insane amount of saturated fat.