Me first: in the early 80s, I remember the Vons supermarket chain had their own brand of sour cream dip for potato chips, one flavor that people I know loved was fresh pismo clam, it still had chunks of clam meat in there. One day it got yanked from the shelves and I’ve never seen it again.
More recently, about a decade ago, Trader Joe’s carried cheddar-and-horseradish potato chips, then one day they were gone.
I would love… LOVE… to dip those horseradish chips into that clam dip… sigh.
Rice crispies treat cereal
I had rediscovered they still existed (just not where I lived) when it was being discontinued in 2019. I ordered a pallet box before they were. My neighbor/babysitter gave me that for breakfast as a kid.
Monster orange Khaos (the 30% juice type), and the yellow Ripper flavor also. Miss me with that Papillon and Pipeline Punch.
Isn’t Khaotic the rebranded Khaos?
Also, I agree, Pipeline Punch is similar to Ripper, but lacks something that made Ripper special.
Bring them back
Orbitz, the drink. The one with the little flavor balls floating in it. That shit was awesome.
What’s irritating about it’s discontinuation is that the reason cited was people didn’t like the little tapioca balls. And then boba became a craze. 😬
Just learned it was made by the Clearly Canadian folks. I suspect that I wouldn’t like it as much anymore.
Beep, however, I imagine I’d still love.
At one point in the very early 90’s, the Keebler elves stopped making cookies for a few minutes and made the best fucking pizza flavored chips to ever grace this planet. The crafty little shits figured out how to make chips from actual pizza dough, and they called them Pizzerias. It’s been over 30 years and I can still taste them now.
From last decade, Sour Cream & Onion Baked Lays. ;_;
From the eighties, does anyone remember pudding cake mix? After you baked the cake it had pudding (sort of like…custard I guess if you’re English?) inside the cake. Oh man that was good.
Back during the Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles craze, there was a third cereal in the line, a cinnamon themed one. I had that whenever I could, but it has been gone for years.
Was it a blue box w/ Bam Bam as the character on it? I vaguely remember something like that…
So many. Everything I love goes away. The first that comes to mind is Crescent brand au jus. It was the best out there, period.
The next is the bruschetta chicken ciabatta sandwich that Jack in the Box used to have. Amazing.
Uno candy bars are technically still around but impossible to find. I love those little bastards.
There are more but I can’t think of them. Do the myriad of products that changed their recipes thinking no one would notice count? I noticed. Sometimes the new thing is dead to me.
Also those old “fire” “rain” element drinks (sobe?) were unbelievably good. In fact sobe was so good in the 90s/00s but changed recipes and packaging so that stuff is bleh to me now.
Original Surge cola. They changed it for the relaunch and it never was quite right. I used to have one every day before [sport] practice in high school.
Oh! Trader Joe’s had this pepperjack quiche that was out of this world. Haven’t seen it in years. It was the only reason for me to go there.
Edit: this post made me hungry and sad
those old “fire” “rain” element drinks (sobe?)
This sounds like possibly Snapple Elements. In tall, wavy bottles?
Mild cheese dip, there all spicy now and I’m allergic to capsaicin. So Its difficult to find any cheese dip around where I am that isn’t spicy.
Do any of you remember Orbitz? It was a clear drink with little gel balls that were floating in it. I don’t know if actually miss it, but I just really want to try it again.
That and Beep are on my list.
I suspect that I wouldn’t actually like Orbitz now that I’m an adult and not impressed by little colorful blobs in my drink
Agreed. Definitely a novelty as a kid! I had to look up Beep. I hadn’t heard of that one!
It was great. Kinda like sunny D, but less cloyingly sweet and more refreshing iirc (it’s been a long long time). A mix of fruit juices, but mostly orange.
Crystal Pepsi.
Jolt Cola, “All the sugar, twice the caffeine!”
LAN parties haven’t been the same since.
Altoid sours
There’s a company that makes knock-off versions of them. They are called retro sours
