What discontinued food, snack, or drink do you miss the most?

[sojourner]

ooo, if you're an eggnog fan, you have to try the stuff that Southern Comfort makes. It's the best I've ever had.

Quik brand banana flavoring for milk. man I miss that stuff.

It's still around, they just changed the name to Banana Nesquik.

Not in any store in my area.

 

[Sector 7]

Forgive me if someone answered these already. Can I blame it on the pain meds?

I really miss McDonald's cherry pies. Apparently some locations have baked cherry pies (I haven't seen any), but I'm not talking about those. I mean the original version. They, and the apple pies at the time, were fried I think, or at least not baked like they are now.

Also, Twinkies.

One word: Lawsuits. More words: Originally, the words "Caution: Filling is HOT" were not on the box; then someone sued & McDonald's put it on the box; then some idiot got burned anyway and-- you guessed it-- sued. In the mid-90s, McDonald's switched to a baked pie which was "healthier, because it is not fried" and cooled more rapidly after baking due to the slits cut in the crust (cannot do that with a fried pie). I watched the video created for franchisees which explained all this, back then. One of my friends is the local franchise owner.

I really miss McDonald's cherry pies. Apparently some locations have baked cherry pies (I haven't seen any), but I'm not talking about those. I mean the original version. They, and the apple pies at the time, were fried I think, or at least not baked like they are now.

Sounds to me like what is known in Germany as Apfeltasche (for apples) and Kirschtasche (for cherries).

Yup, that would be it. I'm annoyed now. Why on Earth would McDonalds have that available in one part of the world but not another?!?

See above explanation.

cheese balls. Like a cheesie only ball shaped.

btw, my canadian local walmart has never been out of twinkies. I wonder if they were never manufactured by hostess here in the first place.

http://www.utzsnacks.com/store/p-484-barrel-of-cheese-balls.aspx
I get them at WalMart locally for $5.48 each. The grandchildren and my best friend's children love them. I recently discovered that Bestie's kids will ONLY eat them at my house... along with peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. True story: she bought them for kids & they refused to eat them. She brought the barrel to my house & kids ate them up... go figure!

McDonald's steak, egg and cheese biscuit (which also had grilled onions and coarse ground black pepper). Not a bagal or croissant and no breading on the steak.

Jimmy Dean's sausage, egg and cheese griddle cake sandwiches.

Green onions on Taco Bell's Nachos Supreme and Mexican Pizza. They could at least substitute regular onion,

A regional grocery chain's twenty ounce bottled cola. I live by myself, larger bottles are too much for one sitting and I want more than a twelve ounce can. The eight ounce cans the chain started selling when they discontinued the twenty ounce bottles are barely more than a taste.

TV dinners that had actual pieces of chicken in them (not a breaded, molded ground chicken patty).

http://www.hungry-man.com/products/
This is what satisfies my occasional craving for fried chicken TV dinner.

Do they still make boxed candies which have booze in them?

In North Carolina they are sold in most ABC Stores (run by Alcohol Beverage Control board).

As for me, I do love the Mint 3 Musketeers bar, although I rarely ever eat candy.

I recently found a store that carries my favorite candy from childhood: Claey's "Old Fashioned Hard Candies" Sassafras and also the Root Beer barrels.

McDonald's Big Mac. Don't laugh... in the mid-90s McDonald's started RMS (Regular Menu Staging). Instead of cooking them fresh, they pre-cook the meat & put it in a staging hot box. When ordered, the sandwich is assembled & boxed, then placed in a microwave. Unless you know someone who owns a McDonald's (and he's in the store, and he's in the mood) you can still get one made the old-fashioned way... mmmm... heaven on a bun!!!

Wendy's French Fries... before they switched to the new kind, which are nasty. Wendy's screwed up perfection on this one!

Old Coca-Cola. After New Coke's disaster they reformulated to make Coke Classic which is sweeter than Good Ole Coca-Cola. I miss it. All colas made now are too sweet to me... even diet colas.

While they may be available elsewhere, I don't have access to one: A & W Root Beer Stands. It was a drive-in (think Sonic before Sonic) where you could get a Root Beer in a frosted mug. I've tried numerous times to re-create it, but nothing tastes the same to me.

p.s.- Awesome thread!

 

[scotpens]

Space Food Sticks

Really??!!??

That stuff tasted like tootsie rolls gone bad. At least to me.

I thought they looked like dog turds. And didn't taste a whole lot better.

 

[An Officer]

Gino Ginelli tutti frutti ice cream.

 

[bigdaddy]

MEGA Stuffed Oreos. Amazing.

 

[Agent Richard07]

- Oh!s Cereal

- The Breakaway Bar

- Kraft Spaghetti Dinner

- Hagen Dazs' Brownie Popsicle

Fizzies. In the 1960s, they were a flavored tablet dropped into tap water to make a soft drink. Pretty bland as I remember, and the worst root beer flavor ever. They became carbonated and dissolved in water like Alka-Seltzer. You could put a cherry one on your tongue and it looked like your mouth was bleeding. Fun times.

MEGA Stuffed Oreos. Amazing.

Does it have more filling than Double Stuf?

[Edit] I see that it does. Looks like it was a limited edition product too.

 

[Data Holmes]

Fizzies. In the 1960s, they were a flavored tablet dropped into tap water to make a soft drink. Pretty bland as I remember, and the worst root beer flavor ever. They became carbonated and dissolved in water like Alka-Seltzer. You could put a cherry one on your tongue and it looked like your mouth was bleeding. Fun times.

You can still buy them online. I'm pretty sure.

 

[B.J.]

Waffelos cereal.

 

[M'Sharak]

Nabisco Mystic Mint cookies.


Edit:

Anderson’s Split Pea Soup –why it is only online, I don’t know

You could always go to the source, but I suppose that might not be geographically convenient for everyone.

 

[StarMan]

Paul Newman's Light Italian Salad Dressing. That stuff existed in it's own unique realm of tastiness.

 

[Random_Spock]

The original Crystal Pepsi, not that reformulated bullshit they tried after.

Heck yea . Loved that stuff, none of the caramel coloring crap. Don't mind Pepsi with sugar in it, but could do without the caramel coloring.

Spearmint and Peppermint Skittles . Loved those and still wish that they made them.

 

[RobertVA]

Space Food Sticks

Really??!!??

That stuff tasted like tootsie rolls gone bad. At least to me.

I thought they looked like dog turds. And didn't taste a whole lot better.

Really?

Explain how you know the part in bold face!

 

[sonak]

Really??!!??

That stuff tasted like tootsie rolls gone bad. At least to me.

I thought they looked like dog turds. And didn't taste a whole lot better.

Really?

Explain how you know the part in bold face!

come on, who among us haven't gotten a little curious, and been walking in their neighborhoods, when the opportunity presents itself, we reach down, look around to make sure no one's looking, and...


or was that just me?

 

[Sector 7]

Spearmint and Peppermint Skittles . Loved those and still wish that they made them.

How did I miss out on that one? I love Skittles... yeah, I know, being diabetic they are off limits... but, every once in awhile they make a great morsel of yummy-ness.

Looked today & could not find 3 Musketeers Mint. I think this thread jinxed me!

Not sure why, but when I crave sweets, only dark chocolate or mint... preferably both, are what satisfies me.

 

[Gary7]

I miss the fudgesicles that Trader Joe's used to sell. One day they disappeared, never to return. Also, the chili flavored frozen fruit floes. They were sweet and spicy. Delicious! Then one day they too disappeared. Me very sad.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Spearmint and Peppermint Skittles . Loved those and still wish that they made them.

How did I miss out on that one? I love Skittles... yeah, I know, being diabetic they are off limits... but, every once in awhile they make a great morsel of yummy-ness.

Looked today & could not find 3 Musketeers Mint. I think this thread jinxed me!

Not sure why, but when I crave sweets, only dark chocolate or mint... preferably both, are what satisfies me.

Pearson's Mint Patties are my jones as far as chocolate & mint goes.

I did love those mint 3 Musketeers too, seems like they came & went a couple times.

 

[Sector 7]

Spearmint and Peppermint Skittles . Loved those and still wish that they made them.

How did I miss out on that one? I love Skittles... yeah, I know, being diabetic they are off limits... but, every once in awhile they make a great morsel of yummy-ness.

Looked today & could not find 3 Musketeers Mint. I think this thread jinxed me!

Not sure why, but when I crave sweets, only dark chocolate or mint... preferably both, are what satisfies me.

Pearson's Mint Patties are my jones as far as chocolate & mint goes.

I did love those mint 3 Musketeers too, seems like they came & went a couple times.

Russell Stover has a sugar-free version, but the taste is only so-so. Around here, York Peppermint Patties are the go to. Klondike Bar makes a York Peppermint Patty version which is quite good.

 

[Aldo]

While not necessarily discontinued. I had a friend once who loved the soda Big Peach, but he couldn't find it anywhere. He finally found it once in some out of the way gas station and savored the hell out of it...ah who I am kidding, he probably polished off the case in one afternoon.

 

[Amaris]

How did I miss out on that one? I love Skittles... yeah, I know, being diabetic they are off limits... but, every once in awhile they make a great morsel of yummy-ness.

Looked today & could not find 3 Musketeers Mint. I think this thread jinxed me!

Not sure why, but when I crave sweets, only dark chocolate or mint... preferably both, are what satisfies me.

Pearson's Mint Patties are my jones as far as chocolate & mint goes.

I did love those mint 3 Musketeers too, seems like they came & went a couple times.

Russell Stover has a sugar-free version, but the taste is only so-so. Around here, York Peppermint Patties are the go to. Klondike Bar makes a York Peppermint Patty version which is quite good.

We had a Murray Brothers candy store in our mall some 7 or 8 years back, before the entire place became a wasteland of shattered dreams and bottom market housing, and one of the neatest things they had were their own sugar free peppermint drops. They had creme in the middle and dark chocolate on the outside, and they were delicious. They were expensive, so they were a rare treat, but they were so good!

 

[Avon]

not technically discontinued, but my uncle can't get bottles of weed-infused absinthe through customs anymore