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.
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.
Jello Pudding Pops.
Bring them back
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.
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.
Sobe. I really liked the pink juice that looked like bubblegum cough syrup. It apparently still exists… somewhere. The website is still around. But I haven’t seen any Sobe anywhere in the US for years
These are the things I miss most snack-wise from childhood. Especially those Fruit Wrinkles. They had the best flavor and texture of any fruit snacks ever.
We are of the same time. Those images are visceral. I need to take a nostalgia nap.
The cookies have the same taste as regular cookies now, it was pretty much just amazing to 8 year old me, or however old I was, that cookies could have multiple fillings and a face! It just seemed so intricate and impossible at the time. So that excitement I don’t think could be recaptured now.
But those other 2, you nailed it with visceral! I feel the salt scratching my tongue and the unique concave and teardrop shape of the chips and I can exact chewiness of those fruit snacks these 30ish years later.
The fruit snacks I think would legit still be good today. The chips, perhaps. There are a lot of good chips these days. But I’m surprised no one ever brought those things back, if not just to use the actual skins. What have they been doing with all the skin all these years?!
The other one that hit me in this thread was cheez waffies. The sharp cheddar powdery goo in between stale waffle-textured hard tack crackers. Not even sure if I’m actually into it, but I’m INTO it.
I didn’t recall ever seeing those, but I wasn’t into cheez flavor as a kid. My little brother was though. They look fun though, like little stroopwafles, but savory.
The nostalgia taste many times can overpower the actual taste! Looking at you, Elio’s slices! 😆
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.
Jolt Cola, “All the sugar, twice the caffeine!”
LAN parties haven’t been the same since.
Mentadent toothpaste. I enjoyed how the dispenser combined the white and blue gels as you applied it to your toothbrush. I liked the taste too.
Also Cremo men’s face moisturizer. I haven’t found another that suits my skin so perfectly before or since.
In both cases I wrote to the companies about bringing back the products, and both wrote back to blow me off.
I forgot about Mentadent! I used it for so long! I held on to the dispenser base for a long time hoping one day it would come back, but I threw in the towel at some point.
Crystal Pepsi.
Altoid sours
There’s a company that makes knock-off versions of them. They are called retro sours
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.
In Colorado there was a burger chain called Red Top and by god, it was amazing. The burgers were the size of plates and they’d use shredded lettuce and the perfect cheese that was always so wonderfully melty.
And then they disappeared.
Similarly, there used to be a candy shop called Michelle’s that has the best truffles and the best sundaes. But womp womp, they didn’t pay some taxes and were shut down. No more candy. No more magic. No more perfect ice cream.
