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.
Fanta Exotic. It still exists but it’s not sold in my country. Only the sugar free equivalent which is okay but nowhere as good.
When I was in college they came out with a bunch of different “pieces” candies. They were just like Reese’s pieces, but for different candies, like Heath and Almond Joy. I loved them, and I loved the fact that you could mix them together to make different flavors. They didn’t last too long, though. I was disappointed when I couldn’t find them anymore after a few years.
Then later I found a new favorite candy in the Butterfinger cups. They were like Reese’s peanut butter cups, but softer and with little Butterfinger pieces in them! I loved them, but they also disappeared in a few years. That’s the issue with gravitating toward new things - so many of the ones I find myself enjoying end up failing since most people just like to stick with what they know.
Rice crispies treat cereal
Mr Green by SoBe. Tasted like Dr Pepper, but it was green, and was available in Pepsi vending machines after 7up brand split away from PeosiCo in vending machines (iirc it was because that was the time Sierra Mist came out).
5th Avenue chocolate bars. I don’t know if they still exist or not but I’ve only ever found em in the checkout lines of one grocery store.
also Murry’s chicken nuggets. they were cheap and good, but they disappeared by the time I was in high school
You know which chocolate disappeared then came back?
Cup O Gold, it has a creamy coconut center.
I went for something like two decades without it, imagine my surprise at suddenly eyeing it at the Fry’s Electronics checkout line!
To this day, I find it at the Smart & Final market chain.
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! 😆
In the 1980s, Frito Lay test marketed a new extruded Cheeto-like product that was filled with an easy cheese filling. There was even a pbs documentary about it centered around how new snacks are made.
I wish I could remember the name of the snack and/or find the documentary online. They were yummy but they didn’t last long. I think there were like three different flavors and they were cut at an angle.
https://www.thedailymeal.com/1317712/discontinued-cheetos/
Not sure if those ever made an official release
They were practically a drug for kids. Some other companies copied the format, but they weren’t as good (and I haven’t even been able to find those, lately).
They also had chips cut like this…:
… which were delicious, but I can’t find a picture of a bag. 😭
Waffle fries aren’t that uncommon are they?
They are here. 🤷♂️
Never seen any since these vanished from the shelves two or three decades ago.
Where is here? I can find them in the USA.
I can find them in the USA.
Spoken like a true American. 🤦♂️
Of course you can fins them in the world capital of junk and unhealthy food.
Luckily the vast majority of the world population are fortunate enough not to live anywhere near that particular catastrophe.
I asked where here was because you stressed that as if it matters. I mentioned I can find them in the USA because I don’t know where you are and for all I know you could be here.
Why are you so rude? Is being this unpleasant over something this small a normal thing for your culture?
Dem Bones, my favorite trick or treat candy
Crispín chocolate covered wafer cookie snack bars. They were huge and only cost like 79 cents. They were around up until about 2 years ago when they suddenly went out of production.
Eggo Waf-Fulls had a fruit filling inside. Their strawberry filling was to die for. It’s a real tragedy we haven’t seen them again after over 20 years.
Lan Chi Chili paste, I miss that stuff so much.
OP, Cabot makes a horseradish cheddar, make some cheese fries?
Original Treets. Better than m&m’s.
Omg I have one. Sara Lee chocolate gateaux. It was this triple layer cake of delight, and my parents would buy it for every party back in the 90s. This was before chocolate got shit, so it was alllllll of the good stuff. Probably some cocaine in there too, who knows. I fucking miss that cake.
