There are moments in your life when the stars align and you accidentally stumble on a truly phenomenal product. Maybe it’s a delicious food item, a beauty product, or a piece of technology that is so good that it raises your standards forever. And not to sound overly dramatic, but how do you go on when it’s no longer available?
Upset consumers took to an online thread to vent about the best things they bought that later got discontinued. And it still pains them to remember. Choco tacos, headphone jacks in phones, and cars with CD players are just the tip of the iceberg. Scroll down to read about all the things that people miss the most!
#1
CD players in cars.
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#2
I will never get over Jello Pudding Pops. Never. 👎.
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#3
Cinnamon toothpaste. Pearl Drops were the best!
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#4
Viennetta ice cream cake.
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#5
Carnation Breakfast Bars.
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#6
Long time ago, when the Earth was young, there were microwave cakes. And they were pretty good. Just the cake mix, in a microwave tray and frosting. Add some water, nuke for 2 minutes. Done.
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#7
Doo Dads. Best snack mix ever. Eat your heart out, Chex Mix.
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#8
Jujubees. Loved those tiny pieces of flavored rubber.
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#9
Apple juice based drinks at Starbucks.
Had been drinking them for over 15 years. Now I have to make my drink at work.
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#10
Philadelphia cheesecake snack bars.
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#11
Brach’s marshmallow eggs.
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#12
Hydrox cookies were the superior chocolate sandwich cookie.
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#13
Danish Wedding Cookies. Those things were so good.
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#14
Crabtree & Evelyn. Particularly their Gardeners hand lotion, Citron body wash, and Himalaya Blue cologne.
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#15
Uno candy bar, originally made by a company called “Annabelle Candy Co.” Has a truffle like texture and almonds….
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#16
Neutrogena Pore Refining Toner and Exfoliating Cleanser. Nothing else I’ve tried is as good.
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#17
Choco Taco.
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#18
Headphone jacks and extra ports.
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#19
Kudos Bars, the M&M one was the best.
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#20
A living wage and benefits.
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#21
I miss the opportunity to buy small sedans and compact cars. I know there are still some around, but there used to be a lot more choices.
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#22
Unpackaged produce at the supermarket. I waste so much food because I can’t use a whole package before it goes bad.
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#23
The McDonald’s deep fried apple pies that would burn your mouth. They were so greasy and tasty.
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#24
The original green Herbal Essence shampoo from the 70s.
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#25
Little Debbie Caramel Cookie Bars.
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#26
Lemon cream cake at Olive Garden. I seriously do not know what Olive Garden was thinking by discontinuing that. It’s the worst move since the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees.
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#27
There are two items:
Last seen 1976 ish -Flings – cheddar drenched, soft cheesy goodness. Cylindrical nuggets of joy!
I became addicted as a teen, circa 1975.
I’ve seen these for sale in British stores but they don’t ship to Canada 😭
Disappeared 1999 ish – Sally Hansen wax strips – the absolute best hair removal product I have ever used! Sold in a box and contained 10/12 sheets.
Cut to size and peel & stick, lol. Looked like a very sheer but super strong scotch tape. If I could replicate this, I would be over the moon! rip best hair removal product ever used. 🥺.
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#28
Alpha-Bits cereal. My childhood in a box. They brought it back at one point but it wasn’t the same.
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#29
Saturn cars.
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#30
Laura Secord pudding. Lifesavers in the Christmas book with all the different flavours. Cherry Blossoms .
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#31
I really miss a certain store that has been shut down for years now. Pier one imports.
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#32
Sunlight Dish Soap
If they had of told me they were going to do that, I would have bought a pallet of the stuff.
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#33
Revlon flex shampoo.
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#34
Fresh’n Up Bubble gum, with the gel in the middle.
I don’t know if it’s disconned, but I LOVED Dr Oetker’s brand pizza, esp the mozzarella one. Can’t find it anywhere now!
Archway rocky road cookies. Soaked in Kahlúa and covered in whipped cream, yes ma’am!!!
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#35
Betty Crocker’s Gingerbread mix. I know I could “probably” make the loaf myself, but this was something specific I always made for my children every Thanksgiving! (I’m not much of a cook and that was my one contribution).
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#36
1) Oreo Big Stuf
2) Starbucks Snickerdoodle Cookies
3) Those small jelly jars with cartoon characters that our family used as juice glasses when the jelly was gone.
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#37
Large salad bars 😭 all of the ones near me never re opened after lock down. whole foods is the only one but it’s sooo expensive.
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#38
Ragu express :( like easy mac but ragu pasta instead.
& v05 blueberry shampoo & conditioner.
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#39
Product 19 cereal.
It had so much iron it smelled metallic when you opened the box. I have always struggled with keeping my iron levels up and I used to (well, still do) crave it so strongly.
I can’t believe that the vastly inferior Special K was the breakout product and not delicious, crunchy, wonderful Produxt 19.
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#40
Cheese nips and spam spread and soft batch chocolate chip cookies. Also they cookies that had chocolate in the center! .
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#41
Oil of Olay lotion 😭 the shea butter kind.
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#42
Libby’ potted meat. Soooo many friends and relatives mourned this injustice 😞.
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#43
Coca-Cola Life. I loved the natural sugar in those green cans!
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#44
White chocolate peppermint m&ms 😭 Christmas just isn’t the same without them.
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#45
Peanut Butter Twix. I was known as the Peanut Butter Twix lady at 2 local gas stations and a 3rd about 45 minutes away. I’m not proud of that because imagine how many you have to buy to earn a whole nickname for it! I was having them order cases just for me 💀.
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#46
Dr. Pepper Berries and Cream
TreSemme Deep Clean Shampoo (down to half a bottle out of the 16 closeouts I bought at Ollie’s a while ago)
Pizzarias (chips).
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#47
Stella’s original perfume was the only perfume I’ve ever enjoyed wearing.
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#48
Clarins After Sun Moisturizer. How dare the company change its formula and completely ruin it. I’ve emailed them several times begging to go back the original lotion. All I got back in return was nada. Nothing but crickets.
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#49
Snuggle Cherry Blossom and Rosewood fabric softener. Smells so good. It disappeared and the company claims it’s still available in some regions but when I look online I only see old bottles on eBay.
And no, I don’t care about how fabric softener is bad for my clothes and my dryer and giving me cancer.
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#50
I miss the old green skittle. Lime for life.
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#51
Simply chex. It was the seasoned chex pieces by themselves. As soon as I found them, they were gone .
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#52
Kraft Savory Chicken Noodles.
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#53
Sega Genesis.
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#54
Peanuts on McDonald’s sundaes.
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#55
Borden canned egg nog.
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#56
Hostess Susie Q’s, original Pantene, O’Boises chips, Hawiian punch (the OG formula in the can).
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#57
Brachs Bridge Mix with the chocolate covered jellies. They still make the Bridge Mix but the jellies were removed years ago.
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#58
Apple cinnamon pop tarts.
They weren’t frosted, just some cinnamon sugar on top. They were amazing.
Now all of the flavors are stupid lol.
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#59
Brown sugar life cereal. Can’t find in store.
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#60
Chocodiles.
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#61
Fruitopia.
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#62
Surge.
The only answer is Surge.
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#63
When I was a kid I would sometimes get these cheese-filled soft pretzel twists from Speedway
They were far better than any gas station food had any right to be
It’s been like 20 years and I still think about them.
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#64
Trader Joe’s frozen polenta.
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#65
Taco Bell’s Naked Chicken Chalupa. The chicken shell was always perfectly crispy and perfectly moist. I want it back!
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#66
Sensible bites pita crackers.
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#67
The scented oil at The Body Shoppe called woody sandalwood. It was everything.
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#68
Peeps eggs with the dark chocolate coating.
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#69
Woven dental floss.
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#70
Sunshine lemon wafers. Ak Mak crackers. Sans Sucre Mousse mixes.
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#71
Coke Blak. I’m pretty sure I’m the only person on the planet who likes it, so it’s not available anymore.
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#72
Cheez-It —— Twisterz.
My 11 yr old self would eat them by the box. The ‘hot wings and cheesy blue’ flavor to be precise. I’m 36 now and still not over it. I still scan the cheez it section in stores, secretly hoping I’ll come across them again.
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#73
I’m surprised I didn’t find this here.
Hi-C Ecto Cooler.
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#74
Quality blue jeans. Since the major US brands exited sell edge denim it’s really hard to get a decent pair of jeans.
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#75
This is not completely discontinued. But it’s a limited edition item:
Ben & Jerry’s makes a Caramel Core flavor that is vanilla icecream with a center core of salted caramel. A HUGE log (for lack of a better term*) through the center.
Whenever they re-release it I try to get as much of it as I can.
And then, there are the sad times. 😔.
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#76
Pillsbury Space Food Sticks. I’m old. They were great.
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#77
Costco’s combo pizza.
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#78
Burple. Those orange expandable jugs were so cool! Wish I had like 6-7 of them.
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#79
Prescriptives lipstick. Years and years ago. I can’t remember the name of the color.
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#80
Lay’s Wasabi Ginger chips, Sour Tangerine Altoids, Blue Pepsi, and those Orbitz drinks with the suspended tapioca balls from the 90s.
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#81
Sheer freesia body spray.
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#82
WEGMANS peanut butter cereal. It was so much better than Captain crunch.
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#83
Quakers Crunchy Corn Bran. So crunchy!!!!!
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#84
Mystic Mints…these cookies from my childhood…especially frozen mmmm.
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#85
Good ‘n’ Fruity.
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#86
Two things from Avon! A Skin So Soft lotion that had a very light citrus scent, and a hair product called Advance Techniques Dry Ends Serum.
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#87
Chef Boyardee box spagetti dinner. It contained the spagetti, sauce, and a parmasen cheese pack. It was the long rectangular box. Back in the 80s. Gosh, I loved that stuff.
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#88
Dark chocolate kit kats.
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#89
The original blend of Good Earth green tea.
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