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When Gordon was in the service – this was before we moved to Texas and I learned to make proper Texmex cuisine – I made Lipton soup fajitas. I don’t remember what flavor it was, since it’s been years, I think Spicy Fiesta or Red Pepper or some silliness like that, but basically it was a mix that gave you an approximation of tortilla soup, a South-Western staple.

Picture of instant Lipton soup box
Looked kind of like that

I would get my chicken, slice it into long slices, dip it in the mix, and sauté in a bit in the pan, and make fajitas with it. Gordon and the kids loved it. Except abruptly, my go to soup vanished from the store shelves. I finally asked people in the commissary and they looked it up for me and told me it was discontinued.

I felt bitterly betrayed. I liked the soup. I bought the soup. How dare they discontinue it? (Obviously, this is all about me.)

I have experienced other discontinued disasters. Viennetta Ice Cream cake was the best ice-cream ever. Light vanilla ice-cream with very thin layers of chocolate. So delicious. Sadly it vanished before I turned twenty. A1 used to make a sweet flavor of steak sauce, which I can no longer find. There were packets of yellow rice flavoring I used to buy with actual saffron in it. No longer available. Every time it feels a little like betrayal.

Yesterday was our 25 year anniversary. We stayed home, ordered in, and watched Invincible. Amazing show. Delta variant is raging through Texas. Kid 1’s boyfriend is sick and isolating in the garage apartment. We are monitoring him with an oximeter. He is miserable. Kid 1 has had her first shot, and Gordon and I are fully vaccinated. Kid 2 had her first shot and her boyfriend is getting his first.

We happened to live next a massive outdoor outlet mall. 250 stores, 1,000,000 sq. ft of space, the largest or second largest, depending on whom you ask, retail store in US. It is a bastion of consumerism, which is not necessarily a good thing. We get traffic from everywhere.

A few weeks ago I’ve found out that Maurices outlet in that mall has been discontinued. It fell victim to COVID. It was my go to T-shirt store. Yes, I can buy clothes online, but I am a plus sized woman and I like to try things on. Yankee Candle followed suit. It was about the only place you could get Yankee candles dirt cheap, because normally they are expensive as hell. The only two stores which caused me to brave the insanity of that parking lot are out of business.

It’s not just the stores. A few of the favorite restaurants closed and never reopened. A massage spa that was just about the only decent place to get a deep tissue massage when your back completely gives out on you is out of business. Massage was not a luxury for me. More like a hail Mary because despite my best efforts, I sit a lot.

People lost jobs. People are losing housing.

They are talking another lock down again, so I bought an extra thing of paper towels, toilet paper, and sanitary products. Just in case they get discontinued. My Perestroika Russianness was triggered. Food and goods shortages, I am on it.

Well, this post got heavy in a hurry. Normally I aim for upbeat, but I guess today is not that day. I decided not have the pandemic in Dina’s world. Because I have that power.

Let’s talk about discontinued things. What do you wish they would bring back and what substitutes did you find that were better than the old thing?

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  1. ❤️ Happy Anniversary ❤️ !

    If you come to England and we have an in-person job performance review hehe, I will provide a veritable Viennetta feast. We have Classic AND Neapolitan and Mint Viennetta here. Keeping the boss happy⭐.

    I’ve known since I was a teen that I am one of the Harbingers of Failure https://news.mit.edu/2015/harbinger-failure-consumers-unpopular-products-1223 . It’s only encouraged my hoarding tendencies, I know if I love it I have to try and get multiples of it because it will be discontinued.

  2. I miss Lea & Perrins BBQ Sauce. It was not just ketchup, corn syrup and smoke flavoring. It was tangy, but not really spicy and not too sweet.

  4. Kellogg’s has discontinued their Just Right cereal…i can’t say i bought it often because it was expensive and cereal in general is a waste of money, but it was delicious and occasionally it made me happy.
    They had made Just Right for something like 40 years… There is no substitute :/

    • I second that motion!

      It had to be the most aptly named cereal ever. It simply was “just right”. Was very sad when I moved back to South Africa and couldn’t find it anymore. Bought it as a staple when living in the Emirates, but don’t think it was ever available in the South African market.

      Sad sigh…

  5. So many things discontinued. One of our favorites? Daiquiri Ice from Baskin Robbins.

    I’m sure you’ve thought of this before, but vis-a-vis the sitting all day thing, have you considered a standing desk? There are some good ones out there that are considered ‘convertible’ and won’t fall apart after two times up or down. Prior to March 2020 (which hereinafter may be recognized as the masked month of doom, I guess) Arizona state government HRs everywhere had begun to supply these to people who required them, too.
    Which is not to say I use them. <– inveterate sitter\should getter upper.

      • Daiquiri Ice at Baskin Robbins is still in CA but is seasonal or comes out once a year until sold out. Until it returns. I was told they bring it back in the summer. However, I’ve had it in winter.????????‍♀️

    • I’ve tried it but I cannot type on a standing desk. I settle for moving every twenty minutes or so. 🙂

      • I have found that my standing desk trick is that the desk needs to be low enough to type (I’m bad and often rest my wrists on the edge), but then I need a really tall riser for my monitor.

      • The British writer KJ Charles uses a treadmill desk. How mad is that! She says it has solved all her back problems.

      • Have you tried an Ergonomics consultant to help you get it just right? Or a PT? Bayer pharmaceuticals converted my whole campus to sit stand desks, and offered the ergo consultants to help everyone tweak them to best support their work style/health issues. It really helped me a ton, after my PT prescribed the desk for my back issues. ????

    • I miss Cappuccino Concerto from B& R! And The Cappuccino cookies That Pepperidge Farms had!

    • I was just in Wyoming and the Kroger there sold Daiquiri Ice in the frozen section. I totally did a double-take when I saw it. It always reminds me of my grandpa.

    • Daiquiri Ice was my absolute favorite – i was a kid and had no idea what a daiquiri was but i loved the taste and blue color

    • Me too! A favorite summer adult drink was an actual daiquiri ( lime or strawberry) with daiquiri ice instead of crushed ice.

    • I miss daiquiri ice immensely. I used to get two scoops and paired it with raspberry sorbet, which they almost never have anymore. Doubly whammy.

  6. There was a Greek family restaurant near my house that closed beginning of Covid. It is now a seafood restaurant, sadly I do not eat seafood. There was a small mom and pop Korean restaurant that hasn’t reopened after covid either. I love food and so many of the restaurant closures have been really sad to see.

    • Oh we had a wonderful Italian restaurant called Patti’s. Just the BEST! Best chicken parmesan, best lovely soft bread, most wonderful salad dressing. Great thoughtful service – even the dinner mints were special. Went there the night he proposed (sigh). I miss it.

    • I miss my local Indian restaurant. It closed in June, so sad. It was a once a month place for a while.

  7. I can’t find Bounty with dark chocolate here in Romania. They sometimes appear every few years, and I have to buy a few if I wanna eat it. Otherwise I adapt to whatever I can find LOL

    • Arrrgh. That would be awful. I love dark chocolate Bounty. When I was a little girl 30 odd(cough 40 more like) years ago, Frys in the UK did what we called Magic Chocolate. It was actually called Frys 5 cream centre and I adored it. Each square had a different flavour,lemon, raspberry, orange etc. It’s been gone at least 35 years now from the UK shops and I still miss it

      • I loved this too, but I have recently found full bars of the raspberry, orange and mint but unfortunately no lemon

      • I remember buying and enjoying it and Cadbury used to do a bar of chocolate that had strawberry,orange and other flavors , it was like a mini box of chocolates and my boyfriend (now husband of 48 yrs) would buy one when we went to the cinema. Those were the days when 2 people could go to the cinema and see 2 films have some sweets or ice cream for less than £1. US 50 cents.

      • I’m old enough to remember 5 Centres! Actually, I make chocolates now, and I make all of those filling flavours, so I might try adding a chocolate np at like this to my repertoire … hmmmm …

      • I’m in the states. You write dark chocolate Bounty and I think chocolate-dipped paper towels. ????

        • I snorted so loudly I woke up Mr Mod R. Chocolate dipped paper towels- I’m pretty sure I did that diet ????????

          It’s Mounds in the US, right? Always sounded a bit…boobzy to me hehehe.

          • ????

            Yeah, Mounds. I had to look it up! I’m good with lorries and boots, but bounty was a new one.

  8. It is a running joke in my household that we can’t say aloud in the grocery store that we like an item because it will be discontinued the next time we go in to buy it. Konriko makes a jalepeno all purpose seasoning. I have to order it directly from the company now in boxes of 12 because my store no longer carries it. Same thing with a jalepeno mustard from Silver Springs brand. End up having to order in larger quantities from online.

  9. When I lived in St. Louis there was a local dairy called Pevely, and they use to make Heavenly Hash ice cream. It was my favorite flavor. It had pretty much everything in it: chocolate shavings, nuts, marshmallow fluff, and other things I can’t remember all mixed in vanilla ice cream. Sadly, the dairy closed down long before COVID-19, and everything they made was gone. I haven’t found an equivalent of that flavor of ice cream since then. 🙁

    I also love Breyer’s Rocky Road ice cream since it has marshmallow fluff in it instead of actual marshmallows. Luckily I can find it in one Kroger store.

    • Haagen-Dazs Rocky Road uses marshmallow fluff too. — I agree that it is better with that instead of with actual marshmallows. Only ice cream where I lose all sense of portion contol.

    • Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food has marshmallow. It is an evil, evil thing.

      I can eat a few bites of any other ice cream but I have no “off” switch for Phish Food.

      • +100
        Phish Food is the absolute best!
        No off switch – exactly.
        Sadly, My new Raley’s O-N-E store doesn’t carry it anymore because it has some “banned” ingredient. Would that be flavor? Because most of the stuff now in that store doesn’t have any. Flavor, that is. It was my favorite grocery store and now I don’t even go there.
        Also Gemco. Does anyone remember that store? I was depressed for months after that closed back in the 80’s.

        • I loved Gemco. My mom worked in the Fabric Department and I bought a book every week there.

      • Same, no self control with phish food, and I wanted it all the time during my last trimester

      • Beaters is made right near me, and they used to do peach ice cream. Yummy, tasted like fresh peaches and cream. Their strawberry is also great. Peach scarcer than hens teeth, and strawberry sells out within A few hours at the one store here that carries it. We yell to our FB friends when we see it in the store, so we might get some.

    • Another item I remembered that was discontinued a long while back: Hires Root Beer. It was so much better than A&W.

        • Store bought A & W is not that good but what they serve in A & W Restaurants is great. Made in house with cane sugar and served in a frosted mug. Bottled and canned stuff from the store has high fructose corn syrup. Just can’t measure up.

        • Oh I miss my Diet Pepsi. I don’t know what the heck “they” did to it but it tastes like a vile chemical stew now…

  10. Noodles Romanoff. Family favorite. I did find a “recipe” to try and recreate it, used the orange cheese packet from Kraft’s Mac n cheese as the base. Meh…

    • I loved it as well, even went so far as to call the source and ask. I have a copy of the same recipe with the Kraft Mac & cheese but it just doesn’t seem right.

    • Yes!!! My mom and dad loved the boxed kind. She attempted to make it from scratch and it was horrid! She was so sad because she knew I would love those noodles.

    • They used to also make Noodles Almandine. I’m sad both are gone. If you go to Pinterest, you can see a couple of copycat versions, but I haven’t had the courage to try, yet. If it doesn’t taste as good as I remember, it’s so disappointing.

  11. Krogers used to carry a raspberry flavored instant ice tea mix. I think Nestea or Lipton’s had a diet peach and a diet raspberry ice tea mix. But the supply chain thing that put me into panic mode was when I couldn’t find frozen Fordhook Lima beans for about 6 months. I know, many people think they don’t like Lima beans, but that’s because the baby limas are, um, kinda greasy in texture. Slimy, maybe. Fordhook are more like mashed potatoes or peas in texture. Fortunately the Fordhooks are back. I think we have 5 or 6 bags in the freezer. Clearly it’s time to stock up again!

    • Oh my gosh, where did you find Fordhook lima beans?! I used to be able to get them at Safeway but not for months now. I grew up in Southern California in a citrus growing area. When the trees were too small to bear much fruit they would plant lima beans between the rows to put nitrogen in the soil and for a cash crop. With a little salt and pepper and butter, they are the favorite veggie of my whole family!

  12. There’s a few things I’ve had nostalgia for in the past year that turned out to no longer exist. Viennetta is one of them. There were these lemon and orange jelly candies that my dad loved and they no longer exist, either.
    More recently, I really liked Schweppes Dark Ginger ale – tasted like ginger ale with a bit of ginger beer mixed in. I didn’t buy it often b/c of the sugar but I’m disappointed it’s gone.

    • If you can get Jamaican spicy ginger ale, that is the best. A particular type of kettlecooked chips was my go to. The company that made them is no longer there. They got bought out by one of the big brands. And the local soda pop company with the best Lime Rickey! Coke bought them out. No more Lime Rickey ????

    • If you’re in the southeast US and can get Buffalo Rock ginger ale I like it better than the Schweppes Dark.

  13. I am many years a victim of severe lactose intolerance. I learned to appreciate soy substitutes. Many of these products are being discontinued as the popularity of Almond, oat and coconut flourishes. I miss my soy products… Hugs to House of Andrews and wishes for a swift recovery to the BF!

    • Yes! Organic Valley used to make a delicious soy creamer that they discontinued a couple of years ago. It held up in the strong coffee I like. None of the other plant-based creamers come close. I have just given up and drink my coffee black.

  15. Right before the pandemic Nature Valley started selling these amazing granola balls with peanut butter in the middle. A few months later they were gone forever and I think no longer manufactured. I can’t even find them online.

  16. Happy Anniversary.

    Personal Touch Razor/Razorblades. I had to guard them from my daughters. Retired and don’t go out much now so the throwaways work just fine when needed.

    My deep tissue massage place is closing this fall and she is moving west. She is terrific. She straightened out my daughter’s hip/back problem. I go regularly for back and migraine issues. I don’t know if I can find someone just as good.

    Take care. Hope no one else gets sick and K1’s boyfriend gets better.

  17. Yankee Candle – Storm Watch Scent. It was discontinued years ago, brought back for brief time and now disappeared again.

    🙁

    Haagen-Dazs: Honey Ice cream; my ultimate go-to ice cream flavor. Poof!

    • Ooooh!
      I drizzle honey on vanilla ice cream, but I’ve never tried it as an actual flavor!
      But Haagen-Dazs coffee or coffee chocolate chip is my all time favorite. And apparently a LOT of other folks as well; it’s always sold out at my grocery store.

    • Likewise Cappucino Commotion… and their special promotion of 2007 Caramelized Pear and Toasted Pecan,

      sigh….

    • Haagen-Dazs Honey Vanilla!!!!!! My ALL TIME favorite. I found it in store once a couple years ago, they were doing a flash back favorites or something. Otherwise very rarely it is in an actual Haagen Dazs store. Oh I wish I could get some right now!!!!!

    • I remember when they introduced Honey Ice cream with big promotion at HD shop: lots of info on how important bees are and how they were struggling…loved that flavor!

  19. Sweet Baby Ray’s for BBQ sauce is our go-to. It’s absolutely the best. Just the right amount of sweetness to the sauce.

    re: back… my husband came home with this (see link), I thought he had lost his mind. It was ridiculous. It wasn’t going to work. My back pain was getting to the point where I was hardly able to sleep and he thought some dohicky from Bed, Bath, and Beyond would help?

    EXCEPT, it was *amazing*. You can adjust the neck height. (I’m short waisted, so I still have to sit on a pillow even with the neck as low as it can go.) You can select which sections of your back/neck area you want massaged. You can add heat. (It’s gentle heat.) If it’s too strong, you can put a towel between it and you and it’s kinda perfect.

    I literally quit having pain in my back and neck–all caused by all the sitting I do. Highly recommend if you haven’t tried one. (I think sometimes they have them set up in the store so you can try it first.)

    https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/homedics-2-in-1-shiatsu-massaging-seat-topper-with-removeable-massage-pillow/5514858

    btw, Happy Anniversary!

    (And to your question, so many places have closed here in the Quarter that it’s just exceptionally depressing.)

    • I can get Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce in Fort Worth at the Walmart I go to do shopping. I can get the original, Honey, and Spicy.

    • Oh, are you in New Orleans?
      I want to visit. Our anniversary is this week and early this summer I thought maybe maybe we could go off for a weekend Savannah or NOLA or Jekyll Island and now its a big old ain’t going anywhere burger.

      It would be OK if I had not got my hopes up darn it.

      • Hi CharisN — yep, I live right in the heart of the French Quarter, about a half a block from Jackson Square. I love living here (we are on a very quiet street, which is sort of random and odd for here, so I have the best of both worlds).

        Everything had opened back up and we were excited to have festivals again and the economy desperately needed it and then BOOM, Delta variant is kicking everyone’s butt.

        I have family in the medical field here and it’s really really really bad.

        So good decision–and I feel your pain. And Happy Anniversary. We are going to have our 40th next year and I hope like hell the world is back on track by then. This is just crazy with so many people still in denial; it’s like watching slow-motion murder-suicide.

    • I’m two weeks late for responding to this post, and I doubt you’ll see this message, but Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce is available all over the place in Southern California. If your Walmart doesn’t have it in the store, you can get it online from them. Costco also has it online and in the store.

      • Oh yes! Gatorgum! I associate that with softball league in my childhood. We would buy it at the sporting goods store.

  22. Happy silver anniversary! Hope K1’s BF recovers soon and the vaccinations go smoothly.

    If you’re a fellow Costco shopper you’ve probably experienced the same issue: when I love a product, I have to go back within a week or 2 and buy another because otherwise it might leave their rotation. This has come in handy with certain staples like comfortable sweats, etc. Doesn’t help my hoarder tendencies (big hug to Mod R).

    • costco has a habit of regarding random items as seasonal. if you see a price ending in .97 with a snowflake on the tag, stock up! it will be gone soon.

      why pine nuts are seasonal at costco, i will never understand. it is pesto season now!

  23. Blue bell used to do a seasonal chocolate covered cherry ice cream that was luscious. It had little chunks of chocolate with chocolate syrup filling and the best cherries. A close second is cherry Garcia from Ben and Jerry.

    Blue bell also used to have a Mexican praline. It was so much better than their standard pecan praline. I’ve looked for them for years now.

    • I second you on the BlueBell chocolate cherry ice cream. Ugh. Cherry Garcia is close but no cigar.

  24. There used to be this wonderfully spicy christmas chocolate bar by Fazer. I don’t even remember what it had, but I loved it and bought it several times every christmas. And then they discontinued it and started to sell several orher christmas chocolate bars. None where as good. All were smaller than the original.
    They later started to sell it in a smaller paperwrapped chocolate pieces but somehow it’s just not as good as the bars were.

    I’m surprised about Vienneta, we have have it in Finland pretty much as long as I can remember (so at least 20+ years, I loved that stuff as a kid. It was so fancy). Although maybe it’s european thing and for some reason they just haven’t sold it in USA?

  25. Happy Anniversary!

    I miss the old Betty Crocker powdered chocolate fudge frosting mix. We used it to make fudge candy drops and despite many attempts, I cannot recreate the texture.

  26. They changed SnackWell’s Devil’s Food cookies and my husband is heartbroken.

    Happy Anniversary! Stay well!

    • How naughty of you to post such a delicious-looking picture.

      Oh wait, I’m supposed to go to France at the end of this month (COVIC-19 willing) and I can have some. Oh, happy day.

      • Good! They are really easy to find in stores, at least the vanilla flavour (my favorite)

    • Wasn’t that originally, Adophs, can’t find that either. I’ve looked on Walmart and Amazon but very expensive by the case!

    • Mccormick’s (Imitation) Brandy Extract
      I can no longer make the brandy ball cookies from my youth 🙁

      I have tried multiple alternatives and they all have off flavors that result in inedible cookies in the trash.

    • +1 to this! It was most definitely McCormicks. I used it to marinade the beef for my stew recipe. Nothing I’ve tried since compares.

  29. They’re actually supposed to be bringing Vienetta back. The Good Humor website shows that they’re available in Krogers in Houston. 🙂

    • YES! I loved me some pudding pops. They had a lovely super thin coating of ice on the outside and once you licked through thatthey were just creamy and delicious. I thought the same thing about the Cosby connection, but kids now a days wouldn’t have the association. Couldn’t they just get a new spokesperson?

      Also, grape flavored swedish fish. I love the red ones too, but the grape were really good.

  32. Happy Anniversary!!! I’ve experienced this many times. I usually find some substitute or something new. I do hate watching small businesses struggle, and it’s always sad to see them go. But i like change and discovering new things, so i just role with it.

    • Taco Bell got rid of several things permanently during covid. I miss their Mexican pizza, and I reallllllly miss the offering pico as an option. I always ordered pico with everything.

  34. I have been eyeing my toilet paper supply and considering a run to the store. And I live alone!

    The only thing I can think of that I used to buy that I miss is Godiva ice cream. I’m not a big fan of ice cream, but sometimes …. Their chocolate chip was the best vanilla ice cream I have ever had, with GODIVA chocolate in it. Eaten with the proper degree of respect, a 12-ounce carton would last me three weeks.

  35. I am often betrayed by Trader Joe’s. They used to have a frozen version of poutine that was yummy: gone. Then they had these delicious thin sliced potatoes with garlic: gone. The latest disappearance: the Chicken Balti pie (a savory, curried chicken pie).

    It makes me so sad!

    • Same thing with their Chicken Quesadillas that my mom loves. Things just go poof over there and you’re out of luck.

    • They had the best chocolate cake mix, too, and their sugar cookie mix that came out at Christmas was delicious.

      • Nabisco made a cookie bar shaped called Ideal. They were amazing haven’t seen them in maybe 50 years. Still miss em.

  36. There was this buffet chain that I’ve gone to since I was 5 (or younger, my memory isn’t great) that was shut down in early covid of 2020. It was called Souplantation, or Sweet Tomatoes in other states on the West Coast. I’m in my mid twenties and every time I pass by a location, I feel sad. They had this incredible salad bar and chicken noodle soup that I would only eat when I was there. Pandemic sucks. (They were struggling pre Covid and this was the final nail in the coffin).

    • Sweet Tomatoes was my favorite restaurant in the world. Every time we traveled south we would stop in the one at Kennasaw Georgia. It made the drive from Michigan to Florida tolerable. I will miss that place.

    • Same! My family used to go so often that we nicknamed it “The Kitchen”. Also, whenever it comes up in conversation with various friends, there is always an impromptu moment of silence and sad faces. 🙁

    • Our sweet Tomatoes went away well before the pandemic, but they had lost quality before they folded. I liked it because it was a bit healthier than other choices, but since I lost use of one hand, I so much prefer having food brought to me.

  37. Campbell’s Scotch Broth soup … they stopped making it in the US, but for a while one could still order from Canada. All gone now. And Heintz is just not the same (also hard to get). I find recipies, but no, I do not want to make it; I just want to open a can for my lunch when/while I work from home.

    Also … and this was a one-off, only found it once, … Blue Bunny riff on creamsicle ice cream, but with coconut icecream and mango sorbet.

  38. For years, my husband’s mantra has been “If you find something you like, go back and buy them all”. Sadly, this doesn’t really work with food.

    • I did that with T-shirts and cardigans. I bought one in every color. I don’t care if that is strange. My closet is a rainbow of things I wear constantly!

  39. My brand of bouillon cubes disappeared! I… don’t understand! It was a common staple everywhere and now all I see are these super fancy bone broth things and I just want my tiny little cube with a ton of flavor back. 🙁

    I also loved a Jack Daniel’s mustard. We found it and put it on everything. Then it disappeared.

    My favorite cider was discontinued. Angry Orchard Ginger. It was the perfect blend of sweet and tart. SIGH.

    • Ooo, Ginger? I’ll bet that was one of Angry Orchard’s seasonal flavors. I’d love to try that one!

    • Not sure where you’re located but there’s a bunch of ginger ciders that are really good. Citizen Cider makes a great one (Dirty Mayor) as does Nine Pin.

  40. One thing that was discontinued and brought back recently was Olive Garden’s chocolate lasagna. It’s a ridiculously rich dessert made of thin layers of chocolate cake and cream cheese frosting plus more frosting and shaved chocolate on top. When it was discontinued, I was so sad, so my husband looked up a copycat recipe online and made it for me. It took three boxes of cake mix and was 12 inches tall when finished. We couldn’t eat it all, but we tried. ????

  41. I dearly loved Häagen-Dazs Tiramisu but it’s not available anymore in Germany ????

  43. Happy Anniversary!

    Every China, glass, and silverware pattern I have ever owned has been discontinued. They had been made for decades. Discontinued within a year. It’s so bad they discontinued one I was only thinking of getting!
    The one dessert I haven’t found in years is Männer chocolate hazelnut wafers covered in dark chocolate. They apparently ceased to exist as soon as I came back from studying overseas.
    The stress for the Eastern Europeans I know regarding staple food and such is very real. 🙁

      • I was looking for teaspoons in the stainless steel version of Damask Rose pattern. Replacements has a few, for $30 – $35, each. For stainless.
        Oneida made this pattern for over 50 years. Sad.

        Oh yeah, Ben and Jerry’s had a flavor years ago called Marsha Marsha Marshmellow. It was like Smores. Chocolate ice cream with toasted marshmellow and chunks of graham crackers. I miss it.

      • Love, love, love Replacements, Ltd!!! (Www.replacements.com) They not only carry my porcelain pattern, but also my mother’s/grandmother’s Arzberg White, and my/my mother’s sterling silverware pattern, my father’s/his mother’s silverplate pattern, and were able to identify my great-grandmother’s German sterling pattern, of which I have the very few pieces that survived the war.

        Sometimes Ebay has better prices on individual pieces, but they don’t have the breadth or consistency of Replacement’s warehouse.

    • Same here, my Waterford, my Gorham china pattern and my silver pattern all gone. While I can get them from Replacements, Ltd. they are as expensive as all get out.

  45. Usenet. Usenet was far superior for my social needs than anything since. The mass exodus from Usenet destroyed social coherence in my life.

  46. Land O’Lakes white cheese changed their recipe about 30 years ago…..still miss it and I haven’t found anything close. Let not even get into McDonalds changing their French fry oil. Still won’t eat there! ( Although probably a good thing!)

  47. Rimmel Lipstick Shade: Goddess. The best most perfect neutral lip colour ever and it is gone.

    I lost my Bikram Yoga Studio thanks to the lockdown. Those studios are locally owned and our studio just couldn’t survive the staggering ineptitude of our government that didn’t know how to conduct a proper once and for all lockdown to get things under control. Instead, they played the see saw game with peoples’ livelihoods and really messed up so many small businesses that could have survived if they would have just taken the lockdown seriously.

    Wow. That was a rant and apparently I am bitter.

  49. I almost hate to LOVE something as that is the kiss of death gif a product lol! I feel your pain! (I have a niece and nephew that morn the pictured soup as it was the key to their favorite braised pork roast) the discontinued product I miss the most is Lancôme moisturizing lipstick color Delice. It was the color of my lips only prettier somehow. Gone. It has been gone for a while. I’m still sad. Congratulations on your anniversary!

    • There’s something about cranberry. I used to buy cranberry drink mix, usually Walmart brand. But when Crystal stopped making theirs the store brand went away. You can’t find a cranberry drink mix anymore.

  51. Maybelline Black Velvet eye liner with the original twisty pencil. I think that me and Jon Waters are still mourning.

    Also, assorted moisturizers and cosmetics. Every time I find one I like, they discontinue the bloody thing. It is very annoying.

    • Enjoli. Wore it forever, always got compliments. Revlon discontinued it after 30 years. I bought up every bottle I could find in the store and online. Now I hoard what little I have left for special occasions.

    • Oh, and my FAVORITE logitech ergonomic split keyboard 🙁 the microsoft ones just aren’t the same

      • Are we talking tech now? My Logitech TrackMan Marble FX Trackball was knocked onto the ground one time too many. Irreplaceable…

  53. On a better note: have you tried woodwick or voluspa candles? They cost exorbitant amounts in Canada BUT in the US, they are really reasonably priced and they smell divine. Pretty much the only candles I can handle with my migraines because they are soy based not chemical based and their scents are non-chemical.

  54. 15+ years later I’m still sad Sally Hansen discontinued my favorite silver nail polish. It was called Seductress Frost and it sparkled so nice. I do dip powder nails these days and some of them glitter very well, but it’s not Seductress Frost.

      • I used to love Sally Hansen’s Chrome polishes, I wore the same shade of pink all through high school. Only needed one coat and never chipped, perfect shine. I still miss it ???? It seems every time I find a colour and formula I like, it’s discontinued. Which is very frustrating.

  55. Happy Anniversary!!

    Jack Daniels used to have this smokey mustard. I don’t even like mustard, but I couldn’t get enough of this stuff. It’s like the ONLY flavor they discontinued. I am now mustardless again. Such is life ????

  56. I am allergic to some weird stuff, particularly really popular florals. This makes places that sell soaps and body lotions a special kind of nightmare for me. Many of them I can’t even walk past in a mall, and of course perfumes are generally out of the question. But I’m a girl and sometimes I like to smell nice, dammit. Body Shop had a scent for YEARS called White Musk, which I could tolerate on special occasions. Then they brought out Black Musk, which had NOTHING I was allergic to. And I loved the scent. So it was promptly discontinued. (Because it’s also all about me ????)

    I share your sadness at the non-existence of Vianetta.

  57. Peppermint Patty ice cream bars were amazing, but I only found out about them once they were on the way out. Sad times.

  58. Countless ginger ale brands because sooner or later they all get sweeter and less gingery.

    Trader Joe’s used to have a chunky spread called “Two Hearts” that was artichoke hearts and hearts of palm. I used to spread it on plain cheese pizza. delicious! If I had known they were going to discontinue it I would have saved a jar to see the other ingredients because I have tried making it myself and it just isn’t the same.

    • I miss the ginger soda base from soda stream, it tasted like freshly puréed ginger with a little sugar. If you happen to see it, buy it and I’ll pay you for delivery, etc.

  59. Kleinpeter French Onion dip. It was sooo good. I don’t like most pre-made dips. One day it was just … gone. I’ve since decided Kraft jalapeño dip is not bad but it’s still not my French onion.

  60. Not sure if it is actually discontinued but Costco used to have this jalapeño greek yogurt dip/spread. It was amazing. They no longer carry it and multiple online searches have been fruitless.

  61. MIA for years:

    Sara Lee Orange Iced Sheet Cakes (real orange peel in cake and icing)

    Noodles Romanoff, I loved both the Betty Crocker mix and the frozen Stouffer’s

    Baskin & Robbins Mandarin Chocolate ice cream

    Trader Joe’s English Muffin Bread

    • OMG, I have been complaining about the loss of Mandarin Chocolate sherbet for years! I did my research– they have no intention of ever bringing back this amazing and irreplaceable dessert (imagine sherbet that is richer than any other, nearly black with chocolate, and redolent of orange. Amazing).

    • Hey, I was just at Trader Joe’s and they had English Muffin Bread!! Quick, run to the store!

  62. I miss Carnation Breakfast bars (Chocolate Chip). There was also a brand of chicken salad (I don’t remember the name) we would buy at the commissary. It wasn’t in the refrigerator section.

    • Those Carnation Breakfast bars were my husband’s favorite and for years I hunted for them every store I went to. Bummer.

      • Yes, I miss the chocolate crunch ones. Pretty sure that flavor was discontinued by the time I was 10…and I’m now 46 and still miss them!

  63. The chocolate mint Hershey bars. Every once in a while I can find them… and then they are gone again.

    • These are/were amazing and my daughter’s favorite candy bar ever. Could only ever find them at Walmart around the winter holidays. Alas, haven’t been able to find them since covid. Can’t even find them in Hershey, PA at Chocolate World… 🙁

  65. +1 for Noodles Romanoff ! Much better than KD.

    Paxo Stuffing, my mom would use it in the dressing for the Christmas and Thanksgiving turkeys.

    Petite clothing have disappeared frommost Canadian stores. It’s available from Americain chains but ordering online can get really expensive once you factor in the exchange rate, duty etc..,

    I need to try things on as well. I’m a non-standard size in nearly everything.

    • My 5’1″ niece (34-24-35) has good luck with Simons, a department store from Quebec but they also have stores in Ontario and Alberta.

      • We do have one in my city but with the lockdowns, I just haven’t had the chance to go nor have I needed anything much for the past 16 months.

        Thank you for the tip! With our office re-opening soon, I will have the chance to check it out.

  66. Happy Silver Anniversary, I’m sorry things are getting to you at the moment. I hope the BF is feeling better soon. Our local food places have managed to survive mostly which I am grateful for.

    When I was a teenager my parents used to take us camping in the South of France. Each time we would stop overnight in Burgandy The first meal my Mum would cook us everytime was rice and ‘Ye Olde Oak Chunky Chicken’ from a tin. It was wonderful. It still makes my mouth water. They discontinued it about 20 years ago and I’m still upset about it. Regardless of how often I make chicken in white sauce with rice, it’s never quite as nice

  67. I wanted to drop in and tell you that Vienetta might be back in the US so you should check if it’s in your area.
    It’s the best thing ever!

  68. Every tinted moisturizer I’ve ever liked – usually within a few months of my discovering it.

    I really miss liquid baking chocolate. Made so many of my family stand-by dessert recipes a breeze. I don’t like melting chocolate and don’t even know what the conversion would be. Sigh.

    • 3 Tbsp oil & 1 Tbsp cocoa powder. I almost never melt chocolate anymore. Too messy (and I wind up tasting it to ‘see if it’s still good!’)

  69. So I am pretty sure that we still have vienetta ice cream cake in the uk and in France where I currently live! It is one my favourites! You will have to come visit- maybe if I beg?

  70. Back in the day.. I used Agree shampoo. It was green. It smelled great all day. It made my hair feel so nice, soft and clean. One day it was just gone.. I called family that lived near where it was made and got a last few bottles.. I tried hundreds of shampoos and have never found one that I loved as much as my green Agree shampoo.

    We all have days where it is safer to stay away from people. Take a head of cabbage and chop the hell out of it. Make some Angry Fried Cabbage to serve with grilled pork chops. Angry Fried Cabbage is my go to side dish on bad days… hubby just smiles and eats his dinner. (he knows he is safe but that cabbage is dead as fuck)

    • Big sweary cabbage fan here. Can you share the recipe for Angry Fried Cabbage, please? Colorful verbiage would be helpful so I know when that cabbage is truly dead as fuck ????

  71. Venetta is available again in Texas, but so far I could only find it in Kroeger.

  72. It was an oatmeal and date bar made by one of the major cake maker brands, can’t remember if it was Duncan Hines or Betty Crocker though. I’ve found some similar recipes, but none have matched it yet.

    Oh, and Haask Macadamia Nut shampoo and conditioner… made my hair smell like vanilla cake.

  73. I recently found that Smuckers Mosaics jelly was discontinued. Still looking for a replacement.

  74. I get annoyed that I can’t buy the same shoes and jeans. Why do they have to remake shoes and jeans all the time? Like if they sold out in a jiffy, isn’t that a sign that people liked them and would continue to buy them? And why is there no more corduroy.
    I had no idea Maurices still existed. I used to go there in Idaho. I loved it especially for the corduroy, but I haven’t been in one for probably 18 years at this point since no where I went in California had one.
    I get tee-shirts shirts at Old Navy or Gap. Pretty much only places that fit anymore.

    • Testify sister! Stores selling out of things and then never getting them again!! Grrrrr.

      • Now, once I find a bra that actually fits and is comfortable, ditto shoes, I buy a dozen at a time.

        • Same. I have backup new jeans because some years, it is all the skinny or bell bottom only or a rotation between the two.

          I’m fortunate to stay about the same weight and shape.

  75. Thank you for that little bit about the pandemic not happening on that other Earth. ❤???? May be silly, but it does me good to know that people I love (even though imaginary) will not have to go through this.

  76. My son discovered in grade school that he was allergic — break out in hives, not lactose intolerant — to dairy products. Nuts were forbidden at his school, because of other people’s nut allergies. He hated lunch meats. Trying to find a packable protein that he would eat at school… arrrgh! We tried all of the non-dairy cheeses and all of the non-dairy yogurts in the county. He hated all of them. Except one. He ate that one soy-based yogurt every day for the next three years. It was a small, local company. Their product was good. It became popular. They decided to increase production and borrowed money to do it. Something went wrong with the deal and the whole company went out of business. Aiiiiiieeeee!

  77. Good news – Viennetta ice cream cakes still exist! I saw them in a Safeway in San Francisco last month (I remember because the friend I was with practically slobbered over it; it’s one of her favorites too.) So it might just be a distribution issue?
    check here: https://www.goodhumor.com/us/en/products/cakes/vanilla-viennetta-frozen-dairy-dessert-cake.html

    Distribution is my dilemma… My all time favorite cake is Entemann’s frosted banana cake – its moist and has amazing banana frosting with fudge stripes. YUM. But its not available outside the North East. I live on the west coast now and haven’t been able to get my hands on it in over a decade.

  78. Regarding current shortages: I remember the gas shortage in the 70s. (Husband stationed in California.) One night a late night host (Johnny Carson I think) mentioned that the gas lines were to the point that you had to sit in your car for the day (implying you needed to take a lunch box). That got a really big audience laugh. Then he didn’t follow his cue cards and tried to “milk” the audience reaction by stating that he wondered if the “current beef shortage” (which did not really exist) meant that you would have to stand in line at the meat counter as your afternoon exercise. Well it was interesting that the next day my local grocery store had an unexpected line (practically out the front door) by 10 am for the meat counter.
    Regarding Covid 19: We are currently in a surge in North Carolina. If it doesn’t get under control soon, the D variant will morph again. I really, really don’t want to think about that.

  79. Thought of another disappearance that really broke my plus-size career woman heart – Jones New York outlet shops.

    The brand disappeared entirely for a while but now you can find some items in department stores. Problem is that they don’t have a plus size line anymore.

    I haven’t been able to find trousers that fit as well since.

    • Oh, I hadn’t realized Jones New York Outlet stores were gone everywhere; I thought it was just the outlet mall I went to last January. Really bummed to hear this; their pants fit me reliably. Sigh.

  80. Not discontinued but only available around Christmas stateside, Terry’s chocolate oranges. They were my favorite thing as a kid and I could have forsaken every other present at Christmas as long as I had the orange. Well, two years ago now I study abroad in Scotland and come to find not only do they have Terry’s year round, there are like a million different versions of it. Individual orange shaped chocolate slices, a bag of mini’s, ones with crunchies inside, etc. I proceeded to buy every Terry’s product I could get my hands on before I left, and now mourn that they are not abundantly available in the states. It has become a high ranking reason on my Pro “moving abroad permanently” list.

  81. Nestlé Tollhouse chips had a cherry filled chocolate chip, delectables I think. I make a meringue cookie that has chocolate chips in it. Sometimes I substitute other flavors of chips (Andes mints, crushed peppermints, etc.), my favorite substitution was the cherry filled chips. They made the entire meringue cookie taste like a chocolate covered cherry, but with a crunchy and melty texture. I loved them! They were only available for maybe 2 Christmas seasons. I would buy them in bulk, they were small packages, maybe half the size of regular chip packages, and more expensive, but I didn’t care, to me they were totally worth it. I’m still unhappy that they are no longer available and it’s been maybe 4 or 5 years since I’ve seen them.

    I still haven’t found a good substitute for those chips. If I could find cherry flavored chip, maybe mixing them with the chocolate chips might work, but I haven’t been able to find cherry chips either. **sigh** I’m going to have to start experimenting with flavorings and see if I can get the balances right, which is not my favorite thing.

    There are other products like dove’s fragrance free deodorant that I miss, but none more than those delectables chips. I still check every Christmas, just in case they start making them again. Hope springs eternal, I guess.

    • And I totally for get this yesterday, but Pace had a garlic lime verde that went perfectly with my homemade pork fajitas. Regular salsa verde just doesn’t do the trick.

      And seasonal thing, peppermint ice cream is only (occasionally) available at Christmas, and I always crave it in the dog days of July and August. This year I bought an ice cream maker to make my own. First batch was ok but I’m continuing to experiment to find the perfect one. I also plan on making lemon and cheesecake ice cream flavors because the cheesecake ice cream in the stores always have chunks of graham crackers which I don’t like.

      • Peppermint ice cream is my favorite flavor and only one company in my area produces it around Christmas, Nov to Jan at the latest. I got hooked on it in college where once a year as a special treat, one piece per person, the college kitchen would make peppermint fudge pie; dark chocolate cookie crust, fudge layer, peppermint ice cream, whipped cream. Soo amazing!

  82. I have lived in Switzerland for about 31 years. When I first came here you couldn’t really get anything but a few (very expensive) items in one or two specialty stores. In the last 15 years or so we can get more and more products and thanks to internet and on-line stores we can purchase most everything we “lust” after. One of the ice-creams I miss the most from here was something like an Orangesicle (vanilla ice-cream on the inside and an orange popsicle kind of thing on the outside). These have been discontinued for about 5 or 6 years and they were my favorite.

    The Viennetta Ice Cream cake you can get here in Switzerland!

    • Pretty sure the Baskin Robbins near me still has it. Polar pizza? My son used to ask for it for his birthday.

  85. Discontinued and reformulated items are one of my least favorite things in the world. Yes, yes, most stuff is replaceable with maybe a bit of railing at the Universe and bemoaning my fate. Quality OTC products I use for medical conditions? Not so much. In the last three years, I lost the only pain/massage lotion that actually worked (Tei Fu, now reformulated and useless), the only energy booster that adequately combatted autoimmune fatigue & settled my ADHD down to a place where I could focus (Muse, by Toniq), and my favorite Shiseido Senka sunscreen from Japan.

    Of those, no remotely adequate sub for the pain lotion has shown up, I’ve partly replicated the energy pills by buying some of the ingredients individually, and rediscovered how much I loathe Western sunscreens.

    Sigh.

    Also, why does no one make root beer popsicles anymore?

    • YES!! Root beer popsicles! They got me through the hot days with cool, frosty loveliness. I look everywhere. Twenty million brands and they are all the same fruit flavors. Don’t want fruit. Want root beer.

  86. Like 20years ago, in Argentina we could get products like Betty Crocker toppings, cake mix, etc. I really loved the cookie Mix, but we don’t get products like that anymore. In order to get some i need To go to Chile… But… Pandemic (Yes i would Cross to another country for good cookies)
    Thanks thanks for Inkeeper Chronicles! And thanks for making it CovidFree ????

  87. I have really happy memories from when I was a little of eating a bright green and purple icecream at Baskin-Robbins that had chocolate covered pop rocks in it. They don’t sell it anymore and I’d do just about anything to have it again.

  88. Trader Joe’s discontinued their orange marmalade this spring. It was zingy and not too sweet. I am sad.

    Several years ago Pine Sol stopped making Pine Sol with pine oil. Now it stinks. For a while Publix had a generic pine oil cleaner, but that’s gone too.

    • I’m so sad about that marmalade. It was amazing, I haven’t found a good bitter orange marmalade substitute yet….

    • I hate the smell of Pine Sol now! It doesn’t smell remotely like pine. I use King’s concentrated pine oil cleaner now as it’s the closest I’ve been able to find.

    • No!!! I have had the same bottle of Pine Sol for 3? years. Husband doesn’t like it but I do so I just use a bit now and then but its getting very low and no no no I cannot use fakey Pine Sol darn it!

  89. Unfrosted Blueberry Pop Tarts
    With the frosting they are just too sweet.
    But of course if I had one now, it wouldn’t taste the same as my childhood

    We have liptons onion soup, could always ship you some

    • Have you tried Penzey’s Bangkok Blend? My cousin had the same complaint and I sent it to her and she said it was a decent substitute.

      • Thanks! I’ll try it.
        Also missing New Balance 747 shoes and BWC has reformulated their aromatherapy shampoo and it’s not nearly as good.

  91. Congrats on reaching 25 years. You two have clearly put in the work. Campbell’s Scotch Broth soup and Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey ice cream. Sob.

    • Just checked the Ben&Jerrys website and they still list Chunky Monkey. (Husband’s favorite so you scared me!). Hope you can find it near you!!

  92. It’s not food but my favorite sports bra was discontinued and ‘replaced’ with one that cost $20 more. It was already $50… $70 is highway robbery.

    • Don’t get me started on bras. I try to stock up when I find one I actually like, but it’s a lotta money up front. I am some sort of weird half size that is between two uncommon sizes, so it’s terrible finding even one that I like.

  93. Banana Boats. How I miss them. They were these little Hostess cakes back in the ‘70s. The cake was a banana bread cake, with a banana whipped cream frosting on top, with little banana crumbs on top. So yummy. No replacements.

  94. I have moved often, Canada, the US and Costa Rica, so I become used to finding something I love in one place and never seeing it again. There was a coffee flavored candy bar popular in Canada but they don’t see it elsewhere. But in Vancouver, a very diverse city, I discovered both Ginger and Green Tea ice cream in the Asian groceries. I have occasionally found a green tea mochi in Trader Joes {though there is no TJ in Costa Rica} but I would likely gibber with excitement if I found Ginger.

    • Coffee Crisp?? SO GOOD. After going gluten free (Celiac Disease) I can’t have them anymore, but man, they were delicious.

    • I absolutely loooove Coffee Crisp, it’s my favourite candy bar and the new Double Double version is amazing!

  95. Oh my goodness curly hair products!! Every time I find one that I like that is affordable, they discontinue it! Clearly I’m not the only person with curly hair! And products are so expensive just to try! I feel you!

  96. My husband loved Coke Life, because it was diet soda without that diet taste. We had a rough time finding it after moving away from Texas, and then it got discontinued by Coke during the pandemic.

  97. I miss butter rum life savers, Pearson’s nut rolls, flavored coffee syrups such as hazelnut, Campbells Chunky soup stroganoff flavor, and butter brickle ice cream.

    • YES to Butter Rum Life Savers! I miss them so much. Found them in a random little shop in Burbank, CA and bought all the rolls left in a case (like 5 left? 8? I wish there had been more). I think the cashier thought I was nuts. Pretty sure that case had to be expired, but I didn’t care!

  98. Me again. Just remembered, here in Ecuador where I live, you can’t get Friskies cat treats, which are the only ones one of my two Canadian cats will eat. So I order them online and have a mule carry them in for me. Expensive (my cats’ expenses are equal to my own food). But hey. Our cats, am I right?

  99. Apparently when Lucille Ball died she had a garage filled with her signature red henna. Years earlier the word had gone out that her colour was discontinued, so everyone ransacked their local shops and sent her everything they could find.

    I learned about Schweppes Bitter Lemon overseas, loved it and it’s very rare here in Canada. Also miss the Cross&Blackwell Boston brown bread in a can.

    And Pear’s soap! They still make it, but about 10 years ago it went from abt 5 ingredients to abt 15, mostly chemical.

    Vermontcountrystore.com has a fun section called Brands from the past. Tangee lipstick anyone?

    • I remember that lipstick! They also have Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific shampoo and Lemon Up shampoo, but the reviews say they aren’t the same scents as the original. Sigh, sometimes when they redo products they are just a poor imitation.

  100. Mellow Yellow zero can’t buy it anywhere around me anymore. Oh yes I tried mellow yellow and funyums can’t imagine where I got that from. Sneakers why do they need to change them every year when you find a comfortable pair?
    Congratulations on 25 years that’s a real accomplishment.

  101. It’s not just food. A few years back I found the absolutely perfect walking shoe with just a bit of a rocking heel. Heavenly! When I went back to get a replacement pair–yup, discontinued. And now, the whole entire store has vanished into on-line purgatory. Moral of the story: I found a pair of sandals that I loved so I bought 6 pair in different colors–take THAT shoe store!

  102. I loved Vianetta. The old Sunkist fruit snacks. A lot of Keebler chips. The pizza ones especially. There was a candle outlet by my grandmother in Leesburg. I would go every time I visited and get enough to last six months. They closed just before I. Is it’s a few years ago and I think I actually cried tears of rage. My grandmother never actually lights her candles so she patted my arm and tried to understand. And yes. I love a lot of the geeky tees at shows and I always have to ask about women’s sizing and if it’s junior or a true woman’s size. They unhelpfully point to the unisex tees that immediately make me look like I have no neck and a twenty pound weight gain in my middle. Blech. The one company I could always count on was Off World Designs. And covid killed them. They are clearancing out their designs. Blergh.

    Just as an FYI, my mom and I got covid after vaccination. I was very, very sick, it was the main strain, not delta. For us, the vaccine helped us fight covid, not prevent it. I’m very grateful, because I likely would have died without it. I have asthma, and an immune disorder. I hope everyone stays safe however they can.

    • Glad you were vaccinated in time for it to save you life, I hope you are back to well-for-you now 🙂

  103. My tableware pattern is gone, can’t replace missing spoons.
    Seven Seas Italian Dressing.
    Macy’s is gone from here. Like you, I need to try these things on!
    Our Yankee Candle is gone.
    Can’t find Swiss Miss Sensible Sweet in a canister anymore, only packets.
    Sam’s Club is one of the ones that will have something you like then it vanishes.
    Kraft Sweet and Sour sauce.
    On and on..

  104. I’m still mad that Yogi discontinued its Chai Black variety. But my biggest frustration is that Stella McCartney discontinued my favorite perfume Peony in Two. They actually rereleased it a few years ago (I was so happy!!!) and they discontinued it again. ????

  105. You need to come to England, we still have Vienette ice cream here, and it is lovely specially the wafer thin chocolate ????????

  106. We stil have vianetta ice cream here in the UK….. The only solution would be to do a signing here and I will bring you vianetta!

  107. There are several items the loss of which I was recently bemoaning. But when I try to think of them now,,,, eh.

    Here is my big Yankee Candle issue:
    I remember when you used to be able to buy candles, JUST candles, at Yankee Candle. Not only votives but a variety of pillars and 3 wicks, etc. And you could then use use your own holder, of which I have many. No more. You could often find some at Pier One – closed. I’ve found a few at Michaels, World Market and Target. And I have no place to store and no need/desire to repurpose empty glass candle jars. I know a few people with home candle making businesses but I also know the containers and decor are where they make their money. Not with the wax. So????????‍♀️

    Happy Anniversary!!

  108. Viennetta Ice Cream cake! I used to love that.

    I’m still bitter over the fact that Cacique discontinued my favorite bra. I’m a G/H cup and it was the only one that fit . I would buy them in batches like clockwork at every biannual sale. (I’m brutally hard on bras.) You’d think that they would notice and maybe email me and say “You buy this a lot. We’re about to discontinue it. Want to stock up?” I would have bought two dozen, I swear.

    That said, Levi discontinued my fave jeans a few years ago, which caused me to try different styles and the one I found eventually actually fits better.

  109. My husband is not allowed to buy me books by my favorite authors for Christmas, because TWICE the book he’s bought me has been the last that author ever wrote. ????????????

  110. Carbonated Snapple drinks and Clearly Canadian. They brought back Clearly Canadian recently; I was so excited! I bought one of my favorite Black Cherry, despite the exorbitant cost ($3.00 at the grocery store!), and decided to save it for a reward. Goal achieved a few days later, I reached for a fancy glass (everything tastes better in a fancy glass), poured in the nostalgia, and tasted…cough syrup. Ugh. I couldn’t finish it.

  111. Happy Anniversary!

    My brother eats 3 canned foods. One was Chef Boyardee Chili Mac. They discontinued it and we haven’t found a replacement yet. He’s not ready (and may never be ready) to try something else because it would never taste the same and he wants the same.

    My mom misses Sara Lee Banana Cake, Limba bread from the bakery, Campbell’s frozen Shrimp Soup, Lipton’s dry Pea Soup.

    I miss Paul Newman’s Southwestern Salad Dressing. We’ve also had outlet stores close in the last few years. Harry & David, Mikasa, etc. We miss them!

  112. Heinz Toast Toppers
    Kellogg’s Start
    Shandy Bass

    RIP

    No replacements, these were the pinnacle of late night food 🙁

  113. So much suckage. Was looking forward to movies in the theater, now looking for a bigger tv to stream them at home. Missing dine in, which only came back in about half our restaurants, but with Delta, we’re back to drive thru anyway. Chick Fil A did away with curbside pickup a few weeks ago, now I want it back!

    And non-covid, I want Angel Soft 3 ply toilet paper and vanilla fudge Poptarts back. And Walmart’s thin plus size jeggings.

    On the plus side, all of our family still has jobs, so I can’t complain too much.

    • I was so looking forward to seeing Suicide Squad in a theater.

      I have my 2020 Hamilton tickets reupped for this September – watcha wanna bet???

      Now I REALLY want Stroganoff Noodles and Vienetta ice cream..at 3 am.

  114. Before I developed my milk allergy the local Albertson’s supermarket carried a store brand chocolate peanutbutter flavored ice cream which was great. Chocolate ice cream with ribbons of peanut butter. No more Albertson’s no more ice cream.

    Now that I have a milk allergy I used Carnation Almond milk for cooking, for sauces and mashed potatoes ect. Discontinued or maybe I’ll get lucky and just out of stock. I looked on the Carnation website and they do sell a vegan version of evaporated or condensed milk but only outside the US . I miss fudge. Happy Anniversary!

    • i have bought coconut condensed milk and successfully used it to make brigadeiro- flan is our next experiment. maybe that would work for you?

  115. The discontinued product I miss the most: Nabisco HeyDay Logs. They were peanuts, caramel and chocolate yumminess. They’ve been gone for almost 20 years. Some people have pointed at recipes to make them but I haven’t tried any of the recipes.

    I’m a large woman myself. I wear 1x-2x now. I had gastric bypass surgery 8 years ago and went from 353 lbs to 213 lbs. I use Roaman’s and Lane Bryant for my clothes. My t-shirts I buy from charities (diabetes fundraisers, pet shelter fundraisers, etc) and I usually get a 2x so that it’s roomy enough.

  116. Happy Anniversary!!

    When I grew up, there was a dessert called the Arctic Roll. It’s a Swiss Roll that’s wrapped around ice cream that was my absolute favorite. There was a tiniest bit of raspberry jam that lined the Swiss roll then in the center vanilla ice cream that tasted in my opinion a bit mango-ey. It disappeared one day, no notice no nothing when I was in my teens.

  117. They have stopped selling these Townhouse Parmesan and Basil Pita Chips I loved to snack on at work. At first I was certain Walmart was out to thwart me and then I stopped being able to find them on Amazon too. It was a sad day.

  118. I moved from Southern Arizona to North Florida a decade ago. All the Mexican cuisine out here is tinged with Cuban and don’t taste right. So when I finally found a frozen version od green corn tamales, I was so excited. (Tamale making takes more time than I have, and I still can’t get what I need to make green corn tamales out here).

    I was livid when they discontinued the damn things about 4 years ago. I’m still mad. ????

    Also, every time they discontinue a pair of shoes I like, I have to try and find another pair. In case it takes a while to find a replacement. ????

    • I used to yearly buy the same shoes every year from this one company. I was glad that they kept the exact style I bought until I stopped working out of the home. I have found that SAS has had my sandal style for over thirty years and I buy a pair yearly.

  119. Ok, so it was really short and a special edition and blah blah blah, but Chicken and Waffle Honey Bunches of Oats. I wish it would come back!
    Also, if Torrid would quit with ditching normal t-shirt bras in favor of braletts (excuse me, the evil jello jigglers need containment, not more freedom) and push-ups (i do not wish to suffocate in boobage, thanks), I would be very happy.

  120. Aveeno discontinued a tinted moisturizer with SPF 30 for fair skin and it crushed me. I could it as the only thing I needed to put on my face and I have not found anything comparable. Aveeno still makes it it darker colors, and I question how many people with darker skin tones are using a minimum of SPF 30 for everyday use compared to the those with very fair skin.

  121. Sara Lee used to make a specific coffee cake that I was never able to find out if they discontinued it or the grocery stores local to where I lived stopped carrying it. But since I have moved several times and still am not seeing it, I suspect they have discontinued it.

    • Is it this one? I love this, reminds me of grandmother. No sightings in Texas, but still found in St. Louis.

      • That was my grandmothers favorite. The old bat* was missing quite a few teeth and would suck the icing off of the pecans.
        *She disliked me intensely and in my teens I finally gave up on trying to like her.

  122. For me it was a deodorant with a subtle mint & cucumber fragrance. Discontinued. All the other stinky fragrances you smell from several feet away are still available. Meh.
    Also, maybe some 20 years ago, vanilla and berry flavoured ice cream with whipped cream topping in a cone and the cone was twice as long as normal cones. Gone 🙁

    • Re: deodorant fragrances; I would LOVE to find a woman’s deodorant that doesn’t smell like a baby or a flower shop. I have always preferred musky or spicy scents over florals, but no such luck….

      • Try Native! Expensive, but they have a wide variety of smells and the scents are unisex, so you can order musk or spice scents to your heart’s content. 🙂 I find one container lasts me a long time, and it’s natural and works, so I think the cost is worth it. I have Key Lime and Coconut Vanilla and love smelling like dessert, personally. 😉

        • Ditto on trying Native deodorant. I have Paradise Flower with Amber. It’s a warm, slightly musky scent that isn’t too heavy. Just right.

      • Try some of the men’s deodorant for a musky or spicy scent. The only difference between men’s and women’s brands are the scents they come int – the active ingredients are usually the same.

  123. Vienneta is supposedly coming back but I haven’t found it in stores yet.

    Planters Cheese Balls came back but they don’t taste the same to me.

    I am very sad Skin Food has discontinued their hair products. They closed their retail stores and are online only. So are Godiva and Crabtree & Evelyn.

    I hope your family stays healthy and sane. I’ve started pruning the garden as a de-stress exercise.

  124. Positive vibes for speedy recovery of Kid 1’s boyfriend. Dang Delta variant, double dang Covid.

    Very first time I ventured into grownup world, was to buy my favourite cosmetic item that I was almost out of, a luxury purchase of a lovely deep red, velvety Dior lipstick. Department store was unable to provide a replacement. “That shade was discontinued, perhaps this other one or would you consider a different brand?” said helpful counter clerk. Six months, that was the the lifespan of a lipstick. This was decades ago and I know now the turnover time is much swifter. I’ve resigned myself to forever searching for replacement of items, be it food or other items.

  125. Happy Anniversary!!

    All American chocolate cake from Costco. I even signed an online petition to get it back. I heard that they have little mini cakes now that goes by the same name so I’ll have to try it!!

  128. Happy Anniversary! This topic has triggered the masses of upset people everywhere. Food wise, I miss Cherry Nut Ice cream. I’m one of those people that doesn’t want chocolate in my fruit ice cream and I’ve not found a replacement. But what drives me nuts is finding the prefect hair product and they discontinue after loving it for years.

  129. I was so sad when they discontinued the Benevolent Bacon sandwich at ALL the stores in my town. It was the BEST vegetarian bacon ever!!

    Also, Happy Anniversary!! My husband and I just celebrated our 25th the same way (eating in and watching something cool). May you have many more!!!

  130. McCormick used to make a seasoning packet for slow cooker Italian chicken
    It was awesome. Discontinued. Haven’t figured out a quick sub.

    • Try hidden valley ranch mix with 2-3 tbsp chili powder, 2 cloves garlic, a cup of generic Italian dressing (we use Ken’s classic Italian) and half a cup water. My hubs and kids LOVE that crockpot Italian chicken (it’s literally in right now!)

  131. I have honey coloured hair – a kind of dark blonde with a lot of gold and red tones in it – but in the summer it goes almost white on the top and around my face. Which is great, natural highlights and all, but then when winter comes I end up with these dark blonde ‘roots’ that suddenly make it look like I maybe didn’t wash my hair. And I hate that. I used to spend money every year getting highlights every other month from November through to April, just so that I wouldn’t look like I didn’t bother to shower. But I hated it: the time, the expense, the stupidity of the whole process, especially when the hair stylist would decide to ‘change up’ the colour and I’d have to fix it. Eugh. Then I found this John Frieda ‘Go Blonder’ product that you could shampoo in during your shower – you left it just on the roots for five or ten minutes and it blended the darker blonde into a lighter tone that I could live with. For two years, I did not have to visit a hair stylist except to get the ends chopped off twice a year. I would just use the ‘Go Blonder’ stuff every six weeks until summer came again and was, literally, golden. And then they discontinued it. They didn’t even *announce* they were discontinuing it, so by the time I realised what was happening it was gone everywhere and the few remaining ones were selling on eBay for silly money. I’ve decided I will just wear my hair in a braid all winter long. I can’t go back to sitting in foils for all that time, even if I can afford it now as a poor PhD student. Maybe no one will notice. *Sigh*

  132. Red Pelican Belgian style hot mustard, it’s a Detroit thing, large Belgian population. The original family sold the recipe, the company who bought it decided not to make it, the family bought it back and started making mustard again. But it was several years without good mustard.

    DL Jardines fajita marinade. Have no idea how authentic, but I really liked the flavor. And, duh, finally looked online, and it can be ordered! Yay!

  133. Nestea lemon instant tea mix. My dad used to make it by the pitcherful, especially during the summer (lawn-mowing days). Now it’s discontinued. I’ve tried to pick up with Lipton lemon iced tea, and the Arnold Palmer half-and-half (tea/lemonade) lite version. I guess anything is probably better than Diet Coke by the truckload!

    • I drink iced black tea (no lemon, no sugar) several times a day year round. Nestle used to make a powder – no more. And I think it made the house brand version as well since that disappeared around the same time several years ago. The grocery store jugs are expensive compared with tea bags so I make tea and chill it almost daily and mourn my powder.

  134. Great Value extra creamy coffee creamer, original Dentyne cinnamon gum, L’Oreal One Sweep eyeshadow….

  135. Nothing can compare to the old A&W Root Beer that they used to make fresh, on-site at the old A&W drive-ins (like Sonic, but before Sonic, I think). They used to serve them in a glass mug out of the freezer. It would cause it to frost over with a layer of root beer ice floating on top. I haven’t had it since I was a kid, and that was A LONG time ago. They say the A&W places are making it fresh on-site again. I have not found this elusive treat myself, though.

    • Yessss. My oldest brother used to ride to the A&W root beer stand, with me sitting on his bicycle handlebars. I was young enough to get a free baby mug of frosty root beer. He would hover over me, afraid I’d drop the mug, which was glass. I’ve been a fan of A&W ever since because of the added vanilla. But lately the A&W root beer containers don’t say that they include vanilla. Such a bummer.

  136. Dear Ilona,

    Happy 25th Anniversary to you and Gordon!!!

    I 100% relate to the pain of discontinued products and good stores for plus-sized women.

    I loved Viennetta Ice Cream Cake. I loved the Taco Flavored Doritos from the late ‘70’s (not the new original taco flavor – they’re lying).

    I can sadly relate to the pandemic related issues. New Yorkers went through that last Spring and many surviving businesses are still struggling. Supply chain issues seem never ending. I too dislike clothes shopping on line for plus-sized clothing.

    Thank heavens we have a large percentage of vaccinated people here. It’s the only thing keeping us heading forward (slowly but surely) on the road to economic recovery.

    It would be interesting to know how many people we know wouldn’t exist today if their ancestors hadn’t gotten vaccines for horrible illnesses like small pox and measles. I’m grateful my ancestors were brave enough, just as I’m in awe of those who survived before vaccines.

  137. Treets are not made anymore. Caramel was my favourite. Caramel M&Ms are impossible to find in the UK or Ireland. It has to be chewy caramel. It’s a good thing as I have gone vegan.

    Sorry, there is Vienetta galore and I agree it was so good to eat. I make my own soft serve in a high speed blender. Solo fruit or selection of fruits with a frozen banana (or ice) and a dash of plant milk. Can use a date or two for sweetness depending on the fruit.

  138. Ah yes, I know the anguish of favorite places going out of business due to the pandemic. My favorite kitchen gadgets/gourmet goodies store fell victim. I was very, very sad over it (I used to spend tons of time just browsing there!) until I remembered something: I never even knew about that store until my prior ‘Happy Place’ (also a kitchen gadgets/goodies store) closed and I was forced to find a new one. I don’t like change, so I know how you feel, but hang in there. I’m sending you a big virtual hug, as well as get well wishes for your daughter’s boyfriend.????

  139. The Body Shop got rid of my cocoa body butter a few years ago and I’ve been bitter about it ever since. Siiiigh. I use the coconut now, but it’s just not the same.

  140. Sara-Lee used to make 10”x12” cakes, in the refrigerator section, and my absolute favorite was chocolate cake with white frosting. They came in an aluminum tin with a fold-in edge around a cardboard top. They were so delicious, moist and chocolatey. I miss those little cakes. ????

  141. They have recently brought back Viennetta here in the U.S. it tastes just the same as before. I’m sorry you’re struggling. I think we are all struggling. I’m glad I have your blog and many books for entertainment. They keep me semi sane. Good days and bad days. Much love to you and yours.

  142. I think Viennetta is back in the states as well! Instacart says I can get it delivered in Brooklyn, and I remember as a kid when they relaunched it my
    mom was SO excited, and we used to get it for our birthdays.

  143. Hair products! I have like uberfine Baby hair and my scalp is really sensitive also and years back Redskin had a marvelous shampoo and conditioner, that I loved!! The company “improved” it and it was terrible! So that’s just among the MANY, MANY, MANY AND MANY items that I mourn… ????????

  144. My go-to local restaurant had an amazing taco pizza. It was fancy. It had a crème fraîche drizzle and some zing. It was so good. They took it off the menu. There are tons of stores that actually closed with Covid, but I miss that pizza.
    The owners also owned another restaurant that didn’t make it. I had a big gift card we never used. So use your gift cards quickly I guess.

  145. Happy Anniversary. I want the original Dairy Queen to return with juicy hamburgers and their custard ice cream Orange Float served with real orange juice and not orange flavored soda pop.

  146. My favorite food as a kid was Ding Dongs. The individually wrapped foil shapes was a cause for magical moments! I even wrote an exercise paper on Ding Dongs. You know the kind that has huge lines with dashes and a space for drawing on top where I completed my tour de force: “I love Ding Dongs. I eat Ding Dongs.” with an illustration of something eating a vaguely ding-dong shaped item being eaten by a stick figure.

    At one point Ding Dongs were discontinued. Then they were brought back. Gone were the individually wrapped foil pieces of magic. The new incarnations were wrapped in plastic! Not the same at all!!

    A few years ago I tried MOD Pizza and they have CUSTOM MADE DING DONGS!! Wrapped in FOIL!! I’ve never looked back. The ding dong is dead. Long live the ding dong!!! ALL HAIL THE GLORIOUS DING DONG!!!

  147. This is from my childhood but I really wish they’d come back out with the Bar None candy bar. I don’t care for chocolate candy bars that much but the Bar None was amazing.

  148. Happy Anniversary!! We passed 25 last year in the time of lockdown so we did nothing fun.

    I have just chalked it up to getting older. I find something I like, I buy it and keep buying it until one day it is no longer there. Makeup is a big one for me. I do not wear a lot of it but what I do wear I like. I used to buy all Lancome but over the last couple of years, they have discontinued EVERYTHING I bought. I hate trying to find replacements. I feel like I am 14 again and have a drawer full of makeup that I do not use.

  149. I have a lot of food sensitivities and allergies, so it’s had to find things I can eat that I like. Around 6 months ago we were looking to stock up our supply of Red River cereal. Couldn’t find it anywhere. I checked online, it has been discontinued. ???? Bulk Barn has their own version called 7 grain, but it says may contain nuts. I am allergic to nuts.

    • My husband is allergic to peanuts (but not soy nuts) and tree nuts (except almonds). Hazelnut hidden in chocolate is emergency room time! Believe me, I know exactly what you’re going through! And now, with safety messages so numerous (and companies CYA) you never know when something says MAY contain nuts whether it actually does or not! My husband finally realized the reason he sometimes had troubles with M&Ms was they made peanut M&Ms in the same facility as the plain, and sometimes some of the peanut dust got into the chocolate. Now he just avoids them all because it’s not worth the risk.

    • Yes, my sister and I miss Red River cereal. The Bob’s Red Mill company sells some multi-grain mixes for cooked cereal that are similar.

  150. Trader Joe’s Udon noodles. We loved them for making soup and lo mein, then they disappeared. This isn’t uncommon with TJ’s: they lose the contract with a vendor, they decide the product isn’t selling enough, or just decide it’s been offered long enough.

    First world problems, I know. 🙂

    Hope you have a happy anniversary, and everyone’s vaccinated/better soon!

    • We have learned with Trader Joe’s that if we really like something, we may want to stock up.

  151. Hostess cupcakes. Chocolate, but especially the Orange. And Twinkies. Yes, they’re still made, but the company went bankrupt, I think. There is a new owner. The recipes have changed. Drastically. Not only are they smaller, but the cream filling tastes like whipped chemicals. Yuck. And don’t get me started on the cherry pies. Way, way smaller. Like a quarter of the original size. The crust is also very different. Just the thought has me raging. ????

  152. Too often do I fall for something and less than a year later it gets discontinued. When I gush to my mother about some new product or food, she “jokes” that I should buy it in bulk and store it because it’ll be discontinued. This has happened with nail polish, an ice cream flavor, body washes, makeup, coffee creamer, and perfumes. Insignificant in the grand scheme of things but they truly do feel like constantly repeated betrayals.

  153. Oh, yes, Vienetta is amazing! Still have it in Germany, so if you ever come visit… 🙂

    As a kid I used to love these cake-in-a-glass-thingies, I think they were by Bahlsen. They were pretty much the only ready made cake that tasted as good as homemade (some flavors, at least). My favorite was the marzipan flavor. I still get sad whenever I think of them and they were discontinued 15-20 years ago.

  154. I hope everyone gets through the pandemic safely. On a happier note- Schwan’s ( a delivery service) has chocolate mint drumsticks at 12 for 12 dollars. A friend of mine gave me one and it was awesomely good!

  156. I used to love Burt’s Bees bay rum soap. Discontinued. Can’t even find good bay rum aftershave. Sigh.

  157. I can’t believe they stopped making Bennetts Chili Sauce. I loved it! It made the best sloppy Joe’s. Viennetta classic is available in Michigan now. Who knows for how long though?

  158. Green Tea Ginger Ale..Canada Dry…I loved that stuff I have been unable to find it in the Carolinas

    Congrats on the Anniversary!

  159. Oh, man, I remember how sad I was when our Maurice’s went under. The only other store with anything in plus sizes here is our Belk, and whoever shops for the plus-size section buys exclusively for very elderly women who like sequins, gold lame, polyester, and blouses with attached plastic necklaces. There’s a Torrid about an hour away that I go to when I’m desperate, because every time I mail-order from anywhere there’s a 50/50 chance I won’t get around to returning “meh” stuff because of the hassle.

    I did hear somewhere recently that Viennetta is making a comeback… I keep meaning to look but so seldom browse anymore (thanks, Covid, argh) that I haven’t. Hmmm.

    Sending virtual hugs and supportive thoughts your way!

  160. Moving to Austria from the US was a grocery shock. I’m told Germany (at least the part of Germany that was West Germany) has better grocery stores, but Austria…

    One of my German teachers spoke of visiting the US, going to a grocery store and being STUNNED that there was almost *an entire aisle* of pasta sauce. “Who needs that many different pasta sauces?” he asked me.

    Who DOESN’T? I think. There are three brands of pasta sauce. Felix (Austrian brand), Barilla (European brand), and the store brand. At the fancy gourmet groceries there might be one or two others, but at one of the regular grocery stores, the ones every few blocks? That’s it. And those brands all together have 5 flavors — Bolognese, Neopolitana, Arrabiata, Basil, and Pesto.

    I’m using pasta sauce as an example, but it’s representative. I have to go to one of the huge one-per-district grocery stores for ground coriander seed or cilantro*. All sausage is hard sausage. Forget anything like “hot Italian” or “Mexican chorizo” (Spanish chorizo is hard). For deli, either it’s a pork product or it’s absolutely crap — the deli turkey, chicken, and (mostly) roast beef lives down to the lunch Ilona described** in another post (IOW, the US grocery deli turkey of *cough* years ago, or the non-Boar’s Head (I’m told there are other, comparable brands now) of today.

    So I make my own fresh sausage now. While I had a functional meat grinder***, I ground the lean and fat together myself (they sell both fresh pork fat in cubes and rendered pork fat in tubs), but since it broke, I’ve been just buying, seasoning, and freezing ground pork.

    I also now sometimes buy a turkey breast (or beef roast) and roast it, and cut it up for sandwiches, but not often, because it’s a lot for even two people, and my husband definitely does not eat his share, as his cultural acclimation toward sandwich meat is hard sausage.

    I also use my own seasoning now for burgers instead of starting with Lipton Onion Soup mix. And although my beloved teases me by telling me his mother used to make her own mayo (and I do know it’s easy enough in the food processor), I refused to give in on mayonnaise and order Hellmann’s from Amazon (the mayo here is at the Miracle Whip end of the spectrum, which is great for creamy green-salad dressings, but I am a Hellmann’s girl for sandwiches and tuna/chicken salad).

    KH: my mother made her own mayonnaise. You could do that.
    Me: I don’t know where to find the Polysorbate 80 or the Xantham Gum.

    • *yes, I know these are the same plant, but current US convention uses coriander for the seeds and cilantro for the leaves.

      **Actually, the turkey she described sounds good by comparison to what’s here.

      ***after a couple of unwise investments into kitchen gadgets I never used, I started buying super cheap versions, and if I used them, I would upgrade. So I bought a knock-off Kitchenaid stand mixer that came with all of the attachments. I used the meat grinder until I blew the motor, and none of the other pieces, even the mixing bowl, since I had those covered between the food processor, stand mixer, and hand mixer. So I will, at some point, invest in a good meat grinder. After the other things on the list are bought, like the couch for the still-full-of-packed-boxes-because-we-don’t-have-furniture-yet den.

  161. In the 90s, they made these tiny chocolate cookies with fudge chocolate centers. They were delicious and very addictive. Probably good that they were discontinued.

  163. Trader Joes. Costco. Bath and Bodyworks. These are all stores that have discontinued multiple things that I have loved. But I mourned the losses and moved on.

    The biggest betrayal was when Starbucks stopped serving dark cherry mochas in 2009. The regular chocolate syrup is too sugary and milky. The regular cherry syrup is too sweet. It’s been 10 years, and I still can’t get over it.

  164. I recognize the feeling of betrayal. My favorite tea, the best bagged tea in the world got discontinued. I spent 6 months finding an ”acceptable” replacement that promply got discontinued. ????

  165. I have Celiac Disease, so I must eat gluten free. I once found gluten free ice cream sandwiches, which were something I super missed. After only a couple blissful months of binging, they were gone. This happens a lot with gf replacements for junk food.

    • YES! Also gluten free and so sad I can’t find the gf ice cream sandwiches any more either. And the delicious strawberry shortcake I bought for years is now gone from Ralphs/Kroger (company must have folded under the pandemic I think) and their chocolate cream cake too. Sigh.

  166. So many: Coffee Cream Peek Freen cookies, Ihle’s Paste diaper rash cream, Dove deodorant for sensitive skin, Baby’s Own soap, Ozonal ointment, President’s Choice Memories of Kobe Tamarind Garlic Sauce. I could go on and on. The only thing I’ve found better is Live Clean deodorant.

  167. Dromedary Date Nut Bread in a Can. Mom and I used to have this with cream cheese. I’ve read that bread in a can is making a comeback but I haven’t seen this kind.

  168. Decent pockets, that things don’t fall out of, in pants and shorts. Also, low-rise pants fit me better than any other kind, due to scoliosis which makes my waist asymmetrical. High-waisted pants are fiendishly uncomfortable for me. The less said about bras, the better. I have learned to buy multiples of any daily clothing item that works well for me, because sooner or later it will go out of fashion and I won’t be able to find anything like it again for twenty years.

    • I hate jeans shopping. Once upon a time, I bought a pair of jeans, and the first time I wore them was a revelation. They fit perfectly, they made my butt look really good, they had useful pockets. When I got off work that day I went straight back to the store and bought five more pairs — 2 black, 2 the same standard jeans color as the first, 1 a lighter denim. That was 7 years ago, and I still have them and wear them. And with luck, it’ll be another decade before I have to go jeans shopping again.

      Tl;dr: I hear you.

  169. McCormick used to have a wonderful TexMex seasoning. I loved it. When it disappeared from all the grocery stores, I called McCormick to ask where I could buy it, I was offered Taco seasoning. After explaining that the flavor was very different (how could they not know that?), I was referred to a location to purchase it in restaurant supply size. The order kept me supplied for another 3 years. Who knew the bottles would be so big? I kept the last bottle and using the ingredients list I have continued, sort of, recreating the spice. Sometimes I get the ratios better than others but at least it’s close.

  171. Kraft American Chesse, it was the same stuff from their mac&chesse. It came in a blue tube (their parm comes in green). I loved it, could make chessey popcorn, add more cheesy goodness to the mac&chesse. Haven’t been able to find it since the mid 90s.

    • they did bring it back in a clear container currently, same size as parm. Not the same, just buy box and take out packet to use.

  172. Lipton used to make tea bags that were honey lemon. They were wonderful when I had a sore throat. I have one box left that I’m hoarding.

    Red Rose tea had a Streusel decaf tea that I loved before going to bed. That’s long gone.

    Decent fabric for making clothes is hard to find or very, very expensive. So many things gone.

    That said, I still have great friends, my family is doing well (and vaccinated) and I still have a job that is now permanently work from home. I also have a great fabric/yarn/embroidery small business 5 miles from my little home town.

    There are still many things to be thankful for.

  173. Nabisco Ideal Cookie Bars. Like the highest end Butterfinger you buy, and they say won’t ever make them again!!

    • Yes! I actually talked to nabisco venders for years. The older ones knew what I was talking about, I gave up when the younger vendors came along and didn’t know what I was talking about.
      They were the best.

  174. I think I will swim against the tide here. When something is discontinued, I often find that I like the thing that replaces it better than the original thing. Except for New Coke. But hey, they got rid of it and now I don’t drink soft drinks anyway. If I don’t like the replacement, I try to find another different favorite thing. When they stopped making my favorite pants, after my tantrum, I realized I don’t wear pants anymore anyway. So I bought these great sweatpants and leggings (which look stupid on me at my age, but they are so comfortable and there’s no one to see except hubby and he doesn’t care). Why do things go away? Because entropy rules. That’s the universe for you. You got to roll with it. Until entropy rolls you away.

  175. Pizza Burger, not any old Pizza Burger would do, only Schwan’s Pizza Burgers and they went and discontinued them……I was hoping to introduce them to my children but to my shock, time managed to remove that from my list of things to do…….I managed to find a box of pizza burgers at a Piggly Wiggly and bought it ……….Nope not even close to what Schwan’s once was~~

  176. Down here in Brazil, the only thing we have from Lipton is sweet lemon/peach tea. I read “Lipton soup fajitas”, instantly thought of a peach soup with fajitas on the side, and thought “Jesus C., why woman, why would you cook something like that?”. Then, I saw the soup box. My apologies for thinking so low of you.

  177. OMG I feel for you. I HATE when that happens to me. And it happens a lot. Monster Munch (my favorite potatoe chip thingies) – discontinued. YES Lemon – discontinued. A whole other bunch of sweets – discontinued never to be seen again. I have a thing for Fanta Limon (the spanish version – which obviously you only get in Spain) – which is my guilty pleasure whenever we are on vacation (but COVID…)
    The last thing that I really love has been a bath foam from The Salt House…I bought the last two remaining bottles for a ridiculus price and now only indulge on special occasions to make those bottles last.
    I don’t really need a supermarket with 30 brands of everything because if I like something it surely will not last. So at least with food stuff I try to make most things myself.

  178. International Delight coffee creamer Oreo flavor. And no, there IS no substitute that turned out better. Some distant second best, but I just have to live with it. Chocolate caramel is pretty good though, and Cocoa Pebbles flavor. I have considered just crumbling an Oreo cookie into my coffee, but haven’t had the nerve to try!

  179. I miss the local indoor playground. They weren’t doing great before the pandemic so I understand why they closed. It was just a great place to bring the kids to play when it was really hot or rainy.

  180. Ilona
    what really ticks me off is ….is the lack of,
    Maple Frango Ice Cream, the most heavenly creamy and delicious ice cream ever made anywhere!

    When I was a child , my Mother would take my brother and myself down town Seattle to the big Frederic and Nelson Department Store, and in their restaurant , up several floors had lovely crisp white linens, on the tables the plates looked to me as a child like heavy silver all misted with frost as they served this creamy , cold textured Maple Frango on a plate with a fork…The Maple Frango was very thick as it melted nearly like whipping cream, the real stuff ,it forked in flakes as it all had , when frozen, a flaky texture , so good …
    OMG , I am now 7O and I have looked for years , but its gone…
    The store was bought out my Chicago Marshal Fields, when I was in my late 20s and the Maple delight of my youth , was gone….talk about a betrayal…
    The only other food was a special Chocolate I ate for one year again as a child of 9 in Salzburg Austria.
    I was in Austria while my Mom took violin lesson from a-noted instructor of the day around 1959 / 1960
    My brother and I would wonder down the cobblestone streets when not in school,
    To a very tiney chocolate shop not dissimilar in size to a small Espresso stands in Washington everywhere these days. John and I would go in , and for two shillings, about 8 cents US, again this was 1959, we would get a marvelous creamy milk chocolate nut bar wrapped in waxed paper…freshly made still a little soft.
    When I returned to Salzburg 30 years later, I look and looked but the store was gone…
    So two of my tales of missed edible delights…
    Ps you can often find good plus size tees at Sierra Trading Post which is my fav place ….on line…check it out, easy returns….super prices…

  181. Oh, I only have one that I can think of, but it’s a recent one. One of my most favourite cereal’s was Just Right, from Kellogg, here in Canada (not sure how widespread it was) It was fairly healthy, and my Grandpa got me on it, and it really sucks that it was discontinued!

    Also, happy anniversary! Sorry Kid 1’s boyfriend is sick!

  182. My husband is notorious for picking favorite foods that will eventually become extinct, and it becomes my burden to find them. Diet Barqs Root beer was the first casualty from Covid and I can’t find any anywhere. He has (had) one everyday when he comes home from work, it makes him happy.

    • My sister says she has started seeing diet Barqs root beer again in cans, so maybe you will too soon!

  183. My local international market used to have these “Japanese” sesame cookies that I loved. They were like tiny puddles of sugar cone batter with sesame seeds sprinkled on top, like blueberries in a pancake… Crunchy and delicious, but small enough to avoid guilt, I miss them.

  184. For a while the Betty Crocker Rainbow Chip cake mix and frosting were discontinued, but they made a comeback (don’t come at me about funfetti they are not the same thing). And starbucks had this Teavana flavor called Youthberry that I liked. I’m not a big tea drinker or a fancy starbucks drink person, but I liked this when I was pregnant because it was not caffeinated and didn’t have a bunch of sugar, but had a light sweet fruity flavor. They stopped selling it. I tried buying the tea and making it myself but it’s not as good. I’ve also had a lot of make-up products I liked be discontinued, and that’s always disappointing right when you find the perfect shade.

  185. Happy Anniversary!

    I miss Campinos candy made with yogurt. It was discontinued in 2017, reappeared on Amazon but now seems gone forever. There is a similar looking candy called “Scripture Candy” but it doesn’t taste
    Anything like Campinos. I have 4 Campinos left. I also miss the restaurants that didn’t make it through COVID.

  186. For me it is not so much about discontinued products, but products I can’t easily get where I live. ???? as an Australian ????????living in Austria ???????? with family in the USA ???????? there are so many products that I find during visits that I would love to have regularly, however are just not logistically possible to have here and now. ???????? each visit results in odd hoarding purchases and creative suitcase packing ????

  187. I honestly don’t mean to upset you but we can still get Viennetta’s here in the UK – 4 different flavours! However, I to have a fondness for yellow rice, it was sold by only one supermarket here and they stopped selling it around 2005!!! I stock up when I am in the US and bring it home with me!!

  188. In Canada you can no longer get powered Koolaid. I use it as a weak acid dye with kids in 4H. No danger if the kids taste anything. And safe for demos with people when dying fleece/ wool as a presentation.

    I have friends bring it back to me from the US. Smuggling in Koolaid, I bet the border guards would laugh if they ever looked in the bags.

  189. Many years ago, when we were in our twenties, my sister turned me on to Postum. It was a powder that when added to water (hot usually) yielded a fantastic, slightly sweet toasted grain delight. It satisfied in so many ways and helped keep me from vacuously snacking away in the evenings. Sadly, Kraft foods discontinued it and I have missed it ever since. But this post prompted me to do an internet search and I discovered the recipe has been sold to another company and I can get it again! Hallelujah! I will no longer have to settle for Pero which is a poor substitute for the delight that is Postum! Thank you, thank you for the Postum resurrection discovery!

    • yes the Vermont Store carries the postum. I had to find it for my husband he was craving it when he decided to cut down on him coffee habit.

  190. Happy Anniversary!

    We’ve had “product discontinued” mini-crises so many times over the years, they just aren’t more than a simple “oh, crap” moment any more. But rather surprisingly, few Covid-related closings have affected us. Hair salons and favorite restaurants are still going; those restaurants that are nearby and do carry-out get a lot of our business. Clothes are all online purchases or Goodwill, but Goodwill has been going downhill for years. I work from home. So we are mostly OK.

    We have discovered Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream. It is the best ice cream ever, with no additives of any kind. We highly recommend Salted Caramel, as well as Darkest Chocolate.

  191. I’m sorry about your back. If you can find the masseuse/masseur who used to do your massage, they may still be working in the area, perhaps privately, and might even make house calls. The other thing is that an adjustable sit-to-stand desk. My daughter finds that hers really helps, and she even has a slow-walk treadmill to go with it, for when it’s in standing mode. I too am a plus-size woman, and I buy Supima cotton t-shirts in many styles and beautiful colors from L.L.Bean. Lovely soft fabric, good fit, keep their size and color well despite many washings. No snarky sayings on them, but they make me happy anyway. I have nothing to offer regarding discontinued foods, but I do understand your outrage. They discontinued Rye Crisp crackers, which I loved. Bah, bah, bah.

  192. I liked a pretty low tech pair of gloves named Morris Feel Glove. Wool with leather strip across palm and finger tips except for one finger tip that was covered in nylon with wool felt to allow for a better feel. They weren’t expensive or high tech but they just worked. Gone – a casualty of of consolidation or globalization – not sure which…

  193. My favorite Italian restaurant closed after 25 years. I cried, it was where we would go for my birthday, anniversary, our prewedding dinner with the family, I’m still sad.

  195. I miss the Dromedary Gingerbread mix that required only the addition of water.

    Most packaged mixes now require milk, eggs, shortening,…. By that point it’s easier to make things from scratch.

    I would take a can of dark cherries in water and put the cherries on the bottom of a pan and use the “water” from that can for the mix.

    Sigh.

  197. I used to love Aapri facial scrub, which I actually used on my upper arms. Yes, there are other apricot scrubs but none of them are gritty enough. Ikea disappoints me continually, and I have learned that if I see something there I like to buy it right then and there because they are sure to discontinue it.

    My neighbourhood used to be chockful of restaurants and shops and cafes the size of walk-in closets, and most of them have gone under. It’s a crying shame, but we simply had one too many lockdowns.

    On a happier note, free little libraries are flourishing here. It makes me so happy to be surrounded by other avid readers. Reading has always been one of my greatest pleasures, especially this past year and a half.

    • PS Speaking of Ikea, I miss their little princess cakes, which were lovely treats made of sponge cake, cream, and marzipan. So, so good. They were in the freezer section, so I’d always pick up a box or two every visit, so I’d always have a princess cake on hand. Sigh. I need to figure out how to make a keto version!

  198. Two things:
    1. Counterpain used to have this large size hot patch. For me it’s heavenly because it’s large enough to cover the area on my lower back that usually knotted and sore after long hours sitting ????
    2. Perfumes. It doesn’t matter what brand, whenever I have a favorite, you can bet that it would soon be discontinued ????

  199. There was an Asian salad dressing by Kraft I liked. Discontinued. Campbell soup had a deluxe line of soups that had an alfredo pasta flavor and an italian wedding soup flavor, that they discontinued (they discontinued the whole deluxe soup brand/imprint) mmm… so many things over the years, but these stuck out for me. A few things I only discovered right before they were discontinued. Vidal Sassoon shampoo, discontinued except if you had access to markets in certain Asian countries, then it came back, then it discontinued again. This Oreo brownie that was puffy and soft and delicious and only was distributed through this one restaurant that disappeared and I never found that Oreo brownie again, though other Oreo brownies/things appeared in super markets, none were THIS Oreo brownie. So light and fluffy and sweet!!!

  200. I can’t remember the brand but there used to be these shrimp egg rolls that were like the Totino’s pizza rolls and I would eat them nonstop when I was in high school many years ago. Also Jergens had this cherry almond body wash that was so rich and creamy that they discontinued about 30 years ago. Lastly, all of the stores around Houston quit carrying Kleenex anti-viral tissue. They are soft and extra thick, simply the best. I can still get them on line but I have to buy a case at a time. Do you know how long it takes a single woman to go through 68 boxes of Kleenex? Let’s just say I’m stocked up on Kleenex for this pandemic and the next two or three that roll around.

    Happy Anniversary and many more.

  201. Lancôme “Limelight” liquid eyeliner – it was the perfect yellow/green color to highlight the yellow/green in my eyes.

    And there was also a MAC lipstick I adored that was discontinued, but I can’t remember the name of the color…

  202. I remember that cake. It was my grandparents’ go-to dessert.

    Now I am sad.

    I miss my good shampoo. I miss Coke cans with the tab opening in its proper position. I miss being able to sit in a public chair and get a 5-min massage. I miss chocolate covered jelly beans. I miss Arby’s chicken cordon bleu. (Shush, I’m not fancy.) I miss being pleasantly surprised by a movie.

  204. There was a gluten-free noodle bowl for a short while where the noodles were hair thin, not the fat ones everyone makes, but as soon as I found it it disappeared.

    My husband misses when Girl Scouts sold thin mints candy, not cookies.

    Laura Scudder Green Onion dip mix. Ate it all through my childhood, can’t find it anymore. Found it on line a few years ago, but it was over $7 for a little dried packet and I just couldn’t justify it.

  205. You have to go to Canada or Europe to find real Cadbury Dairy Milk these days — apparently the American version has sugar, not milk, as the first ingredient? I have my husband bring a handful back every time he goes. And real barbeque Fritos — not the honey spirals — used to be an absolute DELICACY when you scooped them in vanilla ice cream. Sigh.

      • I just got a snack sized bag Fritos Bar-B-Q from the Dollar General in Rapid City, SD. I haven’t seen that flavor before and wanted to try them- unfortunately I really don’t like them. I so wish I send them the people that miss them.

  206. Hi , in New Zealand we don’t have any of the ice cream , t-shirts or candles you mentioned but on a plus side there’s no Covid . They used to make a sweet called Wine Gums but about 10 years ago changed the recipe causing them to taste awful.

  207. Once upon a time, Pillsbury only had a dry frosting mix (in a box) that was used in a Lot of their Bake Off Recipes. Oh, how I miss you, dry frosting mix- you and those recipes I’ve never been able to re create.
    Hess’s Dept. Store (Allentown, Pa.) – I’ve shopped in Manhattan, San Francisco, etc. but I’ve never seen a Christmas puppet show, entire floor turned into flower show, or local TV program like yours.

    • Yes! It was used in their Tunnel of Fudge bake-off winning cake. It had a gooey chocolate center from that frosting mix.

  208. Apparently, I am the only person in the world who loved Tequiza beer, a light beer made from the cactus plant. It went away and I was sad. I drink Corona Premier now but I miss my little “lady beer”.

  210. I have Reverware copper-bottomed pans. I always used Copper Glo. It’s no longer made. I switched to Twinkle and it was instantly taken off all store shelves around here, so I got angry and order it in cases from the company that makes it now.

    My dishwasher cleaner was taken from store shelves, also. When I run out, it’ll be back to vinegar, which I hate to use because it’s acid, but at least it’s in stores.

    The apricot nectar that supplied me with the potassium I needed so I didn’t have to suffer the nausea of taking the pills that made me so sick is no longer sold at the one store that carried it. I ordered it from the people who make it, a full case, and had to pay shipping to get it to me, but I will avoid the pills that way.

    Very puzzling to me, and Purina has vowed to me that they are producing, but their cat foods disappeared from the shelves for months. Anyone with a cat knows what finicky eating means, so it’s been a struggle to get them fed. One will eat anything, the other will not. Good times.

    Yankee candles sells online. Check it out for your candles. If someone else suggested that, I’m sorry for repeating it, but I’m not reading 237 comments to find out. They’re offering discounts if you sign up for them.

    Our best-ever buffet restaurant closed for Covid and won’t be opening again. Until this recent surge, I was seriously considering maybe going out to eat. Won’t happen now, and I miss going out to eat. Carryout is good, but it’s not eating out.

    But the heart-breaker is that the Symphony bars I love so well are now very thin and much smaller than they were last year. Nothing soothes this savage beast like that chocolate, and it’s skimpy now.

    • My best friend is having the same problem finding Purina cat food with tuna. They tell her its still in production but non of us are finding it.

      Has anyone ever had a salesperson tell you something has been discontinued as if you were a Neanderthal who just left the cave since everyone else already knows this? I crept away from the Clinique counter.

    • I have noticed that the selection of Purina Friskies canned cat food has been varied… a person at Walmart said they have been producing, but due to COVID, it has been more of a challenge. There are often only a few flavors or kinds offered, so I often will look to see what there is and stock up if it is a flavor and type (must be pâté) our two cats like. I sometimes find it at grocery or pet stores, but with a higher price tag.

      As for smaller amounts, that has happened with so many things which sometimes adds a challenge with recipes since the amounts are not the same with many products like a no bake pumpkin pie… I have to buy more canned pumpkin since the amount in the can is less than the recipe. So many things… sugar, yogurt, ice cream, cookies… have less than in the past, but still charge more. Really noticed how Girl Scout cookies have way fewer cookies in the box yet cost more so a double whammy!

  212. My favorite peanut butter honey oatmeal was discontinued and I am still trying to figure out proportions to make my regular oatmeal taste like that.

    Congratulations on your anniversary. I hope someday I will be able to say I was married that long.
    Covid is bad here in Wisconsin too and I am going grocery/supply shopping tomorrow because who knows when we might shut down again. We went from close to zero cases a day to 1000 new cases per day. This makes me slightly freaked out since I cannot get the vaccine (I am very allergic to one of its ingredients) and I have had covid before and do not want to repeat the experience.

    • I, too, am allergic to the PEG in the “big two” vaccines, but J&J has zero PEG and I got that within three days of it hitting our area because nobody else wanted it because it’s wasn’t hyped like mad as the latest greatest type of vaccine. No stats on how it does because for some reason, this country is ignoring the only vaccine available that would not kill me. One woman in this area got the one with PEG in it and she spent months getting all her dead skin scrubbed off and bandaged to prevent infection and more skin died and it was a royal mess. She is 90 years old and suffering horribly. They stopped the J&J because something like 7 people got blood clots, but she was the 17th in the country to get that from PEG, and they never warned anyone or stopped giving them to everyone they could give them to. I had to figure out my allergy to it by trying to find makeup I could wear, but even hypo-allergenic makeup contains it. Talk to your doctor about it. With enough prep, you can have a vaccine.

      My husband and I have been married for 46 years, and I’ll tell you that the big secret way to be married a long time is to stay married and let the years roll by. I wish you well with that. We chose the right people to marry. I hope you can do the same. When it’s right, you fight now and then, but you stay together.

  213. I miss pillow mints. You used to be able to buy bags of them or get them at bulk candy stores but I haven’t seen them in over a decade. It drives me crazy as I see them in the movies/tv: in a bowl at the hostess desk at a restaurant. I am in Canada.

    I lived in SE Asia during the 80s and, back then, was not able to get cotton candy, soft ice cream, red licorice nor soft caramels. I remember one year a member of the PTA brought a suitcase of Kraft caramels from the US to make caramel apples for a school event.

  214. Apparently A1 is available at our local Vons. If you want me to ship you some to an agent’s address or some other address not your own (to protect privacy), let me know! 🙂 As a Canadian who grew up with A1 and now living in the US, I’d miss it a lot if it was discontinued forever and I feel for you!

    I think one of the worst for me is when shoes or boots are discontinued and styles changed. I have big feet and when I find something that works, I want to buy multiple pairs, but they’re usually so pricey. So I wait and then am disappointed when they’re discontinued. Sigh.

    • I think original A1 is available to Ilona 🙂 , but not the sweet steak sauce. Is that still found in Canada?

  215. Grape Pop-Tarts. They were my favorite. They brought them back for a limited time only a few years back. I still keep an eye out if they bring them back again.

  216. Just found this on inet:

    Viennetta Ice Cream Cakes Are Coming Back To The U.S. After Nearly 30 Years
    Your childhood self is totally freaking out right now!!!
    by KRISTIN SALAKY and ALEXIS MORILLO JAN 25, 2021

    Delish magazine

  217. The big discontinue during Covid that affected me was the Vitamin E cream from Sam’s (Gene Therapy, I think is the name). I don’t shop at Sam’s, so as I was getting low I asked a friend to pick some up– not there. She checked all over town– none. Weird. Did an Internet search– EVERYONE is looking for it. Ebay has a jar for $100US (it retailed for $6.99US normally)!!! More research: apparently the owner of the company decided to take a sabbatical to ride horses. Understandable in these uncertain times, but the freak out is amazing. Given that it doesn’t cause a reaction in my terribly sensitive skin, doesn’t smell girly (my husband likes to use it during cold weather), and is very reasonable I guess I understand. I was upset. So, my friend’s boyfriend went to California to visit his elderly mom and decided to look around for the cream. Turns out his mother had horded several jars, so he brought me back one. I don’t know if I will find a substitute or if the owner will reopen. We’ll see.

  218. Yeah. At our house the joke is “How can you tell if something is going to be discontinued in the next six weeks? Ask Mom if she likes it.”

    It doesn’t matter if it’s food, clothing, furniture, paint colors, dishes, or restaurants. If I decide I REALLY LOVE it, it’s doomed.

    I try not to REALLY LOVE things because of this. I also try to have back ups for my back ups. It doesn’t help my control over my hoarding tendencies ????

    Mostly I complain for weeks or months and then grudgingly get used to the substitute. And eventually mostly forget about the original unless something reminds me, at which time I grumble and complain for another few hours.

    What can I say, I’m an ISFJ, we like our routine! ????

  219. For a while, Triscuit crackers had a caraway and rye combination. So tasty. It was made with real ingredients. They’ve since discontinued it. I went to their website and made a comment that I’d like it if they brought it back as it ~was~ made with real ingredients and not just the too salty dusted crap flavors they use now on all their choices.

  220. Ugg. So many things but the ones that came to mind immediately are my 2 favorite flavors of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. Hazed and Confused was half chocolate ice cream, half very light, delicate hazelnut ice cream, and an amazing, rich hazelnut fudge core. The other was Volun-tiramisu. It was exclusive to Target and they were sold out of it more often than not so I don’t know why they would discontinue it.

    The thing I’m mad about right now is not something that is discontinued but has been repackaged. Ghirardelli makes these fantastic mug brownies that are just the right size and actually taste good unlike every other mug cake I have tried. Up until a few weeks ago they were available in boxes with 4 packets usually around $3. They got rid of the boxes of packets and now you can get an individual cardboard cup for $2. I bought up the boxes they had in my local store and bought some more off of Amazon but it is going to suck when they are gone. I don’t want to pay more than twice as much for my brownies.

  221. I am 100% with you. I think something is going to be discontinued and I buy 1000 of them just in case but they are still around. I quit buying them using the last one we have only to find they discontinued it.

    We have TP, I am going to stock up on my favorite seasoning mixes (they were short last year) and turkey liver (it is the dogs’ favorite and one of the few things Brittany is still allowed to eat with her IBD).

  222. Food Lion carried McCain’s Dipin Wedges for maybe 6 months to a year. Long enough to get me hooked & then Poof they were gone. I think they were test marketing in my area & decided it wasn’t worth it, dammit. I think they sell them elsewhere….just not in NC. I Looooved those things 🙁

  223. My best friend taught me a thing. Whenever you find a product you like or love, make sure you say out loud that you dislike it. Otherwise the universe or the cosmos or a personal demon (the opposite of a guardian angel?) will make sure that product is discontinued. 😀

  224. Weber’s had this awesome garlic seasoning with other spices that was great as a rub for roasting a turkey. Bummed that I can’t find it any more, I miss it every Thanksgiving and alas I have to be creative. Fresh garlic under the skin is always a great idea.

  225. The most betrayed on a discontinued item I ever felt was when Origins stopped making “Have a Nice Day” lightweight face moisturizer with 15 SPF. I have never found a perfect replacement for it. ????

  226. Pepperidge Farms Carrot Walnut and Raisin Cookies! Evidently, I was the only person who ate them. Thankfully, I’d figured out the recipe (oatmeal with add ins) before they did.

  227. Happy Anniversary!!! 🙂

    Soup Plantation/Sweet Tomatoes…. I was heartbroken when they went out of business, we used to go for like every single family event because it was one thing that we all liked. I have good memories of college nights there with my brother when were utterly confused about life and figuring it out…. (well, the life part hasn’t changed much im still confused lol )

    Also you are the second person to recommend Invincible to me… I should get on that.

  229. For me, it was, or is, Newcastle Werewolf beer. Probably not the correct name, but it had a werewolf on the label. It was sort of seasonal to Halloween, but I haven’t seen it since we moved down here. Does anybody know if they still sell it in the States? I would drive Smokey and the Bandit style to get some and bring it back to Texas.

  230. BTW – Your anniversary is the same day as my father’s birthday!

    Happy 25th Anniversary!

    ‘I wish they brought back the series “Firefly” – that was an amazing series; and I watched it over and over again and lamented its demise.

    Tower Records, independent bookstores – I am infuriated by Amazon that made life hell for many independent bookstores in the early 2000s and now they are setting up brick and mortar shops left and right! Amazon Fresh, Whole foods, Amazon Bookstore — where I live – about 5 Amazon shops sprouted within 12 months – taking over empty spaces by businesses that succumbed to the pandemic or Amazon-business tactics –

    There are no substitute for Firefly, but now I am watching – Home Before Dark on Apple TV and I love the new PBS series with Ben Miller based on a Dutch series with the same name – Professor T. I try to visit and shop the few remaining independent bookstores when I travel on my mini-breaks around the state – Washington – so I can help in a small way keep them up and running.

    • Firefly…only THE BEST SERIES EVER…I still love watching the actors in different projects. But nothing even comes close to Joss Whedons Masterpiece

    • Alas and alack, when Firefly ended, so many people complained at unfinished business in it that they made a movie called “Serenity” to show how it all ended. I still quote the show when I tell people that I live “at the corner of no and where” in BFE when they ask how to get to my house. It was just too good for TV, I guess.

  231. I haven’t eaten Viennetta for a while and I’m not from the US either, but according to wikipedia, it ‘was re-introduced in the US in 2021 under the Good Humor brand’. So maybe you can find it under another name?

    And yes, lots of things I enjoyed have been cancelled, including fine salad sauces and ice creams. And right now I’m really worried about our restaurants and shops due to several long lockdowns and another looming ahead, anything relating to culture has been even worse off.

  232. I feel like August has become the cold shower to the kindling of hope I’d started to feel in late June. I’ve been slowly stuffing my closet again with cleaning products and toilet paper. This will probably become a lingering habit rooted in deep-seated fear of broken supply chains.

    I adore and miss Vienetta, too. It was our go-to treat when treats were cost prohibitive. A measly substitute available in Texas is Kroger’s semi-sweet chocolate chip ice cream. It is a vanilla (sweet cream-esque) ice cream with shaved semi-sweet chocolate. It doesn’t have the “frosting” but I find that a squirt of store-brand whipped cream makes it a viable substitute.

  234. Goo goo cluster ice cream my fav gone when I was a kid….. I also get mad when they start using chemicals in my food without warning. I react horribly to fake sugars and so I have to cherry pick brands and items so I don’t have to be an OCD label reader as seriously no one has time for that…. When I then get horribly sick and end up in the hospital, i have to figure out what brand betrayed me it’s annoying.

    • You know, sea salt triggers my seafood allergy, and I had to change many brands I buy because they all say, “Now with Sea Salt!” as if anyone gives a hoot about dried up sea creature pieces and wants them in their salt! I read every label of every new food I think I might want, because the allergic reactions very bad. Fake sugars have been on that list for years on end. If the label hints that the formula has changed, I read the whole label, and people stare at me in stores as I do it. Too bad. I’ve done it for years, and it works, so that’s how life goes. Make time for it.

  235. Not discontinued as much as no longer carried here. Harps Lager and Meade wine. I live just outside of the city limits in a more rural setting, and may have been the only person local who bought either.

    People in the big city can get them, but out here Sam Adams is as fancy as the beer gets and Boones Farm is the best selling wine

  237. The Edge series. But I like your other books as substitutes :).

    Also a type of honey cookies, a local brand in my country, and I’ve never found anything that tastes quite the same:(

  240. I LOVE Vienetta ice cream. It was such a treat when I was a kid and we could only get it when we had a coupon. I talked about a while ago and found out the still sell it in England and Australia or something like that. I just googled to figure out where it was that they’re still sold and found out that in January they announced they were bringing it back to the USA! it says it’s at Kroger and Publix but now I’m on a mission to see if it’s there for real.

  242. The only thing that I miss is pink popcorn that I used to get when I was a kid at the San Francisco zoo! I actually researched it and the maker is no longer in business and I’ve found nothing that comes close. Ah sweet memories!

  244. My mom used to make a four layer cake with a powdered cocoa icing that she mixed with whipped cream for the in between chocolate cake layers and then made the icing out of to put on top and drizzle down the sides. It was a staple of special occasions growing up. Part of my life really. They discontinued it and despite trying every work around and other options it is just not the same! Sadness and woe.

  245. Vienetta ice cream cake was awesome! We had that so much when I was growing up!

    There was a certain brand of egg rolls that I used to love, it was a grocery store brand, but a couple of years ago they went out of business so I can’t get them anymore. Same store also had a super thick chicken and noodles which was an awesome comfort food.

    I feel ya on the trying clothes on as a plus sized woman. It’s hard.

    Happy belated anniversary! Hope kid 1’s boyfriend gets better soon, and the rest of you stay safe and healthy.

  246. Starbucks discontinued sugar free caramel and are discontinuing sugar free cinnamon dolce. Only sugar free vanilla. ????

  247. Krusteaz bran muffin mix! It took me 15 years to find a recipe that approximates the mix. And not nearly as easy. Oooh and Braum’s peanut cluster fudge ice cream. They now only make it in fat free. Yech.

    We’re back in mask mandates. And I’m sincerely hoping people get it together. Our business survived but I’m not sure we could survive a second lockdown.

  248. Trader Joe’s carried a seasonal gazpacho soup I really liked. No more. Milano had thin wafer cookies coated with dark chocolate on one side (“Orleans”) now gone. The list goes on…

  250. I saw Viennetta Ice Cream cake in my local Safeway a couple of weeks ago. I remember being surprised which is why I remember it at all.

  251. Happy Anniversary! I finally gave up dyeing my hair because every time I found a color I loved, it would be discontinued. I found that my hair is that great silver that was the fashion a few years ago, with pure white highlights. So i like my replacement and I have less aggravation in my life because no more root issues!

    I hope everyone is feeling better soon and again, Happy Anniversary!

  252. A couple of other folks have mentioned various Sara Lee products up above – for me it is the Sara Lee chocolate cake that I really really miss. But – silver lining – it’s very good for my waistline that it’s gone!

    Also Van de Kamp’s sugar cookies.

    And going waaaaay back, if you lived in Southern California in the 1960s, you’ll remember Helm’s Bakery, which delivered house-to-house. I remember my mom putting a big “H” sign up in the window if she wanted the Helm’s delivery man (and it was always a man) to stop. And they made the most delicious cinnamon bread! Sigh!

    I guess you can tell my weakness is sweets…

  253. Happy Anniversary!! 25 years is such a milestone. I’m glad you were able to spend it with one another.
    I live in your area and cried when Maurices and Lane Bryant closed at the outlets! They had the best selection and I too love to try on lol

    Thankfully, Torrid next to Hot Topic has since opened and they have great selection! If you want to brave the insanity of the parking lot and construction going on right now, I would totally try them if you haven’t yet. They will even order online and hold something you like if they don’t have your size in store.

  254. The discontinued items that I miss are all material. I can’t really say there’s any food items that I miss.

    I have coarse, frizzy, curly hair. Bath & Body Works made a hair care line when I was in high school and they had one product called Curl on Cue (there was a shampoo and conditioner) that made my hair feel and look amazing. They discontinued that after about maybe four years. I remember going with my mom to the two closest stores and buying as much of it as we could, even the small travel-size bottles. Fast forward 12 years later, and the product that has come the closest is the OGX Coconut Curls shampoo and conditioner.

    Another hair care related item, the brand Aussie makes a sprunch hairspray. It used to come and either an aerosol can or a manual pump bottle and it was a flexible hold hairspray that didn’t make your hair super sticky and kind of helped with the frizz. About three years ago Aussie discontinued the aerosol can, and while the manual pump bottle was the same formula it just didn’t sit in your hair the same because it didn’t spray across as evenly. Earlier this year I went to buy a bottle and they have completely changed the formula to now make it a firmer hold hairspray. I used it once and it made my hair a sticky disaster. I still have not been able to find a replacement that held my hair is nicely as the aerosol can spray did.

    The one place I really miss that closed about two years ago is Payless Shoe Source. I wear a size 12, and was always able to find shoes in my size. They had different brands, but the sizing was consistent and price was not too bad. Standard department stores do not carry women’s size 12 in store. I live in an area with multiple stores in a 5 mile radius where they sell shoes and no luck – Walmart, Target, Kohl’s, JCPenney, Belk, DSW, Famous Footwear, Ross, and Marshalls. We do have a Shoe Department that is an hour away where I am may be able to find shoes about 50% of the time I go. I also have some success online. Torrid carries bigger size shoes, but they come in an extra wide width so I don’t always need a size 12 and can do an 11 or 11.5. And I recently found Journee Collection. I ordered a pair of booties from there and they fit nicely so I may try some future purchases.

    • If you can find a “Sally Beauty Supply” store, they have great hair products I’ve used for years.

      I’m with you on shoe stores. I wear wide shoes, none of the ones here carry them, because you can always “just buy them bigger and they’ll fit!” Well, no, they will be too long and my feet are big enough, thank you very little.

  255. Häagen-Dazs Once made a vanilla peanut butter swirl ice cream. My favorite of all time! It went away around the time of a peanut butter issue years back and I was so disappointed. I’ve never found an acceptable substitute.

    • That was great! I also miss their Mayan Chocolate. It had cinnamon and chocolate and had a deep, rich flavor.

  256. Oooh, I feel that. Some items departed the shelves of Trader joe’s that I miss – everything from vanilla cat cookies to the lemon-ginger water for which I still pine.

    Other departed include Emporium Capwells, The Limited (original – socks, sweaters, and pants heaven for me), Papyrus stores (therapy in a mall), used book stores – especially the ones crammed into unusual spots and locales, Edies (soda shop), Blum’s coffee crunch cake, and China Rain fragrance by the original Body Shop in Berkeley.

    Hang in there and sending healthy wishes.

    • our local used book stores only buys used books that are up to 6 months old, that’s it. why bother? it’s the older ones that are the treasures, now you have to go to good will to find them.

  257. I lulsed to love a candy bar called “Seven Up.” It had seven different truffle-style things including a chocolate covered cherry in one bar. Now I just have to buy the different kinds separately. Insert dramatic sigh here.

  258. Thanks to you, I now know I’m a “harbinger of failure”, I feel better!

    I loved a weird chocolate cake in a can that Mont Blanc (a French company) used to make. It was light and fluffy, with a chocolate sauce and I really loved it.

    More recently, Bonne Maman tried to launch a really good vanilla ice cream, with just cream, eggs, sugar and vanilla. It was not available in a lot of stores and it’s disappeared.

    Same for hard shell tacos, which you couldn’t find in France when I was a kid, then finally arrived in France. Apparently they didn’t find their public, because I can’t find them anymore. Thankfully my brother just came from Wyoming, with a nice big suitcase.
    😉

    Ahhh the souvenirs, thanks a lot for the smiles and fond memories

  259. Happy belated anniversary! And I hope that Kid 1’s boyfriend recovers quickly with no long term problems. And to answer the question, my favorite style of jeans was discontinued I haven’t found a replacement yet. They seem to have fallen out of fashion. No telling when they will come back as fashionable.

  260. McCain’s Deep ‘n Delicious Double chocolate cake. ????. Can get other varieties but not the Double. At least not in Canada, Ontario.

  261. The saddest thing is when you buy the same products from the same company as those 20 (ick!) years ago, supposedly exactly the same traditional recipe but it just doesn’t taste the same…
    Had it with ketchup, wafles or ice cream I remeber from my childhood. I think maybe it would be better if they discontinued making them than pretended they didn’t change the ingridients 🙁

  262. L’Oreal Colour Caresse lipstick by Colour Riche in 179 Cherry Tulle

    They discontinued it some years ago, and I’ve been paying $25 and $30 a tube on Amazon and Ebay, but I think even that outlet is finally exhausted.

  263. My mom would say the chocolate icing mix that was used in the original tunnel of fudge cake. She kept a box for years just in case she wanted to make the cake. She never would though because “once it was gone, it was gone” My brother took his life in his hands & carefully opened the bottom of the box, used the mix, and carefully placed the box back on the shelf. I believe it was years before my mother discovered the deception.

  265. GoodHumor has put a version of this Viennetta Ice Cream cake in our Colorado Springs grocery stores. I’d like McD to bring back the Apple Cider BBQ sauce and Dunkin to make the chocolate crullers bars, again. My husband wants the Garlic Salsa returned that Doritos had & pulled with almost no warning.

  266. Nathan’ deli mustard in the wide mouth 16 oz jar. The best! I’m from Brooklyn (NYC, not Texas) the original home of Nathan’s in Coney Island.
    There is no other wide mouth ja mustard now (and under $2). It’s all stupid squeeze bottles.

    • Bam! Nothing like sticking in that knife and spreading the mustard around! If I may suggest that you purchase wide-mouth canning jars for jellies and dump the squeeze bottle into it to scoop it out as needed, perhaps that will help you. If it’s the same mustard, if just the delivery of it to your food is the issue, this may help you. You need to get a little creative.

  267. There were these gingerbread sandwich cookies with lemon creme & zest I loved, but I’ve not seen them for over a decade.

    I also miss Sonic’s fried pickles and their cream slashes.

  268. I saw Viennetta cake in the aisle where they sell popsicles this past weekend. I remember because I had forgotten it existed and was thinking ‘huh’. Maybe someone has revived the brand? Good news if it tastes the same 🙂

  269. “finding loose hairs on your pillow, having your favorite stuffed bread be discontinued. The accumulation of those little despairs is what makes a person an adult.”
    – Nanami Kento

  270. Lemon thin cookies by Nabisco, fruit (pear, apple, orange, lemon) hand cream at Body Shop, lemon chicken at TGI Fridays, the original oriental dressing for the oriental chicken salad at Applebees

  271. I miss Teavana’s maharaja chai and samurai mate chai (think that’s what it was called). The combination of both was awesome. I finally tried one that’s supposed to be copycat and it tasted disgusting to me. I wish Starbucks would sell it.

  272. Back in the 70s when I was homeless someone let me take showers in their home and they had Nature’s Gate herbal conditioner. I used it happily for years and years. It had awesome things like myrrh in it.

    Then the formula was changed. I don’t understand why, company sold or something and maybe too expensive to make? It just wasn’t the same.

    I yearn for a time machine so I can go back and stock up.

    I’ve lost track of missing food items. Snackin’ cakes were great and so easy to make when I was a brand new baker. You mixed it in the package and added vinegar. There used to be a one skillet version of lasagne (not hamburger helper) that was awesome.

    Some items disappeared from the health food store and locally, we used to have some artisanal foods that are no longer made. I was also a fan of Black Muslim Bakery products like their whole wheat cinnamon rolls and bean pies. Wha Guru Chews were a favorite though these days I’d lose a crown or a filling on them.

    Speaking of fajitas, Cost Plus used to sell a spice mix called “fajita dust” which you simply sprinkled or on your protein and veggies while cooking. No similar mixes work as well. I have a great marinade I make now but this was easy when I was in a hurry.

    • I’d forgotten but when I was a teen in the mid-70s Doritos had a version of their Nacho Cheese flavor that I really loved. Then they changed it to the darker orange version and I was so unhappy.

  273. I just made a permanent move to Japan. Just got out of the mandatory quarantine even with all my shots. So, I expect I will be feeling American food nostalgia in a couple of months. Then I will have to put on my Pioneer bonnet and figure how to make things by scratch or alchemy. haha I’ve lived overseas before so it’s nothing new. I once wanted to eat Red Lobster biscuits?? I had to make by scratch the “Biscuit mix” to tranform into the RL ones. Haha On a personal note, everyone please stay safe and healthy.

  275. To add,hopefully, a ray of light into your day. I think your missing the A1 fruity sauce. It’s British. Up north it’s in our foreign food aisle and can also be found on Amazon….but I could also be wrong about what A1 sauce you can’t find so…

  276. I feel your discontinued pain. My childhood/teen comfort food was ridged potato chips with Bacon & Horseradish cream cheese dip (Philadephia brand). I was so sad when they stopped making it in favor of strawberry. Ick. There have been several items like this since and it’s always a pain. Apparently, I am not the mass market they want to cater to.

  277. The American way of life? I feel like my childhood way of living has been discontinued. I live in Hawaii, we had very few places to eat and shop growing up, but we did have some fun attractions for tourists that us locals would go to as well. Over the top ice cream shops, water parks, game zones with skiball and hand hockey, drive in theaters, etc… they are all gone. Every single place has closed over the years. My kids will never experience that kind of old school Americana, and they didn’t grow up with it, so if they were suddenly dropped into it now, I’m not even sure they would care. I have seen that rollerskating is making a come back, hooray! Something survived the digital take over. This Olympics is the lowest watched ever. I encourage my kids to watch, we enjoy it, but the GO TEAM USA feeling is just not there like it used to be.

    • We were screaming like idiots during the swimming, but I agree about the lackluster feeling. NBC has really dropped the ball on their coverage. The camera close ups on Americans only has really bugged me especially during the medal ceremony.

  278. I can’t think of anything that was discontinued but would like to chime in for proper sizing. Candy bars, gum, chips and such from like 40 years ago were huge compared to the same brand today, le sigh.

  279. My problem isn’t so much discontinued products unless a”type” no longer available which counts as discontinuation.

    Specifically Quality.

    I currently am in a fight with Sears over my $2000 refrigerator.
    Average price point for a average refrigerator…which should last based on the average 10-13 (15 if no pets and preventative maintenance like dusting/vacuuming coils happe) years with little to no problem.

    This is a Kenmore which is really a LG with a Kenmore badge (very common practice now). This product has computer boards and engineering and blah blah blah blah to supposedly increase value and perform wonderful things like conserve energy.

    In reality LG has already lost 6 class actions for this family of products some to the US Government because they taught the computer boards to cheat the tests to achieve “energy star” compliance think Volvo and it’s emissions test fiasco.

    This family of products has everything to confuse and lure consumers but it lacks sufficient Insulation and horsepower (undersized compressor) to actually keep ice frozen or freeze it in the first place or to keep milk from spoiling. Actual LG branded customers have routes for resolution…but mine being Kenmore has an additional layer of middlemen and legal departments to avoid responsibility for these defective products.

    Anyway … I miss products that function (do their job) and companies that don’t engineer the products to fail to force the consumer back into the market thereby repeating the circle of buy, frustration, fail due to legal and middleman obstacles, dispose, buy again…

    And people wonder why our oceans are full of plastics and our landfills are overflowing.

    • Forgot this key info for anyone that read the above

      The product started underperforming just after the first year and started catastrophically failing year 5 (causing more waste food not to mention time)

      So in short I miss non disposable everything they need to discontinue trash products and we as consumers need to shop smarter focus on core function and reject extra shiny trash (ie core for refridge is cooling not internet connectivity and no my product doesn’t have that but the next model up probably did)

      • I look for less complicated, repairability including available parts, and hopefully better quality.

        Dyson gets my admiration for being available via online chat and stocking 10+ year old corded vacuum parts for a fair price. Sure, a Samsung or LG cordless stick vac might be the better performer for the price but I know I’ll be able to get a Dyson battery or replacement canister in 3-5 years since they’re so popular.

        Samsung and LG refrigerators have bad reps. Plenty of people seem to be ok with theirs but plenty of failures, too. I bought a French Door Whirlpool and measured the temperature with a data logger. Yeah. I’m weird. But the middle temp setting is actually a bit higher than 40 at times with an empty fridge. It keeps temp better when I have stuff in it.

        • I have lots of hardwood floors and the carpet I have I’m ok with breaking out the 30 year old rainbow vacuum … yes is not as convenient as a stick rechargeable vac but I got the rainbow from my mother when she became to old to deal with its size. It will be functioning and functioning extremely well when my non-existent grandchildren die.
          Another example of this is the older stainless steel Vitamix’s before they changed into the plastic garbage they sell now.

          I 100% agree that an empty refrigerator is more work for the compressor to keep cool … anecdotal observations leads me to believe that having solids and liquids that have been cooled to X in either the refrigerator or freezer compartments act as buffers/insulators to prevent temperature fluctuations. Which makes sense because air gains/looses/equalizes faster than liquids or solids. The key thing is to load it up without impeding airflow because that’s how the cool is circulated from coils.

          Having a thermostat with data logging is a wonderful tool to use and have.

  280. We still have Vienetta ice cream here in Australia.
    It’s my go-to dessert when I have family over.

  281. Crispy mnms. Used to get them every weekend when I stayed with my grandparents every weekend and they were perfection.

  282. I remember Jello making a desert that when you finished it made three layers – it was all in one box, one process. It was regular Jello on the bottom with the top layer the most airy. I seem to remember you used a mixmaster to whip it.

    Anyway, that was years and years ago and I haven’t gotten over losing it yet.

    • It was 1-2-3 Jello and though not as covenient, I make a version of it that is really good and a big hit. I get plastic cups at the dollar store and usually use strawberry jello and cool whip… bottom layer just regular jello, put in fridge till firm… Second layer with jello and cool whip blended together with my electric mixer, add on top of jello layer, back to fridge till firm, then top layer with a greater amount of cool whip added to the jello, chill till firm. I am sure other non-dairy whipped toppings could be used, but cool whip is my go to. I try to have each layer be 1/3 size. Tried to post a picture of finished product, but did not show up as an option. Because of lesser amounts for each layer, it does not take as long to firm.

  283. Spaulding Crullers, as made in Binghamton, NY. The original bakery was sold to corporate big bakers and, of course, they aren’t the same. Same for Sunbeam bread, it out-Wondered Wonder bread by a mile.

    And of course there are all of the perfectly fitting blue jeans I’ve managed to find in the past. They may still *call* them mid-rise boot cut, but they aren’t.

  285. “I decided not have the pandemic in Dina’s world. Because I have that power.”
    Loving it! Thank you!
    Off the top of my head, I can’t think of cancelled product I miss. I know there are plenty, my alleged mind is simply not cooperating right now.

  286. My cat (Kitty Perry) is a very picky eater. She liked exactly ONE canned food that was made by Iams. They discontinued it. Took me three months to find another canned food she would eat. There has been a weird shortage and I’ve had trouble finding that canned food. I just hope they don’t discontinue it! I do not want to go through this cat food fiasco again!

  287. Delfa rolls, shoestring licorice and true denim jeans.

    Tried alot of substitutes, they just taste terrible.

    Most jeans are made w some type of elastic in them. I’m happy that I kept a few from 20 yrs ago, they still fit.

  288. Dunkaroos. They used to sell them by the boxes and now only sell them individually for a ridiculous amount of money.

  289. Belated happy anniversary!!!

    My husband loved Nestle white chocolate crunch bars and they were discontinued in US so for Christmas I order him some from Europe.

  290. When we were in college B&J came out with a Scotchy Scotchy Scotch ice cream… it was butterscotch heaven!! I don’t even want to talk about how many pints I ate of that stuff ???? nothing has fulfilled my butterscotch cravings suitably since!

  291. I bought a new to me yogurt last week, Icelandic Provisions Skyr. It doesn’t give me heartburn. Went back this week, the store has it on clearance and no one else carries it. This is the fastest I have ever been burned with a new product. I mean, they just started carrying it, and now they’re not. WTAF. I might have to learn how to make it myself.

    Jamey Sultan posted his setup a while back he uses for writing, a stand up desk built around a treadmill. I thought it was quite innovative 🙂

    • Oh, and pour one out for Haagen Daz Chocolate Stout Pretzel ice cream, the best chocolate ice cream I’ve ever had. I don’t like stout (or any beer really) but this was the best thing I’d ever tasted. I’ve quit buying all Haagen Daz in protest. This is why I don’t try new things

    • I buy my yogurt supplies from Cultures for Health. They work great as do their recipes. They have both Vegan and Non vegan.

  292. I can’t buy any of the special buys food items at aldi’s anymore. Had too many I fell in love with that never came back. Sam’s club used to have this one amazing cookie I would get frequently back when I worked there, no longer available. Still can’t forgive skittles for the flavor changes.

    And I know it’s better for the environment and the workers and all, but the preservative used now for pressurized lumber just does not work as well as what was previously available.

  293. Happy happy anniversary!

    Mary Kay extra emollient night cream. Works on scars, extra dry skin, baby skin, basically would heal/help anything. Very sad to see that go. When I found out it was discontinued I bought the last few from our MK consultant and shipped it to my sister for her birthday.

    For the most part though I’m curious to see what the replacements are to things that get discontinued. I don’t usually buy them more than once since they usually aren’t better, but it’s interesting what the industry considers “equal.”

  294. I wish Dove soap’s, Dry Oil line. It smelled great. I’ve not yet found a replacement for it…still looking

  296. Happy Anniversary!
    Sending virtual Viennetta your way until you manage to procure the real thing.
    And a speedy recovery for the BF.

    Here in Germany in my youth a favourite for breakfast was Eszet Schnitten: thin, yummy chocolate wafers for your bread. Luckily those still exist but there User to be an Orange flavour (similar to Terrys) which has disappeared.
    As have various face creams, eyeshadow nuances, socks, a banana yoghurt with pieces of real banana, and some sweets…..

  298. “I decides not have the pandemic in Dina’s world. Because I have that power”. BLESS YOU. I’m so sick and tired of it all. – Signed by an Spanish General Practitioner.

  299. Nature’s Gate went out of business and I am without the body lotion and herbal shampoo and conditioner that I’ve used for thirty years. It about broke my heart.
    Caffeine Free Coke is gone and I can’t find the Mexican Fanta in bottles which was a special treat after eating a spicy lunch.
    Neutrogena discontinued a non SPF tinted moisturizer that most of the women in my circle used.
    Rachel Perry cosmetics gone forever.
    Nabisco Famous Chocolate Cookies are almost impossible to find and I like to occasionally substitute them for graham crackers in cheese cake.
    Trader Joe’s breaks my heart too often to list, but the thing from them that I miss most is the Garden Vegetable Lasagna that’s been gone for years. If they ever do away with the frozen samosas I will loose it!
    I can’t find anything to replace the Australian eucalyptus gel I used to buy at our little natural foods store back in the days before Whole Wallet Foods took over.
    Knudsen Hibiscus Cooler.
    The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in my neighborhood closed permanently during the pandemic of 2020, so our only walkable choice was/is Starbucks and I refuse to go there! So I bought a fancy Italian espresso machine.
    My Mom was just moaning about not finding Campbell’s Chicken Gumbo and Hidden Valley Original Ranch dressing in the packets.
    I think what bothers me most is the loss of independent shops everywhere. Bookstores, coffee and tea houses, clothing boutiques, gift shops and all the cafes, bistros and restaurants that were owned by locals.
    I just miss being able to hang out in a comfortable cafe with my laptop and a good cup of coffee and a sandwich.

    Happy Anniversary!

  300. My cat will only eat canned Hill’s Science Diet Ocean Fish MINCED.

    It started to disappear from the shelves during the start of the pandemic. I hoped, like TP, it would come back. I bought all I could at Amazon before it was gone. I bought it at Petco and Petsmart. I even found myself driving to various FleetFarms because I read online they still may have it.
    I broke down and bought chunky and mashed it myself LOL, but now that’s no longer available, too!! I can only get it in an expensive multipack where there are only 4 ocean fish chunky single-serves in the 12 pack.
    I know this sounds silly—we’re in a pandemic for goodness’ sake…but how can I be happy when my furry friend is not. Sigh

    • The most “panic buying” I have done during this pandemic has been of cat food. 5 picky seniors with various health issues and every other month I can’t get at least one type of food at least one of them is suppose to have. When a case of the Royal Canin Aging was going for over $100 on Amazon and wasn’t available at all on Chewy, I freaked. Even friskees was getting hard to find. When their food was finally available again I bought cases and cases and I now have an entire corner of my kitchen devoted to cat food and feel quite comfortable with my decision to never have less than at least a month and a half worth of “backstock” on hand at all times, lol!

  301. My shampoo. There’s no point in naming brands, because I’ve lost track of the ones that vanish from the store. Deodorant also tends to disappear, and I really loathe trying to find new ones that work.
    The kitchen outlet store in my hometown closed well before COVID, taking with it my best source of cake decorating supplies. Wilton brand from Michaels used to work in a pinch, but lately the Michaels nearest me seems to have switched to a random brand for cake supplies, and I really don’t love it. Probably going to have to put on my big girl pants and do bulk orders from the suppliers!

    • Joann (used to be just fabrics, but no longer is) carries cake decorating supplies. No idea how to decorate cakes here, being non-artistic that way, but you could look to see what they have. I know they carry Wilton, at least.

  302. They discontinued these chocolate chip cookies I used to buy at Trader Joe’s as a pick me up for myself. I was so sad when I found out! You can see a picture of its packaging here: https://www.becomebetty.com/trader-joes-chocolate-chip-cookies/

    I am also sick though supposedly not COVID as I got tested yesterday and it came back negative but who knows at this point. I went to a wedding this past weekend and had a slightly twingy throat but I thought it was just due to dryness and what not. I got tested 48 hours before to be on the safe side which I always planned on doing before the wedding and it was also negative. I didn’t have real symptoms until last night after I got back and the sore throat emerged in earnest along with nasal congestion. It honestly feels like a typical cold to me but I’m isolating from my parents just in case. I’d rather be sick this week as two weekends from now I’m supposed to go on a trip out west and I’d like to not be sick when I go. I am fully vaccinated by the way. I hope the boyfriend feels better soon and can get fully vaccinated soon.

  303. I used to buy a dehydrated veggie mix by Sojo’s for my dog, who starts chewing on houseplants (preferably toxic) if she doesn’t get enough veggies in her diet. It was convenient at home and I liked having it in the go bag for emergency evacuations. I haven’t found a good replacement yet.

  304. For me, in the UK they discontinued Douwe Egberts delicate vanilla coffee. The best vanilla flavour in coffee with a company that’s good good credentials from an ethical stand point.

    Now I can get it and am very bitter when I see that they still sell it (or they did the last time I checked) in other countries.
    It was my go to bulk buy as I had to add they were small jars coffee.

    BTW, I think the vienetta you like is still sold in the UK… so if you guys (pay pandemic) ever have a book tour over here (praying to the publishing gods to fund one) then you’ll be able to treat yourself to that at least… but it might not taste the same given that the same thing made in different countries with their slight variations or local ingredients; can taste completely different.

    Best of luck with all the jabs and I hope that Kid 1’s boyfriend gets well soon without any long covid complications.

  305. Depending on where you’re located, @Blend_bodywork (on Instagram) might be able to help you or locate someone she knows of close to you

  306. I sent a strongly worded email to Kettle Chips when they discontinued their Sweet Onion flavour.
    Still angry lol.
    Annie’s Mac n’ Cheese Mild Mexican flavour was my go-to dinner when I babysat. I’ve tried a copycat recipe but it wasn’t the same…
    Wishing you the best of luck finding a new t-shirt shop and a discounted candle shop!

  307. Rye Triscuits

    And from long ago –
    Hershey’s Mint Cookie Chocolate Bar
    A Halloween Cookie with sparkly sprinkles that ACME used to sell seasonally.

    But if anyone sees those Rye Triscuits, let me know where.

  308. Shampoos, teas, kids over the counter remedy’s, skin care items my pickypicky skin actually liked discontinued items are little hurts 🙁
    I understand wanting to try things on. the pitfall of online ordering, even with good customer service, is missing your return window

  309. Vienetta is still available in Australia from 2 companies. Google “Streets Vienetta”. Unfortunately we are heading into lockdown too…

    I wish we could still get the original Curly Wurly chocolate and caramel bars. The caramel was so good. The “new recipe” ones have the most awful caramel.

  310. I loved the Viennetta cake too, and I was just thinking about it the other day. My favorite that has gone by the wayside was Lemon Coolers (the cookie)… it was a box of cookies that never lasted past one sitting. Also, those chocolate wafer cookies (extra thin) that you could make your own Viennetta cake with. And there was a wafer thin vanilla cookie that was my other favorite (I think we have a theme here). All gone! what a shame

  311. Happy quarter century anniversary!

    I miss being able to just grab a fizzy drink. Nearly every single drink going has aspartame in it even when it’s not being branded as low sugar or sugar free (UK has a sugar tax). Aspartame gives me migraines. It’s even in regular coca-cola, tango, ribena and yummy Dr Pepper.

    Nestle discontinued a cereal called clusters which were delicious and pretty much the only fancy cereal I enjoyed.

    I used to have Sara Lee double chocolate gateau (frozen I think it was) as my birthday cake as a child and in my memory it was spectacular.

    I mention in memory because I also used to enjoy a Birds Eye beef grillsteak in my teens/early 20s and hadn’t seen them for years. Last month I was in a different Sainsbury’s when I saw them and impulse bought. They were disgusting. My younger self must have been mouth dead. Just urgh. And I still like Bird’s Eye chicken chargrills so that gives you an idea of my low standards.

    Too many shops to name have closed down around here. Chain stores, known brands, small local shops, familiar faces, all gone. It’s been a tough time. I’m glad you’re keeping covid out of your worlds. I just wish we could keep it out of ours.

  312. we were in the military. Lived overseas in Japan and West Berlin, when the wall was still up, and when it came down. I learned not to get attached to certain foods, because try and find the same chicken and walnut dish from Japan, yes i know it’s a chinese dish, but Japanese like chinese food too. Chicken fried rice has taken me years and i finally found it close from Kobe Steak House. Brochen from Germany was a hard addition to get away from and the cheese danish they had, because i can’t find it in Montana anywhere. oh and the Goulash from visits to East Berlin for shopping. it’s nothing like American Goulash sigh.

  313. Happy Anniversary! Hate when things change. I am plus sized also and have a tendency to buy the same clothing items over and over. I buy a lot of clothes from Lands End, Have been happy with most. I also have been happy with some shirts from Old Navy but ordering online can be frustrating as they seem to run out of whatever color I like right away. You could always see about ordering from Maurices online. Same goes with ordering Yankee candles.

    However next year they are predicting that CA will have a bacon shortage due to new laws going active. I made a joke that we should buy a small chest freezer just for bacon ????

  314. oh, TAME Clean Rinse. you would apply it to your hair and rinse it out and it would feel like you lost 10 pounds of weight on your hair. it was amazing. it didn’t strip your hair, it took all the gunk off of it.

  316. Not food products bur Fuchs ecotec replacement toothbrush heads. I have a few left but one day I will run out … sigh

    And Long Tall Sally went out of business last year. It is hard to find women’s work pants and suits with a 34.5 inch inseam. I saw they came back in business – someone must have bought the name – but they are doing casual clothes for now, no suits.

  317. My favorite restaurant in Orlando closed due to the pandemic, Vito’s Chophouse. It’s been closed over a year and I thought they had decided to call it quits but there are rumors they will reopen in October, ????, but maybe not with the varient. Mostly, I feel betrayed by tv shows: Flash Forward, Santa Clarita Diet, the Finder. All ended on cliffhangers, all were great shows I wanted to keep watching. For food I miss buttermilk ranch flavoring. Everything used to have a buttermilk ranch flavor but now it’s all super spicy or meat flavored, not my faves.

  319. Publix seems to be the savior of many favorite brands in the southern USA. Hubby and I were surprised and delighted to discover a huge new Publix Market in Live Oak, Florida, the last time we had to trek over there to visit Lowes! When we got to the checkout we spent over $200 when we had gone in for a quart of 2% milk. We were so excited that the checkout girl commented that we must have had a good day despite the rain outside. We responded that visiting the new Publix was like spending a day at Disney World with no one else there but you! 🙂 Small town folks like us go NUTS in Publix!!

  320. Dumplets! When I was a child American Beauty made a boxed chicken flavored pasta called Dumplets.

  322. I used to love Kettle Cookies by Nabisco. Needless to say they have been discontinued. There have been so many things that have been discontinued in the last 75 years I don’t know where to start.

    Stocking up just in case is the story of my life. I can’t get just one..

  323. I was a picky eater so my mom used to make us Tuna Helper, back when they used yellow/cheddar cheese. Now you can only find Hamburger Helper and maybe the “Tuna Helper” but with Alfredo sauce.

    But, being a proper Mexican housewife, she made a good Mexican tortilla soup.

    There’s also Quesabritas, basically cheddar puff balls but with spices and lime on it, way more delicious any other cheddar puff ball you will ever find. But Cheetos bought the brand and now makes their own greasy version (but still better than regular puff balls). I asked my dad for his upcoming vaccination visit to fit as many as he can in his suitcase.

    To continue with the cheese, my dad’s hometown of Jerez, Zacatecas made this delicious, juicy, fresh Oaxaca string cheese that I would practically finish by myself growing up. Out of the 5 fresh local cheeses that they made in that hometown, that one was discontinued. I think the factory was sold. I dream about that cheese….

  324. I decided not have the pandemic in Dina’s world. Because I have that power.

    *sigh of relief* Oh, thank you so much for that… Who knows, there might be a day when I’ll be fine with reading about covid in fiction, but right now it’s too much of a real life worry to really want to experience it anywhere else.

    That said, this got me pondering whether Sean would be naturally immune to the covid virus, in which case Dina would be able to send him out on errands to replenish Caldenia’s Mello Yello supply and such. (Just a personal guess, but I would expect that if any virus were to enter his body, then the ossai would immediately and savagely kick its ass.) But maybe Dina would just buy her groceries from Baha-char instead, in a pinch. So perhaps covid wouldn’t affect Dina’s life all that much to begin with?

  325. For post-world lockdown travel goals. Australia still has Vientta Ice cream cakes. Every city you visit you should be able to buy one.
    Australian manufacturers are reintroducing discontinued items but at twice the price. Childhood favourites we used to be able to afford with pocket money/allowances.

    We have toobs (tomato sauce/ketchup flavoured cheezels) polywaffles (superlight marshmallow covered in chocolate)

  326. Three things I really miss:
    1. Many years ago the local grocery carried Coffee chip ice cream that was absolutely amazing. I have still not found anything close to it in quality.
    2. Baking bags with seasoned rice. These were baking bags with rice and seasoning, add water, and bake for 30 minutes to get sweet and sour rice or mushroom rice or some other flavor. I would add vegetables and meat, bake for 30 minutes, and have sweet and sour chicken and vegetables over rice. Truly some of the easiest meals I have ever made and have never been able to replicate.
    3. Bake on cake topping. Years and years ago, there was a bake on cake topping sold. It was a chocolate crumb topping with mini chocolate chips and fudge drizzle. The crumb/chip part was sprinkled on the batter before baking, then the fudge drizzled over after the cake was baked. If you put it on a yellow or chocolate cake, it came out looking beautiful, as if you had put a lot of work into creating the topping. It was perfect for a sheet cake when you needed something fast, easy, and pretty to take to a function. It also tasted great and was a party favorite. When I heard that it had been discontinued, I went to the store and bought every single box I could find.

  327. Or wait, I just thought of one way covid might affect Dina’s daily life… Wouldn’t Caldenia be *terribly* disappointed if the virus were to put an end to their neighbor’s orgies? If everybody’s isolating at home, who is she going to spy on? So, yes, it probably is best if Caldenia isn’t deprived of her daily juicy gossip and entertainment. 🙂

    • Erm, just reread my comment and realized it might sound like I was saying covid would’ve been an interesting addition to Innkeeper, which was not my intention. So to avoid any misunderstandings: my comments were meant to convey that

      1) I’m really thankful if authors choose not to introduce covid to books that are otherwise escapism from the real world,

      2) Introducing covid to Dina’s world might well have been a unnecessary addition anyway since it wouldn’t really affect her life much. She has no human loved ones left on Earth who would be at risk, she doesn’t need to leave the inn to work or run errands, and her alien guests with advanced medical technology probably wouldn’t be at risk either. So, yeah… I think it also makes perfect sense plot-wise not to include the pandemic there.

  328. My mom used to make Boston Cream Pie from a mix. I don’t remember if it was Betty Crocker or Duncan Hines. It was pretty good for a mix and I hardly ever have BCP now because it’s time consuming to make from scratch.

    Not sure what tees you like, but I like the consistent fit and wear of Lands End tees. Large is really a large.

  329. We have a brand of chili seasoning I’ve grown up with French’s Chili-O. I live in Texas now, but I still make chili with Chili-O. This meal is quick and filling, with variations such as: chili’n’grits, “taco-in-a-bowl” (lettuce, rice, chili, onions-if-you-can-stand-them, cheese, and Fritos), frito pie, just-give-me-the-damn-chili, you name it. At Christmas time, when 30 people pile into a single kitchen, one of the classic meals is that Taco-in-a-bowl, made with French’s Chili-O.

    However, in 2020, this beloved seasoning packet disappeared from my Kroger. I Googled, and found that the powers that be at McCormick are rebranding it as “Durkee Chili Pronto”. Who is Durkee? What did he do to deserve this spice mix? Why is it *still* not available at my Kroger?

    I gave up, and tried other chili seasoning packets: McCormick’s, HEB Two-Alarm, that blog’s seasoning mix. They are not awful, but they are also not MY chili. My parents recently discovered that Amazon is still selling Chili-O, and sent me packets for my birthday. I was delighted. Now I’m feeding the insatiable space magnate for my chili needs.

  331. McCormick’s Salt & Spice. It’s been discontinued for years now and we are still upset about it.

  332. Happy Anniversary. I miss Hersey’s Dark Chocolate Bliss, small chocolate squares. Dove Dark Chocolate just not as good.

  333. My go to clothing store, Catherines, closed all their physical stores last year. They still have an online presence but I really miss being able to try on clothes as my weight varies (thank you, thyroid gland).

    As to the hoarding instinct, we live in the country so shopping is a pain as it is a long drive to anywhere. We have a walk-in pantry stocked with as many staples as we can fit. My mother thinks we’re preppers, but we just really hate to go to the store.

    I do have to admit, though, there have been some odd shortages popping up in SC due to some sort of shipping issue. A lot of the stores we use are having problems getting product deliveries.

  334. Baskin Robins Raspberry Cheese Louise was discontinued 20-30 years ago. I’m not an ice cream person but that was delicious. There is no substitute; I’ve tried them all.
    I can buy Lipton Golden Onion Soup Mix in Nevada. Check local stores and online, though you’ve probably already done so.
    THANK YOU for not putting the pandemic in Dina’s world. We have enough of it IRL, we don’t need it in our favorite escape.
    Thanks for the snippet.

  335. I’m sensitive to perfumes and can wear only a few scents. For years and years I’ve used Bath and Body Plumeria hand lotion and body cream. A few years ago they stopped carrying it in the stores on a regular basis and I totally freaked, but then at the semi- annual sale it was available for purchase either at the store – if they didn’t sell out before I got there – or on line, where I had to pay shipping in addition to sales tax. But it was worth it. Now when I go to the web site, the search results say plumeria can’t be found. I even looked on Amazon, and they have a few bottles of the lotion. However they range in price from $28.99 to a whopping $47.89. For an 8 oz. bottle! Here’s hoping Bath and Body is monitoring your site and brings it back.

  336. Hunts used to have different types of tomatoes on a can (Italian, Spanish and 2 others if I remember right). I used to recreate a Spanish rice and porkchop recipe of my moms from memory. There was no actual written recipe.It was the only can of tomatoes that hit the right note. I still look for it, all this time later…hoping that maybe they’ll start making and marketing it again.
    One of the major cake mix companies used to sell a Boston Cream Pie Cake mix, one that I had for my birthday every year growing up. Discontinued years ago ????
    Oh! Mega Stuffed Vanilla Oreos.
    I hope the kids feel better soon and you find a new candle and tee shirt place.

  337. We have lost some favorite restaurants in the last few years. Sunshine Cafe was an old Japanese restaurant that made their own pickles. I loved those pickles.
    Kow Kow wAs an old fashioned Chinese American restaurant that had the very best egg rolls. We have found a place that has excellent sizzling rice soup, and some amazing Korean home cooked food, but the eggs are just good, not sublime.
    Then the Italian place that made a wonderful ricotta and spinach cheese pie served with a mushroom lemon butter sauce that was so very good. But all was not lost. The owner of that restaurant moved in with his daughter, and proceeded to drive her nuts. So she went out and found a location and funding for a second restaurant for her Dad so she didn’t have to kill him. We are all much happier now.

  338. My breakfasts commutes desperately miss General Foods International Cappuccino Coolers and Cocoa Krispies Cereal straws.

    Would mix a giant travel cup of ice cold lactose free milk with two packs of hazelnut flavor and drink it with the cereal straws, munching as they got soft.

    Both items suddenly vanish after over a year of an easy, tasty, on-the-go breakfasts.

  339. Happy anniversary – glad you found a way to celebrate, even if it wasn’t the celebration you might have imagined a couple of years ago.

    I deeply miss Ben & Jerry’s pink lemonade sorbet.

    • I miss the ben and jerrys half baked where the fudge brownie was actually good and fudgey and not this dry crap they currently have in it. I even emailed them saying what the heck but they dont care lol

  340. Oh I needed to comment on this! These are the discontinued items that I am still upset about.

    1) Trader Joe had parmesan ranch salad dressing
    2) Costco had roasted red pepper chicken burgers
    3) Taco Bell had chili cheese burritos and taco salads (RIP taco salad)
    4) Benefit cosmetics had a foundation I bought for my mom who has rosacea and has difficulty finding something that works
    5) Virbac (pet company) had dental chews made from some animal digestive enzyme that my cats would chew to clean their teeth. Discontinued by the company only to be replaced with useless rock-hard pebbles which my cats just threw around on the floor like a hockey puck.

    TERRIBLE! If a company makes something and doesn’t say it’s limited edition, then they better keep selling it for at least a decade.

  341. My favorite restaurant in Lexington closed due to the pandemic- no matter where I was going or who I was with, if I was traveling south to north (or vice versa) we were stopping at that restaurant. It had been recently been bought out by a boutique hotel brand and they took my sweet-potato hazelnut ravioli in brown butter and collard greens off the menu (forever earning my contempt), but they weren’t able to get off the ground before I even got to try it.

    I also miss Safeway’s Cherry Almond Fudge ice cream and Dove’s cherry ice cream bars. Why does the world begrudge me my cherry chocolate ice cream? What did it do that was so wrong? Thank god for Tillamook.

  342. Lancôme discontinued a lipstick and a nail polish color, both over 10 years ago, but I loved them sooooo! I still think of them today!
    The red lipstick was the perfect color for my skin tone, it made my skin look creamy and was a darker color so it didn’t look vampy or flashy.
    The pink nail polish was my favorite for toes because I don’t like sparkly thing s like fake jewels or paintings of flowers on my toes. It was just pink enough to feel girly without being cheap looking and opalescent enough to be pretty to look at and not just flat shine.
    So sad????

  343. I seem to pick things other people don’t care for in foods. It seems my favorite thing is often discontinued. The last two really crushed me. Lipton brought out a bottled blueberry white tea. It was light, not too sweet, and had fabulous blueberry flavor. It was discontinued almost as quickly as it came out. Then, I tried a new Monster flavor I really liked. I don’t like carbonation, which eliminates most energy drinks. This was white tea with dragon fruit. Refreshing! Unfortunately, Monster brought out three tea flavors including the dragon fruit, and the other two were AWFUL. So I’m not surprised the tea was all discontinued, but I’m still crushed. It was a great way to start the day. I feel the sadness!

  344. Fantastic Refried Bean Mix. So convenient to just make enough refried beans for one breakfast burrito. It was a just add water miracle. I managed to snag five boxes off Amazon just before they were discontinued. So sad.

  345. Well, its not food, but the original Herbal Essences shampoo. Loved the scent, the foaming feel of it on my scalp and hair. I’m sure it would be terrible and strip out my current violet colored hair since I use Artic Fox which is temporary color, but I would buy a case of it anyway.

  347. I don’t know that you could call them discontinued, but every place of significance to my husband and I has closed (over decades). First date restaurant? Closed. Our go-to club? No more. Where we got engaged? Phht. Favorite special date night eatery? Au revoir. *sigh*

  349. Melinda’s Chipotle Ketchup – the yellow label version which is ‘All Natural’ ingredients & ‘Gluten Free’. This variety has now been replaced with a red label version. The ingredients list has changed (not for the better IMHO) & it doesn’t have the gluten free guarantee. Not an issue for my partner or I, but we have friends with celiac disease. Eating gluten in any format results in severe pain & a trip to the hospital. So I was thrilled to have sourced a GF ketchup that was just plain yummy. Except now I can’t get the version I adore. Not sure if it is discontinued, or just out of stock due to supply chain issues. Had ordered from a supplier I’d used before, checked to ensure that the ingredients listed beside the picture of the product (which showed the yellow label) matched what I already had. Did, ordered & what arrived? The red label version. The Chilly Chilies website is out of date. Just saying.

  350. Panera’s Fiesta Con Queso soup, because it was a party with cheese. ????????

    I need to try a Vienetta ice cream cake.

  352. I miss Chips Ahoy cookies. They stopped selling them in Australia. 🙁 I brought a whole bunch when I was in Hawai’i a few years ago. They did not last long.

  353. Yankee candles can be found at Walmart. I know, I know. A fairly good price.

    Try HP Sauce from England. I’ve never tasted your sweet A1 Sauce, but it’s worth a shot.

    Zatarains snd Mahatma yellow rice can be found. I prefer Mahatma. I also throw some grilled onion and avocado in it.

    I do not miss much. Just restaurants.

    I appreciate those who get the vaccine and practice safety – washing hands and masks. Thanks to Kids 1,2, and boyfriend for getting vaccinated;I hope the other boyfriend recovers quickly. I feel bad for him

  354. My favourite jeans shop, Old Garage, closed. ????. Okay, it was decades ago, but it still hurts. Their jeans fit perfectly and they were half the price of Levi’s (which is probs why they went under)

  355. For some crzy reason here in Canada a lot of things that were discontinued in the late 90s are popping back up again. Clearly Canadian is back, though I swear it tasted better a few decades ago, the big Tang pouches are around again, as are a few other things. Spotted the International Food coffee mixes just last week, that was such an amazing treat during university then it went out of fashion. Some serious nostalgia there.

    And Ahooy 25th Anniversary to you and Gordon.

    • I was trying to figure out if there was any sea/sailing context around the 25th Anniversary ngl ????

  357. Campbell’s Meatball Alphabet Soup! It was a staple in our house in the 80s, and I was sad when I went shopping for myself one day only to find that it had been discontinued!

  359. Not a big thing but I seriously miss Snapple Root Beer. It was great. Smooth but not as sweet as A&W. It was discontinued because people didn’t like seeing the occasional sediment floating in the soda. What were they expecting from an all natural soda? Fortunately the stores didn’t pull it immediately. Once it vanished from my usual store(and I found out it was going away), I went around to all of the neighboring cities to clean out their stock.

  360. Not really discontinued, but they changed the recipe for how they did medium roast Moccona coffee, which was my go too, and at first i thought i was pregnant cause my coffee started tasting bad, until petitions popped up online asking them to change it back. So it WAS the coffee and not me lol. I ended up changing to the much more expensive but yummy caramel flavored one. ><

  361. so many of my favorites have been cancelled.
    White wings Chocolate Mousse Royale, GONE
    I used to eat 1 soup, it was like a chicken curry with rice (like you’d get at chinese takeout) GONE
    Gippsland yoghurt Lemon lime twist, it was like eating the best lemon Meringue pie you’ve ever had, GONE
    Rice crackers, only used to eat one flavour a chicken one GONE
    and so many more
    My friends don’t want me to try there favorites as then think they’ll get discontinued to 🙂

  362. Yes you like and buy it and then it’s just gone. It you see it’s getting deleted you can stock up.

  363. Blue Bell ice cream keeps coming up with delicious flavors and then making them go away! First it was birthday cake flavored (and it’s not the same as what they sell in the little bitty “fun size” cups that come as a 24 pack), then it was some sort of fudge swirl… The birthday cake flavor seems to come and go periodically, though it’s been about 3 or 4 years since I last saw it. I’m just waiting for them to make the cookie two step disappear….

  364. Knorr made a packet of seafood newberg sauce that was wonderful. It was discontinued, but it was long before the pandemic. They aren’t making it anymore, but declined to share the recipe. On an up note, so far my favorite Italian restaurant is still operating. It’s not a chain and is owned by two brothers who make wonderful food. They did carry out throughout the last year. A friend and I would get carry out and picnic in the parking lot every few months.

  365. Pollywaffle.

    Probably only an Australian/New Zealand chocolate.

    Pollywaffle – a marshmallow log encased by a crisp waffle coffin, then surrounded by chocolate.

    sigh.

    Happy Anniversary!

  366. I work in a grocery store, so I see what you are talking about every day. Our shelves have more out of stock tags than we like. Unfortunately it’s a numbers game right now. For instance, even though we have Coke & Pepsi vendors coming every day, they are just bringing the “basics” or the most popular products and even then it’s in smaller quantities than usual. Plus if we get run a sale( which are planned out a year+ in advance), then we sell out even quicker. So thank you for being patient with your grocery store personnel. We wish we had your favorite products back in too. That said, you might go up to customer service and they might be able to special order certain products you want. PSA delivered lol, here are a few of my favorite rare/discontinued products that I loved:
    Cranberry Sprite(fall 2017-fall 2018).
    Low fat white cheddar cheez-its( makes me feel better about eating half a box) lol
    Pretzel and cinnamon Graham cracker Goldfish( disappeared early 2020)
    Campbells WellYes Butternut Squash Apple Bisque.

  367. Happy Anniversary!

    US Target used to have Tim Tams made by Pepperidge Farms. Haven’t seen it on target.com for over a year.

    Re: Massage – I bought a Theragun on sale last year since I also have a sitting job. It really helps loosen my muscles and I’m flexible enough that the triangular handle lets me hit parts of my back. I also upgraded my home office chair to a corporate grade ergonomic office chair like I had at work.

    Hoping Kid 1’s boyfriend will get well soon. If they feel like sharing, is there anything the pro-vaccine people can do or say to help get younger people vaccinated?

  368. This is a local one, but my grocery store used to offer premium ice cream in ‘Cherry Armagnac’. It was fantastic. I used to serve it with brownies or chocolate cake at parties. Everyone loved it. Of course it was discontinued—we are waaaay upstate- no normal person knows what Armagnac is— if they’d called it ‘Brandied Cherry’ it would have sold like gangbusters. Read the room, Wegmans.

    On the topic of substitutes for lost and lamented ice cream, and forgive me if others have already pointed this out, but Haagen-Dasz makes a ‘triple layered’ pint of ice cream and crisp, thin chocolate that is almost but not quite entirely unlike Viennetta. It’s pretty good, anyhow. 🙂

  369. Ack! Forgot the stay safe and get well soons! Hope Kid 1’s BF recovers quickly, and everyone else stays healthy. Take care of yourselves—

  370. I love your “Perestroika Russianness”! The best way to go through life is PREPARED TO THE EYEBALLS!!! As an Army wife in Hawaii, we faced the annual rumors about ships with supplies like TP being delayed by hurricanes as well as other self-fulfilling prophecies and I learned well. Now, if we could find the Hubster’s favorite lite fruit punch that nobody in Hamilton or Coryell County Texas sells, we would be in business!

  371. My favorite Greek food restaurant that was 5 minutes away closed. In small town Ohio, it isn’t easy to replace. The next best is 40 minutes away.

  373. Dad’s chocolate chip cookies, which were like a shortbread cookie with chocolate chips. I also miss Roger’s Pancake Syrup.

  374. Knorr used to make an Oxtail soup mix that I used to have when I was sick at home. It was so thick and rich, It was great for dipping toast into. My ex got sick with the flu one year and I made it for her and she loved it. Knorr discontinued it sadly when the issue of bovine related Creuzfeldt Jacobs disease was discovered in cattle and the possibility it was being pased on to humans. So sad to see it go because it was so good but at the same time better to err on the side of caution. That said it was my second most favourite soup and I miss it.

  376. It’s a constant struggle. Have smart but autistic kids. Products that leave are a major disaster.

    Come to Australia we have Viennetta Ice Cream. it has gotten a lot smaller over the years but it is awesome.

  377. When I was much much younger, during the 60s, there was this breakfast product called Concentrate (I think). It came in a smaller box and the directions seemed to be that it was a topper on other cereals. I always ate it plain with milk. It had flakes that were about the size of oatmeal and tasted so creamy. I still look for it on occasion (an old woman’s dream). Just googled it and it’s definitely gone.

  378. Almond Sunset tea from Celestial Seasons. It disappeared 20 years ago, came miraculously back 5 years ago, and is gone again. So sad. It tastes like my childhood. I have 1 box left.

  379. Wishing you a Very Happy Belated 25th Anniversary Ilona and Gordon ???? Hope you had a wonderful, relaxing day! And sending best wishes for Kid 1’s boyfriend, hoping he has makes a speedy and full recovery soon.

  380. The only one I really miss is Golden Cockerel Gingerbeer. Whole there are several quite nice Jamaican ginger beers, the flavour profile isn’t quite the same.

    • I like Cock and Bull, but different flavor profile from a jamaican style one I bought recently

  381. I shopped at the Samsonite store in that outlet mall last week. I needed another suitcase for my train trip back to the west coast. Oddly, there are two Samsonite stores, one at the T*** Outlet Mall, and one at the P*** Outlet Mall. The lady on the phone at the P*** said they were identical, but we pulled into the T*** parking lot, so we went there. I believe I got the same case for 10 bucks cheaper than it would’ve been at another P*** Outlet Mall north of Austin, so I’m going to convince myself that I found the secret discount.

    The primary purpose of that road trip was to find a slice of Black Forest Cake in New Braunfels, but we got to downtown after the German bakeries closed for the day, and none of the other restaurants had it on their desert menus that day. So that mission failed, but I can recommend the ‘2Tarts’ bakery if anyone wants a distracting confectionary.

    I’m not sure how useful blanking the names of the malls was, but it seemed polite to… someone. No idea. Have a better tomorrow?

    • My fav fizzies was root beer. The mom & pop store across the street used to carry all the flavors. But my fav was root beer fizzies on a hot summer day. Yip I am a old geezer.

  383. Trolli Gummy Bears were discontinued when Trolli and Black Forest were combined. They kept other gummy flavors from Trolli, but ditched the gummy bears. Those Black Forest gummy bears are not acceptable. I have had to move to Gold Bären. Which are decent, but like a lot of European candy sold in the US, isn’t the same as actual Gold Bären from Germany. So, I wander through European markets looking for gummy bears made in Germany.

    The other thing I miss is the original McDonalds fries from back when they double fried them in lard. Sure, not vegetarian like they are now, but they were sooooo good.

  384. Carbonara sauce packet. Its dry you add milk and some butter simmer stirring constantly and wowla! Cook seasoned chick breast or shrimp. Throw meat on pasta and than add sauce. Its gone tho. No good replacement. I lucked out tho and found the exact same product at my dollar store and bought half the shelf ????. Also do you like living in texas?

  385. Also, id make a good russian as i have overstocked on everything like tp, tampons and canned goods because they are talking lockdown in my area too and last time people went nuts and bought everything off the shelves. So now i feel kinda ready.

  387. There was also a really good wheat things cracker i was hooked to! Bbq or something? But it left the shelves like 5 yrs ago. Very sad. Very delicious.

  388. Bac’O’s apparently are no more and you can only get McCormicks brand Bac’n pieces and sometimes you can’t find them for months. My husband only likes fake bacon on his baked potatoes. What is a girl to do you ask? Buy them off amazon for $20.00 for 3 bottles. 🙁

  389. I miss Keebler German Chocolate cookies and canned Sour Cream Frosting ( any brand). Why did they all go away? Why?. No Pillsbury or Betty Crocker or Duncan Hines. I would love to know what happened.

  390. Omgosh this wine!!! Cabana shore peach piniot!!! So damn delicious! Sweet light peachy perfection and only $10/bottle!!! Gone!!! Freaking gone!!! Discontinued!!! Maybe you guys in the states still have? But canada does not and its devestating. It was my go to drink. Cheap and delicious! Cant believe i didnt think of it first. Why they stopped making it ill never know but damn it all i wish i had warning as i wouldve stocked up.

  391. In terms of discontinued items, Gas X strips were the best. They tasted good and brought immediate relief. I just go with the soft gels now, but they don’t do as good of a job.
    One thing Covid killed for me was my job as party manager at a family owned arcade/entertainment center. It was a great place to work and I gained a major appreciation of a small business model. The owners tried to open for a couple of months when things opened back up last year. Sadly, we just didn’t make enough money to keep the place open and we had to close permanently exactly one year ago.

  392. Starbucks Coollime refesher
    It was their only refresher that is actually refreshing. Just a few sips takes you from parched to hydrated. Not sweet, not cloying, ice cold and delicious. I so miss it.

    • Clinique does a bottom lash mascara with a teeny-weeny brush, sold online at Clinique.com – $14. Or It Cosmetics does a tight line version, also with a tiny brush (not tried that – currently $18.75). If you want to go luxe, try Suqqu mascara – smaller, more precise brush to go with the feeling of Japanese precision. Mary Greenwell says it’s the business. V expensive though – sold at Harrods. For drugstore: L’Oréal Paris telescopic -$11.

  394. Energizer Egg Replacer, and Kraft Macaroni elbow macaroni noodles. My eldest is deathly allergic to egg. Egg in any form and any trace= a week long hospital stay and up until this year, being stabbed every four hours for at least five days with epi pens because they can’t control her reactions with an epi drip cause her heart would go nuts. Turns out egg is in pretty much EVERYTHING. Or it has touched egg or was made in a facility with egg.

    Kraft does not use egg or nuts in their facilities. It is to date the only noodle we’ve found that looks like what my daughter associates as ‘safe noodles’ because all other elbow macaroni is made with egg. ALL OTHER. The discontinuation meant scrapping pretty much any pasta dish we made because she did not trust the new looking noodles and there were no safe ones she was used to. We now buy our egg replacer on Amazon and have to get it shipped from over seas to guarantee we get Egg free Egg replacer with no actual eggs because our stores egg free products all contain egg whites…

    We also had to switch all our soap/shampoo/condition brands because with the pandemic companies that were allergy free changed their products to include an easier to get ingredient- almond oil WITHOUT stating their products were no longer nut free. They just ‘forgot’ almonds are nuts so all the hypoallergenic products we used are now filled with NOT hypoallergenic nuts. Hubby and daughter are allergic to almond. I literally had to go to three stores and spend almost 40 mins to an hour in each reading teeny tiny print on everything until I found safe products to replace ours that won’t mess with their skin or asthma too AND had enough I could stock up in case the one safe brand decides to discontinue their safe products too. I officially hate sweet almond oil now.

    On another note, I know the steak sauce you speak of and I switched to Old Country Bob’s Sauce and we are all like it even more.

    • Sorry to hear of her allergy – it is a tough one. My husband is allergic to potatoes and it is in way more items than you ever thought possible (potato flour / sugar / starch etc.) as it is cheap substitution. We too read every single label and cook mostly from scratch. He can’t eat many gluten free foods when my GF brother comes to visit as they use the Ener-G egg substitute, which is made from potato starch!

      I’m sure you’ve done the research but just in case it helps:
      In recipes there are other egg substitutes – such as flax seeds, baking powder & baking soda, chia seeds, banana, applesauce – depending on what is being made. ¼ cup carbonated water can replace each egg in most cake or cupcake recipes.
      https://www.bhg.com/recipes/vegetarian/vegan-egg-substitutes/
      https://veganuary.com/en-us/vegan-egg-substitutes-us/

    • I feel your pain! I’m seriously allergic to coconut, and for some reason, everybody in the universe now feels that coconut and its parent, palm are the absolute awesomesauce to replace whatever oil they’d been using previously.

      Didn’t pay attention when my ex-favorite hair dressing said ‘new formula,’ and a month later was wondering why my hair was dry, split and shedding. Then I read the label and freaked out…took three years to recondition my hair back!! Three years!

  395. We still have vienetta in the netherlands. It’s a christmas tradition to eat as dessert.
    Trekdrop is something discontinued here. Didn’t love it but felt like the end of an era. Xd

  396. Happy anniversary! Now that I think about it, my parents recently had theirs too.

    About vienetta vanila ice cream, not awhile ago it was brought back and being sold again in Indonesia. Even now it’s still easy to find them in the supermarket.

    About discontinued thing, there’s a local food brand from my university days that sells mushrooms-related product. I like a particular curry flavor of it and its satay. But now I can no longer find the curry flavor in the shop’s catalogue and the satay’s production is currently on hold due to internal factor and when I inquired about it, the customer can’t provide an exact date or even any estimation as to when the satay production will continue again. The brand introduces several new flavors, but I still can’t forget the curry flavor I really like yet.

  397. Hi! As a young adult during perestroika times have a suggestion. Did Yuo happen to knowYour masseuses(oh god, I do not know how to spell it!Sorry) name? Maybe she is vaccinated and would do home treatments? Going really soviet approach here. Might not suit US though, but people are people and Covid hit their livelyhood hard too.
    Pille

  398. Try a sports physiotherapy business as an option with your massage spa closing. I did that and my back muscle issues don’t come back as quick.

    • Yes! A sports physio therapist fixed my back for me. She figured out my sacroiliac joint was not fully seated on my right side, and manipulated my leg till it slid back into place. Then I did exercises (religiously) for a couple of years till the memory of the pain faded.

      I was 19 when the joint was injured (bike accident), 44 when I was referred to the physio who fixed me (Donna of Motion Matters, Ottawa) and I have had 10 pain free years.

      But you have to find a good physio, some seem to just want to keep you coming back forever, which gets expensive for those of us without health benefit plans.

  399. Just to let you know vienetta is one of the most constant and popular ice creams in Portugal, a staple of desert even available in restaurants, it’s so popular every supermarket has an off brand version of it, also we have flavor variations: mint, strawberry and coffee.

  400. Hello everyone,

    Yes we have all thise Vienetta’s here in the UK – I second that when it’s possible to travel we’d love you to visit.

    Belated Happy Anniversary & wishing you many more.

    Take care & stay safe,

  401. Rossi motorcycle boot. Comfy enough to walk in, remained in good nick till the sole wore out (years) but proper protection when you found yourself in a sub optimal orientation when riding.

    Covid lockdowns and other restrictions mean that I haven’t been able to ride for a while though which means I don’t need them. Is that a win?

  402. OMG NO MORE VIENNETTAS? I super super loved those desserts when I lived on the East Coast, but haven’t had them since I moved to Hawaii, where there are a lot of things just aren’t available. However, I thought, somewhere, someone was enjoying them, even if I couldn’t get them here. Now I know they are no more. Woe.

  403. Doritos discontinued Cool Ranch flavour a number of years ago in my country, luckily they’ve recently made a return to shelves here.

    I love using light weight comfortable headsets for gaming, has to be over-ear, has to be fabric or velveteen not PU/pleather cups. Recently discovered the G733 by Logitech. I’m not ashamed to say I bought 3 of them as it’s an absolute trial by fire to find a replacement headset 2-3 years after your last perfectly comfortable one dies.

    • My home town growing up had an ice creamery, they had Old English Toffee as a flavour. Vanilla ice cream with, if I recall rightly, some caramel sauce swirled through with crunchy pieces of toffee for good measure. I can’t find anything like it anywhere.

  404. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!

    Altoids dark chocolate covered mints… ghey were yummy and delicious and gave fresh breath ????

    Doodads…. yeah i know we still have chex party mix and yummy Gardettos, but I miss my Doodads

    Lea and Perrins white wine worchestershire aka marinade for chicken. It was not as strong tasting as the regular worchestershire and went well with deer meat

  405. There used to be a delicious whole wheat bread line called Brownberry Ovens. Around the year 2000, I think Arnold breads bought it and phased it out, maybe because it was expensive to produce (wheat berries, hearty whole wheat flour), or the mill that produced the meaty flour went under, or because its nutty, dense magnificence in a square loaf size put the other mass-produced Arnold breads to shame. I have tried Food For Life Ezekiel sesame bread, which makes good French toast, but dry crumbly sandwiches. A line called Rustic Ovens makes good sliced multigrain bread in sliced half-boule loaves, when I can find it on the shelf. There is a seedy Harvest loaf at Whole Foods and Giant (in the bakery display case), a low elongated boule shape, that’s good for toast and open-faced sandwiches. The quest for a Brownberry replacement continues.

  406. We still have Vienetta here in the UK, I have at least 3 in my freezer, the mint ones are my favourite! I love the way you can eat them later by layer???? I’m sorry you can’t get them anymore, simple pleasures are the best.

  407. So, I had bariatric surgery in 2017, so the way I eat has WAY changed from pre-surgery. Protein bars are a must for me. I can’t eat a lot at meals, and most microwave meals have carbs, so, taking quick food to work is a hassle. Pure Protein had these AMAZING Dark Chocolate coconut protein bars. They tasted like heaven. Sadly, they’ve been discontinued, at least locally. I do their Chocolate Deluxe now, which kind of tastes like a brownie, but isn’t as good. 🙁

  408. I lost my HEB Fig cereal. Twice a year I live in Texas for the Round Top Antique Show where I stock up on HEB treasure not available anywhere else. This last spring the entire line of HEB cereal had vanished. I’m on my last box, sigh.

  409. Trader Joe’s Southwestern Quesadillas with Seasoned Vegetables used to be my go to when I wanted to have a “happy” lunch on an otherwise shitty day. Sadly I have not been able to find them for about a year now, though I still look every time because some internet blog said that they were coming back.

  410. Jack Daniels Honey Dijon Mustard. The BEST honey mustard I’ve ever had. Can’t find it online. Can’t find it near me. I miss it loads.

  411. We had honeymoon cake, chocolate cake rolled around vanilla ice cream for our at home wedding cake. Its been discontinued for decades and I still miss it. For our 25th my sister hired a local baker to make one for us. It was fabulous and so is my sister. Happy Anniversary

  412. Happy Anniversary and congratulations! Hugs and good vibes to sick boyfriend. If you ever go to Fulshear, Elegant Spa has the best deep tissue massage for backs that need the hail Mary (mine is from sitting and a military injury)

  413. Cranberry flavored Jell-O. It’s been years since I’ve been able to find any. So many years that if I found it again, I’d feel a bit old to be doing what I used to love to do with it, which is make cocktail flavored jello shots. Vodka cran? Easy peasy. Cosmo? No prob, Bob. Sea breeze? Heck yeah, I got you.

    But if I ever do find it again? SLURP. Because life is too short.

    • What the crap? I just looked on Amazon, because it occurred to me that I hadn’t for awhile, and they have it. I’m crediting y’all with being magic.

  414. Happy Anniversary!

    La Choy mini egg rolls. Why did they have to go away? Makes me sad just thinking about it.

  415. You can still get Yellow rice with Saffron. The Vigo brand changed the bag Target still has it. Then there is Par Excellence(also has pepper bits) on Amazon. There are a few brands out there. You can also make yellow rice by using turmeric or taking annatto seeds putting them in a small jar with olive oil (in the fridge and when you want to make yellow rice just put a spoon of the oil in the rice with all your other seasonings. Some people just use an orange Sazon Goya flavoring pack but that does contain MSG if you are sensitive.

  416. I miss Jordan Marsh, an old New England department store. Macy’s bought it out eons ago, but I still miss it. Lea and Perrin for awhile had a sauce for chicken. It was great. Gone now.For many years I had the best pie pastry ever.Then Crisco changed their formula to be more healthy and I’ve never been happy with a crust recipe since. Does the Fanny Farmer candy company even exist anymore? If Angell and Phelps in Daytona Beach goes out of business I will cry for a year. They have the best chocolates I’ve ever had, and believe me, I’ve had a LOT of chocolate. The Covid shut down killed so many small businesses and so many peoples’ hopes. I can only try to support the ones that are left to survive against Amazon and Walmart. Brave New World.

  417. I wish they would bring back Firefly – its not a thing but it was discontinued and the ‘verse betrayed us!

  418. Gourmantra meal kits. Yes I know it was a kit but it tasted like genuine Indian food. You could get Butter Chicken, Korma and Tandoori. It came complete with rice, tomato puree, spice blends and ginger/garlic. So easy and so good.

  419. Things I miss or are hard to find: Fluffy white frosting mix, Brown edge wafers (a Nabisco cookie), original Herbal essence shampoo. Wise cheese waffies.

    Quiggs yellow rice can be bought directly from Konriko. Famous chocolate wafers are usually found at the end of the ice cream aisle with the various selections of ice cream toppings (at least here in NC)

    Happy anniversary and I hope the BF is better soon. So glad they are all getting vaccinated!!!

  420. My most recent and bitter betrayal is the changing of the Butterfinger recipe. The flaky, buttery center made it my favorite candy bar none (pun intentional). Then they changed the recipe for more “international appeal” and made the chocolate sickly-sweet and the toffee-ish center now tastes like actual roasted peanuts. Because there just aren’t enough candy bars with peanuts, apparently.

    But a friend just got me hooked on Ikea toffees… They aren’t a replacement, but there’s an amazing fruity taste to the chocolate that pushes them above Heath bars, which were my default favorite after the fall of Butterfinger.

    Older betrayals I still hold grudges about are losing McDonald’s original cinnamon rolls, Sonic’s Chicago dog, Captain D’s rolls, one of my favorite local restaurants and their amazing s’mores sundae… Er, there may be a theme here…

  421. There’s this raspberry green tea that my dad absolutely loves but wasn’t sold where my parents live. They don’t do online shopping but I found this place I could buy it online. I used to get it for my dad for Christmas, his birthday, Father’s Day, and my parents anniversary (so once a quarter) and it made him really happy. It got discontinued three years ago. Now I’m trying to find another brand that he’ll like to replace it. No luck yet.

  422. Baskin-Robbin’s had oreo ‘n cold brew as a flavor in March. I finally found the best tasting ice cream in the world, on my birthday, and they weren’t getting any more… I bought the rest of the tub they had and rationed it out. *sob*

    • That is the problem with Baskin-Robbins flavor of the month… it is very limited and may or may not ever return even as a one month flavor! I really miss the emails I got on the first of the month that not only informed me of their flavor of the month, but offered a buy one get one free ice cream coupon which I used to get two triple scoops of my favorite, Jamoca, ice cream. They also do not do the reduced prices for scoops of ice cream on the 31st… this stopped last year when lockdowns started happening. Not sure, if and when, it will come back. For now, I pay around $8.50 for a quart of Jamoca and make it last a month. Wish they would offer plain Jamoca in prepackaged quarts rather than hand packed, could get two for almost the price of one that way… do not want chocolate and almonds mixed with the Jamoca.

      I wonder if you could have Oreos added to Jamoca ice cream like a Dairy Queen blizzard… if they do that at BR and if it would work for you.

  423. For background, I have an extremely dry skin condition. Back in the late 80s Avon came out with a series of products called “Anew.” The body lotion was a miracle. Then they started monkeying around with it and made a bunch of different products and soon you couldn’t get just the body lotion. If I had known they were going to discontinue it, I would have bought a warehouse full.

  424. Back in 90’s I used to get “Pillsbury cornbread twists” they were perfect to serve with black bean soup….but no more. They recently came out with canned “cornbread muffins” I am going to try, but I loved the twists.

    • oh, 2 other things (other than Firefly which total agreement)
      Clove candy sticks (these were clove flavored Leo Candy sticks /think peppermint but Clove flavored…yum)
      Pecan passion anything at Bath and body works…my all time favorite scent

  427. Red vines and black vines. No, I don’t want Twizzlers or Australian red licorice or ropes. My childhood was woven through with vines! Also there is a pur lipstick shade that was perfection and nothing has ever come close. Repeated inquiries to the company ignored. I was going to use that company that makes out of stock lipstick at insane prices, but it wasn’t just the shade it was the texture and feel. Couldn’t bear to be disappointed.

    • They sell red vines on Amazon. I paid $13 for 12 packages. My husband loves them, but alas, we have cut sugar from our diet.

  429. For plus sized t-shirts, try tractor supply. They have a v neck, short sleeve that I find very comfortable. My husband bought me some.

  430. Ben and Jerry’s Wavy Gravy ice cream. I would not be able to sleep knowing it was in the freezer, just sitting there, lonely….I would hear it’s sirens song beckoning me from my dreams….

  431. I was about to say that we still have Viennetta in the UK but I see everyone else has also pointed this out. So how about this for an obscure Viennetta fact to go with the feast Mod R will throw you one day when our ships all come in? Viennetta used to be protected by a patent and then, until it got invalidated, by a 3D trade mark registration, making it one of the relatively few human foodstuffs where its method of production and/or shape had intellectual property protection.

    Bet you wish you were inviting me to that Viennetta party now, don’t you? Oh yes, it would be a riot. Come for the ice-cream, but stay for IP!

  432. Discount book stores where I live closed down (they sell slightly damaged copies of new and old releases). We have fixed (high) prices for books here (basically no sales) – so these stores were a nice way to look around the new releases and try a new author, book, series for little money without waiting a long time at the library.
    I can shop online but it is not the same 🙁

  433. Oh my goodness! I was horribly betrayed when the Jiffy box brand of f vanilla frosting was discontinued. ???? It was positively the best to use when icing sugar cookies! Not to mention just making it to eat directly out of the bowl when one is craving a sugar fix. It was Devine and I miss it terribly. ????????

    • Agreed. Jiffy discontinued many of their mixes I took for granted. I also used the vanilla frosting for sugar cookies. It was truly the best vanilla frosting ever. I make my own now from scratch, but the taste is just not quite right yet.

  434. Walnut Acres 12 grain cereal and 12 grain flout – Walnut Acres was one of the first organic farm businesses in the US. Old age finally got to the owners. I wish I had kept a label so I could try to recreate the grain mix. The flour made the best bread.
    And department stores with proper restaurants, sit down with silver and cloth napkins – used to be a great treat to have lunch in the local Bloomingdale’s when shopping for school clothes at the end of the summer. That was over 50 years ago. Sigh.
    How would a Koo cope with a lockdown?

  435. Could you make the Venetian ice cream cake? Melt some chocolate and layer ice cream over it and then freeze? I wonder if there is a recipe for it?

  437. Wolfgang Puck used to make Creamy Tomato soup. It disappeared for awhile and then came back. Now it appears to be gone for good. What is left is the Tomato Basil Bisque, which has basil and a chunky texture. It is not an adequate substitute. We have replaced it with Amy’s Chunky Tomato Bisque, which still has the wrong texture but no basil.

  438. What I would like to time bring back? Changeable battery in smartphones and use of Pb/Sn eutectic compound in soldering.

    What is better than before? Well, I still have some walkmans at home and they are big clumsy things requiring 4/3/2 AA batteries to run. Today I have all music/books I want in my phone…

  439. Baskin Robbin’s Champagne Grape Ice. A scoop of that along with a scoop of a rich vanilla. Wonderful.

    Sara Lee Orange Cake. Great!

    I miss them both.

  440. The apple pies McDonald’s used to have, they changed the recipe and doesn’t taste the same.

    The oil they used to fry McDonald’s French fries with. They changed the oil to some kind of vegetable oil and they don’t taste the same.

    When was the last time I was at McDonald’s ? Since they made those changes.

    Every time I like a food, or clothing, or car, or series, it is guaranteed to be discontinued.

  441. I used to live in Mt. Holly Springs, Pennsylvania. Very very small town in the Susquahanna Valley. They had these chocolate covered peanut butter eggs at Easter time that a local church made to raise money. Ou could only find them at locally owned stores (like the local pharmacy). Ive never had a better peanut butter egg; its a hundred times better than hershey’s/reese’s. I live hundreds of miles away now and im sad at Easter now.
    Also, im pretty sure hershey’s and snyders pretzels had a chocolate covered pretzel together, called Dipps, but their partnership broke up. I think they each individually have a chocolate covered pretzel they offer now, but both are inferior to the Dipps with the combination of companies. Although i would argue hersheys is better than the snyders because their chocolate tastes better.

  442. I miss Heyday bars. Nabisco made them and quit in the late 80’s early 90’s. Crunchy bars with chocolate, caramel and peanuts. They were amazing.

  443. So many things we used have disappeared over time. A few things I remember: Mo’s 24 by Celestial Seasonings – we dropped one bag into our iced tea steep and it made the most wonderful iced tea. We have rave reviews when entertaining or making tea for gatherings. Currently I’m mourning my inability to find Hidden Valley Ranch Buttermilk dressing mix. I finally found it online but SO expensive! I make a much-requested dip from it. We used to have a grocery store chain which stocked different stuff. When it went out of business, our Kroger stores quit carrying all of that stuff so I have no way of getting them anymore. I eat Breyer’s carb sense ice cream and ice cream bars. Getting very hard to find and out of stock quite often. I’m afraid they’re going to discontinue or Kroger’s will stop stocking it. I believe this happens constantly; the product needs a bigger fan base, I guess. ;-( Really good brand of diet root beer soda. Frozen chocolate cookie dough. On the other hand, we are very blessed with the many things we have…

  444. I miss Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific. The old version, with formaldehyde. The supposedly original version available through Vermont company is NOT the same.

  445. Hmmm. Things I miss. The world has changed a lot in my lifetime, and food was never my Really Big Thing. When I was a child, we had a fireplace and wood cooking range. They were a lot of work, but we never worried about What Would Happen if the power went out. We had a well (best water ever), but the water was not piped into the house, so we did not worry about frozen pipes. I find I like air conditioning, warm rooms (with a fireplace to toast on one side and freeze on the other), and hot showers. Electricity, electric lighting, and computers attached to the Internet are marvelous things. I would miss them — terribly. But what do I miss? Real cotton fabric. There is no substitute. Real, dress-grade wool, both as fabric and as crafting supply. Aluminum tea-kettles that will hold a half gallon of water. Good, hardwheat flour. But above all, the innocence of a world where we hoped that war, prejudice, and many other bad things could be cured by showing up, sitting down, and peacefully singing songs. George Carlin has gone to that performance hall of Somewhere Else, Arlo Guthrie retired last year. Who are our bards now?

  446. Trader Joe’s discontinued their aioli mustard for a short time. The outcry was large enough that they brought it back. The stuff is good!

  447. My husband always tells me to stop “loving” the products I buy, because they are always discontinued. Its so frustrating!
    And it does feel like its all about me! Lol!

    • Oh and my Yankee Candle outlet also closed but online works great, except in the summer. If you sign up with your email and phn numbers, you get lots of great discount offers.

  448. I don’t keep track of discontinued things, that’s too depressing for me.

    When this pandemic-crapola is finally over, you need to come to Europe again, we have Vienetta galore, in different flavors too, and the vanilla one is my all-time favorite! You can still get it, just not at home in the US 🙁

  449. When I was a kid, Twix for a limited time had cookies and cream Twix. I loved them so much. I remembered them with fondness. When they came out with their new cookies and cream Twix, I was so excited, but so disappointed when I tasted them. Why would they put cookies in the cream part when the bottom part of the bar is a chocolate cookie? I don’t remember cookies in the cream of the distantly remembered ideal.

  451. I miss the betty crocker chocolate / macaroon bundt cake mix. Great moist dark chocolate cake and the best tasting macaroon filling. I’ve tried many recipes to re-create, all fall short.

  452. Betty Crocker Microrave (cake mix that you added water to and microwaved). There’s somewhat similar items out there now (Betty Crocker Warm Delights), but nothing quite matches up to the original, which was discontinued in 1992. Apparently, people thought it tasted “rubbery” or something like that, but…..insta-cake! So nom.

  453. Actifed. Those worked the very best for my family’s allergies. The stuff I buy now is just not as good.

    • I agree. In order to avoid the federal rules requiring tracking of pseudoephedrine, every manufacturer has taken the effective ingredients out of their products and none of them work anymore.

  454. For 20+ years, I missed a lot of things that only seem to be in Texas – cafeterias (especially Luby’s which now barely exist), Big Red, and banana pudding Blue Bell ice cream.

    I moved back to Texas just recently so I can enjoy some of these things again.

    I also miss Units (an 80s clothing store). Everything made of stretchy cotton – perfect for working from home.

  456. Happy Anniversary! My husband and I are at 14yrs. Cross fingers we will get to 25 🙂

    What do I miss?

    Starbucks vanilla scone cookies – a 2pack with an owl shaped cookie & a cat cookie
    Sara Lee banana cake
    Sephora Super Regenerating Oil-Gel – fabulous texture that absorbed easily into skin. also a great dark purple bottle. So pretty 🙂
    Avon’s clay based skincare line – Porefection (?)
    The Amaretto Lindor chocolate flavour. Only ever saw it in the variety pack. Now the pack only has milk, dark & white chocolates. Sigh.
    Body Shop original vanilla perfume oil (20+yrs ago). Now they have a vanilla based line every Christmas but they are hit & miss. Mostly too sweet.
    Stegmans Wool-felt slippers. Bestest ever!! Support feet & toasty warm. Found them at an on-line warehouse but mucho expensive. Hoarding my last pair. Will miss terribly when worn out.

    Also, lived in Japan for 2 yrs and they have milk flavoured products. Milk flavoured Hagen-Dasz has no equal! It is a very delicate flavour but definitely milk, not vanilla or cream. I miss it terribly. Had never seen it before or since returning to Toronto.

    This thread has been fascinating. Thanks to House Andrews, Mod R & the BDH for entertainment and sanity checks this past year. Take care and stay safe <3

  458. Was it Good Humor Viennetta Ice Cream because I just read in a magazine that is was making a come back. I looked it up and sure enough it is available at my local store!

  459. Happy anniversary!

    Jello pudding pops. The marbled ones. I loved those things and I mourn their loss regularly. I’ve tried several “make it yourself at home” recipes and they just aren’t right. I used to eat the thin sheet of ice over them first.

    I am the kiss of death to automobiles. I had a blazer and loved it. Discontinued. I had a cavalier and loved it. Discontinued. had an s10 and loved it. Discontinued. I had a jeep Cherokee and loved it. Discontinued. And now I have an xterra and love her. Discontinued.

  460. Could not find Mello Yello while living in Northern California forthefirst 3 years. Mountain Dew plus PINK grapefruit juice (90/10) is an almost exact approximation.

    I have learned to make donuts because Krispy Kreme was a 12 hour drive (now I just have to drive to the next state (90 minutes.))

    I really miss the sweet rolls that Flowers bakery made with the strawberry filling and thick but not really sugary icing. None of my attempts are close. Very tasty but not like my memory.

    Lofty Pursuits on YouTube is working on an Altoids Sour recreation/homage. Tangerine flavor only (my favorite was the grapefruit. )

  461. Happy Anniversary (late).
    Best Kosher used to make bagel dogs and mini bagel dogs (like corn dogs but they’re wrapped in poppy seed bagels [heaven]). Unfortunately Sara Lee bought and killed the company and Best Kosher doesn’t exist anymore. Hebrew National supposedly makes them but I cant find them and you cant order them online.
    -I always wanted to try Vienetta, when I started buying for my own house I remembered it and looked for it only to find we cant get it.

  464. Waitrose used to do these amazing Mojito ice lollies complete with alcohol, they were fab, and I was heart broken when they were stopped. Viennetta is alive and well and living in England and comes in multiple flavours – see another reason to come as it’s not like I can ship you some. Not food but suede full seat dressage breeches. No world ending, but they have been replaced with techno fabric and silicone grip seat. Not I have nothing against the new style, it looks amazing on a svelte 20 something, but not so forgiving on a 52 year old, still competing at a high level (I keep reminding myself that I still have 20 years to make the Olympic team before I would be the oldest to do so – gentleman from Japan holds the record I believe. Just a motivating pipe dream) with a mumtum and cellulite. They also leave patches of silicone on the cream leather of my car seat
    Happy anniversary to House Andrew’s, may the vaccine be with you, and hope K1 BF gets well soon.

  465. OK, this is completely off topic, but I googled cockalorum (one of Bug’s curses for Alessandro) and found a Wikipedia page for General Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke Gordon, and he “is mentioned in the Jacobite riddling song Cam Ye O’er Frae France, referred to as “Cockalorum”, an epithet derived from the traditional nickname of the head of the Gordon clan, “Cock o’ the North”.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gordon,_2nd_Duke_of_Gordon?wprov=sfti1

    I thought that was cool and I was wondering if this is an intentional Easter Egg, or coincidence? Thanks!

  466. Whitman’s Mint Airbons. No substitutes found in 20 years of looking. Discontinued a looong time ago. But now I’ve got a freeze dryer, and I’m going to try freezing marshmallow fluff with peppermint oil in it.

  468. I have a completely unrelated question: I recently rediscovered Katya Reimann’s Tielmaran Chronicles, which I enjoyed as a teenager and, unlike most of the books I liked back then, still holds up. I’d like to send the author a message expressing my appreciation but this was the only thing she wrote and she doesn’t have a website. She published through TOR. I don’t see a way to contact her there. Any suggestions? Advice?

  469. I miss caramel pudding. Neither butterscotch, or toffee flavours compare to caramel. I can make it from scratch but I don’t do it often because boiling sugar is scary! I miss rosemary and black pepper chips. I don’t remember the brand because I knew it would be discontinued when I discovered it. In my experience, stuff I really like gets discontinued rather quickly. The ultimate betrayal was when my favorite brand of bottled mincemeat was discontinued. How dare they damage Christmas!

    • Crosse &Blackwell rum&brandy mincemeat? If so, you could order it from Smuckers.com (or could 2 years ago. I still have a jar. )

  470. I miss Georgia Peach Coke. It was a limited time thing, but I wish they would bring them back!

  471. Coca Cola. Original formula. In a glass bottle. With a metal cap. Ice cold.
    Today’s formula, especially in plastic bottles, just isn’t the same even though they say it is. Occasionally local stores will bring in “Mexican bottles” that are glass with metal caps, but it’s always old and flat.

    • ooh! Gold Peak Tea in the glass bottle suffered the same fate. It just doesn’t taste the same in those plastic bottles they put it in!

  472. I feel as if someone follows me through the grocery and makes notes to discontinue everything I buy.
    We ate Kraft “Deli Deluxe” (I think) cheddar cheese for almost 40 years (it looks like American but tastes sharper, and it melts better than real cheddar) until, last year, it disappeared.
    I like the mini-wheats with raisin goo inside, but they fell victim to the fad to stop eating raisins because they have too much sugar.
    I love cherry TicTacs. TicTacs in general seem to have suffered a decline, and now most places sell only orange or peppermint. Yuck.
    The small business losses resulting from COVID are tragic and widespread. The one that affected me the most is the closing of a pet store chain called “Pet Valu” which offered DIY dog wash facilities for only $10 a wash. It was a great service!

  473. I’m going to be 70 in a few weeks, and I scour my memory for discontinued things I used to like, and the only thing that comes to mind are Balene crochet hooks. I’ve been crocheting my fingers off, and I still have a few Balenes,but they were discontinued. They fit my hand! I’ve ordered some Japanese hooks from HelloWeCraft out of Garden Grove, Ca. I’m hoping for the best. Other than that, my memory fails, and way too often, so I find my self feeling down. Eh.

  474. Thank you, Ilona Andrews for the post.

    Somethings I haven’t found a replacement for like iced cinnamon buns with raisins in. Many decades ago when I was a little girl my grandfather would buy from Piggly Wiggly grocery store on our way fishing on the Edisto River in SC. Now I make my own.

    Buffalo meat either ground or steak. Earthfare which closed last year had in organic meat department. Less fat that cattle. Different taste than stockyard corn finished. Not game-y like deer either. Deer I get from local hunters provided I share chili with them.

    Before the local cotton mill was sold to overseas investors and switched from good quality 100% cotton products, I bought 100% organic cotton bed clothes, bath towels, tee shirts and boot socks locally. When elderly owner retired and his children took over the mill was sold. I haven’t been able to find 100% cotton sheets that don’t cost a fortune. Cotton holds up to many bleachings be it blood, manure…, or dog toe nails shredding as make a sleep nest. Closest towel are those very expensive Egyptian cotton towel which are too expensive for everyday use.

    Thank you for the trip down memory lane.

  475. My mother and I are Very. Not. Happy that Costco discontinued 1) Rosemary Olive Oil bread, and 2) Carrot cake with the apricot jam layer.

    Costco really should consult with us FIRST before discontinuing the best things.

  476. You should email the company and ask for them to bring it back. It worked for me. I’m solely responsible for bringing back Doritos 3D. You’re welcome 90s kids!

  477. One of my old school favorite author’s books are not in print anymore and most aren’t available on Kindle. I could only find her books at some used bookstores or (more recently as people are out of work and sadly resort to selling everything) used on Amazon. They used to sell there for like $30 each. So I would totally bring back Tara K. Harper’s books.

  478. Seven Seas Creamy Italian salad dressing… It was tangy and delicious. I loved it so much when I was a kid that I used to make sandwiches with toast, cheese and slathered dressing. I’ve never found another dressing I like as much 🙁

  479. Ouch! I just saw Viennetta at a local grocery store the other day and was surprised. It was just the original vanilla and chocolate variety. (I’m in the Metro Atlanta area)

    One thing I liked but can’t find reliably anymore is sugar-free popsicles that AREN’T orange/grape/cherry. I used to be able to buy this mix that was strawberry, lemon and raspberry, but no more! Haven’t been able to find them in at least a year. Substituted them with a mini sugar-free strawberry bar which I can’t find now either! Just the full size ones…(They’re the green box fruit ones)

  480. I wish for the Carnation breakfast bars from the 80s!!! So many memories….. also apple cinnamon pop tarts.

  482. HEB used to stock Louisiana Purchase Red Beans & Rice mix. It tasted great without being too heavily spiced (looking at you Zatarans). Then it disappeared. They have other products for that brand but that mix is gone for good.

    Recently, Kroger was carrying a brand of tortillas with a sugar skull on the front – they actually beat HEBs (blasphemy!). Gone.

    Makeup and skincare seem to be the biggest repeat offenders – I think because people chase the next new thing. It’s frustrating because there is a fair amount of money spent to find the product that works for me – I don’t want to start all over again.

  483. As a kid I almost never got to drink soda (my mom was strict about a few things). One of my favorite sodas was BARQ’S FRENCH VANILLA CREME SODA. It just disappeared!

    I have a hell of a time finding BREYER’S ROCKY ROAD ice cream. I love Breyer’s, in part because they keep it simple & natural. It is still made but is almost never available.

    As a kid I used to get this little round tin of French hard candies (Strawberry was my fav). I could only ever find them in a drug store. They discontinued them years ago. They were LES FRAISES BONBONS BY LA VIE DE LA VOSGIENNE.

    Then there is UNION BAY CLOTHING CO pants (like khakis & loser none jean casual pants) that I’ve loved since college (late 90’s). It is almost impossible to find them anymore.

    Oh, & the cologne that my man wears is discontinued & I am SUPER picky about colognes & perfumes & the like. It was OCEANS by NAUTICA.

    Happy Anniversary!

    • Ah, clothing. French Dressing made the best underwear and shelf bra camisoles. As in I wore them for a decade before they got too thin and see-through and lost elasticity.

      Lee jeans fit then I found Gloria Vanderbilt Amanda style. But they only last about 4 years before the thighs rub away and you have holes. (I might walk a lot or a little, I’m really not sure which. )

      I really miss Avon’s Sunshine fragrance. It was a warm grapefruit smell. It went really well with their vanilla powder.

  484. Nehi orange soda. Can’t find anything as good either. Nehi still makes grape, peach and something else, but not the orange.

  485. I miss pollywaffles, an Ozzie candy bar- choc coated wafer tube filled with vanilla marshmallow. Choc, crunch and soft sweet vanilla. Sigh.

  486. Mars candy bars. I have been looking for a mars bar for a long time. Oh, they should still sell for 5cents.

  487. All the chocolate bars -Polly waffles, scorched peanut bars and white knights. Arnott’s lattice biscuits, the basis of a number of delicious desserts is the latest discontinued item in Australia that I have noticed!

  488. Thank you for keeping the pandemic from Innkeeper world. We’ve been being lucky this pandemic and I’m so B on the edge of totally melting down – again. It’s nice to be able to get away from it.

  489. Might be worth investigating an inversion table. Allows you to go mostly upside down just by raising and lowering your arms. Releases all pressure on your back (to your ankles) for a little bit but you are in full control. I know a few people for whom it has made an enormous difference.
    They are very adjustable but not cheap. But if it helps your back by easing the pressure then probably worth it. It is one of those things you need to try first though I would reckon.

  490. I have celiac disease and had it years before it became popular enough to be able to buy things like gluten-free cookies or good GF Bread. I’m probably only a good baker now because I put a life-time’s worth of baking failure under my belt during those years and my current success is a mercy, pure and simple.
    Hodgeson’s Mill makes THE BEST GF cornbread mix, I like salty cornbread, but their “sweet” cornbread falls perfectly into the no-man’s-land between salty and sweet. It was cheaper than everything else GF (2.50 per box) and so good that I stopped trying to get my husband to eat the normal kind instead. Walmart just up and discontinued it 0_0. “Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink” is the old version of gluten-free life when you just couldn’t make or buy any edible baked good. I felt totally betrayed. I found it at King Soopers, then they discontinued it in-store too. There was no substitute but after a while it became available online. I now buy it by the case from Kroger online along with wal-mart’s pilsbury gf flour, which is the rest of the reason I’m now a good GF baker ^_~

  491. I must tell you, there is only one thing (in this genre of ‘worst things,’ that is)worse than a product you loved and depended on being discontinued. That product being brought back years later… and being inferior to the product you remember. Whether it’s actually inferior, or your rose-colored goggles are only making it inferior doesn’t matter. The frustration of something you loved and lost coming back only to gut punch you with being terrible… So RUDE!
    (For me, I am looking at you, Cookies ‘n’ Creme Twix. You vile reproduction.)

  492. So my favorite frozen burrito since I was a a small child were Patio frozen bean and cheese burritos. They were wonderful just enough spice and cheap. They were my cheat meal once I became an adult. That meal you have because the only parking spot left is in the puddle so your feet are going to get wet, you boss decides your report is due three days earlier then he originally ask, and when you get home the dog made a mess that you have to clean up. Well Covid killed them. The company that made them discontinued them and I have yet to find a replacement because they just aren’t the same.????

  493. Happy Anniversary
    White Wings Continental Cheesecake, one of my favourites that has been discontinued after decades.

  495. artificial mint flavoring turns the inside of my mouth bright red and itchy. meaning every single mouthwash in the stores cant be used. there used to be a grape flavored ADULT mouthwash to prevent plaque and tartar that i loved, and it was discontinued. it wasn’t a stupid childrens version designed only to prevent cavities and do nothing against tartar or plaque. i’ve been searching and searching, and have found a citrus flavored one to try.

    i hate mint! i have to use special prescription toothpaste the dentist is able to order in bubble gum flavor. because again, childrens toothpaste is only made for cavity prevention. yet dental companies seem to think adults only want mint flavor. so frustrating.

    • I have the EXACT same problem. I’m super duper allergic to mint flavours and oils and I am struggling so hard to get fluoride products without it. If you ever find something, please drop a comment, I’d be so grateful!

  496. Before I ever heard of Krispy Kreme donuts, we had Saps. I don’t really remember liking them for very long before that small company went under, but they were delicious. Krispy Kreme donuts – when fresh – are a pretty close replacement. There used to be this yogurt brand I loved as a dessert, but I can’t remember the name of the brand. It was a parfait style yogurt, marketed in the US as a Quaker product – it was only out for a year or so in my area before being discontinued. Brummel and Brown had a strawberry yogurt spread, and it was the best thing ever on blueberry bagels. Closest replacement is just strawberry cream cheese, but it’s not as good because the strawberry flavor gets a little overwhelmed. Just realized that most of this is junk food, but eh.

  497. Frick’s smoked bacon jowl. I use it in collards, cabbage, ramen, beans, etc… It was sold in supermarkets for about $3-4/lb. I couldn’t find it within a 20mile radius since December 2019 so I switched to Smithfield smoked jowl. As of this past Sunday, it too has disappeared from all local stores, labeled as “out of stock”. I had to order a different smoked jowl at $9/lb online vs. paying $14/lb for some locally made “artisan” jowl from heritage hogs.

    I usually find ways around flavoring ingredients by making my own seasoning blends from scratch, but I’m not set up to cure, smoke, then vaccuum-seal 10-15 lbs of jowl!

  498. I saw the Venetian Ice cream in the grocery store! I am in the US. It was in Market Basket. You should check your grocery store.

  499. YES. There was an A1 that I *think* was for poultry. It had a yellow label. It was so good. I liked it much better than the regular A1 and would only use that on steaks. I miss it so.

  500. My massage place closed. But my massuer continues to buy pie from me at the Farmers market and she told me where she’s working now… Better than nothing! We spent the last year ordering in way more than we did pre-covid to try and keep restaurants in business. So far I think we lost one in the area. All my lambs (except one stubborn sister) are vaccinated.

    And we just had our first delta variant in the area… Hospital is fine, lots of ends available. We’re doing ok here in rural Michigan.
    It also seems to me the tide of idiocy is turning here too. An idiot in the grocery store withno mask and a tee shirt that said “Don’t get vaccinated”. Some old lady told him he should just tattoo “I’m an idiot and a sociopath” on his forehead… Nobody looked away, everyone looked disapprovingly at him… I said “amen”. He looked around at all the disapproval and left.

    Good luck. Sending healing light to bf1

  501. Seconding Vionettena. That was our go to fancy dessert.

    Pizza d’Amore had The Best pizza ever. Been gone since the 80s.

    Jimmy Dean’s omelettes.

    Waldenbooks, Borders, Dress Barn.

  502. I feel so seen. I can’t believe there’s a website. My husband mourns Habitant pea soup, and I can’t find the equivalent of Hanes cotton crew socks, not even at Vermont Country store. Sigh. . .

  503. hello everyone

    I found the ice cream cake Ilona was mentioning at Kroger in Centerville Ohio. Just after my booster for DPT (I am an early childhood educator) and right before my birthday. YEAH!!

    Sara

  504. The order of the jars in the top photo is wrong. The second pink/red jar should be the first one. Every time I see this it gives me anxiety.

  505. 3 of my favorite thrift shops are gone due to covid. Here in Baltimore, one Salvation Army, a consignment store and a Value Village thrift have closed their doors and the ones that remain have upped their prices for merchandise that seems to be diminishing in quality. I guess once the attic has been cleaned out and new replacement items are becoming harder to find, people are looking at keeping what they have.

  506. So this may have been mentioned already because the thread is so looooong I didn’t read them all but…Good Humor started bringing back the Vienetta in January of this year after it was discontinued here in the States in the 90’s. I live in Fort Worth Texas and it says it is available at my local Kroger grocery store. Several of them in fact. So I know your an HEB grocery fan but maybe check out the local Kroger there for your sweet treat.

  507. My spouse is allergic to milk, soy, treenuts, other nuts, coconut, peanuts…

    Ice cream was the thing he loved the most in the before times. [Eight years ago, he could eat all that, which is terrifying to think about because what if the trend continues?].

    Anyway, in the long series of ice creams that were discontinued, the highlight was a Talenti chocolate sorbet. No substitute found. Every time we lose one of these ice creams, I wonder why. This stuff is so good that I, who consume a gallon of milk a week and could have any dairy-filled ice cream I could find, love it. Every time I see the Ben and Jerry’s Milk and Cookies allergen-safe ice cream, I stock up and I’m just fatalistically waiting for it to disappear. There’s an oatmilk skyr now that I also watch with paranoia.

    We also have a truly massive quantity of sunflower butter because of the two months where no stores near us (or Amazon) carried any. The worst was a month period where no oatmilk or pea milk could be found for love or money in the Twin Cities.

    For myself, every time I pass the Siggi’s yogurt in the aisle, I look sadly for the yogurt with mango. Or the mango with Oui’s yogurt (now dairy-free instead). There’s a style of sanitary pads that is now gone and I hate the remaining shapes so much I switched to tampons.

    All of these are luxuries. It’s not a real scarcity that I have I ‘have’ to have a certain skyr, but you’re right. I do feel betrayed. And bereaved.

  508. Bernstein’s Herb Garden French Salad Dressing–no longer at any store in my small city. Nothing else is close and there’s not even a knock off recipe on line.

  509. Happy Anniversary!

    I took part of my last sabbatical in Germany and fell in love with a delicious strawberry rhubarb herbal tea. The name? “Pure Lust”.
    No kidding!

    Of course there is nothing to equal it in the states so my friend from Germany used to send me two boxes every Christmas.
    I have been rationing it but soon I will be without Pure Lust in my life.
    Sadness.

  511. Wagamama discontinued their Itame noodle dish. It’s not in any of their cook books and recipes posted online don’t quite make the mark.

  512. torengos, it was a salsa chip that was similar to pringles in that it was stackable but came in a triangle container. My family loved them

  513. Dang it! I wish you hadn’t said that A1 used to have a different flavor. I wish I had never known that. LOL!

  514. I have a funny foot, too narrow for a B width, too wide for an A. I found a company that made a “slim fit” that were expensive as hell but they fit. Discontinued. Don’t get me started on McCormick Onion Gravy Mix. I now mix Brown Gravy Mix with dehydrated onion flakes, but Not The Same! Congrats on the 25th! We are speeding toward 38 on December.

  515. Petco makes this AMAZING breathe mint for dogs. I love it, they love it – it’s my favorite. It’s Well & Good Fresh Breath Dog Tablets.

    Well and Good is PetCo‘s brand.

    They periodically stop making it and you can’t find it anywhere, and then they just start making it again. This is been a roller coaster of emotions for me. If I see it in the stores I buy everything I can see, I have 10 dogs I need my mints.

  516. The worst are “discontinued” doctors and other services. You get used to one person who knows you and all your painful bits for many years, and suddenly they are gone and replacement will never have same experience and same understanding of your history.

    I have to wear orthopedic, custom made shoes. They cost close to $2,000 (I can only afford one pair a year) and there is only one person in our state that I trust with my feet.

    He is retiring.

    Believe me, this is far more terrifying then tshirt shop closure.

  517. I miss the Greek restaurant that we ate at through my entire first pregnancy, curried chicken salad from a particular store, and so many curly hair products that I loved that got discontinued.

  518. Campbells use to sell a starter Thai soup mix that was fabulous. They discontinued it. Sigh. It was one that my whole family liked.

  519. I like Del Monte Ketchup. I bought it for years. Now I can only buy it on-line from Amazon or Walmart at four to five times the price I used to pay.
    Also, I buy Scott single ply 1000 tissue toilet paper……I think they changed their “recipe” for making it during covid, but I can’t be sure because I have no pre 2020 rolls. But it looks and feels different…. and wrong. I’m a woman with simple but inflexible tastes which makes life difficult sometimes. Why, yes, I do have a little OCD.
    There are more. Sometimes, they just change a product to the point where it bears no resemblance to the original item. Don’t get me started on mini chocolate donuts in the 60’s ????

  520. First comment…I am long limbed and have about given up shopping in regular stores because stores don’t carry tall tops and rarely long pants. Therefore, I found an online retailer that is affordable and customizes all of their clothing: Eshakti. Love, love, love their clothes from classic to trendy.

    Second comment: this item is not discontinued but just doesn’t taste the same…NuttyBars…I think the fake sugar wave ruined them…sigh… there is no replacement!

  521. Not COVID related…..just missed
    My Mom always used Lawry’s garlic salt on roasted potatoes….can’t get that in Vancouver BC anymore….
    Loved Cross and Blackwell’s Rosemary Redcurrant Sauce (yes it also had mint) for lamb……don’t even think they make it anymore.
    So sad”……the flavours of youth gone.

  522. that’s just the worst. I used to love this yogurt, (I’m a woman of simple pleasures) it was made by muller (quaker dairy/pepsi) and the flavor was amazing, it was peach passion fruit. It was so good I ate them at least 3 times a week for two years. Then out of nowhere and without any warning they were just gone. I was so upset I couldn’t find it anywhere. then I found out they wouldn’t be available anymore. It still exists, just not in the states.
    So if you can buy it where ever you’re from, get a peach passion fruit muller yogurt and eat it for me please? I really miss that yogurt ????

  523. Valentina salsa is in short supply!! (On knees head back screaming). I love it.
    Other then that I can roll with a lot.

    But in regards to your Perestroika Russianness, I have a food hoarding problem. I subconsciously buy more then needed then stop eating to preserve. I strikes up my eating disorder causing me to skip meals. I tell my kids no when I should say yes. I have gotten better at recognizing the pattern but this pandemic has hit me hard.
    Being in Florida where no one cares and mask are optional. I for one am glad you have decided to to write it into Dina’s stories.

    I’m glad you feel you can write out your struggles to you reader. Needing to talk about them and having no one is hard. So you write I will read????

  524. Discontinuation of an item often used has caused 2 years of continuous moaning from my entire extended family. It was Van Camps New Orleans Red Kidney Beans. This was a staple in my home growing up. It was simple and perfect. We would fry pork chops (not breaded), make rice and the beans. My family adores this meal. They discontinued them. We have tried every substitute we can find and even made homemade red beans. Just not the same. Van Camps received over 50 unhappy emails from my family alone. We still aren’t over it. ????

  525. Someone may have mentioned this (sorry, there are a lot of comments ????), but Kroger sells Viennetta by Good Humor. Maybe the Kroger stores in Austin, or the towns to the south, carry it? ????????

  526. Brun lipstick #428 lancome. It’s brown and the only shade that I’ve ever felt comfortable with. It’s the only shade I ever felt looked natural on me. I wrote Lancome a letter outlining my severe disappointment with them to get me hooked on a $50/tube lipstick only to discontinue the shade. For a while I could get it off ebay and from France. But those days are gone. I still feel betrayed.

  527. Re your back: stretch. (Well, assuming no other structural or congenital issues, of course) I’ve always had back problems. Mitigated by chiropractors, massage, Pilates and Gyrotonics. After my son was born, it was excruciating. My masseuse, who is amazing, recommended a stretching DVD: Total Stretch for Beginners with Tamilee (Amazon). I didn’t see her for 18 months. It’s very gentle and if your body will tolerate the movements, I highly recommend. I started doing every night before bed, kind of amazing that it helped me. For $3.99, might be worth a shot, anyway. Sorry you’re experiencing that, it’s just so exhausting.

  528. Well, not so much discontinued as modified. When Hershey took over the uk chocolate company Cadbury they changed the chocolate recipe on pretty much everything including my absolute favourites the Cadbury creme egg. Only available after Christmas until Easter. Yummy runny sugar fondant centre in a dairy milk chocolate shell. Best thing ever. I had a catering pack to myself one year, 48 just for me!
    Not only has it been reduced in size but they changed the chocolate to basic so it’s awful! I haven’t bought chocolate from Cadbury since. Hershey said sales had reduced, something like 70% but that was ok! Do they not know how to run a business?? Last I heard (because they are dead to me so not up to date info) they were trying to sell Cadbury.

  529. Boyds used to make a powdered eggnog/custard creme type drink. You mixed it with hot water like cocoa. I will always miss that stuff.

  530. While I’m a bit late to the party, I really miss Swiss Miss Chocolate pudding and Philadelphia cream cheese onion dip.

    I can’t find the pudding anywhere, but whole milk Jello cooked pudding is close enough.

    And the only place on-line I’ve seen the chip dip is CANADA! WTAH? I really thought it was *made* in the U.S.

  531. My mom always made no bake oatmeal cookies for everything. Family gatherings, school bake sales,weddings,funerals etc. Anyway, no matter what she had to use ‘Crystal Wedding Oats’. It had to be that specific brand. She would go to all the grocery and mom n pop store in the area to find them. Poof, one day they just disappeared. Couldn’t find them no where,even Amazon and Walmart didn’t have any in stock. My mom was furious (actually she still is when someone mentions her cookies) we even called the company. Turns out Quaker had either bought them out or had rebranded them. And swore that there Quaker 5 minute oats where the same thing. No, Quaker they’re not. They’re really not. So, so long wedding oats, your missed in Southern Kentucky.

  534. It’s not likely we’ll have another lockdown because more and more people are getting vaccinated in addition to wearing masks and social distancing.

    In my area (Toronto), multiple Starbucks are closed. Their bottled and canned drinks are featured prominently in the grocery stores so people can still get their fix at home.

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