Discontinued foods

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

That silly law regarding toys in food doesn't stop fast food restaurants from putting toys in kiddie meals, but it may have stopped companies from putting prizes in cereal boxes. But then how are fast food kiddie meal toys and cereal box prizes legal?

That's because the prize is separated from the cereal or kid's meal contained within by it's own package.

[Pikapower]

Now a days you get no prizes in cereal boxes, but back in the day some cereals had small fun size/sample packs of candy in theme. Christmas Cap'n Crunch had one year a pack of sprinkled frosting to put on the cereal.

I blame the fact that parents don't want their kids to eat sugary cereals and eat more cereals that are low in sugar like Kix for the demise of cereal box prizes and not that law that bans non-food stuff (like toys) inside food! 

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

They still have cereal box prizes every once in a while, but not as often as they used to.

Just last year at this time, they had SpongeBob SquarePants water squirters inside boxes of General Mills-branded cereals, including Golden Grahams, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, Cheerios, etc. Each water squirter (8 of them total) had a picture of SpongeBob SquarePants characters on one side, two water squirters had a picture of SpongeBob SquarePants, other characters included Gary (SpongeBob's pet snail), Patrick Star (SpongeBob's starfish friend), Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob's eternally cranky octopus neighbor/Krusty Krab co-worker), Sandy Cheeks (SpongeBob's other friend, the squirrel from Texas), Eugene Krabs (a.k.a. Mr. Krabs) (SpongeBob and Squidward's boss at The Krusty Krab restaurant), and Sheldon J. Plankton (Mr. Krabs' business rival and owner of The Chum Bucket restaurant).

[IGA/Kmart Is Forever!]

Another few food products that I miss are as follows:

• Welch’s Grape Pop
• Crispy M&M’s
• Cherry Coated Limited Edition M&M’s
• Tropical Skittles
• Cadbury Orange Crème Eggs
• Kraft Noodle Dinner with Savory Chicken
• Kraft Easy Mac Cheesy Pizza Microwave Cups
• Friendly’s Kit Kat Sundae

They just started making Tropical Skittles again. However, they did not taste the same as I remembered them.

[Pikapower]

.McCain Alphabet Fries
.Hidden Valley Pizza Ranch Dressing
.Hidden Valley Taco Ranch Dressing
.Luchables Tacos (:P)
.Doctor Dreadful food and drink lab toys
.Tyson Looney Tunes TV Dinners
.Ralston Spider-Man Cereal
.Hubba Bubba Bubble Gum soda
.General Foods International Coffees
.Folgers English Toffee Cappuccino
.Taco Bell Blackjack Taco
.Moe's Southwest Grill Tri-colored tortilla chips
.Chili's Awesome Blossom (Similar to Outback's Bloomin' Onion)
.McDonald's/Untied Airlines Friendly Skies Happy Meal (in-flight kids meals)

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

Doritos/Ruffles 3D's Chips
Pringles Torrengos Tortilla Chips
Pringles Ridges
Pringles Right-Crisps
Pringles Fat Free (with Olean) :P
Doritos Taco Supreme (with the great taste of Taco Bell)
Cheerios Tic-Tac-Toe (with Cheerios X's and O's)
Betty Crocker Dutch Apple Cereal
Betty Crocker Cinnamon Strudel Cereal
Kraft Supermac & Cheese

[Pikapower]

Pringles Fat Free (with Olean) :P

Weren't products with Olean were pulled off store shelves due to people getting sick from the Olean being used in the products?

[Bdubs]

Pringles Fat Free (with Olean) :P

Weren't products with Olean were pulled off store shelves due to people getting sick from the Olean being used in the products?

I just recently saw the Lays plain Fat Free cheaps, still made with Olean on the shelves the other day.  I believe they now come with a warning on the back that it may cause anal leakage.  No joke.

Pringles made a corn chip way back in the day, I used to eat the heck out of them when I was a little kid.

[IGA/Kmart Is Forever!]

Pringles Fat Free (with Olean) :P

Weren't products with Olean were pulled off store shelves due to people getting sick from the Olean being used in the products?

I just recently saw the Lays plain Fat Free cheaps, still made with Olean on the shelves the other day.  I believe they now come with a warning on the back that it may cause anal leakage.  No joke.

Pringles made a corn chip way back in the day, I used to eat the heck out of them when I was a little kid.

How is something like that even safe with the chance of getting dehydrated? Does anybody know at all if dehydration can happen if the anal leakage gets out of control?

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

Taco Bell Taco Light
7-Eleven SpongeBob SquarePants Pineapple Slurpee
Subway Pizza Sub (discontinued on regular menu, now a "secret menu" item)
McDonald's Butterfinger McFlurry
McDonald's Mushroom & Swiss Quarter Pounder
Hardee's Fried Chicken
Burger King Dinner Baskets:
*Whopper Dinner Basket
*Steak Sandwich Basket
*Fried Chicken Basket
*New England Fried Clam Basket
Burger King Flame-Broiled Meatloaf Sandwich
Burger King Tendercrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch
Lay's WOW! Potato Chips (with Olean fat substitute) :P YUCK!

[Pikapower]

Lay's WOW! Potato Chips (with Olean fat substitute) :P YUCK!

Wasn't there also Doritos WOW! chips as well?

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

Lay's WOW! Potato Chips (with Olean fat substitute) :P YUCK!

Wasn't there also Doritos WOW! chips as well?

There were no Doritos WOW! chips, but there were Ruffles WOW! chips.

[IGA/Kmart Is Forever!]

The foods that I miss are as follows:

•   General Mills: Fruity Yummy Mummy & Berry Lucky Charms
•   All Discontinued Kool-Aid Flavors that have ever been made in existence.
•   Nesquik Banana Milk Jugs and Powder
•   Nesquik Vanilla Powder (They still manufacture the jugs though, however they are very hard to find.)
•   Chef Boyardee Canned Chicken Parmesan and Chef Boyardee Boxed Lasagna & Spaghetti Dinner Kits
•   Betty Crocker Double Cheese Pizza Hamburger Helper
•   Lipton Fiesta Sides, Nacho Pasta
•   Betty Crocker Hamburger Helper Stroganoff Microwave Singles 
•   There was also a limited edition Trix Cereal Flavor back in the early 2000's that I loved. It contained two fruity flavors in one cereal piece which were banana and another flavor that I can't think of.
•   Quaker Cap'n Crunch's Oops! Smashed Berries (This was made right after The New Millennium back in the days where there were no green berries. After this was discontinued, they added the green berries in 2002/2003.)
•   Long John Silver’s Baked Cod Fillet Meal
•   Arby’s Limited Edition Chicken Parmesan Sub

Long John Silver's just recently re-released their Baked Cod Fillet Meal, however it is a different cut from the piece of the cod now. At the same time, they no longer put the seafood crumb topping on top of the finished product. This really stinks. This was my #1 favorite dish that they made and now that they brought it back they completely changed their recipe from the original recipe that they had before.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

"NEW! Coke" was discontinued in the mid 1980s only to be brought back in the 1990s as "Coke II" for a short period of time, then get discontinued again. I guess there were a few people that actually liked it.  ???

[Pikapower]

There were no Doritos WOW! chips, but there were Ruffles WOW! chips.

Well, here's proof that Doritos WOW! chips did exist!

[Pikapower]

Duncan Hines Grape bubble gum frosting


Wild MagicBurst Pop-Tarts

[IGA/Kmart Is Forever!]

Duncan Hines Grape bubble gum frosting

When was this made? It looks so good that I could eat a can of this icing by itself. I loved fruit flavored sweets.

[Pikapower]

Duncan Hines Grape bubble gum frosting

When was this made? It looks so good that I could eat a can of this icing by itself. I loved fruit flavored sweets.

It was made in the 1990's, when I first saw this I thought YUCK! Who would want that on their cake? :P

[Pikapower]

. Chicken Tonight simmer sauces
. Hormel Kid's Kitchen
. Chef Boyardee Chef Jr. pastas
. Nickelodeon Green Slime Popsicles
. Starship Popsicles
. Mickey's Parade Popsicles
. Screaming Yellow Zonkers
. Yoplait Go-Gurt Fizzix

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ice cream bars

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ice cream bars have returned now that there's a new TMNT cartoon on Nickelodeon.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

The Big King burger made its return to Burger King's menu. This time around, the Big King is no longer just a double burger, and has a middle bun, just like the McDonald's Big Mac.

[buzz86us]

I miss Surge

[Pikapower]

I miss the Volcano Taco at Taco Bell, they just discontinued it!  :(

[TheFugitive]

When I was very young my dad used to buy us Funny Face Drink Mixes.
They were a direct competitor to Kool Aid, and I think they sold for a few
pennies less (likely why he bought them).

They quit selling them because they had what were, in retrospect, some politically
incorrect and racially insensitive cartoon characters on the package for the various
flavors.  "Injun' Orange" had an orange with Indian warpaint and headdress.  "Chinese
Cherry" had a cherry with a horribly stereotypical Chinese face on it.   Etc.

Later my mom got on a health food kick, so he would have had to quit buying them anyway.

[Pikapower]

A list of discontinued Kool-Aid varieties

.Island Twists (Kickin' Kiwi Lime, Man-O-Mango Berry, Slammin' Strawberry Kiwi, Oh Yeah! Orange Pineapple)
.Blast Offs (Blue Moon Berry and Solar Strawberry Starfruit)
.Mega Mountain Twists
.Magic Twists
.Rock-A-Dile Red
.Great Bluedini
.Pink Swimingo
.Purplesaurus Rex
 

[zonemad96]

I used to love the taco kid cuisine's. It was just something about the subpar tacos that when it mixed with the cheese sauce made it taste delicious. I haven't had anything like it since.

[TheFugitive]

Several Nabisco products from my childhood come to mind.

Cheese Tid-Bits - These were cheddar cheese flavored crackers, a bit like Cheez Its, except that
they were finger-shaped.  They were sticks about an inch long by 1/4 inch wide, and rounded at
the ends.

Mr. Salty - Nabisco's brand of stick pretzels.  Unlike most pretzels they came in a box.

Doo Dads - A sort of party mix that was made up of Cheese Tid-Bits, Mr. Salty Pretzels,
peanuts, rice and wheat Chex.

My grandparents always had boxes of this stuff lying around their house.
I remember one time they had a big fight after my grandfather came to bed with
Cheese Tid-Bits in the shirt pocket of his pajamas.

[Stork of The Weak]

It's amazing to think Nabisco was once owned by RJ Reynolds, a tobacco company (and yes primarily a cigarette manufacturer).

[TheFugitive]

The former Nabisco bakery in Pittsburgh is now the regional office of Google.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

It's amazing to think Nabisco was once owned by RJ Reynolds, a tobacco company (and yes primarily a cigarette manufacturer).

RJR Nabisco also owned the Kentucky Fried Chicken and Zantigo Mexican restaurants until 1986 (RJR Nabisco purchased both restaurants  from Heublein), which they sold to PepsiCo. A majority of the Zantigo restaurants were converted to Taco Bell, except for one location in Minnesota. Zantigo would be re-established nearly 25 years later by former Zantigo managers as an upscale Mexican restaurant chain serving Minneapolis and the surrounding area.

Today, KFC and Taco Bell are owned by YUM! Brands, and Nabisco is currently owned by MondelÄ"z International Inc.