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Are there any foods or drinks you really wish were still around? For me, it's Snapple Elements. Everything about those drinks screamed 1999 (one of my favorite years). In the age when everything had to have "X-TREME!" added to titles, they had flavor names like Velocity, Meteor, and Turbulence. This was the kind of beverage that dot-com startups served in their cafeterias.

Oh friend, do I EVER.

When Frito-Lays bought the Canadian Hostess chips in the 90s, we lost these:



They were replaced by Ruffles. Ruffles are and have always been infinitely inferior to O'Ryan's. I will never forgive Lays for taking the best potato chip in the world away.

Frank said:

I will never forgive Lays for taking the best potato chip in the world away.

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Yes, Frank. We know.

Over a decade ago Frank said:

Ruffles are shit compared to the once great ultimately crunchy O'Ryan's. I was pondering today how a sack of O'Ryan's got me through the chicken pox. My throat was so itchy from the sores lining it that I was swallowing huge chunks of the immensely thick chips to scratch it. Good times.

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--Patrick

THAT WAS SO LONG AGO!

There used to be this ice tea brand in Taiwan that made an amazing mint ice tea, but they don't any more. I miss that tea, it was incredibly refreshing on hot days (which is like 170 days of the year in Taiwan).

Also my mom used to make amazing egg tarts but one day she lost the recipe and couldn't make them any more. I haven't had any for like the last 25 years and I still miss them.

Passion fruit Gatorade.

Smores bars. They went away super quick, but I loved them. I don't get why they failed so badly.

Does it count if the food still technically exists but they changed the formula so it doesn't taste as good as it used to? Looking at YOU, Rolos.

And the lime Skittle would have been on here too, but they brought it back.

ALDI cereal kinda like Quakers muesli but with chocolate and coconut, and more sugar - it was situated kind of in between the "boring" adult muesli/granola/etc and the "sugary" kid cereals.

When they discontinued this, I kid you not, ALDI saw their gross drop by almost 10% - it took literally years to completely recover. Not because this single cereal was 10% of their turnover, of course, but it turns out it was one of their biggest loss leaders. Kids were always asking/begging for breakfast cocain Kwakies and when this disappeared, children were angry with Aldi and parents no longer had a reason to go there over other discount supermarkets.
They re-introduced them 5-6 years later, but with another recipe, and of course all the children who were into it had moved on and the new generation didn't have any attachment.

GasBandit said:

Does it count if the food still technically exists but they changed the formula so it doesn't taste as good as it used to? Looking at YOU, Rolos.

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This so much for Honeycomb! I bought some a a while back, expecting to live the glory days of my youth. And it tasted like wet cardboard. I thought maybe it was just me growing up, but I searched the internet and found confirmation that the formula had changed.

On that note... NyQuil and DayQuil. Meth heads ruin everything for everybody >_< In the 90s these were a sure fire way to get over any non-life-threatning respiratory illness FAST. But then the law said anything with pseudoephedrine had to go "behind the counter" and you had to sign a registry when you bought them, and Vicks decided they'd rather change the formula than risk the impact to sales so that the bottles could stay out on the shelves. Now they barely do anything.

Lay's curry chips.
They existed... 15 years ago? Then disappeared.

They've done butter chicken chips since then. Nope. Not right.
Now they have 'magic masala' which is closer, but not the same!!!!! Too sweet and too tomato-y.

I want my curry chips back.

GasBandit said:

On that note... NyQuil and DayQuil. Meth heads ruin everything for everybody >_<

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For me this was Vicks Formula 44-D and the old orange Triaminic.
And yes, just the ability to walk in and buy a 100ct bottle of pseudoephedrine without being treated like a criminal.

--Patrick

Y'know, I almost posted about Lay's too. The Smiths chips that were replaced with Lay's (yeah, don't ask me why their original name in Belgium was already an English-sounding name), were generally considered to be far better. Replacing the "salt" with "naturel" chips only made it worse. Trying to re-make the paprika chips into something that tasted like the vegetable rather than the spice was also a big bad move. And they've retired some dozen or so tastes since.
I didn't because, well, I don't really ever eat any chips myself. But if my wife had an account she'd now have posted 25 posts about Lay's and their evil ways

Szechuan sauce?

Also they dramatically changed the formula for Shark Bites fruit snacks.

And I'm pretty sure they did the same for fruit roll-ups.

GasBandit said:

On that note... NyQuil and DayQuil. Meth heads ruin everything for everybody >_< In the 90s these were a sure fire way to get over any non-life-threatning respiratory illness FAST. But then the law said anything with pseudoephedrine had to go "behind the counter" and you had to sign a registry when you bought them, and Vicks decided they'd rather change the formula than risk the impact to sales so that the bottles could stay out on the shelves. Now they barely do anything.

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Back in those times, I was still a super in-shape serious martial artist that used an ECA stack in my workouts. I totally stocked me up a whole cabinet like an end-times prepper before the banhammer came down.

I miss Chex Mix. I used to inhale that stuff.

Also, I could use an old school NyQuil about now.

I miss this one so much.

Squidleybits said:

I miss Chex Mix. I used to inhale that stuff.

Also, I could use an old school NyQuil about now.

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sixpackshaker said:

I miss this one so much.

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These are what sustained me during my very first 20mi March of Dimes walk.
This was long before I discovered they were made by Nestle.

—Patrick

The Three Cheese Melt from Taco Bell in the 90s introduced me to pepperjack cheese.

I already miss Costco's $1.50 polish dog and soda

My brother and I loved these things. We could eat multiple bags of these in one sitting without flinching.

I don't know if I'd call them a "favourite" drink or even one I liked. I think I tried a bottle once and didn't like it. But friends in high school loved, loved, LOVED Orbitz.

klew said:

The Three Cheese Melt from Taco Bell in the 90s introduced me to pepperjack cheese.

I already miss Costco's $1.50 polish dog and soda

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Taco Bell has done away with a few of my favorites: The Bell Beefer, the Enchirito, the beef MexiMelt, and tostadas.

I really miss these from my childhood:

I remember inhaling these as a kid. In reality they were probably syrupy sugary shit, either way the Koolaid versions that are sold now don't hit the same as my memory.

I remember the commercials encouraging you to hug them.

--Patrick

Ska WEEEEZ it

The most '90s ad ever.

sixpackshaker said:

Spoiler: TMI

In college, I had a girlfriend that was turned on by those bottles.

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IronBrig4 said:

The most '90s ad ever.

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Reese's Pieces would like a word with you.

--Patrick

Tinwhistler said:

Spoiler: ?

Because it squirted in her mouth?

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sixpackshaker said:

Spoiler: More TMI

As a dildo stand in...

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I don't think she ever did it, just had urges.

When you're brave enough...

--Patrick

And don't call me Shirley.