Spinoff: discontinued food you wish they'd bring back

[Ben_Who]

Coke Two. I miss Coke Two.

I was 13 when it first came out in 1985 as New Coke, and it was sold in some markets as Coke Two for a while. I also liked Crystal Pepsi.

A lot of the brands that I liked as a kid didn't so much disappear, but their corporate overlords conglomerated and the new masters started swapping ingredients for cheaper ones. Spaghettios weren't exactly gourmet in the 1970s, but I don't know what the hell they did to them in the 1990s. Kraft Macaroni and Cheese also changed dramatically around the same time. So did Twinkies. Twinkies are all...wet and sticky now.

[xaenon]

Raspberry Sprite. Lasted about four to six months, then gone. It was pretty darned good. Circa 1990, if I remember correctly.

Hostess Choco-Bliss cakes. Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing and chocolate cream filling. I used to break out just THINKING about them. Circa 1985-1986?

Orange Slice. They used to sell it at Arby's.

Royal Crown Draft - an 'old timey' kind of soda with a real cola-nut taste and had enough caffeine to light up a diesel-electric locomotive. It came in brown glass bottles, and looked enough like a beer to get me pulled over one night.
This would have been right around 1995 or 1996.

McDonalds, eons ago, had an orange milkshake. This was in the seventies or early eighties, folks. Yes, I'm old.

I miss Sandy's restaurants, too - but I doubt many in this forum would know what those were. Those went the way of the Edsel back in the mid-1970s. Glommed up by Hardees, I think.

Zantigo's had the best Mexican food of any franchise/chain restaurant. Bought by Pepsico (who owns Taco Bell) and dismantled in the early or mid 1980s, from what I understand.

The OLD Pizza Hut pizza. The pizza they sell now is all right, but the stuff they had in the 1970s was triple-awesome.

Original Recipe KFC. Not the garbage they make today.

[dalesys]

Original Recipe KFC. Not the garbage they make today.

Of course. That was before the DEA investigated their "secret herbs and spices".

[Monica]

I used to LIVE on Surge (actually, that might explain a lot )

Five Alive (it's apparently still made, but really hard to find in the US). Mom hated when dad let me buy the stuff, I compromised by letting her add half real fruit juice whenever I had some. The Invigorating and Pomegranate versions on the wikipedia page look really good.

I LOVE Five Alive. My grandma used to only buy that when she was alive. Now I will see if in my grocery store every once in a while. I stock up on it when I see it.

[Andrew B.]

Has anyone seen Mountain Dew: Code Red anywhere? It's the only kind I like and I can't find it anymore.

[Lady Legira]

I had a box of expensive tasting chocolate in college and am now kicking myself I never found out the company name. It was part of a European History class.

Could it have been one of Hotel Chocolat they do many tasting boxes.

First company I thought of when you said that mostly because my boyfriend worked for them for a while at the UK depot until his epilepsy got out of control.

[xaenon]

Of course. That was before the DEA investigated their "secret herbs and spices".

LOL. KFC was where I'd often wind up after using my OWN 'secret herbs' back in the day.

Or White Castle.

Or Zantigos.

Or.....aw, hell, if they had a sign.....

[FuzzyKitten99]

Or White Castle.

We still have these... the hubby makes me go through the drive-thru and order like 10 of them if we have been out drinking.

I can't stand them. I don't care if they do help prevent hangovers... the grease coats my mouth for an hour after I am done eating... haven't had one in 2 years.

[Kogarashi]

I just remembered 7-Up Plus. I don't know if it's still made, but I haven't seen it in forever.

Another one I liked was Hardees' peach shakes. They were more like the McD's shakes (where you could actually drink them with a straw) than the shakes we made at the burger place I worked at on campus during undergrad (those shakes were made with ice cream and were eaten rather than drunk). I don't know if Hardees still makes them, because the Hardees in our town left long ago and I haven't seen an establishment since.

[dragon_wings]

Goobers

If you're in the US check your local Walgreens. ^_^

[AriGriffin]

I saw Mountain Dew: Code Red at my local Walmart earlier. They had the 2 L bottles and the 12 pk cans.

[DeltaSierra]

During Christmas time back in the mid 80's the McD's out here had red coloured, candy-cane flavoured milkshakes, and the same syrup was used on candy-cane flavoured ice cream sundaes. I LOVED it.

[Food Lady]

Haagen Dazs macadamia brittle. Best. ice cream flavor. EVER.

[Kaylyn]

Has anyone seen Mountain Dew: Code Red anywhere? It's the only kind I like and I can't find it anymore.

Yep. In NW Louisiana it's all over the place. I regularly pick it up at the Dollar General down the road, and it's at our Wal-Mart too.

[BrenDAnn]

[*]Swanson frozen dinners. Here in MD, ALL the big grocery store chains, plus Wal*Mart and Target, stopped carrying Swanson frozen (or "TV") dinners a few years ago, in favor of brands such as Banquet, that aren't as good. With the sole exception of their Hungry Man Dinners, which everyone still carries, if I want a Swanson frozen dinner, I have to go to Mars, the only supermarket around that still carries them here. And there aren't many,

OMG! We have the same problem here in Iowa, or at least in my neck of the woods here, NONE of the local grocery stores (HyVee, Fareway, and I'll even toss in WalMart) carries anything but the Hungry Man dinners! I'm just thankful they still carry the Swanson pot pies--one of which I'm eating as I type. Still, though, I'd LOVE to have a good Swanson chicken TV dinner!