Nostalgic People Share Which Discontinued Products They Wish Would Make A Comeback
Ah, remember when times were simpler? And we had cool games and candy that was bad for you and nobody gave a crap about 'high fructose corn syrup? Those were the days. Like everything else in life, all good things must come to an end. Especially with the rolling change of the culture. But wouldn't it be great to have a revival of a few things?
Redditor _\littlebeepboop _**was dying to know... **\What discontinued product do wish would make a comeback?
I LOVE FIZZ....
In Germany, there used to be this ice pop in a cup that was full of these fizzy bits that fizzed up on your tongue. It was called Blizz and came in two flavors, lemon and cola, and was intensely sour and really refreshing. It was released in 1994 or so and stopped a few years after. Even after so many year, I totally miss it.
TETRIS BEFORE TETRIS...
All the Lego products they no longer make, like Mars.
Agreed. Want them to bring back some lines like their old Knights and Castles. And not high-tech knights with flying or moving castles or any crap like that. Just the old sets/figures are fine.
I want a remastered classic castle line so badly! Lego would be able to milk the crap outta that!
PEANUTS FOREVER!!
There were these peanut butter snacks made by Planters, I don't know what they were called. They were made out of the stuff that ice cream cones are made out and filled with peanut butter. They were shaped like little peanuts. I miss the hell out of those.
THE WHEELS ON THE BUS...
Full sized spare tires in cars... please and much thanks
DON'T DOWNGRADE...
The original formulation for Pyrex glass that wasn't so brittle.
THE EXTRA SURPRISE!
Cool toys in kids' cereal boxes.
STRAWBERRIES FOREVER!
Those lifesavers hard candies with the cream and flavor (I loved strawberry).
And Philadelphia cream cheese bars. Those were my jam in middle school.
FRED & THE GANG!
Flintstones Push Pops!
IT'S HOW I LEARNED TO SPELL...
Alpha Bits cereal.
There wasn't anything special about the flavor (very lightly-frosted cheerio-like flavor). But every morning before pre-school and kindergarten, I would eat these for breakfast with my mom and we'd play the 'Alpha Bits game.' I would randomly pick a letter from my bowl, and we would take turns coming up with words that started with that letter. When we couldn't come up with anything anymore, we would shout 'Eat It!' and I'd eat the letter. Yes, breakfast took a while, but it's a great memory.
BOO!
Dembones Halloween candy. They were little candies in the shape of a skeleton and were like a mix of smarties and sweet tarts.
CHEESE BALLS!!
Planters cheese balls (from the can), or their cheese doodles.
Cheez, bud, Cheez. Not cheese. Those sonsabes. The least they could have done is sold the equipment and recipe to someone so that we could still get them. I've tried hundreds of kinds of cheese balls and still haven't found anything that can touch Planters Cheez Balls.
IT'S REAL CHICKEN!
I can't find if anyone has mentioned it already but oh my gatos WENDY'S SPICY CHICKEN NUGGETS. All time favorite fast food item.
SWEET... AND SOUR...
Altoids Mango Sours!
AH THE SWEETS...
Dunk-a-roos.
Teddy Grahams and funfetti frosting is totally Dunkaroos childhood nostalgia.
SIGN ME UP!
3D Doritos
PSA - It has been brought to my attention that you can buy these on eBay for pretty cheap!!
IT'S NOT THE SAME!
Fried apple pies from McDonalds. Forget this baked crap.
MAY I SUGGEST A MENU?
Just going to list my Taco Bell wishes:
Baja Sauce
Spicy chicken crunchwrap
Volcano sauce
Diet Baja Blast (it existed for like 2 seconds, I swear to God)
Chicken Flatbreads
Beefy Crunch Burrito with the hot fritos
That's just off the top of my head. All of those are better than trying to make any deep-fried chicken concoction they keep offering, which is all they seem to be doing these days.
WHO Y0U GONNA CALL?
Ecto-cooler
when they did the special rollout of it for the new ghostbusters i was able to snag a few cases at kroger. but it was all i found. it was just as delicious as i remember it being. i want more.
IF THE SHOE FITS...
I finally found running shoes I like, and they stopped making them.
Then I found running shoes I like, and they stopped making them.
Then I found running shoes I really like, and they stopped making them, and nobody even makes anything even _close_to them.
The annoying thing is they still make walking shoes that are practically the same but with no padding, and they make those running shoes in women's sizes!
LONG LIVE LIME!
Lime skittles. i am aware of orchard, and the current limited editio_"long lost lime." frankenstein bags and limited editions are a stopgap measure.
i am located in the US - i know that most of the world still has lime.
what i really meant is "the Original' skittles package containing the flavors i grew up with - lime, lemon, orange, strawberry and grape, the lineup prior to 2013 when lime was replaced by green apple"
Although i would probably prefer black currant to grape - clearly i need to take a UK confectionery vacation.
Ok, who is watching the clock? Those seconds aren't going to count themselves. The only way to understand time is to be its witness. Although that can get depressing. Let's focus on the light and cool.
History...
Calculate Figure It Out GIF by OriginalsGiphy"If you are an 80-year-old American, you have lived through approximately 1/3 of our nation's entire history."
Those Days...
"The 80s were 40 years ago."
"This is what messes me up because I was born in 82 and graduated high school in 2000 so for some reason my brain is stuck on the 80's being twenty years ago. The 70's thirty years ago etc etc. I have to stop and realize sometimes that my concept of how long ago things happened is way off."
Time goes by...
"We observe that light travels at 186,000 miles a second, but given the vast size of the observable universe, that's a snail's pace. But from the point of view of a particle of light, time doesn't even exist."
"Time slows down as you approach the speed of light, and theoretically stops completely when you reach the speed of light."
Years Gone By...
"MLK Jr. and Anne Frank were born in the same year."
"Betty White was born in 1922. Automatically pre-sliced packaged bread loaves became commercially available in 1928. Betty White is six years older than sliced bread."
Long Live the Queen!
queen elizabeth images GIFGiphy"The queen and Marilyn Monroe would've been the same age."
"And Marilyn Monroe and Andy Griffith were born on the same day!"
- osme1
I swear Liz is going to outlive dirt. Wait, I believe she already has. Well she won't be alone, she'll have Betty White. At least she better have Betty. Time is nothing without Queen Betty.
TV Time
Season 2 Omg GIF by Paramount+Giphy"Happy Days was a TV show made in the 1970s-80s about teenagers in the 1950s. Similarly, That 70s Show was made in the 90s-00s about teenagers in the 70s. If a similar show were to be made today, it would be about teenagers in the 2000s."
- VVillyD
A Croc
"If a T-Rex imagined a creature as ancient as the T-Rex is to us, it would be a Stegosaurus. If that Stegosaurus imagined a creature as ancient as the Stegosaurus is to us, it would be a Crocodile. If that Crocodile imagined a creature as ancient as that Crocodile is to us, it would be a Shark."
On the Clock
"On a twenty four hour clock the amount of time that humans have been on the earth would total around five seconds."
"How about this one: If Homo Habilus first appeared at midnight, 24 hours ago, that means the first Homo Sapiens appeared at 9:25 PM, or about 2 and a half hours ago. The first human civilization, in lower Mesopotamia, appeared at 11:57 PM, or about 3 minutes ago."
"The Western Roman Empire fell at 11:59 PM, or 1 minute ago. Everything that has happened since - the Crusades, the Plague, the discovery of the New World, the world wars, all of it - has happened in the last minute of human existence."
And that's just OUR Sun...
"The span of our lives are so insignificantly small that our Sun will last another 5 billion years. That's 9 zeros people. Our eldest live to around 100 in the best places. That's 50,000,000 (50 million) times longer than any person can reasonably expect to live. And that's just OUR Sun. The universe as a whole has probably existed for magnitudes longer than that already and will continue to exist until the end of time as we know it."
Tell Me a Story
william shakespeare GIF by will herringGiphy"We know what a good storyteller Shakespeare was but there were Greek playwrights who wrote shows nearly 2,000 years earlier that are pretty good, too."
I hate time. Only because I'm petty and irritated of the amount I squandered. That's neither here nor there though. Time marches on and continues to amaze. I'll keep watching.
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