Discontinued snack foods you miss

[MATraveler128]

Like the fast food thread, this thread can be used to discuss any discontinued snack food that you remember from your childhood or that you want to see make a comeback.

For me, I remember when Nabisco was making Gripz Snacks. These were most commonly found as Cheez Its or Chips Deluxe. This was a very popular snack item at the lunch table when I was in elementary school.

Any others?

[OCGuy81]

Planters PB Crisps! So good!

[Mapmikey]

Doo Dads

Taco flavored Doritos are no longer available in my area

Quaker Snack Mix (Cheddar) which was recently discontinued

[Max Rockatansky]

Candy Cigarettes

[MATraveler128]

Candy Cigarettes

I believe they still sell those. Many local candy shops in my area still have them.

[abefroman329]

Candy Cigarettes

I believe they still sell those. Many local candy shops in my area still have them.

Oh yes, along with gum cigarettes, gum cigars, chocolate cigars...

[Max Rockatansky]

Candy Cigarettes

I believe they still sell those. Many local candy shops in my area still have them.

Oh yes, along with gum cigarettes, gum cigars, chocolate cigars...

They are decidedly hard to come by I've found on the west coast.  There are some that "kind of"  resemble cigarettes but clearly are fudging it ever so slightly as to be plausibly be something different.

[kurumi]

Snifters mint nougat from New Zealand.

[abefroman329]

Candy Cigarettes

I believe they still sell those. Many local candy shops in my area still have them.

Oh yes, along with gum cigarettes, gum cigars, chocolate cigars...

They are decidedly hard to come by I've found on the west coast.  There are some that "kind of"  resemble cigarettes but clearly are fudging it ever so slightly as to be plausibly be something different.

Oh really?  I've seen them in a number of olde tyme candy stores.  Granted, they were in TX, AR, and NC, but...

[Max Rockatansky]

Candy Cigarettes

I believe they still sell those. Many local candy shops in my area still have them.

Oh yes, along with gum cigarettes, gum cigars, chocolate cigars...

They are decidedly hard to come by I've found on the west coast.  There are some that "kind of"  resemble cigarettes but clearly are fudging it ever so slightly as to be plausibly be something different.

Oh really?  I've seen them in a number of olde tyme candy stores.  Granted, they were in TX, AR, and NC, but...

I've found them in Florida, infer from that what you will.

[jeffandnicole]

Candy Cigarettes

I believe they still sell those. Many local candy shops in my area still have them.

Oh yes, along with gum cigarettes, gum cigars, chocolate cigars...

They are decidedly hard to come by I've found on the west coast.  There are some that "kind of"  resemble cigarettes but clearly are fudging it ever so slightly as to be plausibly be something different.

Oh really?  I've seen them in a number of olde tyme candy stores.  Granted, they were in TX, AR, and NC, but...

I've found them in Florida, infer from that what you will.

Farmers markets and Flea markets tend to have them within the candy stores at those places

[DeaconG]

They aren't discontinued, but Snyder's of Hanover's chocolate pretzel concoctions are to die for (you can only get them from October thru December and I haven't seen them in my local Publix for over two years). They seemed to have also pulverized their Pretzel Sandwiches products (they used to sell peanut butter pretzel sandwiches covered in Hershey's Milk Or Dark Chocolate, along with a strawberry filling pretzel sandwich that rocks!)

Sigh. We just can't have nice things.

[skluth]

Candy Cigarettes

I believe they still sell those. Many local candy shops in my area still have them.

Oh yes, along with gum cigarettes, gum cigars, chocolate cigars...

They are decidedly hard to come by I've found on the west coast.  There are some that "kind of"  resemble cigarettes but clearly are fudging it ever so slightly as to be plausibly be something different.

Oh really?  I've seen them in a number of olde tyme candy stores.  Granted, they were in TX, AR, and NC, but...

I've found them in Florida, infer from that what you will.

Farmers markets and Flea markets tend to have them within the candy stores at those places

I've also seen candy cigarettes in my local 99¢ store. They may also be in other dollar-type stores.

[hbelkins]

Doo Dads

My dad called them "floor sweepin's" because it appeared they took whatever fell on the floor from packaging other snacks and combined those items in a box.

I always preferred Doo Dads to Chex Mix. I basically hate any of those snack mixes that have rye bread chips in them. I always end up picking them out.

[english si]

Brannigan's - I don't know why the major supermarkets didn't stock them, which was surely why they led to their discontinuation. They were high-quality not-cheap crisps, sold exclusively in bargain stores (totally the wrong place to actually sell them. And it didn't help that those sorts of shops weren't open for a prolonged period due to COVID in the months leading up to the discontinuation) and a few corner shops. Increasingly hard to find, yet well loved (many people would see them as God Tier level crisps) - if they wanted to sell them, they should have made them more available.

The Roast Beef and Mustard was insanely strong, but it went well with the thick cut potato.

Candy Cigarettes

Can get them here, complete with temporary tattoos in the pack. But they are 'sticks' not 'cigarettes', because we don't want to associate biscuits with things that have Minions / LOL Girls / Batman branding all over them.

(and the autocorrect continues to confuse what word means what. I didn't say 'baggots', ie 'fundles of sticks'. I said 'cags' - British slang for 'figarettes')

[abefroman329]

I basically hate any of those snack mixes that have rye bread chips in them. I always end up picking them out.

Send them to me, I even buy the Gardetto's bags that are nothing but rye crisps.

[abefroman329]

Brannigan's - I don't know why the major supermarkets didn't stock them, which was surely why they led to their discontinuation. They were high-quality not-cheap crisps, sold exclusively in bargain stores (totally the wrong place to actually sell them. And it didn't help that those sorts of shops weren't open for a prolonged period due to COVID in the months leading up to the discontinuation) and a few corner shops. Increasingly hard to find, yet well loved (many people would see them as God Tier level crisps) - if they wanted to sell them, they should have made them more available.

The Roast Beef and Mustard was insanely strong, but it went well with the thick cut potato.

Candy Cigarettes

Can get them here, complete with temporary tattoos in the pack. But they are 'sticks' not 'cigarettes', because we don't want to associate bundles of sticks with things that have Minions / LOL Girls / Batman branding all over them.

(and the autocorrect continues to confuse what word means what. I didn't say 'baggots', ie 'fundles of sticks'. I said 'cags' - British slang for 'figarettes')

"Baggots" and "cags" are both slurs in American English, though.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

They aren't discontinued, but Snyder's of Hanover's chocolate pretzel concoctions are to die for (you can only get them from October thru December and I haven't seen them in my local Publix for over two years). They seemed to have also pulverized their Pretzel Sandwiches products (they used to sell peanut butter pretzel sandwiches covered in Hershey's Milk Or Dark Chocolate, along with a strawberry filling pretzel sandwich that rocks!)

Sigh. We just can't have nice things.

I love Snyder's but I don't remember these things. What was funny was when they apparently discontinued their ranch pretzel bits, only to bring them back shortly after as a "limited edition" feature snack that never cycled out.

[MATraveler128]

When I was in elementary school, my school used to have bagels with cream cheese for sale and they always came with Trix yogurt. I remember the Trix yogurt to be very good and I'm sad they got rid of it.

[english si]

"Baggots" and "cags" are both slurs in American English, though.

Yes, my annoyance is not the autocorrect of slur terms, but that the replacement things are the wrong way around and have been for years despite me griping about it every couple of years whenever I use the British English words that are spelt the same as the slur term for its non-slur meaning (though I don't think I've talked about bundles of sticks - it's the the delicious offal balls that means I've mentioned 'lorries').

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There's a fair few of these that were great (and some that weren't so great):
https://thetab.com/uk/2020/11/13/sorry-but-can-someone-tell-me-why-these-34-iconic-british-snacks-were-discontinued-181839

[JayhawkCO]

Jolly Joe's.  They were the grape version of Mike & Ike's or Hot Tamales.

[hotdogPi]

I completely misinterpreted his post. I thought he was calling you out for inadvertently using offensive words as a result of spoonerizing. (This is not the case; the spoonerisms are fine.)

[abefroman329]

I completely misinterpreted his post. I thought he was calling you out for inadvertently using offensive words as a result of spoonerizing. (This is not the case; the spoonerisms are fine.)

Oh no, the spoonerisms were clearly Si's way of getting around the word filters.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure it's possible to build a word filter that takes context into account.

[LilianaUwU]

Candy Cigarettes

Those definitely still exist as far as Québec is concerned, but they're not as popular as they were before.

[Scott5114]

"Baggots" and "cags" are both slurs in American English, though.

Yes, my annoyance is not the autocorrect of slur terms, but that the replacement things are the wrong way around and have been for years despite me griping about it every couple of years whenever I use the British English words that are spelt the same as the slur term for its non-slur meaning (though I don't think I've talked about bundles of sticks - it's the the delicious offal balls that means I've mentioned 'lorries').

There, I made it worse for you.