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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsName a product you can no longer find in your food stores. And you miss it. Mine is cream of rice cereal
unblock
(53,955 posts)Best ice cream ever!
Haagen daz took them over and for their operations and to eliminate competition and threw away their recipes.
debm55
(31,979 posts)DBoon
(22,945 posts)Valencia oranges just vanished a few years ago. None of the markets here carry them.
debm55
(31,979 posts)DBoon
(22,945 posts)But it is both major chains - Ralphs and Vons
I cn get Valencia oranges at farmers' markets when in season.
debm55
(31,979 posts)quaint
(3,357 posts)CrispyQ
(37,719 posts)The frozen juice concentrate section of my grocery store went from three shelves to one. No more cherry/raspberry blends or grape juice, just orange, grapefruit, apple, & pineapple, & they're frequently out of orange.
Unwind Your Mind
(2,122 posts)I like to buy lemonade concentrate to make Arnold Palmer at home and its often out of stock
bought a good hand juicer and poof! no more valencias.
thinkingagain
(967 posts)Youre right I could never find it that or the white grapefruit juice.
Although the other day I was intype either big lots or grocery outlet and one of them had white grapefruit juice it was so good.
DFW
(56,062 posts)It helps to be a two hour flight from Valencia!
quaint
(3,357 posts)I love Southern California!
(Yes, I am a brat, ask my son.)
debm55
(31,979 posts)quaint
(3,357 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)EYESORE 9001
(27,368 posts)The one on Scalp Level, right?
quaint
(3,357 posts)pansypoo53219
(21,555 posts)quaint
(3,357 posts)With rice cereal being such an important first food, I couldn't believe it had been discontinued.
jimfields33
(18,255 posts)in all five grocery stores, Walmart, etc and Amazon had it. They absolutely deliver food. Cream of rice just may be available. Good luck!
debm55
(31,979 posts)nebby70
(486 posts)...as it's considered by some folk as 'a least likely to irritate tender tummy' for young'uns....
debm55
(31,979 posts)jmowreader
(51,208 posts)I just looked...they sell it in 14-ounce boxes that you have to cook, six-packs of these boxes and instant cream of rice in pouches.
FalloutShelter
(12,535 posts)can order from Amazon or find it in specialty shops, but can't find it locally in Supermarkets anymore. Also Holland Rusk Toast.
debm55
(31,979 posts)niyad
(118,401 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)niyad
(118,401 posts)brat, whatever, is cradled. Much less messy.
debm55
(31,979 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 3, 2024, 09:40 PM - Edit history (1)
Lifeafter70
(321 posts)Have some sitting on my counter.
niyad
(118,401 posts)Lifeafter70
(321 posts)We pair them with tj's new pork and beef hotdogs
jimfields33
(18,255 posts)Youre in luck. I saw one for 7 dollars. I didnt go through the entire availability. Id pay 7 dollars if I wanted it badly.
debm55
(31,979 posts)looking that up for me.
jimfields33
(18,255 posts)Unwind Your Mind
(2,122 posts)I dont drink soda often but they had several good flavors I miss. Sugar, not corn syrup too
debm55
(31,979 posts)vanlassie
(5,871 posts)Gone gone gone. Bought by Coca Cola.
hlthe2b
(105,423 posts)and while I am the first to say freshly prepared fish is always far better, until sometime in the late 90s (I think) they had a decent frozen dinner with a crab cake (not bad), a fish filet, maybe some shrimp or scallops (memory fades) and some side offering (french fries? veggie?)
At any rate, it wasn't bad and no one markets anything like it now. In fact, frozen dinners are largely pretty grim now, compared to years past in my opinion (and no, I'm not talking Swanson's)...
debm55
(31,979 posts)CanonRay
(14,708 posts)Costco used to carry it. Delicious.
debm55
(31,979 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,519 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)jmowreader
(51,208 posts)They're also available at Amazon but at twelve bucks a can it might be cheaper to fly to Oregon and pick them yourself.
Thunderbeast
(3,519 posts)Kali
(55,531 posts)can find sometimes, but never when I actually want to make...zebra cake
sinkingfeeling
(52,736 posts)Kali
(55,531 posts)I am not surprised there is a sub but I have never seen them. will have to take a look. last time I ordered several packages from Amazon, but they do not store well. the oil seemed to go rancid or if freezing they get too crumbly (never mind damage from shipping)
debm55
(31,979 posts)vanlassie
(5,871 posts)But theres a copy cat recipe:
https://www.southernliving.com/discontinued-nabisco-famous-wafers-7564765#toc-our-homemade-chocolate-wafers
Dear_Prudence
(702 posts)My late grandmother always had a bag of gingersnaps in the cupboard. I couldn't find them in the store, so I asked. The grocer told me there was a problem with the local maker so they weren't available. I burst into tears. Gingersnaps are back, and still remind me of Grammie's love and larder.
debm55
(31,979 posts)sinkingfeeling
(52,736 posts)garnishes mid-century. Check out photos from old cookbooks and you'll see them.
debm55
(31,979 posts)then they tasted. IMO
gibraltar72
(7,610 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)Jrose
(1,269 posts)and huckleberries at the site, actually $22.00/lb.!
When I ordered two slices with my mom at a diner back in 1959, they must have cost about $5.
debm55
(31,979 posts)Jrose
(1,269 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)Jrose
(1,269 posts)LeftInTX
(29,374 posts)Aren't blueberries and huckleberries the same thing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry
Or is that other kind in the eastern US?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylussacia
Squaredeal
(505 posts)I found a suitable replacement in Stewarts Wishniak that sometimes is on the shelf, but for more money.
debm55
(31,979 posts)nebby70
(486 posts)....not a clue if it is the same as you remember but it's wonderful....
subterranean
(3,513 posts)Apparently, the company still makes it, but I haven't seen it in any stores in years. (It's available online at ridiculous prices.) I used to like adding it to ice cream, yogurt, smoothies, etc.
debm55
(31,979 posts)subterranean
(3,513 posts)The cheapest I found was over $11 a jar from a seller on Amazon. I like it, but not that much!
catbyte
(35,448 posts)It tastes like chicken boullion but it's plant-based. I used to find it all the time but now I can only get it on Amazon. I don't need to buy 6 boxes of it at a time but at least I can get it.
debm55
(31,979 posts)Freddie
(9,547 posts)Came in various flavors. Ham was best, caraway good too. Thought it was called oma or omma, Google search brings up nothing like it. Mom bought it at the A&P when we were kids (60s, early 70s). Delicious on saltines. Anyone remember this?
debm55
(31,979 posts)different spreads in them I don't think they are around either. Sorry.
Still makes a Pimento Cheese spread in the jar. Also, an Old Style Cheddar spread in a jar.only sold a Kroger here. Sadly, about 6 oz. jar runs about $4.29.
debm55
(31,979 posts)Waste not, want not my grandmother used to say.
jmowreader
(51,208 posts)When the Army went from C-rations to MREs the cheese changed to this weird white crap that looks a little like latex caulk and probably tastes the same. I've never eaten caulk but I have eaten this cheese, and it's not good.
rzemanfl
(30,185 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)LeftInTX
(29,374 posts)TBH..I used to eat an entire box of puffed rice in one sitting. (When I was a kid!) They're mostly air..LOL
debm55
(31,979 posts)Brother Buzz
(37,255 posts)They are still out there, but next to impossible to find.
Chopped sour pickles knocks it out of the park in tuna fish sandwiches!
debm55
(31,979 posts)Brother Buzz
(37,255 posts)I can still get them, but I have to drive to the next town.
Used to be, EVERY market carried them, but Americans are settling for mediocrity by using dill pickles in tuna sandwiches.
ailsagirl
(23,470 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 3, 2024, 08:39 PM - Edit history (1)
debm55
(31,979 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(10,710 posts)Just buzz oatmeal in the blender until fine, then cook as usual. I did that for my kiddos when they were babies and just starting cereals. Better than the bought ones and cheaper too.
debm55
(31,979 posts)nebby70
(486 posts)...sort of a PopTart kind of thing with a thin layer of ground, vaguely sweet raisins in the middle...
... my grandmother and I had them when we were having our 'sophisticated ladies' coffee after dinner on the porch ...
of course my cup was a tablespoon of coffee in milk but I felt ever so grown-up
debm55
(31,979 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,461 posts)I remember looking for them a few years ago, to see if they still existed.
It didn't help that we always called them "raisinette cookies", which was not what was ever on the wrapper.
Beatlelvr
(662 posts)My mom loved those. I found something similar on Amazon, but not near as good.
debm55
(31,979 posts)no_hypocrisy
(48,231 posts)Louis Sherry Ice Cream
Milk Duds
Brown Cow
Coco Marsh chocolate syrup
Wagon Wheels pasta
Progresso White Clam Sauce
Mars Almond Candy Bar when it had *six* whole almonds in each one
Quaker Oat Squares
debm55
(31,979 posts)LeftInTX
(29,374 posts)I just don't wanna pay big bucks for candy.
samnsara
(18,163 posts)...so i ordered a case of it from amazon
debm55
(31,979 posts)spices?
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(598 posts)Alcohol is food, right?
Can't make a proper Vesper martini without it. Lillet Blanc just isn't right somehow.
debm55
(31,979 posts)DJ Synikus Makisimus
(598 posts)You could still find it for a good while afterwards, but it's really rare now.
SWBTATTReg
(23,741 posts)lo and behold, they were all gone! I couldn't find them for years and years, so we reluctantly went w/o them. No substitute would even come close, and I even looked at planting some, but couldn't find the seeds. Then, amazingly enough, earlier this year, they reappeared!
Holy Mother of Moses!! Joy of joy!! Needless to say, I've stocked up on them, even going out of my way to go to other stores and get the Bushes Butter Beans too.
By the way, these are excellent w/ ham or bacon, and that it. And I'm sure that they would make a fine bean soup, but I don't want to waste my precious butter beans (or too many of them) on a soup, but would rather eat them slowly, savor the taste. Ha ha heh. Can you tell that I love my butter beans?!
debm55
(31,979 posts)SWBTATTReg
(23,741 posts)pretty quickly so we don't get near the end of their shelf life. Take care!!
vanlassie
(5,871 posts)Im a California girl. I only recently became aware of butter beans (not to taste) and something called purple hull peas. Never seen em.
SWBTATTReg
(23,741 posts)sometime, they are simple and easy to heat up, and add a little bacon, or ham, and viola!
vanlassie
(5,871 posts)I guess at age 72 I could give them another chance but not canned peas! Not a chance! Love frozen though!
JT45242
(2,714 posts)It was made by Quaker Oats in the 1970s...it was yummy.
This is the only time of year that you can get Count Chocula so for all but September to just after Halloween that is on my list. (My kids make fun of me for buying it like 5 boxes at a time when it is in stock)
One of my best friends growing up would say Boo Berry
debm55
(31,979 posts)you with the 5 boxes. Great post.
Eugene
(62,581 posts)IIRC Quisp and Quake were rival packaging of the same cereal.
There was even a poll in the early 70s whether to keep or drop Quake.
Quake survived but Quangaroos was introduced immediately.
JT45242
(2,714 posts)lynintenn
(729 posts)Easterncedar
(3,058 posts)Not baby limas
debm55
(31,979 posts)Easterncedar
(3,058 posts)They had the best flavors!
debm55
(31,979 posts)a long time.
MFM008
(19,967 posts)Still carries cream of rice, what they don't carry anymore that I miss is Postum. I'm too sensitive to caffeine I don't even drink tea but I like that stuff and you have to special order it.
debm55
(31,979 posts)Lunabell
(6,607 posts)It is really delicious. You have to special order it now.
debm55
(31,979 posts)Lunabell
(6,607 posts)Yeah, it does not smell great, but if you like a strong cheese spread on fresh french bread, it's delightful!!
debm55
(31,979 posts)megahertz
(160 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)I liked the maple flavor. The only store that sold them around here went out of business. And so my Bun Bars are gone.
megahertz
(160 posts)Bummed when they were discontinued. However supposedly Cadbury makes something similar now called Curly Wurly.
surrealAmerican
(11,461 posts)... a mess to eat (I always wound up with chocolate all over my hands and face), but worth it.
beemerphill
(500 posts)I believe that they are still being made, just not sold in my part of the country. When I still lived in the Great White Nord it was one of life's little pleasures to sit down with a bowl of Onion and Garlic Potato Chips, a slab of young Colby Cheese, and a couple of Cold Beers. It was like a little piece of Heaven. My cat loved helping me with the chips, cheese, and beer. He too had good taste and appreciated the finer things in life. Great Memories.
debm55
(31,979 posts)Ritabert
(740 posts)I assume it's a supply chain problem but haven't seen them in months. Just enough for one serving with no leftovers.
debm55
(31,979 posts)small cans are handy for maybe one or two sammies. Mine has Charlie the Tuna on it---Starkist? They are in water, not oil. Let me know if you want me to pick up a box. or two.
riverbendviewgal
(4,308 posts)I loved with milk. There are graham crackers sold in stores but not with cinnamon.
debm55
(31,979 posts)wishstar
(5,475 posts)Just bought some recently. They are sold alongside the regular ones.
riverbendviewgal
(4,308 posts)Thanks for your info
Elessar Zappa
(15,228 posts)Let me know if you want me to mail you a few boxes. Seriously I would.
debm55
(31,979 posts)breakfast in the winter. You are very kind.
Elessar Zappa
(15,228 posts)that they dont carry anymore is Fruitopia. It was a bottled fruit-flavored drink. Pure sugar but it was tasty!
happybird
(4,974 posts)Pudding Pops
Minute Maid Juice Bars
Banana YooHoo
Ben & Jerry's Brownie Batter Ice Cream
Craigmont Sodas (old Safeway brand. Black Cherry, Cream Soda, Strawberry, Root Beer, and other flavors)
Edit to Add:
Tobasco Cheez-Its.
The partnership with Tobasco must have ended because they have Hot & Spicy Cheez-Its now, but they are nowhere near as good as the old Tobasco ones were. And I'm not even a big Tobasco fan.
debm55
(31,979 posts)happybird
(4,974 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)AmBlue
(3,391 posts)Borden bought out Nonesuch and promptly discontinued it. It was the main ingredient for the Christmas cookies made in our family for at least 3 generations.
debm55
(31,979 posts)buy somewhere else. Bummer,
AmBlue
(3,391 posts)But it seems mincemeat is not much in demand these days. Best I've found so far is Blake Hill Preserves, but no one is making it dried-- only wet. You might check if Blake Hill has prune butter! They have a lot of unusual jams and preserves, sweet, spicy and savory.
Jeebo
(2,188 posts)There were several different kinds of frozen vegetables in that line, but the two I REALLY loved were New Orleans Creole Style and New England Style. They were easy to fix and delicious to eat. Then one day for some reason they stopped showing up in the grocery stores. That was 35 or 40 years ago. I wish they would resurrect that line of frozen vegetables. It would make it a lot easier for me to go vegetarian. I go vegetarian one or two days a week now, anyway. Usually don't eat a lot of meat the other days, either.
-- Ron
debm55
(31,979 posts)haven't seen in a while.
Mike Nelson
(10,222 posts)... low-sugar cinnamon Pop Tarts... have not seen them in years. I asked and someone said get the ones with no glaze, but it was not the low-sugar one. I also miss Van De Kamp cheese enchiladas.
debm55
(31,979 posts)BigMin28
(1,350 posts)Then it was El Charrito frozen enchilada dinner. They were reasonably price, and so good.
debm55
(31,979 posts)GroundhogDemocrat
(9 posts)Last edited Thu Sep 12, 2024, 07:09 PM - Edit history (1)
debm55
(31,979 posts)onecaliberal
(35,241 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)consider_this
(2,751 posts)was a breakfast cereal manufactured by Post Cereals starting in 1963. The sweetened cereal, made of oats, consisted of animal-shaped pieces similar to animal crackers.
Television commercials featured a cartoon lion, Linus the Lionhearted, voiced by Sheldon Leonard, with the slogan "The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals," sung to the tune of "Trepak" from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker ballet.
debm55
(31,979 posts)pansypoo53219
(21,555 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)not mine in my area.
pansypoo53219
(21,555 posts)riversedge
(72,232 posts)mainly for cold mornings--it is summer now so not eaten it since last spring. yummy yummy.
I do not recall having a problem buying it at local food store.
pansypoo53219
(21,555 posts)i like cooking it low for about 1/2 or so til extra mushy. sadly easyiest off amazon. tried 5 grain. ok, but sosking th pan created issues.
indypendent
(3 posts)I miss them
OldBaldy1701E
(5,941 posts)I don't want a bunch of sugar and icing on my pop tart. Unfortunately, I am in the minority on this, so they are all but impossible to find. Which sucks, as sometimes they are the only thing I can stomach. Thanks, failing digestive system!
debm55
(31,979 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)tornado34jh
(1,238 posts)There used to be these Gardein Crispy Chicken Patties. I used to get them all the time. But none of the stores have them anymore, which is a shame because they always were really good. I haven't seen it in years.
debm55
(31,979 posts)tornado34jh
(1,238 posts)Ore-Ida Golden Crispers, I always like crispy fries, but I haven't seen them recently, at least not when I used to live in Lakeland. Smart Ones had these sliders I liked, but I haven't seen them in years. Alexia had these sea-salt crinkle cut fries, but I haven't not seen them in a while. Unfortunately, a lot of the good stuff I like isn't there.
debm55
(31,979 posts)the products you like. Do you think it's the store or the companies?
tornado34jh
(1,238 posts)I know stores do change their inventory every now and then, but at least when I was in Lakeland (I am in Orlando now), I checked Target, Walmart, Publix, none of them have it.
murielm99
(31,298 posts)pink lemonade.
hydrolastic
(514 posts)it was always around when I was a kid.
debm55
(31,979 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)lemonade.Thank you murielm99 and good luck.
JoeColo
(6 posts)It's my favorite flavor.
debm55
(31,979 posts)dameatball
(7,546 posts)debm55
(31,979 posts)another brand I bought and it is not the same.
LeftInTX
(29,374 posts)dameatball
(7,546 posts)BoRaGard
(2,356 posts)used to see them everywhere
debm55
(31,979 posts)List left
(626 posts)They seem to have discontinued all soy products but this was my favorite.
debm55
(31,979 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(10,710 posts)They made other flavors, and I liked the orange and strawberry, but the grape was great. Also lemon-grape Kool-Aid.
Ralston hot cereal, which was a fixture of my childhood.
White Lily corn muffin mix.
debm55
(31,979 posts)Jeebo
(2,188 posts)I often drink a bottle of it with my meal at Cracker Barrel.
-- Ron
PennRalphie
(233 posts)They were so good. We would eat it for dessert. Discontinued and no others taste as good as theirs.
Mosby
(17,109 posts)When I was a kid in Phoenix we used to go to a produce store called farm-2-you. It was on Van Buren. Nothing exists today like that store.
AllaN01Bear
(22,572 posts)AKwannabe
(6,140 posts)Dark chocolate please!!
Wicked Blue
(6,488 posts)Trader Joe's Nourish shampoo. Their little oatmeal-raising cookies that came in a tub. They keep discontinuing products I like and replacing them with weird items that I wouldn't dream of eating or using.
BlueKota
(3,129 posts)and Geandma Browns baked beans.