The Discontinued Blues

[jdogtwodolla]

The Oreo cereal was a bit disappointing, but not as disheartening as the discontinuation of Mud and Bugs Cereal.

C'mon! It was a mixture of Cocoa Puffs and the good part of Lucky Charms and your going to stop selling that? I hate you Disney and Kellogg's! I'll never sex with either of you again! [small]at least not at the same time.[/small]

 

[RaikuFA]

Oh boy, Oreo cereal. That in the morning was a bounty to behold.

Sadly i'm pretty sure it was just Oreos shoved in the box, so somewhere it got cut likely on that premise.
But boy oh boy, do I still miss that stuff.

This. What happened to them? They were delicious. Oreos are a Godsend and Oreo cereal is even better.

 

[Alex Graves]

Does westwood count? EA bought them out and sort of shit all over their games (the only case were I wish harm on EA for their sins) still haven't managed to get any of the 17 C&C games I bought (frigin origin bs). If not then basically any discontinued sodas I like most of those most notably was pepsi blue(I think) but that was a long time ago don't even remember the taste.

 

[Pink Gregory]

Wychwood discontinued three amazing beers: Black Wych, Beewyched and Fiddler's Elbow (alright, so that was middling), and cut them back to about 4 main beers and a smattering of terrible 'seasonal' beers.

Seriously, you discontinued Black Wych (the most incredible stout I've ever tasted) and kept Goliath?

Goliath? Seriously?

 

[Quadocky]

The original sour bubble tape. Oh god, it was like an endless stream of sour candy THAT WAS ALSO GUM. Also it was VERY sour. My mouth waters just thinking about its glorious flavor. Also reminds me that either my taste buds are dead or that they don't make sour candy like they used to.

Yamaha XG MIDI. Its still around as a standard, but you going to have a hell of a time finding a new XG sound module with all the sounds and reverb/chorus settings. Not to mention the best Software Synth the S-YXG50 which was discontinued in 2001 doesn't work on modern systems unless as VSTi.

Just minor things really, but that S-YXG50 was something special, I wish they still made it and updated it. It was featured in the PC version of FF7 for the music. Gave it a more orchestral feel, were as the Playstation Soundtrack had a more gritty tone.

Here is a example of a demo song that came with the S-YXG50 if you wanna know why its so cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ETVRG74L0

 

[NortherWolf]

Red Carpets, a superb candy sold in Sweden up until the mid 90's...It was quite simply the best candy we ever had.

Nordic Games: A video game store that one young lad started in a small shop, grew until it got gobbled up by Game and nowadays sells shit. Quite a far fall from a cramped store that sold awesome, imported SNES games.

 

[Queen Michael]

Ben & Jerry's:

Chocolate Therapy and Bohemian Raspberry.

 

[Johnlives]

The Hobgoblin Pub stopped serving Hobgoblin. It doesn't make any kind of sense.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

A more serious one might be a bit incongruous in this thread but...

I once met a girl from Iceland when I was in Denmark for a week. I developed a crush on her. She was the first, and to this day, the only girl who somehow returned my feelings. I could be with her for only two more days after admitting I felt something for her. We met again a year later, but by then both of us had already moved on.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

Steak & Onion chips. Went away before I turned twelve. I'm twenty-four now and nothing like them has ever been made again.

Oh god... I completely forgot about those. They were my lunch-box fixture every single damn day when I was young. I'm sad now...

OT: Regular sized bottles of Black-currant Lucozade. I haven't seen them at all since last year, now all I can get is the tiny-ass 1 quid bottles which give you barely anything.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

They stopped serving the Awesome Blossom onion doodad at all the Chiles in my state a few years back. That was literally the only reason to ever go to Chiles. Now I have to go to Outback Steakhouse, which is 10 minutes further away from my house.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about:

 

[Code_Red]

Oh man, I used to eat industrial quantities of Sporties as a kid. Anyone else remember it?

 

[an annoyed writer]

But more on topic, Mountain Dew Pitch Black.

Grape flavored Mountain Dew.

oh sure, it came back once or twice for the Batman movies, but where I live its a damn miracle if you can find even one bottle.

That stuff was great. I still have a personal reserve of it: a couple cases. At one point I drank that stuff so much that was practically my lifeblood. Unfortunately had to kick the addiction to it a couple years ago, since it was wrecking up my shit. Great while it lasted though.

 

[an annoyed writer]

They discontinued Star Wars the Clone Wars I don't watch a lot of tv, but that was one of the shows I watched.

The gave that show the axe? That was a pretty good show! It had some good action, an interesting art style, and the writing occasionally got really good. What a shame.

 

[Vault101]

5 had a flavor of gum that I liked....no longer