30 Nostalgic Discontinued Food Items From The Past That Most People Remember

The creme that saved all of us from nondelicious candy couldn’t be saved itself. It went away within the last few years.

Skittles changed their green lime flavor to apple in 2013. Up is down! Right is wrong! Nothing makes sense anymore.

Back in 2003, Extra’s Thin Ice Sheets took the breath-freshening world by storm. So much so, that some newspapers actually claimed that their creation would effectually end chewing gum.

Your tongue hasn’t been able to get absolutely destroyed since 2010.

If you can believe it, both Cinnamon AND Spearmint Tic Tacs have been gone since 2014.

These chewy lil’ balls of deliciousness haven’t been around since 2008.

The goopiest candy gooped no more within the last few years.

What could be more appealing than a candy that packs in a ton of flavor while also being marketed as healthy for you? Haribo believed they found the winning combination in their sugar-free gummy bears, having replaced the sugar in the product with the artificial sweetener maltitol. It wasn’t long before the public found the downside to this product—the sweetener acted as a laxative and it gave everyone who consumed the candy extreme gastrointestinal distress. Haribo quickly doubled back on its product, and despite competitors still selling gummy candies with this sweetener, Haribo has since pulled the product.

The most delicious granola bar ever to granol has disappeared from shelves within the last few years.

Nesquik Cereal was quikly removed from shelves in the US in 2012. You can still get it in some other countries.

Look at that thing. It’s gorgeous. It also was discontinued over a decade ago.

These red and white boiled sweets, formed of strawberry and yoghurt stripes of candy, could be found in supermarkets for over 40 years before they were suddenly axed in the mid 2000s.

Mars Delight may have only been on the shelves for four years, but in that time the chocolate bar developed a large and devoted following. This slender version of the classic Mars bar, also featuring a wafer layer, was nowhere to be found by the end of 2008. Nine years after their discontinuation, petitions are still being signed online demanding that the bar be brought back.

While they debuted in the 1970s, Jell-O Pudding Pops hit peak popularity in the 1980s. A box of pudding pops came in flavors like chocolate, vanilla, and swirled. If you’re really craving a pudding pop, and a Fudgesicle doesn’t come close enough for you, there are pudding pop molds so you can make your own.

The transparent, caffeine-free soda U.S. had a short run in the early 1990s. It was a novelty, but it didn’t taste quite like Pepsi. Saturday Night Live parodied the product in a crystal-clear gravy skit, Thrillist recounts. Because it is something that instills some serious nostalgia, Crystal Pepsi has made some limited-time comebacks in recent years.

You can still get these…just without the Flintstones on your sherbet pops. Dang shame.

The world got a whole lot more 2D in 2005.

Bart Simpson’s favorite candy and (in my humble opinion) the perfect Butterfinger experience hasn’t been around since 2006.

Slice as we knew it has been gone since 2009. Now it’s a seltzer.

Ancient relics (OK, a promotional photo on a Tumblr page) reveal that McDonald’s once served Onion Nuggets in the 1970s. The nuggets look like a golden fried onion ring, but, you guessed it, in the shape of a chicken nugget.

Sweet, soft Cakesters were no more as of seven years ago.

They’ve been Yo-gone from shelves since the early 2010s.

The juiciest juice to ever juice has been juiced out since 2001.

Life Savers Holes were introduced in the ’90s, and were basically Life Savers, but in a non-ring form.

Life Savers Holes were plagued with problems. After being on the market for the second half of 1990, they were recalled for being choking hazards in January 1991. They re-appeared four months later with new packaging, but were eventually taken off shelves forever.

Heinz EZ Squirt was colorful ketchup in a squeeze bottle. Released in tandem with “Shrek” in 2000 with a green shade (Blastin’ Green) —took the condiment market by storm, selling 25 million bottles in three years.
While it was initially successful, Heinz ended up pulling the ketchup from shelves in 2006 after faltering sales, making it impossible to create ketchup-based works of art.

One of Keebler’s biggest hits of the 21st century came in the form of their Magic Middles—shortbread cookies filled with fudge or peanut butter filling that everyone couldn’t get enough of. The cookies quietly disappeared from shelves with very little explanation from the Keebler offices, much to millennials’ chagrin.

Do you remember these snacks? Shaped like wheels and infused with pizza flavor, they were truly in a league of their own from 1968 to 1975, when they sadly left store shelves.

What’s better than a chip? How about a chip MADE OF CHOCOLATE. Too bad they’ve been gone since 2006.

This sweet, delicious blue nectar of the Gods was ripped from our hearts and souls in 2004.

Hollow milk chocolate with toy figurines inside, Nestlé Magic Balls were like the Happy Meals of the candy world. But, in 1997, they were discontinued over concerns that hiding toys inside chocolate could pose a choking hazard. The candy made a comeback as the Nestlé Wonder Ball, this time with candy filling the chocolate sphere. Those, too, were eventually discontinued.