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Post by Skellinton on Apr 24, 2019 14:49:12 GMT
Victoria’s Secret cotton bikini underwear from the 90’s. Just regular cotton and no goofy logos. They fit well. Covered enough but not too much. Urban Decay powdered foundation. They recently discontinued it. I’m down to my last one. Marathon bars- I think there may be a British version. Curly Wurlys, and they are delicious.
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Post by malibou on Apr 24, 2019 15:06:03 GMT
@skellinton I love love love me a Curly Wurly. They now have bags of Curly Wurly bites. I brought home three bags.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2019 15:14:32 GMT
Chocolate pudding pops I really liked McDonalds pizza in the 90’s. It had a crunchy bottom crust that I loved. Also loved Jumpin Jack cheese Doritos chips. They recently released them again for a limited time and I probably had 3 bags before they left again. I don't remember McDonald's ever having pizza, maybe in was only in certain areas.
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Post by workingclassdog on Apr 24, 2019 16:03:37 GMT
October Afternoon Weight Watchers used to have dried strawberries in a bag.. there were other flavors but strawberry was my favorite.. didn't matter they were WW either.. they were delish.. BBW Twilight line - but I loved the cream lotion and body gel. @cbbkeef totally forgot about PB Max.. those were good!! There was a cereal we would get as kids.. (this is going to bug me now).. kinda like Wheaties but they were sweet and came in a smaller box.. looked just like Wheaties though but the flakes had some kind of 'coating' in my mind the cereal was sold as a healthy kind.. not geared for kids.. Oh this is going to bug me now.. Do they still make Grape Nuts? I used to like those.
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Post by miominmio on Apr 24, 2019 16:26:33 GMT
Japp Star, best chocolate ever!! When we found out it was going to be discontinued, we stockpiled them. I Even scrapbooked the last wrapper.😥
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Post by Miss Ang on Apr 24, 2019 17:53:45 GMT
Thank you, I will try that! Sending you a PM.
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Post by Skellinton on Apr 24, 2019 18:15:24 GMT
I thought of a non chocolate thing, but it was limited in release so I don’t know if anyone else will remember it, but iit was OK Soda, by Coke. It came out in the 90’s and it was amazing. Sort of like Fresca mixed with orange soda. They had a 1800 line you could call and they would read you little platitudes assuring you everything would be OK. Our used food store sold the 6 packs for 25 cents each and I filled my car with cases of it. I have a bottle left, but I don’t think it is good to drink so I just keep it on a shelf. Anyone else remember this soda?
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Post by idahomom on Apr 24, 2019 18:20:53 GMT
Twilight Woods? I like that one too and they've got it back online under retired fragrances. Twilight Woods
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Post by berty on Apr 24, 2019 19:41:17 GMT
Chi-chi's restaurants. Terrible name, but great food. UGH. I got a violent case of food poisoning from that place. Sorry but I was really glad to see it go! Oh no! IIRC, they closed because a bunch of people got hepatitis from green onions at the restaurant.
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Post by jenr on Apr 24, 2019 20:22:42 GMT
Trader Joe's Hot Chocolate pop tarts! (toaster pastries) They were here in September, and then they were gone. I said, where are they and the TJ guy said, oh they were a fall item. Now we have maple toaster pastries. Whaaaatt? Hot Chocolate is Fall and Maple is Winter? Um, I live in MN. Hot chocolate is def winter. Anyway he said they *may* come back but they were not sure. I love Trader Joes, but it drives me nuts how many products never "come back". They used to have a gorgonzola, cranberry and walnut tart/cheeseball thing that I LOVED. One day, just poof! Gone. And when I asked about it no one in the store could remember it. I had been buying it for 3-4 years. I miss it!
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Post by jenr on Apr 24, 2019 20:23:27 GMT
I miss some older scrapbook companies or products-----Making Memories tools, Basic Grey, older Webster's Pages and Prima Marketing paper. I have a lot of Basic Grey that I’m not using. Should I put it on the FSOT board? Would there be any interest, do you think? You should sell it to me!! I'll PM you!
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Post by jenr on Apr 24, 2019 20:26:01 GMT
I just thought of another one. Girl Scouts used to have a cookie called a kookaburra. If I remember right, they were little rectangular caramel and wafer cookies, with chocolate on top. They were so good. That would have been late 70s or early 80s.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Apr 25, 2019 2:33:47 GMT
Trader Joe's Hot Chocolate pop tarts! (toaster pastries) They were here in September, and then they were gone. I said, where are they and the TJ guy said, oh they were a fall item. Now we have maple toaster pastries. Whaaaatt? Hot Chocolate is Fall and Maple is Winter? Um, I live in MN. Hot chocolate is def winter. Anyway he said they *may* come back but they were not sure. I love Trader Joes, but it drives me nuts how many products never "come back". They used to have a gorgonzola, cranberry and walnut tart/cheeseball thing that I LOVED. One day, just poof! Gone. And when I asked about it no one in the store could remember it. I had been buying it for 3-4 years. I miss it! I will confirm for you that that existed even if they won't. My mom had one a long time ago at her house at Christmas. It was delicious. I know she didn't get it from trader joe's... and I spotted it at my regular grocery store where they had it with the fancy cheeses and wanted some ridiculous amount of money (like $9 or something) for it, which was really out of my budget at the time except for a real treat. A few years later, I moved to a place with a trader joe's where they had it for something much more reasonable (under $5). It was SO GOOD with everything bagel chips. I guess I am glad to know they no longer have it... it would probably be one of the only reasons I'd make a special trip to trader joe's-- it's not really very conveniently located for me.
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Post by ametallichick on Apr 25, 2019 7:11:34 GMT
My favorite mascara ever... MAC Zoom Fast Black Lash. I could kick myself for not buying as many tubes as I could.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Apr 25, 2019 11:16:38 GMT
A mix of items have been mentioned certainly, but has anyone else noted how much junk food is listed?
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Post by peano on Apr 25, 2019 12:16:23 GMT
October Afternoon Weight Watchers used to have dried strawberries in a bag.. there were other flavors but strawberry was my favorite.. didn't matter they were WW either.. they were delish.. BBW Twilight line - but I loved the cream lotion and body gel. @cbbkeef totally forgot about PB Max.. those were good!! There was a cereal we would get as kids.. (this is going to bug me now).. kinda like Wheaties but they were sweet and came in a smaller box.. looked just like Wheaties though but the flakes had some kind of 'coating' in my mind the cereal was sold as a healthy kind.. not geared for kids.. Oh this is going to bug me now.. Do they still make Grape Nuts? I used to like those.They do. I have a box in my pantry.
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Post by jenjie on Apr 25, 2019 13:04:58 GMT
I don’t like grape nuts - too crunchy - but always added to my kids’ cereal when they were little. Or on top of yogurt. Anything to help work on their digestive system. Dd still eats it.
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Post by jenjie on Apr 25, 2019 13:06:05 GMT
My favorite spaghetti sauce is Tuttorusso marinara. It disappeared for maybe a year and I never found anything I liked nearly as much. It just showed up again and I bought a dozen!
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Post by tracyarts on Apr 25, 2019 13:13:49 GMT
The McDonald's adjacent to the University of Houston main campus had pizza around '89-93 when my friend was a student. It was the only McDonald's I'd ever seen pizza at, and assumed it was a special menu item, because students eat a lot of pizza. And yeah, it was good. We always got it when I met her there to study. Chocolate pudding pops I really liked McDonalds pizza in the 90’s. It had a crunchy bottom crust that I loved. Also loved Jumpin Jack cheese Doritos chips. They recently released them again for a limited time and I probably had 3 bags before they left again.
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Post by littlemama on Apr 25, 2019 13:29:58 GMT
Amazon has had them relatively recently. I buy them for DH
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Post by 5peanutsnana on Apr 25, 2019 13:53:00 GMT
One of my favorite discontinued items just returned...Planter's Cheese Balls. They were gone for many years. (I remember them from the 70's and 80's) And yes, they are junk food. Addictive, I tell you! I miss Benefit Sugarbomb lip gloss.
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Post by shelby on Apr 25, 2019 14:51:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2019 15:01:07 GMT
Nancy's mini cheese souffles. Man, those were so good! It used to be you could just buy a box of the cheese souffles, now if you want them, you have to buy the champagne collection that includes crab cakes.
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 25, 2019 15:39:11 GMT
Choc-o-life candy bars Oompa Candies Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough ice cream Bar None candy bars Garden Botanika mint face wash, I would love to find a good mint face wash that JUST smells like mint. If it is have to have another flavor, vanilla would be fine, but I haven’t been able to find one that doesn’t have some weird fruity smell with the mint. And I know it is still around, but I can’t find them locally except at Christmas time, Brach’s chocolate stars Brach’s Chocolate Stars ! I have looked for them often. Have not seen them in years. 🙁 I found them in the bulk candy area of my supermarket - HyVee.
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Post by PLurker on Apr 25, 2019 15:39:56 GMT
When I was a kid in the 80s, my favorite candy in the world was Tart n’ tinys! They were these small pellets of sugar. They tasted similar to sweet tarts. My fav were the yellow and green-as they tatsted like lemon and lime. But the other colors were also good too. They have revamped them. But they don’t taste the same. Especially the green. Green now tastes like sour apple. I miss sugary candy tasting like lime. Most have moved to an Apple flavoring and it is disgusting. Bring back the lime people! 😁 I agree! Skittles changed their green to green apple and it's disgusting. 😩 Skittles changed their Berry (purple bag) once. Dxh always had a bag. I had a pet goat, Hazel, that loved them so much that when she heard the bag rattle she'd come running, begging and demanding. They changed the flavors once (not for the good, more fake, chemical) so we decided we could pawn them off on Hazel. Not so much. She turned up her nose and wouldn't touch them either. I laughed so hard I almost wrote a "about your flavor change...even the goat won't eat them" letter but never did. Skittles must have got similar complaints because they were changed back. My missing it thing: Weight watchers used to have a raspberry chocolate dessert that I found by chance (not looking for low calorie at the time). The chocolate raspberry ratio was perfection, to me. I still look and yearn every once in a while even after all these years.
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 25, 2019 15:41:46 GMT
7Up bar...no, Skybar doesn't cut it. 7Up bar - is that the one with 7 different sections, each one different? I LOVED that one.
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 25, 2019 15:43:01 GMT
I miss some older scrapbook companies or products-----Making Memories tools, Basic Grey, older Webster's Pages and Prima Marketing paper. I have a lot of Basic Grey that I’m not using. Should I put it on the FSOT board? Would there be any interest, do you think? Yes, I am sure there would be interest.
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Post by jenr on Apr 25, 2019 16:14:42 GMT
I love Trader Joes, but it drives me nuts how many products never "come back". They used to have a gorgonzola, cranberry and walnut tart/cheeseball thing that I LOVED. One day, just poof! Gone. And when I asked about it no one in the store could remember it. I had been buying it for 3-4 years. I miss it! I will confirm for you that that existed even if they won't. My mom had one a long time ago at her house at Christmas. It was delicious. I know she didn't get it from trader joe's... and I spotted it at my regular grocery store where they had it with the fancy cheeses and wanted some ridiculous amount of money (like $9 or something) for it, which was really out of my budget at the time except for a real treat. A few years later, I moved to a place with a trader joe's where they had it for something much more reasonable (under $5). It was SO GOOD with everything bagel chips. I guess I am glad to know they no longer have it... it would probably be one of the only reasons I'd make a special trip to trader joe's-- it's not really very conveniently located for me. So happy for the validation! It was so good!
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Post by jenr on Apr 25, 2019 16:15:29 GMT
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Post by PLurker on Apr 25, 2019 17:38:55 GMT
double yes. In my minds-eye, I just walked in and am browsing the store I used to frequent and attend crops... sigh.
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