First came the Tropical flavor, then Berryclear, and then Aruba Jam, a.k.a. Reducing the venerable Butterfinger candy bar to tiny bite-sized orbs proved incredibly popular back during the Clinton Administration. Vault also had the slogan, Drinks like a soda, kicks like an energy drink.. My favorite part was always the little Spongebob candies inside. 24/7 Wall Street is a USA TODAY content partner offering financial news and commentary. A standard, 3.78-ounce box contained three separate cups of Swoops, each holding six slices. 2009 saw the popular Cinnamon Tic Tacs become discontinued. Nowadays, it seems that the closest thing you can get to these are Starburst candy canes. In 2006, Trix made the decision to get rid of their original fruit-shaped cereal. Until it makes a comeback, Mars' Bounty bar is your best . But even the release of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was not enough to spark interest for this candy, which was soon discontinued due to low sales. Jumbo Nerds! But in the 2000s, Altoids Sours were boldly released in a few delicious flavors. Pepsi has created a lot of wacky products, from the infamous Pepsi Crystal, a completely clear version of Pepsi, to Pepsi Pink, a Japanese variation of Pepsi thats meant to taste like strawberry milk only fizzy. However, people have since stated since their relaunch in 2018, that they just dont taste the same as they used to! Apparently, Pringles-shaped chocolate just isnt novel enough I mean, why not just grab a regular old chocolate bar? Despite the petition being started four years ago, it has garnered over 31,000 signatures that are still being collected to this day. Here are 45 discontinued foods from the 2000s that you definitely miss. And despite online petitions, it seems like companies are far too hesitant to bring back 90s and 00s favorites. Most likely a featured candy in your Grandmas bag, Creme Savers have seemingly disappeared from grocery stores. Did Oreos drop the ball with these? These came in a ton of different flavors, but were reportedly yanked from the candy lineup due to them being choking hazards. Its a shame, since these were really fun, and were also great as an ice cream topping. If youre a fan of root beer barrels, you would have loved the root beer LifeSavers that came out in the 60s and seemed to last until the 80s. Once the user popped a capsule in their mouth, the outside would start to dissolve and provide a splash of mint liquid. Even though these have been discontinued, fans are still raving about them on their Amazon page. Then there was Extreme Creme Taste Oreo O's, which featured Oreo O's with marshmallow bits. Reese, suffered setbacks in his confectionary career before striking it rich with his legendary "Penny Cups." Thats the exact purpose behind Krafts Bagel-fuls! These were cleverly re-branded into what we now know as the Golden Chocolate Oreo. Named and styled after the cartoon and comic series, He-man jellies were individually wrapped fruit jellies that were most popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s. While the company pledged to reintroduce the small candies with safer packaging, the product never recovered from the debacle. The idea of a frozen pizza with baked beans instead of a tomato base feels especially out of place, despite its widespread popularity in the 1990s. This bar of milkand white chocolate with a hazelnut praline centre has been sorely missed since it was discontinued in the early 2000s, with evenFacebook pagesandonline petitionstrying to spark the bar's revival. Like all nostalgic candy it seems, Magic Balls made a big comeback 12 years later as Wonder Ball. A BringBackPizzarias Facebook group currently has more than 4,842 followers. Bubble Beeper Bubble Gum. They just dont generate the revenue that projections called for, and so are phased out in favor of the tried-and-true, or of other new introductions that might end up doing better. But in 2000, they were. But don't fret! However, pizza is not a thing the ketchup and baked beans brand is known for in 2017. While best known for its "curiously strong" breath mints, Altoids used to make sour candies, too. Check out this article for more interesting facts about "Milk's Favorite Cookie.". The "Reggie!" Despite being limited edition, fans wasted no time in contacting Doritos looking for the company to restock their beloved flavor. The Butterfinger BBs were discontinued in 2006, and after much uproar from fans, they were reintroduced in new packaging, branding, and flavoring in 2009. Still, there was a glimmer of hope for fans of Pudding Pops in 2004 after a rebrand. In 2002, Pepsi Blue was created. The commercials for this were pretty cool, with a human-shaped marshmallowdancing all around. xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain;charset=UTF-8'); Perhaps jumbo nerds just seemed too indulgent? In most cases, its simply a matter of sales. This shows just how passionate people are about their cereal! Saying this, however, if youre looking to buy them from elsewhere, sometimes people will charge in excess of $200. $19.99. There were three flavors P.B. Even products that probably seemed like a good idea at the time would eventually succumb to changing tastes and other powerful market forces. All Rights Reserved. I weep over the fact that TasteTations are no more. Willy Wonka would never! Nabisco began test-marketing these candies in 1989, before rolling them out nationally the following year. It was a hard, fruity candy that belonged to a major brand (probably jolly rancher or life savers). These cheese savoury sized biscuits laden with salt and vinegar to recreate that by-the-seaside stingwere at their peak popularity in the 1980s, and made a re-emergence more recently thanks to popular demand. Originally created in honor of the Kings favorite sandwich peanut butter and bananas many fans expressed their disappointment when their new favorite flavor of Reeses cup was taken away. 13 Nintendo Cereal System Courtesy of Nintendo Copyright document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) Her Campus Media LLC. So shocked, that sales of the fondant egg dropped 6m in the first year of the new recipe being on the market. They were first test-marketed in 1978, but rolled out nationwide only four years later. I've always thought this was a strange combination for a candy. A post shared by Whisk & Roll (@whiskandroll)May 8, 2014 at 11:18am PDT. Despite huge popularity in many countries including the UK, the US, and Australia, Kellogg did not make this limited edition cereal a full-time addition much to many fans' dismay. They were one of Hersheys first introductions to hard candy and came in multiple flavors. A post shared by Trisha McGlone (@trishamcglone)Aug 14, 2015 at 3:00pm PDT. Based on the shape, you would think there would be a potato chip underneath, right? With neitherthe solidity of a regular bar of chocolate or therefinement of aFlake, it's no wonder Cadbury axed the middle ground Spira in 2005. From Fruitopia, to The Arch Deluxe, Crystal Pepsi, Pepsi Blue (poor lost Pepsi), Pop Tarts Crunch cereal, PB Max, Sprite Remix, Josta, to even Spice Girl lollipops, these are the best in 90s food: snacks, drinks, candy and all. However, do kids today still love bubblegum as much as we used to? What a letdown. However, they were discontinued a decade later in 2012. Tiny chocolate biscuits with a white and milk chocolate dip, these snack pots were McVities' alternative to the KP choc dip. A product of its diet-conscious time, Milky Way Lite was an instant success, becoming one of America's best-selling candy bars in just its first year, Mashable reports. However the bar quickly fell back out of manufacture at the end of the campaign. The Flintstones aired on television for six years during the 1960s. These came in crazy colors like purple, pink, orange and a range of blue colors. All Sweet Teeth and Chocoholics are Welcomed! As far as branding, Sprite Remix had a couple of cool commercials with DJ Logikal that represented the 2000s well. Just think about how popular PEZ dispensers were (and still are, to be honest). That made for just 18 thin pieces of chocolate for a standard retail price of $1.79, which could buy at least a couple of regular old Hershey bars. If you ever imagined what it would be like to eat chocolate Pringles, this may be the closest thing. There were plenty of varieties to choose from. Even the inventor of America's best-selling candy himself, H.B. document.addEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', function() { Surge had previously been discontinued in 2003. The original design included a toy inside, but since too many kids choked on it, they replaced it with candy. The market at the moment is teeming with granola bars. If youve ever wanted the taste of Skittles to last longer, then Skittles Bubblegum would have been the perfect product for you! Discontinued: 2010 Maker: Wrigley There were five flavors of these "curiously strong" hard candies: raspberry, lime, tangerine, apple, and mango. Im in my 20s now, but every time I walk down the candy aisle, I still look for them, John Roberts wrote. However, during a split between Post and Kraft Foods Group in 2007, Oreo Os became Oreo-NO more. The limited edition white-chocolate version of the Terry's classic may have only been available for one Christmas period, but fans are left still craving one last segment of this chocolate orb. By 2000, the Wonder Ball was born, and the prizes were replaced with small candies that weren't quite as hazardous. There is very little written or recorded about Little Caesars Chocolate Ravioli, which leads us to suspect it was either too vile to keep producing it, or it was gone as soon as it was around. Obviously based on the popular campfire treat, Hershey launched this chocolate-covered marshmallow and graham cracker candy bar in 2003, then extinguished it less than a decade later, according to The Food We Loved Wiki. But the real Achilles heel for this candy came when Hershey's decided to use cheaper fats instead of cocoa butter to cut costs. I was born in 1993, and I remember seeing commercials for this candy and that it was "new" so it was probably in the early 2000's. These candy-coated chocolate pebbles resembledSmartieswith the addition of a crumbly biscuit centre. Unsurprisingly, this vanilla flavour version of the otherwise savoury snack didn't receive an entirely positive reception from consumers. The gimmick was that the candies were two flavored; the clear coating provided one flavor while the inner colored candy provided the second. Good suggestions so far, but not quite. 10 Discontinued Candies That You'll Never See Again, lime, mango, raspberry, and tangerinebefore being "unceremoniously discontinued" in 2010, due to what manufacturer Mars later described as "low national demand," a, We assumed that the chocolate wrapped around a potato chipwhy else would it have this distinct shape?". However . It's been 25 years since these limited edition twiglets first hit our shelves, and they've made a few reappearances around Christmas time through the years to appease the snack's strong fan base. Restaurant closings: 300 Pizza Huts to close, mostly dine-in locations, Debt over food: Parents are going into debt to pay for kids' breakfasts, lunches. Wonka stretchy and tangy laffy taffy. Major food companies employ virtual armies of chefs, food scientists, and marketing gurus dedicated to developing, test-marketing, and (if all goes well) eventually rolling out new products. if( navigator.sendBeacon ) { Reese's initial chocolate-covered almonds and raisins, it turned out, were not a winning formula back in the early 20th century, according to the Hershey Company archives. More the size of marbles than BBs, these candies once plugged on the television show "The Simpsons" were reintroduced in 2009. But the company discontinued it in 1997, after parents complained about the toys being potential choking hazards, according to Bustle. Well, we guess it worked because as of 2020, Dunkaroos are now back, thanks to General Mills. "I would kill to eat one of these," onedevotee wrote recently on Reddit. However, they were discontinued in 1997 after a campaign was raised over the toys being choking hazards. Kids still get a toy, even some stickers, they just come in the box like cereal. Now, here are some of the most missed discontinued candies that would be welcome back anytime. These were discontinued in 2006, only to be replaced with Butterfinger Bites in 2009 which werent the same whatsoever. Thats right you can find them in a store near you! These will be a throwback for anyone who was a kid or teenager in the 2000s. It was easy to mistake these for whoopie pies. We have yet another candy that just wasn't popular enough to be kept on the shelves. The pies have no relation to chocolate turtles they're deep-fried mounds with an unsettling dark green coating, filled with vanilla pudding. In an effort to boost sales, their maker renamed them in honor of famed New York Yankees slugger Reggie Jackson. 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