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Discontinued items you miss.


I'm aware that there was a topic like this recently but I'm too lazy to find it and bring it up. Anyway, name some:

Popeye's Cajun Fried Rice
Popeye's Cajun Fish
Popeye's Chicken Bowl (I think that was what it was called: red beans and rice mixed with chicken and topped with cheese. Came with a packet of sour cream to add even more flavor.)
Popeye's Jambalaya
Popeye's Gumbo

I think you may notice a pattern with me here.....

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I could write a book

body shop tea tree oil mattifying lotion
Gap Scents Earth (not recent, but one I still miss)
Local restaurant discontinued their Borsetti.
Red Robins (they closed all their locations in my province)

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Damn these companies!

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I do actually have a book that I've called my discontinued life.

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We have Red Robin here. When family members come for a visit, that's where we go.

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I think they are still in BC in Canada, but they all closed in Alberta. I heard it was because the company who bought the franchise here didn't want to deal with 2 different provinces. Shame because they were always busy.

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they never made it to ontario

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We have Red Robin here (Nor Cal) too. I haven’t been to one in a long while. The last one I went in looked like it was going down hill: lots of dirty unbussed tables, greasy seats, slow service, cold food.

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That's a shame. They're not like that here.

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Yes, I'd say you like Popeye's.

Aunt Jemima Syrup
Uncle Ben's Rice
Eskimo Pies.

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I do.

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All of those items still exist, but have been renamed.

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I know. That's why I miss them, because of woke bullshit.

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Renaming Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben was complete lunacy, but I can see why they changed the name of Eskimo Pie's. Basically, Inuits don't like being called Eskimos and it's understandable why.

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Then call it Inuit Pie. Lol. Something tells me the wokesters would hate that even more though.

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I don't like being called a cracker but Ritz is still out there, larger than life.

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Weak comparison. Eskimo isn't a type of food.

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WOOSH!

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Yeah, lol.

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I think Popeyes should be renamed because it is insensitive to people with Exophthalmos

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Yes! Those people should burn Popeye's to the ground!

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That would be insensitive towards burn victims.

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True dat.

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Matilda Bay Wine Coolers.

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Honda Del Sol.... I had this car in dark green, about 10 years ago, and totaled it in an accident.

I got the Miata after that, and for a long time I hated the Miata. It felt like I was cheating on my Del Sol. I'm honestly not sure which car I like better at this point, both cars are highly maneuverable. I can get around traffic like Mario Andretti.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=880T54cg1iw

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Miatas are very well made cars. Damn near indestructible.

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Haagen Daz chocolate chocolate chip mint ice cream. It was a limited ice cream, but decades later I still look for it in stores - including today.

Volkswagen Beetles

Entenmann cakes with fresh and real ingredients

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Vanilla Coke
Yahoo! Answers
Orange Yoplait (not the cremiscle one, the real orange one)
Skybars (still available at some penny candy stores but nowhere else)
Cinnamon Tic Tacs

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I still see Vanilla Coke around.

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I still see Vanilla Coke around.


Yeah; you can still find it at the drug store and the like

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Ahh, I never see it on store shelves anymore, just the cherry one (blech). Sometimes see it on menus but I thought they were just mixing the syrup into regular coke.

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Campbell's used to make a smaller sized tin of vegetable soup with pearl barley and John West used to make a small tin of curried tuna that I would combine in a saucepan and heat up to have with a few slices of buttered toast for a nice and tasty quick meal for one. I still have the buttered toast but the other two items are gone.

Real ice-cream. Not the pale imitation we have now.

Flavoured bars of good quality dark chocolate. Used to be able to get peppermint, orange and raspberry but now there is only plain.

Coffee scrolls. This is going way back when a coffee scroll used to be a spiral of cooked bread dough on the smallish side but it had plenty of sultanas and was heavily spiced with cinnamon and whatnot. Now they are just a big wodge of a bun with a few sultanas and a huge dollop of icing on top.

Sour dough bread. Used to be more widely available but now you have to travel to the trendy inner suburbs to find an "artisan" baker and pay through the nose for it.

Side-throw mowers. It's all rear catcher mowers these days.




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You can still get real ice cream. You just have to pay a lot for it.

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I have tried the "expensive" brands but I don't like them either. I'm talking about supermarkets in Australia, not a lot of choice and mostly lowest common denominator stuff.

The only ice-creams I buy are the mini sized Magnums with vanilla ice-cream and dark chocolate. The full sized Magnums are different with inferior ice-cream for some bizarre reason.


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Do you get the magnum pints there? We don't in Canada but we did in South Africa.

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No, I haven't noticed them anyway. There seem to be a dozen variants of the Magnum on a stick but apart from the one I buy they are all coated in milk chocolate which tastes insipid to me.

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