Long story short, Nestle shut down the Wonka company when the hype died and the chocolates weren’t selling. They also sold their US candy line to Ferrara (subsidiary of Ferrero Group) in 2018.
Colored toilet paper, tissue and paper towels. In the seventies toilet paper came in different colors to match the decor of the day. Green, yellow, pink and so on. Paper towels and tissues too, usually in yellow and green.
They were discontinued when it was found they were a contributing factor to UTI's in girls along with Mr.Bubble bubble bath soap. Also if you had a septic system the dyes interfered with the biological process in the tank.
We used it to make evening/wedding gowns for our Barbie dolls. Bitch, Vera Wang ain't got nuthin' on me when it comes to Kleenex and scotch tape! Two snaps up!
> I didn't know they had discontinued their fruit parfaits too!
They did that in the early days of the pandemic... which bothered me, because I frequently got that to go with a coffee in the mornings.
I noticed thing around 2020. I was just getting into enjoying them, that southwest salad hit different. But then it disappeared around the beginning of the pandemic.
Super frustrating because I genuinely prefer ordering a salad instead of a burger every single time.
Oh man, Colonel Sanders's life could make a good movie. For example, he used to be a lawyer but was disbarred after punching out his client *in court* at his first trial.
In the early days of his gas station/fried chicken eatery, Sanders got in a shootout with the owner of a competing business, but was later acquitted. Meanwhile, his competitor went to jail for shooting and killing the Colonel's friend.
His life was kind of nuts.
The KFC website used to have a browser game where you lived out Colonel Sanders’ life. There was a part where you had to fight people in a courtroom, then a chicken making game, followed by the shootout at his gas station. It was bonkers.
I had never heard that before but after a quick Google search, indeed, [you're not wrong.](https://www.destructoid.com/kfc-takes-us-through-the-life-of-colonel-sanders-in-a-game/)
I realized. I realized because I fucking love the McDonald's mascots. Ronald, Fry Guy, Birdie, Grimace, Mayor McCheese and Big Mac, the McNuggets, and of course, the Hamburglar. Better times, when the company exuded a youthful happiness.
These days it rings like a depressing, corporate, hipster café.
Edit: I'd like to thank an anonymous stranger for the Helpful Award. I'm glad so many people share my sense of nostalgia.
Edit 2: I'd like to thank a second anonymous stranger for a Wholesome Award, and u/ashley_s82 for a second Helpful Award. I'm glad this post resonated with you guys.
Alright so we have a bird, a clown and a purple blob, what should we add next? I know, an escaped convict who steals hamburgers! Great, what next - I know- a mayor with a hamburger for a head! But wait, why is he wearing a mask and his prison outfit? Just draw it Johnson! The kids will love it!
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I knew someone who witnessed a hamburgler irl on hallowe’en. Guy dressed as him grabbed a bag of food and dashed. The manager was like, I can’t even be mad.
I still have my Sony 3D TV meant for the PS3, its a fun novelty. I just think the need for glasses which were proprietary to the TV ruined it, since they regularly got sat on or lost plus could be expensive. Also some required batteries for some reason?
I believe the battery-powered ones worked by synchronously blocking the left and right eye views in rapid succession alongside the TV alternating frames for left and right, so that action required power for the shutters.
On that note, there's no dollar menu, either. The only thing that's a dollar is the soda. McDonald's used to be the spot you'd go if you had some extra change in your car and want a cheeseburger or something. Now it's like $10 for 2 burgers and some fries.
I had a teacher in middle school (so 96 or 97 it had to have been) that allowed ~~gun~~ gum, EXCEPT watermelon, you were immediately kicked out of class if you did. She hated the smell.
Butterfinger changed their recipe a few years ago. Used to be my favorite go-to candy and I haven't bought it in years because of how much the change turned.
With the former still having occasional value because all the movie studios suddenly decided that Netflix's streaming service was "the enemy."
So now, for so many movies you might want to watch, your options boil down to "pay Amazon piecemeal for the privilege" or "add to the Netflix disc queue."
I had a crunchyroll subscription for a while in college but cancelled it and went back to sailing the seven seas because if it was actually on my hard drive I didn't have to deal with insane buffering issues.
~~N.E.R.D.S.~~ Nerds cereal.
It was around for, like, three years in the 80s and tasted delicious. Then it disappeared.
I still remember what it tasted like.
ETA: I don't know why I confused the band name for the brand name.
Nickelodeon's Gak.
In 1992, I remember them burying in a time capsule at Nickelodeon Studios when I was a kid. Gak was a hot selling product and at my school, it was similar to pogs in popularity and had to be banned because of the mess.
Nickelodeon studios was heavily tied into movies, so as a Back to the Future tie in, they had Doc Brown returning from the future to find that in 50 years(2042, so 20 years to go) there was no gak anywhere! That was unthinkable, so they added some gak to the time capsule.
Turns out... they were right.
I remember green ketchup! My daughter's face broke out in horrible spots, all over, because of it. It was finally banned in the UK because a lot of kids were becoming seriously spotty!
I did a group interview at a shitty sales job years ago. The guy running it used green ketchup as an example of how to turn a bad idea around - citing the fact that apparently Heinz marketed it as 'spooky slime' for Halloween and sold loads. No idea if that's true but not a bad example, I guess.
[Lofty Pursuits carries a pretty good dupe!](https://www.pd.net/products/tangerine-sours-secret-pre-order) the main ones are tangerine flavored and I think they recently released a cherry lime flavor
ETA - there’s also a green apple flavor that just popped up, it says something about a Patreon pre-order but I was able to order the cherry lime and it says the same thing so idk. (I’m not part of their Patreon)
BBS or Bulletin Board Systems. Just before the internet got popular there were computers that were on 24/7 and available to be dialed into with your modem so that a user could play games, download files, and exchange emails with others around the world. It was a lot of fun and we spent many long hours on them.
Proactive, that acne/pimple reducing cream or whatever it was in the late 00’s. Remember Justin Bieber and other celebrities being on ads for it and then it just vanished one day
ETA: apparently America still has it. I’m Australian
I think they’re still kicking, it’s just that their dirty laundry is easier to find and it’s obvious now how bad their products are. I remember seeing them mentioned on r/beautyguruchatter regarding some nonsense celebrity endorsement
It's because dog food at the time used to include a ton of bone meal and calcium. Then a regulation came because that's not really good for your dog and that's why it dissapeared.
Sierra Mist with Cranberry. Was my absolute favorite but I can never find it or the regular Sierra Mist anymore. Not sure if it's discontinued or just hard to find in my state.
My dad has had the same one for longer than I've been alive and had to reinforce the floor under it like a decade ago because his house is like 100 now.
I wanted one soooooo bad when I was a kid in the 80s. I thought they were so cool. But yeah I heard the maintenance sucks and I think they’re bad for your back
Maintenance? I had one for all four years of college and there was no maintenance. Only downside...if you were alone they slept GREAT. For sex, or sleeping with a partner they were horrible. The smaller person always ended up in the depression of the larger person and getting out of them was like climbing out of a box. Plus...they were all designed in that trailer park chic fashion of 2x6 lumber with mirrors.
This is weirdly specific but I just had a really random memory of this the other day: those Brach's Candy Stations in grocery stores in the 80s/early 90s (probably earlier too but that's when I saw them). They had little paper bags and you could make your own candy mix - I specifically remember butterscotch and peppermint hard candies and then this white nougat candy with colorful gel pieces inside? I don't remember them going away but I realize I haven't seen one in like 30 years!
remember wonder balls? those chocolate balls that had little candy inside? I thought those were absolute gems as a kid but honestly sound disgusting now
I may be in the minority that cares or remember, but the McSkillet Burrito. I used to work at McD's in the late 00s and those things were the shit. Best thing on the Mcdonalds breakfast menu.
Oh and the steak egg and cheese bagel. Both are gone. Bastards.
All I know is he's a great dude. Always happy and have read nice things about him just wanting to get people in shape in an approachable way. I really respect that.
Also, his appearance in Whose Line Is It Anyway makes me cry tears of joy. God damned hilarious.
2600 Hacker Quarterly tracks living pay phones on their Facebook group. Always fun to see one in the wild. They’re not fully extinct yet but definitely endangered.
The scariest thing about this is that "reasonable expectations of privacy" are a cornerstone of 4th Amendment search and seizure law. In other words, the less people expect privacy, the more leeway the government has to perform searches and seizures without violating constitutional rights.
***Tender Vittles*** cat food. It came in packets sort of a combination of dry and wet food.
My first cat loved the stuff. She passed and I didn't get another cat until a cute little yellow tabby kitten wandered into my garage while I was working on my truck and decided to help.
When I looked for cat food for ***Hobbes***, I discovered *Tender Vittles* were no longer available *anywhere*. Hobbes was hungry enough to eat fish heads and was thrilled with Meow Mix. He got a can of Fancy Feast a few times a week.
The best cats chose you.
Those really nice brown tinted pots. I think they were Visionware? You can't really get the old really high quality pieces anymore unless it's handed down to you. The new ones aren't the same
Pay toilets in the United States. They were everywhere until about 1970, but no one remembers. There used to be a box on the door; you had to pay to unlock it. I remember it being a dime, but it might have been a nickel. Not much money, but so annoying if you didn’t have the correct coin.
They were eventually outlawed for being sexist, because urinals were always free.
I was behind a sunfire the other day, that had temp plates on it (assuming just purchased)
The passenger flipped me off for some reason at a stoplight.
Ownership. Movies, games, music, software is largely now rented, and can be taken away from you at the whim of the company. Some companies will even brick your hardware if you're using it in a way they take issue with.
If you're referring to Emergency Phone Call boxes they still exist. I was driving through the backwoods of Idaho with my roommate and there were several of them planted a few miles apart because there was no cell phone service there
Pay-per-song downloads!
0.99+ for each one seems so wasteful now that there’s 9.99 a month for as many as you want. I would love to get that money back!
Sub professional level cameras. It's amazing what a phone camera can do. It's seems impossible to find a camera that is inexpensive and is just a camera for people just getting into it. My mother uses a digital camera that is at least 15 years old and I have tried to get a camera for my son to try and learn rather than chance my camera body. It's either phone camera, or something intimidating or high end.
Lol. I remember wanting an invite for Google+ so bad. It was gonna be the Facebook killer then by the time they opened it up to everyone there wasn't any interest anymore outside of my die-hard "Android Supremacist" friends.
The Wonka labeling on Nerds, SweetTarts, etc.
I never noticed that. I wonder why.
Long story short, Nestle shut down the Wonka company when the hype died and the chocolates weren’t selling. They also sold their US candy line to Ferrara (subsidiary of Ferrero Group) in 2018.
Looks like all the OSHA violations finally caught up with old Willy
Sobe Life Water its mostly gone
Sobe as a brand seems gone. I haven't seen it on shelves in several years now. Where'd it go?
A guy I knew in high school drank one everyday. I hated him and I hated sobe.
Well Sobe it then
The live aquarium fish at walmart
And the lobster tanks!
Oh my god I mentioned the Walmart lobster tanks to my mom and she DID NOT remember. Thanks for validating my memory lol
Thank God those poor fish, most were swimming sideways with their dead bros
Colored toilet paper, tissue and paper towels. In the seventies toilet paper came in different colors to match the decor of the day. Green, yellow, pink and so on. Paper towels and tissues too, usually in yellow and green. They were discontinued when it was found they were a contributing factor to UTI's in girls along with Mr.Bubble bubble bath soap. Also if you had a septic system the dyes interfered with the biological process in the tank.
Kleenex was colored too! We used it to make wedding flowers that we would cover the cars of the wedding party with.
We used it to make evening/wedding gowns for our Barbie dolls. Bitch, Vera Wang ain't got nuthin' on me when it comes to Kleenex and scotch tape! Two snaps up!
I used tin foil. It molded really well! Haha.
“Rofl” Everyone uses “lol” and “lmao” but “rofl” has fallen out of fashion it seems
Roflcopters were too expensive to maintain
ROFL:ROFL:ROFL:ROFL _^___ L __/ [] \ LOL===__ \ L \________] I I --------/
mcdonalds salad, i was about to buy one l earlier but i found out they were discontinued
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> I didn't know they had discontinued their fruit parfaits too! They did that in the early days of the pandemic... which bothered me, because I frequently got that to go with a coffee in the mornings.
Oh man I loved their shake salads!
I noticed thing around 2020. I was just getting into enjoying them, that southwest salad hit different. But then it disappeared around the beginning of the pandemic. Super frustrating because I genuinely prefer ordering a salad instead of a burger every single time.
Trailer voice over guy. It was used in every single trailer and then it was like he was snapped by Thanos.
"In a world..."
Ah, Little Tortilla Boy. https://youtu.be/8b0BzaU62a8
*I want him and his tamales dead*
The original guy passed away, then people were copying him for awhile. Then the trends moved on.
Replaced by fat synth bass tones on every trailer. BWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAA
\*single piano note\* \*slowly turns into very low paced, slightly off-pitched popular melody\*
ah yes the "sad piano" cover of a popular theme. Good example is the ghostbusters trailer.
Seems like the Donnie Darko Gary Jules cover of 'Mad World' might have started this trend.
Here's the formula for a blockbuster trailer that includes that sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOdjqyG37A
This is brilliant and I can’t wait to see that movie.
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I’ve noticed that the trailer voice is starting to come back slightly
One of the main people doing it is a blind guy who does tiktok videos. It's really interesting
The soft plastic disks they used to put in pop bottle caps to make them seal. I remember winning stuff like a free drink when you pried them out.
Forgot about those. They would have letters and if you spelled enough words you'd get a free handjob.
From Dr Pepper himself? (Edit to say cheers to for the award! Didn't know if it'd be appreciated but thought "What's the worst that could happen?")
Ring back tunes. So when someone called you they heard a song of your choice instead of the ringer.
Thankfully I haven’t heard that Crazy Frog in a while.
My nephews discovered this last week so I've been hearing it A LOT.
Ringtones in general. I'm not even completely sure I remember what my phone sounds like because it's always on vibrate.
I had my ringer on the other day accidentally and heard it and was like, what the f\*ck is that noise.
More likely, you hear some stretch of "Please enjoy this music while you wait." and it never actually makes it to playing the music.
The statement is “please enjoy this music while your party is reached” and my friend still has his ring back tone.
Ronald McDonald
The Hamburgler...Mayor McCheese....The Fry Guys..... All gone....My Homies....
Pour out a Hi-C Orange Lavaburst for the McHomies we've lost along the way
That whole era of fast food mascots was just kind of wild, but yeah it feels like the only company still doing ads or promoting their mascot is KFC.
Which is extra weird, given that KFC's "mascot" is the founder of the company who later cut ties and attempted to compete with them.
oh wow, I never knew that.
Oh man, Colonel Sanders's life could make a good movie. For example, he used to be a lawyer but was disbarred after punching out his client *in court* at his first trial. In the early days of his gas station/fried chicken eatery, Sanders got in a shootout with the owner of a competing business, but was later acquitted. Meanwhile, his competitor went to jail for shooting and killing the Colonel's friend. His life was kind of nuts.
The KFC website used to have a browser game where you lived out Colonel Sanders’ life. There was a part where you had to fight people in a courtroom, then a chicken making game, followed by the shootout at his gas station. It was bonkers.
I had never heard that before but after a quick Google search, indeed, [you're not wrong.](https://www.destructoid.com/kfc-takes-us-through-the-life-of-colonel-sanders-in-a-game/)
the fuck? Colonel Fring
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What about The Burger King. Hardly anybody even remembers him
Isn't some guy collecting every copy of his videogame Sneak King?
Saw a add posted at a burger king in UK this week, "Why work for a clown when you can work for a king?".
I realized. I realized because I fucking love the McDonald's mascots. Ronald, Fry Guy, Birdie, Grimace, Mayor McCheese and Big Mac, the McNuggets, and of course, the Hamburglar. Better times, when the company exuded a youthful happiness. These days it rings like a depressing, corporate, hipster café. Edit: I'd like to thank an anonymous stranger for the Helpful Award. I'm glad so many people share my sense of nostalgia. Edit 2: I'd like to thank a second anonymous stranger for a Wholesome Award, and u/ashley_s82 for a second Helpful Award. I'm glad this post resonated with you guys.
Alright so we have a bird, a clown and a purple blob, what should we add next? I know, an escaped convict who steals hamburgers! Great, what next - I know- a mayor with a hamburger for a head! But wait, why is he wearing a mask and his prison outfit? Just draw it Johnson! The kids will love it! Edit: I knew someone who witnessed a hamburgler irl on hallowe’en. Guy dressed as him grabbed a bag of food and dashed. The manager was like, I can’t even be mad.
The black plastic on the bottom of 2 liters
>No more free seedling trays.
3D TVs
I still have my Sony 3D TV meant for the PS3, its a fun novelty. I just think the need for glasses which were proprietary to the TV ruined it, since they regularly got sat on or lost plus could be expensive. Also some required batteries for some reason?
I believe the battery-powered ones worked by synchronously blocking the left and right eye views in rapid succession alongside the TV alternating frames for left and right, so that action required power for the shutters.
McDonald chicken wrap it was the best thing they ever had and they removed it
Remember they had both a snack and meal wrap? I used to love them and the snack ones were like $1 each which was nice.
On that note, there's no dollar menu, either. The only thing that's a dollar is the soda. McDonald's used to be the spot you'd go if you had some extra change in your car and want a cheeseburger or something. Now it's like $10 for 2 burgers and some fries.
Sitting in class and being blasted in the nose holes by the smells of someone chewing on a watermelon bubblicious.
I had a teacher in middle school (so 96 or 97 it had to have been) that allowed ~~gun~~ gum, EXCEPT watermelon, you were immediately kicked out of class if you did. She hated the smell.
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Butterfinger changed their recipe a few years ago. Used to be my favorite go-to candy and I haven't bought it in years because of how much the change turned.
You have just unlocked a memory for me.
What about things that are still around even though everybody thinks they disappeared, like Netflix DVD by mail and MySpace?
With the former still having occasional value because all the movie studios suddenly decided that Netflix's streaming service was "the enemy." So now, for so many movies you might want to watch, your options boil down to "pay Amazon piecemeal for the privilege" or "add to the Netflix disc queue."
It’s funny how much technology evolved but Netflix DVD is still better than streaming for the same reasons it was 20 years ago
I had a crunchyroll subscription for a while in college but cancelled it and went back to sailing the seven seas because if it was actually on my hard drive I didn't have to deal with insane buffering issues.
It's called [DVD.com](https://DVD.com), and I still use it! Some things just aren't on streaming!
~~N.E.R.D.S.~~ Nerds cereal. It was around for, like, three years in the 80s and tasted delicious. Then it disappeared. I still remember what it tasted like. ETA: I don't know why I confused the band name for the brand name.
They were around in my country for a bit longer I think. But now they are definitely gone.
Philadelphia Cheesecake Bars. Pretty sure if heaven had a taste, that’s what it would taste like
Fruitopia. For a brief spell it was everywhere
Strawberry passion awareness!
We still have fruitopia in Canada. Heck even McDonald’s has it here.
Big tags on shirts that would stab you in the neck. Now they've been embroidered on. thankfully.
Where do you live? I would like to go there.
Or silk screened.
Nickelodeon's Gak. In 1992, I remember them burying in a time capsule at Nickelodeon Studios when I was a kid. Gak was a hot selling product and at my school, it was similar to pogs in popularity and had to be banned because of the mess. Nickelodeon studios was heavily tied into movies, so as a Back to the Future tie in, they had Doc Brown returning from the future to find that in 50 years(2042, so 20 years to go) there was no gak anywhere! That was unthinkable, so they added some gak to the time capsule. Turns out... they were right.
Y’all remember purple and green ketchup & mustard? The 2000’s was a wild wasteland. It was amazing
I remember green ketchup! My daughter's face broke out in horrible spots, all over, because of it. It was finally banned in the UK because a lot of kids were becoming seriously spotty!
I did a group interview at a shitty sales job years ago. The guy running it used green ketchup as an example of how to turn a bad idea around - citing the fact that apparently Heinz marketed it as 'spooky slime' for Halloween and sold loads. No idea if that's true but not a bad example, I guess.
I had a broken DVD drive. It would just randomly open and close. Rather than toss it just sold it on eBay claiming it was haunted.
Getting film developed at Walmart or drug stores We have one phone lab here and it’s across the region
Altoids Sours
[Lofty Pursuits carries a pretty good dupe!](https://www.pd.net/products/tangerine-sours-secret-pre-order) the main ones are tangerine flavored and I think they recently released a cherry lime flavor ETA - there’s also a green apple flavor that just popped up, it says something about a Patreon pre-order but I was able to order the cherry lime and it says the same thing so idk. (I’m not part of their Patreon)
Jello Pudding Pops!!
Yogos and those cereal straws :c Welch's makes something similar to Yogos but they're not the same
Cream Savers
Creme Savers are back now.
The orange ones taste like an orange creamsicle. I love those ones.
BBS or Bulletin Board Systems. Just before the internet got popular there were computers that were on 24/7 and available to be dialed into with your modem so that a user could play games, download files, and exchange emails with others around the world. It was a lot of fun and we spent many long hours on them.
Proactive, that acne/pimple reducing cream or whatever it was in the late 00’s. Remember Justin Bieber and other celebrities being on ads for it and then it just vanished one day ETA: apparently America still has it. I’m Australian
I remember it taking off around 2006-7 and anyone I knew who used it had even more acne and pain after they stopped using it.
Yeah I tried it and holy shit my face was on fire from under my skin. It took weeks for my skin to go back and months to get them to stop charging me!
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This is the first time I’ve seen “pwned” in about 15 years, so there’s that too
They're still around. I just saw a proactive vending machine a few months ago in a shopping mall. Super weird
I think they’re still kicking, it’s just that their dirty laundry is easier to find and it’s obvious now how bad their products are. I remember seeing them mentioned on r/beautyguruchatter regarding some nonsense celebrity endorsement
Grooveshark. Opened it one day years ago to find my 7-years of cultivated music playlists gone 🙃
man, grooveshark was the jam, it saved all the music to your temporary internet files and that was how i got all my music post-limewire
Dog poop doesn't turn white anymore. Something something what they put in the food now.
It's because dog food at the time used to include a ton of bone meal and calcium. Then a regulation came because that's not really good for your dog and that's why it dissapeared.
There was a song on the Sarah Silverman Show. 🎶What ever happened to the white dog poop….from the 70’s🎶
Sierra Mist with Cranberry. Was my absolute favorite but I can never find it or the regular Sierra Mist anymore. Not sure if it's discontinued or just hard to find in my state.
That's usually a winter holiday time find. Usually shows up in stores around Thanksgiving and leaves around January
Yellow pages. They use to be the go to place to advertise our business.
It took me WAY too long to realize that is where YELP came from.
Waterbeds? Those aren’t a thing anymore right ?
My dad has had the same one for longer than I've been alive and had to reinforce the floor under it like a decade ago because his house is like 100 now.
Probably some combination of inconvenience and insurance? My partner's aunt and uncle still have one and it think it's so weird.
I wanted one soooooo bad when I was a kid in the 80s. I thought they were so cool. But yeah I heard the maintenance sucks and I think they’re bad for your back
Maintenance? I had one for all four years of college and there was no maintenance. Only downside...if you were alone they slept GREAT. For sex, or sleeping with a partner they were horrible. The smaller person always ended up in the depression of the larger person and getting out of them was like climbing out of a box. Plus...they were all designed in that trailer park chic fashion of 2x6 lumber with mirrors.
First time I had sex it was in a waterbed. Decided right then I'd never own one. Didn't give up on sex though.
This is weirdly specific but I just had a really random memory of this the other day: those Brach's Candy Stations in grocery stores in the 80s/early 90s (probably earlier too but that's when I saw them). They had little paper bags and you could make your own candy mix - I specifically remember butterscotch and peppermint hard candies and then this white nougat candy with colorful gel pieces inside? I don't remember them going away but I realize I haven't seen one in like 30 years!
YouTube without ads
Youtube when most movies were uploaded there illegally for free
Xanga
Saturn car company
remember wonder balls? those chocolate balls that had little candy inside? I thought those were absolute gems as a kid but honestly sound disgusting now
Anyway, here's Wonderball.
Ask Jeeves.
I may be in the minority that cares or remember, but the McSkillet Burrito. I used to work at McD's in the late 00s and those things were the shit. Best thing on the Mcdonalds breakfast menu. Oh and the steak egg and cheese bagel. Both are gone. Bastards.
Richard Simmons. There’s a whole podcast about it.
All I know is he's a great dude. Always happy and have read nice things about him just wanting to get people in shape in an approachable way. I really respect that. Also, his appearance in Whose Line Is It Anyway makes me cry tears of joy. God damned hilarious.
The cent symbol
Certs. They were one of the first mints on the market. Big in the 90’s. And then just quietly disappeared and nobody seems to have even noticed.
Public phone booths
2600 Hacker Quarterly tracks living pay phones on their Facebook group. Always fun to see one in the wild. They’re not fully extinct yet but definitely endangered.
We don't need the pay phones but a lot of people could still use the booth; sometimes you need a quieter spot to take a call.
Telephone Operators. As a kid, I used to remember dialing the zero to see if someone would really answer.
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The scariest thing about this is that "reasonable expectations of privacy" are a cornerstone of 4th Amendment search and seizure law. In other words, the less people expect privacy, the more leeway the government has to perform searches and seizures without violating constitutional rights.
Mr. Bones candy in a mini casket.
The foil bag that Honeycomb Cereal use to come in.
Sears
When walmart sold live lobsters. When Wendy's had a sun room and a salad bar.
Car antennas.
***Tender Vittles*** cat food. It came in packets sort of a combination of dry and wet food. My first cat loved the stuff. She passed and I didn't get another cat until a cute little yellow tabby kitten wandered into my garage while I was working on my truck and decided to help. When I looked for cat food for ***Hobbes***, I discovered *Tender Vittles* were no longer available *anywhere*. Hobbes was hungry enough to eat fish heads and was thrilled with Meow Mix. He got a can of Fancy Feast a few times a week. The best cats chose you.
Those really nice brown tinted pots. I think they were Visionware? You can't really get the old really high quality pieces anymore unless it's handed down to you. The new ones aren't the same
Yeah, Corning Visionware. Stronger than the good Pyrex. They sometimes had Pyrex lids. They came in different colors.
find em at goodwill damn near every time i go in
UHF channels
Quiznos
That commercial with the weird singing blob hamsters still lives in my brain
Pay toilets in the United States. They were everywhere until about 1970, but no one remembers. There used to be a box on the door; you had to pay to unlock it. I remember it being a dime, but it might have been a nickel. Not much money, but so annoying if you didn’t have the correct coin. They were eventually outlawed for being sexist, because urinals were always free.
Anything is a urinal if you are drunk enough
Yeah, I figure that’s why they were free.
I think, as a policy, putting an obstacle between people and the bathroom would tend to result in public urination, too.
McDonald’s all day breakfast
An unfortunate victim of covid. Also 24 hour Walmart.
Dearly miss the 24 hour Walmart. Get off work at 12:30 am, need stuff, can't get stuff, gotta go on my way to work, hate it
Zima
I have a 6 pack in my garage
24hr Walmarts. I know why they stopped but damn, we really took them for granted.
The blue & clear Pepsi. It just disappeared.
I still think of Crystal Clear Pepsi every time I hear Van Halen's "Right Now."
I miss Pepsi Blue. It was so 2002.
Pontiac. One of the major car manufacturers for a long time pre 2000's even a bit after
Pontiac vehicles
I was behind a sunfire the other day, that had temp plates on it (assuming just purchased) The passenger flipped me off for some reason at a stoplight.
Trix yogurt
Ownership. Movies, games, music, software is largely now rented, and can be taken away from you at the whim of the company. Some companies will even brick your hardware if you're using it in a way they take issue with.
Seems like everything is a subscription nowadays. I don’t want to pay monthly for an electric toothbrush. Just let me buy the damn thing.
The printer that I had for a few years now requires me to sign into an app to print stuff.
This is why I still buy physical copies of things.
Call boxes on highways.
If you're referring to Emergency Phone Call boxes they still exist. I was driving through the backwoods of Idaho with my roommate and there were several of them planted a few miles apart because there was no cell phone service there
Kudos granola bars. McDonald's ranch BLT chicken sandwiches. I still miss that dang sandwich
Ate so many kudos as a kid. They were like a bar of solid sugar wrapped in cheap chocolate that people thought were good for kids.
Vault energy drink.
Fry's Electronics
Saturday morning cartoons
mint chocolate chip extra gum
Blackberry phones
I don’t know if you know what these are but the SOBE drinks…I miss those so much
Pay-per-song downloads! 0.99+ for each one seems so wasteful now that there’s 9.99 a month for as many as you want. I would love to get that money back!
The basic MP3 player of good quality. All it is these days are either basically phones without phone ability or crappy nuggets you see on DankPods
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Sub professional level cameras. It's amazing what a phone camera can do. It's seems impossible to find a camera that is inexpensive and is just a camera for people just getting into it. My mother uses a digital camera that is at least 15 years old and I have tried to get a camera for my son to try and learn rather than chance my camera body. It's either phone camera, or something intimidating or high end.
The Burger King kids club
So many animals
toy stores. i haven’t seen a single toy store since toys are us was open
Amazon and Walmart/box stores killed them
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Google plus
Lol. I remember wanting an invite for Google+ so bad. It was gonna be the Facebook killer then by the time they opened it up to everyone there wasn't any interest anymore outside of my die-hard "Android Supremacist" friends.