What's a company that you think sh!t the bed discontinuing certain products?

[Ms3r4ISU]

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Yes, but on draft in a chilled glass with an orange slice.

Just found this link, but haven't seen it yet more than a year later.

 

[CyCoug]

I will never forgive Klondike!

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What! I had those last year for my gringo version of cinco de Mayo. Was this recent?

 

[VeloClone]

This one is a bit of a niche but Shimano discontinuing their original cycling sandals. You saw them everywhere on RAGBRAI for years. They practically had a corner on the market for casual riders who were wanting to have as much fun off the bike as they were on it. Then they "improved" them making them stiffer soled with more straps so there wasn't much sandal feel to them. You hardly saw any Shimano sandals on RAGBRAI after that.

 

[ketchupnmustard]

Used to get this regularly way back when. Then AB (Inbev?) bought it and
started putting Bud Light in the green bottle as if we wouldn't notice. We noticed.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

What! I had those last year for my gringo version of cinco de Mayo. Was this recent?

Yeah it's been a couple years now.

 

[cyclones500]

Man, the old Pizza Hut pan pizza was absolute fire and so were the cheese sticks.

I remember when I worked as delivery driver way-back, the cheese sticks actually had a lot of cheese, and if you ordered w/ extra cheese, it was saturation heaven. Now you have to order extra cheese just to make it "a breadstick with a little cheese on it."

 

[IASTATE07]

Hardees Frisco breakfast sandwich was the absolute bomb! So mad they got rid of it.

Do you guys not visit Hardees? They still serve 3 or 4 varieties of the Frisco breakfast sandwich.

 

[JP4CY]

Casey's slushes.

I wouldn't have one now but I swear they started going down hill when they stopped making them.

The machine whirling away while you're dropping a deuce behind it in those old ****** closet bathrooms is a childhood memory for a lot of us.

 

[KidSilverhair]

Speaking of Pizza Hut they made this delish option in the late 90s and it was incredible

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Remember the Priazzo? Kind of a deep dish, but with a crust on top (I think)? That didn’t last too long.

Like some other folks, when I was growing up (and even into college in the 80s) Pizza Hut was a special treat. The one in Ottumwa was really old, I remember it had that neon sign of the Italian pizza maker flipping the crust, and at night the neon lights would make the crust fly up and down. Today, it’s cheap pizza for lazy people, and most places you can’t even sit down and eat in any more. Even their no-longer-excellent pizza was okay for the now-gone lunch buffet …

 

[Proton]

You can still get it frozen. They usually have it in the back in the freezer.

Holy mother Mary if we have this at our Fareway I’ll be a gd family hero! Thank you!

 

[khardbored]

It's been a few years now I think. Killed the main reason I craved Hardees every once in awhile. I'm sure some moron manager saved them a couple pennies by getting rid of them.

Their biscuits and gravy is pretty good. Or skip the biscuits and just get the gravy and their tots.

Do you guys not visit Hardees? They still serve 3 or 4 varieties of the Frisco breakfast sandwich.

I just had curly fried at Hardee's about 2 weeks ago?!?

Also -- remember when Casey's served fried chicken? That was good! My dad went there to buy a box at least weekly for a year or two. (SIAP)

 

[khardbored]

Remember the Priazzo? Kind of a deep dish, but with a crust on top (I think)? That didn’t last too long.

Like some other folks, when I was growing up (and even into college in the 80s) Pizza Hut was a special treat. The one in Ottumwa was really old, I remember it had that neon sign of the Italian pizza maker flipping the crust, and at night the neon lights would make the crust fly up and down. Today, it’s cheap pizza for lazy people, and most places you can’t even sit down and eat in any more. Even their no-longer-excellent pizza was okay for the now-gone lunch buffet …

North side or South side???

 

[KidSilverhair]

Some drink thoughts:

- I had Templeton Rye Maple Cask a couple of years ago, and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever tasted. Apparently it was a limited edition or something, because I haven’t seen it on the shelves and a cursory look at the internet shows a lot of “out of stock” results

- Same with the Cedar Ridge Single Malt. By far my favorite of the Cedar Ridge offerings, but I don’t see it offered anywhere

- And on another note, maybe 15-20 years ago Starbucks offered a deeply rich hot chocolate drink (I guess it was called Chantico, according to my Google search). It came in a tiny cup, it was very dark and extremely chocolate, meant to be like the hot chocolate served in European coffee shops. I had it once - once! - and I think I saw paradise or something when I took a sip, it was so good. Immediately after I tried it, Starbucks pulled the plug because sales weren’t very good. They should have just waited, I’d probably have been able to make up their sales deficit all by myself.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Krunchers chips.... omg I miss those.

 

[tman24]

Snapple in the glass jars.

 

[KidSilverhair]

North side or South side???

The south side one, Albia Road and Ferry Street. I think the building is still there, it was an Italian restaurant lately? I still can see that neon Italian guy on the sign flipping that crust …

 

[CyCoug]

Did you all know Litttle Debbie stopped selling her cakes in Canada?

The ‘90s, when Little Debbie was at peak popularity, were not kind to my sister of the same name.

Or I should say the teenage boys in her class who nicknamed her “Little Debbie” were not kind.

 

[Cycl1]

lays roasted garlic and sea salt chips. Those bastards.

 

[Cmonwhatarewedoinghereman]

Our Hardee’s has curly fries, but my wife almost burned it down a year or two back when they told her they no longer had the cinnamon raisin biscuits.

 

[sdclone]

I miss these from my childhood back in the 80’s