Growing up, I was convinced Vienetta cakes were the absolute height of fancy-time. In my kid-brain, each layer meant a level of formality or celebration and since there were clearly a bazillion layers in this thing, it had to be the fanciest dessert of all time.
They discontinued it when I was relatively young, so the impression just sort of stuck. Recently, they made a comeback and honestly, I would rather have kept the memory.
I miss the way kid-me saw things, you know?
Recently, reddit user PixelPervert asked:
“What discontinued food do you wish was brought back?”
My experience with a food being brought back might be a bitter-sweet one, but that doesn’t mean people can’t dream their own delicious dreams. Here’s what they had to say.
The Flintstones Diet
“Flintstones Push-Up Pops”
– Rose_de_MaiTai
“This brought back something from the deepest corner of my brain.”
“Also brings the question why were the Flintstones such an integral part of our childhood and diet? Push ups, fruity pebbles, vitamins. What else am I missing from the Flintstones?”
– Question_aire
“Until now I kind of half-wondered if my memory of these was just some weird fever dream or something, because no one seems to remember them. Thank you for validating my childhood memories”
– winonachey
Sour Fruit Is A Thing
“Altoid fruit sours. Apparently, we can ask for it back.”
– lirio2u
“The tangerine ones were my favorite! I can recall the taste exactly, even down to little salivary tingly feeling I got right before having one. Those were amazing and should be brought back.”
– MestizaWontons
“Just looked these up on ebay and unopened tins have actually sold for $200+!”
– BobsicleSmith
Taco Bell Trauma
“The Mexican Pizza at Taco Bell.”
“Maybe I should be thanking them for getting rid of it because I have no reason to go to Taco Bell now.”
– GotMoFans
“That’s me and Double Decker Taco Supremes.”
– LakeLov3r
“RIP meximelt and nachos supreme.”
– hesaysitsfine
“Last time I went to taco bell, I sat in the drive thru for a minute looking at the menu. Then I just went to Wendy’s.”
“Taco bell has gotten really bad.”
– Faye_dunwoody
“I had ONE apple empanada from taco bell before I went into labor and it was mind altering – the bubbley texture of the dough and the gooey sweet of the filling.”
“Four days later when I was released from the hospital with my perfect little newborn, ALL I could ask for in the world was a goddamn apple empanada.”
“Little did I know that during my four days hospital stay, the world of apple empanadas had ended.”
– schmoob
Worth Getting Into Trouble For
“Philadelphia snack bars the strawberry cheesecake ones ….so good!”
– kikorellia
“Oh my god the strawberry cheesecake snack bars were that fire. I used to get in trouble by sneaking them because they were my moms favorite sweet.”
– DeCodurr
“Are you me?! I tell my wife about this all the time.”
“My mom would come back from a 12 hour shift at the hospital just wanting a cheesecake bar… and I’d have eaten a whole box in one night like an animal.”
“I distinctly remember getting my game boy taken away right before a game tournament run because of those things. Worth it.”
– jkennah
No New Recipe, Please!
“Butterfinger BB’s with the Simpsons characters on the package.”
– Harmelion
“I feel like Butterfingers in general don’t taste like they used to.”
“As a kid I remember them being flaky and almost falling apart when you bit into them and now every time I’ve decided to give one a shot they’re not flaky at all and they stick to my teeth something fierce.”
– Imitation88
“I would pay dearly for ANY Butterfinger as long as it is the old Butterfinger by Nestle, because the new company SCREWED IT UP and now it’s nasty.”
“The base has been confectioners cornflakes since I was a kid. Now it’s not. You can’t change a main ingredient like that and then expect it to do well. So I don’t buy them anymore.”
– skpicky
It’s Not Banana Quick
“Nestle Banana Quik.”
“They have Strawberry Banana still, and it’s okay I suppose, but pure Banana Quik was so much better.”
“There’s a way to kinda sorta replicate it – but you need a bottle of “Torani” brand Banana flavoring to mix into your milk. Winco grocery stores sometimes has the Banana stuff, sometimes it doesn’t.”
“Also Soylent makes a Banana flavored “meal drink” – it’s good, I also like their Mint Chocolate version.”
“None of that is Banana Quik, though.”
– Fluffy_Little_Fox
Before Hostess Went Bankrupt
“Ding dongs. They still make them, but they were better before Hostess went bankrupt and was bought out.”
– queen_ofmoons
“I’m a fat bastard that loves snack cakes, pies and anything similar to that. I did notice that something has been off about Hostess snacks since they went bankrupt and subsequently revived however many years ago.”
“I remember Twinkies being so good and delicious, and now they’re just…not, for some reason. I don’t know why though. I can’t tell if it’s something with the ingredients they use now or a change in recipe but it tastes off nowadays.”
“Regarding the Ding Dongs, I personally taste tested and compared Ding Dongs to Drake’s version, Ring Dings. The Drake’s stuff was so much better.”
“Again, I don’t know what changed exactly. But nonetheless I don’t buy Hostess stuff anymore and go for either Drake’s or Tastykake.”
– Mercurydriver
Cheesecake For One
“Maybe this was a dream, but I remember Philadelphia Cream Cheese made single size cheesecakes that I would always see at convenience stores.”
“I finally got the courage to ask my grandma to buy me one and it was my first cheesecake experience…so delicious!!!”
– mossybuttz
“They were real. They were delicious. I miss them.”
“These were complete 2 bite mini cheesecakes. They were just incredible and missed.”
– SouthDakotaGirl
“In college someone ordered a huge box of them and we ate them all year (we froze them). So good lol. It was like a box of 400 or something insane it took up the entire freezer.”
– Rambles_Off_Topics
Taste-bud Tragedies
“My family actually has a running joke when it comes to me and discontinued foods. It seems whenever I start to like something it goes away.”
“A few notable examples have been, Eggo Muffin Tops, Taco Bell’s beefy frito burritos, and, not a lot of people know about this one, but a carbonated yogurt called fizzix that I believe was from gogurt.”
“Now my family won’t let me eat stuff that they like because they’re afraid I’ll like it and it’ll go away.”
– Available_Motor5980
“That’s a thing. It’s called being a Harbinger of failure.”
– batoosie
There we have it, a list of all the deliciousness that Reddit can’t get off of its collective mind.
Someone from Taco Bell seriously needs to get on the apple empanada thing—that was kind of heartbreaking.
