Have you ever bought something at the grocery store, ate it, and went back to get more, only to find that they don’t sell it anymore? Some foods on come out during certain times of the year or as limited editions, so you only have a short amount of time to get it. With limited shelf space, many products don’t make the cut. Other times, the product is just a bad idea but is liked by consumers only to be removed without notice. Here are some foods that arrived in stores, were well received, and then taken away with fans wondering where to find them or trying to duplicate the food at home.
Libby’s Fruit Float (1970’s)
With flavors such as Strawberry, Mandarin Orange, Raspberry, Pineapple, and Peach, Libby’s Fruit Float was a thick syrup of fruit that milk was combined with to produce a yogurt like dessert in minutes. The tag line was to say “Fruit Float” three times fast. It was said to be nutritious, so you can eat it often.
Pillsbury Funny-Face Drinks (1964)
Pillsbury stepped up and challenged Kool-Aid and Flavor Aid in the powdered drink market in 1964. With their plain white packaging and flavors such as Goofy Grape, Chinese Cherry then Choo Choo Cherry, Injun Orange then Jolly Olly Orange and Lefty-Lemon Lime, Rootin’-Tootin’ Raspberry, Loud Mouth Lime, and Freckle Face Strawberry. Some of the packages would be considered racist now, but at the time were acceptable. Chinese Cherry depicted a buck-toothed, slant eyed character and the Injun Orange showed a orange skinned, war painted, feather wearing orange. By most accounts, Pillsbury Funny-Face Drinks tasted like Kool Aid, but there was only room for two and Pillsbury decided to stick with baking.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pudding Pies (1991)
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Three words: Green outer shell. Yep. Green as toxic slime on the outer shell of this pudding pie! First of all, the packaging was so awesome, you could keep it and pin it to your bedroom wall. As an added bonus, you get one of five “Secret of the Ooze” trading cards inside the package. Finally, the vanilla filling is probably the best tasting filling that you ever eaten. Do you think that some of these pies survived and may still be lingering in some dusty warehouse unseen by the gruffy warehouseman who would just toss them out without thinking of the value of these treasures?
Jell-O (1845)
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The geletin based low calorie food was invented in 1845 by Peter Cooper who obtained a patent for powdered gelatin. Forty years later, the formula was sold to cough syrup manufacturer Pearle B. Wait. Wait and his wife May added flavoring such as strawberry, raspberry, orange, and lemon. This was the start of the Jell-O as we know it. Many flavors exist on the store shelves currently, but what about the defunct flavors? Flavors that you will never see again on the store shelves include:
- *Bubble Gum
- *Chocolate
- *Coffee
- *Cola
- *Italian Salad
- * Root Beer
- *Mixed Vegetable
- *Maple Syrup
- *Plain
- *Seasoned Tomato
- *Triple Chocolate
McDonald’s Pizza (Mid-1990’s)
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Who knew? McDonald’s selling pizza was like Pizza Hut selling fish sandwiches. You wouldn’t think it would be very good, and it wasn’t. The pizza was bland and sad. No one associated McDonald’s with authentic italian food and they could get real good pizza elsewhere. McDonald’s lost tons of money on pizza ovens and the huge drive through windows that were not needed after the pizza flopped. McDonald’s should stick with the burgers and fries.
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