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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 6h

That sounds like something my Italian grandfather would have enthusiastically called me when I walked through the door at age 5, and that would have confused me

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Mar 24

Cheese Nips Sportz (2000-circa 2010): Cheese Nips snack crackers in the shape of sporting goods and equipment, such as roller blades, tennis rackets, baseball gloves, and more. The name ended in a "z" as was the style at the time, to indicate an EXTREME form of plurality.

An orange Cheese Nips box, offering a "100% real cheese taste explosion!", and the word "Sportz", along with pictures of crackers shapes like roller blades, soccer balls, and baseball mitts

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 15

Star Trek: The Next Generation Honey Graham Cookies (1994-1995): A Canadian release, these honey-graham cookies were shaped like characters and ships from the show, and offered a collection of six hologram stickers

A cookie box. The background is outer space, and the space ship from Star Trek: TNG soars across the top. Beneath the words "Star Trek The Next Generation Honey Graham Cookies" are a belt of tan cookies shaped like characters from the series

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hershey's Whoppers Bar (2005, 2019-2020): A classic Hershey's milk chocolate bar, loaded with pieces of Whoppers malted milk balls. Originally released as part of the short-lived "Twosomes" line where other candies were mixed into Hershey bars, it saw another limited run in 2019

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 7

Aubie Flakes (2001-2002): A promotional cereal--frosted corn flakes-- celebrating the Auburn University football team and their mascot, Aubie the Tiger.

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 1d

This is an absolutely perfect description

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Mar 21

Maple Bacon Pop-Tarts (2016-2016): Smoky, salty, bacon-flavored pastries, filled with a maple-brown sugar-pancake syrup flavored filling, and topped with vanilla icing and bacon bits-style sprinkles

A blue Pop Tarts box, featuring a pastry with white frosting and browning sprinkles, cut open to reveal a light brown filling. Next to this is a strip of bacon and glass container of syrup

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 1d

Same honestly haha

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Yeaaaahhh!!

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 10

Kasparaitis Kruncher's (1997-1999): Then-Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman, Darius Kasparaitis apparently loved pickles so much, that he was honored with his own line of "Russian style" spicy dill spears.

A jar of dill pickles that reads "Kasparaitis Krunchers" on a blue label in white and yellow writing. Under that, it reads "Premium Russian-Style Dill Spears" with a hockey player's face in the middle

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 9

With so many nostalgic 80's/90's properties getting reboots, a Kodak KolorKins revival, when??

four stuffed creatures (blue, green, red, and orange) sit against a black and yellow background that looks like the side of a box of Kodak film. In the top corner are the words "Kodak Kolorkins

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 1d

Tiny Toast Blue(print) Berry

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 10

Tiny Toast (2016-2017): A pair of cereals shaped like little pieces of toast, and coated with colorful, fruit-flavored mixtures, made with real fruit puree. Available in both Blueberry and Strawberry.

A blue cereal box with little toast-shaped pieces that reads "Blueberry Tiny Toast, flavored with Real Blueberries". On the right is a red cereal box with little toast-shaped pieces that reads "Tiny Toast, flavored with Real Strawberries"

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 4

High School Musical Cereal (2008-2009): A promotional item for the Disney Channel movie, this product consisted of tan and pink, sweetened, vanilla-flavored cereal pieces "with star power"--aka, they were shaped like little stars.

A red cereal box with the word "NEW!" across the top. The characters from High School Musical are posed around a white bowl where tan and pink star-shaped cereal pieces splash into milk

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Ernie Clements, from right here in beautiful Rochester, NY!

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 10

Ben & Jerry's Creme Brulee (2007-2012): Sweet custard ice cream, with a caramelized sugar swirl

A Ben & Jerry's pint that reads "All Natural Ben & Jerry's Vermont's Finest...Creme Brulee...Sweet Custard Ice Cream with a Caramelized Sugar Swirl", with a cow standing on a hill against a blue cloudy sky

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 9

Corn Diggers (1967-circa 1986): A corn-based cracker/chip hybrid from Nabisco, meant to taste like hot buttered corn, and shaped like little shovels/scoops for eating with dip.

Two men in collared shirts and sweaters sit on the sideline of a football game. One holds up a bag of corn diggers, the other a jar of Planters cheez balls

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah this thread brings me genuine joy, which I think we can all use these days!

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2d

Captain Frosty's (my junior high favorite!!) in Dennis

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2d

My parents went to MA last weekend, and were able to bring me back an order of fried clams in their cooler. It's sitting in my freezer right now, waiting for the perfect time to go into my air fryer haha

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2d

That seafood one...man....

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Pringles Select Cinnamon Sweet Potato (2007-circa 2011): Crispy, airy sweet potato crisps coated in a cinnamon dusting. They were part of Pringles' ostensibly fancy "Select" line, sold in bags rather than the traditional cans/stacks.

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2d

Burger King in Japan did, as a Star Wars tie-in, though that was done with squid ink I believe, and also a few years earlier

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2d

Meh

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2d

LOL I really only started getting over my Moose bitterness within the last 5-10 years. He came back for Cal's anniversary this year and I was like "eh okay I think I'm fully cool with you again" haha

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