Snacksfrom your childhood have a way of sending you right down memory lane.
Maybe it’s a sugarycerealthat brings you right back to those carefree Saturday mornings spent watching cartoons.
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Enter: Post’s Pink Panther Flakes.
The commercial for the sugar-coated pink flakes incorporated the Pink Panther theme song.
The cereal jingle opens: “Pink Panther flakes are…
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It’s not the most inventive jingle, but, hey, it’s true!
Some boxes of this cereal even came with spy kits.
Despite the name change, the candy eventually fizzled out.
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While these recipes aren’t officially discontinued (retro recipes are still out there!
Taking liberty with the definition of “salad,” gelatin molds were all the rage in the 1970s.
One Jell-O salad that’s seemed to stand the test of time, though, is thestrawberry pretzel salad.
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Jell-O 1-2-3 came in various flavors, like mixed berry, strawberry, or orange.
The three-in-one dessert had the texture of, yes, Jell-O, but also pudding and mousse.
The snack was discontinued around 1975, according to General Mills.
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The package described these snacks as being mild fried onion rings … only noisier.
The package described them as that last little extra-crispy fry that people fight for.
But do you remember in the 1970s whenHunt’s Snack Pack was packaged in an aluminum can?
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“Originally, Pillsbury created the crumb-free space sticks for astronauts.
It came in the original lemon-lime Gatorade flavor as well as orange.
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The packaging said it could quench your thirst, but we can’t say how well it worked.
A few years later, Smurf Magic Berries made their debut with mini marshmallows.
Shark Bites
Technically, you might still buy Shark Bite gummies from Betty Crocker.
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Oreo Big Stuf
Mint Chocolate Chip!
Oreo is constantly churning out new flavors.
But the circumference of the cookie, in recent years, has remained constant.
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A box of pudding pops came in flavors like chocolate, vanilla, and swirled.
A peanut butter flavor was available, too.
A pink lemonade flavor joined the lineup later.
Whistle Pops
A sucker that could give kids a sugar buzz and could produce a whistling noise?
What could go wrong?
While they are no longer around, Chupa Chups makes similar"Melody Pops.”
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It did make a brief comeback in the 1990s, according toBon Appetit.
If it sounds a lot like a Baby Ruth, it was.
But Baby Ruths aren’t named after famed baseball player Babe Ruth.
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you could still getNestle Push-Up Popsin cherry, grape, and orange flavors.
But the Flinstone-branded pops, sadly, are now, well, dinosaurs.
It originally came in four flavors: red punch, orange, grape, and cherry.
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By 1995, there was a Squeezit and Life Saver collaboration.
But, sadly, this treat is no more.
But, in 1997,they were discontinuedover concerns that hiding toys inside chocolate could pose a choking hazard.
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The candy made a comeback as the Nestle Wonder Ball, this time with candy filling the chocolate sphere.
Those, too, were eventually discontinued.
Crystal Pepsi
The transparent, caffeine-free soda U.S. had a short run in the early 1990s.
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Crisps
This bite-sized peanut buttery Planters snack was first introduced in 1992.
Like many other discontinued snacks,P.B.
Crispshave a fair share of fans who aredemanding they make a comeback.
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Munch ‘Ems
These baked snacks were like a crunchy cross between chips and crackers.
They came in flavors like onion, ranch, and cheddar.
But Keebler quietly discontinued them in the 2000s.
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Life Savers Holes
Tiny bite-sized Life Savers pieces hit the candy scene in 1990.
They did face arecall in 1991after reports of kids and teens biting off the flip-top plastic cap.
Fruitopia
In the mid-1990s, Coca-Cola unleashed Fruitopia to the world.
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You may have even had a Fruitopia branded vending machine in your school.
Atlas Obscurareminds us that Fruitopia was so prevalent in ’90s pop culture that it was referenced on aSimpsonsepisode.
Fruit String Thing
Fruit snacks come in all shapes and sizes.
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The actual bite-size snacks.
Fruit by the Foot.
But, remember the zany rope-likeFruit String Things?
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They were arranged like a labyrinth, and unraveling them was a part of the fun.
Which one of these childhood snacks do you wish would make a comeback?
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