Stop disliking what I like!

[-Samurai-]

East of Chicago Pizza used to have a specialty Peanut Butter and Jelly Pizza. Pizza dough covered in peanut butter and jelly, and cooked in the oven.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

RAVE Old Dutch Salt and Vinegar chips, how I miss thee... :c

 

[Parasondox]

Honey Chicken Wings from KFC. Maybe they still have it in the US but in the UK it was here for 2 weeks and then gone. It was so sexy and sweet. Bring it back KFC UK.

 

[Veldel]

Surge being brought back has made me so happy I get a case or 2 every other month.

Where? Other guy said gas stations. I've looked in convenience and grocery stores and such with no luck.

Amazon exclusive they got coke to give them exclusive selling rights.

 

[Silvanus]

I really liked Vanilla Nesquick. It was the nicest one.

 

[KissingSunlight]

I know some of these foods are going to date me. Does anybody remember 7Up Gold? It was 7Up with a cinnamon flavor to it.

My favorite drink in college was Jolt Cola. On the label, it advertise that it "All The Sugar and Twice The Caffeine". I used to mix it with Jack Daniels.

I was surprised in recent years in not being able to find Pringles with ridges. Sure other Pringles are good. The ridges made them better.

I definitely see myself as a "Harbinger of Failure". I have a mistrust of anything popular. I am also willing to give something new a chance.

Also, This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7vS4z6ngQo]

 

[karkashan]

Usually once I start liking a food at Sonic, they make it regional-only or get rid of it entirely.

RIP in peace, Frito Chili Pies - Ya gurl will always love you.

praisegrima

 

[Broderick]

For me it is Habanero Doritos. Seriously, that stuff was like Ambrosia to my taste buds. I remember biking out to my local store just to buy them. Hell, I remember substituting whole meals just for those chips. Then, of course, they stopped making them. I was quite saddened, and then they brought them back several years later! I was excited, and bought like 10 bags of the stuff in case they decided to once again pull them; turns out my decision was a good one, as they pulled them permanently this time. I can still remember the taste, if only vaguely. Here's hoping they might one day bring it back for good.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Oreo cereal. Chocolate O's with marshmallow creams.

Yep, I came in to bring this up, Oreo-O's.
It's apparently only sold in South Korea now.
There's a joke in there somewhere but I'm too weak to make it.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Hostess O's were one of my favorite things ever, powdered sugar coated raspberry filled donuts, but after I moved to Nevada I found they couldn't manage to ship them over the Donner pass without half the load going bad. That meant the local Hostess Bakery outlet didn't carry them. Then Hostess went under,I nearly lost hope, the Hostess came back, then my hopes were crushed when they didn't bring back Hostess O's.

Then miracle of miracles, Wal*Mart starts selling them under their Great Value store brand... Then about six months ago they vanished off the shelves, haven't seen them since. Damnit.

 

[FPLOON]

With me it's more recipe changes than products being discontinued. I stopped drinking coke when they switched from sugar to that corn syrup bullshit and still only drink them when I'm someplace they make them with sugar. I had my first twinkie in decades some years back and spit out my first bite. It wasn't nostalgia dentures, the recipe had been changed to make them cheaper to produce.

Oh shit! No wonder I was having a hard time eating those Twinkies I bought!

OT: King-size Snicker bars... and I don't mean the kind that are basically two "giant" fun-size Snickers in one bar-shaped packaging...

Other than that, I seriously want some Tower Prep closure! He has to meet her two more times, glob dammit![footnote]Wow... Spoiler or not, that phrase can seriously be taken out of context... like the show was actually a romantic series or something... [/footnote]

 

[sageoftruth]

Right now, I can't think of anything I loved that was discontinued, but I can think of things I like that I wish were more commonly liked. I'm sure all my fellow American metalheads can relate to me in wishing we could hear our music in more places than just on our phones or at concerts. When I visited Germany, the feeling of hearing the music from my phone playing in a public store was an otherworldly experience.

 

[Something Amyss]

NBut what you like is objectively bad and let me prove with with science!

...but seriously, I don't have a lot of this when it comes to food. I eat a lot of staples (as in, staple foods, not consuming staples) with some crappy snacks thrown in for good measure. I do miss the days of the oldschool Pizza Pockets, though. Not like, hot pockets with pizza filling, either.

Far as other stuff goes....

The surest fire way to see a show canceled is to get me to like it. My friends will be all "You've got to watch this show" and if I do and I like it, it will be canceled like 90% of the time. Sometimes within days of me liking it. My friends want me to watch Archer now, so it'll probably be canceled soon.

I don't even have to like it a lot. give me a show where I'm just curious as to where it's going, and it'll go bye-bye.

If only I could harness this power for good.

 

[Squanchy]

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/certain-customers-spell-doom-for-new-products/

The original paper: https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/mktg/assets/File/Anderson-Eric%202015_02_05_Harbingers.pdf

From which I offer the following quote that should ensure you give up all hope.

We show that some customers, whom we call ?Harbingers? of failure, systematically purchase new products that flop. Their early adoption of a new product is a strong signal that a product will fail - the more they buy, the less likely the product will succeed. Firms can identify these customers either through past purchases of new products that failed, or through past purchases of existing products that few other customers purchase. We discuss how these insights can be readily incorporated into the new product development process. Our findings challenge the conventional wisdom that positive customer feedback is always a signal of future success.

They go on to theorize and strongly suggest, with mathematical precision, that you have taste that isn't necessarily good or bad, but far out of the mainstream. Your very act of purchasing is a sign of failure for any mass market product.

So much for just having niche tastes.

Fuck 'em, fuck 'em with a rusty chainsaw, fuck 'em with a poisonous cactus, fuck 'em with [insert something horrible here]
This only proves that marketers are blight on society and should be purged.
Their end goal is for us all to eat at ButtFuckers and drink Brawndo.
Fuck them all!!!
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I want my chocolate infused mint ice cream back
And dark chocolate ice cream too.

I think there's hope for you and people like you, with the oncoming rush of "DIY" 3D printing, which is only going to take off from here. The solution to mass marketing is to simply not need it after all.

 

[Squanchy]

From which I offer the following quote that should ensure you give up all hope.

We show that some customers, whom we call ?Harbingers? of failure...

They go on to theorize and strongly suggest, with mathematical precision, that you have taste that isn't necessarily good or bad, but far out of the mainstream. Your very act of purchasing is a sign of failure for any mass market product.

That's a very interesting theory. It's almost like the scientific version of the "jonah", the sailing superstition where every ship they're on is destined to sink.

On the plus side...I'm totally naming my new metal band "The Harbingers of Failure"! That way, expectations will be low.

I'd even make it a double play, and go for 'The Harbingers of Failure: And The Comets' and make it a Pips kind of backup singer deal. Every time I hear "Harbinger" I think "Harbinger of Doom!" and I think the first time I heard that phrase was in historical reference to comet sightings.

 

[Zen Bard]

From which I offer the following quote that should ensure you give up all hope.

We show that some customers, whom we call ?Harbingers? of failure...

They go on to theorize and strongly suggest, with mathematical precision, that you have taste that isn't necessarily good or bad, but far out of the mainstream. Your very act of purchasing is a sign of failure for any mass market product.

That's a very interesting theory. It's almost like the scientific version of the "jonah", the sailing superstition where every ship they're on is destined to sink.

On the plus side...I'm totally naming my new metal band "The Harbingers of Failure"! That way, expectations will be low.

I'd even make it a double play, and go for 'The Harbingers of Failure: And The Comets' and make it a Pips kind of backup singer deal. Every time I hear "Harbinger" I think "Harbinger of Doom!" and I think the first time I heard that phrase was in historical reference to comet sightings.

I like it! It's like a double redundancy both in name and function. We can call it "The Harbingers of Failure and the Comets (of Doom)" and be the only band that has its own back up band!

 

[IamLEAM1983]

I really miss the 90's Burger King menu. Their chicken sandwiches were actually worth a damn back then.

 

[Cycloptomese]

A year ago, I would've said "where's my Ecto Cooler?", and I suppose I just did, but a few friends and I managed to recreate it since (to those who don't know: it was a variety of Hi-C (juiced up Kool-aid) that for some reason was marketed as a tie-in with the Ghostbusters movie and The Real Ghostbusters cartoon, but continued until 2007 before being discontinued, possibly because ghosts have nothing whatsoever to do with orange-tangerine lemonade), and this leads into my point: reverse engineering. Obviously, some things it won't work for, and some are too difficult or expensive to figure out. But it doesn't matter if the company stops making it if you can create it yourself- and your fellow [thing] lovers will praise you to the skies for it, too.

I knew somebody would beat me to Ecto Cooler.

Habanero Doritos disappeared after about 1 year. They were the perfect heat level. Spicy Nacho just doesn't cut it.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I had some Burger King this morning and it made me realize something...McDonald's doesn't serve a spicy chicken sandwich anymore. Back when I was a kid, I can pinpoint what it was that made me decide to ditch the kids meals and start exploring the actual McMenu; it was the introduction of the Spicy Chicken sandwhich. What's better is, it was a value item so I didn't feel bad about asking for 2 or 3 of those bad boys. Yeah, a McChicken is still good and the BK Chicken Sando Jr. is good but they're just not spicy...even though the later claims to be.

 

[prowll]

Jolt muddafuggin Cola.

They had a short resurgence, Thinkgeek.com carried it, and i'd literally order 100$ of sugar-free, high-octane energy fluid a month, in awesome cans shaped like batteries.