Cereal, snacks, and soft drinks—limited runs, cult favorites, and why they vanished.

• Almost Home Cookies (Nabisco)

  ✨ Fate: other Nabisco’s soft, “homemade-style” cookie line remembered for bakery-like flavors.

  early 1980s–mid-1990s 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Apple Newtons

  ✨ Fate: other The fruit-filled Newton cookie—spun off from Fig Newtons—with an apple-cinnamon filling.

  late 1980s–2010s (discontinued) 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Brach’s Maple Nut Goodies

  ✨ Fate: other Maple toffee–peanut clusters that quietly disappeared in the early 2020s

  1940–2022 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• C-3PO's Cereal

  ✨ Fate: other Kellogg's tie-in that vanished faster than the Millennium Falcon

  1984–1985 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Carnation Breakfast Bars

  ✨ Fate: other Granola nostalgia that predated energy bars

  1975–1997 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Cookie Break

  ✨ Fate: other Nabisco vanilla sandwich cookies that faded from shelves when there “weren’t enough consumers” buying them.

  1970–2000 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Freshen-Up (gum)

  ✨ Fate: other Liquid-center chewing gum famous for the slogan “the gum that goes squirt.”

  1975–2010s (U.S.) 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Fruit Stripe

  ✨ Fate: other Rainbow-striped gum with Yipes the zebra—discontinued in 2024.

  1969–2024 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Hershey’s Swoops

  ✨ Fate: other Potato-chip–shaped chocolate slices that never found an audience.

  2003–2006 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Hostess TMNT Turtle Pies

  ✨ Fate: other Hostess' green-glazed TMNT pies from 1991, gone in one year

  1991–1991 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Hubba Bubba Bubble Jug

  ✨ Fate: other Powder that turned into gum, pure 90s magic

  1990–2012 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Jolt Cola

  💥 Fate: bankruptcy Energy drink before energy drinks existed

  1985–2010 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Jujubes

  ✨ Fate: other Movie theater gummy candy that nearly vanished before limited comeback

  1920–Present (limited) 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Mama Rosa’s Pizza

  ✨ Fate: other Frozen pizza brand that dominated the 80s-90s before fading into obscurity

  1950s–Present (limited) 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Marathon (U.S. braided caramel bar)

  ✨ Fate: other 8-inch braided caramel bar with a ruler on the wrapper—“lasts a good long time.”

  1973–1981 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• McDonald's Szechuan Sauce

  ✨ Fate: other Limited dipping sauce that caused riots 19 years later

  1998–1998 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Peanut Butter Twix (Twix PB)

  ✨ Fate: other Twix’s cult peanut-butter variant that disappeared, came back, and won a permanent spot in many candy aisles.

  1983–? 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Pizzarias

  ✨ Fate: other Pizza-flavored chips in a bag that disappeared from shelves in the early 2000s

  1991–2002 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Red Bull Red Edition (Cranberry)

  ✨ Fate: other The original Red Edition flavor—cranberry—quietly vanished when Watermelon took its place.

  2013–2020 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Seven Up (Candy Bar)

  ✨ Fate: other Pearson’s segmented chocolate bar with seven different fillings in one.

  1930–1979 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash

  ✨ Fate: other Limited-edition cranberry lemon-lime soda that became a holiday tradition before vanishing

  2006–2016 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Snapple Elements

  ✨ Fate: other Wide-mouth elemental drinks in unique bottles, discontinued after 3 years

  1999–2002 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Snapple Whipper Snapple

  ✨ Fate: other Shelf-stable smoothies from 1998, won awards then vanished

  1998–1999 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• SoBe (South Beach Beverage Co.)

  🤝 Fate: acquired Lizard-branded teas, juices, and elixirs that owned late-90s coolers, later fading under PepsiCo.

  1995–Present (limited U.S. availability) 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Star Wars Episode I Pepsi Collection

  ✨ Fate: other Phantom Menace tie-in with hidden phrases and collectibles

  1999–1999 🏷️ Food & Beverage

• Yogos

  ✨ Fate: other Kellogg’s yogurt-covered fruit snacks kids begged for in the mid-2000s.

  2005–2010 🏷️ Food & Beverage