Things That Disappeared Without You Noticing -

[Sperghetti]

Ever need a product you haven't purchased in ages, only to find out that it seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet? Or suddenly see an object that used to be common and suddenly realize that this is the first one you've seen in years?

When I was a kid, there used to be a ton of different novelty flavors of bubblegum, like cotton candy, strawberry banana, or Dr. Pepper. I went to buy gum the other day and now it's like eight different brands of breath-freshening mint. No Bubbilicious. Bubble Yum and Bubble Tape only in the standard pink variety. What's up with that crap?

Also, I saw a cigarette vending machine for sale in an antique store a few years back. Some little kid asked his mom what it was, and I suddenly realized I probably hadn't seen one in the wild since the 90's.

Anyway, what vanished into the ether when you weren't looking?

 

[Pissmaster]

I saw a cigarette vending machine in the wild in the 2010s, at a casino.

I didn't realize Frutopia was long gone until last year

 

[thegooddoctor]

My Virginity

 

[Meat Pickle]

I remember snacking on Yogos as a kid, now they are pretty much gone as far as I know. Another that somehow disappeared are those Hubba Bubba candy tapes.

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

My will to live.

 

[Irrelevant]

The gum thing is because it all went sugar free. You can still get the random flavours if you want sugar but they're hard to find.

In the UK you can now basically only find mints, juicy fruit, and strawberry. If you order any other flavours from Amazon you can tell from the packaging that it came from the US and they always give me the shits. From what I understand all sugar free gums can give you the shits but the sweeter they are the worse the effect. Apparently Americans don't mind shitting themselves for some sweets.

 

[SiccDicc]

I can't remember. Which makes me think that when I forget something it just disappears from reality.

 

[Wheezy Asthmatic]

Butterfinger BB's. They disappeared for the same reason @Pickelhaube's Yogo's did - choking hazard.
Which is bullshit.
I don't even want my BB's back though since Nestle sold off Butterfingers to Ferrera who promptly ruined the god damn recipe to make it " healthier ". Not even going to stew on the fact that the New Butterfingers has more salt and sugar in it than the old recipe.

 

[Sperghetti]

I remember snacking on Yogos as a kid, now they are pretty much gone as far as I know. Another that somehow disappeared are those Hubba Bubba candy tapes.

In terms of Yogos, these are kind of similar, but probably a poor imitation.

 

[Some JERK]

It's usually stores for me. Circuit city, Radio Shack, Thrifty (although they still make ice cream) and I have no idea when Alpha-Beta bit the dust but it had to have been a long long time ago. (I think it became Ralph's) They all just sort of slipped away in the night like an elderly person dying in their sleep.

 

[teriyakiburns]

The gum thing is because it all went sugar free. You can still get the random flavours if you want sugar but they're hard to find.

In the UK you can basically only find mints, juicy fruit, and strawberry. If your order any other flavours from Amazon you can tell from the packaging that it came from the US and they always give me the shits. From what I understand all sugar free gums can give you the shits but the sweeter they are the worse the effect. Apparently Americans don't mind shitting themselves for some sweets.

I used to crave a gun called Pink Buggly. It's called anglo bubbly now, which is weird. Comes in individually wrapped pieces. When I was a kid I used to go to a sweet shop down the road from my parents' church, where an old bid had trays filled with sweets, and all those glass jars on the shelves. It was a literal fucking stereotype. I'd buy the bubbly, flying saucers, real sherbert dips with the old cardboard tube and the proper liquorice straw instead of the plasticy shit they sell it with now, home made cinder toffee, and Roses seconds that she always bought in bulk from Cadbury.

She's been dead thirty years. Fuck.

 

[BobsSpergers]

Mailboxes. The big blue ones. They used to be on every corner and just a few years ago I realized it was a lot harder to find them. Maybe it's still a thing in large cities, I don't know, but everywhere I've lived they just up and disappeared.

 

[Richard Harrow]

Public payphones. Lived in 3 states over the past year and still haven't seen them. I can see the discoloration on the wall where they used to be, or sometimes the enclosed privacy box is there but no phone.

 

[Wheezy Asthmatic]

Public payphones. Lived in 3 states over the past year and still haven't seen them. I can see the discoloration on the wall where they used to be, or sometimes the enclosed privacy box is there but no phone.

In NYC, they're being converted into wifi hotspots IIRC

 

[User names must be unique]

White dogshit.

 

[Distant Stare]

Bitcoin ATMs soon enough

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

Those Tiny-Size Chiclets, which really sucks because they're a hundred times better than normal Chiclets.

 

[that jerk over there]

Common decency. Remember the not so distant past when a drag queen reading to kids in a public library would have been the start of a joke instead of a real event?
I feel so old.

 

[Jamila]

I still remember the feeling of heartbreak when my mom couldn't find these at the store anymore.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

BBQ-flavored Ruffles. They were the best and I don't think I've seen a bag in over 15 years.