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Being vegetarian can be a slight struggle at times.
Over the years many foods that I used to use to make things such as pies, have disappeared from the shelves of shops. I am referring to things that would often be used, to take the place of meats. All that seems to be about these days, is Quorn or Textured Vegetable Protein. This is alright if you want to eat something akin to the texture of rubber, it is also almost flavourless, and comes nowhere near to many of the products that were available in the past.
Are there any foods that have become unavailable, ( It doesn’t have to be vegetarian ), that you miss?
There have lots of things over the years that have disappeared, but 3 things come to mind immediately. The first is a particular brand of dried apples that I just loved. There was a recipe of the bag for a homemade, chunky applesauce made with them. Well, they quit making this particular brand, and I've tried to recreate the the recipe with other brand of apples, with no real success. The second, and on a similar note was pineapple sauce, I believe it was made by Delmonte, but I'm not sure. It was similar to applesauce, but much more delicious. I haven't found that in many years. The third, and most recent, is not a food but a beverage. It's Coor's beers non-alcoholic variety. DH has been a loyal drinker since they first introduced it. However, for the past couple of months I've not been able to find it. I finally called our local distributor just last week, and was told it has been discontinued.
Probably more than 50% of the time, products I really like get discontinued. I evidently do not share tastes with the bulk of consumers. My S.O. and I joke that my seal of approval on a product is generally a death sentence for said product, so we might as well stock up while it's available. It seems like whatever the least popular variety of something is, that's inevitably the one I end up preferring, and then it disappears.
Pop-Tarts that aren't frosted in flavors other than strawberry.
Seven Seas' Viva Italian salad dressing. It wasn't the same after Kraft bought Seven Seas, and then it disappeared.
Milk Shake candy bars
Funny Face drink mixes (so much tastier than Kool-Aid) -- not that I'd drink them now, but ...
Warsaw Falcon dill pickles
I too prefer unfrosted pop-tarts (everyone except my son thinks I'm crazy). I still find blueberry and cherry, although you might have to search several different stores for them.
I hate all frosted Pop-Tarts, and of the nonfrosted variety, I only really like brown sugar and cinnamon ones. I despise fruit-filled toaster pastries.
We have Cracker Jacks a-plenty here where I live, but they are in a bag and sooo much better than the old days, when they were always in a box and all stale and stuck together. Now they are always fresh and great. BUT (!)....they don't give you near enough of the peanuts, and the prizes nowadays suck!
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Now they are always fresh and great. BUT (!)....they don't give you near enough of the peanuts, and the prizes nowadays suck! 
