Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬

@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social

66K followers 1.3K following 12K posts

Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the nearly 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 10m

Hard Rock Cafe Boo-zy Shake (2019-2019): A milkshake consisting of bourbon & dark rum blended with vanilla bean ice cream and dark chocolate sauce, then topped with white chocolate-flavored whipped cream, chocolate sprinkles, and candy corn. Released to celebrate Halloween week that year

A white milkshake with a web of chocolate sauce in a clear glass, topped with whipped cream, sprinkles, and candy corn. It is sitting in front of 2 creepy apothecary-style jars, filled with candy corn and sprinkles, with raven and skull handles on the lids

2 7 29

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2h

Jeff Probst: All around the world, statues crumble for this person
Mark McGrath:

a hand is pressing a red button in a cartoon

Alt: a hand is pressing a red button in a cartoon

media.tenor.com

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2h

Strong agree

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2h

Meadow Gold Double Play Ice Cream (1986-1986): Chocolate malt ice cream with a thick marshmallow revel swirl. Part of a baseball-themed line of products, each carton featured one of several collectible baseball cards for players such as Dave Winfield, Dale Murphy, & George Brett

A purple and white ice cream carton that reads "Double Play" in a baseball jersey type font. 3 baseball players are pictured above 2 scoops of brown and white swirled ice cream, and a pile of fudge chunks, marshmallows, and malt balls

7 6 68

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2h

Ok, but what about VH1's Rock & Roll Jeopardy (1998-2001)?

2 21

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 3h

You beat me to it! I was just about to say the same thing haha

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 3h

Oh that absolutely played a huge role for sure...

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 3h

It BECAME popular thanks to VHS rentals and Disney Channel airings, but it lost a TON of money at the box office, one of Disney's biggest bombs of the decade!

1 1

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 3h

TELL THEM!!!

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 3h

So true, no one remembers the great performances unless you win...See also, Josh Allen in "13 Seconds"

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 3h

Yup!!

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 3h

True, besides "one yard short"...see, we all have horrific, heartbreaking sports memories!

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 3h

That is so true, and so perfectly described

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 3h

UGHH every single YouTube video I have been watching lately starts with that commercial, I cannot slam that "skip ad" button hard enough

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 3h

Collinsworth is beyond insufferable, my goodness...and yeah, it was a really upside down week in the NFL haha

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4h

These were made by Boston America Corp., a company that made novelty media-based food products. I believe they were only around for a year or so, 1998-1999 maybe. In addition, in 2011, Frito-Lay put Cheetos in a South Park-themed package and called them Cheesy Poofs, sold only at Wal-Mart

1 1 3

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4h

I covered it on Twitter YEARS ago, but I don't think it has made the jump over here yet, an oversight on my part! I'll cover it soon, thanks for the reminder

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4h

Let's discuss! The original "Hocus Pocus" was:

1. Iconic, a true Halloween and 90's classic
2. Overrated garbage, revered through revisionist history
3. Eh, harmless fun

36 1 33

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4h

There was also a special collector's edition version, that came inside a special box made to look and open like the Book of Spells from the Hocus Pocus movies

A box shaped like an old mysterious leatherbound book sits on a pink velvet backdrop

An open book-style box, revealing Hocus Pocus 2 cereal inside. On the lefthand side is a design like an old witches' book of spells, with ravens, twisted tress, and pumpkins

3 56

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4h

Hocus Pocus 2 Berry Brew (2022-2022): Purple, yellow, and orange star-shaped, berry-flavored cereal with green sprinkles. Released to promote the sequel to the cult classic Disney Halloween film

2 cereal boxes each with an illustration of the witches from Hocus Pocus 2 sitting on a long broomstick, flying in front of a full moon and over a black bowl full of orange, yellow, and purple cereal

3 9 100

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4h

Adam Schefter and I have very few things in common, I'm okay with this being one of them haha...and he's not living rent free, his spirit contributes to the HOA

1 1

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4h

This isn't even my top 30 most upsetting Bills memories, it elicits absolutely nothing in me haha

1 2

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, actually. A small consolation, but a consolation nonetheless. Also, I was reflecting on it the other day, but I sadly realized that in my entire life, the Bills and Orioles have won their respective divisions in the same season ONE TIME. That made me so incredibly sad

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4h

Look, none of that would have happened if Doug Flutie had started the game, the Bills would have been up by 40 so it wouldn't have mattered

1 3

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4h

Glad they made so many changes in the offseason before the 1990 season started

1 2