- Today we eat food you can't buy at the store no more.
- Let's talk about that.
(groovy theme music)
Good mythical morning.
- Right now somewhere in the world,
there are some food scientists who are working tirelessly
to create the next snack food that will
blow your taste buds away.
And this is a trial and error process,
I mean sometimes they strike gold and they create
sour cream and onion potato chips,
and sometimes they fall a little short
and create Corn Nuts.
- Today we are gonna be exploring those foods
that fell a little bit short, and were discontinued.
But we have used our powers, our magical powers
of recontinuing to at least bring some here
on the show today, the actual discontinued snacks.
- You mean the magical powers of going on eBay
and buying things?
- Yes, that is true.
So we're gonna determine if the discontinuation
was a good choice or if they should be brought back.
It's time for Snack Back to Reality,
oh, They're So Snackity.
- Alright, recently we did an ultimate sour cream
and onion snack taste test, but there's one
sour cream and onion snack that we didn't include,
because it has been discontinued, and that is Doritos.
- What? - Now I don't remember these.
- Me neither. - It sounds like
an incredible idea, I don't remember em,
but they were introduced in the late 70s
and they only made it into the early 80s.
And then they brought em back for a little bit in 2012
and 2013, I missed that as well.
- Throwback flavor.
- But here's the old school commercial for
sour cream and onion Doritos.
- [Narrator] If you're fussy about your sour cream
and onion dip, - I am.
- [Narrator] You'll really love our latest flavor.
So for a snack, with the great taste of sour cream
and onion already on the chip,
try sour cream and onion Doritos.
They taste as good as they crunch.
- Mario looks terrible.
- He brought the house down, though, oh man.
- Alright, we've got these.
We got some.
Now, again, - This is not
the Mario packaging.
- This isn't even the 2012 or 2013 packaging
because in Japan they never took these away.
So we eBayed these from Japan, only paid $3.25 for em.
- That's a good price.
- Now the only thing I can read on this is Doritos.
Well, I can also read limited
- It's even limited there.
- I can read Frito-Lay, there's lots of English
on here, I feel so at home.
- Now pop it open, gonna give it a nice tear.
Now let's smell.
- Oh yeah, oh yeah, nothing wrong with that.
- It's actually, the chief smell I smell
is still the corn chip.
- And that may be, my friend, why they discontinued them
because we know it works well with a regular potato chip.
- I'm going.
- Oh that's good.
- What could be wrong?
- This is reason to move to Japan.
Why would they give these and taketh these away?
- I think because there's so many sour cream and onion
things at our disposal that they're exploring
new gimmicky flavors instead.
- I feel like I could eat the whole bag right now.
- Yeah, I feel like I'm gonna fight you for that.
- You know what, I kind of feel like maybe
cool ranch has taken the place of these
cause it has this creamy, sort of tangy taste to it.
But there's enough room in my particular heart
for both cool ranch and sour cream.
- Oh yeah, and it's like taking a trip straight to Tokyo.
- Wwwwwhhhhhhhhaaaaaatttttttt!
- So should they be recontinued in America?
- Heck yes. - Absolutely.
Over the years Kool-Aid has made many different flavors,
and many of them have been discontinued,
including this 90s hit, lemon ice.
Let's watch it.
(fire alarm)
Hot salsa for Kool-Aid man.
- I remember this commercial.
- Who knew he was a chemist?
- Something's happening.
- In my mouth.
- It feels icy cool.
- But there's no ice.
- [Narrator] New Kool-Aid ice cool, lemon ice,
arctic green apple.
- Where's the fire?
- No fire here.
- You again? - Oh yeah.
- Oh yeah.
- Why did everybody have to have like a mustache
and bushy eyebrows in those commercials back then.
- It's so funny, and it makes me so thirsty.
Something's happening, in my mouth.
That's called taste happening
- Yeah, that's right.
Life is full of it.
- Now your typical packet's gonna cost like $2.50 for 12.
We have eBayed these discontinued packs,
these are the actual ones from the 90s for $10.50
for 10 packets.
So it's a bit of a price jump.
We've got some sugar water here.
- Now I don't know if this is safe,
I don't know what happens to Kool-Aid, you know,
over the decades.
- I'm thinking nothing.
- It smells exactly like I would expect it to smell.
Now this is already sugar water, right?
- Yeah, so there's bonkers of this, you know,
hidden in bomb shelters, and it would taste just the same.
- Oh I love the way it looks like,
it looks like there's ice in it, but there's not ice in it.
- Looks like lemon ice.
Alright so that's pretty quick miXture there.
- You know, I wasn't allowed to drink Kool-Aid.
It was one of the things that my mom just
drew a boundary around.
- You didn't earn it.
- Too much sugar.
- Gotta earn it.
- Looks like watered down milk.
- Alright so let's give it a sniff.
It smells like a spicier lemonade.
- Yeah, dink it.
- And drink it.
- What's happening in your mouth right now?
- What's happening in my mouth?
- Should we call the fire department?
Or should we just drink more lemon ice?
- So there's a guy on Facebook who said,
whatever happened to lemon ice Kool-Aid,
that my friend was the best.
Kool-Aid themselves responded and said,
Chris, lemon ice is not currently available,
but if you haven't, try lemonade Kool-Aid.
And then he replied and he said, I have,
but it doesn't have the zing that the ice has.
- Let me tell you right now,
- It does have a cooling zing.
- There's a zing, almost like I might be drinking something
that's got poison in it, you know what I'm saying?
- In a really good way.
- I don't know.
- I know I like it, I like the poison.
- I think that giving this to children
is giving them a taste for poison.
I think you give a kid this,
- Well they mixed it in beakers man.
- The next thing you know, they're under the cabinet.
You don't want that, it's like,
mom do you have any cleaner,
I want some cleaner in my mouth.
- I think you're right.
So because this is a safety hazard,
should this be recontinued?
No - No.
Okay, we all know Altoids as the curiously strong mint,
but they also had some curiously strange flavors
for a little bit, including citrus Altoids.
Now these were introduced early 2000s,
and they were discontinued in 2010.
So didn't make it a decade, but there is a little bit
of a movement to bring them back.
There's actually a change.org petition started
by Sam Wilner, has 174 supporters.
Sam says, let me start off by saying these things
were the bomb, even though they wrecked the roof
of your mouth, they were sweet, tangy,
and even not very unhealthy.
More than that, they were the quickest pick me up
for a sixth grader whose turtle died
under mysterious circumstances.
- Hmm, feeding em to the turtle, not a good idea.
- So we have some, now this is a curious process
to get these, because we paid $50 from David Cross.
David Cross was selling these on eBay.
- Who knew he needed the cash.
- Hey, that's what he's doing, he's not acting anymore.
He's just charging a lot of money for old Altoids.
- Man, okay.
- So these are expired, 2005.
- Oh my goodness, let's open em.
- And so you press on this to get it to,
okay, there it comes.
- Oh no.
Dude it's entirely melted.
%50 for one big melted Altoid mass.
- I am so disappointed in David Cross right now.
- Oh my gosh, it looks like fat that's been liposucted.
- It does look like human fat,
like when they show you, when the doctor's like,
do you know what a pound of human fat looks like?
- Here it is in an Altoids can.
I'm selling em on eBay for $50, don't tell anybody.
- This is why you gave us spoons, now I understand.
I thought it was gonna like give a little bit.
- Give a little bit of a $50 Altoid to me.
- I got some free, see if you get some free.
Man this is, $50, these better be good David.
- My spoon, my spoon got,
- There you go.
- Here's a piece, that is equivalent of like half an Altoid.
- That's good.
Tastes like an air freshener.
- It is bad, oh my gosh.
- It tastes like an air freshener,
like something hanging down in your car.
- And it feels like a hardened piece of gum
you pulled out from under a desk.
Like, eww man, that wasn't gum, that was an air freshener.
- Sam, I see why your turtle died.
- Oh my goodness.
- I feel like the jury is still out on this one,
because something about it being over 10 years old,
- Like melted and reconstituted.
- And melted, I don't feel like I can make a judgment call,
but if this is what is the best representation
of citrus Altoids that we have is,
should they be brought back?
No. - No.
And now let me take you back to 1993,
when there was such a thing as crystal clear Pepsi.
They had an amazing commercial,
which featured Van Halen's song Right Now,
we're gonna show you the commercial,
but we've replaced the Van Halen song
with an arguably even better song
which we've used on our show before.
- Yeah, naked baby.
- And watches.
Computers can laugh now, by the way.
- Make it clear.
Woah, so refreshing.
- That's a big glass.
Alright, I'm gonna stop it right there
on a shirtless man.
- I wanna see more.
- Drinking a clear Pepsi, right now someone
just got a taste of the future, you're welcome.
- It's like a Powerpoint commercial.
- It really was.
- It's like the guy in the ad agency
did a Powerpoint presentation about why he wanted
to bring it back, and the guy was like,
make that the commercial.
- Yes that's it, that's great.
- That's the perfect ad, just add Van Halen.
- It is a lock.
Alright, now we actually have it right here.
The thing is, - I totally remember this.
- It went away in the early 90s, but then it was
brought back in January of this year in a fluke
of marketing, and then was discontinued once again,
but we did get our hands on these.
Let's crack open the clearness.
- Now I remember when this came out,
- Not their slogan, mine.
- In the 90s, I thought that it was,
there was a lot of questions around,
is this just gonna taste like Pepsi but it's clear,
or is this gonna taste like, is it a different flavor,
is it not cola anymore.
- Is it healthy, 250 calories per 20 ounce bottle.
- Oh yeah, that's healthy.
- Studies indicated that people thought clear soda
was healthier than darker soda.
- Oh right.
- Studies also indicate that people don't understand health.
Alright, let's taste it, though.
$15 for a six pack.
- It's everything I remembered it being.
- Of drinking a Pepsi, like just a normal Pepsi?
- It tastes like Pepsi that's had something
important taken out of it.
I mean honestly, I feel like, - Like its soul.
It's like soulless Pepsi.
- Yeah, it's like Pepsi that's been through
a really bad experience.
- It's like Pepsi without a conscience.
- Boy, I really wanted to like this just out of nostalgia.
- I like it. - You do?
- I like Pepsi, you know, so I like this.
It tastes no different than Pepsi to me, no different.
- Yeah, it's clear cola, that's right.
That's the weird thing, it's like when you,
it tastes like when you go to a restaurant
and the fountain's not working right.
You know like, uh, your fountain's not working
the syrup's broken.
- Well no, that doesn't have any flavor Rhett.
This is different, it has all the flavor of Pepsi.
- It doesn't have all the flavor.
- It has all the flavor.
- Let me close my eyes and taste it.
- Take your shirt off too probably,
I think that's what it needs.
- Is that just Pepsi?
- Right, okay, so should this,
- It's not doing it for me.
- Should this stay discontinued?
- Well if you really like it, I mean
maybe I'll get you some for your birthday,
so I guess we should bring it back.
- I don't think we should be bring it back,
I think you should just close your eyes when drinking Pepsi.
- Okay, there we go, should not bring it back.
- [Link] No.
- Okay, so the only thing we're bringing back
is Doritos, and they actually already exist in Japan,
so I don't think we've accomplished anything,
but hopefully you enjoyed it.
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- You know what time it is.
- I'm Keaton, that's Mozart, and I'm in Salzburg, Austria.
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