Sometimes, the snack you remember most is the one you cannot buy anymore.
Not the newest flavor or the biggest candy bar. The little peanut-shaped cookie. The chocolate-covered granola bar. The fruit snack you could unravel before eating.
These ten discontinued products still appear in fan petitions, food writers’ comeback wish lists and nostalgic conversations. That doesn’t prove nationwide demand or guarantee a revival. It does show that some snack memories have lasted much longer than the products themselves.
Consider this a trip through the snack aisle that nostalgia keeps stocked.
Planters P.B. Crisps
P.B. Crisps paired a crunchy, peanut-shaped graham-cookie shell with a peanut butter creme filling. The contrast was the point: a crisp outside followed by a soft center.
Planters’ official FAQ confirms that the snack was discontinued in the 1990s because of low consumer demand. It also acknowledges the product’s loyal following and says it has no plans to bring it back.
That makes this one of the clearer cases: the company recognizes the nostalgia, but recognition is not a comeback announcement.
Butterfinger BB’s
Butterfinger BB’s turned the familiar candy bar into small, chocolate-coated balls with a crisp peanut-butter center. Introduced in 1992, they disappeared from shelves in 2006.
Fans have continued asking for them back. A petition launched in March 2025 calls for production to resume. It documents comeback interest, although it cannot predict how a relaunch would sell.
For those fans, the little round pieces were part of the appeal, not just another way to package a candy bar.
Philadelphia Cheesecake Snack Bars
These bars offered cheesecake in a compact package, with a graham-style base and a strawberry-topped version that remains a focus of nostalgic discussion. Introduced in 1999, they disappeared in the mid-2000s.
A dedicated Change.org petition asks Philadelphia to restore the snack bars. Homemade recreations also reflect the effort some fans put into revisiting them.
Their appeal was straightforward: a small cheesecake treat without buying or slicing a whole dessert.
Keebler Pizzarias
Pizzarias brought pizza flavor to a crunchy chip made with pizza dough. They arrived in 1991 and eventually disappeared from the snack aisle.
Accounts differ on the precise discontinuation timeline, so it’s best to leave the final year unsettled.
The comeback interest is easier to document. A fan petition asks for Pizzarias alongside other discontinued Keebler products, while Cheapism’s discontinued-snack wish list specifically calls for their return.
Pizza-flavored snacks remain available. For these fans, however, a substitute isn’t the same as the original they remember.
Kudos Bars
Kudos occupied the space between granola bar and candy treat, combining cereal ingredients with chocolate. Later versions incorporated familiar candy brands, including M&M’s and Snickers.
Mars confirmed in a 2017 Facebook post that the bars had been discontinued.
Fans have created petitions to bring them back, including one that describes the bars as a reminder of childhood.
Their lasting distinction is that particular combination of crunch, chocolate, and individually wrapped convenience.
Related: 8 Classic Foods From the Past That Deserve a Comeback
Hershey’s Swoops
Swoops looked like curved potato chips, but they were candy, not chocolate-covered chips. Introduced in 2003, the line included versions inspired by Hershey’s, Reese’s, and other familiar brands. It was discontinued in 2006.
The shape made them memorable before the first bite.
Cheapism includes Swoops among the discontinued snacks its writers still miss. That is a documented editorial wish, not evidence of a nationwide campaign.
For a product with such a short run, the curved little pieces left a surprisingly durable visual memory.
Keebler Magic Middles
Magic Middles hid a soft filling inside a shortbread-style cookie. Chocolate-filled versions were joined by peanut butter and other variations.
Published accounts disagree about the exact year the original Keebler product disappeared. The original line was discontinued, and a dedicated petition asks Keebler to bring it back into production.
Separate attempts to recreate the concept should not be mistaken for a confirmed Keebler relaunch.
The remembered attraction remains the reveal: an ordinary-looking cookie with something softer inside.
Yogos
Kellogg’s Yogos combined a chewy fruit-flavored center with a yogurt-style coating. They launched in 2005 and left shelves around 2010.
Fans have pursued their return through multiple petitions, including a dedicated iPetitions campaign.
The combination of coating and chewy center gave them an identity distinct from an ordinary gummy snack.
Their disappearance has sparked plenty of theories, but available reporting offers no definitive company explanation. There is no need to turn those guesses into fact.
Hershey’s Kissables
Kissables put miniature Kiss-shaped candies inside colorful shells. The product ran from 2005 to 2009.
A Change.org campaign asks Hershey to bring them back, and a January 2026 discussion shows that some candy fans still remember the format.
They offered a recognizable silhouette in a different package: small, colorful pieces rather than individually foil-wrapped Kisses.
That difference is precisely what comeback requests focus on.
Betty Crocker Fruit String Thing
Fruit String Thing made snack time something to untangle.
Introduced in 1994, it consisted of a fruit-flavored gummy strand arranged into designs on a backing. It disappeared sometime in the 2000s; a firmly verified final year is not established in the reporting. Petitions continue to request its return.
Its appeal was partly flavor and partly interaction. You did not simply open the package and eat. You pulled, peeled, and unwound it.
These requests cannot promise that any product will return. They do reveal how strongly a small snack can attach itself to a particular time in someone’s life. If one could reappear tomorrow, which would you share with someone who never got to try it?
