Wendy’s changed the spicy chicken sandwich. The new one isn’t bad, but the old one occupied a very specific spot in my memory that will be missed.
Freaking out my friends BBS modems by calling it and whistling into the phone.
Taco Bell and the Quesarito.
Fuuuck, why did they remove it? It was the whole reason to go to Taco Bell!
There was an helado shop very near where I live now, just a wonderland of flavors, nice lady with a hundred tuna of different interesting mostly fruit flavored ice creams. Not expensive. It’s s been gone for years and I still miss it.
Also there was this house I used to pass on my way home that had a crazy paint job, I think it had been orange and someone tried to cover that with green - the result was a house that looked like it was ripening and I just loved to see it. Eventually someone “fixed” it by making it gray, I miss it.
Being able to eat peanuts. Developed an allergy 4 years ago.
The park in Oregon where I used to walk every day and see the most amazing water birds.
The scent of my grandparents’ house.
It had a very distinctive sweet aroma. I was never sure what is was, and I never asked. The scent followed them when they moved into a condo in a retirement facility. The last time I visited them in their condo was 2019, and they’ve both since passed away.
They gave me a book many years ago, the pages of which used to smell like their house. I know if I dig that book out of storage, it might still have a trace scent in it. But otherwise, it is now just a memory.
My grandparents had one of those ottomans that you could open up and put things in. I grabbed it after my grandpa died and will occasionally open it and take a big whiff of that granparents’ house smell.
Seafood Sub from Subway. It was my childhood. WhichWich comes close but it’s not the same.
Here’s a couple:
Reebok DMX shoes. Most comfortable shows I ever owned.
Interior decor of Taco Bell and other fast food places in the mid 90s. It looked like a fun place. Now it just reminds me of a POW camp on Guadalcanal.
Watching Star Trek with my grandma at five o’clock on our local TV station. I’d always say that one day I’d be on the Enterprise and she’d look up from her knitting and smile gently.
Interior decor of Taco Bell and other fast food places in the mid 90s. It looked like a fun place. Now it just reminds me of a POW camp on Guadalcanal.
I was just talking about this with some family members. Wendy’s, McD’s, and Pizza Hut all had very distinct exteriors (and often interiors). You could readily identify them driving down the highway just by the building’s silhouette. If you somehow woke up from a coma inside a Pizza Hut you could instantly know where you were just by the decor.
I’m sure there are a lot of factors that contribute to this but I think it boils down to real estate prices. It’s easier to resell a generic box than an obvious Pizza Hut.
Seasons 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 of Firefly.
I also miss Sobeys (Canadian grocery chain) Take n Bake pizza. They changed to a new recipe many years ago. I bought one of their new pizzas, it was very disappointing.
Chicken Cacciatore from Maggianos. Perfectly marinated, fall off the bone half chicken. Discontinued probably 15 years ago and I still think about it.
Prank phone calls. Its still possible with enough dedication and effort, but between smart call ID, the phone boxes disappearing and 99.99% of incoming calls being scams its just not worth the effort.
Time was if you knew a phone number and 30p in your pocket you could pop into a phone box and get an expensive laugh.
I also kinda miss how they smell. It was awful mix of piss, cigarettes and burnt plastic, but it was a pretty unique sensation.
Sex. Minus the “deeply personal.” Well, minus the “deeply.” I always make it personal.
I wish we could roll back the last 30 years and have a do over. Everything is shit anymore.
need 50 to really set things right
I miss incandescent Christmas lights from the 70s.
the colors they had were warm and magical.
you could go down the street at night and the whole neighborhood was filled with this technicolor dream rainbow that you just can’t make anymore.
sorry, not inconsequential. those lights were objectively better and made countless people’s lives better than the LED shit, whether or not they even realized it.
the change to LED has been a real loss with consequences
Altoids Sours, specifically the mango ones. Those were my absolute jam. Probably for the best, in regards to the structural integrity of my hard palate.
This is just stupid of me, but I hate how they changed the grocery store I had been going to for a decade. Everything’s there, just in a different place. It has been over a year and I’m still not over it.
