dead products!?

Question

Hi guys, can anyone please give me some examples of any food/drink products that have been withdrawn from the market? that are no longer made in other words? It's for my business management homework and I just can't think of any! thanks everyone x

Answer 1

that dodgy coka cola water, desali.

Answer 2

The best example has to be "New Coke" launched in 1985. This is one of the great marketing disasters of all time and is well documented - so no need to tell the story now. Important in your work to make the distinction between "products" (the physical aspects of an offer) and "brands" - what people actually buy. Anyway have a look at (for example) the Wikipedia website on Coke to get the full story. Good luck !

Answer 3

Me Gran's rock cakes. If not eaten immediately out of package, they would harden to a lump, and hurt like hell with chucked back at the shopkeepers!
{Sorry had to be a bit light hearted on this one. Others have reported so many things that were withdrawn over the years; I thought we could all use a smile!}

Answer 4

Aztec Bars (they were lovely, but sadly are no more)

NSM (New Smoking Material - for the tobacco-free cigarettes developed in the late 1970's by cigarette manufacturers scared about the implications of the deaths of 100's of thousands of their customers from smoking-related diseases)

Cadbury's Wispa

Cresta soft drinks ("It's frothy, man!!")

Ayds slimming aids (a strange kind of fudge like thing... my mom used to live on 'em... and look at the size of her!)


some 'non-food items....

OMO washing powder


the '78rpm' record
& '45' single (although they do still make occasional ones as 'special editions')

Valve amplifiers (unless you want to spend thousands of pounds on one)

Betamax video

Phillips '2000' video

BBC/Acorn computers

Answer 5

Skoal Bandits! Thet were wierd little tea-bag looking things that contained tobacco. You stuck them under your tongue as sort of a cross between smoking and chewing baccy. They were massive for a few years - big money - formula 1 sponsorships and all that. Unfortunately many users developed horrible mouth cancers and they disappeared rather sharpish. A good example but not really food/drink is it?

Answer 6

cremola foam was withdrawn in the seventies it was a powder you added to water to make a drink.............a can of this was found sealed in someones kitchen who worked for a big drinks company so they took it away to be analysed with maybe the result being that they might market it again i dont know what was in this powder but i seem to remember it had japs health salts in it........no wonder we were regular..............if you know what i mean........ when we drank this as kids also there was a product called peas brose this was used in the making of soups but it was discovered that it contained the same toxins as kidney beans so if it wasn't cooked properly it could kill you..........i can see why this was taken of the market

Answer 7

Farmhouse bran and Bran Buds cereals. Also Gino Ginelli Ice Cream

Answer 8

Heinz Kidney soup

Answer 9

jubblies
cresta
white chocolate mice that don't taste of bananas (they never used to taste of bananas)
crisps with the blue TWIST of paper containing salt (not the little square packages)
flavoured milk from vending machines in the street
sorry, apart from jubblies and cresta this has become a bit of a nostalgia trip with me remembering the "good old days"

Answer 10

Whip and Chill dessert it was delicious no idea why they quit making it

Noodles Romanoff, Betty Crocker - everyone loved this stuff but it's gone now

Sky Bar candy bar - used to be my fav

Answer 11

try olestra was in '90s an oil with no calories but then they discovered that was depleting the body of vitamin b complex making people sick and they had to withdraw it from the shops