- 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. - Thank you for liking,
commenting, and subscribing. - You know what time it is. - I'm Keaton, that's Mozart,
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Did David Cross really sell these nerds those Altoids? Which by the way, I used to love.