Jan 26, 2010
Ten-Word Tuesday. Now With 40% More Dr. Seuss
There you sat in Trader Joe’s
On the counter, free as air
There to solve all dry skin woes
“Press my nozzle if you dare,”
Now Bossy isn’t fond of scents
Too flowery or overwrought
But in this blogger’s own defense
She sprayed the perfume others bought
But Bossy thought she’d try you out
Looking back, a risky move
To find out what you were about
Your Beta Glucan had to prove
Silky smooth’s what Bossy thought
Fresh like lemons on the vine
So she decided that she ought
Grab a few and jump in line
That first summer was the best
In hokey drugstore ad parlance,
Supple skin was the request
Provided by lipid balance
From that day on, your daily use
Moisturized both leg and hand
The two of you did sign a truce
To rid of all dry skin as planned
But then one very fateful day
Perusing shelves in Trader Joe’s
Bossy’s heart filled with dismay
You’re no longer there, this blows!
And it seems you shan’t return
All excellent and cheap, you were
Leaving Bossy with concern
To which hand cream shall she defer?
Bossy can sum up her disappointment in the disappearance of her favorite hand cream from Trader Joe’s in this way: Disappear those bags of edamame, Trader Joe’s, and you’re toast.
Which is what today’s Ten-Word Challenge is all about. In exactly ten words, can you tell Bossy and her council about a product or thing you loved but was discontinued or no longer easy to find?
And be sure to check back later today for the most elusive favorites on the web.
If you missed last week’s ten-word challenge, click here to read about the house projects Bossy and her council are successfully ignoring.
Nabisco Zweiback! Bring it back! Before I have a heartattack!
Newberg sausce mix made by Knorr. Alas and alack, Nevermore.
Simple classic chocolate wafers in yellow box. Are they gone?
So many lipstick colors over the years Bossy weeps remembering.
Speaking of Trader Joe’s, their hand soap. Forget the kind.
I still mourn Nabisco Magic Middle Cookies from my childhood.
My closest Baja Fresh closed.
I wept with fervent sorrow.
ACK! Ben & Jerry’s One Sweet Whirled Ice Cream. Heaven.
Lancome Flextencils mascara . Didn’t give me that Norma Desmond look.
Bossy- Avalon Organics is at Whole Foods or on drugstore.com!!
My nitrate-laden-pork-lovin’ family misses TJ’s Canadian Bacon.
TJ’s here stopped carrying banana waffles! My Nutella is lonely.
I can’t find a filter for my center air conditioner?
TJ’s sandwich steak. I have been to 3 stores in search…
Uno bars. Used to be mint. Fluffy mind clouds. Sad.
…Oh damn, “central” air I mean. I’m always messing up my lines.
Oh Bossy’s misses Knave’s Chicken Coco Loco and Yom Salad.
BATH & BODY APPLE AND ASH SHAMPOO
IT WAS AWESOME
It used to be lipstick. Please MAC–keep Amorous around.
Perfect lipstick. Again. Maybe Gah hates that color on me.
Mama Fu’s. No more sesame tuna salad deliciousness near me.
http://www.myvitanet.com/hanandbodlot4.html will save Bossy from the rough and dry. danada.
Beverly Hills Dust. Bronze cheeks in cardboard can…a must.
I liked vanilla toothpaste – no more. So sue me if mint is not my favorite!
Vegetarian pot stickers – pork and chicken sit on shelf smugly.
Mervyn’s had a bra I loved.
Crest Citrus Mint Gel toothpaste. I found some on eBay!
My youth and my waist.
My before kid bank balance.
Bounty paper towels in a box. Popped up like tissues.
Elizabeth Arden Beauty perfume. Didn’t make husband sneeze and gag.
The Body Shop killed my fave tea tree ointment.(Bastards!)
–>CHIPWICHES with chocolate chips around the ice cream edge. **SIGH**
perfect panties…cotton, flattering but comfy, non-itchy lace…gone…
Trader joe’s blister peanuts* and Shea butter soap. *Now back.
Calvin and Hobbes left me to go exploring. Mornings darker.
Chanel’s Venetian Blonde lipstick. The long lost look I mourn.
Amber colored chandelier bulbs, have checked every store in Arizona.
I find a new favorite bra… *poof* that model disappears.
Prescriptives makeup, so expensive, so worth it, gone.
Fruit Faces! Oh how I miss your sweet chalky taste!
Bath & Body Works Ginger Verbena everything. Empty Promises. Nevermore.
Glycerin liquid hand soap, Trader Joe’s once again she blows.
Yummy Twining’s Black spiced tea. Disappeared! Even from the Interwebs!
Bath & Body Works Grapefruit, Snagged Last 15, 75% Off.
Vanilla butternut extract. A Southern thing, apparently. Found it online.
Freesia product at Bath and Body Works, so clean smelling!
Ultima II Glowtion tinted moisturizer. Online source wants $90 per bottle!!!!!
Glysolid hand cream. Best dry skin cure ever.
My poor hands have not been the same!
T.J.’s kosher pizza dough, chocolate & chocolate chip merengues, Java Drops, Capiello mozzerella, Cabot cottage cheese & butter: pretty much everything we like, disappears.
I am sorry, but the frustration is so great, I had to use more than 10 words. T.J. touts their kosher product line, but items that used to be certified are no longer. Or disappear entirely. Blah!!!
End of rant, for now. p.j.
Was just looking last dab of discontinued lipstick. What now???
Bobbi Brown Lip Tint SPF 15
Melon 10. Gone! Sob.
Pain! Horror! Lindt’s dark chocolate “pillows”: gone forever. I wrote them.
(They wrote back, said if enough complained Marketing might bring them back. I fear nobody else wrote. Smoothest filling ever. Big round balls, same components, just don’t do it. I buy them anyway.)
Bossy, you’ve brought up deep angst, grief with this topic.
I’m scared every time I go bra shopping. Poor s.
TJs Half-Sour Pickles and beef broth packets–still, I seek.
L’Oreal Colorspa haircolor, Cornsilk powder and Dove Energy Glow Cleanser.
(Oh, the weeping.)
I’m scared every time I go bra shopping. My poor girls.
time
Loss of favorite sweet/spicy pickles so anguishing, don’t recall brand.
Freaks and Geeks, NBC cancelled after twelve episodes, still mourning.
Unofficial Trader Joe’s commercial on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdB7GDZY3Pk
JAZZ in dives, unselfconscious nation, the real deal……
come back.
Wore Cartier Must II for 28 years. One bottle left!
Prescriptives lip pot; glossy, blue, conditioning, perfectly shimmery. Gone. Sad.
Pine Bros. Honey Throat Drops (not newer ones with lemon)
Scharffenberger chocolate was the best ever until Hershey killed them.
Trader Joe’s Swiss Dark Chocolate. Gone! Nothing else comes close.
Back to Nature Classic Granola cereal. Here in Texas =NO
Listerex facial scrub (the green kind).
Quisp breakfast cereal. Just one more bowl before I die!
Oh bring back Pogens to break in 3 for me!
yankee candle why the limited edition “green tea”? Want more!
Revlon “Moon Drops” – my mom has been sad for years.
And hello, BE FINE company? Bring back the neck cream!
Bath & Body Works Sun Ripened Raspberry & Tangerine Spice. Bastards.
Peppermint bubble yum – perfect bubbles, yummy taste. Never found again.
st. ives cucumber eye gel – my eyes sag for you.
Only perfume I ever liked. YSL’s Champagne. Light, bubbly. Perfect.
Love’s Baby Soft made a body spray, White Vanilla. Gone.
Bath & Body Works Almond Hazelnut lotion. I miss you.
Ditto for a lotion B&BW had called Fresh Pineapple. Poof.
Postum (I love coffee but caffeine hates me!) Kraft, you bastards!
Maidenform Full Figure Embroidered Balconette Bra; Gone but not forgotten
WHO DO I NEED TO STAB FOR SCREAMING YELLOW ZONKERS?!?!?
My marbles. My nerve. Where have they got to?
head to the organic isle at giant for elusive lotion
Bill Cosby and his Jello Pudding Pops are no more.
Mirado Black Warrior #2 pencils — why, Walmart?? It’s tragic!
Do you have access to “Bloom” grocery stores? That Avalon Organic lavender lotion is sold there . . . .
Williams-Sonoma only sells “Winter Forest” soap at Christmas! Sigh . . . .
Pond’s Soothing Cucumber Eye Treatments, I mourn your passing daily
trader joe’s also killed my dish scrubbies. dirty dishes abound.
Couvent des Minimes Lavender and Acacia perfume. Drat. Damn. Hell.
Boucheron eau de toilette refills. How do I love thee?
Betty Crocker Noodles Italiano LOVED IT no warning…bye bye
Ben and Jerry’s World’s Best Chocolate ice cream…in Flavor Graveyard.
Trader Joe’s almond stuff stuffed chicken thighs…very yummy.
“Here Comes the Brides” cancelled, my childhood spirit was crushed.
E.G. Smith 100% cotton boot socks
Good bye Crest Whitening Expressions mint and green tea toothpaste.
Shade and Sweetwater,
K
Pudding pops: Perfect combo of chocolate pudding and ice cream.
What is it w/ Trader Joe’s and all the canceled stuff????
Where the hell are you Trader Joe’s Tangerine Sugar Scrub?!
Me too, Bossy, Me too miss
Avalon lavender hand & body
Tangerine marmalade & other stuff
Me too Boo Hiss Boo TJ’s eye on
bottom line buck
Barry
Original Tone soap now as rare as a snow leopard
Ann perfume by Ann Taylor….I was in deep mourning for quite some time until I discovered some overpriced leftovers on Ebay.
BTW comment #99…I loved Bobby Sherman.
Many of the above – had already forgotten – now will morn again.
(# 71 Quisp cereal still exists in Acme)
Maple rosemary marinade from Trader Joe’s what is UP with them?
“Chaps” after shave by Loreal, used it for years, BOO!!
Chocolate vanilla creme Pop-Tarts.
Vanilla Fudge Brownie B&J ice cream.
(to illustrate my emotion about these things, shake fist at sky and scream “KHHHHAAANNNN!”)
Peggy Sue’s delicious beef donairs. Now an hour round trip!
Lipton changed Blackberry tea formula – letter campaign fail, much anger.
Pizza Hut white garlic chicken. Avon perfect pen eyeliner. Boo.
Mary Janes, black, with emboidery, beads and velvety uppers–gone.
I thought about doing a photo tribute on my blog to them the other day. Now I will. Sigh.
Oops. I meant “embroidery” not “emboidery” Don’t even know what “emboidery” is.
A tribute to my Mary Janes:
Tribute
Bossy, you can order it online:
http://www.avalonorganics.com/?id=94&pid=194
All hope is not lost!
One too many Lipstick colors!
Bath & Body strikes again…no more Lavender body spray.
Max Factor is leaving U.S.! Perfect Lash mascara gone. Sigh.
Victoria’s Secret bras when it was still a store for women ,not the pink filled sexpot teen store it has become. I’m a size 6 with 34 DDD ( no I didn’t pay for them)…oh where oh where can I find a bra?
No loss left to be regretted when memory has fled.
Magic Pan restaurants, Rely tampons, Bath &
Body Works Herbal Mist.
(I have learned not to announce that I love something, anything, or it will be discountinued. Therefore, I do not love Bossy.)
thanks 62/Debbie for that wonderful Trader Joe’s ad link! Charming.
Husband ebay-bought all remaining Crabtree-Evelyne patchouli gels for me.
Lindy’s taco sauce. Can only find at Stater Brothers. Sux.
Trader Joes – Center City. It’s still there – I saw it!
different lipsticks, apple butter, the list goes on and on.
p.s. here bossy: http://www.amazon.com/Hand-Body-Lotion-Lavender-Ounces/dp/B00016QRZ0/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1264968439&sr=8-12
Qwik Strawberry powder for milk. LIke the chocolate powder but Strawberry flavoured. You can get it in Mexico…but that would be one expensive box of strawberry flavoured powder!!
Archer farms, 1999 salt-vinegar popcorn…Still look. WHY, TARGET, WHY?!?
Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific Shampoo…I pine for thee.
Not sure who makes them but those windmill-shaped cookies.
Lemon-Up Shampoo and Conditioner with ridiculous lemon-shaped cap.
Warning: TJ’s edamame now 12 oz. instead of 16 – shrinkage
TOVA original signature perfume….now “reformulated” and so not the same.