What’s a small thing from your childhood that doesn’t exist anymore, but you wish it did?
August 9, 2025
What’s a small thing from your childhood that doesn’t exist anymore, but you wish it did?
36 comments
Those Saturday morning cartoons
Childlike wonder and imagination that fades as we grow up.
Showbiz Pizza
My parents.
Kims chips with piquant flavor.
Swings that accomodate the width of my hips
The Disney World of the 80s and 90s.
Mini pizza night with my family!
Old-school McDonald’s fries, back when they were still fried in beef tallow. No french fry since has ever been as good.
Kids were safe in public transport, played on the street alone, sim city, super mario
Altoids Sours
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Flintstones pushpops transfats
[removed]
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Toys in cereal boxes. Always motivated me to eat my breakfast.
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Max Factor pancake makeup.
Literally the only makeup for stage performers in the US for decades, my whole childhood of performing required this specific foundation, then they just…stopped selling it in the US.
One small disk of the makeup was going for $150 on eBay after it was discontinued here, and we had no choice but to pay that.
I wrote to Max Factor to express how crucial this make up was for my profession, and I got a form email back that said “we hope you like our Cover Girl products!” (Cover Girl does not sell theatrical pancake makeup.)
I can’t express how much this changed my life, I have stopped performing entirely, it would be like if you played the clarinet in the symphony for living and they stopped making reeds entirely, just stopped selling them, so you could no longer do your job.
(This is why stage performers in the US look powdery and ashy, but didn’t in the 1990s, we no longer have normal theatrical pancake makeup due to this one company’s decision to just end it.)
My friend group.
The tire swing from my childhood home. Some other kid could be having a ton of fun with that, but the whole tree is gone.
Fireflies
Loyalty 💔
Mars Delight
Sour altoids
Reading a book back by the creek that ran through our property.
The expectation of remaining anonymous while online.
Irresponsibility and freedom
Drive-in movie theaters! When I was a kid my parents would take us to the drive-in, a double feature, in our pajamas. They would back our van into the parking space and open the back doors.
My brother and I could fall asleep during the second feature that was usually for grown ups.
Such great memories! 😊
An omelette takeaway that was near where my uncle lived and when I got to stay with him he used to get us one for supper
Stickers with smell. Still remember those banana stickers my friends had.
Unconditional happiness
Hope.
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MTV playing music videos.
Dr oetker polypop 😔
I’m indian. We used to get these red straws filled with a sweet spicy powder filled in. It’s called anardana churan. It was gross and delicious
36 comments
Those Saturday morning cartoons
Childlike wonder and imagination that fades as we grow up.
Showbiz Pizza
My parents.
Kims chips with piquant flavor.
Swings that accomodate the width of my hips
The Disney World of the 80s and 90s.
Mini pizza night with my family!
Old-school McDonald’s fries, back when they were still fried in beef tallow. No french fry since has ever been as good.
Kids were safe in public transport, played on the street alone, sim city, super mario
Altoids Sours
[removed]
Flintstones pushpops transfats
[removed]
[removed]
Toys in cereal boxes. Always motivated me to eat my breakfast.
[removed]
Max Factor pancake makeup.
Literally the only makeup for stage performers in the US for decades, my whole childhood of performing required this specific foundation, then they just…stopped selling it in the US.
One small disk of the makeup was going for $150 on eBay after it was discontinued here, and we had no choice but to pay that.
I wrote to Max Factor to express how crucial this make up was for my profession, and I got a form email back that said “we hope you like our Cover Girl products!” (Cover Girl does not sell theatrical pancake makeup.)
I can’t express how much this changed my life, I have stopped performing entirely, it would be like if you played the clarinet in the symphony for living and they stopped making reeds entirely, just stopped selling them, so you could no longer do your job.
(This is why stage performers in the US look powdery and ashy, but didn’t in the 1990s, we no longer have normal theatrical pancake makeup due to this one company’s decision to just end it.)
My friend group.
The tire swing from my childhood home. Some other kid could be having a ton of fun with that, but the whole tree is gone.
Fireflies
Loyalty 💔
Mars Delight
Sour altoids
Reading a book back by the creek that ran through our property.
The expectation of remaining anonymous while online.
Irresponsibility and freedom
Drive-in movie theaters! When I was a kid my parents would take us to the drive-in, a double feature, in our pajamas. They would back our van into the parking space and open the back doors.
My brother and I could fall asleep during the second feature that was usually for grown ups.
Such great memories! 😊
An omelette takeaway that was near where my uncle lived and when I got to stay with him he used to get us one for supper
Stickers with smell. Still remember those banana stickers my friends had.
Unconditional happiness
Hope.
[removed]
MTV playing music videos.
Dr oetker polypop 😔
I’m indian. We used to get these red straws filled with a sweet spicy powder filled in. It’s called anardana churan. It was gross and delicious