1. Merenda, a Greek chocolate spread which was full of almonds. Not only did they completely take the almond one out of the market, but the hazelnut one tastes more or less like any other chocolate spread in the wordl.
2. Nudossi. Also a chocolate spread, but this one came from the former DDR, where “profit” was just the word “prophet” spelled wrong. The original (even until the late 90s) was so full of hazelnuts and cacao that it had an amazing taste, but was of course unprofitable. Then they changed it to make more money. And lost the taste.
3. Also a Greek product (at least I remember eating it in Greece): “Draculinia” was a type of crisps that came in two varieties, plain and tomato. Tomato must have sold better because they kept that, but I liked the other one better.
4. My old Nokia. I don’t remember the exact model number, but it was very practical, had a decent camera that took pictures really fast and did everything I wanted. Had very practical menus and enough memory (which could also be extended). My new one has a much more complicated menu, a better camera that takes a couple of seconds to load and another one to take a picture (too slow for when your toddler does something funny), and a much larger but slower memory that I don’t necessarily need. Plus it keeps turning off on its own and even lost some things once.
5. That old cinema I used to go to as a kid. Where the owners knew your name and the place reeked of pop-corn. And you came out back into the foyer, rather than being kicked out into some back alley at the end of the film (which is what seems to happen at multiplexes nowadays).