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Has that ever happened to anyone else? You remember a thing, distinctly, you know you've had it before, yet you can find nowhere that sells it, no record of it ever existing, and everyone you know who you ask about it looks at you like you've gone mad?

Had that today, I spent an hour trying to find a product I'd swear blind I've bought before(flattened square Croissants designed to be cooked in your toaster - and if it turns out I am mad or just dreamed it, ehm, idea copywritten or whatever ), but even Google seems to think I'm wrong. It's infuriating.

All the time in fact

I have a recurring dream,

where the supermarket stocks hot dogs and hot dog buns in equal ratio packages.

then I wake up to the nightmare that is reality and



PS pilsbury toaster strudel is basically what you are looking for

 Yodhrin wrote:
Has that ever happened to anyone else? You remember a thing, distinctly, you know you've had it before, yet you can find nowhere that sells it, no record of it ever existing, and everyone you know who you ask about it looks at you like you've gone mad?

Had that today, I spent an hour trying to find a product I'd swear blind I've bought before(flattened square Croissants designed to be cooked in your toaster - and if it turns out I am mad or just dreamed it, ehm, idea copywritten or whatever ), but even Google seems to think I'm wrong. It's infuriating.

I searched all over for the Ramien bowls they served in the Mess hall in South Korea. For the life of me I cannot find them in the Seattle area, Amazon, Google.....

I know for a fact the I once had a coffee kit kat. But I cant find one anywhere.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I know for a fact the I once had a coffee kit kat. But I cant find one anywhere.

They were a special limited release. I remember having one as well. Don't worry, you are not crazy *comforting hug*.

I once played an amazing space RTS that I can't find any record existing anywhere.

It came on a PC Gamer demo disc waaaay back in the day, probably in the early 00s when I was still a little kid on my first HP Pentium II.

Installed it and played those two maps for weeks, months even. Eventually lost the disc, which is too bad. In any case, it was likely some kind of indy/vaporware.

It was sort of like the finished Star Trek Armada, but the factions were a human race vs. an organic alien race. I know this because when I destroyed their ships, blood and organic matter would spray outward. It was really impressive at the time to me, probably the first space RTS game I've ever played.

A book I dimly remember reading once when drugged after a surgery. I can't remember the title, and I've been looking for years now. At this point it's like my Bigfoot.

My wife.
I'm pretty sure she exists, I see her every day, but it still defies all logic that I still managed to find a woman willing to marry me.

Man...I thought this was gonna be some kind of religious deconversion story thread.


My hair. I swear I had some somewhere...*checks mirror*... Never mind. Found it...it apparently just migrated to my nostrils.

 Yodhrin wrote:

Had that today, I spent an hour trying to find a product I'd swear blind I've bought before(flattened square Croissants designed to be cooked in your toaster - and if it turns out I am mad or just dreamed it, ehm, idea copywritten or whatever ), but even Google seems to think I'm wrong. It's infuriating.

Sara Lee used to brand toaster pastries as "toaster croissants" in certain markets; perhaps that is what you're thinking of.

 dogma wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

Had that today, I spent an hour trying to find a product I'd swear blind I've bought before(flattened square Croissants designed to be cooked in your toaster - and if it turns out I am mad or just dreamed it, ehm, idea copywritten or whatever ), but even Google seems to think I'm wrong. It's infuriating.

Sara Lee used to brand toaster pastries as "toaster croissants" in certain markets; perhaps that is what you're thinking of.

No, they were literally croissants - right taste, right texture, they even smelled right once heated up(to my recollection anyway), they were croissants, but with the profile and thickness of really thick-cut bread. Bah, this is more annoying than when you know you know the name of something but your brain's memory imps have gone off on holiday without telling you and it just won't come to you.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 dogma wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

Had that today, I spent an hour trying to find a product I'd swear blind I've bought before(flattened square Croissants designed to be cooked in your toaster - and if it turns out I am mad or just dreamed it, ehm, idea copywritten or whatever ), but even Google seems to think I'm wrong. It's infuriating.

Sara Lee used to brand toaster pastries as "toaster croissants" in certain markets; perhaps that is what you're thinking of.

No, they were literally croissants - right taste, right texture, they even smelled right once heated up(to my recollection anyway), they were croissants, but with the profile and thickness of really thick-cut bread. Bah, this is more annoying than when you know you know the name of something but your brain's memory imps have gone off on holiday without telling you and it just won't come to you.

From what I can find they weem to have stopped making them around 2002. But they do look more like pop tarts, so may not be what your after.

The toaster croissants still exists, but it is very rare. You must continue to seek it by searching every loaf of bread until the promised bread appears!

She looks like she is soothing the bread like a baby...

I totally know that feeling.

I'm still searching that specific book full of "fairy" tales I had as a kid. Most tales were more brutal than Hänsel&Gretel and the like, but I loved it. Only remember that "The Tinderbox" and possibly "Jack and the Beanstalk" were in it. I know we never sold the book and search through my parents attic a few times a year and have yet to find it. I would already have bought it, but can't find it anywhere.

Another thing is a movie where a small kid gets electrocuted in a water puddle at the beginning. It was on a VHS a friend lend me to watch "Army of Darkness" which he recorded.
Always thought it said "American Gothic" or something like that, but I can't find it. I don't even want to watch it, I just want to know which movie it is^^

 easysauce wrote:

where the supermarket stocks hot dogs and hot dog buns in equal ratio packages.

Actually, you can now get hot dogs and buns in equal packaging now!!

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 easysauce wrote:

where the supermarket stocks hot dogs and hot dog buns in equal ratio packages.

Actually, you can now get hot dogs and buns in equal packaging now!!

You lie! take that back!

 Mr. Burning wrote:

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 easysauce wrote:

where the supermarket stocks hot dogs and hot dog buns in equal ratio packages.

Actually, you can now get hot dogs and buns in equal packaging now!!

You lie! take that back!

No lies!!! I've bought the stuff myself this past summer!!!

Just because your countries are silly, and haven't "gotten with the times" don't hate the messenger

Have had issues like this all the time... lots of concussions over here.

 easysauce wrote:
All the time in fact

I have a recurring dream,

where the supermarket stocks hot dogs and hot dog buns in equal ratio packages.

then I wake up to the nightmare that is reality and



PS pilsbury toaster strudel is basically what you are looking for

I found the equal hot dog bun to hot dog ratio! It was only at one Safeway in this little town, but they sold 8 hot dogs and 8 hot dog buns! It was amazing.


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The most distinct one I can remember was a top down Gauntlet-style Jesus game. I don't remember, but it was like Adventures of Jesus or something. I think it came on a floppy disk, but you shot snakes or something. It was like my first introduction to videogames

Eight buns to eight hot dog's.PIC'S!!!!

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
My wife.
I'm pretty sure she exists, I see her every day, but it still defies all logic that I still managed to find a woman willing to marry me.

Have my exalt.

I'm pretty sure I was once sane. I might be misremembering, however.

The Shadows of the Empire movie. I saw it in FAOSchwartz in Chicago, 1995 or 1996. I recognize it wasn't made by Lucasfilm, but it exists. Nobody believes me, I've seen it pop up on eBay once, but can't even find an illegal copy online. Very mysterious.

I was 11 years old, dammit, but I still remember the exact place (and year) I saw it!

I know this because when I destroyed their ships, blood and organic matter would spray outward.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
The Shadows of the Empire movie. I saw it in FAOSchwartz in Chicago, 1995 or 1996. I recognize it wasn't made by Lucasfilm, but it exists. Nobody believes me, I've seen it pop up on eBay once, but can't even find an illegal copy online. Very mysterious.

I was 11 years old, dammit, but I still remember the exact place (and year) I saw it!

I think they made a nintendo 64 game by that same name, although it's a legit video game, unsure about if a movie like that exists though.

An amazing dinosaur game where you hunted them. It was only on apple computers and probably14 years ago. I remember this amazing shooter and can not find it for the life of me.

Incognito15 wrote:
An amazing dinosaur game where you hunted them. It was only on apple computers and probably14 years ago. I remember this amazing shooter and can not find it for the life of me.

The only thing I can find like that is Nanosaur. If that's not it, can you provide any more details?

Watched an anime with my dead when i was a kid about pirates on an island, style somewhat like the gatchaman series in Japan, cute pigs and stuff. Have been looking for that anime for a long time.

There was a scene in the Dune book by Frank Herbert, that i was sure that it was in the movie, but it was only in my mind!

Incognito15 wrote:
An amazing dinosaur game where you hunted them. It was only on apple computers and probably14 years ago. I remember this amazing shooter and can not find it for the life of me.

Oh hell yes! I remember that! You played as a dinosaur and had to recover eggs before the extinction event wiped them all out.