What happened to our old friends Merita Sweet Sixteen doughnuts? They are now Hostess Sweet Sixteen. Not good. Visit our main site BrandlandUSA.com for an in depth report on the issue entitled We’re Mad About our Sweet Sixteen Doughnuts.MORE HERE

I’d like some Jiffy mix pumpkin pie please for Thanksgiving! Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com for in depth stories. Ideas? Leave a comment or email editor Garland PollardMORE HERE

  The classic calculator of the 1970s. Still works. Love Texas Instruments. Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com for in depth stories. Ideas? Leave a comment or email editor Garland PollardMORE HERE

  Once the brand of the Friedman Marks company of Marshall Street in Richmond, Virginia. It was around until the mid-1990s. It was a great brand, and could have been Jos A. Bank. Or not. Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com for in depth stories. Ideas? Leave a comment or emailMORE HERE

A great classic brand of cashmere. What decade, we are not sure.   Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com for in depth stories. Ideas? Leave a comment or email editor Garland PollardMORE HERE

The Orient-Express company is its own revived brand, and part of its operations now operate a gift shop with commemorative items from its trains. Here pictured a British Pullman crest, taken from the ones on the outside of the company’s carriages. See their gift shop at www.orient-expressgifts.com.MORE HERE

Yes, we had a reader ask us what the heck happened to Tickle Deodorant. So we have added it to our Facebook Application called Brands to Bring Back from BrandlandUSA.com You can find your favorite dead brand, and send a bit of it to a friend! Give ’em a tickle!MORE HERE

For lovers of Drake’s, that cake started by Newman E. Drake in 1988, we worried that the name Hostess has attached itself to Drake’s. Devil Dogs, Yodels, Coffee Cake, Yankee Doodles and Ring Dings can only be associated with Drake’s. Brooklynites need to protest! Drake’s is a Brooklyn brand, throughMORE HERE