In that regard, I remembered a clipping I'd saved from 1997. Well, I'd thrown the clipping away, but I soon found a version of it on the Internet from American Demographics. At one point, these brands were widely recognized and frequently purchased. Many of these ghost brands are still being sold. Ovaltine, for instance, has a new life as a hot chocolate alternative.
Topol toothpaste is still in existence.
I always thought of Tab as a beta model diet cola, the granddaddy of sugar-free soft drinks, now extinct. But as it turns out, people still drink it and even crave it. Look for it in your supermarket, right next to Fresca. Oh, and they have Samuel the Bear, a kind of handgun sock puppet. In the modern marketplace, death is just a state of mind.