This Curse I Suffer

My precious....

Fucking Panera.

I've known for a long time that I'm cursed.  The curse of disappearing food favorites.  Baked Lays had the best chip ever to be made.  Southwestern ranchflavor.  These chips were out of this world, and I freaking loved them.  They were doomed to meet the fate my curse brings.  You won't find southwestern ranch Baked Lays anymore.  THEY DISCONTINUED THEM.
 

You wiley corn chowder, you!

So, Panera.  They're pros at this.  Their best soup is by far the most elusive: the amazing corn chowder.  How about replacing that broccoli cheese soup that tastes like baby food with the corn chowder of my dreams?

RIP asiago roast beef

At least the soup makes a rare appearance.  The worst, though, are their sandwiches.  My first love was the asiago roast beef sandwich.  First, they did away with roast beef altogether and replaced it with steak.  I should have seen this as the first sign.  It wasn't long after the steak switcheroo that the sandwich vanished completely.  I mourned and moved on... to the sierra turkey sandwich.  We went to Panera yesterday, and guess what is no longer on the menu.  Yup.  My beloved sierra turkey.  Fuckers.

You'll be missed, sierra turkey

I have tales of my curse occurring in other restaurants, as well.  It's a dismal culinary fate.  I will never understand why anyone remakes good movies and why anyone discontinues the best menu items.... but it will continue.