Edible 80's

My 16-year-old daughter has a new interest in The Ramones and The Clash. She also has a huge Ferris Bueller poster in her room.

It’s odd when the things of your past become the fascination of a new generation. I’m just glad she can’t get a hold of most of the food I ate in the 80’s.

Magic Shell Ice Cream Coating
Chocolate sauce that hardens into a shell on your ice cream. Tasted and looked like plastic.
McDonals’s McDLT
Strange attempt at a freshburger. They came in an odd styrofoam container that separated the meat from the lettuce and tomato to keep the hot side hot and the cold side cold.
California Coolers/Bartle & Jaymes
Wine coolers. Yes, in 2 litre bottles. Yes, with a fake id.
Astro-Pop
Cone shaped lollipop with three layers of flavor.
Five-Alive Juice
Mixed from concentrate, a five juice blend. It tasted like fruit punch.
King Vitamin
I was never allowed sugar cereals, even this one that was supposed to be “good for you” so I ate this at my friend Lori’s house.
New York Seltzer
We thought we were so healthy, so cool drinking seltzer with a hint of flavor. It was basically clear pop.
Fruzen Gladje
I think it was like frozen yoghurt or something. I just liked the name.
Giggles Cookies
Remember the Oreo-like cookies with the laughing faces? We used to pull them apart and stick them to the walls.
Hostess Puddin’ Pies
Where are those puddin’ pies now, I could really go for one.
SizzleLean
“Move over bacon, now there’s something leaner!”
Steak-Ums
Flat, frozen meat-sheets in a box. I never really liked these, but I think my sister did.
Pop Shoppe, Rondo, and Shasta (I want a thrill, I want wow, I want it all, I want it now! I want a pop…I want a ….Shasta!)
Wrapples
I forced these on my own kids one year. It’s the sheet of caramel that you wrap over an apple, jam a popsicle stick in the top, and bake in the oven for easy caramel-apples. Chewy, eeewwy, and lame.