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Mini-dirve: Fave 80's food?

Ecto Cooler, Pixie Sticks, and Pudding Pops.

Outing myself as a whippersnapper here, but my "fave 80's food" was probably cheerios on my high chair tray with an apple juice bottle chaser. And popsicles.

And anyone else have the problem with Lunchables where you'd beg your parents to buy them, and you'd had your eye on the pizza or taco one (*shudder*) but mom and/or dad came home with the crappy "build your own cracker sandwich" one? Cause that happened to me several times.

Oooooooo...bad timing on my part there. My bad!

Please don't shank me...

Favorite 80's Food: WWF Superstars of Wrestling Ice Cream Bars. They were the tits.

Now Sarah Palin...I was just reading flyers.nhl.com this morning and I officially hate AND fear you now. I can't be in my seat for the first ten minutes of the Flyers seaons opener this saturday because your darn-tootin self is dropping the puck because of the "Ultiomate Hockey Mom" search. Fuck you. Fuck you in your moustache. I sincerely hope my hockey team doesn't catch your severe case of 'Stupid.' Stupid is just like Aids you know...exceot no penis or vagini are needed.

Kolby, I had a Frankenstuff in 1985 that I swear was filled with some kind of pus. That was also the day I stopped eating meat. I'm too neurotic and lazy to be a good vegetarian, but I still can't eat beef or pork.

I think I need that Dismember-Me Plush Zombie doll. I already have the zombie brain gelatin mold, but since I have issues with gelatin I can only use it for my Halloween and birthday parties.

At least she's not throwing out the first pitch to tonight's Phillies game, PissBoy. I'd be forced to wash my eyes with Hoegaarden.

B-Slim...I also call bullshit. Gushers...Barely an 80's stable. They came out in like 1989 at best.

pq - is that what they were called? Frankenstuffs? I know there was Frankenchili, but I didn't know the cheese ones were called that as well. You have no idea how much weight you just lifted off my shoulders - I would have wondered all day what those damn things were called. Yes, all day.

Gushers...Barely an 80's stable. They came out in like 1989 at best.

Posted by: PissBoy at October 9, 2008 12:45 PM

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Yup. this is true. I remember the commercials started coming on strong in 93 thru 95. I'm also questioning the Capri Sun addition, if anything the 80's was the Mountain Dew era.

Hell yes to the Frankenstuff.

FUCK yes to pasta salads. Boil in the bag created a new world of goodness. It was morning in America.

No, seriously, that stuff is so goddamn good.

(And let me briefly witness for Tostitos' Monterey Queso dip.)

Motherfucking Capri Sun though. Sure, it was a better drink than what was in the box, but the packaging just dared you to fail and have it piss all over your shirt.

I saw the video of the "cover flap" (I just can't out and out use the word "flap") and it provided much astonished levity. Then I watched the video of the old guy being hassled by his Sunrise FL condo board about hotdogging on his Segway, and "the girlfriend" who thinks her man shouldn't be hassled like that (which all made me almost homesick) and then the woman in Russia living with 150 cats, which was sorta cute and completely frightening. I recommend looking those up in Yahoo news.

But there were a few brief magical times when my parents would get me a Lunchable, only to hear from their wonderful daughter that it was the wrong KIND of Lunchable.

Slightly off-topic, but that's how The Markets and The Investors are making me feel, even more than they have all the rest of this year. Is it just me? Bitchy kids who shit on any kind of favor you try to do for them? "Yeah, thanks mom, I'll reeeally look 'cool' with that. Pfffft."

Of course, secretly I'm hoping for at least a little bit more of a drop so I can get fresh pictures of a guy with his hand pressed to his face. It just never, ever gets old.

See, I hate when people complain about formulaic biopics then harp on non-traditional biopics for being different. Case in point: La Vie en Rose. Wow. Editing a biopic to have a greater emotional arc like a strictly fictional film? Yet most people think it's all about Cotillard and too different to actually be a good film. Or what of Marie Antionette? People talked shit about that for having a modern soundtrack in a period biopic. But otherwise it was very conventional, possibly even too historically styled in execution to feel like a biopic.

So which is it: Biopics suck because they are too formulaic, or biopics suck because they break tradition?

Frankly, I'm waiting for the Janice Dickinson biopic and can't BELIEVE Hollywood hasn't jumped on adapting her three books into the single greatest (and by greatest, I mean campiest), film ever made.

My high school had the world's best curly fries. EVER. I lived off of them and chewy Spree.

PissBoy's Top 10 80's Staple Foods

PB Maxx
7-Up Gold
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pies
Nintendo Cereal
Little Caesars Pizza (yes they are still around today...but who DOESN'T remember Pan! Pan! Pizza! Pizza!)
Dominoes Pizza (Purely for the Noid)
Giggles Cookies
Dunkaroos
(MOTHEREFFING!) Crunch Gator Potatoe Chips
Kudos Granola Bars

The list on serious eats reads more like a "Foods we remember from 1990 when we, and the other writers of SeriousEats were4 years old...but we want to try to be nostalgic so here's our best stab at it.
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PS.... They were 4 years old in 1991.

Anyone know if the "That One" merchandise sales go to Obama's campaign or is it just some t-shirt guy making a quick buck (no offense t-shirt guys, but every dollar counts right now)?
I couldn't tell from going on the site. The official logo is used but there's no disclaimer on campaign funds as one usually finds.

Capri Suns were out long before the '80s. And they are still around.

The worst part of them isn't the superhuman stabbing accuracy you need, though. The worst part is the flimsy little cellophane straw covers -- they aren't unique to Capri Suns, all juice-box-drinks have them -- but the Capri Sun version seems to be extra static-y.

I buy Capri Sun because it's cheap, and twice a week, I host a meeting of ravenous seventh-graders at my home. Their 15-minute after school snack costs on the average of $10-$15 for five kids. Not a lot, but I'm footing the bill twice a week, so I try to keep the costs down. And after every goddamn meeting, those stupid filmy semi-ephemeral Capri Sun straw wrappers mate and multiply. They stick to your shoes. They find their way into your car. Even when I personally collect every wrapper, they form a conspiracy and somehow, some way, manage to escape from the trash can. I find them in my purse, in my hair, and even in my bra. I don't understand it. It must be some miracle permutation on cellophane, and if I could just solve that mystery, I think we'd have our plastics recycling problem licked.

I saw one of my facebook friends had Patton O on his list, and I had just heard Patton on The Sound of Young America saying something like "Send me girls with Enid Coleslaw glasses", so I messaged him that I did, and he should friend me. He did! I was all excited until I noticed I was one of 5,000. His status updates are great, though.

Combos should be a food group in and of itself. If it wouldn't completely ruin my health, I'd consider dining on those and those alone. If they could come up with a breakfast Combo, terrorism would cease to exist. I'm certain of it...

Oh man, I still miss Jell-o Pudding Pops. The day they stopped selling them was a sad day indeed.

I didn't stop eating Fruit Rollups until a year ago, when my fiance finally convinced me that they didn't have any nutritional benefit. Which, honestly, wasn't why I was eating them to begin with, but I guess I should start eating like a grown-up now.

Kolby

I think you mean Kudos never expire, those bars she eats are still from the 80's.

I had a boyfriend in HS (mid-80's) that invited me to his house for dinner one night. It was a pretty decent meal with chicken and some sort of vegetable. I ate it and, because I was still hungry, asked for more. He finally had to admit that he served me a Chicken a l'Orange Lean Cuisine and onle had one for each of us. IIRC, he thought that after dinner sex would satisfy me the rest of the way. It didn't.

OK favorite 80s foods...here we go:

Pudding Pops
Now & Laters
Pepsi Light
Sizzlean
Zero Candy Bars (which are older, but remind me of my childhood in the 80s)
Hostess Pudding Pies
Peanut Butter Boppers (I lived for these)
Chef Boyardee Tic Tac Toe's

Hell, it's no wonder half my friends are diabetics now...

he thought that after dinner sex would satisfy me the rest of the way. It didn't.

Posted by: elsie at October 9, 2008 1:56 PM

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
BAM!

Koala Yummies (now called Koala March)
Fun Dip
Dunkaroos
Pixie Stix

I ate lunchables all the time, but the cheese was so nasty. And I ate Quaker Granola bars by the gross.

Umm... I can't see her whiskers.

Pixy stix were around prior to the 1980's. I remember eating them at my brother's Little League games in the 1970's. The concession stand was the only place that sold them at the time. Then they expanded to convenience stores.

Yeah, I loved Steak'um and Sizzlean. My mom worked full time, so she loved processed and convenience foods for us kids. My brother and I ate a LOT of unhealthy food.

Sorry for the multiple posts. Damn work computer is so slow.

For some reason all I could think about when looking at that Vanity Fair picture was how much I'd love to be in the middle of a Matt Damon and Ewan McGregor sandwich. Reow...

Fruit Roll-ups never went out of style! I still eat them all the time . . .

80s candy: Sweettarts (before they fucked up the flavors), Tart n Tinys (before they were candy-coated), and Wacky Wafers (sadly discontinued long ago).

I call bullshit on the Palin-mustache hate.

There are SO many reasons to dislike her.

Setting back feminism 50 years is just the beginning. Allowing herself to be used as a gimmick. Forcing her daughter to get married. Deliberately lying just to get that kernel of thought into some moron's head. Inciting violence against another candidate. Using sex to sell. Insisting on answering the question even when she has NO IDEA what the issues are. I could go on for days.

Concentrate on the ISSUES, people, not the petty bullshit that masks reality.

I don't see a mustache in that picture. In fact, mine is darker than that (yeah, I need to bleach it - fuck off). She does have the BALLS to agree to be shot (camera) close-up, without photoshopping. That's real, much more so than so many other cover pix. So forget about how she LOOKS, and protest for what she DOES. Worrying about her hair, her mustache, her suits, it all feeds into the claim of sexism, and again masks the frightening reality of her BELIEFS.

I'd hit that

late as usual, but: 80's food

a block of tooth mangling salt water taffy (I think...it was a golden, hard syrupy deflated sponge) in an unmarked cellophane package, sold at the hockey rink where my brother played pee-wee.

although my kids have never had it, for some reason I can't fathom, they do bathtub 'recipes' that involve salt water taffy and something called 'pudge' (or maybe it's 'putch', but that's even more abstract). I kinda wish the recipe results could be tested...I use my imagination, but I'm old I guess.