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And what was the deal with that "adult burger" idea, can't even remeber the name, just that the marketing campaign managed to alianate kids and adults by insulting them both.  If you were a kid you were told that it wasn't a place for kids anymore to enjoy, if you were an adult you got to feel stupid cause you had been eating kid food.  
Dumb!
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That was pretty stupid. Think about it....kid food? adult food? dont we pretty much eat the same stuff. I mean, unless its in a jar that says Gerber then Ill eat it...and even still I LOVE the Gerber baby fruit. lol...

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I was thinking of that when I started reading your post.  This is soooooo stupid!  I mean, what do you do?  Are you supposed to eat it minus dressing, or are you supposd to put it in there and shake it to get it all wet?  But you still have to use a fork; I don't think dumping lettuce pieces down your mouth works too well!  So it's not like it's a great "fast" food idea!  Duh!   ???
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I once had it and I thought this invention was neat but It's really stupid the way you have dressing in plastic and just pour it on and shake the darn cup till you get the dressing mixed in.I was wondering,where's my croutons and bacon bits? HUH? ;D :) -howard-

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I just remembered "TUBBLE BUBBLE"!!  It was bubble gum that you squeezed from a tube.  I just found some at an old candy store today!   :D
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something like toothpaste. I liked that kind of bubblegum.

Howard

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The "Adult Burger" after the DLT was the Arch Deluxe -- specially seasoned beef patty, with a secret sauce, on a potato bread bun... And they kept it a secret for almost a year, but they'd mention it but not what it was. I think I was the only kid who liked them.

The "monster cereals" are back, Count Chocula was the last to be brought back... they we're "too violent and amoral" for children

anyone remember the Nintendo fad... there were the little jelly candies, and pastas, and even cereal with the catch phrase "Nintendo. It's a cereal now!" to the beat and tune of the underground Super Mario Levels.

and Zotz! candy... they were intensely sour little white wormy looking things... no one else seems to remember them, then they made a different kind that was a candy with the white stuff inside.

Fruit Roll-Ups were big...

and Slimer Green Kool-Aid... or if you got your kool-aid in the little boxes, it was the before mentioned Ecto-Cooler. And the green Kool-Aid was big. As was color change Kool-Aid, which is re-released now.
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Speaking of stuff to eat and drink from the 80's, does anyone else remember Apple Slice?  I had one once and it was great, then they stopped making it a day later.

<sigh>

JHC-inator
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WOW - Apple Slice was one of favorites!  I was sad when it left.  I worked at Sav-On Drugs during the '80s and was privy to all the sodas that came out.  One favorite of mine was Nesbitt's Cream Soda. YUM.  Another was 7UP Gold.  Anyone remember that?  It was a spice-flavored soda that was sooooooo good.  I also remember when Coke did a special series of 16oz., Max Headroom cans.  And does anyone remember the Pepsi "SEX" cans?

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If you are doing 80's food, there is one thing I have not seen mentioned yet, that is mandatory:
New Coke:  This is long gone, kind of like a Pepsi-Coke combination.
Pepsi Free:  Caffeine-free diet Pepsi.  Memorable from the first Back To The Future movie, but unless you were around at the time, you would not get the reference.
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i was about to mention the new coke! glad you remember the back to the future pepsi ad. I saw the movie when it was at the theater and they had a competition that if we filled a form saying which scene Pepsi appears, we would get back to the future souvenirs (t-shirts, stickers etc) as well pepsi.
There was also grape FANTA, it was my fave.

Ok, considering that I'm from Brazil, i can't add much stuff about prepackaged foods, cereals, candies etc, we did pretty much everything there back then, of course with some multinationals, so probably we had same products withe different names... but i never ate much junk back then.
The only splurging was often visits to the awesome mcdonald (hey, i was a kid, ok?) that just arrived in my neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro. It was in front of my school!

anyway, there were other 80s typical foods there too. "prato de verão" which was a plate full of tropical fruits pieces and one or two slices of turkey ham and cheese rolled in a fancy way. It was really cool. Also the sporty, fitness era was very IN so we had loads of tropical smoothies concotions, things like carrot, beets and orange juice, well you get the picture! but the most popular of all these 80s foods in Brazil would be "sanduíche natural", or natural sandwich, that was the super fitness meal around, sold specially at the beaches. It was whole grain sliced bread, served with a crazy salad usually made with mayo, yogurt, tuna and some veggies, i can't remember the mix, but it was a success, very good!

Another fad was selling frozen foods to business people or catering for parties. My grandma had a friend that worked with that and it sold well.

Talking about business people, didn't everyone remember that the super IN food was sushi? all yuppies movies or articles I have mention that one!! even on Madonna's movie "desperately seeking susan", there is a cab driver that talks about it. Also i think it's the coolest when she eats Cheez Doodles (sp?) or her roomate eats Doritos. Those chips were new for us brazilians, back then.

Thanks for the memories!

http://x-entertainment.com/downloads/http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/583.html
(this website has a lot of stuff about 80's foods)

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Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs.
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Oh how I loved Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs.  I remember being in the hospital for about a week when I was about 8, and my Mum went and bought me some Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs - and some Kirks "Kandy" red creaming soda.