:-X

  New Coke always comes to mind.  Didn't bother me much but it sure pissed alot of people off..!

  I don't think C3POs cereal went over very well.  Never tried them but they looked like figure '8' Cheerios...

  One '80s cereal I did like was Donutz (the powdered kind).  I dunno, do they still make those..?

  Also Mac & Don's used to serve these d-e-e-e-licious danishes in the morning - Mc Danish, or something.  They came with different fillings, apple, raspberry, etc.  Raspberry was my fave and I'd talk my dad into letting me have, like, three of them.  At some point they disappeared from the menu...

Whatever happened to Pop Rocks, do they still have them?  You put them in your mouth and they popped like popcorn.  They were fun, but nazimoms complained about children being in danger of death from carbon dioxide causing stomach explosions.  ::)

Whatever happened to Pop Rocks, do they still have them?  You put them in your mouth and they popped like popcorn.  They were fun, but nazimoms complained about children being in danger of death from carbon dioxide causing stomach explosions.   ::)


It disappeared for a while but I had some recently.  I can't recall where from exactly but it might have been in the party bag my son brought home from the National Space Centre.

I think it was called Space Dust here

Garbage Pail Kids, folks! They got banned from many public schools, not for the (cardboard) quality of the chewing gum in the package, but for the comically illustrated trading cards included in the package depicting children in questionable situations or manners of taste (Pockmarked Peter, Dirty Danny, Poisoned Penny, etc.)

Big League Chew was controversial, too, because it was made to resemble the kind of shredded tobacco that pro baseball players presumably chawed from on the field.

Some of my memories here might actually be from the late '70s---

Remember Honeycombs cereal, with the kids from the  "Honeycomb Club"? Some evil person was always trying to steal their cereal (which seemed to be an ongoing problem of this era, problematic for the Trix Cereal Kids and Lucky the Leprechaun!) In each commercial, they actually measured a cereal nugget with a ruler to show how large it was...The song:"Honeycomb's big! Yeah yeah yeah! It's not small, no no no! Honeycomb's got--a big big bite! Big big taste for a big big bite!"... Like Captain Crunch, it was a surefire oral pallette scraper!  ;D

Granola Clusters, "nature's answer to candy." --Granola bars with a nougat center. Yum!

Remember Marathon, the long chewy nougat/caramel/chocolate stick, the favorite snack of cowboy "Marathon John"?

Whatever happened to Pop Rocks, do they still have them?  You put them in your mouth and they popped like popcorn.  They were fun, but nazimoms complained about children being in danger of death from carbon dioxide causing stomach explosions.   ::)


  Heck yeah, I remember Pop Rocks..!  As I recall, the offshoot of the stomach explosions legend was that Mikey, the kid from the Life cereal commercial, actually died from ingesting Pop Rocks with soda pop...

  Zelda cereal, I do remember the cereal but I never tried it...

  Astro Pops - check..!  8)

Garbage Pail Kids, folks! They got banned from many public schools, not for the (cardboard) quality of the chewing gum in the package, but for the comically illustrated trading cards included in the package depicting children in questionable situations or manners of taste (Pockmarked Peter, Dirty Danny, Poisoned Penny, etc.)



Garbage Pail Kids, the horrors! Heck, I've seen a rebirth of them at Comic Stores not too long ago.

What about Hostes Pudding Pies. Man I loved those. Used to run down to the Quick-e-mart everday after school to get one.

What about Hostes Pudding Pies. Man I loved those. Used to run down to the Quick-e-mart everday after school to get one.


Me too.

What about Hostes Pudding Pies. Man I loved those. Used to run down to the Quick-e-mart everday after school to get one.


They were quite tasty.

Remember Astro Pops, anyone? They were like a yellow green and red icycle sucker with a wax base, that if you sucked on it long enough, it would sharpen to a point like an ice pic.


I liked Astro Pops because they got pointy and you couldn't open you mouth if you bit into them.

However, the last time I saw one the wide base was inverted and the pointy end held the stick. Apparently some kid stabbed himself with one.

Thanks for reminding me of c3p0s cereal. I just relaized that on the back of the box, it had a cut out mask of c3po and I used it as the cover to my science project on robots.



  Check out this funny X-Entertainment entry.  Apparently, he bought an unopened box of C3POs on eBay just to see how the sweet, crunchy, interstellar goodness held up over the years...

  Twenty year old cereal - it's NOT just for breakfast, anymore... :P

Mr.T cereal and Pro Star cereal are what I remember most.

Also did anyone else notice that the gum that was supplied with garbage pail kids, baseball cards, and Return of the Jedi Trading Cards,
was such an exceptionally low quality that it flaked into pieces like a broken leaf, lost taste and became hard almost immediately.

For 25 cents they couldn't have put something more along the lines of juicy fruit, quality.


  The "gum" in the wax packs was for olfactory gratification only.  Like a thin, rectangular air freshener... :P

I remember that gum too!  ;D

That was gum?!? Damn, I tiled my bathroom with that stuff...

Oh wow were there a lot of them.  Here are a few that I remember.

M&M Royals.  These were like Plain M&Ms, but they had mint flavored chocolate.  I always loved them, and wish they were still around.

Bar None.  A tripple-dose of Chocolate.  Chocolate creme filling between chocolate wafers, covered in chocolate.  1,200 calories just looking at one.

Mac Tonight Meal.  This is the true origin of the "Value Meal" that we have today.  It lasted just about a year, and was a huge success.

Astronaut Ice Cream.  Who can forget freeze-dried ice cream?  For some reason, eating a hard warm brick was not the same for me.

Cherry Sodas.  For a while in the 80's, you could get almost any kind of soda in Cherry.  Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, RC Cola, even Root Beer.

Chocolate Covered Payday.  What's better then a salty sticky peanut bar?  Why, a salty sticky peanut bar covered with chocolate!

O'Boisies.  Now I lived in Boise for many years.  But as long as I lived there, I never saw chips made from potato skins.

Astronaut Ice Cream? I had that once!

I used to collect E.T. cards when the movie came out.  The gum in those was actually pretty good. 

Damn, Mr. T cereal was so good!!

Does anyone remember the Ice Cream Cone cereal?

Damn, Mr. T cereal was so good!!

Does anyone remember the Ice Cream Cone cereal?


  I remember it from the commercials...

  General Mills supposedly reintroduced this cereal a couple of years ago...

Bar None.  A tripple-dose of Chocolate.  Chocolate creme filling between chocolate wafers, covered in chocolate.  1,200 calories just looking at one.


That was one of my favorite candy bars. I was bummed when they stopped making it.

"Tofifay, it's too good for kids!"

"You can roll a Rolo--to your friend--it's chocolate-coverd caramel from start to end!" b ;D

"Tofifay, it's too good for kids!"

"You can roll a Rolo--to your friend--it's chocolate-coverd caramel from start to end!" b ;D


Rolos are still good where you can find them!

Tofifay was my mother's fave candy, until she introduced it to me! It sucked that you would only get four pieces!!!

Rolos are still good where you can find them!



Rolos are still readily available here in NY.

Mug O' Lunch!  Kind of like mini hamburger helper you put in a mug with water and microwaved, it was actually pretty good.

I liked when all bubble gum wasn't non-stick.  Wasn't it Hubba Bubba that first claimed to be non stick?  I think it's just rubbery.  Now all bubble gum is like this and they don't blow bubbles for crap!

Tofifay was my mother's fave candy, until she introduced it to me! It sucked that you would only get four pieces!!!


Somewhere in the 80s, someone got the idea that adults don't like big candy bars. What poppycock! Incidentally, I never touched a Tofifay...never liked nuts. Whoever believed that chocolate could be IMPROVED with nuts mixed in should be shot.

Somewhere in the 80s, someone got the idea that adults don't like big candy bars. What poppycock! Incidentally, I never touched a Tofifay...never liked nuts. Whoever believed that chocolate could be IMPROVED with nuts mixed in should be shot.


haha! This one was really good because it had hazelnuts (which I love) in it.

Bar None. 
That was one of my favorite candy bars. I was bummed when they stopped making it.


I loved them as well.  I am still a chocoholic, and loved them up until the early 1990's, when they changed the formula (I seem to remember they replaced the chocolate wafers with vanilla, and caramel filling instead of chocolate).  It just was not the same, and I stopped eating them.

Whatever happened to Pop Rocks, do they still have them?  You put them in your mouth and they popped like popcorn.  They were fun, but nazimoms complained about children being in danger of death from carbon dioxide causing stomach explosions.   ::)


I was looking up some info for another thread and spotted these!

The one thing I remember having a lot back then was real popcorn...you know with a popcorn popper, not a microwave. Those were the days....

I also enjoyed Lemon Heads. The Big ones!

you forgot the taco bell combo meals, those didn't even last a year. i know this because i used to work at one. if you wanted to make the pizzazz pizza taste better, you had to ask them to make it with only i shell. hey, don't forget the taco bell seafood salad and the chicken salad...i can't remember the name of that though

Whatever happened to Pop Rocks, do they still have them?  You put them in your mouth and they popped like popcorn.  They were fun, but nazimoms complained about children being in danger of death from carbon dioxide causing stomach explosions.  ::)
yes, they still make them

Burger had the salad in a pita or a platter concept.

Eat A Pita  Or A Platter.