Adam Richman Is Tracking Down All Your Favorite ‘80s Childhood Snacks

Yahoo News! ^ | Fri, February 25, 2022 | Felicia LaLomia

[nickcarraway]

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President Ronald Reagan also cleared the way for advertising to be directed at children for the first time, Richman noted, which led to a boom of ads for sugary cereals with cartoon characters as mascots. “The shows that kids love began manifesting themselves in foods and treats, and we started seeing Mr. T's cereal, E.T. cereal and Pac Man cereal, and Donkey Kong candies,” he said.

An increase in divorce rates and the explosion of women in the workplace also had a huge impact on the decade’s cuisine. “Suddenly, women had opportunities that they didn't have a decade prior,” Richman said. Many households suddenly had two working parents, which, combined with the rise of the microwave, greatly impacted dinnertime. “Foods that were easy for latchkey kids to make or easy for parents [to make became] prominent—and they weren't always the most healthy thing.”

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“I think [‘80s food] gets unfairly maligned because people forget the historical context,” he reflected. “If you just want to see really insanely delicious food, we've got you. If you want to learn a little bit about U.S. history and U.S. culinary history, we've got you. We talk about the commercials, the fashion, the movies, the television shows.”

[Chode]

i prefer BlackJack and Beemans

[Bob434]

lol i just bought some blackjack gun and clove gun for Christmas stocking stuffers this year

[alexander_busek]

President Ronald Reagan also cleared the way for advertising to be directed at children for the first time, Richman noted, which led to a boom of ads for sugary cereals with cartoon characters as mascots.

Writer obviously has zero familiarity with tv commercials of the 1960s.

We kids born in the 50s all grew up with Capt. Crunch, Sugar Bear, and Co.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRiSnAXhXD8

Regards,

[Trillian]

Bring back PB Max!

[Daffynition]

I still have my Quaker Oats Company deed for a square inch of land in the Canadian Yukon.

Around the mid-50s, I fought with my brother about which one of us would get the coupon to send in the box top for the deed.

Klondike Big Inch Land Promotion

**In 1956, there was an Uncle Scrooge McDuck comic book story inspired by the Big Inch Land promotion. When Scrooge visits his square inch of land in Texas, a prairie dog with engine oil on its feet leads Scrooge to believe there is oil under his land. Donald Duck and his kids buy cereal boxes around the country to obtain the neighboring square inches so Scrooge can drill for the oil that wasn’t there.**

**Starting on January 1955, 93 newspapers across the United States ran advertisements that read "Get a real deed to one square inch of land in the Yukon gold rush country" and, "You'll actually own one square inch of Yukon land".[1] The promotion was tied to the Sergeant Preston of the Yukon television show which Quaker Oats was sponsoring at the time. **

[Ikeon]

The writer is clueless about the BK chicken sandwich. That came out in the 70’s.

[GaltAdonis]

The earliest 'sugary childhood snack' I remember were
'Chuckles' jelly candies from the late '60s - about 1967.
My father would buy a package of them for me to be shared
by us after Sunday dinner if I was well-behaved and ate
all of my broccoli - or at least 'enough' of it. I was 3 years old.

Dad would have been 96 now. He only made it to 89.
I miss him.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Poorly researched and poorly written article.

It sounds like a boring ladies cocktail discussion: “ohhh did you know microwaves were available in the 80’s? Yes those salty TV dinners and we ate cereal based on cartoon characters. Wasn’t it Reagan’s fault the food was unhealthy? Yep those terrible conservatives.”

[Chode]

from online?

[Bob434]

No our dollar store had them

[Chode]

in checkout?

i’ll have to go in again

[Bob434]

Yes, right at the counter. I think though they were pretty stale- thr clove gum was pk, but the blackjack didn’t keep its flavor long at all.

[jimmygrace]

I voted for Quake over Quisp because it was crunchier and held up to milk. Thus began my lifelong pursuit of not getting what I want at the ballot box.

[nesnah]

Nice story. Thanks for sharing.

[nesnah]

I voted for Quake over Quisp because it was crunchier and held up to milk.

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It must’ve had Clark Griswold’s non-nutrative cereal varnish.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I miss banana flips. Also vanilla flips.

[GaltAdonis]

"...Quake over Quisp..."

As a kid I picked the crunch berries out of Captain Crunch
Crunch Berry cerial and ate them first.

And looky here: Crunch Berries are NOW multi-colored! Wow!
Back in my day they were all pink!