20 Beloved ’80s Foods That No Longer Exist

Few issues on this world maintain a extra highly effective connection to reminiscence than meals. The scent of a well-recognized dish or snack alone can deliver you again to childhood. Working example: I don’t even have to style what’s inside; simply a have a look at a Kellogg’s Enjoyable Pak — the plastic-wrapped assortment of eight mini packing containers of cereal — and I’m again at my grandmother’s home, the place she all the time had one useful anytime my brother and I slept over.

Kellogg’s nonetheless makes the Enjoyable Pak, and it even nonetheless has the identical assortment of cereals. (Apple Jacks, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, Cocoa Crispies, and Corn Pops, when you’re questioning.) However many traditional ’80s meals — a number of the most-popular and most-advertised of the last decade — have gone the way in which of the dodo chicken. (Or perhaps the Fruit Stripe Zebra is the higher metaphor right here? RIP, Fruit Stripe Zebra.)

Typically fashionable objects vanished from grocery retailer cabinets as a result of they had been impressed by a traditional ’80s franchise — say Star Wars or Ghostbusters — that began to lose its luster because the years handed. In different circumstances, the corporate that produced them went out of enterprise, or had been purchased by a rival company with a rival product. Or typically tastes merely modified with the instances. twenty first century youngsters don’t essentially need the identical junk meals as youngsters from many years in the past. (I can affirm this myself; my youngsters barely bat a watch at these Enjoyable Paks.)

Listed here are 20 ’80s meals we want they nonetheless made — even when we may eat them only one extra time.