Food from the eighties?

[oneontheway!]

Come on help me out what food do you remember from the eighties?

[Oneeyedvic]

Do you mean sweets like that orange dust powder that you put in your mouth and it sort of "banged"? Or do you mean food like fishfingers and chips? Cos I remember both from the 80s

[Lee Priest]

I remember eggs and ummmmmm Parsnips

[oneontheway!]

both really...

[1976]

How about Pacers? Those green and white stripey mints which came in a packet like Opal Fruits (now Starbursts - showing my age!!). Banjos, Cabannas, Spangles....where did they all go!

[natalie_1982]

Spangles were way before the eighties! I remeber rocket and kermit the frog ice lollies. Fish fingers and oven chips, those little round pizzas you buy about 10 in a bag like a tower, normally just cheese and tomato being famous cos that's what ninja turtles ate, anything over processed and probably regurgetated and slapped into another food product, turkey dinosaurs, smiley faces, micro pizzasa, chips, pizza rollas, etc. I might just remember these cos I was a kid in the 80's so I'm not sure if they're 80's food. Crisp and dry. Those piggy crisps that were hollow and in the shape of crisps, and fish and chip shaped crisps that were supposed to be nice but tasted like cardboard. Oh my God, what an unhealthy child I was.

[natalie_1982]

They weren't in the shape of crisps they were in the shape of pigs funnily enough.

[natalie_1982]

Tab Clear (clear coke) and sodastream machines

[natalie_1982]

Gummie bear jelly sweets. This is just me adding answers now isn't it?

[natalie_1982]

Ummmm.... still me ..... Sweetie necklaces and braclets (sometimes digital watches), that if you made a tiny bite in one side of the sweet you could ping them at your little brother and they stung.

[Oneeyedvic]

I just wanted to congratulate Natalie on making it to 2004 without having died from heart disease. ;-)

[natalie_1982]

LOL I think I should congratulate myself! For info tho, I'm very health conscious now! But it's no wonder I was such a chubby kid! Thanks mum and dad ;D Ooooh, I remember them changing the name from Marathon to Snickers so there's another. 80s food just reminds me of overprocessed crap tbh. Pot noodles, super noodles, instant mash, micro burgers, chips, pizzas, etc.

[OBonio]

Hedgehog flavoured crisps. Can't remember who made them now..

[Bob...]

Vesta Chow Mein

Quatro fruit drink

Birds Eye Steakburgers

Cresta "its frothy man"

Rancheo's

Fang's

Heinz Sponge pudding in a tin

TAB cola

[natalie_1982]

Lucky charms - cereal with marshmallow sweetie bits. McDonalds, I'd never really had fast food before the late 80's.

[Bob...]

Bar-6

Vimto

Toast Toppers

Blue Nun

Black Tower

Angel Delight

Texan

[oneontheway!]

Getting some great answers! Thanks all - can you believe the owner of Hedgehog Crisps got done under trade descriptions! Natalie's on a roll - you'll be lying in bed thinking of more! Don't stop now...

[natalie_1982]

There really were hedgehog flavoured crisps? I thought you were taking the michael. Wow...... Did anyone try them? What did they taste like? (please don't say hedgehog - it's not big and it's not clever).

[natalie_1982]

It's ok everyone, the hedgehog crisps were actually flavoured with pork fat. Not hedgehogs were harmed in the making of hedgehog crisps. Those 'eyeball' bubble gums you got from the ice cream man, and long tubes of bubble gum in different colours that went tacky really quickly. Also, I can't remember if they were chews or bubble gum but they (little 'millions' sized sweeties) came in like a baby sized milk carton and you could get tropical punch, strawberry milkshake, Cola etc.

[Bob...]

Revels

Galaxy Counters

Treets

Cadbury's Smash

Aztec

Amazin Raisin Bar

Big Wiz lollie

[natalie_1982]

Ok, it's still me.... lots of other people must remember stuff surely. (it's my first day back at work after my holiday and I can't get into it!) Bubble gum coming in lots of shapes and sizes, tapes, toothpaste like tubes. Those sweets that tasted lilke chalk I think they were called tib tabs or something and you had cartoon character heads on them. The sweets came in tiny packets and you filled a plastic tube with them, when you lifted or pushed the cartoon head the sweets came out the bottom.