Food of the Eighties, Products Beginning with F
I've been asked a couple of times for information about what food was specific to the 80s, so I've started a small list which I'm sure will grow pretty rapidly. Cereals of the 80s have their own page.
This list contains items that were around before and after the 80s, I'm looking for stuff that was still popular in the 80s. So this list will contain items that were around in the 70s, and maybe earlier if they were still popular.
Please note! Zima and clear colas were a 90s fad, not an 80s fad! I know it might seem like a long time ago, but that's only because they tasted so awful and were marketed so heavily. (Somehow, Zima still persists, though no one has determined why).
This page currently edited by: 80s Cheerleader. Past editor: Banasy
Fanta
Soda with an orange twist that originated before the 80's, now comes in a lemon flavor as well.
Fantastix
Very similiar to Funions, but were straight and came in two flavors, I think.
Fat Frog
An ice cream treat made by Good Humor that was in the shape of a frog with candy pieces for eyes and nose. It was soooo good!
Fiesta Tacos
Taco Bell in the 80s introduced some mini-tacos, maybe about half the size of the regular tacos. They were the same thing except smaller (and cuter), and they only cost a quarter.
Figurines
This was a wafer bar shaped like a granola bar (rectangle, thin) covered with a vanilla or chocolate coating and a filling similar to the coating. It was sort of like a Nutty Bar from Little Debbie.
Five Alive juice
I remember Five Alive juice from the early/mid 80's. Basically, a blend of 5 different fruit juices.
Fizzers
This is a flavored powder you could put in water or milk to change color and of course fizz,still sold in some stores.
Fizzy candy
Small squarish candies in a variety of flavours with fizzy stuff in the centre and came in strips with each one separate. I can't remember if fizzy candy is the actual name. They were as popular as Fun Dips and Nerds where I lived.
Flaky Flix
Flaky Flix are a chocolate covered wafer cookie topped with cereal-like flakes that were to die for! I'm sure they are still on the market today.
Flaky Flix
A wafer type cookie with cream filling, covered with chocolate and rolled in a corn flake type cereal.
Flaky Puffs
Little snack pastries with preprocessed fruit fillings... may have come out late 70's, but definately a lunch box staple for part of the 80's
Flicks
Ghirardelli packaged these large chocolate drops in a tube roughly the size of a TP-roll. They stopped making these in the late 80s?? Had a pleasant taste not found in any other chocolate.
Flintstones Fruit Fizz Soda
It was soda that came in diffrent fruit flavors. Of course the labels had all the characters. If I remember correctly diffrent characters from the cartoon had diffrent flavors. It came out the same time as Flintstones Push-Ups Ice Cream bars. The fruit fizz didn't last very long, probably because of the taste.
Flippits
Chocolate-covered raisins that came in a box of 6 bags and came out around 1987-1988. My mom put them in my lunches!
Fortune Bubble Gum
I try to find this everywhere. It came in individual pieces wrapped in an orange wrapper with a little Confucious guy on it. Inside you got gum and a funny fortune. Remember it?
Franco American Macaroni and Cheese
The ABSOLUTE best mac and cheese, hot or cold, like no other canned mac and cheese on the market, it had long noodles and tons of cheese. Too bad they stopped making it.
Frank n' Stuff Weiners
Hot Dog weiners that had chili stuffed inside. They also came in a variant with cheese inside instead.
Frankenberries
Made by the same person who made count chochula.. Faded away in the early 90's.
Freakies
Breakfast cereal - A bunch of fictonal characters lived in the Freakies tree. Boss Moss was the leader.
Freedent
Gum that doesn't stick to your dental work.
Fresca
The diet lemon-lime soda with cancer causing sweetener (saccharin). Like 7-up, with a bad aftertaste.
Freshen Up Gum
Freshen your breath with freshen up The gum that goes squirt. Basically, mint gum with a gel-like juice center that exploded when you chewed it.
Frostie Sodas
Glass-bottled hometown sodas that weren't sold in all areas...*variety* of flavors such as Orange, Root Beer, Blue Cream, Cherry Limeade, Peach, and Pink Lemonade.
Frosty
Mmmmm....from Wendy's; a really thick milk shake in chocolate flavor.
Frozefruit bars- all natural fruit bars
They were all natural, frozen on a wooden popsicle stick. They came in a variety of flavors. They had pieces of real frozen fruit thru out the bars. They had a clear cellophane wrapper with colored writting. Some of the flavors were: strawberry, strawberry/banana, coconut, pineapple, and honeydew. They were sold individually at small convenience stores and markets. I do not remember buying them at large chain store supermarkets.
Frozen Toes ice cream bars
Large foot shaped ice cream on a stick with a gumball on the big toe in place of a toe nail. Member these in the 80's getting them from the ice cream trucks that made the rounds.
Frozen Yogurt
Another big industry of the 80s thanks to places like Penguins and TCBY. The ice-cream alternative for people worried about the amount of fat/calories in ice cream.
Fruit By The Foot
It was like a fruit roll-up but was thinner and not rolled up; came in a few flavors.
Fruit Corner's Fruit Bars
I believe these came before fruit roll-ups and fruit snacks. They were a bar of jelled fruit, about .5 x 4 x 2 inches. I remember the commercial featuring Devo-esque characters, singing "Made from real fruit so your taste buds shout, look so ugly they're gonna knock you out!" The whole marketing campaign was based on the fact that the bars were in fact ugly, though tasty.
Fruit Corners
Chewy fruit snacks that came in strawberry, orange, lemon, and grape. Shaped like either numbers or letters or animals. SOOO GOOD! This was before fruit snacks got way too chewy.
Fruit Face
Like strips of hard fruit candy in a box, with little happy faces on each piece.
Fruit Roll-ups
A piece of plastic with fruit flavored paste flattened against it. You then peel off the fruit and you can play with it or eat it basically. Still very popular.
Fruit Slush
"Mish-mush, I'm mushin' Fruit Slush, doin' the Fruit Slush Mush"... This was a kool-aidy substance that came in a little cup that you stuck in the freezer. It froze partway and then you mushed up the soft ice with a spoon. Some flavors were good and some were nasty.
Fruit Strip Gum
It originated before the eighties. It came in thin striped sticks in cherry, grape, and lemon-lime. Lost its flavor faster than any gum I've ever known. Featured a cartoon zebra with different colored stripes in the pack.
Fruit Swirls Bars
Fruit Swirls Bars were made out of the same stuff as fruit roll-ups, but they were swirled with some sort of white nougat. Shaped like a small candy bar, they came out in the mid-to-late 80's.
Fruit Wrinkles
They were like fruit roll-ups... only they were a thick strip in a little cardboard wrapper.
Fruit and Creme Twinkies
They were like the regular twinkie except they also had some sort of strawberry jelly inside.
Fruitstripes Gum
The gum had all these funky colors and the taste only lasted for about 3 min's...and had a zibra of different colors on the pack
Fruzen Gladje
It was an unusually smooth ice cream that was made by whipping before it was frozen. It had the most amazing texture. Sold only in pints. I remember sharing a pint with a friend the morning after the prom in 1987. I think it might only have come in chocolate and vanilla. The package said to let it sit at room temperature for 15 minutes before eating, to let it get just a little soft.
Fudge Jumbles
It was like brownie mix and you swirl in this fudge and then bake it. It was good and chocolatey. My favorite!
Fudgetown Cookies
Made by Keebler it was a small sandwich chocolate cookie with chocolate fudge on the inside.
Fudgie The Whale Ice Cream
Made by Carvel. Fudgie the whale is still available today, chocolate ice cream cake in the shape of a whale. Fudgie was featured in a Simpsons episode in which it was an eighties flashback to when Homer and Marge got married. The cake said "To A Whale Of A Wife"!
Fudgie's
Fudgies were similar to milk-maid caramels, except they were chocolate fudge flavored. Kraft manufactured them, and they had a gold wrapper (cube shaped). These were SO, SO good-from the 80's.
Fuji Fruits
These were very small sour ball type candies that came in a variety of flavors and colors. Very tasty. I believe it came in a narrow green box.
Fun Dip
Sugar candy that came out in the 80's. It had a Lick m aid white dip stick which you would lick and then dip into the sugar packets. The flavors were green apple, cherry, grape and later they came out with blue raspberry.
Fun Fruits
Sunkist made these little fruit chews. The originals were the best before they became real chewy. They even sold grape or strawberry in their own packs!
Funyuns
They were little crunchy rings that tasted like onion rings. They were addictive, but made your breath smell awful. Originated before the 80s.
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