Food of the Eighties, Products Beginning with T

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).

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Tab
The diet soda in the pink can. It had only one calorie. Immortalized in "Back to The Future".
Taco Bell Chicken Fajitas
I first remeber having this in Fall of 1988, it might have been first introduced then. It tasted a little different from the chicken soft tacos they have in it's place today, i guess it had grilled onions and a different sauce. I remember them offering it in 1989 as well but might have changed it in 1990 to a Chicken Soft Taco as a part of its value menu (the chicken soft taco was offered for .79). After 1989, I dont remember seeing the chicken fajitas, only the slightly different chicken soft taco was offered.
Taco Bell Grande
Basically, an overgrown version of the current Taco Supreme, the shell was bigger than the usual tacos...the first time I ever heard of Sour Cream, much less what you could put it on. A mainstay in my diet at the time, debuted roughly 1985.
Taco Pizza
Taco Pizza at Pizza Hut. It was great!! It had seasoned ground beef, taco sauce, tomatoes and lettuce added after cooking to stay cool. Maybe they still have it. Haven't been to an actual pizza place in years. We always get delivery now.
Taco Salad
Regular lettuce salad with ground beef, refried beans, tomatoes, lettuce, sour cream, cheese and other fixings. Just like a taco and served in a large tortilla shell bowl. I don't know where they originated but I used to have them at Denny's all the time.
Taco Snak
This was a microwavable burrito style food sold in 7-11 stores. A big gulp and a taco snack would get me through the middle of the night paper route.
Taco lite
From Taco Bell, deep fried flour shell, filled with taco fillings. Light, crunchy, flaky...Loved these!
Tahitian Treat
It is a bright red soda. sweet but very good.
Tang
Powdered drink concentrate used to make and imitation orange fruit drink. Very popular in Australia, in jar like instant coffee with green flip lid. Awful tasting stuff.
Tangy Taffy
This taffy was the BOMB JIGGY! Wayyy better than Laffy Taffy cuz of the sour taste.
Tarheel Blue Soda
Came out in 1983 when the tarheels won the championship, the soda was blue, I lived in NC at the time and I am not sure if it found its way all the way around america. The deal was, it was blue, it tasted like regular cola but was blue, heh heh, I'll be darned.
Tart-n-Tinys
I believe they were from the same makers as regular Sweet-Tarts. They came in a small box and were very small cylinder-shaped tarts. (They also tasted like regular Sweet-Tarts.)
Tastycakes
Chocolate-frosted chocolate cupcakes with or without cream filling; originated in Philadelphia.
Tato Skins
Created by the Keebler Corporations, Tato skins boasted a potato chip that left the skin on the chip. Other version of this type of chip have also appeared on the market.
Teddy Grahams
Teddy Grahams were graham cracker cookies that also came in different flavors. There were chocolate, honey, graham, and cinnamon. They started here, and I remember the commercials for them with the Teddy Graham bears in a rock band or something lol.
Teem
It was a Sprite like soda. Clear with a lemon lime flavour.
Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles Pies
It was a pie with a green pudding filling, I think Hostess made them,you could find them in convenience stores I remember.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Cereal
It was similar to Lucky Charms. Really Really good on saturday mornings watching 3 straight episodes of the turtles on Fox! One promotion had cereal bowls with one turtles head on it. I have Mikey!!!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Cookies
I remember that they came in a plastic box shaped like a ninja trutle. The cookies tasted like cardboard, but the box was cool.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pizza
These were in the frozen food section, and pretty gross, now that I look back. They were pretty small, and you microwaved them, and of course had all the turtles on the box eating pizza.
Texan bar
Chewy orange nougat with a chocolate coating
Thomas' Blueberry English Muffins
Just what the title describes.
Thriller Now and Laters
Came out during the Michael Jackson craze, I remember selling Now and Laters out of my 3rd grade desk in school. Not being able to drive, we had kids that lived across town buy in bulk and I would sell for twice the price to kids in the school's immediate neighborhood.
Thrills
Purple gum, in a package like chiclets, and tasted like soap. It was cheap so we would always buy it - gross!!!
Thrills Gum
Thrills gum was probably only out in Canada - the reason people remember it is because it tasted like soap - Why? Who knows.
Thunder Jets Fruit Snacks
Thunder Jets--"The fruit snack that goes fast!" Great tasting.
Tic - Tacs tropical flavor
if i can remember we had the traditional flavored tic tacs, but in the early 80s there was tropical flavoured ones.. anyone else remember these? (im in australia, maybe america didnt get these)
Tic-Tac-Toes From Chef Boyardee
They were a Spaghetti-O's spin off that had many catchy Saturday morning commercials. They were quite tasty and popular with my Mom - probably because they were cheap.
Tico Tico
It was a roll of gum shaped like a tootsie roll. It was good.
Tid Bits
A cheese flavored cracker, about an inch and a half long, and quarter inch thick. With rounded edges. Prelude to cheese nips? and Cheeze-its?
Tidal Wave Bubble Gum
Bubble gum with a gooey liquid center. When you bit into it it gushed everywhere. The commercials were a blast!!! Everytime the hero bit into a piece a tidal wave would wash over! Starburst ripped it off in the mid- ninties.
Tiger Red Soda
Tiger Red was a wonderful red creme soda that came in a metallic red can with the outline of a white tiger. This was popular around the late 70's early 80's.
Tiny Tarts
Little cylinder shaped sweet tarts. Now they are candy coated and re-named tart-n-tiny
Toblerone Bar
Ultra-rich, really tasty, high priced Swiss chocolate bar with honey and almonds mixed in. Came in a triangular tube box that kept it fresh, and made in little mountain shaped sections with each letter of the name "Toblerone" stamped in them back and forth. Produced in milk, dark and white chocolate. They were advertised every night on "Wheel Of Fortune", back when Vanna actually turned letters.
Toffeefay
Toffeefay (sp??): it was a caramel-toffee cup with some sort of hazelnut in the center and a chocolate coating on top of it.
Tootje
This was an important from Holland. It was a pudding-like drink in a milk-sized carton; came in chocolate or vanilla flavors. Very delicious. Circa, 1985-1986 era.
Tootsie Pop Drops
Smaller versions of Tootsie Pops w/o the stick; similar to new mini Tootsie Pops, but again w/o the stick.
Tooty Fruities
A four inch cylinder shaped fruit snack of a tough/chewy consistency. One flavor/color on the outside and another in teh middle. The commercial showed two kids watching TV while the 'Tooty Fruities' would sneek around the house like inch worms.
Topples
Thin, crispy crackers with crunch flavored toppings created by Frito Lay. Flavors - Pizza, & Octoberfest Cheddar.
Tostitos
Corn chip similar to Dorito's, but round in shape. Came in two flavors, white-bagged plain and yellow-bagged cheese.
Town Club Soda
It was flavored soda that came in all sorts of Flavors Lemon, Lime, Grape, Orange, Cherry, Strawberry and others I am sure
Transformers Ice Blocks
They sold them here in New Zealand, They kinda had a cola shell, and the inside was kind of like cola Jello, Artifical tasting, but still nice!
Trash can candies
Im not sure of the name,but they were hard tart candies in a little plastic trash can in different colors,I used to eat them in the mid 80's.
Tribbles cookies
These were bite-sized mint chocolate chip flavored cookies that came in a pouch, I think they were made by Keebler in the later part of the decade. They were really good but didn't stay around very long!
Trident Fruit Flavor Gum
The only sugar-free gum that actually passed my taste test and tasted almost like it was "real" gum, which my Mom wouldn't let me have. Reminded me of Juicy Fruit and is no longer made that I can find.
Tropi-pop
A delicious tropical fruit flavored Ice-pop. It was striped with three different flavors (one was probably a melon, one pinapple and I don't remember the other) and I was only able to get them off of the Ice Cream truck. Once when I got one, my mother tasted it and ate the whole thing on me. I still remind her of it/
TropicFreezeR
It was a frozen cocktail in a variety of flavors, much like today's Bacardi mixers, but the alcohol was already in it. Aparently the alcohol content wasn't all that high, because my parents let me have one once in a while and I was under the age of 10
Tubble Gum
Came out before Ghostbusters Slimer gum. It was this horribly smelly artificially flavoured pink gum that came in a tube. I used to love this stuff until they stopped making it in favour of Slimer Gum. Damned obnoxious fad.
Tuna Twist
It was a seasoning put out by Nabisco in the 80's. It came in packets about the size of a hot chocolate packet. You could add it to your tuna salad. There were about 3 flavors if I remember correctly.
Tuna Twist
It was a seasoning packet that you added to tuna salad, and it was awesome!
Tunnel of Fudge Bundt Cake
This was the best! It was a chocolate bundt cake, and it had a thick pudding that you put in the center, all the way around the cake. Then it baked up over it, and you had this "tunnel of fudge" running through the entire bundt cake. I MISS it! Also, they had a Macaroon cake. Same thing, but with coconut.
Twix
Chocolate candy...with waffer and caramel taste.
Twix with Peanut Butter
I believe Peanut Butter was the first flavour Twix came out with, Caramel following soon after. It was my favourite and I was glad to see they came out with them again a few years ago. Originally had orange writing and Caramel had red. In the late 80's-early 90's there was Cookies n' Cream (blue writing) and Chocolate Cream (purple writing), too.
Twizlers
Red licorice -- commercials with "makes mouths happy"
Twookies
Pronounced 'TOO-kees' they were similar to today's Little Debbie Nutty Bars except Twookies did not have peanut butter in them. Just flavored wafers covered in chocolate.


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