Food of the Eighties, Products Beginning with Y

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



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Yami yogurt
It was a kind of yogurt as a kid I ate & loved. It came in many flavors & had fruit at the botton. The kinds i tried were cherry, blackberry, raspberry, peach, strawberry, blueberry, even a walnut flavor. I always looked forward to them, yummm.
Yogurt Covered Raisins
These came in packages and were either in all vanilla or different colors. They were located on the same shelves as Fruit Rollups.
Yoohoo Chocolate Drink
Kind of like watered down chocolate milk, it came in a yellow bottle.
Yoohoo Vanilla
Sorta like the the original, which is still sold here(Nantucket). It is darn good.
Yop drinkable yogurt (Yoplait in the US)
Okay, I'm not *sure* if this was 80s or 90s but remember Yop, the drinkable yogurt? I think it's still around in some form today, I just remember seeing Yop commercials while watching Pee Wee Herman on TV (now that's gotta be 80s!) Correct me if I'm wrong. It's all blending together! Awesome site, BTW! :-)
Yoplait Dessert Yogurt
This yogurt was a bit creamier, and sweeter than regular yogurts. It was so good, and came in dessert flavors like Cherries Jubilee, Amaretto, A raspberry flavor, and a dutch choclate that tasted like choclate cheesecake. They were all so good, but my favorites were the amaretto, and chocolate. It came out around 1987, and was out only a year or two. I still crave them.
York Peppermint Patties
Small round chocolate covered mints. I remember in the commercial the girl would be shivering after eating it
Yumbo
Burger King had a ham and cheese sandwich called the Yumbo. It was hot and the cheese was melted much like the cheese you get with nachos so it was pretty messy but always delicious!
Yummi Mummy
A fruit flavored monster cereal (part of the frankenberry, count chocula, boo berry lineup), came out in the late 80's and didnt hang around too long since the other monster cereals were all better.


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