If You Grew Up in the ’60s, You’ll Definitely Remember These Foods (2024)

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If You Grew Up in the ’60s, You’ll Definitely Remember These Foods? ›

Pringles, Pop-Tarts, Doritos, Starburst, Chips Ahoy!, Gatorade, Sprite, and Ruffles all debuted during the decade, and fast food came into its own with McDonald's. New kid-friendly (read: super-sugary) breakfast cereals abounded, like Froot Loops, Honeycomb, Cap'n Crunch, and Lucky Charms.

Sprite, Gatorade, pop tarts, and tang were all new to the 1960s market. Tang became incredibly popular when astronauts took it to space! Metrecal was the fad diet of the 1960's. THey sold meal replacement shakes, cookies and soups.

Tang was an extremely popular drink during this decade, and Ocean Spray beverages also emerged in this decade. Spaghetti-Os, Gatorade, Diet Pepsi, Doritos, Taster's Choice, Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Campbell's Chunky Soups and Pringles.

Fruit, meat, and pastry consumption was high in the United States; cereal and alcoholic drink consumption was high in Italy; and bread consumption high in Yugoslavians except for those in Belgrade.

Of course, no retro co*cktail hour menu would be complete without some old-school appetizers like a cheese ball, fondue, and deviled eggs. Those beet dyed eggs were even topped with some fried Spam because meat in a can was all the rage. Canned fish was a staple in the 60s too.

Kentucky Fried Chicken, 1963

Kentucky Fried Chicken was founded by Harland Sanders in 1955, but it really took off by 1963 when it became the largest fast food operation in the United States with 600 locations.

The cuisine that the counterculture took to in the late 1960s, and then helped introduce to the mainstream in the 1970s, embraced whole grains and legumes; organic, fresh vegetables; soy foods like tofu and tempeh; nutrition-boosters like wheat germ and sprouted grains; and flavors from Eastern European, Asian, and ...

Lemonhead Candy

We know those wild child hippies loved to "pucker up' in the 1960s! It was the perfect time for the Lemonhead Candy to emerge. This tart and tangy candy burst onto the candy scene in 1962. Introduced by the Ferrara Pan Candy Company, the same makers of the Atomic Fireball and Red Hots.

1964: Pop-Tarts

Post and Kellogg's were racing to be the first to introduce this morning treat to the market, and Kellogg's won. Pop-Tarts were a big hit with busy kids—and parents.

What was the 60's diet drink? ›

Metrecal was a brand of low-calorie, powdered diet foods (to be mixed with water as a beverage) "containing the essential nutrients of protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins and minerals" introduced in the early 1960s by the Mead Johnson company, with the first variety going on the market on October 6, 1959, the same day ...

Sego was a US meal replacement diet drink formally marketed by Pet, Inc., (at the time Pet Milk) as Sego Liquid Diet Food. Introduced in 1961 and selling for approximately US25¢ each, Sego sales registered US$22 million to the company's Milk Products Division by 1965.

Pigs in a blanket, Swedish meatballs, shrimp co*cktail, vegetables with green goddess dip — and pineapple upside down cake or the popular bundt “Tunnel of Fudge Cake,” which won the Pillsbury Bake-Off in 1966. Drinks: According to mixologists, this was a strange time for co*cktails.

It was a decade of flambée, fondue, Jell-O and junket.

Popular party snacks were: chunks of pineapple and cheddar cheese on co*cktail sticks stuck all over a grapefruit. And milk shakes with balls of different pastel-coloured ice creams. Or you could make Jelly in pretty shaped moulds with different layers of tinned fruit in them.

Tab (stylized as TaB) was a diet cola soft drink produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company, introduced in 1963 and discontinued in 2020. The company's first diet drink, Tab was popular among some people throughout the 1960s and 1970s as an alternative to Coca-Cola.