Food of the 70's

• Kentucky Fried Chicken
  The choice meal for every class reunion!!
   

• Fritos Corn Chips
  They had the Frito Bandito "aye aye aye aye, I am the Frito Bandito".
   

• Bottle Caps
  Just like sweet tarts in the shape of a real bottle cap with ridges and everything!
   

• Buc Wheats
  Maple flavored wheat flake-cold cereal breakfast made by General Mills
   

• Candy Cigarettes and Bubble Gum Cigars
   

• Freakies Cereal
  The guys who made this up must have been on acid!  Capt'n Crunch like O's with 7 characters on the back:  The Boss, Cowmungle, Hamhose, a guy with big feet and Goody-Goody, two others.  You could get a plastic character inside. 
   

• Fruit Striped Gum
  The gum with colorful stripes and a cartoon zebra that galloped around on the commercial.
   

• Goobers
  Peanut Butter and Jelly in a jar....TOGETHER...they where swirled or more like striped.  Came in grape and strawberry.
   

• Google Peanut Butter
  In the early 70's a flavored peanut butter, chocolate and vanilla.  The commercial was "here comes google with the goo goo googly eyes."  It was great.

• Juice Filled Paraffin Sticks
  Awful paraffin sticks that were hollow and filled with flavored, colored liquid.  You would bite off the end of the stick and suck the liquid out.  There were also paraffin lips and other things to chew on.  They tasted nasty but we loved them.
   

• Manwhich
   

• Pixie Sticks
  A tube of sugary flavored powder that you ate by pouring into your mouth like a drink.  They came in cherry, grape, orange, and lime flavors.  you could buy them in the small version (about 5" long) or the large (about a foot long).
   

• Pop Rocks
  A small box of candy like rocks that "popped" in your mouth.
   

• Reggie Bar
  A yummy chocolate treat named after Reggie Jackson.
   

• Slurpies
  That 7-11 drink that had trading cups and detachable prizes on the bottoms.  Still popular today.
   

• Tab
  The women's drink.  Pull tabs came and went in the seventies.  Chains were made by bending the tab over the ring of another.

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