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…and I ain’t faking, I’ll bring home the turkey if you bring home the Fakon!
Something that I don’t talk about a lot here at Branded are some of the insane food products that were big back in the 80s, so today I thought I’d remedy that the best way I know how, by talking about...
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The Great Pudding Pop Wars of 1982…
Thinking about some magical food moments from my past I can’t help but immediately gravitate towards the splenderferious invention that graced America’s freezers in 1982 (by my best educated...
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Molly ringwald wants you to eat your raisins!
I’m breaking out of my post Halloween downtime to remind everyone that back in 1982 Molly Ringwald and who I believe is a very young Emily Schulman (the nosey pugnacious next-door-neighbor on Small...
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Putting the banana in the Batman…
Thought I’d take a second today to share this great gift that I received in the mail in response to my TMNT postcard project from a few weeks ago. Mr. & Mrs. McFavorite (of the fun podcast Open...
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Learning to cook with the Muppet Babies!
Last week’s post on the DC Comics cookbook insert from the 1981 reminded me that I have another one that’s been sitting on my desk for almost a year. I picked up a huge lot of old Woman’s Day...
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Before this cheese was Easy it was the perfect Snack Mate!
A couple weeks ago I was in a rush during the morning routine. For some reason it seemed like I had two hundred things to do before running out the door to go to work, and right when I thought I’d...
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Easy Cheese Part Deux, I love the smell of cheese in the morning…
A couple weeks ago I wrote a piece taking a look at the general history of that crazy canned, pasteurized, spray cheese known as Easy Cheese (or Snack Mate circa 1966-1984 or so.) Though I don’t...
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Is that Kraft Mac and Cheese under that pepperoni, or do you just want to die...
It’s been awhile since I dipped into my collection of old advertisements I clipped from my collection of 80s era Woman’s Day magazines, so I thought it would be fun to take a look at one of the...
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The most powerful cake pans in the universe!
While cleaning up and organizing Branded HQ I found a handful of loose catalog pages that my good buddy HooveR sent me awhile back. They were from the 1987 Wilton Yearbook of Cake Decorating, and...
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My name is Walter Kellogg, Cereal Detective…
From time to time I find myself flipping through 30 year-old issues of various Mom magazines looking for inspiration and cool ads to scan for the site. Over the past couple years I kept running...
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Hi-C Ecto Cooler is back and it’s….
…Glorious! But before I get to that, let me back up a second. One of the most bittersweet nostalgic experiences is the yearning for food and drink products that are long gone from this Earth. I mean,...
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The Great Pudding Pop Wars of 1982…
Thinking about some magical food moments from my past I can’t help but immediately gravitate towards the splenderferious invention that graced America’s freezers in 1982 (by my best educated...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Molly ringwald wants you to eat your raisins!
I’m breaking out of my post Halloween downtime to remind everyone that back in 1982 Molly Ringwald and who I believe is a very young Emily Schulman (the nosey pugnacious next-door-neighbor on Small...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Putting the banana in the Batman…
Thought I’d take a second today to share this great gift that I received in the mail in response to my TMNT postcard project from a few weeks ago. Mr. & Mrs. McFavorite (of the fun podcast Open...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Learning to cook with the Muppet Babies!
Last week’s post on the DC Comics cookbook insert from the 1981 reminded me that I have another one that’s been sitting on my desk for almost a year. I picked up a huge lot of old Woman’s Day...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Before this cheese was Easy it was the perfect Snack Mate!
A couple weeks ago I was in a rush during the morning routine. For some reason it seemed like I had two hundred things to do before running out the door to go to work, and right when I thought I’d...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Easy Cheese Part Deux, I love the smell of cheese in the morning…
A couple weeks ago I wrote a piece taking a look at the general history of that crazy canned, pasteurized, spray cheese known as Easy Cheese (or Snack Mate circa 1966-1984 or so.) Though I don’t...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is that Kraft Mac and Cheese under that pepperoni, or do you just want to die...
It’s been awhile since I dipped into my collection of old advertisements I clipped from my collection of 80s era Woman’s Day magazines, so I thought it would be fun to take a look at one of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The most powerful cake pans in the universe!
While cleaning up and organizing Branded HQ I found a handful of loose catalog pages that my good buddy HooveR sent me awhile back. They were from the 1987 Wilton Yearbook of Cake Decorating, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My name is Walter Kellogg, Cereal Detective…
From time to time I find myself flipping through 30 year-old issues of various Mom magazines looking for inspiration and cool ads to scan for the site. Over the past couple years I kept running...
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