original Corn Nuts, for when you’re stoned. yeah.
When I grew up, pigs in blankets were hamburger and rice inside cabbage with tomato sauce.
Lets see, my answers:
pixie sticks
candy cigarettes
perogies
hersheys powder in milk
Quisp
It actually came out in 1966 but they changed the name in 1988. So I guess we are both right and wrong.
Velvetta is so easy to melt for salsa or bean dip. I’m convinced the very first people who watched the first Super Bowl CAME UP WITH THIS. This has to rank in the top one hundred inventions of the 20th century. ( only partially kidding )
I came in to say that, although it’s more of a 50s than a 60s concoction. My vegetarian SIL eats it, saying, “The Lipton people heard of a cow; there’s no actual cow in the product.” She’s vegetarian more for health than philosophical reasons, and it’s her only transgression that I know of.
Good stuff, though.
Meatloaf. Delicious in every decade of my life.
I hate Jack in the Box. There are about 999 better places in Houston to get fast food.
A few months ago, they had a chili cook off at work as a morale building exercise. For most of us, it was just free food.
Somebody brought a giant platter of Jack in the Box tacos. They were delicious.
I still eat many of the same foods now that I ate as a kid in the 60’s and 70’s. My mother and grandmother didn’t use a lot of packaged or frozen foods. Why wouldn’t I like spaghetti and meatballs now? Breaded pork chops? Pierogi? Halupki? Halushki? Lasagna? Swiss steak? Pork and sauer kraut? about a million other things?
Maybe they don’t meet the present day standards of being low in fat/sodium/flavor and don’t use trendy herbs and spices, but the family recipes for all these things yielded delicious results in the 60’s and they still do today.
One packaged food that I did like as a kid that my mother would occasionally buy me was Jeno’s pizza rolls. I bought a big sack of them from WalMart for a couple dollars back in July; my daughter and I snacked on them. They were just like I remembered them. That is to say they didn’t taste a lot like pizza, but they do have a pleasant flavor of their own.
Those were cabbage rolls in my house. Ate plenty of 'em.
Banquet Pot Pies. My cheap, easy, childhood comfort food.
Those *are *weird, either you hate them or love them. In any case, they bear little ressmblence to a "real’ taco.
Yes, I know. Houston has a pretty big selection of tacos–served by taco trucks, upscale “interior” Mexico places & all the usual Tex-Mex suspects. There is nothing wrong with a freshly made puffy taco!
Actually, Jack In the Box tacos bear little resemblence to “food.” But, in the spirit of this thread, I’ll gladly eat a couple–if somebody else will go get them for me. I’ll even buy if they fly!
Word. I attribute the Fattening of America to it, but tough shit. That stuff is awesome.
The same cannot be said for the Space Food Stick. 
As I remember Space Food, the product was identical to a Tootsie Roll in texture and nearly so in flavor.
I’m suddenly craving a Sloppy Joe
I miss the original Carnation Instant Breakfast Bars. They were hard and … well, crunchy isn’t the right word, but they definitely snapped in half cleanly. Coated with a chocolike substance that always had a slightly off taste to it. And ever so slightly salty.
Damn I miss them.