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...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | May 21, 2016 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture, Soda Pop Culture | 17 |
…Glorious! But before I get to that, let me back up a second. One of the most bittersweet...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jan 8, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 5 |
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 across a series of ads for...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jun 11, 2012 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 11 |
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 featured their line of pop...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jun 4, 2012 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 17 |
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 crazier ads from...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jun 7, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 11 |
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 remember when I first...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | May 20, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 6 |
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 finished...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Apr 18, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 0 |
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 magazines a...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Apr 12, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 10 |
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 Your Toys) sent in...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Nov 9, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 5 |
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 Wonder) wanted you to...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 21, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 6 |
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 guesstimates), the...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 1, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 3 |
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 pork. In...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Mar 4, 2009 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 4 |
Though I don’t partake in them all that often, I have to say that I’ve been fascinated with fast food restaurants ever since I was a kid. I think my interest stems from the fact that my parents hardly ever...
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