Your best bet for a pudding pop is to make one yourself! TodayĪnd what of Pudding Pops? Good news and bad! Jell-O Pudding Pops were huge in the 1980s thanks to the ubiquitous Bill Cosby commercials, but vanished in the 1990s. Remember Wonka Oompas, the M&M-like candy that was half-peanut butter, half-chocolate? Gone, baby, gone - though Wonka has resurrected the Oompas name for a fruity candy. I believe her response was "Bees! They're stinging my mouth!" If your local candy store doesn't sell it, it can be purchased online. Pop Rocks, the fizzy candy that explodes in your mouth, is still pretty easy to find. (Don't worry Mom, maybe carob and wheat germ will be in the sequel!) We were happily reunited with some of our old favorites, but learned that others had passed on into that great Graveyard of Discontinued Foods. I've just co-written the book "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes & Trends of the '70s and '80s," (Perigee, $12.95) and some days it feels as if my kitchen has done the time warp.Ĭo-author Brian Bellmont and I wanted to find out what happened to those things we once loved so much, from "After School Specials" to Malibu Barbie to "Schoolhouse Rock." Many of the items in our book are foods, and absolutely none of them are healthy. Right now, I have Pudding Pops in my freezer, a box of Quisp cereal on my counter, and a package of Pop Rocks in my purse, hiding from my 3-year-old. It may be 2011 in your house, but it's 1981 in my kitchen.
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