1980s CARNATION BREAKFAST SQUARES

I think they had them in the late 90's. I was on the swim team in high school and I would eat those Carnation bars before practice at 5am. They have a distinct, funky taste.

The Breakfast Squares were different the "Breakfast Bars". They had discontinued the Squares by the time the Breakfast Bars arrived on shelves!

I lived off of these because they were always in the discount bin and we were broke as fuck. Very dry but not horrible. Like a very dry brownie. I would crumble mine up in a bowl and pour milk (usually revived dry milk) on it. It almost had a cake quality if you nuked it and let it sit.

I can taste those now! I remember them on the way to school. Didn’t they claim it was the same as having a full bacon and egg breakfast?

From a period in product development history when new "foods" were developed that could be.purchased, unwrapped, then thrown directly into the toilet, saving the "middle man" processes of ingestion, digestion, and defecation.

"I ate them in layers scraping my teeth across each layer!"

T.M.I.

[quote] Didn’t they claim it was the same as having a full bacon and egg breakfast?

R4 I miss the old days when comparing something to bacon and eggs was considered a good thing.

Figurines are where it's at!

why ppl would choose 2 shove shit in2 their mouth is beyond me

We would have Carnation Instant Breakfast, which was a powder you added to milk. Seems completely awful now.

Why are you calling them CARNATION Breakfast Squares? The box clearly indicates they were made by General Mills, a completely unlrelated company.

[quote]why ppl would choose 2 shove shit in2 their mouth is beyond me

I love Monday morning quarterbacks.

In the immediate post Apollo moon landing era, many items that had a new, modern, and space age feel were very popular. Stuff like breakfast squares and Space Food Sticks were very popular. Second, in the 1970s, people weren't as focused on "nutrition" with stuff like the 4-4-3-2 food pyramid being a relatively a new concept for the majority of people. Finally, advertising and marketing, branding, and such had a very different impact than today. The halo effect from associating with such major events had a much bigger impact than it would today.

It's easy to look back on the 1970s during which two martini lunches and smoking in the office were perfectly normal as ridiculous. But, you really should try to get a sense of historical context before making such absurd pronouncements.

r12 we r talking the 80s here, hon, if by then u have not over astro voodoo crap, ur mother did not rly love u and smoked and drank and whored her way through ur entire gestation period

If you can bake you could make your own, or get Greg to.

[quote][R12] we r talking the 80s here, hon, if by then u have not over astro voodoo crap, ur mother did not rly love u and smoked and drank and whored her way through ur entire gestation period

LOL - you can talk about the 80s all you want. The product itself was introduced in 1971 and discontinued in the 80s. They stopped advertising them in the late 70s before finally discontinuing them shortly thereafter.

Your ignorance shines through, once again.

My Mom left to commute to work before I woke up, so I had chocolate Carnation Instant Breakfast with hot milk and a scoop of instant coffee every morning before school. When I was 13, I added a Salem Menthol cigarette to the menu, while reading Armistead Maupin's "Tales of The City" column in the SF Chronicle. What will that naive MaryAnn get herself into next? Can't wait to grow hair on my chest if I drink enough Carnation Instant Breakfast, it looks sexy on adult men, especially if they smell like BRUT aftershave. I play baseball, so I'm not A Fag. Gotta spray all the hanging ferns with the mister before biking to school.