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13 Retro Foods That Completely Flopped By Andy Beth Miller Sept. 14, 2025 11:40 am EST

Food history is littered with bold experiments that went horribly wrong. For every Oreo or Big Mac that won over taste buds worldwide, there are a dozen misfires that probably seemed genius in the boardroom but just never clicked with consumers. The 1980s and 1990s in particular produced some of the strangest culinary detours, as companies chased novelty, color, and quirk to stand out in crowded supermarkets.

Sometimes, the products were simply ahead of their time. Other times, the ideas were baffling from the start. And then there are those foods that launched with hype, only to collapse under the weight of their own weirdness once people actually tasted them. Yet even

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