Company - Chef Boyardee
Years: Early-Mid 80's
Photo courtesy of Grickly
Who didn't love Chef Boyardee's Pac Man Pasta? I mean besides Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde. And Ms. Pac Man (he was kind of a chauvinist after all...).
There were several flavors of this in the early 80's, from regular pasta with spaghetti sauce, pasta and Meat Balls, and even pasta in a "golden chicken sauce". Yup. Ugh.
In the early 80's, when Video game craze ran rampant, it needed to have a video game tie in to be a hit. (see also Pac-Man Cereal/Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. Cereal, etc.) Pac Man pasta was what made the 80's so great. Product placement within other products. Now if they'd just flipped it and made a Chef Boyardee Video Game, my head would have imploded.
So did you love this stuff as much as I did? I remember the Pasta with Meatballs, mostly. Mmm.....power pellets......
I still remember this stuff, but I personally didn't like it as much as the other varieties. The cheese, to me, tasted strange. I am glad to remember it regardless!
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