"For boomers, this might be drive-in movie theaters or Beatlemania. For millennials, it's long-gone tech like flip phones and MSN Messenger. Gen X might fondly regard spending quarters in arcades or hanging out in video stores. Meanwhile, among all these various fads and forgotten pieces of pop culture, people had to eat. As such, each generation also has nostalgic memories of certain snacks - like certain snacks foods that Gen X used to love, but have now practically vanished from memory."
"Carnation Breakfast Bars first hit stores in 1975; quickly becoming a huge hit. Thanks to their convenience and their sweet chocolatey flavor, the bars and their bright-yellow packaging wound up a breakfast staple throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In fact, some people loved them so much they couldn't stop eating them. "My worst addiction back in 1979," one Facebook user posted in a Gen X group about the bars. "It still haunts me to this day.""
Gen Xers were born during the 1960s through 1980 and came of age during the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Many snack brands introduced in those decades became nostalgic staples for that generation. Carnation Breakfast Bars debuted in 1975 and gained popularity for convenience, sweet chocolatey flavor, and bright-yellow packaging, with peanut butter, Chocolate Chip, and Granola Cinnamon varieties. Devoted fans shared memories and online discussions of addiction to the bars. Parents sometimes hid the bars to prevent them disappearing from the pantry. Carnation Breakfast Bars were discontinued in the late 1990s and have not returned.
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