Discontinued Foods!: Presto Pasta (1987-1989): Released for those late 80's families on this go, this product from Betty Crocker offered a complete pasta dinner in 12 minutes. The all-in-one package came with a "Fresh-Flo Pouch" of cheese-filled pasta and "Boil'n Pour Pouch" of meat sauce

Presto Pasta (1987-1989): Released for those late 80's families on this go, this product from Betty Crocker offered a complete pasta dinner in 12 minutes. The all-in-one package came with a "Fresh-Flo Pouch" of cheese-filled pasta and "Boil'n Pour Pouch" of meat sauce

Though based on how it's stylized, this product might actually be called either "Presto asta" or "resto Pasta"

Resto Pasta was my world of warcraft troll priest

Or a secret, third option: Dresto Iasta.

It's the 80s, we're on the go, we don't have time for two P's.

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Sack o'Sauce in a Can o'Meat walked so Presto Pasta could run bsky.app/profile/disc...

Oscar Mayer Sack o' Sauce in a Can o' Meat (1948-circa 1955): A novel innovation, in which a meat product was sealed in a can, along with a separate bag of sauce to accompany it. The idea was to package both together for convenience, but separate to retain flavor and texture

There will never be another food name as great as 'Sack o'Sauce in a can o'Meat.' The random capitalization! The o' which randomly hints at o'Meat and o'Sauce clans! It's pure genius.

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And in the end, they all stumbled and fell.

Yet another original English sentence. I’m going back to bed.

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Sack o'Sauce in a Can o'Meat was the name of my high school ska punk band.

Was this before marketing departments were invented

yay

Its cousin product "Suddenly Salad" always sounded like an escalation or threat

i like the selling point of cooks in 12 minutes as if that’s different from any other pasta you can dump a can of ragu on

Hey, yeah, wait a minute...

Or a jar of Victoria, Rao's, or Sclafani, if you like things that taste good, but yes. Like how is this different other than being all in one box and probably inferior quality? 😄 And I guess people figured that out quickly enough.

"Fresh-Flo" sounds like a hygiene product. I'm not too surprised this one failed.

"fresh-flo pouch" is maybe one of the most unappetizing phrases I've heard

It's amazingly repellent.

It sounds like some sort of feminine care product that, specifically, you only need if Things are Grievously Wrong Down There

"cheese-filled pasta" - was "tortellini" too bougie for the late 80s?

LIQUID SAUCE? That raises so many questions, each one of them disgusting.

I prefer sauce in a gaseous state.

If you eat this stuff, you’ll get to the gaseous state very quickly indeed.

every bit as revolting as kraft's spaghetti dinner, which they still sell

When the photo doesn’t look remotely appetizing you’re screwed

How could it go wrong with beef, cheese and pasta? Mistakes were obviously made.

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