My recollection of breakfast as a kid was boxed cereal. With toys IN the boxes. The breakfast version of a happy meal, and the toy was at least 75% of the kid's decision to beg for that cereal.
My mother didn't stray from Trix, Lucky Charms or Rice Chex - specifically...Rice Chex, they other varieties were for people who couldn't shit she'd say and in retrospect, she had a point. I remember a box of Cookie Crunch and Frosted Flakes a couple of times though. Definitely was a good time to be a cereal brand because every one knew sugar wasn't great for you in large amounts, but no one shamed you for it. Exactly like smoking! So they could hit pretty much any shifty and profitable angle they wanted to, to push their product without too much bitching, or politically correctly said - without to much concern. Only later did society begin to publicly build mindsets that while something is completely legal and your right, if you eat/smoke/purchase/or are caught with this shit and other people know you are eating/smoking/purchasing/or otherwise having a righteous time with it? You will be scorned and deemed wreckless for not caring about your health.
Cereal isle was really overwhelming, in a good way. Everything in this decade was a fad, cereal no exception, very fun!
Breakfast with Barbie and shit. You get the idea. I think I HAD that Ice Cream Cone cereal, and if I didn't.... my imagination is good enough to convince me that I did, and that they were crazy fun. Prizes, those were the best. Now you have to send off with proofs of purchase, and the prize is something bullshit and sensible like a matching spoon and bowl with their cereal name on it so that you feel like a traitor when pouring Cheerios into the Rasin Bran chotskie.
Totally True:
On June 5 1981, the U.S. CDC publish a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), describing cases of a rare lung infection, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), in five young, previously healthy, gay men in Los Angeles. All the men have other unusual infections as well, indicating that their immune systems are not working; two have already died by the time the report is published.
This edition of the MMWR marks the first official reporting of what will become known as the AIDS epidemic.
On September 24, CDC uses the term “AIDS” (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) for the first time, and releases the first case definition of AIDS: “a disease at least moderately predictive of a defect in cell-mediated immunity, occurring in a person with no known case for diminished resistance to that disease.”
In the March 4 1982 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC notes that most cases of AIDS have been reported among homosexual men with multiple sexual partners, injection drug users, Haitians, and hemophiliacs. The report suggests that AIDS may be caused by an infectious agent that is transmitted sexually or through exposure to blood or blood products and issues recommendations for preventing transmission.
On July 25, San Francisco General Hospital opens the first dedicated AIDS ward in the U.S. It is fully occupied within days.
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Yes, fear took over.
It was not, not even remotely acceptable to be out and gay, and yet during the most gender-bending rock age yet in history. Much went unpublished, very hidden, but it was a violent time to be homosexual.
No one knew what this was, or how it was transmitted. Ignorance and fear in volume is very dangerous and not to be underestimated. That statement is true of any era and any issue.
Radical Recall:
1988: George Michael: Father Figure
George was smoking hot late eighties. Then, as it turns out, is gay.
The next song is the reason this exists:
No kidding, smiley face became a movement and household thing, much later something in communication in type (email, etc.)
1988: Bobby McFerrin: Don't Worry be Happy
Legit Lingo:
Veg Out
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Relax
Usage: Let's just veg out and watch music videos all day.
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