Sizzlean

Nice try.

Sizzlean was supposedly a lower calorie, less fattening bacon substitute product that was smoked and cured like bacon, but made from pork shoulder instead of pork bellies (where bacon comes from.)

Pork shoulder is ironically one of the key ingredients of Spam, one of the most fattening foods on earth.

Sizzlean (on top of having one of the most grotesque names for a food product in history) was an abomination to bacon lovers everywhere. First, it ALWAYS remained soft in the pan, no matter how long you cooked it - there was no such thing as 'crispy' Sizzlean.

My mom however was a hardcore fan of this stuff, because it was cheaper than regular bacon.

Sizzlean was discontinued by 1985. And  today, it really doesn't look so bad now. Especially when compared to THIS atrocity today.....

 

A Gallery of '70s Lunchboxes

RIP Phyllis Diller

The Dymo Label Maker

The Dymo Label Maker was around for a long time before the '70s, mostly for office and industrial use. But it was the mid '70s when the cheaper new handheld label makers and tape were widely available to the public. And it began a mini-craze......

The plastic handheld devices were addicting. People were labeling everything with them......

The Dymo Label Makers are still being made, but mostly with a handheld computer printer. You can still buy the embossing tape for the old label makers.......

Gatorgum

Remember this?

It did quench your thirst, if you call a gum that puts your saliva glands into hyperdrive "thirst quenching".

But it did taste good, like original lemon-lime Gatorade, but with a HEALTHY dose of sour enhancement........