1985 in dessert, breakfast, and candy: Blizzards, Strudels, and Sour Patch Kids

I don't want to be a stickler, but shouldn't my Blizzard have been free if the cashier didn't flip it? I wasn't going to push it, especially as I'm in a celebratory mood. So, we just did the flipping instead.

Looking up the original flavours, and getting a chance to watch Dick Clark shill for DQ at the same time, I found our only option was Oreo (which was just called "cookies" in 1985 before they finally entered into a partnership with Nabisco) because Heath isn't in Canada, and Butterfinger (which is available up here only relatively recently) isn't on the menu. Mind you, the best Blizzard flavour of all time was Crispy Crunch, which was a better version of a Butterfinger anyway, and I haven't seen that on the menu in a dog's age.

We got one Mint Oreo just to shake things up.

Here's another food that I didn't realize had been around since the mid 80s, because this fantastic commercial about the heartbreak of a child painfully recognizing his mother's care as outdated while being emotionally unable to broach the topic with her, leading to a burdensome waste issue with no clear solution, didn't come around until about ten years later: https://youtu.be/Kn22ikkiUlU

Strudels are good, but in the long run I'd pick Pop-Tarts.

Finally, this is a bit of a cheat as the brand of Sour Patch Kids launched in 1985, but the candies had been in production since the 70s. I wasn't going to miss a chance to have some and call it research, though.