I think the sheer mix of culinary trends and their time stamp on our lives is what makes these foods so important. Some of these dishes like hot pockets carried on way past their 80’s debut impacting people’s youth, college years and even adulthood. In the 90s fusion cuisine helped introduce global flavors to fine dining before the internet completely took off and connected us. A very interesting part of these foods is what legacy they either started or left behind.

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