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Food fads
Food fads
Order by the year each food fad or viral food took off. You place all 33 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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release years and dates
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How the food fads timeline game works
The cards are foods, drinks and snacks that had their moment, and you order them by the year each fad took off. A line under every name describes the dish or how it caught on. One fad is placed for you at the start, its year visible. After that, it's your call where each card goes: earlier, later or in between. A correct choice reveals the year. An incorrect one still moves the card to where it belongs and uses up one of your three lives.
Gelatin salads, frozen dinners, holiday casseroles, clear sodas, novelty candy, bakery hybrids and social-media desserts all turn up here. The recent end is busy, since viral treats started arriving almost every year once people posted their food online. Brand and chain names in the descriptions can help you pin things down. Be careful with foods that had more than one wave, because the same kind of treat can return in a new form.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 33 cards you might be dealt, with 5 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Perfection salad Shredded cabbage set in lemon gelatin
- Chex party mix Cereal, nuts and pretzels baked in butter
- Swanson TV Dinner Turkey and peas in an aluminum tray
- Green bean casserole Campbell's soup-can Thanksgiving side
- Fondue Swiss pot of melted cheese for dipping
- Pop Rocks Candy that crackles on your tongue
- Quiche Humor bestseller says tough guys avoid it
- Bartles & Jaymes Gallo wine coolers with folksy TV ads
- Bloomin' Onion Outback's deep-fried flowering onion
- Crystal Pepsi Caffeine-free clear cola
- Zima Clear malt drink from Coors
- Turducken John Madden carves it in the broadcast booth
- Sprinkles Cupcakes Bakery chain that fed the cupcake craze
- Cake pops Bakerella's cake on a lollipop stick
- Kogi taco truck Roy Choi's Korean BBQ tacos, tracked on Twitter
- Bacon Explosion Woven bacon and sausage log from a BBQ blog
- Sushirrito Sushi rolled as big as a burrito
- Ramen burger Burger on buns of fried noodles
- Freakshake Over-the-top milkshakes from Canberra
- Rainbow bagel Brooklyn's neon swirl bagel
- Raindrop cake Clear water-and-agar dessert
- Impossible Burger Plant-based patty that bleeds like beef
- Avocado toast Columnist blames it for millennial home woes
- Dalgona coffee Whipped instant coffee over milk
- Sourdough starters Lockdown bakers feed homemade yeast
- Baked feta pasta Block of feta roasted with cherry tomatoes
- Butter board Butter smeared on a board like charcuterie
- Grimace Shake Purple McDonald's shake turned horror meme
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