Presto Pasta (1987-1989): Released for those late 80's families on this go, this product from Betty Crocker offered a complete pasta dinner in 12 minutes. The all-in-one package came with a "Fresh-Flo Pouch" of cheese-filled pasta and "Boil'n Pour Pouch" of meat sauce - ThreadSky

discontinuedfoods.bsky.social • 237 days ago

Presto Pasta (1987-1989): Released for those late 80's families on this go, this product from Betty Crocker offered a complete pasta dinner in 12 minutes. The all-in-one package came with a "Fresh-Flo Pouch" of cheese-filled pasta and "Boil'n Pour Pouch" of meat sauce

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discontinuedfoods.bsky.social•237 days ago

Sack o'Sauce in a Can o'Meat walked so Presto Pasta could run

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macdoug.com•236 days ago

Yet another original English sentence. I’m going back to bed.

jason-montgomery.com•236 days ago

Sack o'Sauce in a Can o'Meat was the name of my high school ska punk band.

sendalienstome.bsky.social•237 days ago

And in the end, they all stumbled and fell.

beneathhergaze.bsky.social•236 days ago

Was this before marketing departments were invented

siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social•237 days ago

There will never be another food name as great as 'Sack o'Sauce in a can o'Meat.' The random capitalization! The o' which randomly hints at o'Meat and o'Sauce clans! It's pure genius.

vir2ualvibes.bsky.social•237 days ago

😫lol

rorywrites.bsky.social•237 days ago

🤢

2000meca.bsky.social•237 days ago

yay

discontinuedfoods.bsky.social•237 days ago

Though based on how it's stylized, this product might actually be called either "Presto asta" or "resto Pasta"

gamehawk.bsky.social•237 days ago

Or a secret, third option:
Dresto
Iasta.

digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social•237 days ago

It's the 80s, we're on the go, we don't have time for two P's.

asterionhex.monster•237 days ago

Resto Pasta was my world of warcraft troll priest

brasscastle.bsky.social•237 days ago

😜

rabbitwitch.bsky.social•237 days ago

i like the selling point of cooks in 12 minutes as if that’s different from any other pasta you can dump a can of ragu on

thatharper.bsky.social•237 days ago

Hey, yeah, wait a minute...

tinavstammy.bsky.social•237 days ago

Or a jar of Victoria, Rao's, or Sclafani, if you like things that taste good, but yes. Like how is this different other than being all in one box and probably inferior quality? 😄

And I guess people figured that out quickly enough.

danthiell.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Saving precious minutes from the normal process of making pasta and jarred sauce.

thatgirlrenita.bsky.social•237 days ago

"cheese-filled pasta" - was "tortellini" too bougie for the late 80s?

jrdnbwn.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Definitely too exotic for the period

95sports.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Biden: (grabbing mic) LIQUID SAUCE

milo-bravo.bsky.social•12 hours ago

abruptly having a memory of a similar product from the early/mid-2000s and I can't remember what it was called or what brand it was, but it was like 3 different cans of stuff in a box you could combine to make various kinds of casserole in one go, like chicken pot pie or tuna casserole

milo-bravo.bsky.social•12 hours ago

like you'd add milk to a pouch of dried potatoes, whip that up, slop some canned meat and gravy or some-such on top of it, and then mix up a biscuit or puff pastry mix and put it on top of that, then throw it in the oven

niftyfox.bsky.social•12 hours ago

You are not hallucinating this time. I don't think I ever ate this, but I might have because I also remember the cans in the box. But maybe *I* am hallucinating.

milo-bravo.bsky.social•12 hours ago

it was something that my mom and I ate fairly frequently because it was cheap and filling and simple enough for an early teen like I was at the time to cook by themself before Mom got home late at night, but for the life of me I don't remember the brand or product names!

mjr21.bsky.social•237 days ago

How could it go wrong with beef, cheese and pasta? Mistakes were obviously made.

amfisher.bsky.social•237 days ago

"Fresh-Flo" sounds like a hygiene product. I'm not too surprised this one failed.

daverson.bsky.social•237 days ago

every bit as revolting as kraft's spaghetti dinner, which they still sell

mishennikara.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Lookin quite familiar

jfire.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Ah, the era of the boil 'n bag. Nothing like the taste of polychlorinated biphenyls at dinner time. Tastes like victory. Or cancer.

random-coder-1.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I'm pretty sure a regular pasta meal these days is 10-12 minutes using dry, boxed pasta & canned/jarred sauce. What was available for sauces back then?

petestaiano.com•237 days ago

When the photo doesn’t look remotely appetizing you’re screwed

potionsandpages.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I don't know what is worse to me... "liquid sauce" or the two different types of pasta mingling together.

footenotes.bsky.social•237 days ago

Its cousin product "Suddenly Salad" always sounded like an escalation or threat

lauracamille1014.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I never had these, since I was a year old when they were discontinued, but some movie my parents had recorded from TV had a commercial for them and I vividly remember this image from it.