This is a segment from an upcoming episode of the Pop Culture Retrospective Podcast. In this episode, myself and my guest, Jason R. Lady, discuss some of our favorite food and beverage mascots of the 1980s and 1990s. In this portion, we are talking about the California Raisins who were incredibly popular in the mid-1980s despite being very bizarre! The Pop Culture Retrospective Podcast is available on all major podcast platforms!
The California Raisins Revisited
This is a brief history of the California Raisins and how they influenced the popular culture of the mid-late 1980s and the early 1990s.
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