• @[email protected]
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    462 months ago

    Bro 90s sweets?

    Gushers

    String thing

    Dunkaroos

    Choco tacos

    Squeezits

    Fruit by the foot

    Fruit rollups.

    If you know anyone in their late 30s to early 40s, be surprised they have teeth.

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        2 months ago

        You remember flavored wax lips and wax vampire teeth?

        Those were awesome. Not good, certainly, but interesting and uniquely gross!

        • Tar_Alcaran
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          62 months ago

          Candy gem rings so you could combine having sugar at all times of the day with your love of eating lint

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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      22 months ago

      Man the ‘90’s was when store bought processed food was a sign of wealth and everyone wanted to go to McDonald’s or Pizza Hut for birthdays.

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      12 months ago

      Don’t forget how every museum would have the gift shop with the gummies that looked like whatever animal was featured prominently in their displays. The blue/white sharks were the best.

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      182 months ago

      Out of nostalgia, I purchased a choco taco. Turns out they sold the company like 20 years ago, changed the recipe to cheaper, quicker to stale waffle cone, made the ice cream a plainer flavor, removed the cacao from the chocolate, etc. What a truly awful thing to trick someone into eating.

      • Harvey656
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        72 months ago

        Oh my god, the new ones are so nasty. Legitimately why even bring them back like that? There is no way people purchase those consistently.

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          72 months ago

          They didn’t. They’ve been discontinued for years, citing a desire to make their supply lines sturdier for their other products. Translation-people did not want to eat their garbage tacos.

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      92 months ago

      …does anyone else remember that kit that was kind of the easy-bake-oven but marketed to little boys; it was this mad scientist kinda thing around when Goosebumps was popular, and you’d make your own candies by mixing little packets together, then mold them into spiders and brains and shit like that.

      The brain stuff in particular was this fruity foamy gunk that I swear was the best tasting junk food that has ever or will ever hit the market. I was also probably like 5 y/o, so grain of salt.

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        12 months ago

        DOCTOR DREADFUL’S FOOD LAB!

        I had an EZbake and all of the Doctor Dreadful kits! Monster warts, insect gummies, the brain, the microscope, oh I loved those so much!

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          42 months ago

          Aight so what the fuck, for the first half of that video I could have sworn you nailed it, but I remember it being more than just bugs, so something seemed off. BUT! Related videos had the fucking thing!!

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FxyNP6SLsI

          …never realized just how much marketing went into glamorizing ‘ick’ to little dudes lol.

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            22 months ago

            The blue raspberry they had for melting was sooooo good. I never made the formed gummies for that, I just ate em.

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            22 months ago

            Woah wait I thought you were talking a out the queasy bake oven where it had a brain on top and baked easy bake oven concoctions with sour flavors. The good one being dog bones and drool which was sugar cookies with like strawberry foam.

            https://youtu.be/NCxbE85h7Gk

            It was all ick factor still running off of garbage pail kids and that doesn’t even include the fart gun I had.

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          12 months ago

          Not quite—they’re definitely talking about Doctor Dreadful’s Food Lab. Creepy Crawlers were amazing though—the old ones my parent bought me were just open-air hot plates with zero protections.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      Yeah the kids of 1998 had damn near day-glo insides from all the artificial dyes and weird preservatives we ingested lmao

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Can confirm. Missing a bunch teeth, have 2 crowns, and the rest is basically all fillings.

    • Blackout
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      12 months ago

      I was one of 6 people worldwide that loved the original crystal Pepsi flavor

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      32 months ago

      How did you miss the three most popular candies of the late 90s: jolly ranchers, airheads, and warheads?

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        I mean if I wanted to go for the tooth decay showstopper: jujubees.

        Hey parents! Kid got a loose tooth you want to just get out of their mouth already? Jujubees.

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      22 months ago

      My wife bought some Dunkaroos for a music fest last year, and it was so perfect to sit and eat those at the camp site while high. It made me so happy. They’re still amazing today as an adult; I just wish they were in bigger containers.