Maybe they meant 1898.
Ah, that’s a good point. 1898 makes a lot more sense for baking your own sweets.
The 1990s was a big decade for processed foods
You still had a lot of older women making and canning their own stuff, in older 60s or 70s pots like that. It just wasn’t as common and things were trending away from that
In 1898, you could order giant boxes of cheap candy and chocolates, colored and flavored with all kinds of industrial byproducts. Nothing was off the table. “Artificial” is semantic, they just called it “glucose” instead of “corn syrup”. Source: 1898 Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. I also read up on contemporary recipes for commercial candy making.
I feel like when most people think of 1990s food, they’re (accurately) picturing brightly-colored snacks and candy.
I’m also inclined to think that kids today are VERY aware of the 80s due to the popularity of the aesthetic and it feels weird that someone would assume we went “backwards” with candy like that
None of this is certain, of course. They could just be reminiscing about a time as a kid when they made candy with their family, too!
Or maybe they meant sweats.
You wouldn’t last 10 ticks inna twencen hood, choom. Eddies down.
The only good thing about cyberpunk 2077 is the machine gun vending machines…
Born in '86, I remember when classmates were shivving each other for Pokemon cards and Pogs.
Impossible, shivs were invented by the HBO series Succession, which aired beginning in 2018 (when I was 7 years old).
You’re gonna get shanked running your mouth like that
Of course we didn’t have iPhones then. We had a pet in a small box and it died if you didn’t press the buttons the right number of times every day.
I’ve recently been feeling nostalgic for Tamagochi. The Minigames were kind of fun, I think. At least I remember them positively, but that might be rose tinted, I was a primary schooler then haha.
And if you didn’t have this tiny chirping pet, you were uncool! Very uncool and boring.
You could get one from KFC, but it was a GigaPet or something.
I was extremely extremely uncool, my parents hated going to fast food!
So did mine. They wouldn’t buy a digipet thing for me, either. I had a beta named Frank. RIP Frank, you finally beat your reflection.
Ah, the late 20th century
The late 1900s
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Oh yes I was born in 1990 those good old days where there were no cars, no electricity, no plumbing, no vaccines, people weren’t going to school ah yes the good old days
What 1800? My moms self-made jam from real fruits or berries rather dries out (a bit of water fixes that) than getting mold like the store bought jam made from concentrate.
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.
…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.
Oh, brother, I remember the first verse from the commercial.
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.
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.
It was all ick factor still running off of garbage pail kids and that doesn’t even include the fart gun I had.
Damn, those brought back some memories. Especially the creepy crawly commercial.
The blue raspberry they had for melting was sooooo good. I never made the formed gummies for that, I just ate em.
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.
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.
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.
Honestly, good. They were an afront to nature.
I can confirm, am 40 with bad and missing teeth. Mountain dew fault mostly.
You mean you no longer have your candied plastic vampire teeth?
I forgot those existed. I remember penny candy though. Onions on belts were not in style.
You remember flavored wax lips and wax vampire teeth?
Those were awesome. Not good, certainly, but interesting and uniquely gross!
Candy gem rings so you could combine having sugar at all times of the day with your love of eating lint
Pushpops had a cap but spit would drip down into the push area after a few licks.
Be unsurprised if they have diabetes
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.
Tearjerkers
How did you miss the three most popular candies of the late 90s: jolly ranchers, airheads, and warheads?
No Runts? 😜🤌🏽
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.
I ate enough Warheads at once the skin on my tongue peeled.
I was one of 6 people worldwide that loved the original crystal Pepsi flavor
Thumbs down to Crystal Pepsi for me, but I really loved Pepsi Kona.
Can confirm. Missing a bunch teeth, have 2 crowns, and the rest is basically all fillings.
Me, as a European:
Summer? Time to split a box of Otterpops between the friend group in one afternoon.
Yeah the kids of 1998 had damn near day-glo insides from all the artificial dyes and weird preservatives we ingested lmao
I can confirm my canines are still intact. That’s about it.
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.
Don’t forget rock candy on sticks, although most museums still have those.
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.
Bitch, I spent hours on illegally copying a disc of age of empires I borrowed from a class mate. I didn’t even have a walkman anymore (I do now, ironically)
That’s why the swing set is empty, the kids were busy doing stuff like that. That’s ok.
“It’s toasted”
Nostalgia… the pang of an old wound.
I grew up in the 1970s. We were eating candy cigarettes. 😄
I was eating those in the 90s…
I’m eating those today…
But they’re completely white now, back in the day they had the red tip and a “filter”
In my country, they are are white with orange “filter”.
Is the filter orange flavored or just dyed?
Yes! It is orange flavored. In fact, even the white part tastes like orange.
I was eating candy pipes into the 2010s
Used to get candy cigarettes from the ice cream man in the 90s (maybe even early 00s)
Those were so cool
I had them in the '80s definitely, maybe even into the '90s in the US. They’re still sold in Japan today (chocobaco or something like that).
They’re still sold in the US too, just as “candy sticks.”
“Big League Chew” the bubble gum was also supposed to resemble tobacco chew.
I loved big-league chew and bubble tape when I was growing up.
Edit: and I can’t forget Bazooka. Also, shitty trading card pack gum (for nostalgia but not flavor).
chocobaco or something like that
Orion’s Cocoa Cigarette. But Little Bobdog Cigarette is probably more popular.
I definitely had these growing up in the 90s. Though not as popular, candy stores still sell them today.
I remember eating them in the early 2000s and then them vanishing from nearly ever store. I still see them in candy shops, but rarely and usually tucked away on the bottom shelf. I also remember those thick, bubble gum, cigars.
I had them in the 90s, but only during Sinterklaas in the Netherlands. I got them from my parents. They were extremily against smoking ironically. There’s still children champagne sold. Some Belgian comedians came up with the idea to promote kidicoke. See here the video with English subs.
They definitely had em in the US in the 90’s. I only ever got them from the ice cream man. Never saw them in a store.
in the uk in the early 90s I definitely had some
I can still remember the terrible taste of them. And nobody was sure if we were meant to eat the paper, but we did anyway.
I recall these having Spider-man on the box for a while.
We had these in Australia but they were called something way worse…
Fags, delicious fag sticks
Shove em in my mouth suck on them all day
I looked cool as hell with a fag in my mouth
Fads
That was after the original name became… problematic.
We had the same issue with the “negerzoenen” in the Netherlands (negrokisses translated). They changed it to “zoenen” or “chocozoenen”.
I still don’t know what the name for these is in my language. The only 2 I know are zamorčki (black people) or indijančki (native americans). Both are bad.
This makes me feel ancient
I AM ancient.
I can’t figure out what it means. Is it that they remember being young in 1998?
No, it’s that 1998 is so far before they were born that they blurred it with other “recognizably modern but fundamentally outdated” time periods.
A world where cell phones were not common, only 20% of homes had Internet, social media didn’t exist yet and mass media in general was far more homogeneous is as different from now to a child of today as the 1940s.
Does putting a jumbo marshmellow on a saltine cracker and nuking it for 15 seconds in the microwave count as a baked sweet?
I’m pretty sure that falls under the category of ‘rare delicacy.’
gourmet war ration
Depends how baked you are when you make it
My parents thought I was a lunatic, I never knew there was another… Watching that marshmallow inflate like a balloon was icing on the cake.
I like how they also failed to show a picture of a baked sweet.
In that cheap, thin-bottomed pot, that’s gonna bake so fast. You better be stirring, not posing with a spoonful.
Ah yes as we know people in the 19th century didn’t purchase sweets like coca cola (1886) and Turkish delight (conflicting data but could go back to 1777, the Byzantine empire, or sefavid Persia but possibly earlier). Also as we know the concept of markets is a crazy new idea and we have absolutely no extensive written records of ancient civillians having markets where people would barter and trade goods.
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