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)
“It’s toasted”
I like how they also failed to show a picture of a baked sweet.
This makes me feel ancient
I AM ancient.
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.
And if you didn’t have this tiny chirping pet, you were uncool! Very uncool and boring.
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
Or maybe they meant sweats.
I grew up in the 1970s. We were eating candy cigarettes. 😄
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 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.
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.
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).
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 was eating those in the 90s…
I’m eating those today…
I recall these having Spider-man on the box for a while.
We had these in Australia but they were called something way worse…
Fads
That was after the original name became… problematic.
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
Ah yes I remember the sound of dial up modems and churning butter like yesterday.
Oddly enough, I did churn butter in the 90’s. I mean, it was only one time and it was part of school, learning about how butter is made. But I did it!
Hey! Samesy experience! I don’t remember how that lesson came up, but we definitely had an entire afternoon dedicated to shaking the jars. I think it was after learning how to read clocks and before the summer break.
We put ours in a jar and then passed around in a circle taking turns shaking the jar until butter was willed into existence.
Same classroom had a Macintosh 2 in it that we were absolutely not allowed to touch.
One time drurng a slow day at Starbucks we managed to churn the sweet cream in to butter using one of the blenders so I guess I’m in on this too
We had a churn at grandma’s, but I don’t think we ever used it.
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.
Me, as a European:
Yeah the kids of 1998 had damn near day-glo insides from all the artificial dyes and weird preservatives we ingested lmao
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.
…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.
Damn, those brought back some memories. Especially the creepy crawly commercial.
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.
How did you miss the three most popular candies of the late 90s: jolly ranchers, airheads, and warheads?
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.
No Runts? 😜🤌🏽
Can confirm. Missing a bunch teeth, have 2 crowns, and the rest is basically all fillings.
Summer? Time to split a box of Otterpops between the friend group in one afternoon.
You mean you no longer have your candied plastic vampire teeth?
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.
I forgot those existed. I remember penny candy though. Onions on belts were not in style.
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.
Be unsurprised if they have diabetes
Tearjerkers
I can confirm, am 40 with bad and missing teeth. Mountain dew fault mostly.
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.
I can confirm my canines are still intact. That’s about it.
Does putting a jumbo marshmellow on a saltine cracker and nuking it for 15 seconds in the microwave count as a baked sweet?
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.
Depends how baked you are when you make it
I’m pretty sure that falls under the category of ‘rare delicacy.’
gourmet war ration
Excuse me while I go crumble into dust and blow away.
Also, holy shit, at least where I was the late 90s were peak “low fat” (high sugar) product times, there was SO much sweet garbage to buy. If anything more than there is now, because now there’s the mindset among most people that we should probably cut back on sweets.
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