• foggy@lemmy.world
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    6 days 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.

    • 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.

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

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        You remember flavored wax lips and wax vampire teeth?

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

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        I forgot those existed. I remember penny candy though. Onions on belts were not in style.

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      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.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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      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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      5 days 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.

    • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today
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      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.