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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.
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.
Me, as a European:
...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.
https://youtu.be/PTFiJAH63xo
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.
The blue raspberry they had for melting was sooooo good. I never made the formed gummies for that, I just ate em.
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.
Damn, those brought back some memories. Especially the creepy crawly commercial.
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.
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!
Yeah the kids of 1998 had damn near day-glo insides from all the artificial dyes and weird preservatives we ingested lmao
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.
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.
I ate enough Warheads at once the skin on my tongue peeled.
No Runts? 😜🤌🏽
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
I can confirm, am 40 with bad and missing teeth. Mountain dew fault mostly.
Can confirm. Missing a bunch teeth, have 2 crowns, and the rest is basically all fillings.
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.
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.
Summer? Time to split a box of Otterpops between the friend group in one afternoon.
Tearjerkers
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.