I grew up in the 1970s. We were eating candy cigarettes. 😄

Born in '86, I remember when classmates were shivving each other for Pokemon cards and Pogs.

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 like how they also failed to show a picture of a baked sweet.

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)

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.

You wouldn't last 10 ticks inna twencen hood, choom. Eddies down.

Back in the day, much of the fiction people saw was set in the past. You saw Marie Antoinette and Cleopatra in cartoons and commercials. Sup0erman met Sitting Bull. Today there are very few shows / movies set in the past, so people don't have the same perspective.

Ah yes I remember the sound of dial up modems and churning butter like yesterday.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 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

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.

/s

I often refer to 2000 as the turn of the century, and it causes confusion among old people. I'm old, too, BTW.

Maybe they meant 1898.

Does putting a jumbo marshmellow on a saltine cracker and nuking it for 15 seconds in the microwave count as a baked sweet?

Back when we had to rotate the TV dial to channel 3, just to play Rocket Command and Space Intruders.
Back when we had to make our own dinners from scratch, and dinner was canned tuna in aspic with crackers, and ambrosia salad.
Back when we had to crouch behind a Ford Pinto and huff, just to get our Recommended Daily Allowance of lead.
Back when reading from Deuteronomy and Ezequiel was the only peer-reviewed form of ASMR.
Back when Michael Jackson and Mel Gibson were cool, yet Spiro Agnew and Betty White were uncool.

1998, where sweets are baked, not bought.

Ah, the late 20th century

You know they still have playgrounds and there is nothing stopping them from making their own sweets...

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.