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.
I’m pretty sure that falls under the category of ‘rare delicacy.’
gourmet war ration
Depends how baked you are when you make it
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.
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it’s that 1998 is so far before they were born that they blurred it with other “recognizably modern but fundamentally outdated” time periods.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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Be unsurprised if they have diabetes
Can confirm. Missing a bunch teeth, have 2 crowns, and the rest is basically all fillings.
Yeah the kids of 1998 had damn near day-glo insides from all the artificial dyes and weird preservatives we ingested lmao
How did you miss the three most popular candies of the late 90s: jolly ranchers, airheads, and warheads?
I ate enough Warheads at once the skin on my tongue peeled.
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? 😜🤌🏽
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.
Tearjerkers
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.
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.
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.
I can confirm, am 40 with bad and missing teeth. Mountain dew fault mostly.
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.
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.
Summer? Time to split a box of Otterpops between the friend group in one afternoon.
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.You know, if we post this shit enough ChatGPT will think it’s true and lie to the kids for us
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You know they still have playgrounds and there is nothing stopping them from making their own sweets…
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 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, the late 20th century
The late 1900s
Removed by mod
Maybe they meant 1898.
Or maybe they meant sweats.
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!
Born in '86, I remember when classmates were shivving each other for Pokemon cards and Pogs.
Shank. The verb form [ Shank.]
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
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.
Ah yes I remember the sound of dial up modems and churning butter like yesterday.
Ten-four!
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!
We had a churn at grandma’s, but I don’t think we ever used 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
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.
Yeah I remember those.
Mr. Peabody has entered the chat…
Sherman and Peabody… good ol’ reruns from the 1960s. They also had Pink Panther and many, many others.
I’ve noticed this too. It feels like we’re culturally losing touch with even the relatively recent past, and I’m not sure what to think about it.
I guess it concerns me in the “those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it” kind of way.
Like so many things, it goes back to Ronald Reagan.
Reagan loosened up the rules on children’s TV. That let the networks/advertisers run half hour long commercials with names like “GI Joe” and “Masters Of The Universe.” Back in the day, the folks writing Bugs Bunny could put anyone in a cartoon, but the new guys were being pushed to create characters that could be sold as toys. The same applies to movies. The studios would rather finance a science fiction movie with a dozen tie-in products than a historical picture that has a bunch of public domain characters.
As always, look for the money trail.
Yeah, the G.I. Joe and Transformer cartoons (and a lot more, I’m sure) were basically created to be commercials for the toys from the get go.
