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).
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 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...
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
Fads
That was after the original name became... problematic.
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.
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:
Yeah the kids of 1998 had damn near day-glo insides from all the artificial dyes and weird preservatives we ingested lmao
...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.
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? 😜🤌🏽
Tearjerkers
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.
Be unsurprised if they have diabetes
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
Does putting a jumbo marshmellow on a saltine cracker and nuking it for 15 seconds in the microwave count as a baked sweet?
I’m pretty sure that falls under the category of ‘rare delicacy.’
gourmet war ration
Depends how baked you are when you make it
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.
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
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.
I like how they also failed to show a picture of a baked sweet.
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