I was thinking about this the other day and there are so many snacks from the 90's I just happened to remember
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blaque108 — 12 years ago(October 08, 2013 03:56 PM)
I remember the pop rocks I think that lasted for a few dayslol. I remember the media saying they were dangerous and don't drink it with coke or any type of soda. I believe Pop Rocks are 90's candy
They still have lunchables in stores. I remember when the Pizza ones came out as well I think I took one to school with me when I was in elementry and yeah I did think I was the coolest kid cause I had thatlol. They were so fun to make. -
Felixthecat34213 — 12 years ago(October 23, 2013 02:20 PM)
green ketchup, purple ketchup it was made my Heinz. It was cool to see but I wouldn't want to try that especially the green ketchup it looked like slime from Double Dare.
This is not a 90s food product, it came out in the 2000s decade.
I've noticed a severe decrease in kids snacking foods whenever I visit the grocery store. It's like kids don't eat this stuff anymore in their lunches I guess. There was a huge market for it when I was little, now I never see a snack food ad on tv. I think the not playing outside anymore thing has a lot to do with it.
I personally miss Munch Ems, I tried to find these a few months back only to find that they had discontinued them! Nooo!
3D Doritos and Planters cheese balls
Potato Stix
The 12 packs of snack sized chips
Gushers, Fruit by the Foot, and Fruit roll ups-I still buy these!
Squeeze Its-I used to love these but, like Dunkaroos they were always so expensive and came in such small packs that they were impractical to buy
I used to get Hi C, they were so cheap.
I remember shark bites! Kudos to whoever named those, they were really good..
I miss Berry Berry Kix and Rice Krispee Treats cereal, man those were good. I also liked Sprinkle Spangles, I haven't seen those in forever.
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blaque108 — 12 years ago(October 29, 2013 04:24 AM)
@ITSA.the PBcrisps sound familiar I'll have to look that up.
@Felix when you said kids not playing outside anymore, what do that have to do with snacks? I'm sorry that just threw me off a bit when you said that. Anyways, I used to eat patoato stix but when i was overweight the first time when i was in pre-teen years I lost a lot of taste for some snacks. I tried a patoto stix a few months ago and wasn't feeling it. Gushers I never liked i didn't like the center I loved fruit by the foot and the fruit roll ups. I remember squeeze its my mom would buy those for me and my younger brother and sister, at the time my dad was in the military and at the commissary you could get things a little cheaper. Shark bites I loved those too. They still make those snack food cakes i don't think those would ever go away. Well i haven't seen Ding Dongs in a while i used to love those they were like eating a Ho-Ho but round. -
Felixthecat34213 — 12 years ago(November 16, 2013 06:23 PM)
@Felix when you said kids not playing outside anymore, what do that have to do with snacks? I'm sorry that just threw me off a bit when you said that.
Well when you're a little kid running outside, you burn up a lot of energy. So there wasn't really much of a problem with kids eating snack foods in the 70s-90s. It wasn't until the internet came into the picture that it really became a problem. Sure video games made a lot of kids want to stay in, but video games were seen as kind of nerdy until Playstation came out imo.
I've noticed a correlation between the decrease in time spent outside with the increase of waist size lol. Anytime I see a kid outside, they're always sitting in their yards and the ones that do get to ride a bike or walk around the neighborhoods are doing it by parental supervision. Over parenting has made kids fat today. Kids don't feel safe enough to go outside and roam the neighborhood and there's no real motivation to exercise if it's a chore.
There's been a recent health food campaign (fear mongering) to try and counteract this and I think this has definitely led to the decrease in the variety of snack foods for kids. I notice more of a decline in kids' snacks than in snacks in general. You can still find 30 different flavors of potato chips in adult sized bags.
Anyways, I used to eat patoato stix but when i was overweight the first time when i was in pre-teen years I lost a lot of taste for some snacks. I tried a patoto stix a few months ago and wasn't feeling it. Gushers I never liked i didn't like the center I loved fruit by the foot and the fruit roll ups. I remember squeeze its my mom would buy those for me and my younger brother and sister, at the time my dad was in the military and at the commissary you could get things a little cheaper. Shark bites I loved those too. They still make those snack food cakes i don't think those would ever go away. Well i haven't seen Ding Dongs in a while i used to love those they were like eating a Ho-Ho but round.
Things always seem better when you're younger, it's like your senses are heightened when you're an adolescent. Being overweight can be tough, it definitely ruins your taste for unhealthy foods. I also notice that when I give certain things up, I really can't stand them some time later. I stopped drinking soda in high school and I have no taste for it at all. Today coca cola just tastes like rust. -
crazyforblondes — 12 years ago(November 21, 2013 04:14 AM)
I'm not sure about the over-parenting stuff, but I do agree that technology has led to an increase in obesity. A lot of toys (nerf guns, for example) actually encouraged physical activity. Now I'm seeing kids with tablets. The video games are much more immersive than they were in the 90's. Most of the earlier video games were too short, limited and repetitive to play all day and become addictive. The internet was slow and had little to offer compared to today. Growing up in the 90's, there was nothing to keep you inside for too long. I spent 90% of my childhood outdoors, but I'd probably never want to leave the house if I were a kid today.
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Felixthecat34213 — 12 years ago(November 21, 2013 09:53 PM)
I'm not sure about the over-parenting stuff, but I do agree that technology has led to an increase in obesity. A lot of toys (nerf guns, for example) actually encouraged physical activity. Now I'm seeing kids with tablets. The video games are much more immersive than they were in the 90's. Most of the earlier video games were too short, limited and repetitive to play all day and become addictive. The internet was slow and had little to offer compared to today. Growing up in the 90's, there was nothing to keep you inside for too long. I spent 90% of my childhood outdoors, but I'd probably never want to leave the house if I were a kid today.
Right that's my point that you don't see kids "action/outdoor" toys anymore because parents discourage their kids from exploring outside these days. So kids don't feel the need to go outside either and would prefer sticking to their computers and video games. It's funny how video games went from nerdy in the mid 90s to the number one selling industry for kids.
I'm not going to lie and say that some kids preferred to stay in. My mom used to have to drag my brother outside in the early to mid 90s because he would have rather been playing Legend of Zelda on his Nintendo. I can remember playing outside even if it was drizzling or it was 10 degrees outside. (we'd just go sit by the laundry vent and warm ourselves up). Even I started to feel more of a longing to play video games or watch tv inside than to go outside by the late 90s.
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blaque108 — 12 years ago(November 19, 2013 06:38 AM)
@ Felix
Ok thanks for summing that up. You are right that is something I don't see much of at all anymore kids playing outside or at the playground. I try to take my little neice and nephew outside to play on the trampoline, on their bikes, or whatever. I know my nephew he is 5 years old and already into video games I want to try to make him active. Today I think I've seen more over weight kids I really think its because of laziness back in the day if a kid was overweight it probably just ran in the family or he was just a chunky kid.
I also lost my taste for soda as well, every now and then I'll drink a sprite or 7-up to make me burp or for that bubbly feel. -
Felixthecat34213 — 12 years ago(November 21, 2013 09:59 PM)
Ok thanks for summing that up. You are right that is something I don't see much of at all anymore kids playing outside or at the playground. I try to take my little neice and nephew outside to play on the trampoline, on their bikes, or whatever. I know my nephew he is 5 years old and already into video games I want to try to make him active. Today I think I've seen more over weight kids I really think its because of laziness back in the day if a kid was overweight it probably just ran in the family or he was just a chunky kid.
Uh oh, yeah I've noticed an increase in "chunkiness" it seems even the sporty kids can't avoid. I remember liking video games when I was 5 but I mean Bonks Revenge was as good as it got. after about an hour and a half, I was bored and wanted to go outside. Games have such cinematic quality and complexity about them. I'm not going to say that type of stimulation is bad for kids. Storytelling definitely helps a young mind grow, so movies, books, even complex video games are bound to have a positive effect. The worst part is the sedentary lifestyle they encourage and worst of all the violence. I can remember sobbing at the moment in Neverending Story when Artax dies in the swamp, I can't imagine how traumatizing violent videos games must be to little kids.
Anyway, back on the subject, why should kids go outside if they're not encouraged to? My mom always made going outside sound like an adventure and where I lived wasn't exactly the best place. You couldn't walk around and I was pretty much confined to a condo complex. Still I was out everyday because I
wanted
to play outside. I feel like kids don't
want
to play outside anymore and because of that they won't. We've made playing outside a chore for kids.
I also lost my taste for soda as well, every now and then I'll drink a sprite or 7-up to make me burp or for that bubbly feel.
LOL that's my favorite partI bought a pepsi earlier today for the first time in awhile. I liked carbonated beverages, I just think some of the main brands try to make their flavors so extreme because they know people used to it won't taste anything if it isn't. People become accustomed to large amounts of sugar and salt. -
kinkyturtle — 12 years ago(November 20, 2013 05:45 PM)
Munch Em's (as somebody mentioned above) were AMAZING. The ranch ones were the best ever. I wish they still existed.
Magic Middles - those shortbread cookies with melted chocolate inside.
Bonkers (I kinda remember the commercials more than the candy itself, lol.)
As for drinks:
Hi-C Ecto Cooler
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Felixthecat34213 — 12 years ago(November 21, 2013 10:01 PM)
Munch Em's (as somebody mentioned above) were AMAZING. The ranch ones were the best ever. I wish they still existed.
I know how depressing! I wandered around aimlessly for 10 minutes in a grocery store a few years looking for them, only to realize they had been discontinued! I came home from college feeling nostalgic for them, so it was only a couple of years after I used to buy them.
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blaque108 — 11 years ago(July 18, 2014 04:04 PM)
Yeah the were today I look in the cereal isle at the store when grocery shopping and its just plainboring. I love how people took chances with cereal and made it fun for kids prizes are something I hardly see in cereal boxes. I guess today they have to be safe some kid might swallow it.
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Thor-Delta — 11 years ago(July 18, 2014 05:01 PM)
While introduced prior to the 1990s and not technically a snack, I recall that McDonald's Happy Meals came with cool things in the 1990s, including a cool toy related to (I think) the 1996 Olympics (it involved trying to flick a tiny ball into something). I live in Australia, and recall that toy continuing to be occasionally issued with Happy Meals for several years (usually when nothing else was going on), indicating that the Australian division of McDonald's had too many in stock and didn't manage to give them all away during the Olympics itself.
It's strange to think I was so incredibly amused by such a simple and cheap plastic toy.
I also recall with great fondness a Sonic the Hedgehog canned pasta thing, but I am not sure if it was late-1990s or early-2000s. I ate it even though the taste wasn't very good, simply because I liked Sonic so much.
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blaque108 — 11 years ago(July 31, 2014 06:11 PM)
I remember the Sonic pasta canned soup. They tasted ok I remember the ABCs pasta soup.
Does anyone remember the Burger King kids meal toy with those 5 kids (it was a Pepper Ann looking girl, one kid name Kid Vid or something like that. Here is the link below.
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comedylover88 — 11 years ago(August 31, 2014 08:20 PM)
I remember them! I clicked on the link, and saw that I had some of those toys. I especially remember the glow-in-the-dark trolls. But speaking of the snacks, I used to always bring Lunchables Pizzas for lunch in elementary school, and I would agree it made you feel cool. They also had Lunchables Tacos, Nachos, Burgers, Hotdogs and breakfast foods briefly. I was also a fruit snack kid. I remember dinosaur fruit snacks and the shark ones, as well. Then there was that soda called Surge, which tasted almost like Mello Yello.
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SelenaQP — 11 years ago(October 18, 2014 08:19 PM)
let's see
Nila wafers
Cape Cod White cheddar Popcorn
Those things you dunk your stick in cheddar cheese
fruit roll ups
fruit by the fruit
Squeez its drinks
fruit gushers
doritios 3d chips
fruitopia bottle drinks
kool aid bottle drinksthe one you twist at the top
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ckmsaxophone — 11 years ago(November 05, 2014 09:42 PM)
Lunchables
Gushers
Fruit by the Foot
Fruit Roll Ups
Hi-CI liked the orange flavor the best.
Dunkaroos
Butterfinger BB'sI actually never cared for those lol
Fruitopia
Bagel Bites
Bubble Tape gum
Fruit Stripe gumblah.
Ring Pops
Kid Cuisine frozen meals
Oreo O's..didn't taste like Oreos.
Trix Yogurt
Waffle CrispI had a love/hate relationship with this one.
Lollipop Paintshop
Push Pops
Kudos
Bugles
Air Heads
Capri Sun
Warheadsso sour.
Baby Bottle Pop
Go-Gurt
Nestle Wonder Ball
Caramel Apple Pops
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