I was eating those in the 90s...

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).

We had these in Australia but they were called something way worse...

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.

Me, as a European:

You mean you no longer have your candied plastic vampire 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.

Yeah the kids of 1998 had damn near day-glo insides from all the artificial dyes and weird preservatives we ingested lmao

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've recently been feeling nostalgic for Tamagochi. The Minigames were kind of fun, I think. At least I remember them positively, but that might be rose tinted, I was a primary schooler then haha.

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!

Depends how baked you are when you make it

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

Impossible, shivs were invented by the HBO series Succession, which aired beginning in 2018 (when I was 7 years old).

1998, where if you had home made desserts instead of Oreos, Pop tarts and lunchables, people assumed you were poor!

I do the same thing. And I say, “it’s got a 20th century kind of vibe” about movies and music and stuff from the 80s and 90s.

It’s true, but disorienting. I was born in 85.

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.