This makes me feel ancient
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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I can’t figure out what it means. Is it that they remember being young in 1998?
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maybe - just maybe - the part on the left could easily be reconstructed by dropping that smartphone, deleting social media and hooking up with friends by simply showing up there.
at least outside of the US that's totally doable without being arrested.
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).
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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.
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.
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Me, as a European:
...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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 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.
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Does putting a jumbo marshmellow on a saltine cracker and nuking it for 15 seconds in the microwave count as a baked sweet?
Depends how baked you are when you make it
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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
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.
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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.