I grew up in the 1970s. We were eating candy cigarettes. 😄
I was eating those in the 90s…
I’m eating those today…
But they’re completely white now, back in the day they had the red tip and a “filter”
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Is the filter orange flavored or just dyed?
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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.
I loved big-league chew and bubble tape when I was growing up.
Edit: and I can’t forget Bazooka. Also, shitty trading card pack gum (for nostalgia but not flavor).
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.
I had them in the 90s, but only during Sinterklaas in the Netherlands. I got them from my parents. They were extremily against smoking ironically. There’s still children champagne sold. Some Belgian comedians came up with the idea to promote kidicoke. See here the video with English subs.
in the uk in the early 90s I definitely had some
I can still remember the terrible taste of them. And nobody was sure if we were meant to eat the paper, but we did anyway.
They definitely had em in the US in the 90’s. I only ever got them from the ice cream man. Never saw them in a store.
chocobaco or something like that
Orion’s Cocoa Cigarette. But Little Bobdog Cigarette is probably more popular.
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.
We had the same issue with the “negerzoenen” in the Netherlands (negrokisses translated). They changed it to “zoenen” or “chocozoenen”.
I still don’t know what the name for these is in my language. The only 2 I know are zamorčki (black people) or indijančki (native americans). Both are bad.
I recall these having Spider-man on the box for a while.
I was eating candy pipes into the 2010s
Those were so cool
Used to get candy cigarettes from the ice cream man in the 90s (maybe even early 00s)
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:
You mean you no longer have your candied plastic vampire teeth?
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.
I forgot those existed. I remember penny candy though. Onions on belts were not in style.
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Oh, brother, I remember the first verse from the commercial.
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Damn, those brought back some memories. Especially the creepy crawly commercial.
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.
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.
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!
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 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? 😜🤌🏽
I ate enough Warheads at once the skin on my tongue peeled.
I can confirm, am 40 with bad and missing teeth. Mountain dew fault mostly.
Can confirm. Missing a bunch teeth, have 2 crowns, and the rest is basically all fillings.
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.
Summer? Time to split a box of Otterpops between the friend group in one afternoon.
Tearjerkers
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.
I can confirm my canines are still intact. That’s about it.
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.
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.
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.
And if you didn’t have this tiny chirping pet, you were uncool! Very uncool and boring.
You could get one from KFC, but it was a GigaPet or something.
I was extremely extremely uncool, my parents hated going to fast food!
So did mine. They wouldn’t buy a digipet thing for me, either. I had a beta named Frank. RIP Frank, you finally beat your reflection.
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!
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
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 had a churn at grandma’s, but I don’t think we ever used it.
Ten-four!
I like how they also failed to show a picture of a baked sweet.
In that cheap, thin-bottomed pot, that’s gonna bake so fast. You better be stirring, not posing with a spoonful.
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
I’m pretty sure that falls under the category of ‘rare delicacy.’
gourmet war ration
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.
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Impossible, shivs were invented by the HBO series Succession, which aired beginning in 2018 (when I was 7 years old).
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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
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!
Or maybe they meant sweats.
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.
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.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 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
You wouldn’t last 10 ticks inna twencen hood, choom. Eddies down.
The only good thing about cyberpunk 2077 is the machine gun vending machines…
1998, where if you had home made desserts instead of Oreos, Pop tarts and lunchables, people assumed you were poor!
I often refer to 2000 as the turn of the century, and it causes confusion among old people. I’m old, too, BTW.
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.
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.
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.
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.
