90s Trends Part II: Food, Candy, and Soda Trends

Hey, this is Steve blue and you are listening

to the geek cast radio network You're listening

to the geek cast radio network Unleash the geek

in you! Trendy topic for the 90s is all gonna

be about food and candy and soda All the junk

our parents didn't want us to have so We've got

six feet of gum Absolutely, you just kept snapping

off piece after piece after piece just because

it was so fun to use the bubble tape dispensers

Bubble tape, yeah. creepy commercial it was so

90s like all of that stuff was so 90s like it

fit with like just that aesthetic there was a

lot of that cartoony weird wallpaper looking

background that they used for everything yep

absolutely and in bubble tape was good still

is good didn't hold flavor very long but no gum

even back then even nowadays doesn't hold flavor

very long if it's the cheap go if you get like

the thing like extra or like winter fresh or

you know something like that it's like those

ones hold for a while uh how about uh some warheads

you remember those don't you yeah i used to eat

those um on purpose and and people used to say

those are sour blah blah blah and i'm like no

they're not because like i built up a tolerance

yeah to sour foods at one point And they were

waiting for the reaction, and I used to bet people

money that I wouldn't budge with it, and they

were like, put another one in, and I'm like,

fine. And I'd do it. I'd do as many as four.

I mean, granted, it would burn your taste buds

in the roof of your mouth. Like, it would make

the roof of your mouth peel. from the tartness

of it, which was, you know, it was painful, but

it didn't make me have the facial reaction they

were hoping for. But I used to even eat those

up until a couple years ago. I kind of stopped

eating a lot of candy a couple years ago because

I was damaging my teeth. Yeah. No, I remember

Warheads, but I'm not a sour candy person at

all. I love sour candy. Just can't do it. On

the other hand there's ring pops. I remember

this stuff. My dad used to bring me those home.

He used to buy the buckets of them at Sam's Club.

And then I would just get them and they were

like the most awesome thing in the world at the

time. Yeah they were. There was ring pops, there

was push pops, there was a bunch of other stuff.

Push pops were really pop - I mean, it's a piece

of candy on your hand. You don't even have to

really do anything with it. You just put it on

your finger and you lick it and suck it away.

Dirty as that sounds. And there's Pop Rocks.

I never was a fan of that. I wasn't either. And

I never understood the whole drink some soda

with your pop rocks. It'll be like an explosion

in your mouth. I'm like, it's like, no, thank

you. The website that we're getting this listing

from, folks, I will put in the show notes. I

forgot to mention that in the episode last week,

but I will do that this week as well. How about

Crispy M &M's? This website says they're not

around anymore. I just saw them. Oh, they're

still around. Yeah, they came back. Crispy M

&M's are one of my least favorite M &M types.

See, I like them. I saw them as like a crunch

bar. Some I thought they were gonna be like a

crunch bar, but it's just too much like I don't

like peanut M &Ms I like the peanut butter M

&Ms, but I don't like Peanut or peanut butter

so yeah, this is a little strange But yeah, crispy

M &Ms were huge in the 90s and they were Okay,

then but not so much and then there's Bart Simpson

and his Butterfinger, baby I remember that. Yup,

those commercials were priceless. Nobody better

lay a finger on my Butterfinger. Open sesame.

Hey Joe, we're down to the last Butterfinger.

The last Butterfinger! Simpson going deep. Get

a crispity, crunchity, peanut buttery burst in

every bite of Butterfinger. Nobody better lay

a finger on my butterfinger. Better lay a finger

on my butterfinger, please. Yep. Absolutely.

I just, you know, it's one of those, you know,

small thing type things. Yep. How about Doritos

3D? I remember those. Didn't they bring those

back? Yes. At one point they did. I remember

the Super Bowl commercials for these things.

It's just so funny. I think I've had them once.

How about Crystal Pepsi and Vanilla Coke? I hated

Vanilla Coke. Never tried Crystal Pepsi. I was

never a fan of Crystal Pepsi. I tried Vanilla

Coke, but... not so much I am I'm a purist when

it comes to my pop so like unless it's like wild

cherry it doesn't exist to me it's it's dead

to me yeah yeah the crazy thing is is that the

diet coke is they're changing the branding for

it because they're going to target millennials

with diet coke this year on january 22nd diet

coke introduced ginger lime feisty cherry zesty

blood orange and twisted mango flavors in a skinny

can targeting millennials yeah i i like more

pop with my money thank you yeah that's that's

why you buy kroger brand and then you get it

through 55 cents per two liter It's delicious

Instead of two dollars for a two liter of coke

or two dollars for you know 16 ounce bottle and

it's so funny like looking at Looking at just

I'm only looking at the diet coke stuff but Out

of all the slogans that they've had over the

years just for the taste of it is by far the

best one in my mind But like the present one

is get a taste that just doesn't It's not like

those old milk does a body good Yeah, no, and

then that's what just for the taste of it was

it was kind of like milk It does a body good

diet coke just for the taste of it Diet coke,

you know, what a joke Yes, we seem to be down

to our last no this black car will be rather

difficult to miss and by the way the gentleman

is usually in quite a rush then there was you

know that batman commercial but vanilla coke

i never i don't like like you said i don't really

care for flavoring in my pop i just don't You

know go to Wendy's and whatever and they have

the the coke free style machines and it's like

Okay, I just want regular good old regular diet

coke. Would you like that with cherry lime vanilla?

I'm like, no just diet coke. No, no the above

Exactly Then there was surge there was surge

and there was jolt in the 90s both of them I

didn't like either one of them. I never tried

Jolt. I've never had it. Surge, on the other

hand, it was alright. It was like a citrus version

of Spritey. Yeah. And it even made a comeback

a few years ago. Yeah, it did. And then, you

know, we mentioned earlier with Crystal Pepsi,

there was Wild Cherry Pepsi, and Pepsi now is

still doing, is also doing the multi -flavored

things. Like, I've seen other flavors of Pepsi,

not just Crystal Pepsi or Cherry Pepsi. I've

seen, like, other stuff. Get off my lawn! And

the crazy thing is, you know, the... The last

thing on this list under food is Kid Cuisine

Meals. I remember those as a kid in the 80s,

and I remember seeing them as recent as two years

ago. Because they're still out there. Did you

ever have the Kid Cuisine Meals? Uh, no. I was

more of a lunchable kid. I had Kid Cuisine Meals

all the time. Because it used to be a giant penguin

doing the advertisements Yeah, I just it was

just never something that that I'd had as a kid

Not that I wouldn't have eaten But yeah Yeah,

I mean they're basically like a smaller kid version

of like a banquet chicken nuggets meal, you know

Kind of a thing. They're not a huge thing. They're

basically it says in the name kid cuisine therefore

therefore kids But I remember eating those So

any other candy trends or soda trends you can

think of off the top of your head before we get

the heck out of here I don't think so. I mean

that pretty much sums it up. I mean it was pretty

much the era of of kids cereal pops Capri Sun

you know that kind of you know like all those

drinks uh Capri Sun was like especially creepy

when they played it on sci -fi channel um because

they would turn it into like the secret world

of Alex Mack and then uh going through that whole

thing I mean it was just the whole thing all

the way around it just a lot of the stuff was

just kind of geared towards kids it kind of The

junk food era and that's why we all are like

so addicted to sugar now Thanks grown -ups Yeah,

I remember stuff like gobstoppers and Jopper

I mean some of the stuff was left over from the

80s, but it really picked back up in the 90s

and things like that Like mama Celeste pizza

for one kind of a thing that kind of stuff the

Dunkaroos kind of stuff I used to love Dunkaroos

I remember those so yeah folks what what 90s

food items that you remember that we did not

mention please sound off in the comments on the

post here on the website you can find me on Twitter

I'm at TF2 and Mike What is your Twitter, Steve?

At SCP -21. You can also follow at GeekCastRadio

for all the other show and network updates as

well as other promotional things. Join us next

time for the Trends of the 90s Part 3 when we're

going to talk about some 90s franchises that

started. And I don't think at least one of them

is just a trend or a fad because it's been going

on for... 25 years So yeah So join us next time

for that if you guys have any suggestions for

other 90s trends stuff or any other decade Trending

stuff. I know we're just kind of covering the

bare minimum here But as I said in the beginning

of this episode of the last week's episode, we're

trying to give you these in 30 minutes or less

So, you know pizza pizza Yeah, that's a franchise

we should talk about next time. For now, I am

DF2 and Mike with... SCP -21. Thank you for listening.

Until next time, unleash the junk food geek in

you. Nom nom nom. Nom nom nom. Too creepy! He

loves to make your hot pizza ice cold. Call Domino's

Pizza and avoid the noise. We keep the cold out

and all this quality in. So when you want quality

pizza hot and delicious, Domino's Pizza delivers.

One call does it all. Meg, I'm going to lunch

now and I'm having pizza. So if you see the Noid

running around, tell him if he ruins my pizza's

freshness, I'll snap his neck. Hey, Meg, I need

to see the mayor about this $400 parking ticket.

Ryan, you can't just barge in here. You have

to make an appointment. But this is flat -out

extortion. No, it's not. Adam can charge whatever

he wants for a parking ticket. You know, Meg,

that guy's been playing fast and loose with his

position for years now, and I've had it. He's

a corrupt bastard. That is not true. Yes, it

is. Somebody's got to stand up and prove to this

town that he's a crook. And it looks like it

has to be me. What was all the commotion? Oh,

nothing. It was just... Perhaps it was the Noid

who should have avoided me. Joe Kramer here,

composer from Mission Impossible Rogue Nation.

This podcast from the Geekcast Radio Network

will self -destruct in five seconds.