37 snacks that will take you back to the ’90s

Despite our parents’ best attempts to make us eat vegetables, most kids in the ’90s would’ve preferred to feast on junk food. And let’s face it, ’90s snacks were especially delectable.

For your daily serving of nostalgia, take a look back at our favorite foods and snacks from childhood. Surprisingly, some of these ’90s foods have actually withstood the test of time, while others now live in ’90s snack heaven.

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From the chocolatey (and grammatically incorrect) Oreo O’s of yesteryear to the still very delicious Gushers, these are the 37 ’90s snacks that will bring you back to the tasty decade in a big way.

1. Minute Maid Juice Bars

Each juice bar tasted like your favorite Minute Maid juice all wrapped up in a neat, frosty, cone-like package. Walking down the freezer aisle of the grocery store after school, there’s no way you wouldn’t beg your mom to buy you some of these icy treats.

2. Soda-licious

Soda or candy? There was no need to choose when the soda-flavored Soda-licious candy was available for purchase.

3. Squeeze It

These brightly-colored containers full of juice easily doubled as a water gun.

4. Yoplait Trix Yogurt

How parents ever let their kids eat these rainbow-colored yogurts is a mystery that has yet to be solved.

These Trix cereal-flavored yogurts can still be found online, along with numerous slime tutorials based on this favorite ’90s snack.

5. Lunchables

When mom forgot to pack your lunch, that meant one delicious thing: Lunchables for lunch! The DIY lunch kits gave you the option of creating your own ham or turkey and cheese cracker combos, or tiny personal pizzas, that usually came with a small treat and Capri Sun on the side.

Thankfully, these ’90s snacks still bless most refrigerated sections of supermarkets and offer even more varieties today, like nacho cheese and chicken popper Lunchables.

6. Viennetta

Vienetta is truly the classiest ice cream cake ever to be made. It’s beautiful ripples of ice cream, like the hide of a Shar-Pei oozed elegant decadence, whether they were being served after dinner or at a birthday party.

And for those curious to see how this majestically layered cake is made, you need only to watch this video.

7. Cookie Crisp

Cookie Crisp was introduced to the cereal aisle in 1977, but fully caught the attention of children everywhere in the ’90s. And how could it not? It’s cookies for breakfast!

The only difference between the Cookie Crisp now and Cookie Crisp in the ’90s is the replacement of Chip the Dog with Chip the Wolf.

8. War Heads

There’s still nothing that compares to the experience of having a War Head purse your lips from its overpowering sour flavor. ’90s candy made you suffer.

9. Little Hugs Fruit Barrels

Little Hugs juice aka colored sugar water are magical, colorful flavor explosions, and you can still order them online to quench your thirst.

10. Melody Pops

Guaranteed to piss off your parents, these whistling lollypops were a coveted musical treat.

The blessed Melody Pops are still available for purchase on Amazon, for those looking to bring a little more music to snack time.

11. String Thing

String Thing was a literal string of candy that you were invited to play with as a child and it was glorious.

RIP Sting Thing.

12. Trix cereal when it had fun shapes

Sure, Trix can still be found in the cereal isle, but we swear it’s not as much fun to eat without those cool flower cereal pieces mixed in.

13. Oreo O’s

Oreo O’s were basically just chocolate Fruit Loops, but who are we to judge! Oreo O’s were a beautiful chocolatey start to the day, and truthfully we could really use them right now.

14. Oatmeal Swirlers

Oatmeal Swirlers brought your breakfast to the next level with a sweet blend of sugars and spaces. And if I’m being honest, oatmeal hasn’t been the same since.

15. 3D Doritos

Imagine Doritos but 3D and you’ve got yourself some 3D Doritos, baby!

Sadly, after the discontinuation of these multi-dimensional snacks, 2D Doritos just don’t do it for me anymore. A ’90s snack casualty we’ll never get back. Sad.

16. Bubble Jug

Because sometimes you need a jug’s worth of gum.

17. Shark Bites

Tons of shark-shaped gummies on the market but none compare to the Shark Bites fruit snacks. And, let’s be real, the white sharks tasted the best.

18. Planters Cheese Balls

Cheese Balls are still a thing, but Planters made the best ones.

19. P.B. Crisps

Oh how I wish Planters’ peanut butter-flavored cereal would come back to the cereal aisle.

They were so peanut-y, so crispy, so delicious, If only they would return.

20. Jet-Puffed FunMallows

Because regular marshmallows aren’t fun at all, Jet-Puffed needed to create FunMallows, the fruit flavored marshmallows we all craved.

21. Pepsi Blue

Pepsi needs to bring this back. Why should Gatorade have all the fun with the color blue?

22. Dunkaroos

There was nothing better than peeling back the plastic of a Dunkaroos’ package and using a cookie to scoop a lump of frosting into your mouth.

Dunkaroos please come back, we all miss you.

23. Dinosaur Eggs oatmeal

Waiting with bated breath while “eggs” transformed into tiny candy dinosaurs, made eating oatmeal a thrilling morning activity. And thankfully, you can still purchase these for a dino-filled morning.

24. Scooby Doo Fruit Snacks

It’s no mystery why everyone went crazy for Scooby Doo Fruit Snacks—they’re fruity gummy delights!

25. Push up

It’s unclear why the Flintsones were the Push Ups spokespeople (spokescartoons?), but it didn’t matter. The sherbet popsicles that came in six different were so delicious that no one ever questioned it.

26. French Toast Crunch

Cinnamon Toast Crunch just doesn’t compare to these tiny french toast-flavored morsels. A ’90s cereal that really stuck to the “more sugar is better” mantra.

27. Pizzarias

Ignore the fact that Pizzerias sounds a lot like diarrhea and imagine this: pizza-flavored Doritos. So. Good.

28. Orbitz

Orbitz drinks were like a warmup for bubble tea. Each of the fruit-flavored beverages contained a generous amount of gellen gum to give it its trademark lava lamp-like look, resulting in an unusual, yet enjoyable mouthfeel.

Truly a ’90s drink ahead of its time.

29. Ninja Turtles Ice Cream

These ice cream pops inspired by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were the coveted treat of every ’90s child come summertime. And the best part: the eyes were made out of bubble gum.

30. Laffy Taffy Sparkle Cherry

Sparkly candy is the best candy and Laffy Taffy’s Sparkle Cherry taffy was the sparkliest.

Be your most decadent self and pick up a box of the glam, glitzy candy on Amazon today.

31. Anything that came out of an Easy Bake oven

Is there no greater taste than a brownie or doughnut cooked by a lightbulb? Absolutely not.

While the easy bake oven has been given a makeover in recent years, it can still provide you with many sweet and savory treats, from pretzels to whoopie pies, all of which are available on Amazon.

32. Ring Pops

Everyone’s first engagement ring.

The Ring Pop remains a ’90s candy classic, and can thankfully are still available everywhere that candy is sold so you can fashionably indulge your sweet tooth wherever you are.

33. Cosmic Brownies

These tiny fudge and rainbow sprinkle-covered brownies were the ultimate after-school treat.

Luckily for all of us grown-ups, these tasty snacks can still be found in most grocery stores.

34. Ouch! Bubble Gum

What’s more delicious than candy that reminds you of an injury?

Each stick of Ouch! gum was folded up into a wrapper that looked like a colorful band-aid denoting the stick’s flavor. The ’90s were a wild time.

35. Butterfinger BBs

D’oh! Why can’t we bring these little beads of Butterfinger back?

36. Gushers

A ’90s snack staple, Gushers could be found in nearly every school cafeteria that decade.

Each little gummy, filled with a splash of delicious fruit goo, still holds a special place in my adult heart. And these fruity little gems can still be found in most stores today.

37. Spaghetti O’s!

Spaghetti O’s are “O” shaped noodles with a marinara-like sauce that were for some reason a coveted savory snack in the ’90s. Though they’ve largely fallen out of favor with kids over the years, they’re still widely available in supermarkets.

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