Fun Facts About Your Favorite 90s Foods

[@MaulyMayhem]

I think my first real taste of disappointment was being handed a microwaved kid cuisine and I was raised with a single parent 😂. That penguin lied. I had no fun with that meal.

[@tentoe5431]

Lol different experience for me, I loved those things 😅

[@Linda7647]

@@tentoe5431 So did my son. That was in the 2000's, but Kid Cuisine was still around. Anytime I went grocery shopping, I had to pick him up a few more of those meals.

[@tentoe5431]

@@Linda7647 lol I would beg for those in the grocery store and lunchables

[@Linda7647]

@@tentoe5431 Yep, Lunchables too, lol. To this day my son still eats those. The nachos one is his favorite.

[@aftersexhighfives]

I loved them in the 90s.😂

[@annasahlstrom6109]

Dunkaroos, Viennetta, Gushers, Orbitz, Fruitopia, and the extensive Snapple flavor line.

[@btetschner]

I have never had Viennetta before, it looks so good!

[@RoseRose-hp4rq]

My grandfather used to buy vienetta in the 90s and we thought we were bougie AF eating that thing

[@btetschner]

@@RoseRose-hp4rq Was it really good?

[@voltaliobscur]

I think they might still have Fruitopia somewhere. Canada, IIRC.

[@saucytony4609]

Dnt forget fruit roll ups and go gart

[@Patchouliprince]

I’m a 2000’s baby never saw the 90’s but I still felt very nostalgic about all these foods

[@FDNY101202]

Sorry you didn't get to experience the most chill decade 😢

[@SkyBlue-qn8me]

You would have loved the 80s a whole lot more!

[@balls9420]

For me the 2010s were a chill decade. But all of this bs is nostalgia. There was no "better" decade to live.

[@livya1085]

@@FDNY101202can’t be sorry if we didn’t experience it..besides I believe in past lives/reincarnation so who knows maybe we will or shifting which we could experience it that way

[@livya1085]

@@balls9420exactly I loves 2010s and even some of 2020 not Covid but the trends are kinda nostalgic even now

[@ThaFashionAssassin]

Born December ’85 I was a 90’s child. The best decade ever!

[@brangar2923]

This has become one of my favorite channels, but thanks for making me feel old!

[@NASCARFAN93100]

The 1990s were definitely memorable

[@laurachristianson1688]

Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s with a working mom spaghetti o’s , hamburger helper, and bologna sandwiches were definitely my diet staples as was instant breakfast 🤭

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

B.S. Most, if not all of these entries, regardless of when they were released, shot to fame in the 70s. I was produced in the 60s, so all of this stuff was well established by the 90s.

[@osgeld]

favorite 90's foods ... thats been the favorite since the 1890's

[@tremorsfan]

I remember that those Kid Cuisine commercials always talked about how you could find them in your "grocer's freezer". For some reason I always heard that as your "ferocious freezer", so I pictured them going around to find if any of the freezers were ferocious.

[@pamelamays4186]

Growing up in the Seventies, my family ate a lot of Hamburger Helper. There was also Tuna Helper.

[@one7decimal2eight]

Love me some hamburger helper. Or how I refer to it...white trash in a box.

[@scarletcrusader5431]

Tuna Helper sounds so good!

[@parlaygod]

@@scarletcrusader5431 tuna helper!!!

[@patrickdurham8393]

They still have Tuna Helper.

[@leslietarkin]

Fish sticks, apple sauce, and mac & cheese was a real treat.

[@krisfrederick5001]

Best time to be a kid, in literally every way. Music, movies, cartoons, toys, and the food. I may be bias...but I'm also right!

[@one7decimal2eight]

I grew up in the 80s and 90s. 80s was significantly better.

[@SkyBlue-qn8me]

That's because you didn't grow up in the 80s which was a billion times better than the 90s. A lot more breezy and upbeat than the downbeat 90s

[@HutchIsOnYT]

News flash: things you grew up with will always feel better than things kids grow up with now

[@one7decimal2eight]

@Ispira true. AIDS ravaged the gay community like the bubonic plague in the 80s and 90s.

[@Linda7647]

@@HutchIsOnYT Very true.

[@B.H.56]

I'm a senior citizen and I still love fish sticks. BTW, stuffed crust pizza was a direct result of the dairy industry pushing to include more dairy products in different kinds of food.

[@chazzwozzio]

Big dairy at it again

[@tyneishalewis9917]

Awesome video, Weird History Food! I love the theme of this one, I ate quite a few of these in the 90s. If you can, I would love to see more of this topic if not part 2 to this video!

[@OriginalGrasshopper]

Hamburger Helper and Spaghetti-O’s go way, way back….long before the 90’s. I ate those in the 1970’s.

[@cb613]

90's best decade ever in all of history. If you weren't around I feel sorry for ya.

[@chipskylark172]

We were the last carefree generation. I feel bad for this current gen Z lol

[@juansanchez209]

I think what you meant to write was “90s is the decade I grew up and I’m nostalgic for it”. Everybody thinks the decade they grew up in is the best. People say the same thing about the 70s, 80s, etc.

[@cb613]

@@juansanchez209 uuuh no. It's literally the best decade ever. I've been in many decades lol.

[@rulezer0682]

​@@chipskylark172carefree? Since when? No point in human history has life been carefree for any population. As kids we didn't know all the problems going on around the world. Especially us middle class kids in rich nations like Canada and the USA. We are very privileged

[@juansanchez209]

@@cb613 Yes, and I’m sure your formative years were spent in the 90s. What if I said “I’ve lived through many decades and the 80s are literally the best decade ever”. See what I mean? Not a very compelling argument since it’s rooted in nostalgia and subjective perception

[@chipskylark8869]

1:16 "room temperature ice cubes" I guess if the room is below freezing.

[@jerrho1]

Yes, I believe it's called water lol that one threw me a bit

[@shadegloom]

Finally, a lost that doesn't crap all over 90s food. I love my crappy 90s stuff! Lol Sunny D was a staple in my family!

[@btetschner]

Did you ever have Snapple Mango Madness before?

[@BarnabyJones07]

Sunny D was a staple in your family? Uggh, tell us you lived on food stamps without telling us you lived off food stamps

[@shadegloom]

@Ben Alan never had food stamps haha Sometimes, having a silly junk food is just fun. Try not to be a stick in the mud. You'll have more fun in life.

[@shadegloom]

@btetschner not usually a mango fan, but I'm sure I tried it hahs

[@Housesider]

@@BarnabyJones07 Are you unironically being a classist dipshit right now? I mean it's youtube, so of course you are. What's it like huffing paint every morning?

[@bammbamm1226]

This made me miss my childhood even more

[@HisVirusness]

...I literally never think of the Star Wars prequels, given the only one released in the 90's was the first one; the other two were in the early 2000's. Young Anakin Skywalker doesn't exactly come to mind when I think about 1993-1998.

[@briewest738]

I was kinda hoping for gushers, fruit roll up or fruit by the foot. Or the bubblegum in the bandaid tins

[@TheTabyo]

The kid cuisine segment unlocked a core memory for me. Need to call my mom now to tell her thank you for putting up with me

[@lisapop5219]

😂she has to be joking that nobody ate Salisbury steak between the 50s and 90s. It was a school cafeteria staple

[@OriginalGrasshopper]

Exactly! It was guaranteed that you’d get Salisbury Steak at least once a week in school when I was a kid in the 1970’s.

[@gamerbear84]

yeah, a lot of these were really not in any way specifically 90s things, just things that lasted at least 'till the 90s.

[@B.H.56]

@@OriginalGrasshopper mystery meat.

[@ytgytgy]

I spontaneously remembered the old kid cuisines with the funpacks in the early 90's earlier today. my dumb toddler ass loved those things back then with their brightly colored stickers and mazes/puzzles. fun times

[@SixofQueens]

I can't help but point out that only Phantom Menace came out in the 90's and even then in 1999. The release of the updated OT (and subsequent backlash) feels much more 90s to me.

[@btetschner]

A+ video! Awesome foods!

[@theaterthug7]

I was a Tang guy myself but man those Kid cuisine and lunchables were a kids go to.

[@btetschner]

Some of the crew I detassled with called me "Raw SpaghettiOs Boy" when I would bring SpaghettoOs in my lunch and eat them straight out of the can.

[@melissacooper8724]

I remember my grandma used to have Sunny Delight in her refrigerator. I would drink it sometimes when I visited her after school. I haven't had Sunny D for over 20 years.

[@shainahullihen1159]

I have Sunny D right now but I never liked it in the 90's as it tasted off to me. The formula must have changed and now I love it.

[@btetschner]

The Sound of Music is my mother's favorite film.

[@NewMessage]

For a second there, I thought "You can eat Chia Pets?"

[@AnotherPaulShin]

Same here!!! 😂

[@vvboi]

actually the sprouts are edible

[@TimothyZakaria]

​@@vvboifish sticks are amazing when cooked right but I didn't know they came from Alaska

[@joelwhite2830]

90s stuff! Yay! I feel older now! 😂

[@mattcote7687]

I love this show and how there's references to other episodes on this channel: Still not bored of this 🙂 Gonna go with stuffed-crust pizza on that one 🍕

[@cgraham6]

I was never a huge fan of Spaghettios, but I probably ate my weight several times over in Chef Boyardee canned ravioli. That and Kraft Mac and cheese.

[@B.H.56]

canned macaroni and cheese (yes, it exists) is one of the most disgusting foods EVER.

[@cgraham6]

@@B.H.56 I can't say that's something I would be eager to try

[@hannahdawg6829]

Ngl, that Japanese stuffed crust pizza sounds really good

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

No way, I gagged! especially the vegemite one...just nasty.

[@jennifer_m.8613]

2:48 - and in Pittsburgh, we call it jumbo

[@DoctorZorders]

Star Wars prequels in the 90s? What? Phantom Menace came out in 99, the prequels are definitely an aughts thing.

[@BFSilenceDogood]

I could totally go for a bologna sandwich right now.

[@StyleshStorm]

The powerful 90s nostalgia

[@JustlikeAmber]

I was definitely expecting lunchables to be on here

[@HayTatsuko]

_Jimmie Rodgers_ did the Spaghetti O's jingle? As in, the father of country music? Definitely counts as my coolest new fact learned this day.

[@KaylaPearlCPNinja]

Ironically enough, I never eaten Spaghetti O’s or Chef Boyardee at any point in my lifetime. Also I was born in 1998, and my brothers were born in 1993 and 1995 respectively. We didn’t have some of the things that were mentioned in this video despite how popular they were during the 90’s.

[@MrRezRising]

Hey! Molly Schuyler at 5:12! "...not enough to fill any bellies..." and you flash Molly?! Your editor has a real sense of humor. 🤣🤣👍

[@applesauceisgood32]

I'm 32 and still love Spaghettios, oddly tasty especially when drunk.

[@blunderingfool]

In the UK we don't call em "fish sticks" but "Fish fingers". I have no idea why.

[@cb613]

It's because the UK is retarded.

[@RonHammers]

Love the abundant humor in this ep!

[@tsadkiel2008]

🤣🤣 *"Regardless of what they are made of"* @7:50 😂😂😂

[@gingerfloofy]

I'm not familiar with American foods but these are such interesting foods. I definitely am a fan of salisbury steak though... it's so good.

[@jerranspearman3369]

good video

[@rickoom3081]

My kid's were little then and the cartoons were great. Rocket power, catdog, hey Arnold.

[@DavidSusiloUnscripted]

Just because they’re available in the 90s don’t make them 90s food.

[@vixengypsy]

I'm interested in the histories of Sloppy Joes Vs. Manwich or even seperate vids.

[@thebestchannel5456]

Sunny delight was real popular in the 80s also

[@glennso47]

I remember when I was standing in line at a grocery store and I began to feel like I was going to faint. I actually did and someone brought me a bottle of Sunny D. I chugged it and I felt better after I did it.

[@facchinett]

Love the 90's

[@theheckwithit]

"I want that purple stuff"

[@MrRezRising]

You got a cool Mom!

[@fluttershyamy]

I remember all of this food stuff from my childhood in the 90's

[@DSMTheEditor]

I did not expect the Islanders Gortons Fisherman to pop up 😂

[@Kittensarecute111]

Oh hey! I work at the harbor where the boat at 7:51 moors! She's called the Kulshan.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

This reminds me of my cravings for that stuff crust pizza back then

[@AshleyFromTX]

“The Ocean’s Hot Dog” 😂😂

[@packertai1]

Sunny D, Kids Cuisine! The memories, I miss them! This video put a smile on my face! I am going to buy some next time I am at the store! 😂❤

[@0scJohnson0]

Why were people mad at sunny delight and not the adult allowing a baby to drink massive amounts of a sugar drink?

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks for this! 🥫 #WeirdHistoryFood #FoodHistory #90s

[@bigbaddawg101]

I once went to a gas station and saw one of their coolers have OJ, soda, some weird purple drink, and Sunny D.

[@RXdash78]

Whn you think of the 90s, you might think of a move that came out in 2005.

[@elizlikethequeen]

As a kid I ate TONS of carrots. I was planning on a lucrative life as Bugs Bunny. I'm 48 for reference. I turned orange. My Mom was a Nurse, she knew I was fine. 😊😊 If only we'd thought to sue the carrot industry to bankroll my life as Bugs!

[@feralstorm]

Several of these foods are staples of the '90s ... and '80s ... and '70s ... and...

[@DragonKazooie89]

Sunny Delight - Drink it whenever I have eggs and bacon for breakfast or when I have a cold Spaghetti-Os - have it was a side dish to this day like with pork chops Bologna - Another breakfast food as a sandwich with toast, cheese and mustard. Usually had it by itself or with cereal Hamburger Helper - Not my favorite as a kid and I still don't care for it Molten Chocolate Cake - Never had it but I want to try it! Fish Sticks - I preferred breaded fish patties to them. Often ate them with the earlier mentioned Spaghetti-Os Salisbury steak - Hate it as a kid, always disliked it's flavor and how fatty is was Stuffed crust pizza - Love it, wish I had it more often... Kid Cuisine - Never had it, just had the small Banquet frozen meals instead

[@realChewky]

As a Catholic, we'd always eat a whole mess of fish sticks on Fridays. One time my older brother wanted the last one so I threw it outside and he beat the crap out of me.

[@LisaMadventure]

Oh man that makes me miss my childhood

[@EclecticDD]

The same thing would have happened to the baby if he were given a lot of carrots. Way healthier than a sugary drink.

[@lbednaz]

My daughter was about 8 months old and got an orange hue, she loved carrots sweet potatoes and orange juice. Her pediatrician explained it was due to too much beta carotene and went away in about 10 days.

[@marylist1236]

I grew up Roman Catholic, in the pre Vatican II times when you didn't eat meat on Fridays, and fish sticks were a popular meal

[@kirbyculp3449]

The school lunch on Fridays, fish sticks, was the favorite-just edging out the enchiladas on Wednesdays.

[@jennzifur]

Fish and mac and cheese on Fridays lol. I remember those Catholic School days.

[@pustulioyo]

I love your guys's videos, but I don't think anybody thinks of the Star Wars prequels when they think of the '90s. You have to remember that The Phantom Menace came out in mid 1999. It's as much of a '90s movie as Enema of the State by blink-182 is a '90s album: it isn't. I think most people definitely associate the Star Wars prequels with the 2000s. Also, not sure if it's a hot take or not, but I am a staunch supporter of Hamburger Helper and love it to death! Tuna Helper is also pretty good

[@jtgd]

I was born a few years before 2000… these are all things I’ve grown up with

[@JDBass36]

No doubt the 90s bled into the early 2000s I'll say after maybe 2004 and beyond that's where the it became it's own different era

[@iamsioth]

Growing up, I would eat my spaghettios cold, straight out of the can. Don't ask me why, but it just taste better that way lol

[@whispernorbury7985]

We currently have most of these items in our kitchen.

[@4204-f2f]

I was the 420th like ❤❤❤❤

[@josephpalacio1350]

The Star Wars prequels were released in the 2000s. Phantom menace was 1999.

[@christiankneupper7011]

the star wars prequels were early 2000s. Episode 1 came out in may of 1999 but episode I and II came out in the 2000s

[@rzpogi]

10:30 Don't forget Gorbachev eating at Pizza Hut

[@angeldeb82]

Seriously? You don't even know that the penguin mascot of Kid Cuisine was named B.J., while the "polar bear" mascot was named Chef? I've known their names since I was a kid. Oh yeah, and the Hamburger Helper meals were very popular when we were kids too! Nice vid.

[@gm7304]

Very good video. Thank You. I lived through all that stuff.🍱 I'm going on 5 years whole foods. Thank goodness I don't have any health issues yet at 59.

[@Babbleplay]

If Sunny D taught me anything, it was every family fridge in America had the exact same drinks, including purple stuff, in them. Not only that, but in the exact same order, too.

[@juandacharroninja]

You need to make an entire video dedicated solely to Dr Atkins and his diet

[@markfigueroa1681]

It's not Sunday but I'll take it!

[@NateButlerFresnoCA]

I enjoyed your video -- and all the Weird Food History videos! -- but I count it as further proof that young people today don't believe that anything in the world existed before they were born. That is to say, I was born in the mid-1960s, and almost every single item in this video was a common part of the American middle-class family diet when I was growing up; so, you could've removed one or two truly 90s items and retitled it "Fun Facts About Your Favorite 70s Foods." The Oscar Mayer commercial clip shown (of the kid on the dock singing) was from the mid-70s, and everyone I knew, child or adult, could sing that jingle from memory. Oscar Mayer baloney, Spaghetti-Os (another jingle that every 70s kid knew), fish sticks, Salisbury steak, Hamburger Helper -- all of these things were common food staples in the 1970s and considered old hat by the 90s; sorry to break it to ya, kids, but they were all around long before you were. 😁

[@glazdarklee1683]

Yep. Me too.

[@AltimaNEO]

So many missing things! Squeez-it, square pizza (dominator, big foot), SoBe, Snapple, pizza bagels, pizza rolls, corn nuts, etc!

[@BradYaeger]

I can't handle the additives any more but I still make a healthier version of Hamburger Helper that's pretty close to original .

[@TurdFergurson]

Ever since that Dave Chappelle bit, I always look at the black kid when they say "purple stuff."

[@jtgd]

3:25 “ey, you better not make this meat again, capishe !?”

[@williampalenik7306]

Spaghetti O's, pizza, Hamburger Helper were good

[@Tully_23_32]

What is room temperature ice cubes? Does that mean water? That team mascot looks like the killer in I Know What You Did Last Summer

[@NikkiDeJonge]

I would've liked to try those plastic bottles of "Squeeze-it" fruit drinks with the faces on them but, they weren't available in Canada 🍁

[@XSlimSxadyX]

1:44 I also had orange skin from vegetables 😅😅

[@davidsalvador6031]

Sailsbury was one of the OGs if the carnivore and elimination diets to treat ailments and disease

[@Kinglioncrown]

The 1990s had it going good.

[@benjones7634]

Room temperature ice cubes LOL

[@pamelamays4186]

Uh-oh Spaghetti-O's!

[@Endquire]

I grew up eating chocolate, but sometimes lemon, pudding cakes in the 80's made by my mother and grandmother. I admit that I can't recall ever going to TGI Fridays. I've been to an Applebee's a few times and a ruby Tuesdays once. I never heard the phrase molten chocolate cake until sometime after 2000. I think there might be some history missing here.

[@terriwetz6077]

I've found a recipe for the pudding cake! As a kid (1960 - 1970's), my mom would make it from a box mix. Last time I saw one of those must've been around the mid to late 1980's.

[@Endquire]

@@terriwetz6077 I was asking my mother about pudding cakes and she said she had them in her childhood which would have been in the 60's. I was looking up pudding cakes after making my initial comment and I quickly found some interesting recipes for chocolate and lemon, but nothing about their history. When I was a child, would eat chocolate pudding cake hot in a bowl, with a little milk added. It is the sort of thing that fills one with warmth and joy.