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Different countries get nostalgic about different things. Here's a bunch of nostalgic objects my viewers submitted from their countries.
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[@subparnaturedocumentary]

@11:37 these cromulent vehicles all look like they get 90 hectares on a single thimble of kerosene when cruising in H.

[@BOABModels]

The car from the country which 'no longer exists ' in the Simpsons is actually based on a British made Invacar (invalid carriage), a small, single seater car designed to help disabled people get around.

[@wigwagstudios2474]

ZAGREV EBNIM ZLOTYK DJEV

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

@wigwagstudios2474 one drive and I definitely agree 😆

[@vonPeterhof]

The Putin pencil thing doesn't have a deep meaning behind it, I believe it's just a reference to a moment from 2021 when Putin was filmed catching a pencil that was about to roll off of his desk, which became a minor meme after some TV commentators praised his quick reaction.

[@JJMcCullough]

Oh interesting. That's pretty mild satire then.

[@rodionmalovytsia1020]

@@JJMcCullough Bad answer, you are arrested on charges of discrediting the president.

[@tomekgalicki2267]

I think I know the meaning of the joke. Several decades ago the Americans invented special pens for weightlessness and changing temperatures in space. The tests cost millions of dollars. The Soviet communists used cheap pencils instead . The problems began after sharpening, when wood chips and dust from the graphite began to fly throughout the spacecraft. I heard the anecdote while growing up in Poland in the 1980s.

[@vonPeterhof]

@@tomekgalicki2267 zero chance. Absolutely nobody in Russia thinks of Putin in connection to the Soviet space program, plus that pencil anecdote isn’t really common knowledge, and even those Russians who do know it tend to only know it up to the “hah, dumb Americans” punchline, with the problems caused by the pencils being known by even fewer people.

[@ZimbabweanBugbite]

Oh also as an American who lives in the rust belt, it’s easily the old Route 66 or as I like to call it “oiler” culture, old metal signs and gas pumps, just think of a gas station somewhere in the American southwest, it’s basically that aesthetic

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

Yup, totally get it, even though just a common or garden Brit! What you're referring to is well known here plus we have our own, very similar version....

[@IL4NR]

That "ding ding!" sound those old gas pumps made still sticks around.

[@clcelsor]

An example of this nostalgia appearing in unexpected places- I used to live in Beijing. One of the biggest nightclubs there is a place called Mix. Mix has two levels, the top level plays electronic dance music, the bottom level plays hip hop. The place caters heavily to second generation rich Chinese and is very gaudy and unbelievably loud. Between the two levels, there’s a giant sign that says ROUTE 66. Never quite understood how it fits the theme but I’m from Oklahoma so it always reminded me of home.

[@Saltiren]

Yep, love seeing pictures of old gas stations in tiny towns. So aesthetic of a time before my own.

[@Annie_Annie__]

I’m from Texas and some people decorate their entire houses in this kind of aesthetic. Inside and out sometimes. A lot of times the people that decorate heavily in this style are retired from working in the oilfield in some way (and as such their decor will tend more towards that subject) or are car mechanics, whether as a career or a hobby (and of course their decor leans more towards the open road, old fashioned gas station vibe).

[@TheBalancedOmTherapy]

I love it, "sometimes culture is a deformed popsicle, and that's OK!" 🧑‍🍳👌

[@noahalter7592]

Hello JJ, my name is friends!

[@user-sh3cf7kd6e]

*OUR name

[@Chrnan6710]

Hello names, my friend is JJ!

[@bsgsmusic3451]

Hello my, JJ is friends name!

[@megajatt123]

MAAE name is JAYJAY

[@RegnumHungariae]

Hello is my name, JJ friends.

[@serhiy-serhiiv]

Not sure if this counts, but in Ukraine as well as other various eastern block countries the videogame S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl has become a large source of nostalgia for people who grew up in 90-00's. Not only was it the first large videogame made in this region, but due to it being set in the zone around Chernobyl the locations felt extremely similar to generic eastern block cities, with small village houses, massive abandoned factories, and 5 and 9 story highrises, making it feel extremely familiar to everyone who grew up in this region. Playing it made you feel like you were home in a way no other game could make you feel.

[@Dreamweaver94]

What about Half Life? Specifically HL2, as I remember a lot of the environment looking like how I imagined Eastern block countries would like.

[@rodionmalovytsia1020]

Its an improtant media object for sure, but in the context of these videos, we are talking moreso about physical objects, so i think in Ukraine's context Zhyvchyk or that 2000s brand of cartoonish sukahryky would apply.

[@serhiy-serhiiv]

@@rodionmalovytsia1020 zhyvchyk would definitely fit the criteria, plus non-stop and mivina "Без нон-стопу і мівіни немає України".

[@rodionmalovytsia1020]

@@serhiy-serhiiv Mivina is god-tier (even if its *basic*)

[@larajensenjurado515]

As a Brazillian, I like to think that the farm animal kitchen cloths are our year-round, tropical version of the ugly christmas sweater tradition from north america, due to how ironic it has become. Many of these cloths used to have motivational and/or religious phrases stamped on them, like "God bless this house", or "May this day be wonderfull", but more recently, Millenials and Zoomers have begun to subvert this trend by sewing/ordering cloths with ironic phrases, often even based on typhos often found on older folks online mensages. Take this example: "May God Enlighten You" is "Deus te ilumine", and that is incredibly close to the much less appealing "May God Smite You" or "Deus te elimine". I personally really love this subversion, and find it very funny.

[@JJMcCullough]

Ahh I love that kinda thing.

[@DashingPartyCrasher]

Sounds cute. In the US, most people call those kitchen towels, not cloths. (Probably because they look similar to bathroom hand towels.)

[@vacatiolibertas]

my man's engagement bait was a success worthy of a twenty minute deep video. worth it.

[@TheKingOfBeans]

What

[@Marylandbrony]

I think one of the more interesting trends in "Nostalgia" especially among Millennials and Zoomers is the shift away from objects being nostalgic but also just as much if not more that "Aesthetics" are now just as important if not more so. I think this is personally down to the rise of technology as the main way we interact as children just as much as toys, foods, school supplies etc. Also i wonder what Gen Alpha will be nostalgic for, another thing i notice is that nostalgia cycles are getting shorter and shorter, From 20-30 year cycles to about 10-20 years now. Frutiger Aero becoming nostalgic is a huge sign of this.

[@Croz89]

It's interesting with Frutiger Aero because we don't always think of the early 2000's as a nostalgic period since they didn't have the same optimism as the pre 9/11 world. But that period was still fairly economically prosperous despite of that. You really need to get to the great recession for things to become darker.

[@maxwellli7057]

People are already professing in droves their nostalgia for just a pre-COVID time, area 51 raid and Fortnite included

[@leometz7287]

Frutiger Aero is 20 years ago

[@austinreed7343]

@@Croz89 And even then the 1890s still had nostalgia despite all the bad things going on, so I’m confident we’ll get nostalgia for the 2010s-2020s.

[@ToyInsanity]

There will be nostalgia for Fortnite and Minecraft and Stanley Cups.

[@Bagguetus]

Every german 🇩🇪 household has a leaf shaped salad bowl here. Its an old timey relic, wich noone remembers buying, connecting probably every german household. It was sold via house-to-house direct marketing after war and it seems to be embraced these days as a german "insider", even landing on the german r/place flag

[@Tobi-ln9xr]

Dünnschiss

[@officialxverzusz]

11:45 HOLY SHIT THAT'S ME!! I was the guy who submitted that!! I honestly never expected anything I post to be featured in your channel but fuck yeah I'm happy :D Also I'm a Gen Z but I'd 100% get a black Lada just so I could crash it into a water drainage ditch on the side of the road Just like old Hungarians in the 70's!

[@officialxverzusz]

Also your pronunciation of "Kispolszki" was spot on 🤙

[@JJMcCullough]

Thank you so much! It was great!

[@4307kettwig]

German here. The South African mattress pattern from 3:27 was quite popular around here in the 70s/80s for cushion covers and such. But most prominently, floral patterns like that became synonymous with a specific type of nylon smock aprons ('Kittelschürze') which all grannies born up until the 1940s used to wear in the olden days. It's sometimes even used in sketches to portray a type of old-fashioned house mum.

[@Ryan-ho4hf]

Oh wow, I was not expecting a German connection to our mattresses!

[@JETZcorp]

Here's a very specific one. The old carpet at the PDX airport became a cult object when they announced they were going to replace it. The replacement pattern was made very similar as a result of the backlash, and PDX carpet pattern clothes and knick knacks are seen pretty commonly. It's a more "if you know you know" symbol of Portland compared to the Trail Blazers NBA logo or other Portlandia.

[@JJMcCullough]

I bought a magnet of that airport carpet pattern when I was there!

[@patricklippert8345]

The Hyatt Regency in Atlanta had a similar fandom surrounding the carpet pattern for DragonCon attendees, who would do camouflage and cosplay based on the carpet pattern.

[@fionavalkyrie]

Nostalgia is definitely a moving target (Depending on your age, country, and class distribution), thanks for sharing interesting stuff like this.

[@barzomer2639]

There's this french animation called "Once Upon A time... Man" - which basically sums all of human history in 26 episodes (in a very francecentric way) from dinosaurs to WWII. It really shaped my childhood and history knowledge. It was very popular in Europe (my father grew up on it and so did I) but never made it big in the US. you can learn a lot from it about the narrative and historical cannon of 1970s europe.

[@Leofwine]

Yes, it was a thing in Germany and Poland, too. There also was a version about the human body and inventors, each.

[@JJMcCullough]

@@Leofwineohhh I think I’ve seen the human body one

[@martingonzalez3948]

Can confirm this was also a thing in Spain "Érase una vez... El hombre"

[@currykingwurst6393]

@@Leofwine Also one about space and one about America specifically.

[@barzomer2639]

@@JJMcCullough they still play full episodes of spinoff in science class here, but I like the history one because it's a great case of facts-based education: ofc their choice of facts to focus on isn't 100% objective (multiple episodes on France but 0 mentions of India/Japan/South America) but it didn't stop them from making a great show that explains a big chunk of the history a kid needs to know.

[@TheKingOfBeans]

The thing about the Freddo bars is that the price seemed to remain 10p for so long it was actually shocking when they started to raise the price 😢

[@captainweekend5276]

I think that definitely has a lot to do with why the idea of freddoflation took off, because it was sold at a stable price for so long, it meant that it doubled in price very quickly relative to how long it had existed, so then every time it went up it felt like it was spiraling out of control, even though relatively speaking it's still very cheap as chocolate bars go.

[@leometz7287]

Same with the 1€ Cheeseburger at McDonald's. It just felt wrong

[@Uhyam]

The Freddo isn't even English, it's Australian.

[@estebanmorales6487]

The butter cookie thing is quite universal I think, here in Bolivia it's also ubiquitous. And it's also mysterious: no one seems to know when or how they appeared in one's home. Mine at least seems to have been here before any one of my household's inhabitants.

[@leontrotsky7816]

I also remember my parents in the UK having those butter cookie tins, both storing the original biscuits and other random stuff.

[@maxwellli7057]

both my household in the states and my grandparents in China (who don't use the internet) have them

[@erikharaldsson2416]

I remember them growing up in southern Sweden, but always assumed that they were from a trip to Denmark or something like that. Was shocked at how global they were.

[@Hijiri_MIRACHION]

I'm Australian and I have experienced this as well.

[@Chris-ki6ui]

Solo, a norwegian soda, is very sentimentalised. It's our very own 'coca cola during the american nuclear age'. Intrestingly, they seem to have recently reverted the design and logo on the bottle to the old one. I think it looks better personally, but to put it into perspective, I certainly wasn't alive when it was last used.

[@Freddy_Guy]

I'd argue Kvikk Lunsj is our nostalgic thing. Most people don't exactly have sentimental childhood memories with Solo as you can basically get it any time. Kvikk Lunsj however is sort of a "special time" snack usually given to kids and adults usually get it when they want to reward themselves with a little chocolate or just have something sweet

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Jeez, your audience is so wonderfully international. Good job everyone! There were almost too many interesting items to process! I'm sure we'll have to rewatch this video quite a bit to properly take in all of these funny little knick-knacks. 😄

[@BouchyBoy]

"wet-az pahdington" is hilarious when the dude's username is literally wet ass paddington lmfao 9:37 :)

[@PlutosAsleep]

I LAUGHED SO HARD 😂 idk if it was an accident because i’ve done that, playing monopoly with my dad a few years back i read “Reading Railroad” as “Reee add ing rye luh row add” why? no clue i guess i was really tired. or if it was on purpose for censorship reasons 😂

[@damonroberts7372]

I suspect JJ was having a bit of fun in this video... he almost goes full Moira Rose with "Indonesia". Maybe it's his way of calling out the people who complain in the comments about him not getting the pronunciation of this-or-that thing wrong?!

[@navetal]

The story about the face on the Kinder packaging reminded me of something similar that happened in Israel in the 2000s. We have a brand of Chocolate Milk Powder called Chocolit, and it had an iconic packaging with two boys, one with brown hair and one with ginger hair, drinking chocolate milk from an oversized, clearly photoshopped glass. This product is so popular, it basically had no competition, and to this day the name "Chocolit" is synonymous with the product type itself (like how "Kleenex" is synonymous with tissue paper in the US) so every single household with kids probably had that picture of those two kids in their kitchen thanks to those packages. HOWEVER, in 2009, after a decade with that design, one of the kids (now a young adult) sued the company to take his face off of the packages, and he ended up winning. Although the company went out of their way to maintain the look, finding two new kids with exactly the same hair color and dressing them in the same colors as the originals, I still remember people looking at those packages and going "wait, who the hell are these people? What happened to the old kids?!" Also, while searching online to get the right year for that story I discovered that they changed their look again, this time it only shows hands holding the glass without any faces. It has been almost 15 years since then, perhaps they feared a similar lawsuit was brewing... I wonder if I didn't even hear about this change because, after the original design changed, people didn't develop the same attachment to the new kids as they had with the originals... Or maybe I simply don't have enough parents with young kids in my friend circles.

[@JJMcCullough]

Wild!

[@lapotencia25]

Funny enough, in the Americas among Jews who have spent time in Israel there is nostalgia for Shoko Bsakit, which is chocolate milk in a bag. When I went to Canada and was surprised to see that they have milk in a bag there it reminded me (but not as good) of Israeli Shoko!

[@MartijnPennings]

Funny how so many countries have iconic chocolate milk brands! In the Netherlands we have Chocomel (slogan: "the one and only") and practically every Dutch person will say "Chocomel" when they mean "chocolate milk".

[@navetal]

@@MartijnPennings I wasn't talking about just Chocolate milk, but specifically the choco-powder used to make chocolate milk. Israel has 3 major brands of bottled/bagged chocolate milk and they don't really have their own brand names, they're just called "[dairy farm / company name] Shoko (chocolate milk)". But the powder? There's only one, which is unrelated to those 3 (ok, TECHNICALLY their producers are owned by the same conglomerate as one of the chocolate milk makers, but that doesn't count.)

[@WillmobilePlus]

One that is pretty low-key one in the US are "Otter Pops", which are frozen flavored treats that have been around for decades, and feature individual characters for each flavor (grape, red, blue, green, ect.), which haven't changed much ever.

[@MasterGeekMX]

Late millenial Mexican here. That textbook with the dog belonged to the series that the Secretary for Public Education (SEP) released from 1993 to 2007 for all the elementary school students of the country, which were delivered for free to every single kid. Each book had that minimalist look with a colored frame indicating the grade (yellow for 1°, orange for 2°, red for 3°, green for 4°, salmon for 5° and khaki for 6°), and each featured a work of art from Mexican artists ranging from Aztec or Mayan relics to modernist painters from the 20th century. "The book of the lil' dog" (el libro del perrito) as we call it is specially nostalgic becasue it was composed entirely of tales, fables, poems, and snippets from various literature. The idea was that in first and second grade the kids read one tale from the "readings" book, and then made the exercises found in the "activities" book that acted as companion. The most famous tale from that book was the tale of Paco el Chato, which was a kid that was so little he didn't knew yet his surname nor his address. His grandma forgets to pick him up from school, which leads Paco to get lost. Then a cop sees him wandering on the street and tries to help him, but the fact that he does not know his info makes that harder. Then the cop takes the kid to the town radio station where they do a PSA for him, which finally reminds the grandma to pick him. The story is intended to leave the kids with the moral of learning their info in case of being lost.

[@JJMcCullough]

I will try to buy one!

[@Ms666slayer]

Also we parody that kind of book with the mexican Green Text compiling classic like, "La Rata con Thinner", "El perro que como cereal con cuchara", "El Metalero y la morrita con Down", "Mamitas Puebla" etc., that's like some of the best examplos of mexican memes and modern shitpost comedy.

[@MasterGeekMX]

@@JJMcCullough there are web versions of the books available online.

[@JJMcCullough]

@@MasterGeekMX but I want a physical copy

[@ernestomedina7163]

I have never thought of looking for an old copy of that book. I dont remember if we had to give them back at the end of the year in order to recycle them…

[@MusicalMethuselah]

In America I'd say a big proponent of 70s nostalgia is the aesthetic still used on Sesame Street.

[@newbies3939]

I think for most Malaysian's childhood, the most nostalgic thing would be the green Milo truck. It's basically a truck that usually show up at school's event or sports day and they basically give away free small cup of cold Milo, a malty chocolate drink. Children and even adult would line up accordngly to get a small sip of the drink. Even though you can get the same drink from the shelves, most would argued that it tasted better from the truck. It's so important in most Malaysian childhood, that it even showed up in every Independence Day Parade. Till this day, most people would get excited when they saw the green truck pulled up.

[@Lakejones18]

You hit the nail on the head with the cartoon popsicles. Every gen z, millennial person I know has nostalgia for them. I’ve got some vinyl figures of the Ninja Turtles ones, and Five Below (discount retail store) carried a knockoff Lego set of the SpongeBob popsicles

[@romad357]

The "casserole" dish is Corning Ware with its original Blue Cornflower design. I still have the coffee percolator of that design from my parents. It was my job to have the coffee made in it when they got home from work in the late afternoon.

[@benjaminwilson2945]

In the UK there's a lot of nostalgic merchandise featuring characters from the famous comic "The Beano". The comic is nostalgic to multiple generations and has been running for nearly 90 years.

[@Croz89]

The Beano also being famous for Dennis the Menace, whose first appearance almost coincided with the US character of the same name, and which are both completely unrelated to each other (UK Dennis is better, fight me Americans!).

[@nickfifteen]

I remember being a kid in the US growing up with OUR Dennis the Menace, only to discover a British kid who visited my friends who had his British Dennis the Menace, and thinking just how warped and knockoffy it seemed. Like, everything in the UK always seemed like it was an alternate timeline in the English-language multiverse... familiar yet twisted. It's a feeling I've never been able to shake over all these years.

[@elizabethdavis1696]

Please consider doing a video on messed up children’s toys. When I was a kid there was a new doll trend. Premie dolls were marketed to children symbolically representing premature babies. As if that should be romanticized for children

[@BerlinShai]

Yes! WTH was up with that!? I had several premie dolls. Weird

[@ally679]

Oh wow, that was totally a thing when I was little. I totally forgot about that. As a kid I basically thought "premie" babies meant they were extra small and extra cute.

[@zevscozyplace]

was it a specific brand, or like a general concept of a doll that multiple companies made??

[@ally679]

@zevscozyplace I specifically remember Cabage Patch Kids having them, possibly other brands too. This would have been in the mid to late 80s.

[@gameb9oy]

I think it be fun if you meant actually messed up, like both the types of toys we don’t have anymore, as they could easily kill, injure, and poison you pretty easily

[@grumpiesttitan7930]

In Sweden there was outrage a few years back when IKEA tried to raise the price of their iconic 5kr hot dogs. There is also a big nostalgia cult for 80s and 90s Volvo cars, particularly among teenagers. One iconic item all Swedish families have is one of those big blue plastic IKEA bags, used for storing things in the basement or carrying clothes to and from the washing machine.

[@davidcope5736]

I'm with you on the the celebration of "low" culture. Modern life is okay, actually. Or at least as okay as it ever was, in many ways better. Who knows, maybe in 3092 you'll have Americans carving marble reliefs of their famous mythic heroes Superman and SpongeBob.

[@soupgod4344]

Another very nostalgic german thing is the „Blätterschüssel“, which is a leaf shaped bowl, that seemingly every single german grandmother had. You can google „Oma Schüssel“ which translates to „Grandma Bowl“ and this bowl will pop up to buy. Its official name is the „Aspen Glass Bowl“ and it was even featured in the collage of german culture on r/place 2023

[@Tobi-ln9xr]

Schwachsinn. Noch nie gesehen.

[@soupgod4344]

@@Tobi-ln9xrSchade für dich, aber die ersten Ergebnisse die rauskommen wenn man „Blattschüssel“ googelt, sind artikel mit dem Titel „Warum hat jeder diese Salatschüssel?“ oder memes darüber, dass jede deutsche oma diese schüssel hat.

[@redmage87]

My wife and I were literally eating out of the blue and white casserole dish (the brand name is Corningware) while watching this! IIRC, it was a newlywed gift my granny gave to my mom. It will most likely be passed on to our son when he grows up.

[@PartyDude_19]

In America, there is quite a bit of nostalgia for this drink called "Little Hugs Fruit Barrels" as they were sold in a very distinctive packaging that resembled a transparent plastic barrel where you would have to tear open a foil sheet off the top to drink it and due to humans not being perfect, the foil would often get ripped in weird ways which if you weren't careful would sometimes scrape your lips when you drank them. You can still buy them today although, they are still sentimentalized by members of Gen X, Gen Y & Gen Z because they were often drank on special occasions like parties.

[@Shadowonwater]

From America but have never seen/heard of these maybe it's a regional thing?

[@NolanTHEfoodie]

I’m from Wisconsin never had them but also bug juice I think is another thing like the same thing and about the regional thing it could be like a Midwest kind if thing but idk

[@ToyInsanity]

They're at Dollar Tree. It's a low income thing.

[@gdoak1836]

You knew your friend's parents were struggling when they had those barrels in the fridge instead of Coke or Pepsi lol

[@Wilderness-Will]

Supportive algorithm comment

[@barzomer2639]

In Israel we have quite a bit of nostalgia toward some specific animes from the 70's and 80's. Back then Israel only had 1 channel, the national channel, and since it was so low-budget it'd buy the cheapest animations it could find - mostly Animes based on european books (Pinocchio, heart, the moomins, Nils Holgerson...). They also bought this french animation called "Once Upon A time... Man" - which basically sums all of human history in 26 episodes (in a very francecentric way) from dinosaurs to WWII. It really shaped my childhood and history knowledge.

[@zch7491]

Free Palestine!

[@youngnorwegianpatriot9028]

I remember when my family got the "Once Upon A Time... Man" discs. Those were and are still great. Also the Moomins, but usually the 90s series.

[@barzomer2639]

@@zch7491 really? Even on a jj comment section?

[@michaldworakowski187]

Simmilar story in Poland. We call it "Był Sobie...Człowiek". This Cartoon might be a hidden source of my vauge francophillia.

[@thomastakesatollforthedark2231]

In the Netherlands the "er was eens (There used to be) -" shows were a big thing for kids growing up around the 2000s. They were basically quick summaries of history, biology, technology, and other such subjects told with funny animated people hiding some truly dark stuff (like, one episode where a kid got syfilis and the virus is depicted as a group of hardy clown bandits). It's yet to grow a full cult but if you asked zoomers about it they will (in my experience) be able to tell you at least a little about their experience watching it back in the day

[@herschelwright4663]

12:26 Homer: “What country is this car from?” Eastern European car dealer: “It no longer exists. Put it to H!”😂

[@albertmiller2electricbooga897]

Royal Show/Ekka showbags are beloved here in Aus, the annual agricultural show in cities has become the go to place for carnival rides and snacks, and there are some brands like Bertie Beetle that are exclusively found once a year at these shows that kids wait for all year

[@nathanjohnwade2289]

The Ekka is for Brisbane and the Royal Easter Show is for Sydney. The sentiment is the same, especially the Bertie Beetle bags

[@albertmiller2electricbooga897]

@@nathanjohnwade2289 Royal Show is the term for Perth and the other states I think, ours is around King's Birthday in September school holiday, I just rly like the term Ekka lol

[@BOABModels]

The appreciation of Freddo bars is something I've passed onto my sons. Theres also a caramel Freddo with a soft caramel filling, which is my favourite. It's still probably the cheapest half decent chocolate bar on sale in most uk shops.

[@benjaminprietop]

In Chile, I'd say one of the most nostalgic things for my generation is the children's TV show "31 minutos", it was a news program made with puppets and it was extremely popular when I was a kid, it even crossed over to other Latin countries, like Mexico, where it's also very beloved. People still make a lot of memes and products based around the main characters, and quote them a lot. There was also a section of the show that featured made up pop songs that many, including myself, can still sing by heart. Recently, an important museum in Santiago opened an expo about the show and tickets sold out almost immediately.

[@omisan771]

When I was a kid in the 80s in Québec Canada, ice cream trucks always advertised Pacman themed popsicles in the shape of the 4 ghosts, but they NEVER had them in the truck.

[@ksplatypus]

One very nostalgic object for Mexicans and Mexican-Americans are San Marcos blankets and the plenty of knock-offs that have been made since the company closed down in 2004. The designs are hard to describe and vary. They're usually animal portraits done in monochrome usually depicting tigers, lions, wolves, or horses or depictions of the Virgin Mary or Saint Jude. They were made of a thick acrylic or polyester and are very cozy. You could usually spot them in flea markets and swap meets. Originals in good condition can sell for hundreds of dollars nowadays

[@gdoak1836]

I had a purple and black tiger blanket made of the acrylic material you described. That thing was so warm you would eventually kick it off no matter how cold the room was!

[@jblaha86]

"Sometimes culture is just a deformed popsicle and that's okay" is my new motto❤

[@jheko_mywayhome]

Kinder Chocolate is an Italian product. Created in 1968 and still made by Ferrero, the producer of Nutella. The German-sounding brand name has confused several generations of Italian kids.

[@aleisterlavey9716]

No matter how kind your children are, German children are Kinder 😂

[@lukesmith1818]

Tobak has an equivalent in England. Robertons marmalade used gollywogs on their products until shockingly recently. The gollywog doll is viewed with rose tinted glasses and there was a legal scuffle with a store that displayed them and refused to take them down. Enid Blyton had gollywogs in her fiction too, notably villains in noddy. The milky bar kid white chocolate bar had a small blonde cowboy character which is also deeply sentimentalised. If you're feeling flush its not usual to say "the milkybars are on me" as a shortcut that you got a windfall and are feeling generous. What a fun video

[@MusicalMethuselah]

I adore "the milkybars are on me," that's amazing

[@skootergirl22]

For me, the smell of rubbery plastic reminds me of nursery school and infant play parks I went to. Also, the see though style Imacs that I wanted as a kid but never got one, but I think I had a gameboy colour that was see-through

[@j-morecoffeepls]

I have no less than half a dozen Cafe Bustelo cans around the house, usually storing odd small things, screws etc.

[@antlionworkerfan2007]

For me in America, (not sure if it's a global thing) I think of the gigantic Snyder's/Utz plastic jug with huge 8-inch pretzel rods when I think of nostalgia. I wonder how others feel about that, but we always had a jug in the car for snacking.

[@CorneliusNutterbucketThe3rd]

this has massive Pennsylvania energy 😂

[@kellsonmarcus]

9:18 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 JJ, you captured so much of Brazilian nostalgia with those images 😂. Those things just make you feel like you're at your grandma's house. They just give off a very cozy feeling. Just one thing, in my region, at least, we call those ribbed glasses "Copo Americano", literally American Glass.

[@StephanieJeanne]

Great video, J. J.! It's really cool to see these items from around the world. I enjoyed this one as well as the last one.😉

[@mikeyrodgers99]

JJ huge fan of your content and your line of questioning and reasoning. That is all.

[@devenscience8894]

Those yellow No Name products remind of American generic products. Stark black and white labeled canned foods and other household items, with no brand marking, for much cheaper than the brand names. Those are almost entirely gone now.

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

@devenscience8894 the movie repo man from the 80s with Emilio Estevez there's a store and every thing in there is generic brand

[@Big-Chungus21]

They remind me of the recent Asda “Just Essentials” and Sainsburys “Stamford Street” range. Its a very recent thing here. Though I do have a slight bit of nostalgia for the Tesco’s “Everyday Value” range, which was around for a while longer (discontinued a while back).

[@awogbob]

4:25 , JJ noname had a whole line of nostalgic / gag items for summer this year. They had folding chairs, insulated waterbotles, resumable straw water cups etc etc. You should look into it!

[@Mandiness]

I have a cold cup and a beach towel…the valumart I worked at was clearing them out for dirt cheap for the last month that we were open. 🙃 I think the no name brand is great with how it markets itself (especially with the gag items) but whatever nostalgia I had for the brand completely vanished once I started seeing it for 40 hours every week for close to five years. 😂

[@bradthunderpants3283]

JJ, I would really appreciate to hear your particular take on Canadian goods affordability and what many people are describing as a cost of living crisis. As an American, I am not particularly sure wether it is overblown or not.

[@t0irc114]

This is a very hyper-specific one, but i live in eastern Idaho, very close to Yellowstone. (Pretty much everyone that lives here has been to Yellowstone several times.) One thing that me and many of my friends distinctly remember form our childhoods is a specific set of signs in the park. These signs are posted along the boardwalks at geothermal sites (geysers, basins, etc) which would warn people to stay on the boardwalks because the ground was unstable. However the thing which makes these signs notable is the graphic that goes along with it, which depicts a little boy with a terrified expression falling THROUGH the ground into boiling hot water and certain demise. Those signs scared me ALOT when i was little, and many of my friends agree. We associate it with the many feelings you encounter while on family trips while you're young, and i feel like it culturally distinct to here. If you search "yellowstone guiser warning sign" youll see in somewhere in there.

[@fernandochaves7078]

In Brazil, we are also nostalgic for a pineapple shaped juice jar (look up "jarra de abacaxi")

[@Khristafer]

Have you ever done a future nostalgia prediction? There's a non-zero chance that I'd buy a shirt with "retro" app icons. I miss the ugly IG one 🤣

[@cuttinaboot]

I’d say anything made by tunnocks is quite nostalgic in Scotland like tea cakes and caramel wafers and if buckfast tried to change the logo I can see people being very nostalgic for it, also in Scotland a massive one would have to be tartan shortbread tins with a the painting the monarch of the glen printed on the lid 😅

[@BlindedByLogic]

Gushers, Dunkaroos, Fruit by the Foot, and Fruit Rollups are all max level nostalgia as far as 90's kids go.

[@ZimbabweanBugbite]

I was born in ‘09 and we had alot of these, it’s cool we get to experience the same thing as you

[@cwcarson]

Freddo Frogs are nostalgic in Australia too. Cadbury's Furry friends and Caramello Koala are similar in nostalgic value.

[@xefjord]

Hey J.J.! Loved the follow up video. I think I remember you saying the previous video kind of underperformed in views. But I really liked both and I am happy you shared so many cool examples :)

[@FairyCRat]

Kind of a nerdy question, but since Nunavut only became its own territory in 1999, would the old notebooks still have its border on the map of Canada?

[@highway2heaven91]

Wondering if you could do a video on Canadian restaurant chains with American/Foreign place names. Examples include Boston Pizza, Montana’s, New York Fries, Swiss Chalet, etc.

[@Nightey]

For Austria there is nostalgia around a certain popsicle ice cream: the "Tschisi" (spoken like cheesey - bc it looked like a block of Emmental cheese). It was hugely popular in the 90s and adored by everyone born from 1980-1995. The popsicle was discontinued at the turn of the millenium but everyone still had fond memories of it from their childhood. Fast forward to the early 2010s when all these people were in their early 20s/mid 30s and Facebook was the latest and greatest. It didn't take long that with the pressure of Facebook groups the manufacturer of the ice cream gave in and started producing it from the mid-2010s again until now with no date to end. And it is enjoyed by Millennials and small kids alike :D

[@nostaldec4705]

I’m Australian, and Freddo Frogs originated here, not the UK.

[@BrickfallOfficial]

My god this dude is handsome, and he's like 40. Mr. Good Gene's over here

[@BostonBoyer-vw5eb]

We American gen z’ers seem to have a couple of random things we all relate over. Stuff like Leap Frogs, and crappy iPad games (think talking Tom, or other stuff like that) we also Minecraft KZbin and Disney channel. Honestly watching Disney channel shows on Netflix was basically my childhood for a while there.

[@niklas_a]

In Austria, "Yugo" is a kind of slur often used for people from former Yugoslavia. So I was a lottle surprised when I heard the car had had the same name. Maybe there's no correlation between the two tho since they probably both just stem from the word "Yugoslavia".

[@peebsyt2870]

Its quite funny that stella changed their glass in that way because, atleast in the UK, stella has the reputation of being a very working class beer. The sort of thing you'd see some lads drinking after a football match

[@JeremiahKF]

Speaking of soviet nostalgia. There is a chain of delis in my country that sells products from the former USSR. One of the more ubiquitous items is a distinctive blue can of condensed milk which is used extensively in that part of the world. The product is made in Belarus and the town where it's made has a condensed milk monument. Another nostalgic item in these stores is Stolichnaya vodka.

[@TorontoJon]

12:45 I still have my Nintendo pocket-sized Game & Watch Octopus game that I received from my parents for a birthday in the early 1980s in South Africa with the same button layout as seen being held in the video footage. I also have the original box, foam inserts, and manual. The game involved a diver character that had to be moved from his boat to go underwater to retrieve gold in a cave while avoiding an octopus' growing tentacles to then deposit the gold back onto his boat. It was tons of fun and mine is still in excellent working condition and great cosmetic shape too. I also remember elementary school classmates having a Popeye game version, a Mickey Mouse game, and the highly treasured Donkey Kong which had two screens connected to a hinge so the unit could be folded closed when not in use. Amazing! :)

[@killianthiabaud3088]

In france people from gen X and millenials are often very nostalgic for japanese cartoons and culture, which arrived on our TV's way earlier than in the US for exemple

[@jamesv.7041]

Those Beba drinks remind me of the barrel bottle drinks we had in the States growing up in the 90s.

[@magicalpotatoeforces]

Before watching I was thinking of what the United States would be, and I immediately thought of the solo jazz cup but then I also thought of the Arizona cherry blossom tea design and colors (not mentioned, but similar) But the United States has so many! But the other things mentioned like the water pitcher and Corningware containers are 100% also a shared experience among a lot of people. Another thing popular in Germany, is Labello lip balm! It’s so popular and has been around for a very very long time! It is an interchangeable phrase used when referring to lip balm in general. Like how some places call soda “Coke” and tissues “Kleenex.” Love the video. Would be awesome to see more from countries and more countries in general!

[@WildCard-ze3tm]

I'm from the generation of Spanish children that needed a box in our textbooks to explain what "EGB" meant. 😂😂😂

[@timdownie2985]

Wasn’t aware how the Freddo Frog had so thoroughly penetrated the UK. They were first produced in Melbourne, Australia (home also of Vegemite and Fosters) in 1930. When I was young, they were wrapped in foil, and “Freddo” became slang for a policeman’s badge.

[@TheOriginalOrkdoop]

Here are some Asian American nostalgic things. Shrimp chips, pork flavord mama noodles, coconut water in the green can, and when you were sick, your mom scraped tiger balm into your chest and neck using a quarter. The more red your skin turned, the more sick you were, and burping during this was encouraged.

[@SSand4]

OMG those jazz cups! That design (or at least that style of design) ended up on so many things even in the '90s, so it's always a massive nostalgia trigger for me. I'm pretty sure my grandma used to have one of those "suction lid" pitchers because I remember playing with it as a little kid. And I remember my cousins using butter and CoolWip tubs for leftovers and I always thought it was weird, even then.

[@russellpaul7262]

Omg this 80s hairband hair is making my day. Looking hot, JJ!!

[@andrewring8205]

As a resident of the Twin Cities, I'm nostalgic for Ax Man Surplus ;)

[@JJMcCullough]

Glad someone spotted that one!

[@nickfromm5315]

This video deserves an award.

[@retroroy8720]

If we're talking about food-based nostalgia, I have an example, albeit one that is rather region-specific If you grew up in Central Appalachia, a staple of a good home-cooked breakfast was apple butter, usually flavored with cinnamon and brown sugar, usually spread on toast or biscuits. It's got the consistency of applesauce but it's eaten similar to jelly. Damn near everyone I know from that region, be they Boomers, Gen X'ers, Older Millennials, Late Millennials/Zillennials (such as myself, born 1993) or Zoomers, all have at least one fond memory of apple butter.

[@General12th]

Hi J.J.! Nostalgic stuff tends to be linked to childhoods and to foods, and like you mentioned in your award-winning video about school lunches around the world, cheap, crappy food tends to hit it out of the nostalgia park.

[@youngnorwegianpatriot9028]

I was thinking about what nostalgic things we have in Norway, then it hits me! Moomin cups from Moomin Arabia. My older sibling got them and my mother is also a collecter. It is probably also a thing in Finland and other Nordic countries as well, probably more a thing in Finland than here. The nostalgic part, is that the art on the cups are similar to the style used in the old, beloved Moomin series. At least more than modern Moomin series.

[@ToyInsanity]

Vikings, trolls, pickled herring, Edvard Munch

[@JoeBergy122]

OMG OMG J.J. read and featured my comment in his award-winning video. Thank you so much...this meant the world to me and made my week infinitely better :)

[@MassBayBricks]

I’m not sure if this is this is just me, but those American elementary school textbooks, specifically the Scott Foresman Reading Street ones bring me so much nostalgia, the one with the tiger watering the plants does it the most. But really any of them do, especially the mix between real life and art, there’s something so nostalgic about it.

[@MrShadowswrath]

as an American born in the early 90s I had no idea about the cultural background of that egg and wolf game, but a black and white version seemingly identical to the handheld version shown here appeared on a gameboy color cartridge I had as a child-- it was a compilation of about 4~7 game n watch style games like that accompanied by colored remakes of them featuring the Mario cast

[@LavenderLydia]

In the USA, late 90s and early 2000s, we had a line of glittery fruit scented Bath and Body Works products for kids. It included roller ball glitter, hair glitter, and lotion. They discontinued it, but I see it brought up all the time.

[@MartijnPennings]

That Migros pattern showing up on clothing reminds me of FEBO. It's the most well-known Dutch fast food chain where you can buy snacks from vending machines. Their iconic red lettering on white background was put on tracksuits, slippers and other clothing ironically, but was sold out pretty fast. Same with Zeeman (Sailor), an old-fashioned low budget clothing and knick knacks store that capitalized on their blue and yellow logo with hip and ironic clothing for young people.

[@chrisbeynon8700]

For the 'nostalgia for current items' mentioned at the end of the video, this has happened in the UK with popular bakery chain Greggs having a whole fashion line at a shop called Primark.

[@KelsieJG__they-them]

I'm a 35yo white American (born and lived in USA my whole life) and I didn't know how ubiquitous it was here to store leftovers in Cool Whip and Country Crock containers *specifically.* My family absolutely did though. I'm willing to bet my life savings that my mom currently has some of each, still, in her Tupperware cupboard.

[@LucasSchimmel]

I'm Brazilian, I was really confused by the Brazilian stuff at around 9:08 because they aren't very popular in Brazil, at least as a whole. It caught my attention because all those things are believable Brazilian, but very alien to me. So I did some research: The first thing that caught my attention as completely alien was calling the faceted glass as "lagoinha". The correct name name is "americano" or as in "American glass" (mind you, in Brazil, Americano doesn't refer exclusively to the US), and is in fact extremely popular - although I'm not familiar with them being used in homes, and I'm sure they are used in, but their principal nostalgic value is that they are very common in bars and are tied to drinking beer with your friends. I found out that it's called "lagoinha" (nh as in caNYon) in a single city, Belo Horizonte-MG. Don't know how an obscure term made it to a Canadian video, imagine someone introduced burgers to you as steamed ham and somehow they became famous in your city as that. The filter thing is interesting. They are water filters that cool water down and have a number of mechanism inside to filter the water of impurities, that said, they aren't as ubiquitous as you'd think: were huge from the 50s up until the 90s in Southeast Brazil, when the majority of homes had them, but quickly fell out of fashion, in my home region of Southern Brazil, they were never really that popular and at their peak were present in only 20% of homes, whence my unfamiliarity with them. Curiously, Minas Gerais, the state mentioned above, is part of the Southeast, maybe there's a connection. I couldn't find much on the Duralex Amber dishes, other than being liked for being very resistant. And then there were those dishcloths. Look, this farmstead, very rural vibes are extremely associated with Mineiro culture (from Minas Gerais). I caught the pattern, those are stuff Mineiro people find nostalgic. It's so very interesting that a very a specific regional culture managed to pass as pan-Brazilian, I wonder if your Brazilian viewers are mostly from Minas Gerais.

[@jpninja776]

In Philadelphia you can get a very specific nostalgia pin: One of the “jazz cups” you mentioned but overflowing with Water Ice, a regional Italian-ish dessert with its own nostalgic appeal

[@yaitz3313]

In Israel, the Keter brand of plastic chairs. They're still everywhere today, but they've become a cultural icon.

[@navetal]

Plastic chairs? You mean the medium-range self defense weapons for pool goers?

[@MateoQuixote]

You mean occupied Palestine?

[@SethTheOrigin]

@@MateoQuixote found the 14 year old

[@hueleb1cho]

@@SethTheOrigin sounds like a 14 year old understands international law better than you though

[@yaitz3313]

@@navetal Plastic chairs and umbrellas. The ultimate Israeli martial arts weapon combo.

[@joeydestructo]

In addition to the Country Crock tupperware, we also had jelly/jam jars repurposed as drinking glasses when I was a kid

[@AC-ih7jc]

I remember hearing that there was a fair amount of nostalgia attached to the carpet pattern of a particular US airport (was it Denver?) The way I heard it was that if you were a kid with divorced parents on opposite coasts and shared custody, you would frequently have a layover at that airport and would spend a LOT of time staring at that carpet.

[@jonathanhodges3693]

the car in the thumbnail is a fiat 126 which I literally have 😭

[@XOmniverse]

Macintosh Plus album in the background feels appropriate for this video.

[@chugachuga9242]

In the US we also got those notebooks with the black speckled design on the cover that has been ubiquitous with school and school supplies for at least 20 years now!