What Was the Most Popular Junk Food From Every Decade In the 20th Century?

Weird History Food is taking you on a Junk Food trip, through each decade, to see what were the most popular foods and snacks. The most impressive aspect of junk food developed throughout the 20th century is just how many of the inventions stuck around.
Before the Industrial Revolution, most of what we would now consider “junk food” was made at home on a small scale. While the invention of the steel mill and steam power was certainly useful and revolutionary, the more whimsical effects of the societal overhaul are worthy of analysis as well. The developments in food science expanded while mass production grew more sophisticated, enabling the American public to experience a wide array of new snacks.
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[@weirdhistoryfood]

What's your favorite snack or candy?

[@LisaBowers]

It used to be Milk Duds until they removed the cocoa butter and replaced it with vegetable oil. Now it's Skittles. Or Peanut M&Ms. Or frozen Snickers. 😋

[@pablocasas5906]

Snacks = Cheetos. Candy = anything strawberry or lemon flavored

[@junnipherr7908]

Twix all the way and Chip's Ajoy💗💗

[@wickidbloodymetalqueen7901]

My favorite snack is chips and cheese sauce

[@wickidbloodymetalqueen7901]

Favorite candy Twizzlers (pull n peel) watermelon or apple flavor

[@adcamper92]

Dunkaroos actually made a resurgence in 2020. I remember them being swiped from shelves but they’re now making everything with them from cookies, cereal and the classic frosting and cookie packs

[@PasleyAviationPhotography]

Yeah, I been buying for some time, just a few days ago too

[@jay_ooh]

Yeah totally! I just saw dunkaroos in the store not even a week ago, that's why I was kind of shocked when you said it was canceled and discontinued... Dunkaroos are still alive and kicking!!! And at a store near you 👍

[@kyliCatherine1]

Yup, I was so happy to see them back. They’re not quite as good as they used to be though, at least IMO.

[@jacobkelley7762]

I have some in my cabinet

[@jasonvaquero9739]

Yeah I recently noticed at my job that we still carry Dunkaroos at the checkout shelves. Definitely giving them a taste now

[@LuvzToLol21]

3 Musketeers bars were named that because Mars' original plan was to have 3 different nougat flavours in one chocolate bar: chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. This proved too difficult to manufacture in practice so Mars decided to only use the chocolate nougat filling, but still kept the name.

[@TakBonez]

Actually that was the original bar. Older friends have told me about this. Then at some point like you said it changed to just chocolate. But no it was never a plan, but an actuality.

[@BakedRBeans]

@@TakBonez I remember TV ads from the late 1950s, mentioning three identical bars in the package. The TV announcer said, "Keep one, and share the other two with your friends." I guess this was too labor-intensive, cause after a while, the package had one big bar.

[@NAT-turners-Revenge]

🤔

[@plnkfloydian7814]

Dang a neapolitan bar sounds delicious

[@joebone3151]

Why not just release all three. As separate bars but under the same name they could've made 3 mascots for all 3 flavors all 3 bars and made a lot of money

[@jolenewitzel7919]

I remember as a child I would get a box of 12 Life Saver roles in 12 flavors for Christmas.

[@f1guremeout]

Remember the commercial with the Nigerian vocalists, the one that ended with that resounding "yummmm"?

[@getoffmydarnlawn]

The ones that looked like a small Christmas book, but when you opened it up there were 6 rolls of Life Savers on each side?

[@KaylaNoelle1]

I still get those my my grandparents

[@TheGelasiaBlythe]

@@KaylaNoelle1 they just don't have as many rolls in them these days. They're called the Sweet Storybook. It used to be a story book, too.

[@TheGelasiaBlythe]

@@f1guremeout I think it was Ladysmith Black Mombazo who did the vocals, but I could be wrong.

[@slade842]

For me my most memorable thing about crackerjacks was anytime we encountered a bad driver my dad would say, "Where'd they get their license a box of cracker jacks?"

[@Tickles_The_Oaf]

I remember being a little girl growing up in the 80’s. My mom would sit me in the front of the shopping cart and give me a box of Animal Crackers (the one with the string handle). I’d eat it while she did her shopping and then she’d pay for the empty box. Every single week, the same cookies! Good times!

[@tstahler5420]

Barnum's animal crackers. I have a 1 year old grandson, I had to find them for him. They're in a bag now but taste like childhood.

[@whatbedbug]

My great grandmother would always get those exact boxes for me when I was little!

[@MelB868]

Those animal crackers taste awful

[@ElizabethBattle]

My mom did the same thing! And our grocery store was on a street corner in our neighborhood, owned by a Lebanese family. Loved that store!

[@jennatomashosky8624]

Me too

[@Der_Kleine_Mann]

I remember having Luncables combined with Go-Gurt and a Capri-Sun as a kid in the 90's here in Germany. Good times🙌 Only of these products that's still available here is Capri-Sun.

[@FreterP]

Capri-Sonne ist ja auch eine deutsche Erfindung aus Heidelberg

[@Der_Kleine_Mann]

@@FreterP japp, habe ich auch neulich erfahren. Hatte aber auch bis dahin immer gedacht das es eine amerikanische Sache wäre.

[@Der_Kleine_Mann]

@@FreterP Bei dem ganzen Geschrei um Verpackungsmüll und dem Hate gegen Junkfood generell, wundert es mich aber trotzdem das Capri-Sonne bis heute noch erhältlich ist. Zwar mit Pappstrohhalm, aber trotzdem.

[@jaxsonharper9091]

You guys don’t have Go Gurts??

[@Der_Kleine_Mann]

@@jaxsonharper9091 No, unfortunately not anymore 😔

[@RemnantCult]

I have a real Reese's addiction. I don't like to indulge in too many sweets, but Reese's is the perfect combination of salty and sweet.

[@214warzone]

dude there's like 20 Reeses, which one?

[@guilletiger]

@@214warzone he refers to the classic one

[@alabamatrixie7379]

Reeses isn't salty

[@KillKount187]

@@214warzone I have a pet rock to sell your dumb ass lol

[@KillKount187]

@@alabamatrixie7379 judging by your username I’m going too assume you have way to much jizz in your diet to taste salt anymore lol

[@jflsdknf]

The fact that he called Tootsie Rolls chocolate taffy blew my mind. For some reason I never thought of Tootsie Rolls as taffy

[@Sanguivore]

It was only a handful of years ago that I realized Tootsie Rolls were taffy myself, so you're not alone on that, lol.

[@og-greenmachine8623]

We thought it was chocolate

[@SouthernBelleReviews]

Same!!! And Mike&Ikes being elongated jellybeans. Whattttt

[@MamaBe1963]

Same here

[@aedsell]

I never did either!

[@ProdigiousHdawg]

I was a '90s baby and 2000s child, and though I didn't get to have these "treat" type foods super often, the ones I remember having the most were Gogurts, Lunchables, Fruit by the Foot, Chips Ahoy (though I slightly preferred Chips Deluxe, as they were a little more rich and chewy and the chocolate chips were bigger/more abundant), and to a somewhat lesser degree, Oreos. I tried the Fruit Gushers and Fruit Roll-Ups, but Fruit by the Foot won out by far. I remember in the elementary school cafeteria we would sometimes roll our Fruit by the Foots all the way out, and hold them up next to each other to see how tall we were compared to them. Now that I've typed this all out, it's kind of weird to think how prominently some of this junk food features in some of my childhood memories...I mean, it does't play a big part, but clearly enough of one that I felt compelled to write a comment about it...

[@NeahNadie]

Cracker Jacks!! Oh, my gosh, that used to be one of my staples in the early 90s! I LIVED for that prize. Amazing how much joy a tiny piece of paper could bring. Of course we couldn't have them very often, so when we did it was even more of a treat. I remember when the prizes were "fancier" and when they stopped including prizes altogether. I never realized their history was that long. Wish it had been longer. :(

[@richardshagrin8565]

Take me out to the ball gameSONG LYRICS Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack. I don’t care if I never get back. Let me root, root, root for the home team. If they don’t win it’s a shame. For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out. At the old ball game! Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack. I don’t care if I never get back. Let me root, root, root for the home team. If they don’t win it’s a shame. For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out. At the old ball game!

[@wadeintonature2975]

It is called Cracker Jill now because feminism sucks.

[@anotherpeasant]

DUNKAROOS ARE STILL AVAILAVLE! I'm looking at a box of them right now. They're made by General Mills in Missasauga, Ontario, and are available everywhere in Canada.

[@chava4809]

They’re available in the US too, at least in my state. Was General Mills the original creator of them? If not, maybe that’s where the video creators got the idea that they’re completely gone.

[@packnetadaija]

I live in Michigan and I found some at my local grocery store

[@Ahshie]

Have them everywhere here in Nebraska too 😂

[@chava4809]

@@Ahshie do you guys have the Dunkaroos cereal too? It’s everywhere in Ohio!

[@buffalosoldier4485]

They were recently re-released in America

[@Flickawho]

I think middle aged adults made charcuterie boards popular because we grew up on lunchables.

[@Ottophil]

I am 40 and just had a lunchable for the first time. The meat was slimey. I couldnt swallow it

[@inr63]

@Flickawho - omggggg you may be onto something here 😧 (90s kid)

[@plnkfloydian7814]

Was there anything less satisfying than a lunchable?

[@Flickawho]

@@plnkfloydian7814 there simply wasn’t. And my mom loved that ish; put it in a lunch box w/ an icepack and lunch is done lol.

[@vancakes4500]

Ahem, most people who grew up on Lunchables are NOT middle aged just yet! I could be wrong, but though Lunchables were invented in the late 80s they didn't become massively popular until a few years later. So the oldest kids who grew up on Lunchables are maybe late 30s-early 40s. Sorry, but as a 34 year old who had Lunchables almost every day at school I take offense to that! Also I should add that the first time I heard the term "charcuterie board" was from a hipster co-worker that's 10 years younger than me.

[@cherylmaden5989]

Anybody else remember Charlie chips? They got delivered to your house in a truck in like a metal canister and they had some really good like Christmas I don't remember what was in the tins but does anyone else remember those potato chips in that company

[@Donna-zc9ii]

Charles chips. Pretty sure you can still get them, the chips as a refill and the original can if you want or need one, at The Vermont County Store. I've been ordering from them for years. They have a great website and catalogs all year long. They specialize in products from the past, candy from the 50s and 60s 70s etc. . One of my faves was Bonomo Turkish Taffy. Vanilla, They have it. It came back a few years ago.

[@cherylmaden5989]

@@Donna-zc9ii Thank you so much!!!🥰🤗

[@angelwild5665]

My grandparents lived in Philedelphia and could order chips or pretzels by the can on, I believe, a weekly basis.

[@johnmccree8941]

I remember C. Chips. Huge metal cannisters.

[@deeznutzzz3217]

My grandparents bought them..early 80s..go pacers

[@wintersprite]

I was born in the mid 1980s; some of these foods are older than I would have thought. Lunchables were popular for school and scout field trips.

[@OliveJewel]

The best thing by about lunchables when they came out was the dill sauce.

[@hakdragon]

Dunkaroos were discontinued but they’ve been back on the shelves, at least sporadically, for the last 2 years or so.

[@noUGames]

Yea I see Dunkaroos at gas stations and the grocery stores all the time.

[@nickrenaud5723]

You can find them pretty easily in east Tennessee

[@ryego3]

Arrowroot cookie + Nutella = adult sized dunkaroos

[@GamingLover-xp8hc]

They sadly taste absolutely disgusting. Taste nothing like the old ones. Completely different recipe now.

[@chiquita683]

Probably the store just found some old boxes in the basement. Check the expiration date

[@anjalidevi7168]

I'm not an Oreo hater. Don't @ me. I miss Hydrox. Because when I was a kid, Hydrox had "original flavor" I guess, and also one type with a brown chocolate dot in the center of the usual filling, one with a pink strawberry dot in the center, and one with a green mint dot (again in the center). So when my mom took me shopping, I needed a moment to decide which ones I wanted. My favorite were the ones with the chocolate dot. 🍫🍫🥰🥰

[@toshiro8179]

they started selling hydrox again on amazon

[@chrismayer3919]

I always thought Hydrox was the copycat of Oreo, not the other way round…

[@BravoZuluYT]

The original Ben and Jerry's was opened in downtown Burlington, in a former gas station, not South Burlington. My mom was born and raised in Burlington and remembers when it opened up. Sincerely, a Vermonter who likes your content very much. ❤️

[@lrom5445]

@@jacobg236 @Jessie Hryniuk Looking it up, the original location was on St Paul St & College St. The map indicates that's outside of what is known as South Burlington right now.

[@Steven-gf1eu]

Water boy

[@Steven-gf1eu]

Sorry to break it to you .

[@SteveCarras]

Too bad about the leftist politics 😞

[@perhapsmaybe6824]

ALSO they’re not from vermont 😭 they’re from new york!! they met in high school!!!

[@adrone123]

I remember the fruit gushers and gogurt commercials of the 90's! Everyone at my school cafeteria wanted fruit gushers in their lunchbox lol but my mom would always make me pack my lunch so it was definitely a rarity! Great video Weird History!

[@beastleviath9356]

Fun fact: they still serve M&Ms to the troops to this day! I’m told it’s always a pleasant point in your day to find a pack in the MRE

[@pagalmasala]

Ahhh Sour Patch….feel the blisters on the roof of my mouth just thinking about those! Love them!😂

[@laneatkinson6441]

After they added the blue raspberry flavor, they started making all kinds of varieties! They just came out with a "less sour" peach flavor, personally I would have liked it to be just as sour as the rest of their candy. The strawberry and watermelon is on point though 👌

[@pagalmasala]

@@laneatkinson6441 that and sour peach rings! NUM NUM!

[@laneatkinson6441]

@@pagalmasala Mmmm, I love peach rings! I actually had peach rings before ever tasting a real peach...can you tell I'm American? 😅😂

[@Donna-zc9ii]

I Did that as a teenager when Sweetarts came out at 5 cents a pack. We would go to Woolworth and get them. My tongue was sore and still couldn't get Enough of them.

[@thatsrich944]

Funny, I was actually eating Sour Patch Kids while I watched this video.

[@NewMessage]

*Two KZbinrs bump into each other on the street * "You got your History in my junk food!" "You got your junk food in my History!" And Weird History Food was born.

[@proudamerican4050]

Fantastic video! 👍 I would like to see a Weird History video about Automats and the food preparation that was involved and why they are no longer a thing.

[@crankychris2]

They didn't catch on except in the Northeast.

[@ShotgunBilly-overunder]

Yes please!

[@nitrobike123]

I just wanna say I love this channel. Been binging every video today. I love food history.

[@marianneaugenstein6381]

I loved Cracker Jacks! When I was little, my mom's school district threw a Christmas party every year for the kids of the school employees. We'd sit on the cafeteria floor, eating Cracker Jacks, while the high school kids sang and danced. We also had those little boxes with the fake tattoos or a little toy inside.

[@TheGelasiaBlythe]

I liked Hydrox. Better than I liked Oreos. There's my unpopular opinion. Where I grew up, you could get either, then Hydrox just disappeared. This seemed to coincide with the point that people were saying that Hydrox were vegan and Oreos weren't. I've heard you can still buy them, but not in my area.

[@Crayshen]

So you kinda can...in boxes of 6 packages at a time from Amazon. But yeah they're better. The cream and chocolate are less sweet and they soak up milk far better

[@sketchur]

Long live Hydrox!!!

[@wintersprite]

I got some a few years ago when they brought them back temporarily for their anniversary.

[@jwoolman5]

Oreos changed their recipe ages ago and most US vegans consider them vegan-friendly now (depends on how they feel about uncertainty in how the sugar is filtered, through bone char or charcoal made from plant matter). The only exceptions are some of the limited editions, which may have dairy. But no more lard for many decades. PopTarts also have some vegan-friendly ones, at least the unfrosted brown sugar cinnamon ones are ok for me. Their frosting usually has gelatin in it. I don’t eat gelatin if I can avoid it, since I know where it’s been...

[@ElizabethBattle]

Cracker Barrel restaurant stores sell Hydrox.

[@Spadealchemist]

This was such a treat to watch!

[@tommywolfe2706]

I turn 40 this year and I remember being able to save up pennies and go down the road to the gas station and the guy that ran it was selling tootsie rolls for $.01 each. In fact, my brother and I used to go down there together with loads of pennies and buy a couple hundred at a time. I always used to wonder why the guy got so crappy with us lol, now I realize. the service station was split into 2 parts, a liquor store and a convenience store. the liquor store used to have a sign on it that said "unattended children will be sold as slaves" and he made a point to play the part. Can of soda was $.10, a 20oz was a quarter, small bag of chips were a quarter and so was a candy bar.

[@evirareid1500]

You kust be at least 90..mi cant fathom these prices and I was born in 92. We had penny candy and quarter chips but everything else no way...

[@MelB868]

@@evirareid1500 I’m 42 and cans of sodas was never 10 cents here

[@RaynmanPlays]

I'm genuinely surprised that I should remember the introduction of Lunchables. I thought they were around for a lot longer.

[@sammylane21]

I will fight tooth and nail anyone who tells me Cheetos Puffs are better than Cheetos Crunch. Crunch is the best of the two.

[@demaurimitchell3167]

Put the fists up then

[@OliveJewel]

The planters cheese balls for the win!!

[@Off-with-a-bang]

Two snacks I wish they'd make a comeback would be "Planters Cheesz Balls" and "Buterfinger BB's" I couldn't get enough of them! 😋

[@scottstark5528]

Planters cheez balls as well as Planters version of Cheetos have been back for a couple of years now as well.

[@Off-with-a-bang]

@@scottstark5528 Guess I'm a clueless goober because I haven't seen or heard of their comeback where I am 😂

[@zsstuff5089]

The balls and curlz are back in groceries now, but they’ve changed the cheese on them (or I’VE changed).

[@Katharine888]

I never had the original, but the current Cheez Balls are better than other cheese puffs. I wish they didn't cost so much.

[@alabamatrixie7379]

@@Off-with-a-bang Not around where I live either

[@superspak]

One of my new favorite channels, keep up the great work and editing. I am always up for more pizza history, that's mostly all I eat lately, frozen pizza is great, but I like the ones you get in the fridge section a lot more.

[@ArcherSuh4721]

Weird History should do a video on Pringles! They've got a true history much weirder than the urban myth that they were originally a tennis ball company. (RIP Mitch Hedberg)

[@hgfxjnn]

Man I love this channel. 2 of my favorite subjects in one. Food, and history ❤️

[@Balo657]

I remember having a elementary class mate would always have fruit roll ups in his lunch box and everybody would try to trade him their food for his fruit roll up haha

[@solanaceae2069]

My favorite junk food is a fat ribeye steak

[@monkeygraborange]

Jeez... not only did I gain 5 pounds just watching this, but now my teeth hurt!

[@reecepierce]

Do one about certs mints please

[@hew2356]

I didn't have many sweets growing up, so the ones I have fondness for are those my grandparents shared with me-Peanut M & M's, Reese's Cups, Hershey's chocolate, Goldberg's Peanut Chews, and Tastykakes.

[@mama_monkey]

It's the funny job titles in this video for me. And snack history is ever interesting. Thanks!

[@tmn5647382910]

Please make a popular junk food part 2 !! That would be awesome !!

[@DinoPwn]

I really hope this channel blows up more. I Love the videos

[@ripleyandweeds1288]

There's something that feels horribly wrong about pudding cups being in a pull-tab can.

[@inr63]

Pudding that will slice you lol

[@yourrealtor957]

I loved that memory ...not wrong

[@LeoMidori]

A ton of things came in cans instead of plastic cups, notably fruit cocktail and other preserved fruit. I think I'd rather risk cut fingers over micro plastics.

[@ipissed]

By the power of Grayskull son. Don't you know that you bend the pull tab all the way out, crease the lid twice and you have a spoon. What's with these kids today and this safety shmafety nonsense. I ate Jax, and pooped out Hot Wheels. We used firecrackers for candles. When you got a pull tab stuck in your foot that became an anchor point. Jarts? We called them ammo. I could go on and on.

[@inr63]

@@LeoMidori - I agree. I’d rather risk cut fingers with the metal lids or broken glass from say, medicine bottles, than have all the micro plastics too.

[@12inch_monster]

fruit roll-ups of the 80s we're bomb. the strawberry ones even had the seeds pressed into the roll and they tasted more tart and natural than the awful sugar laden ones of today

[@helmut666kohl]

I sometimes get homemade "fruit rollups" from a Kurdish coworker of a friend, where they process their surplus of wild cherry, plum and pomegranate into huge sheets of fruit leather. If you have an Persian store close, check out their selection, they sell proper ones too.

[@shuruff904]

Fake seeds, made from sugar. (Because of course. Strawberry ice cream still uses these little poppy seed candies as seeds)

[@cliffhamilton2857]

No they were def real seeds, if you ate enough you could see them in your feces. I always have been a look before flush guy, even as a young child...stop judging me lol

[@jd9119]

I despise using the word "bomb" like that, but I did love Fruit Rollups. I wish they made larger servings though.

[@seannewman8542]

​@@jd9119Yes, 80s kids. We are way too old to try to sound cool.

[@kallen868]

I remember eating Reese's Pieces a lot after seeing E.T. coupled with original Pringles!😋

[@EndaroLaMerk]

Fascinating, though missing some information. One story for the invention of Cheetos was it was food for cows, Pop Tarts was initially called Fruit Scones and was changed to its name as a pun on the Pop Art movement, whilst Baby Ruth might have been named so in honour of Grover Cleveland's daughter. On a separate note, my current favourite snack would have to be Planter's peanuts, Fisher's peanuts, or Blue Diamond smokehouse almounds, depending on what I am peckish for.

[@AskMiko]

My favorite candy bar was GOO GOO CLUSTER. More of a regional favorite, it is so tasty. Moon pies were also a favorite (banana). As for drinks, surprised Capri Sun wasn’t mentioned

[@hollerinwoman]

Oh yes, the Goo Goo. They still sell them in Tennessee in every check-out line in every store. Food of the gods. 😄😇

[@OliveJewel]

Also surprised no mention of Handi-snacks or nerds!

[@codygrimaldi1347]

This is awesome. I grew up in the 80"s. And I loved pop rocks

[@lynntaylor9681]

Same

[@rebasack21]

The thing i remember most being in elementary school in the 90s was when we had to take a lunch for school field trips i would search through all the available ones in the store until i found one that had that one single andes mint as the desert. the rest was just whatever that mint was everything. all this time later i am still a sucker for those andes mints and can easily make myself sick if left alone with a box of them.

[@giraffesinc.2193]

Oh wow, as a kid in the 70s and 80s, those were something you got at almost every restaurant, either with the check or in a big bowl on the way out. LOVED them.

[@genxx2724]

@@giraffesinc.2193 Remember reception sticks?

[@giraffesinc.2193]

@@genxx2724 No! What was a reception stick???

[@AEvans36963]

I keep a regular stash of those

[@kirbyculp3449]

Andes are good but After Eight is the best.

[@MalleusSemperVictor]

I always thought that Hydrox got its name from hydrogenated oils but apparently it's named after the base components of water as a name that conveys "goodness and purity".

[@stacytadlock7666]

There are so many great snacks and candies you can't choose just one!

[@presmasterflash7555]

“Sometimes you feel like a nut, Sometimes you don’t!”

[@bethanythatsme]

Teddy Grahams were a status symbol at grade school lunchtime in my neck of the woods 🤣

[@edgaralanfrog]

Dunkaroos are back, but they aren’t as good as I remember them being

[@outroseok]

so interesting to see a timeline of a lot of my fav snack foods, such an incredible video.

[@jchow5966]

My favorite snack is almost everything you mentioned here. I love snacking -in my childhood,teens, 2os, 30s & ros i could snack/eat as much as i eanted to and never gain one pound. Now i have to be more cautious - so when I allow myself to snack i really appreciate it.

[@tihzho]

10:29 Once upon a time, Cheez Whiz contained real cheese...but not any more. It's rumored there is an actual piece of real cheese nearby where they manufacture Cheez Whiz.

[@boowiebear]

It blows my mind that pizza was an exotic novelty until 1959! How did people survive!?

[@hollerinwoman]

Haha, I agree, Tyler! Growing up in the South in the 60s we had "pizza"..... but it was only the Chef Boy R Dee version in a box, where Mom would mix the crust packet with water and make this biscuit-like dough into a circle. She would then spread the packet of watery tomato-ish sauce on it and sprinkle it with sort of Parmesan cheese. We kids thought it was great, but we didn't know any better. Restaurant pizzas existed back then, but middle class people like us didn't go out to eat very often, maybe twice a year.

[@BobBob-eb4io]

@@hollerinwoman wow that sounds pretty bad im glad i grew up in the 2000s i feel like this list only covered the stuff thats still semi popular today is there any popuar snacks from the 60s that just dont exist anymore

[@Barfyman362.]

They did great. Everyone wasn’t morbidly obese.

[@og-greenmachine8623]

Pizza that doesn’t taste like trash 👉🏽is still a novelty

[@michaelscriver5395]

This was very interesting I'm going to show a couple people that would enjoy this

[@v.e.7236]

Tootsie Rolls have been my personal favorite sweet treat, because they cover three flavors all at once: chocolate, caramel and milk. I have a sweets drawer in my kitchen that always has some tootsies waiting for me - right next to the LifeSavers fruit candies.

[@GlazeMyDonuts]

They brought back dunkeroos. I can’t lie the convenient store in the next town over has them and I always get them when buying a new lighter

[@coreylineberry8557]

5:56 Actually, no! Baby Ruth is not actually named after Babe Ruth. It was actually named after Ruth Cleveland, daughter of then president Grover Cleveland.

[@hollerinwoman]

Yes, that's what I learned as well. It's a myth that it was named after Babe Ruth.

[@tvtitlechampion3238]

Yeah, that's the story, since Babe Ruth was shilling another candy at the time, and couldn't acquire his likeness to use in advertisements. It's actually kinda shady how the guy did it.

[@plnkfloydian7814]

This was a great video that took me down memory lane. My favorite fruit snack as a kid was called string thing

[@Melissa0774]

Does anyone remember Oreo cookie stacking contest for kids that were held at grocery stores in the late 80's or early 90's? I think you were supposed to see who could build the highest tower out of the cookies until it fell. I know they had one at a store near Dallas TX back then, but I was a little kid, so I barely remember it. They had a table set up and the woman said they were having a cookie stacking contest. I think it may have been to beat a Guiness world record or something. At the time I thought it was a national promotion from Nabisco, but I don't know. Does anyone else remember something like that?

[@missylou725]

I wish I could remember that. Though it is vaguely familiar. 🤔 PS- I grew up in Minnesota.

[@toniboyer3322]

I used to love the dark chocolate mounds bars, but the milk chocolate almond joy was good too. don't eat them much nowadays but they were my favorites...

[@imperatorm.e.l.5162]

I remember when lunchables had two mini hotdogs variation and the taco variation those were my favorite.

[@johnr797]

Those mini hot dogs were so good

[@TheMythey]

I loved Fruit Roll-ups and Fruit Gushers growing up. As for drinks, I also drank my fair share of Capri-suns, Mondo Fruit Squeezers, and Hi-C juice boxes.

[@missylou725]

All of these as a kid! But my household were kinda health conscious, so I only got them as treats and quite rarely.

[@Katpiratefan275]

Man way to stir my nostalgia. I remember the 90's commercial for all those snacks. Couldn't get into any of them and the Gushers commercials just frightened me. Seriously I thought gushers was going to make my head change as it does in the commercial. I didn't know any better.

[@kingjames4886]

too bad, they were delicious. :P

[@pamelamays4186]

Suggestion: Mountain Dew soda pop. It went from coming in just one flavor to coming in many flavors and many colors. In remember when the mascot for Mountain Dew was s shot gun toting hillbilly. The brand slogan was, "It'll tickle your innards!" If I remember one ad correctly, it was claimed that Mountain Dew had that "real country flavor".

[@cliffhamilton2857]

I had a glass bottle of Mountain Dew Throwback maybe 6 or 7 years ago that had the old mascot and even said "it'll tickle your innards" Thought it was them trying to look old fashioned, didn't know it was an old slogan. Now looking back though, duh.

[@genxx2724]

I liked the limited edition that came out around Halloween. It tasted like grape. It was purple and the foam was blue. I can’t remember the name.

[@billgrandone3552]

Well I grew up in the 50's and my favorite snack foods were Banana Flips ans Devil's Delight cakes, Snicker's And Mars bars were my favoite candy bars. Kas Potato Chips were the BEST chips ever. Boxed candy favorites were Cinnamon Red Hots, and Life Savers, and Kraft Caramels.My favorite savory snack was homemade Chex Mix made with Rice Chex, Wheat Chex, Corn Chex, prezel sticks, and mixed nuts in garlicy salty butter sauce.

[@mxgeeTV]

I'm pretty sure Baby Ruth bars were named for first daughter Ruth Cleveland, not the baseball player.

[@melissacooper8724]

That's what I thought. I even heard that Babe Ruth tried to have his own candy bar named after himself but it was a flop.

[@jbaker7311]

Microwave popcorn could be added to the list.

[@Off-with-a-bang]

I'll say especially since Microwave popcorn has come a long way. There are numerous flavors besides its original of just salted or extra butter and popcorn is a must-have staple during movie nights 📽 🍿

[@og-greenmachine8623]

Microwave popcorn is disgusting compared to popcorn made on the stove

[@edsteward7717]

I was a Hostess cupcake junkie! Although, Little Debbie's Swiss rolls were a decent substitute.

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

Mounds has dark chocolate, Almond Joy has milk chocolate. There is a difference.

[@richardsmith3259]

I loved those pudding cans. The pudding must have absorbed something from the cans because it never was the same after package change.

[@DiviAugusti]

I feel like Honey Nut Cheerios tastes totally different than it did in the 1980s too. I think it was much more sugary, with a sort of gloss to it.

[@crabstick250]

I loved the cans too. And the horse advertising lol

[@gyvren]

Does anyone remember Suzy Q’s? I couldn’t get enough of those things..

[@getoffmydarnlawn]

Suzy Q's were my favorite Hostess cake

[@inr63]

Somehow, I remember the name but not the actual product..lol

[@Kimberly-dt4ko]

I remember those.

[@Donna-zc9ii]

@@inr63 I think they were the two side by side devils food cakes with white fluffy frosting.

[@SgtJohnRemairez]

It's so wierd getting closer to the end and actually seeing commercials I recognize from when I was really young, then to see the older commercials and think about my dad and how he probably saw some of those TV Ads. Just wierd to think about now the 1960s doesn't seem too long ago I wish my dad was younger ;-;

[@PentaSquares]

People always talk about twinkies, I rarely see people eating them though. I've never eaten or touched one before.

[@ddpsf]

Although the name of the candy bar sounds like the name of the famous baseball player Babe Ruth, the Curtiss Candy Company traditionally claimed that it was named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter, Ruth Cleveland.

[@kandipiatkowski8589]

Yeah, but only to keep the ball player from suing him. Mr. Ruth tried to make his own candy bar to compete with the Baby Ruth, but it never caught on.

[@pablocasas5906]

Man, there're a lot of candies and snacks that I've never heard of. Some of them like Lay's, Snickers, Oreos and M&M's are available where I live, but others like Twinkies aren't sold here

[@azca.]

Where do you live? lol thèse are the most known in America

[@pablocasas5906]

@@azca. I'm from Argentina. Some of the snacks mentioned in the video are available here, since the companies that manufacture them have an international presence, for example Lay's, Cheetos and Doritos are distributed by Pepsico, while Oreos are distributed by Mondelez International.

[@azca.]

@@pablocasas5906 oh I see. Very interesting. Does Argentina have any popular snacks that we might not have heard of in North America?

[@pablocasas5906]

@@azca. don't know if they are available in the U.S. but here in Argentina, and other Latin American countries ,we eat alfajores, which are basically two cookies with a sweet filling between them and coated in chocolate (though there are some other varieties). Here in Argentina they're usually filled with dulce the leche (caramelized milk), a popular confection in all Latin America, it's like our equivalent of peanut butter, we use it in different candies and desserts, we eat it with toast, there's even dulce de leche flavored ice-cream

[@Jennifer-qc2tq]

Twinkies are gross. M&Ms are "OK"...people love them, but if you pay attention while eating them...the shell is weird. But OREOS...so 😔

[@BugsyFoga]

What a neat history lesson.

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

Take it with a grain of salt because some of this isn't true, which is a common thing in Weird History's videos

[@Fearlesslyobedient]

I'm so addicted to these videos. So much fun!!!

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

Cracker Jax has changed the amount you get got a lot smaller and the free toy turned into a two cent piece of paper in many cases.

[@englishteatime5205]

@weirdhistoryfood Dunkaroos are back, I began seeing them again about a year ago, they are just as sugary as always. In fact, I’m accustomed to sweet treats and my walk down memory lane left me feeling sick lol

[@kmstins]

😄😅😆🤣 Oh my gosh that episode of Lucy and Ethel working at the candy factory was hilarious! Thanks for reminding me of it! 👍👏😁🍫🍬

[@BakedRBeans]

Speaking of Lucy....remember her trying to advertise Vitameatavegamin? She couldn't say it after a few sips! Spoiler alert: it had a lot of alcohol in it!

[@kmstins]

@@BakedRBeans Of course I remember that one! It's a classic, in my opinion. Yeah she sure got pretty looped. 😄🥃😉

[@kmstins]

@@wayne6777 Actually I don't remember that one. All I can picture is Abbott and Costello. 🤷‍♀️ ☺

[@cliffhamilton2857]

Vita...meata...this stuff

[@billcornwell3619]

I Love Lucy episode title: "Switching Jobs"

[@MinuteMan1999]

Peanuts I'm sure were snacked on for well over 100 years, and are used as an ingredient in alot of those snacks. I'm wondering when my two favorites came on the seen, peanut brittle and honey roasted peanuts. Nothing better than coating a legume in sugar!

[@ElizabethBattle]

Toffee peanuts!!!

[@JohnnyWrongo-b9l]

Peanuts were a profitable agricultural product long before the American Civil war. I found a song from the civil war era titled, I believe, "Sitting in the Shade, Eating Goober Peas". Goober Peas was a common name for peanuts in the south at that time.

[@roryschweinfurter4111]

@@ElizabethBattle I love butter toffee peanuts. You should try my trick and stir the leavings from the bottom of a can into a jar of natural peanut butter. Creating what I call Butter Toffee Peanut Butter. It's hella good snacking

[@NightmareBlade10]

Peanuts are legumes? Holy sh*t!

[@ianmoonetheoriginal2025]

man was this a trip back to the days when I could eat anything with no repercussions whatsoever. those were the days, but being healthy and running half marathons now, I do feel much better physically and mentally. Everything has a price.

[@eggie1978]

Snickers is my fave candy bar. It used to be Reeses' cups but the recipe seems to have changed and it doesn't taste the same. I've loved Doritos since I was a kid and they're my fave salty snack.

[@sararobinson6571]

Weird! I also noticed the chocolate quality of the Reese’s cup changed in the last few years, I thought it was just my palate!

[@mestre12]

Also, do discountiniued fast food menus

[@ShadowOfMachines]

Little Debbie is the source of a lot of my favorite snack cakes, though if they relied on me to stay in business they'd be broke 100x over. My other favorite source of mass produced treats are Moon Pies, though I haven't had one for quite some time. Maybe three or four years? I'll look into ordering a tin sometime later this year.

[@Sanguivore]

Let me guess: you're from the South as well? Hahaha.

[@syos1979]

"The best way to understand America is not to look into the hearts and minds of it's citizens but by the contents of their snackboxes." Truer words were never spoken

[@Gensys0]

I remember, just before the 2010s Oreos where an exotic, American candy in Germany. Now the cookie is everywhere mixed into anything.

[@mgthestrange9098]

Can’t get Dunkaroos in Britain, they sound good. Never knew Skittles were Briti, Starburst were too but were called Opal Fruits. Some limited edition packs have been produced with the original name recently. Snickers used to be Marathon too.

[@ccggenius]

If you really want the Dunkaroos experience just buy a box of graham crackers and a tub of confetti frosting to dip them in. You won't be too far off the actual product.

[@thesuitshow9944]

@@ccggenius you can’t really get those super easily here either tho

[@ccggenius]

@@thesuitshow9944 really? I guess the trans-fats ban put a damper on selling canned frosting? Because I'm skeptical that you can't get graham crackers. In any case, I'm sure you can get the powdered sugar, milk, butter, and sprinkles to make your own.

[@thesuitshow9944]

@@ccggenius I’ve never seen just plain graham crackers, I guess you could just use plain biscuits but it’s not really the same

[@ccggenius]

@@thesuitshow9944 Huh... well, I'm pretty sure they were invented in the US to curb masturbation or something. Does the UK NOT have an epidemic of serial wankers?

[@CanMav]

Lunchables were the best thing when you were a kid... actually they still kinda are...

[@AskMiko]

Agree… perfect for flights when you want something tasty but small

[@kyliCatherine1]

Whatever happened to the taco 🌮 Lunchables? Haven’t seen those since the 90’s…

[@colewhite4184]

@@kyliCatherine1 remember when they used to have those blue soda cans in the boxes as well the two circle chocolate candies?

[@og-greenmachine8623]

Until you know how much sodium is in them

[@daviddemuth6075]

Being an overweight American male these videos speak to me, props to you bro on this channel you clearly understand your viewers!❤

[@SouthernBelleReviews]

"Don't tell a dentist about this video. 4 out of 5 of them won't recommend it." 🦷🤣

[@scottpilgremvsdepie]

Although I have never actually tried them, Dunkaroos are definitely still around and available. I see them at the store all the time.

[@gettfoffmynews3315]

😳 my grandma was born in1940 and as a kid in the 90's I effing hated Crackerjacks! still hate them til this day.. but Grammy loved them to death and always had them in the house. I personally don't see the appeal. I guess I had to be there or something when no snacks existed or a limited amount

[@bethanythatsme]

I was born in the 70s, but same! Granny loved those gross Cracker Jacks 🤣 I just wanted the toy

[@TheGelasiaBlythe]

My brother loved Cracker Jack. No clue why. It wasn't bad or good, really. I liked Fiddle Faddle or Screaming Yellow Zonkers much, much more than Cracker Jack.

[@Kimberly-dt4ko]

@@TheGelasiaBlythe Cracker Jack for the toy under age ten. After that, definitely Screaming Yellow Zonkers.

[@colleenbrown92]

I love cracker Jack lol

[@jeffkendrick6726]

JERK

[@pantera9442]

I was born in 90s, when foreign snacks invaded Russia, and I can’t forget that wonderful taste of Planters Cheese balls, the tastiest snack I’ve ever eaten ❤️ Still keep that old round box at home Such a pity they don’t produce them anymore 😢

[@haskinsak]

They were so good! In the US, they have brought them back occasionally near the winter holidays.

[@pantera9442]

@@haskinsak wow, that’s great! Thought they were gone forever

[@derekg5889]

I remember the cheese balls in the blue round container! 🤠

[@pantera9442]

@@derekg5889 yes, with Mr. Peanut 🥜

[@Katharine888]

Cheese Balls are available at my local grocery store year round. Unfortunately, they are too expensive for me.

[@DarkeningDemise]

Lunchables then: Nachos, Tacos, Burgers, Hot Dogs, Pizza, etc. Lunchables now: Crackers with ham and cheese and a water. Don't tell me we didn't have it better cause we did as 90s kids.