- They change colors and flavors. Ooh, sciency.
- Oh my gosh, it's the gushiness!
♪ (French accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) Welcome to our second edition of '90s kids' snacks.
- Again? Yes.
Okay, the last time, they tasted really good.
- (gasps) Yay. I'm excited.
- I was in the first one. I loved it.
There was Hubba Bubba tape, PEZ.
- There's a lot of '90s snacks that still exist.
I hope I've seen some of them before.
- (FBE) Now, some of these snacks weren't necessarily
first invented in the '90s, but definitely became
a popular item in the '90s and some are still seen today.
- Oh, okay. When you eat something
as a kid, and then you eat it now, you remember of back--
of that time back then.
- I'm just trying to think what would be '90s kids snacks?
Peanut butter and jelly? I have no clue.
- They might be really good and they might be really bad.
- I feel like it has to have a lot of color and sugar
and I feel like that's still true today.
- (FBE) Here is your first '90s snack.
- (gasps) Yes. I've seen those.
I like this shape because it looks like a unicorn horn.
- Bugles? They look like ice cream cones
without the ice cream.
- If you turn them like this, they look like a scary
witch finger, but if you turn them like this, they kinda looks
like a tornado.
- (blowing) I've never actually had these,
but I think I've seen a commercial for this.
Good. Kinda tastes like Fritos.
- I'm getting kinda corn taste. It's very, very crunchy.
These remind me of those things you usually see
like decorations at a table at Thanksgiving.
- Mm, these taste really good. They're salty, but they
don't have too much of a flavor where it's like crazy,
exploding with different stuff.
- Are these something big and I've just been living
under a rock?
- (FBE) So, these are called Bugles.
They are made in the same factory in west Chicago, Illinois
until the factory was closed in 2017.
These triangle shaped chips were a fun way to pretend
you had long fingernails. - Well, the first thing
that came to mind was a unicorn horn.
Very, very odd, but kinda fun actually.
- Hello. I ate my fingernails.
- This is fun.
- Go like this, right? Then yeah.
See, I'm smart. I'm a '90s kid, boom.
- (FBE) Okay, here's your next one.
- (gasps) Go-Gurt!
- You can take them on the go and they're yogurt.
That's why they're called Go-Gurt.
- I ate so many of these when I was younger.
Wow, so these were very popular in the '90s?
- Yummy.
- That was a fun experience. It's not really the factor
of savor the flavor. It's the fast way of eating it.
- I like it better like this because it's more fun.
- I really like yogurt and you don't need a spoon,
so it's easy to carry around with you.
I remember having jokes on these.
- I always just loved to read the questions and then
just try to figure it out without looking at the bottom.
- (FBE) Yogurt on the go. They were also known as
Yoplait tubes in Canada and as Frubes in
the United Kingdom. - Frubes?
Who came up with that?
- Sounds kinda weird like fruit tube.
Oh, fruit tubes. That actually doesn't sound
that weird now that I actually put it together.
- They should just call them Frubes everywhere.
"Hey, you got a Frube here?"
- (FBE) Here is your next one. - Oh, I love these.
These are my favorites.
- I always see these types of snacks at school,
so I mean, if snacks like these were more
popular in the '90s than they are now, that's kinda crazy.
- I don't really like these things that much.
Is that even real cheese? Probably not.
- They're okay.
- I like the cheese more than I like the combination.
- They're like mini breadsticks. Mini cheesy breadsticks.
- They don't taste bad, but they're not good.
These things are just really underwhelming.
They don't have a flavor. They're just crunchy sticks.
You could at least try a little bit harder.
I mean, come on.
- (FBE) So, these are called Handi-Snacks.
This was an inspiration to boost Lunchables sales.
Handi-Snacks is a mass produced cheese and crackers
snack that is prepared using processed cheese.
- I honestly get it. It's pretty good.
It seems like it wouldn't cost a lot.
It's fast.
- The way it's packaged is it's easy to carry with you
in a bag, a lunch bag.
- I think that it's really cool that they didn't just
keep it in the '90s. I appreciate that they
wanted some of the '90s snacks to come back to life.
- (FBE) All right, let's do the next one.
- (gasps) Gushers! Oh my gosh.
These are Gushers. Yes.
- I had these before and they're really juicy.
Squeeze.
- They're not my favorite of the fruit snacks
because when you bite into them, you're like,
"Normal, normal. Oh my gosh,
it's the gushiness!"
- They're fruity, they're yummy,
and they're sweet.
- It was good, but I mean, I didn't really taste
any juice come out. It just felt like a gummy.
- This tastes better than I remember.
Kinda like it.
- They have gel on the inside and most
fruit snacks do not.
- (FBE) So, these are called Gushers.
- I haven't really heard of them in such a long time.
- (FBE) Introduced in 1991, these fruit snacks
in the shape of elongated hexagonal bipyramids
made primarily from sugar and fruit juice are still
popular today. - All right.
The idea of eating a gummy and then just having
juice come out probably was unique back then.
- There's nothing really like them out there.
Other stuff, you just eat it and it's like,
it's fruit flavored. Gushers, they gush,
that's their thing and it's delicious.
- (FBE) All right, let's do the last one.
- Never heard of these before.
- Jawbreakers? That change colors
and flavors? Ooh, sciencey.
- I used to see a bunch of movies,
for example, Willie Wonka. They were talking about
Gobstoppers and all that and I was like,
"What's a Gobstopper?"
- I wish they looked like the ones from the movie.
They don't look like-- they're just little round
jawbreakers.
- They're so tiny. I'm gonna go for a red.
Tastes like the pink flavored gum.
- I'm gonna do a yellow, 'cause I love yellow.
- These are good. I don't see if there's
anything really special about them,
except for the name and they're from Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory.
- (FBE) So, after a while, it'll change color and flavor.
- Mm. Orangey, still orangey.
It's good. It's kind of yellowish orange.
Takes a while to do that.
- (FBE) What color is it now? - Red.
That's really freaky.
- (FBE) So, these are called Gobstoppers.
A Willy Wonka inspired candy, these jawbreakers take
several weeks to manufacture as the process of adding
liquid sugar is repeated multiple times
until it dries. - They were actually
inspired by Willy Wonka. That's pretty cool.
- Oh, I love those movies. I love the original better
with Gene Wilder.
- (FBE) The term Gobstopper derives from gob,
which is slang in the United Kingdom and Ireland
for mouth. - I mean, it's cool
that it has a meaning and is not just a weird word
they made up.
- You wanna have a mouth stopper?
Gobstopper sounds better.
- They're really cool, 'cause when you put them
in your mouth and you suck a while,
it changes colors and flavors and I think that's a great idea.
- (FBE) What did you think of all these '90s snacks today?
- They were all really good. I mean, they're all sugary,
they all tasted delicious and some of them,
I had already eaten before.
- Those people are lucky, I guess. People who got to have
these a lot of the time.
- They all had their own unique thing to them.
They may have been popular in the '90s and had
their peak of popularity back then, but I mean,
I still see a lot of these today.
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