Did you have lunchbox envy?
Some snacks were so cool you were instantly elevated in your street cred on the playground. While some of them are no longer on the market, we can still remember with fond memories these super special treats:
- Fruit Gushers: for some, the only fruit we ate as kids…
- Sprinkl’ins yogurts: chocolate crunchies made the whole thing
- Smarties: Just unwrapping the plastic made you happy
- Air heads: There was nothing like that pull of Airheads on your teeth
- Hubba Bubba Bubble tape: Coolest Kids Only
- Go-gurts: Remember freezing them?
- Kid Cuisine: Totally chosen for the design on the box and the prize
- Fruit Roll Ups: Can’t you hear that sound of tearing it from the wax paper?
- Oscar Mayer Lunchables: The most covetable lunch of all
- Sunny D: Loved how they drank from the bottle on the commercial
- Fruitopia: little slice of lush
- Orange Smiles at halftime at AYSO Soccer
- Fruit by the Foot: Not to be confused with gum, these you could EAT!
- Push Pops: Who else saved the little tubes they came in?
- Nestle Wonder Ball: Even the box was magic
- Ring Pop: Don’t run your fingers through your hair with these one
- Capri-Sun: The first of the juice box craze
- Dunk A Roos: I loved those little containers of that frosting goodness
- Pudding Pops: Even Bill Cosby couldn’t resist
- Warheads: Best eaten on the playground
- Gummy Sharks: made the best birthday cake topping
- Cool Ranch Doritos: The first of the specialty flavors we remember
- Snackwell’s Devil’s Food Cake Cookies: Remember how Dad would eat them all?
- Rice Krispy Treat Cereal: best eaten on Saturday morning watching cartoons
- Urkel-o’s (as in Steve): Crunchy sweetness!
- Reptar Crunch cereal: Rugrats favorite dinosaur gone rock star
- Hot Pockets: Only cool moms let you eat them outside on your bike
- Krispy M&Ms: I still cry they stopped making these
- Squeez-its: So worth the work it took to get the tops off
- Hi-C Ecto Cooler: That crazy color made lunch taste better
- Bottle Pops: I admit to saving the bottle to use on dolls
- Crystal Pepsi: Clear. Bubbly. Yum.
- Butterfinger BB’s: Perfect for eating or shooting into other’s mouths
- Hostess Ninja Turtle Pudding Pies: Cowabunga!
- Shark Bites: Even the package was awesome
- Combos: The classic snack after school. After all, everything’s better with pretzels.
