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

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  • Опубликовано: 13 авг 2022
  • 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.
    #junkfood #foodhistory #weirdhistoryfood
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  • @weirdhistoryfood
    @weirdhistoryfood  Год назад +195

    What's your favorite snack or candy?

    • @LisaBowers
      @LisaBowers Год назад +17

      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
      @pablocasas5906 Год назад +9

      Snacks = Cheetos. Candy = anything strawberry or lemon flavored

    • @junnipherr7908
      @junnipherr7908 Год назад +13

      Twix all the way and Chip's Ajoy💗💗

    • @wickidbloodymetalqueen7901
      @wickidbloodymetalqueen7901 Год назад +8

      My favorite snack is chips and cheese sauce

    • @wickidbloodymetalqueen7901
      @wickidbloodymetalqueen7901 Год назад +6

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

  • @adcamper92
    @adcamper92 Год назад +1194

    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
      @PasleyAviationPhotography Год назад +34

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

    • @jay_ooh
      @jay_ooh Год назад +51

      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
      @kyliCatherine1 Год назад +20

      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
      @jacobkelley7762 Год назад +3

      I have some in my cabinet

    • @jasonvaquero9739
      @jasonvaquero9739 Год назад +5

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

  • @slade842
    @slade842 Год назад +73

    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
    @Tickles_The_Oaf Год назад +324

    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
      @tstahler5420 Год назад +23

      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
      @whatbedbug Год назад +17

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

    • @MelB868
      @MelB868 Год назад +1

      Those animal crackers taste awful

    • @ElizabethBattle
      @ElizabethBattle Год назад +8

      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
      @jennatomashosky8624 Год назад +4

      Me too

  • @jflsdknf
    @jflsdknf Год назад +105

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

    • @Sanguivore
      @Sanguivore Год назад +10

      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
      @og-greenmachine8623 Год назад +5

      We thought it was chocolate

    • @SouthernBelleReviews
      @SouthernBelleReviews Год назад +10

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

    • @MamaBe1963
      @MamaBe1963 Год назад +1

      Same here

    • @aedsell
      @aedsell 4 месяца назад

      I never did either!

  • @LuvzToLol21
    @LuvzToLol21 Год назад +581

    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
      @TakBonez Год назад +27

      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
      @BakedRBeans Год назад +25

      @@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
      @NAT-turners-Revenge Год назад

      🤔

    • @plnkfloydian7814
      @plnkfloydian7814 Год назад +44

      Dang a neapolitan bar sounds delicious

    • @joebone3151
      @joebone3151 Год назад +12

      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

  • @Flickawho
    @Flickawho Год назад +1118

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

    • @Ottophil
      @Ottophil Год назад +53

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

    • @inr63
      @inr63 Год назад +27

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

    • @plnkfloydian7814
      @plnkfloydian7814 Год назад +37

      Was there anything less satisfying than a lunchable?

    • @Flickawho
      @Flickawho Год назад +12

      @@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
      @vancakes4500 Год назад +54

      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.

  • @ProdigiousHdawg
    @ProdigiousHdawg Год назад +40

    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...

  • @adrone123
    @adrone123 Год назад +36

    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!

  • @jolenewitzel7919
    @jolenewitzel7919 Год назад +228

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

    • @f1guremeout
      @f1guremeout Год назад +3

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

    • @Leguminator
      @Leguminator Год назад +25

      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
      @KaylaNoelle1 Год назад +3

      I still get those my my grandparents

    • @TheGelasiaBlythe
      @TheGelasiaBlythe Год назад +5

      @@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
      @TheGelasiaBlythe Год назад +1

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

  • @RemnantCult
    @RemnantCult Год назад +367

    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
      @214warzone Год назад +5

      dude there's like 20 Reeses, which one?

    • @guilletiger
      @guilletiger Год назад +13

      @@214warzone he refers to the classic one

    • @alabamatrixie7379
      @alabamatrixie7379 Год назад +9

      Reeses isn't salty

    • @KillKount187
      @KillKount187 Год назад

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

    • @KillKount187
      @KillKount187 Год назад

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

  • @cherylmaden5989
    @cherylmaden5989 Год назад +14

    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
      @Donna-zc9ii Год назад +4

      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
      @cherylmaden5989 Год назад +1

      @@Donna-zc9ii Thank you so much!!!🥰🤗

    • @angelwild5665
      @angelwild5665 Год назад +1

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

    • @johnmccree8941
      @johnmccree8941 11 месяцев назад

      I remember C. Chips. Huge metal cannisters.

    • @deeznutzzz3217
      @deeznutzzz3217 3 дня назад

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

  • @NeahNadie
    @NeahNadie Год назад +13

    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
      @richardshagrin8565 Год назад

      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
      @wadeintonature2975 10 дней назад

      It is called Cracker Jill now because feminism sucks.

  • @Der_Kleine_Mann
    @Der_Kleine_Mann Год назад +246

    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
      @FreterP Год назад +10

      Capri-Sonne ist ja auch eine deutsche Erfindung aus Heidelberg

    • @Der_Kleine_Mann
      @Der_Kleine_Mann Год назад +6

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

    • @Der_Kleine_Mann
      @Der_Kleine_Mann Год назад +2

      @@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
      @jaxsonharper9091 Год назад +2

      You guys don’t have Go Gurts??

    • @Der_Kleine_Mann
      @Der_Kleine_Mann Год назад +1

      @@jaxsonharper9091 No, unfortunately not anymore 😔

  • @anotherpeasant
    @anotherpeasant Год назад +292

    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
      @chava4809 Год назад +16

      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
      @packnetadaija Год назад +6

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

    • @Ahshie
      @Ahshie Год назад +5

      Have them everywhere here in Nebraska too 😂

    • @chava4809
      @chava4809 Год назад +3

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

    • @buffalosoldier4485
      @buffalosoldier4485 Год назад +14

      They were recently re-released in America

  • @kallen868
    @kallen868 Год назад +5

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

  • @wintersprite
    @wintersprite Год назад +9

    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.

  • @anjalidevi7168
    @anjalidevi7168 Год назад +72

    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
      @toshiro8179 Год назад +2

      they started selling hydrox again on amazon

    • @chrismayer3919
      @chrismayer3919 4 месяца назад +2

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

  • @hakdragon
    @hakdragon Год назад +100

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

    • @noUGames
      @noUGames Год назад +4

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

    • @nickrenaud5723
      @nickrenaud5723 Год назад

      You can find them pretty easily in east Tennessee

    • @ryego3
      @ryego3 Год назад

      Arrowroot cookie + Nutella = adult sized dunkaroos

    • @GamingLover-xp8hc
      @GamingLover-xp8hc Год назад +2

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

    • @chiquita683
      @chiquita683 Год назад

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

  • @beastleviath9356
    @beastleviath9356 Год назад +9

    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

  • @hew2356
    @hew2356 Год назад +5

    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.

  • @12inch_monster
    @12inch_monster Год назад +189

    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
      @helmut666kohl Год назад +25

      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
      @shuruff904 Год назад +7

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

    • @cliffhamilton2857
      @cliffhamilton2857 Год назад +1

      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
      @jd9119 11 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @seannewman8542
      @seannewman8542 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @BravoZuluYT
    @BravoZuluYT Год назад +138

    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. ❤️

    • @jacobg236
      @jacobg236 Год назад +1

      Well MY MOM says it was South Burlington!

    • @lrom5445
      @lrom5445 Год назад +1

      @@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
      @Steven-gf1eu Год назад

      Water boy

    • @Steven-gf1eu
      @Steven-gf1eu Год назад

      Sorry to break it to you .

    • @SteveCarras
      @SteveCarras Год назад +1

      Too bad about the leftist politics 😞

  • @Balo657
    @Balo657 Год назад +6

    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

  • @RaynmanPlays
    @RaynmanPlays Год назад +8

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

  • @pagalmasala
    @pagalmasala Год назад +32

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

    • @laneatkinson6441
      @laneatkinson6441 Год назад +2

      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
      @pagalmasala Год назад

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

    • @laneatkinson6441
      @laneatkinson6441 Год назад +3

      @@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
      @Donna-zc9ii Год назад

      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
      @thatsrich944 3 месяца назад

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

  • @user-xs5bl9dy6d
    @user-xs5bl9dy6d Год назад +81

    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
      @scottstark5528 Год назад +7

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

    • @user-xs5bl9dy6d
      @user-xs5bl9dy6d Год назад +2

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

    • @zsstuff5089
      @zsstuff5089 Год назад +4

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

    • @Katharine888
      @Katharine888 Год назад

      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
      @alabamatrixie7379 Год назад +1

      @@user-xs5bl9dy6d Not around where I live either

  • @marianneaugenstein6381
    @marianneaugenstein6381 Год назад +4

    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.

  • @nitrobike123
    @nitrobike123 Год назад +7

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

  • @ArcherSuh4721
    @ArcherSuh4721 Год назад +30

    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)

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Год назад +21

    *Two RUclipsrs 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.

  • @hgfxjnn
    @hgfxjnn Год назад +7

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

  • @stacytadlock7666
    @stacytadlock7666 Год назад +3

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

  • @Spadealchemist
    @Spadealchemist Год назад +11

    This was such a treat to watch!

  • @proudamerican4050
    @proudamerican4050 Год назад +34

    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.

  • @tihzho
    @tihzho Год назад +7

    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.

  • @TheMythey
    @TheMythey Год назад +9

    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
      @missylou725 Год назад

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

  • @TheGelasiaBlythe
    @TheGelasiaBlythe Год назад +50

    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
      @Crayshen Год назад +8

      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
      @sketchur Год назад +6

      Long live Hydrox!!!

    • @wintersprite
      @wintersprite Год назад +3

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

    • @jwoolman5
      @jwoolman5 Год назад +8

      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
      @ElizabethBattle Год назад +6

      Cracker Barrel restaurant stores sell Hydrox.

  • @kmstins
    @kmstins Год назад +48

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

    • @BakedRBeans
      @BakedRBeans Год назад +6

      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
      @kmstins Год назад +1

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

    • @kmstins
      @kmstins Год назад

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

    • @cliffhamilton2857
      @cliffhamilton2857 Год назад +2

      Vita...meata...this stuff

    • @billcornwell3619
      @billcornwell3619 Год назад +1

      I Love Lucy episode title: "Switching Jobs"

  • @EndaroLaMerk
    @EndaroLaMerk Год назад +9

    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.

  • @toniboyer3322
    @toniboyer3322 Год назад +7

    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...

  • @reecepierce
    @reecepierce Год назад +10

    Do one about certs mints please

  • @tommywolfe2706
    @tommywolfe2706 Год назад +22

    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
      @evirareid1500 Год назад +1

      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
      @MelB868 Год назад +1

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

  • @jchow5966
    @jchow5966 Год назад +6

    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.

  • @v.e.7236
    @v.e.7236 Год назад +5

    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.

  • @rebasack21
    @rebasack21 Год назад +37

    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
      @giraffesinc.2193 Год назад +8

      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
      @genxx2724 Год назад +1

      @@giraffesinc.2193 Remember reception sticks?

    • @giraffesinc.2193
      @giraffesinc.2193 Год назад

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

    • @AEvans36977
      @AEvans36977 Год назад +1

      I keep a regular stash of those

    • @kirbyculp3449
      @kirbyculp3449 Год назад

      Andes are good but After Eight is the best.

  • @superspak
    @superspak Год назад +13

    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.

  • @MalleusSemperVictor
    @MalleusSemperVictor Год назад +10

    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".

  • @vlogs_with_sarah
    @vlogs_with_sarah Год назад +1

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

  • @blacklabel3980
    @blacklabel3980 Год назад +12

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

  • @AskMiko
    @AskMiko Год назад +18

    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
      @hollerinwoman Год назад +2

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

  • @outroseok
    @outroseok Год назад +4

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

  • @christinacolasanto530
    @christinacolasanto530 Год назад +8

    I was rised by a health mom...it was so fustrating to see all my friends have their junk food but l did learn to sneak food.l used to love walking to the nearest drug store and sneak oatmeal pies,rollo's, pop rocks and bubble tape.

    • @genxx2724
      @genxx2724 Год назад +3

      My mom is a health nut, too. I was very resentful. But unlike most Americans, I have good health, I’m thin, and I’m not on medication.

  • @monkeygraborange
    @monkeygraborange Год назад +10

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

  • @codygrimaldi1347
    @codygrimaldi1347 Год назад +9

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

  • @michaelscriver5395
    @michaelscriver5395 Год назад +1

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

  • @SgtJohnRemairez
    @SgtJohnRemairez Год назад +1

    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 ;-;

  • @richardsmith3259
    @richardsmith3259 Год назад +34

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

    • @DiviAugusti
      @DiviAugusti Год назад +2

      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
      @crabstick250 Год назад +2

      I loved the cans too. And the horse advertising lol

  • @presmasterflash7555
    @presmasterflash7555 Год назад +5

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

  • @hannap8052
    @hannap8052 Год назад +7

    I'm not from US, I'm surprised all these sweets have such long history!

  • @julyannamonero
    @julyannamonero Год назад +3

    Loved go gurt, fruit by the foot, and gushers growing up. Lots of nostalgia seeing those. Great video

    • @diannt9583
      @diannt9583 Год назад

      Had Go Gurt once. I am sorry I had it at all. Repulsive, I fear.

  • @del5.0
    @del5.0 Год назад +12

    Yeah, so POP Rocks were a gateway candy (drug) for me. I'm still in recovery...

  • @bethanythatsme
    @bethanythatsme Год назад +6

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

  • @NightoftheLivingcookies10
    @NightoftheLivingcookies10 Год назад +3

    I’m addicted to Tootsie Roll lollipops so badly I need to limit myself to only a few a year 😂

  • @Melissa0774
    @Melissa0774 Год назад +9

    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
      @missylou725 Год назад +1

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

  • @tmn5647382910
    @tmn5647382910 Год назад +15

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

  • @Leguminator
    @Leguminator Год назад +11

    I still love spray cheese, Cheez Whiz & Velveeta (yeah, I realize they're merely cheese adjacent) but I can't handle the salt punch anymore.

    • @BakedRBeans
      @BakedRBeans Год назад +2

      You are correct! Easy Cheeze is just Cheese-whiz in a can, so "spray cheese" is a good description. And you are right again in saying it is "merely cheese adjacent" Can't find my favorite, bacon-cheddar, anymore. Oh well, my doctor told me to cut down on salt...

  • @ShadowOfMachines
    @ShadowOfMachines Год назад +17

    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
      @Sanguivore Год назад +3

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

  • @billgrandone3552
    @billgrandone3552 Год назад +4

    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.

  • @ripleyandweeds1288
    @ripleyandweeds1288 Год назад +127

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

    • @inr63
      @inr63 Год назад

      Pudding that will slice you lol

    • @yourrealtor957
      @yourrealtor957 Год назад +10

      I loved that memory ...not wrong

    • @LeoMidori
      @LeoMidori Год назад +34

      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
      @ipissed Год назад +19

      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
      @inr63 Год назад +5

      @@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.

  • @englishteatime5205
    @englishteatime5205 Год назад +7

    @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

  • @jchow5966
    @jchow5966 Год назад

    Thank you for this Excellent video. i love food history because it is about everything that was going on at the time… this channel makes it fascinating & entertaining.

  • @GlazeMyDonuts
    @GlazeMyDonuts Год назад +6

    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

  • @plnkfloydian7814
    @plnkfloydian7814 Год назад +8

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

  • @scottpilgremvsdepie
    @scottpilgremvsdepie Год назад +3

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

  • @applegal3058
    @applegal3058 Год назад +2

    Oh my, I remember loving Cracker Jack's! The box didn't keep anything fresh, but i loved the soggyness if it lol

  • @edsteward7717
    @edsteward7717 Год назад +13

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

  • @Katpiratefan275
    @Katpiratefan275 Год назад +6

    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.

  • @cocoaorange1
    @cocoaorange1 Год назад +2

    I never knew Almond Joy or Mounds have been around since the 20's, very informative video.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 Год назад +3

    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
      @cliffhamilton2857 Год назад

      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
      @genxx2724 Год назад

      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.

  • @ddpsf
    @ddpsf Год назад +18

    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
      @kandipiatkowski8589 Год назад +3

      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.

  • @Reesee000
    @Reesee000 Год назад

    The vid I knew I needed 👀♥️

  • @eggie1978
    @eggie1978 Год назад +5

    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
      @sararobinson6571 Год назад +2

      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!

  • @imperatorm.e.l.5162
    @imperatorm.e.l.5162 Год назад +10

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

    • @johnr797
      @johnr797 Год назад +1

      Those mini hot dogs were so good

  • @solanaceae2069
    @solanaceae2069 Год назад +5

    My favorite junk food is a fat ribeye steak

  • @giraffesinc.2193
    @giraffesinc.2193 Год назад +1

    That was such a fun episode! I remember all but Dunkaroos and Gushers.

  • @nomad1517
    @nomad1517 Год назад +1

    So this is what it's like to see your life flash before your eyes. Beautiful.

  • @smalltownreviews
    @smalltownreviews Год назад +9

    Reese’s Pieces the best candy of all time

  • @davidgerow
    @davidgerow Год назад +3

    My favourite junk food in this video, all of them! Lol

  • @sammylane21
    @sammylane21 Год назад +4

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

  • @mo1979ca
    @mo1979ca Год назад

    That was awesome. I really enjoyed the video. It brought back memories of my youth 😜 Something yummy for my tummy.

  • @pablocasas5906
    @pablocasas5906 Год назад +26

    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.
      @azca. Год назад +9

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

    • @pablocasas5906
      @pablocasas5906 Год назад +5

      @@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.
      @azca. Год назад +4

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

    • @pablocasas5906
      @pablocasas5906 Год назад +8

      @@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
      @Jennifer-qc2tq Год назад +3

      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 😔

  • @jbaker7311
    @jbaker7311 Год назад +10

    Microwave popcorn could be added to the list.

    • @user-xs5bl9dy6d
      @user-xs5bl9dy6d Год назад +2

      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
      @og-greenmachine8623 Год назад

      Microwave popcorn is disgusting
      compared to popcorn made on the stove

  • @jchow5966
    @jchow5966 Год назад

    Great episode!!!!!!!

  • @HumpD624
    @HumpD624 Год назад +1

    9:43. Cheese wizard. Hilarious. Now I have to start over to see what else I missed

  • @BugsyFoga
    @BugsyFoga Год назад +5

    What a neat history lesson.

    • @candicehoneycutt4318
      @candicehoneycutt4318 Год назад

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

  • @valerief1231
    @valerief1231 Год назад +13

    Those pull top snack pack pudding cups were my favorite, but I was too little to open them by myself. I would ask the lunch lady to open it for me, I was in the 1st grade

    • @terryrollins1973
      @terryrollins1973 Год назад

      I forgot they were in those pull top cans until now lol

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Год назад +4

    Those foods are awesome! I have had every one of them (except that competitor with Hostess).
    I am a big fan of Casey's Juju fish and Rainbow Twizzlers.
    So many great snack foods.
    Thank you for the video.

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner Год назад +1

      This looks like a very valuable channel....(I have only watched this video so far though).

  • @Tokeepmypromise
    @Tokeepmypromise 10 дней назад

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

  • @mestre12
    @mestre12 Год назад +6

    Also, do discountiniued fast food menus