Episode 6 - The Junk Food Episode!

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Garfield Fruit Snack
https://youtu.be/_BgCAJt8a0Q

 Ninja Turtle Pies
https://youtu.be/w2wYpfbQb5U

 Squeeze it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y5vMyHBBa8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xUyeyXcOeI

 PB Crisp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE6Aj1zuxX0

Booty O’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEwMIUdYHlk

Pizzaria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4w9VhoO1Mc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhT5o1ZloQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIJb08jTAJg

 Candy Cigs, Cigars, and Chew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tUCUNHO9KA

Wow! Chips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPYWS5paA_g

Wow Chips Family Guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPYWS5paA_g

 Life of a Wal Mart Cart Pusher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_CRujqdjkM

 Butterfinger BB’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMxqUku71qs

 Circus Peanuts (Orange fluffy peanuts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvxDAKGfMck

 Giggles Cookies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex-17v0ZHEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQZC_leRmqs

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22cVbc8RghY

 Orbitz
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gc6hxTn06w

 Tato Skins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdRSIhTNSIs

 Crystal Pepsi
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2za2IK8FQoM

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Transcript

0:00

What's up? Jen, food junkies. It's me. Ashley.

Aaron: 0:02

Hello friends. My name is Irene

Garret: 0:04

and I'm Garrett.

Aaron: 0:05

welcome to nostalgic It's going to be one of those nights. Isn't it.

0:19

be prepared for the car

Aaron: 0:20

garage. Yep. If you ever heard an audio train wreck, be ready.

0:25

You're in for a thrill. All right. Well, we got some nostalgic news, but show.

Aaron: 0:32

yeah, we've been talking about adding little new features and I just kinda came across some birthdays that will make you feel old. Jennie Garth from 9 0 2, 1 oh, turned 50 this month.

0:42

Kelly yeah.

Aaron: 0:43

Candice Cameron who played DJ from full house turned 46 I know Carmen Electra she started 50 this month also. Wow. For real And Stephen's a goal turned seven. Oh, I've seen what he looked like lately? He looks like a walking Winkie.

1:02

canceled,

Garret: 1:04

I think so. I think he moved to Russia because they were like, oh, we like you and your asshole mish.

1:10

Um, what's his name Everybody loves David Hasselhoff in Germany, don't hassle the Hoff.

Aaron: 1:16

And you know, you had Gilbert God for you just passed away at 67. if you guys remember anything, he was in a yeah. A Latin Aladdin. Yeah. that's the, first thing that comes to my mind when I think of

1:28

Yeah. Oh yeah. Aflac. Aflac.

Aaron: 1:31

And then we kind of joked about, it said like people that you didn't know were dead. so from the show Seinfeld, Liz Sheraton, who was Seinfeld's mom just passed. a still Harris who was George's mom just passed away. It makes me sad. And then do you remember the, when George was drawing unemployment and the lady in the unemployment office where he had to date her daughter, to keep his unemployment and it didn't work out, but her name was Ray Allen, and she was also, played mock Kelly in a league of their own. when you see her, you'll recognize her,

Garret: 2:02

Is that a bad time to sell you guys that I've never watched Seinfeld.

2:06

Okay. Well then we are forgiven for Schitt's Creek. I don't want to hear about, I wish I had a sound effect. I would play

Aaron: 2:13

uh, I got two more, Taylor Hawkins, who was the drummer from food fighters. He passed away at 50 that's. That sounds

Garret: 2:18

pretty sad. that one was really sad.

2:20

And I think it was drug-related, which I hate more than

Aaron: 2:22

anything. so much talent, just cut short. And then one that I thought was interesting was, Kirk Bailey, who was from salute my shorts past. He was the camp counselor, the dude that had the hat. He was always had the sunscreen on his nose. Oh, that does sound familiar.

2:40

the oldest one in there. it's not like

Aaron: 2:47

that was birthdays that make you feel old and people that you did not know were dead.

Ashley: 2:51

It works. I feel old. So I had a few fun things I wanted to talk about. one of them was. The one 800 rock gym in our last episode we talked about cartoons extensively, I mean, 40 minutes of Jim, not once brought this up because I didn't know about it until one of our listeners, her name is Jenny. She's awesome. asked us about it on Facebook. Like, Hey, did you guys ever call this number? And I was really shocked because of all the internets I could not find it. she found one reference to it and then Garrett, deep dive for us and actually found it. But it was a contest that you could call, and you would audition for gym by singing the gym theme song. And so the commercial, Garret found that YouTube video is amazing. It's just something that we didn't add to our cartoon episode. And that shows you that, uh, our listeners may know more than we do.

Garret: 3:37

This is actually hard to find too. So I was intrigued.

Aaron: 3:40

What they should have had was in the first episode was a guy come up and he was like, hi, I'm the head of a music company. If you win this, you get a mansion and a record deal. That's what should

3:50

have happened. But I'm Howard Sans Yeah, I got you. I got to worry. Go with that. It just so happened to have this or whatever they went. what if we can find one of the winners? just in case you or any of your friends won the contest, We want to interview you that would be cool. Light up in the DMS. we'll meet you there. my second thing,, I did have someone asked me the Scooby doo like, show that I had referenced it's called leverage. there's six people who were criminals, turned crime fighters and it's Scooby-Doo ask someone did ask me about that. and I couldn't remember the name of it. So it's called leverage. And the other thing on Monday, It's just a fun story. after Dustin, my husband listened to the Nintendo episode, he was like, I can't believe you didn't talk to me before you did video games. And I'm like why he has a contract. I think he was seven or eight when he beat Mario three and he actually wrote out a contract and had witnesses, sign it to show that he beat the game three witness. And didn't get a notarized, but I'm pretty sure he would have, if he would have known it's in the attic, he still has it. I just thought that was a funny story that didn't talk about it in that episode, but bringing it back to,

Aaron: 4:56

I may have had a contract signed if somebody wouldn't have kicked Monetate it still hurts.

5:05

so that's mine install, click news. And then I know Garrett, you had another little thing and then you're going to kick us off.

Garret: 5:10

Yeah. we've been hard at work doing some new, things that we can do for you guys on this podcast. And one of the things that we're gonna start doing is mini episodes. these are going to be fun episodes for you to get to know us. we're just going to be diving down on some of the memories, how Ashley and I met how me and Aaron met some of our crazy adventures that we've had in our life, so you can get to know us better.

5:30

and content in between since we are only doing once a month, we know that that is just not enough of us because we're, so we're just going to keep it flowing.

Aaron: 5:38

We grow,

5:40

All right. What are we talking about in the step as

Garret: 5:42

low? We're talking about junk food from the past, the stylistic

5:46

junk. That sounds good. I think I'll have.

Garret: 5:50

I'll have what she's having. I'll kick this off. one of my absolute favorite junk foods ever was Garfield's fruit snacks. these came out, I want to say in the early nineties, I couldn't find an actual date but they were by general mills. they were in the shape of Garfield and Odie and they came in flavors of very strawberry, one, two punch and Kat cooler. and eventually they also did, fruit roll up Garfield, like fruit roll type ones. I don't know, there was something about these, I was obsessed with fruit snacks. I think this was my first taste of addiction as a 10, 1112 year old. I remember dreaming like, I wish they had a contest of a glass jar that was the size of buildings. And I wanted them to fill it up and whoever ate until the bottom would win. And I was like, I was totally this is my young brain thinking of weird stuff.

Ashley: 6:43

It's such a Garfield too, because it was on.

Garret: 6:46

maybe that's where that came from. But these things, it was the texture. It was the flavor. they were so good.

Ashley: 6:53

I'm trying to figure out what makes them stand out from other gummies. what made them,

Garret: 6:57

I honestly think part of it was the texture. they were two-year and they changed the flavor or the texture of them. a few years after they came out. Noticeably different. And I don't know what changed, but I was like, these are not the same. I was like, what happened?

Ashley: 7:13

I almost wonder if it's like,, how Coke used to put cocaine in theirs and then they changed the recipe. Oh, I, you know what, they probably put some cocaine. They're like, you know what? I don't ever know

Aaron: 7:22

Have you seen that? They was like, this quit messing with the recipe, if you're not going to put the cocaine back in and just leave it alone, wasn't there a Stripe one. Some reason I'm thinking that they came out with actual Garfield Stripe, fruit roll-ups at one time.

Garret: 7:37

Maybe I wasn't as obsessed with the fruit roll-ups as I was with the snacks, but,I mean, my mom would buy these and by the end of the day, the entire box will be gone. I couldn't just eat one I had eat the entire thing. Just show them how dedicated by loved ones. Let me love, you know, I did, I did

7:54

Yeah. Garfield, fruit snacks. I don't know that I've ever had them when we were researching. I did see that.

Aaron: 8:01

remember them. Yeah, definitely.

8:02

So I have such a sweet tooth that I have a problem with small packaged candies. Anyway. I'm like, what is this? It's five of them. it's just getting a taste of it for me. it would be like giving me one Oreo and then being like, you good? turn this place down. yeah, no I don't know if I taught, I mean, yeah, I guess I can talk about those, but when Dustin's dad live with us, we'd have Oreos. and he would leave one in there and you'd go to get your Oreos. And it would be one. And he would be like, but I didn't eat all of them. And I'm like, you could just would have been better if you did now peel back thing, peel it back. And you're like, oh, it's not. And it's one lone, probably stale Oreo that you're just like, I'm going to

Aaron: 8:45

come out of it. Yeah. I think that leaving one is more insulting than leaving.

Garret: 8:54

Goodness. Did you leave you an IOU or

Aaron: 8:58

at least it wasn't

8:59

not even that cool. It's just like that. Well, I didn't eat all of them. He can't get bad. I'm like, All right. Aaron, you want to go next with

Aaron: 9:08

the first one I want to talk about was the teenage mutant ninja turtle pies or turtle paws. Ashley, do you remember these?

Ashley: 9:16

I do not. So host has had, the small posit, it looked like a hot pocket. They were strawberry blueberry So then they came out with the pudding pie, which was, the same thing, but it had a chocolate coating and vanilla pudding in it, or like a Boston cream pie. And they started those in 84 and they died out in 87, but then the nitro was gaining popularity. So they revamped the whole pudding pie with their turtle pies. it was the small hot pocket, but it had a green, hard shell around it with mutagen goo in it. That's what they call it. And it was vanilla pudding. But as a kid, do you think, like, you know, a green and yeah, so, They were 69 cents a piece back in the day I found the package and everything. There was four different rappers, one for each turtle. on the rapper, they had what they call putting points where you could mail them in and then you could get turtle merchandise, like t-shirts. really, yeah, we never did. Cause you probably had to pay for shipping or something like that, you know? Yeah. they did also come each PI came with either a sticker or a ninja turtles trading card inside of them. Oh. Did you find any of those on your searching?

Aaron: 10:24

Yeah. So there's all kinds of videos where people have actually found like the pie. You can't really find them anywhere. Now. You can't find them on eBay, Amazon, and like that, but people don't come across one and they know they try them. No,

Ashley: 10:36

they tried like, like Twinkies I'm telling you that he has. Okay. So the thing about those pies is when you were talking about them, what I thought of was the ones that you can even buy now, they have that layer on them. And you eat them, you have a film in your mouth. whatever the preservative is in there, it's not the messaging stays with you.

Aaron: 10:54

So I saw the commercials and the commercials are actually pretty funny

Ashley: 10:58

for them to link all these commercials. Oh, definitely.

Aaron: 11:02

Yeah. So in the commercial, that's, there's different rhymes in there. Like turtle class are radically sweet treat that can't be beat. and then they in with straight from the sewers to you that's where you really wanted to go with them. Exactly.

Garret: 11:21

The cycle is complete

Aaron: 11:23

terrible. And they discontinued after awhile as the popularity of editorials died down. And, we talked about before, you can't find them really anywhere, but there are people that don't do reviews where they somehow find one and these videos are recent of these people trying them. there was a guy that he found. the company name, miss rids, Mrs. R E D D S Ms. Reds, they made their own version. That tastes pretty similar. They don't have the green coating on them though. They have a yogurt coating around them., but the guy was like, yeah, they're pretty good. But they are$20 for one, the little pile. So keep that in the sewer, man.

Garret: 12:06

Turn me into a ninja turtle. I do remember those and those were really good. I actually remember being in the store with my mom, and being like, can I have this? And she was like, sure. And then devouring it. As soon as they got home, they were just so good.

Ashley: 12:21

Is that something you remember eating?

Aaron: 12:23

Yes. In Pennsylvania. Yeah. From Brode X, we talk about Broda X. We bring it back, but I remember going down the road X and bond them there

Ashley: 12:30

I don't know. I don't remember these at all. And I'm a junk food person. I must have just stuck with like the same ones.

Garret: 12:36

hello. Also. you were quite young at that time. and we were a little bit older, so I think

12:41

older,

Aaron: 12:45

but I remember though, as a kid, it seemed like it was the, ooze, from secret of the ooze, like, it just seemed like that's what was inside. But when I watched the videos and stuff, it was definitely

12:55

vanilla. It's my funner like Garrett with his gummies. All right. So my first one I'm going to talk about is squeeze it two guys. Remember squeeze it.

Garret: 13:06

Oh, of course.

Aaron: 13:07

I couldn't ever open one without spilling it though. Cause it had the twist top. Maybe I was doing it wrong.

13:13

So squeezes were. us lunchbox staple and nothing really made them special except for the bottle. so it was made out of a flexible bottle and you'd pop the little top off. And if you gripped it too hard, You had to be really careful,, it came out in the 1980s it was a gimmick. It was their answer to the juice box. It was like, what can we do? And Some of the commercials are really funny because they're very cartoony shaped and they have animated bottles that they're drinking out of. And these bottles look so happy that they're being drained. they're just like so weird. they started out with chuckling cherry and grumpy grape, which later changed into Gallup and grape because they were like, nobody's drinking. Great Barry be wild. silly Billy strawberry rockin red puncher mean green puncher, smarty already orange and Tropi tropical punch. And then later they ended up doing a collaboration with lifesaver. So they did a wild watermelon, blue raspberry, and a Tropic goal.

Aaron: 14:10

So green one was my

14:12

favorite green, green. So their tagline, which I mentioned earlier with squeeze the fun out of it, which is I don't know. It just sounds like one of those things, I'm just going to squeeze the fun out of you. It doesn't sound very nice to me, but yeah. they stopped producing it in oh one they did try to do some weird stuff with it. So they did color changing pellets you would put them in and it would change the color. And then they also came out with a black flavor that nobody bought because gross. Yeah, that was one of the gimmicks they tried was to put out a mystery flavor, but it was just black that's, and I I've talked about the mystery flavor and Airheads, he watched a, how it's made and it's when they changed the flavor in the machine. So it's like, whatever, you know what I mean? It was a mishap there, like let's just go with it So, exactly. All right. So that was my squeeze it, so

Aaron: 15:00

did you see anything about why they got discontinued? the biggest downfall, the squeeze, it was they were too big to fit in the lunch boxes. like. Which bit and a squeeze. It was just a little bit too big and people weren't buying them it really hurt their sales. What I

Ashley: 15:15

saw, I have to put them like diagonal. cause they didn't seem like they were big.

Garret: 15:20

first ones were the first ones really tall.

Ashley: 15:23

Yeah. I have a lot of memories with squeeze it.

Garret: 15:27

I remember drinking them, but like I wasn't obsessed with them

Aaron: 15:31

oh yeah. CAPRISA and the little huggie drinks, barrel

Garret: 15:36

huggy drinks.

Aaron: 15:37

They were little barrels, you don't remember those Garrett?

Garret: 15:41

No.

Aaron: 15:42

This one on the agenda or anything, but they came in three or four different flavors and they were small little plastic barrels and they had a foil top and. People tomorrow

Ashley: 15:52

they came in like a case, right. Yes,

Garret: 15:55

I feel like the flavor only thing or

Aaron: 15:58

colored

15:58

water

Aaron: 15:59

purple drink, you know, orange drink,

16:06

like the dollar store

Aaron: 16:07

I'm sure it's probably save a lot,

16:09

I don't remember them being very flavorful. like a. Mild Kool-Aid

Garret: 16:14

mild. Kool-Aid they're like, we need to make this one packet of Kool-Aid French.

Aaron: 16:26

So Kool-Aid All right, Gary, what you got next, man?

Garret: 16:30

did you guys ever have planters PB, Chris, but shit. Those things were so good and so different from everything else. So what they were they were like a cookie ish snack and that's the only thing I can think what it's closest to, but it was a crunchy Graham cracker is what I found, but it didn't taste like Graham cracker, outside, and it had a creamy peanut butter filling inside. And the closest thing I can tell you, if you've never had these the texture was like the puffy Cheetos. that. That was the outside texture and the inside was this creamy peanut butter. they had three different flavors. They have original, which was that, a chocolate one. And they had a PB and J one and the chocolate though is my favorite. they just were so good would eat an entire bag. it came in like a, a small chip bag, so you had enough for a snack or two, but I would eat those, they came out in 92 and they were discontinued around 95, almost want to say they were around longer maybe stores had them trying to get through them. But I remember eating them for a bit longer than just those three years.

Aaron: 17:35

Yeah. It seemed like I was a little bit older when I had him also. I never had the peanut butter and jelly ones though. I remember the regular ones and the. chocolate ones, but I don't remember the peanut butter and jelly ones.

Garret: 17:45

they were really good. the reason they were discontinued, I found two different reasons. One of them said there was not enough demand for them, which sounds right. But the other one I found that was weird is that they were to. So there were two good and they were selling like hotcakes. So they were like, you know what, it's too good of a thing. We're just going to, slowly, quietly, like making

Aaron: 18:06

money,

18:08

marketing plan was this, it's a

Garret: 18:09

terrible, I don't know, planners planners is who made them. but I think they were bought out, by, maybe craft so that's possibly why they stop making them. But in my research, was looking for just random things is on foods. Sometimes it's really hard to find either these fun facts you really got to dive deep, but like on one of the comments, this person is trying to bring these back. He loves them. He's a fanatic. And so he's got petitions going on, everything, every piece of social media there is, one of the comments on there was I would slit the throat of a thousand innocence just for a single planner's chocolate, Chris.

18:43

this is why they just continue to yeah.

Aaron: 18:45

maybe planner this artist, something they saw the end. Like the crack epidemic, you know,

Garret: 18:49

at his followup sentence was I would topple governments for an entire bag.

18:54

No, you're right. If you go to PV, crisp.com. that person bought it or something. Cause the first thing it is, is bring back PB crisps,

Garret: 19:02

he is obsessed. That's hilarious.

Aaron: 19:04

I remember the commercial was like the, what was the Peanut's name? The Mr. Peanut shit. Oh my

Garret: 19:11

gosh.

Aaron: 19:14

you know, he was a guy Mr. And his, he was a peanut, you know what I mean? Uh, so I just remember he was in a factory and it was like PB, Christina, Christina, Chris. It was kinda like, it was the factory and he was making them and putting them out. And I'm pretty sure there was a PB Chris cereal. almost positive. There was, I, I,

Garret: 19:37

that is crazy to me I eat cereal most days. So the fact that it was a crisp cereal. I feel violated. Yes.

19:51

I don't know. I mean, nothing's coming up, but there is something called booty owes, breakfast, It says they make sure you Wayne booty. I don't know what we'll I can't go down this path.

Aaron: 20:05

we can do a whole episode on serial. I think we talked about that.

20:10

I think that's

Garret: 20:12

What we

Aaron: 20:12

got next? my next snack that's not around anymore pizzeria chips.

20:17

I remember PB for us, but I got some pizzeria chips.

Aaron: 20:21

pizzeria chips were made by Keebler. They started in 1991. These chips were made out of actual pizza dough. they were a real flat pizza dough they had cheese pizza, Supreme, and zesty pepperoni were the three. they were a real flavorful chip. zesty pepperoni was always my favorite. Um, yeah, because it's se these were Keebler's version of Doritos. They were trying to battle Doritos and they were trying to battle the Cheetos, when I started watching these commercials, I remembered them. So the commercials were the first commercials to featured, teenage. Keebler elves. So there was two teenagers and they were almost a bill and Ted like air guitar, rocking around like cool. You know,

Garret: 21:03

I think I

Aaron: 21:03

remember that actually. Yeah. It's just funny. the tag phrase and I, as soon as I saw this, I remembered it was, it tastes like pizza, but only louder. but after awhile, Doritos and Cheetos kicked their asses, so they just discontinued them. there is many petitions to bring them back, but they just haven't done it yet.

21:20

I don't know, I liked him, but I didn't like them, but I couldn't stop eating them. it was one of those things where I'm like, it's weird, I'll have another one, it's weird. I'm just going to keep eating them. Like I do. I like these. I don't

Aaron: 21:31

know if I like this or not, but,

Garret: 21:33

I remember eating them as well, but I don't remember loving them.

21:36

I remember them having really pungent flavors powdered the hell. Yes. if for some reason it made me think of combos, like pizza combos. I don't know why, I remember

Aaron: 21:46

eating the whole bag though. And then there would be all these seasoning Crohn's at the bottom I'll just take the last ship and like scoop all the little crumbs at the bottom.

Garret: 21:55

just have a flavor

Aaron: 21:56

outbursts in your mouth. No doubt.

22:02

I'd definitely try those or they brought them back. I

Garret: 22:03

would try most of these snacks that they've either gotten rid of, they're bringing so many things back that. who's to say that what we're talking about now isn't already out

Ashley: 22:13

Well, it's probably because we're talking about it. it kind of a big number, so we'll get things in motion, guys. I know a guy. my next one is one that I'm going to go into a a rabbit hole on, it is candy cigarettes and I got into it. Most of it isn't even because they were good. That's the thing is they were terrible. so there were three different kinds of tobacco linked candies besides bigly Jew, there was gum cigars and then gum cigarettes that had a white wrapper around them and they would put powder in them and you would actually blow on it and it would look like it was puffing smoke. And then there were packs of cigarettes that were just sugar sticks. None of them were actually good. my whole thing I got in about this was that it was to market, cigarettes, to children. you know, a lot of places banned candy cigarettes because, they're like, you're just trying to get kids to smoke. They still sell the cigars. if you're going to have a baby, and you're not going to buy real cigars. So like the blue and the pink or the candy cigarettes, I've heard that they're very costumey like if someone wants to be a greaser and roll up the cigarettes twenties party, where they have candy cigarettes and the little tray or whatever,, so they had names the packs there was like pull mole camels with lucky lights. So it was like all malls and the first advertisements implored young sports, to get a card and a cigarettes to look like dad. So it was like, Hey sport, come get some cigarettes. You could look like dad. That's how they marketed these candy cigarettes.

Aaron: 23:37

I

23:37

learned it

Garret: 23:37

from you. who is the makers of the, of the candy?

23:43

you know, what's funny is I actually had that and I deleted it cause I was like, who cares? So there's one in says world candies, Inc, which became world confections, Inc. But I'm like not somebody that you. We were talking about Keebler or general mills or someone that we would know. Right. So I was kinda like, uh, that's just funny that you asked that because of all the information that I have. So, one of the funny things about them is Hershey's in the beginning, came out with a chocolate cigarette and, they also came out with, chocolate bicycles, chocolate peas, and chocolate chrysanthemums. But none of them took off like the cigarettes did. So in the beginning, because the packaging was so much like cigarette packaging, the cigarette company got into a feud in court over that way, they look like them. And then halfway through, they realized wait a minute, this is great. For both of us, we can get smokers. So then they started giving them their packaging to make it look like. So, yeah, so it says Brown and Williamson when, as far as sending their own packaging, so they could make it look like this. And at first it was lucky strike got into it because of the lucky, lights and, they even put in their cigarette commercials reach for a lucky, instead of a sweet, they were thinking why would you ask for a teeny cigarette when you can have a real one? And I just was like, what? that cracked me up. Then the candy companies started putting in their ads, poison with nicotine, every organ of your body. And then they were like, wait, we could be friends. So the cigarette companies, were like, we can have new customers, kids. Right. It says as the truth initiative, the tobacco industry had more than a passing interest in getting kids interested in our products. They called young people, their replacement smokers, because they needed replacements for 1200 people who die each year from tobacco use. Oh,

Garret: 25:28

wow. Is

Ashley: 25:29

sick. It is. this is not a fun candy episode.

Garret: 25:33

what are the years that this happened? Like these lawsuits and everything's, you know,

25:37

so I got 1971, a bill was proposed in New York to prohibit the sale of candy cigarettes. so it started out they couldn't really say against the cigarettes. So what they did. Was they, were saying anything that resembled a cigarette, but then Tootsie roll was like, whoa, they were actually wording it to where it was what do you, how do you say cylindrical? Cylinder? Cylindrical.

Garret: 25:57

Yeah. Cylindrical

Aaron: 25:59

and brown.

Ashley: 26:03

Um, yeah. So the bill failed because sensory role was like, what the heck, man? we still want to put out ours. so after they started, banning cigarettes, it was never fully abandoned. The U S a lot of other countries did, but of course the U S is us. Yeah. We're like capitalism. I just, like, one of the wordings was the Philippines discouraged use of candy cigarettes, but they kept them, I just thought that was cute. Cause it was like band band band. And the Philippines was like We discourage it. So this lawsuit actually ended up affecting the cigarette companies too, because somebody in 2010. It's the family smoking and prevention control act. banned cigarettes from tasting like candy. So the only flavor that you can get cigarettes in is menthol. They even, did away with cloves. And apparently there was candy flavors and cigarettes. I thought I wrote them down

Garret: 26:52

marketed. That's great. My sister used to smoke closed cigarettes and I love the way they smell

Aaron: 26:57

BDS, like the little bees or whatever.

Garret: 27:00

I didn't know that they got rid of them. I don't smoke it and never have,

27:02

so good on ya. Me neither. And I'm just kidding. a recent poll, a recent poll, um, may, maybe it was 22% of current or one-time smokers ate candy cigarettes during a child. as opposed to 14 non-smokers. So it was a, 8% increase. It, you, had your candor cigarettes when you were younger, you were probably gonna smoke although there was much hubbub love that word, a bulb was raised over the danger of these little guys. Only one state, North Dakota actually banned the sale of them from 1953 in 1967, the United States considered national bands, it never passed. the U S was like, yeah, whatever. and then there was a fun fact about the candy cigars they were originally made in the and fifties for parents announcing the birth of a new baby. they became a staple and penny candies. And I don't know if you ever did penny candies, Garrett, but we had a place called the stop a lot at the end of our street in Pennsylvania. And you would legit go spend a dollar and they'd give you a bag of a hundred pieces of candy. And it was like Swedish fish that's he rolls six lifts and they would just fill that sucker up. I do feel like maybe they were just old school. but I was reading like I went from bubblegum cigars to just bubble gum was that double bubble was the first gum. And it was only pink because that was the only food dye that the guy had. And it just, I just thought that was funny. 1928, Walter dimer, a 23 year old accountant invented the first bubble gum double bubble. So that's candy, cigarettes and cigars. I did paraphrase a lot of that because I went down the wormhole. that was more like an anti-smoking campaign, but you can still get them. I looked at it on Amazon sells them by the box and whatever, but it's yeah, I've seen that

Aaron: 28:34

recently. Yeah. I think we all knew though, that like the cigarette companies were promoting them, but now it's official.

28:41

and I just thought it was so funny that they're like you're using our brand name and then they're like, wait a minute. I just

Aaron: 28:48

remember the chalk ones they were sugar I hated them. And the bubble gum was, were good. And you could blow on them. if you had some fresh ones you could blow the powder out of it. But if you've got an old one, there was no powder and the paper would stick to it. You couldn't ever get the paper off of the gum to be able to chew the gum. the struggle was real to get the paper off of the candy.

29:11

I don't remember there being more than one flavor. I feel like there was definitely great

Aaron: 29:14

grape and paint are the two that I remember.

Garret: 29:17

Yeah, for sure. It was a lot of these cigarettes cause having them and being like,

29:22

these are awful and we were about smokers. So Jane, Anyway, those cigarette people sleep at night, I guess, for shame. what else y'all got?

Garret: 29:34

I got a mini one and then I can go to the one I was talking about before. Do you guys remember you brought up big league to so big too. like I would eat it every now and again. if it was sour, apple or whatever, they had this one flavor And it took me forever to find it. It was flaming hots. so I love cinnamon. I love red hots. Oh, I love cinnamon. it's so good. So at the time I loved big red. I loved all those flavors and I was like, oh, I'll get some of this. I remember putting it in my mouth and chewing it for about a minute. oh my God, when I tell you flaming hot, it's like they did cinnamon slash ghost pepper. I remember I started salivating. and I was like, what is

30:16

it's like,

Garret: 30:18

yes, I was spitting it out. And I was trying to get this flavor out of my mouth. I don't know how long they had it for, because it took me so long to actually find the name. but did anybody else have this flaming hot, big to

Aaron: 30:30

go? I don't remember that

30:32

flavor. Big league chew a lot. we played baseball, so I feel like it was cool to get big lead to as kids. And I do remember having the other flavors and it was really soft for me. I was wanting to swallow so soft.

Aaron: 30:42

Garrett, Flaming hot and wanting to like it so much.

Garret: 30:52

I can get through this. And then I was like, oh my God, this is rocket fuel. Like, what is.

Aaron: 30:59

You remember the jolly ranchers? Like the cinnamon flavored Firesticks

Garret: 31:04

Yep. Love those. actually now that you say that, I think that's why I thought I would like it. Cause I did like those, because those weren't too hot.

31:11

I haven't done the Dustin. Like I have a super sweet tooth and I get desperate for candy sometimes even though I don't want to keep it around. Cause I'm like, we don't want to eat a lot of candy. So I'm like, oh my God, I just want some candy. And he brings out these cinnamon bears and I'm like nothing

Garret: 31:28

Okay. So The main one that I had is the wild chips by Frito-Lay?

Aaron: 31:33

the name sounds familiar, but I just cannot picture this. Okay.

Garret: 31:37

So does the name Olestra oil, meaning they things about

31:42

you are also speaking another language. Okay. I'm

Aaron: 31:45

looking at them. I do remember the packaging now that I see them. Yes.

Garret: 31:49

what these were is they came out in 98 and they did phenomenal. They did 400 million in sales in the first year. they did lays ruffles Doritos, and Tostito's brands that use this. Wow. So you get the regular version or you could get this wild brand. And what it was is they were like, you can eat these chips and zero fats and less calories. And people were like, oh, hell yeah, like I'm going to eat the crap out of these. And they also tasted really good. Cause if you got some of the diet chips or some of the other stuff it always had that weird

32:22

flavor. You want to say that with fake sugar? I can tell.

Garret: 32:27

Yeah, no, I can too. So they created these and they did taste really well. How ever it came out that. Uh, no, they were low fat, but the lesser oil was so large that your intestines could digest it. And it basically became a product that was similar to a laxident. So people started complaining of abdominal cramping, diarrhea and being incontinent. I remember I was working at Meijer. I was a grocery cart kid and, one of the managers was really cool. I can't think of her name, let's call her, Rebecca. Rebecca had lost a bunch of weight before I had even met her and she looked, great, but I remember we were eating these chips and we were like, oh wow, that's really cool. And then it came up on the news that people were shitting themselves, eating these chips. uh, sorry, eating the bag. And I'm like, you heard about those rights? She's like, oh, I don't care, honey. I was like, oh my God. the Frito-Lay execs are all like trying these things and they're eating them, shitting themselves as like, oh, it's so worth. It is no good. how did this make it consumers were eating this on a regular

33:32

basis. Like you said, they knew about it and still did it

Garret: 33:35

So the kicker is, after this came out, they rebranded these from wow. To light. I don't know if they do recipe. they were discontinued in 2016 I remember the commercials. I remember the news coming out and be like, if you eat these, you're going to

Ashley: 33:56

shoot yourself. I want to see that. I bet we could find it. so there was a show it was the sweetest thing that movie with camera Diaz. there is a point in the beginning where him and his brother. Chips. And he's like, Hey man, you know, those calls anal leakage. Right. He's like bullshit or whatever. And he goes, no, look, and there's a warning label on the size. And it says like, spits them out, all making sense now.

Garret: 34:20

So if you didn't know that, you wouldn't have got that joke.

Aaron: 34:28

I didn't know you were a carpenter either. Man. I was a car pusher at Walmart.

Garret: 34:34

That's why we're buds

34:38

advanced. Now they have a machine. Oh yeah. I'm

Aaron: 34:41

like roll by. Not everywhere. we would just mess around all night. So all the cars to be in the park. And we would just make one long, like snake train.

Garret: 34:52

Yes. I used to do that too.

Aaron: 34:53

We used to just sit around and smoke weed. I got costs leaving. One time I was asleep in my car and our manager was knocking on the window and he's like, no, I was just saying, oh, I don't feel good. I think it should've been like, how was he eating? Some of them so every now and then they would ask us the, come in and be door greeters, one time I fell asleep, leaning on a cart and I woke up and this old lady was trying to pull the cart, to take

35:35

my car, like a teenager.

Aaron: 35:37

Oh 16. That was before I went in the military.

Garret: 35:40

So yeah. he had to have a 16 cause otherwise, how could he get the job?

35:46

What do you mean? Do you have to

Aaron: 35:47

be. No, she thought I was older. Maybe I should have been fired many times, but I don't want to incriminate myself. So we'll go ahead and move on

36:07

Patrick.

Aaron: 36:07

Uh, he knows, don't be like me. My next one is Butterfingers Bebe's

36:15

was almost on my list. Butterfly.

Aaron: 36:17

See, Butterfinger was always my go-to candy bar. so when babies came out, remember you could buy the real big bag of them and they didn't last long. in my notes, is it the same tastes as full-size Butterfingers, but in a tiny, delicious candy coated ball. if you don't remember Butterfinger babies, they were just like the candy bar, but they were in a ball. Butterfinger babies were great and they were sponsored by the Simpsons. I'm sure y'all remember the commercials. Nobody bet their finger on my Butterfinger DVDs, once of started looking into how the butter finger got promoted and got big, that's where I I thought it was pretty interesting. Butterfinger is made by Nestle now. But it was created by the Curtis candy company in Chicago. And it was the same company that created the baby Ruth. And so baby Ruth was named after babe Ruth. so in 1923, they developed the butter finger, but they couldn't think of a name for it. they wanted to let the public having, input on the name. so it was many different names, but they wanted to keep a sports related theme from baby Ruth. So, they stuck with Butterfinger. of course Butterfinger means someone who can't catch a ball or hold on to anything. oh,

Garret: 37:23

I didn't even equate those two things. Well, it's

Aaron: 37:26

sports. Yeah.

37:30

I played sports and I still didn't equate it. And I love Butterfingers, calling people Butterfingers, I dunno why I put the connotation different. I don't know, not Nope learning.

Aaron: 37:39

to promote the butter finger, the Curtis candy company hired a fleet of airplanes flew over Coney island and dropped Butterfinger and baby Ruth hundreds of them often little parachutes And they thought it was a great idea until the stampedes and rioting of people trying to fight over getting the candy. there were no life-threatening injuries, but there were broken arms and broken legs.

38:05

it does sound great. In theory, string it without parachutes though, it was like, that's a terrible idea.

Garret: 38:10

Yeah.

Aaron: 38:11

Same. But the injury then slowed down because they eventually started the babe Ruth flying circus. So they started doing this in multiple cities. They hired the same fleet and they were just fly over to these major cities and it became an event. so I thought that was pretty cool. That is

Garret: 38:28

cool.

Aaron: 38:29

so there was no real reason why they were discontinued. the main thing was saw where people were complaining, because by the time you grabbed it out of the bag with your fingers and got into your mouth, it was already starting to melt. So people didn't like, but I always just seem to dump the bag. I never had the fingers, I can't seem to find any of them on Amazon or eBay. Nestle does sell like a Butterfinger bite, but it's one in a package and you have to unwrap this, not like the babies where

Ashley: 38:57

you can just, yeah. And it's a little square. Like if you got the mini Snickers or whatever, I always thought that for some reason it would be choking. I don't know why

Aaron: 39:08

dumping the bag.

39:10

Well, because when I was looking at Bibi's the other thing that came up was lifesaver dots It was on my list as an honorable mention, but I was just like, yeah, probably choking hazard. My mind just went

Aaron: 39:19

there to the lifesaver dots. and you pop the lid open and you actually dump those? Yeah,

Ashley: 39:25

Have you noticed that Butterfingers changed the color on their packaging?

Aaron: 39:28

No.

Ashley: 39:28

It's just a different yellow. where it was orange, yellow before Look, next time you go. And you'll notice it. I thought at first I had maybe a faded water or something. here in Texas. Seriously. even at the store I work if we leave something in the window too long, it will fade. there's toys that are exposed to the window that you can move behind the other toy. And it is a completely different color because the sun will bleach it. so I just, that was my thought like, oh, Butterfinger looks weird. I still ate it. Did you ever get an old, like an older Butterfinger and you could tell as soon as you opened it, it was headline. Chalky coating around it or no,

40:04

it's when chocolate blooms. Yeah. It's old.

Aaron: 40:07

it didn't stop me from it wasn't as crunchy and you're just Donald duck in it.

Ashley: 40:14

All right. my next one, I didn't remember this until I saw a picture of it is the gum that came in the little tiny milk cartons It was from tops. Candy was released in 1980., I'm talking like the baseball card tops, like that's who made it. they were really fruity flavors, but I think they were

40:31

like

Ashley: 40:31

super generic. So it was just orange and grape and apple. And then eventually they had a pink lemonade, which was more fun, it was little gums.

Garret: 40:40

they were small, right?

Ashley: 40:41

Yeah. They were one ounce, little cartons that you would actually open, like a milk carton. And they had the fruit on the side with a smiley face on it. And the gum was like little rock, like think, um, nerds, but it was gum. the flavor lasted for two seconds and you'd refill, cause if you did the whole thing the first time around, then you wasted it all, you had to be slick about it and keep it going.

Aaron: 41:01

It was the same containers as milk you got at lunch. Right?

Ashley: 41:05

Yeah, a little cardboard carton. it's funny to me because it only says bubble gum on the top. And it's apple juice, orange juice, grape juice is what's coming up. I don't have any background on these because there were two websites, but it was only people who were saying, Hey, do you remember these? Some of the other stuff had Wikipedia pages or nostalgic candy pages. I really couldn't find a lot on these but as soon as I saw them, my mouth watered. I was like, yes, I remember, I

Aaron: 41:31

I just remember the flavor, like you said, you had to re up, you had to bond, And then you ended up, you had a whole big shawl of gum because you were trying to keep the flavor in there

Ashley: 41:40

I only found information on them on blogs, but I do feel like if you remember them, you're going to have a moment of oh my gosh. Yes. I know. So here's the, what the actual gum looks like.

Garret: 41:50

Oh, I remember the peak lemonade.

Ashley: 41:52

And then that one has different ones. So it was lemon and then sugar, like they had different flavors. It says that there was a tropical punch. With several bazooka, branded additions, including strawberry shake. I don't know. I don't remember those, so I don't think I was going to bring them up, but anyhow, that's all I got on that. I don't have an anti campaign for that. Like I do this right. All right. What else is on y'all's list?

Garret: 42:14

Taito scans. Do you guys remember those

Aaron: 42:16

hail? Yeah, I remember though.

Ashley: 42:18

I really consider myself a junk food person, but I don't know half the stuff you're talking

Garret: 42:22

about. So this was really popular in, the late eighties, I think it came out in 85. and it lasted for actually a lot longer than a thought, but it was made by Keebler elves. And the whole idea of it is they looked like a belonged chips, fat on the bottom and skinnier towards the top. one side was a lighter color and the other side was dark and they were supposed to be mimicking potato skins they were just good. They were crunchy and savory, I think they had Sour cream and chives maybe a big potato

Aaron: 42:50

bacon cheddar or something like that.

Garret: 42:55

Yes. Yes. these were great. They were just really different to much on the normal chips. They had an interesting flavor. they just didn't last in 2006 TGI Fridays got the rights do it. And they rebooted them for the TGI Friday ones, but they were completely different. they had a stake And something. And I was like, I don't want to eat steak on chips. no, give

Aaron: 43:16

me, Jimmy. I just bought the, like the save a lot brand, not too long ago. And they were actually pretty good. They're gone. So I've already

43:25

eaten them all. because okay. TGI Friday's has their own potato skins though. So was it like they were trying to reboot these or

Garret: 43:32

they bought the rights and rebranded these apparently they weren't doing as well I don't know. I think the Keebler elf company was bought out. so a lot of the recipes that were good in the original were changed this has, may have been another casualty of that

Aaron: 43:45

I don't think I've ever had the store bought TGI F, potato skins.

Garret: 43:50

that's what these are. I'm not trying to confuse people, if you go into TGF right, they have the potato skins where it has like all this stuff and

Ashley: 43:57

And I spell them in the freezer as an appetizer, TGI Friday app. That's where my mind went.

Garret: 44:02

that's not what I'm talking about. these are actual chips still. TGI Friday's bottom and continued them and then ruined them.

Ashley: 44:08

When I Googled it, that's what came up. They had a bunch of different flavors of TGI Friday but they just call it potato skins, not Taito skins, let me see, they have sour cream and onion loaded potato cheddar, and bacon chili, cheese, helping your cheddar and bacon ranch. those sound really good, but I remember they had like a steak and onion or something I don't know. When you get to the meat flavors in potato chips, know those are two things that shouldn't go in the same sentence, in real life with a real potato and a real steak

Aaron: 44:37

for

Garret: 44:38

flavoring on a chip

Aaron: 44:44

I'm hungry. So after this

Garret: 44:46

episode.

44:47

Okay. I have one more. That was just a fun one, which is the whistle pop. Yes, it started out whistle Bob, and then England. Put it out as the melody pop, at the beginning it only had one sound and then later they added a slide to it. So it came out in the seventies. it wasn't only candy, but a toy. And I just remember hearing the sound of it when you think about it, So the ones that I remember, is it chuppah chops? It's a candy that you know, the suckers, when you see them, they have a very specific brand. exactly. Ketchups, chuppah, chubs.

Garret: 45:20

I think it's to have a job. I don't know. How do you reduce

Ashley: 45:24

this? took it over later and that's the one I remember, but that one actually had a slide in it. So you could make more of a whoop boom sound, which I have a video for that we can listen to. and then they were very jolly rancher asking texture they came in flavors, blue, raspberry, watermelon, green, apple, and coffee, which I thought was, yeah, Okay. So we're gonna listen to the whistle pop It's beautiful. I remember it. That was it guys

Garret: 46:03

I do remember that.

46:04

So those were all my loves. I do have a list of some I hate, I'll let somebody start that off and then I'll chime in.

Garret: 46:10

Um, I have a weird relationship with this when crystal Pepsi is the one that I have. when that first came out, do you guys remember how crazy it wasn't? Everybody had

Aaron: 46:21

to

46:21

have one? I do. will you explain what it is in case people don't know

Garret: 46:25

Yeah, in the early nineties, they came out with, Pepsi that was crystal clear but it was supposed to taste just like regular Pepsi. And the idea behind it is that, a lot of people were moving away from sodas and they wanted to go to Clearly Canadian or Sprite things that didn't have the caffeine and they're kind of promoted as a healthy alternative, which is a lie. it came out in, April of 92 and test markets went so crazy that they were like, yes, let's do this, but it flopped so hard that in late 93, they discontinued it, It had that huge of a turnaround. the issue, which is really interesting is because, the executive came up with the idea. He was talking to the food scientist, and he was like, Hey, let's make this happen. one thing I did know is that the dark color, keeps the sunlight from spoiling the soda. It was a really big thing because if you didn't have. once it would spoil you would have something that smelled and tasted like shoe Polish. Oh

Aaron: 47:22

yeah, I never thought about that because I didn't either. Here's use dark glass for kind of the same purpose, right. To keep the sunlight from penetrating in the mouth.

Garret: 47:31

so they had it out there, but the scientist's fear he basically was like, it's not going to have a long shelf life because if they put it anywhere where there's sun, it's going to spoil and this is what happened. So people tried it and liked it at first. then the longer it stayed on the shelves, it started going bad. And people were like, I don't like this anymore. fun fact though Coke they lost tab clear as a sort of rebuttal. For crystal Pepsi, but they did it as a kamikaze So that crystal Pepsi would fail Coke wanted it to fail but they wanted to make sure that it mirrored crystal Pepsi, that people understood there were the same thing. that's why Coke came out with that. They wanted to kill crystal Pepsi and their own thing and take it all away.

48:13

right, they were like, we'll take them down to, and then we can get rid of ours. wasn't supposed to be.

Garret: 48:17

That's the only reason tad clear came out.

Aaron: 48:19

Okay. So crystal Pepsi wasn't never in a, can I only remembered in the bottles, the glass bottles?

Garret: 48:25

I don't remember I want to say yes that they would have, but I'm not sure

Aaron: 48:29

I figured if it's in a can, it would take away some of the novelty because you can't see that it's clear until unless you put it good for longer and that's thought too, was it wouldn't spoil if it was at the can because of sunlight couldn't get through it.

Garret: 48:42

I don't think they did, but, one of the funniest parts of this is SNL did a parody of it. when it came out and the people at Pepsi were pissed because SNL did a crystal gravy, but they did it in the exact thing as the commercial would be for the crystal Pepsi. So they show of them putting the crystal Grady on food and it looks like straight corn syrup, on everything. It looks so gross. that kind of helped kill the momentum. Well,

49:07

our household was a Pepsi household. I do not like pets. I'm a Coke drinker. A hundred percent. I've it doesn't burn your throat on the way down. I don't want it. And I feel like it tastes flat to me. I don't like it, but my mom was a big,

Aaron: 49:20

any soft drink. I don't drink too many sodas, but if it's even halfway flat, like I don't

49:25

I drink it for the bubbles. I have to get those little eight ouncers cause that's about how much I drink even if I put the lid on it I'm not going to go back to it. All right. those are all the fun ones that really aren't around anymore that we love. Or if they are, as they're getting a reboot. I have a short list of ones that I did not like, I didn't go too far into it. Like I did with the ones I love, because why, but I do think that people are going to remember them. And the way that I look at them is they were the ones left at the bottom of the Halloween bag. So I'm not talking about those weird. I don't even remember what those were called, but I remember the black and orange, like peanut butter, Rwanda. Those were always in the bottom of the Halloween bag. eventually, I think I did end up eating those, but these, I did not end up eating. And the first one is the fluffy, kind of marshmallowy orange peanuts. I don't even know what the rapper looked like. I just remember them being alone. Were they alone? Did they have a rapper?

Garret: 50:15

I don't know but they should've been alone in a trashcan.

Aaron: 50:19

It's like the peeps of Halloween candy.

50:21

They get hard. I don't even know if they have an actual flavor where they like creamy. My grandma

Garret: 50:26

liked them. She had them. And I was like, why do you like

50:28

these? because I feel like they are probably generationally an older candy that the grandma's kept in the dish and they're

Garret: 50:35

like

50:41

a hundred percent. if you don't know what they are, I really, the only reason I'm bringing it up because you do know what they are, because you've seen them. If you see these, you know, but they are shaped like a peanut. Like Mr. Peanut, if you will, and they, I don't know how to explain them. They were marshmallowy, but not really a soft as like a swarm marshmallow kind of harder, but not a hard candy. I think they still make them, the old people are still around. Um, no,

Garret: 51:10

they all died. Whoever ate them. They're not around.

51:14

the other thing that I had was a slowpoke caramels, which again, just Google it you'll know it when you see it. And I feel like they almost look like sugar daddies. They're yellow. But I don't

Garret: 51:27

know.

51:32

I don't think it was like real Carmel. I think tastes like really old ones. I don't know. I saw the wrapper. I immediately was like this. overall reaction of know, even the sugar

Garret: 51:44

babies. I

51:44

think I liked sugar, babies, sugar, daddy, I think I like They're not looking them up. Um, the other thing, which was just a weird one that I remember having and being like, why do these exist was they were called satellite wafers think about your communion. there were two of them put together and they had little rainbow babies in them and you'd put them in your mouth and they would melt. And then you would have this mouthful, sprinkles, think of like rainbow sprinkles. the thing I read up on this was even though I was having in my generation, they actually came up around the cold war when the space race was in, they made it UFO shaped. Then they actually did make it from a Belgian communion, wafer, communion, wafer sales were down, but the baker had an idea why not join together wafers and fill them with sugar bits.

Garret: 52:29

I know what I'm talking about now. And they were

Ashley: 52:33

horrible. They were so bad. it's a pocket full of sprinkles that has no flavor, but it melts it says it's a very favorite retro treat it's made in Minnesota. it's just one of those things, again, I'm only bringing up because if you know it, you know it, and it's also like, why does it exist? it's not why. Yeah. It's one of those. those are my, weird ones or Hated that one.

Aaron: 52:57

my hated was do you remember the giggles cookies

Garret: 53:01

You don't remember them? No, but doing research. I saw them and they look terrifying.

Aaron: 53:04

Oh yeah, look it up. if you don't know, we're talking about, they were like an Oreo cookie. They had the two cookie outside with a cream and a fudge on the inside. You can get them in chocolate or vanilla. they had different facial features on them there was like a boy and a girl. And, they tried to make it look like they were laughing, laughing. They look exactly. They creeped out.

53:26

they have remember noises. And they

Aaron: 53:34

probably didn't taste that bad, to be honest with you. But something about eating something with a face, I just don't like, you know, I don't know, does

53:44

mean,

Aaron: 53:47

I mean gummy bears and, goldfish crackers is different, but I just don't really get like a pancake with a whipped cream a smile, and a banana. I make my angry, the potatoes that were a smiling face. Also,

54:06

either.

Aaron: 54:09

so I look these up, and the commercials are even worse. So it's two siblings and usually the older one is talking and there's a younger sibling in the commercial that's uncontrollably giggling. And it's creepy I was watching earlier and Jenny was like, I don't know what you're watching, but it's terrifying.

54:29

no, thanks. I felt like, yeah, it's like, the kid looks crazy. I've got a little bowl and it's just not working.

Aaron: 54:36

giggles, cookies. they were discontinued to just lack of sales and interest with Oreo. Yeah. And I think most people were just tired of being judged by their snacks.

54:47

Yeah.

Aaron: 54:48

But in my other I have to though, I really just disliked was orbits the drink. I don't know if you guys remember, remember

Garret: 54:55

that and I didn't mind it.

Ashley: 54:56

Is it the tapioca texture to, some people don't like, like a,

Aaron: 55:00

yeah. for me. it was the mixture of it was uncommon. Beverage but it had gelatin balls floating around. It was supposed to be out of this world, orbit, it was made by the same company that made clearly Canadian.

Ashley: 55:15

which is back by the way. I just bought some the other day, not as good as I remember, but it's still was my favorite one that I had to dig for those cherries, man. Yeah.

Aaron: 55:27

some of the funny thing that I saw when I was trying to look this up was that, somebody said uh, clearly Canadian. The lava lamp is pretty much what it was. there's different flavors like vanilla, orange and raspberry is citrus. One of the descriptions says that it tastes like the water that you would get inside your grandma's flower vase.

55:45

Okay. So one of the things about them too, was they didn't sink to the bottom, but they also didn't flow to the top.

Aaron: 55:50

the formula of the drink, they broke it all down. the density is what kept the balls from sinking or floating, and just kind of kept them in there. I didn't get all into that because I didn't figure it would be that interesting. But,

56:03

now I want to know, dude, what did you say they were made out of the balls? Gelatin, Oh, gelatin. Okay. Yeah.

Aaron: 56:08

It was definitely not a hit it didn't even last a year

56:10

for the tag.

Aaron: 56:12

Oh, wow. they wanted to create a texturally enhanced and carbonated beverage or a drink with balls. Yeah. The commercial said something about it. It's a drink with balls.

Ashley: 56:25

I drank with bowls. I like it. I feel like that would be taken totally different now. So innocent then it's crazy to me though, that it was only out a year but it had a big impact because why do we remember it? You know what I mean?

Aaron: 56:35

Of course, people are partitioning to bring it back. You can still buy a case of these on eBay for 50 bucks. Yeah, well, maybe not even a case, maybe even a single, and if you've ever heard of the orbits, vacation booking company, they bought the website after they can cancel One that I just hate was the Ashley talked about the candy cigarettes and bigly too. But it was made to look like a can of snuff or dip, but it was really Beef jerky. I don't know if you all

57:03

remember this. I do remember that. It was like shredded beef jerky, but not even good, like chipped and dry

Aaron: 57:09

I ate like a whole big thing of this one time I got sick. So now I can't even stand the smell of beef Turkey to this day. And that was like 30

57:17

years ago.

Aaron: 57:20

I like the taste of beef jerky, but the smell of it, like if somebody is eating in the car with me or something, I can't, Kind of like, not to get off on. Uh, but beef jerky, little Debbies, donut sticks. Uh, your whole box of those one time got sick. I can't touch those and I couldn't touch cheesecake for years. I ate a whole one, one time and got,

57:38

wow. I wish I had my can't touch the sound effect. Dammit.

Aaron: 57:43

That's my list of don't likes.

57:46

Did you look, what was the point of the beef jerky?

Aaron: 57:50

I really couldn't find okay. Now that you bring it up, some people said that they did try to mark it as an alternative to quit dipping, but I really couldn't find too much about it. I could only find, like you said, when people talked about remembering it, the main brand. I remember finding was king be jerky stuff. So when I did see that I, that brought back memories,

58:11

It can be jerky stuff. what's in it stiff. All right. Can you bear, what do you got on The dislikes. I

Garret: 58:17

didn't have too many but I remember Orange Sherbert, the Flintstone push pops him G long story short. when I stayed with my father, I, it would be a little bit poorer than I would with my mom. And we ate the same things over and over and over and over and over. And he would buy these big tubs of Sherbert the, it must've been like 50 cents or something. And I was just like, Ooh. So every time we'd have dessert, he'd be like, here's some Sherbert. And I'm like, and it got to the part, I was like, I'll just go without. I just remember these orange pushups coming out I think I was having one at a friend's house. And I was like, Yeah, yes.

58:58

so our dad is also a fan of the giant tub of Sherbert. Like to this day, I almost think he still eats. And it's the, the big one. You know what I mean?

Aaron: 59:07

I don't know. Rainbow Serber. I like it.

Garret: 59:11

for me, it's specifically orange Sherbert, I other flavors. But like if it's orange Sherbert, get it outta here.

59:19

I feel like this is a little deeper than just orange Sherbert. I'm not trying to therapize you or anything, but I'm just saying there might be some trauma involved with these POCs and that's where I'm going to go with this.

Garret: 59:29

it's just I With like bologna. I can't eat baloney because 5 billion pounds of it as a kid. So the other one is Trix yogurt. when they came out with that, I remember wanting to like it I don't know. I don't know what they did to that yogurt, but like the bomb. I

Aaron: 59:42

remember the

Garret: 59:45

yogurt and I was like, they were really popular and a lot of people love them. They may even still make them.

Aaron: 59:52

it was in a thing of yogurt, you

59:54

able to spoon. Okay. a regular yogurt packet. I didn't know if it was like a squeezy one. Cause they started making,

Garret: 59:58

yeah, they had a Berry I don't know what it was about it, but I was like, I remember

Aaron: 1:00:02

some kind of cotton

Garret: 1:00:02

candy swirl flavor. I just remember eating one and I was like, Nope, trash.

Aaron: 1:00:11

I don't know.

Garret: 1:00:14

One thing so I've never had this, but I would never ingest. It's the Heinz easy squirts. when Heinz came out with, a catch-up but they colored it purple or green or yes. Why are you encouraging children to eat

1:00:27

colored packets now? Because

Garret: 1:00:30

yes, now they went from easy, Heinz ketchup that is in different colors to tide box. They were like, okay. We graduated. it looks gross. It made your food look gross. I remember trying to convince you. I know, I know you would because you would, try anything, exactly. I remember when I tried to convince you to make blue cake and you were like, no, Garrett. You're like, why would anybody eat? BluePay if it's a blue And I was like, okay, Ashley and for the people listening, Ashley and I had our own cake business for like a hot second. this is when she was saying, no, we're not going to do a blue cake.

1:01:02

but I think he wanted it to be like our signature thing. If you remember, you were like, no, we'll be the only ones doing

Aaron: 1:01:08

yeah. Six abs

1:01:13

until someone comes out with a purple. I just want to say. So not relevant, but those packets now where you can squeeze them or dip them. I'm just saying, I don't know why that didn't happen sooner and I'm all for it. Okay.

Garret: 1:01:29

I love those. don't get me

1:01:30

wrong. I like,

Garret: 1:01:32

but yeah, if it's purple, it just looks so gross.

1:01:37

Yeah, it's weird. But novelty, I mean, clear pips didn't have a blue,

Aaron: 1:01:43

blue. They didn't have a blue Pepsi. I think they send them in I wouldn't do that one. Either Coke or Pepsi had a cinnamon, like a fire one. I remember

1:01:52

one time I thought you liked the cinnamon.

Garret: 1:01:56

want to drink.

1:01:59

I like cinnamon, cinnamon, like regular ass cinnamon. I don't like, like red, hot cinnamon. That's not cinnamon demand.

Aaron: 1:02:06

I'll have that,

Garret: 1:02:07

drinking. It sounds terrible.

1:02:08

No, thanks. okay. I think this concludes, I thought we came up with a pretty good list. We're definitely gonna link the commercial. To me while it is fun to hear us talk about all this stuff, to see commercials and the packaging and stuff. You're going to get some euphoric Grieco going on there. Like it's so dated too. You're just going to have some fun with it. No doubt about it. So where can you find us on social media?

Aaron: 1:02:30

Yes. Please check us out@ournostalgicpodcast.com for the links to our Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or email or we're going to add the links to our Spotify and iTunes keep emailing us with your questions, your suggestions, your stories, we love to hear them And, please share it with your friends, subscribe and share.

1:02:51

Yeah, we would never know about one 800 rock gym with that. You

Garret: 1:02:56

actually you want to tell them about what's going on for our next episode.

1:02:59

I don't I'm. Thank you though. I'm really excited to announce that on our next episode, we are going to be doing the life and death, but he's not dead yet of poly show the life and life of Pauly shore. It's going to be great because he had a hell of a career and he is still around. I wonder what he's doing now. I actually haven't looked it up, so I don't know. So it's going to be fun.

Garret: 1:03:25

Maybe we could

1:03:25

interview him. dude. Shut up buddy. Squeezing the Git

Garret: 1:03:30

is what if he was still the exact same Now,

1:03:33

what have you was really serious and you met him, you were like, no, that's not. I

Garret: 1:03:37

think that'd be worse

Aaron: 1:03:38

if you want the answer to all these questions, listen to our podcast straight from the sewer to you. Thanks for listening. And we'll catch you next

1:03:57

time.