Facts About ‘90s Lunch Box Items That Make Us Kinda Miss School 

90s were my decade, I remember all of it.

I am 33-year-old man who still buys Capri Sun from time to time just because nostalgia lol

String Cheese ,BabyBel,Capri Sun all still staples in my fridge,42 now so I'd like to think my priorities haven't changed much 😂

Born in 1987, the 90's were my childhood pretty much

i was born in 98. all this stuff carried over to the 2000s lunchtime

I’m proud to say my fridge is full of capri sun and I have no children Childhood goal accomplished lol

Born in ‘92 I miss those times of playing Pokemon Red and eating those snacks

Tip from a Ghostbuster, If you are craving Ecto Cooler, Juicy Juice Orange Tangerine is a close substitute or more authentic is a blend of 4 parts Tampico Citrus Punch and 1 part Minute Made Lemonade. #BringBackEctoCooler

I'm surprised I didn't see "soda-licious" on that list, those little root beer mugs were legendary.

I was a latchkey kid. The 80's and early 90's were the best time to be a kid. The music, the movies, the video games, the cartoons before and after school and Saturday mornings, the toys, in literally every way. There was still some danger on the playground because they weren't all Fischer Price plastic. Anything Little Debbie for me. or HI-C. I may be bias but...I'm also right!

I'm 35 and to this day I still buy Pizza Lunchables, Hi-C Orange Lavaburst, and Dunkaroos. (I remember gasping when I saw them first reintroduced, it felt like Christmas, Halloween, & Easter all at once)

These 90s commercials definitely worked on my adolescent self

The original Warheads were amazing. So sour, and they could easily destroy the inside of your mouth if you ate too many in a row.

I was born in 1994. I miss having Lunchables at school and on school field trips!

I remember all of this! Used to get into a lot of fist fights during my high school years from '96-'00 at Pontiac Central High School in Pontiac, Michigan

Another awesome video, Weird History Food! I enjoyed a lot of these '90s snacks during my childhood. In fact, i still do! Especially Capri Suns, Fruit by the Foot, Dunkaroos, and others. I wouldn't mind if there's a part 2 to this video, or perhaps a video on '80s snacks. That would be awesome to see. Or even a Weird History Food's guide to throwing an '80s or '90s themed party!

That's so funny he said that about string cheese. I always know this string cheese was an incredibly good quality mozzarella

9:44 Hi-C Ecto Cooler was awesome, we used to have it all the time.

I had school lunch, unfortunately. 😂 I had handisnacks for lunch when the school lunch didn't show up. Apparently, they kept them in reserve

I'm so glad most of these are still around, even though I'm not a Millennial. This Gen X likes a bunch of these, too!

Those '90s candies would make great Halloween treats also! This year I am giving out Fruit Roll-ups and Capri Suns again.

As a 2000s kid [who is super into food history], I have always loved Capri-Sun! Especially the Roaring Waters variety. I also occasionally enjoyed Fruit By The Foot and Fruit Gushers. Those Gushers commercials are super duper CURSED! Another 2000s snack that I really miss, more then any other defunct snack, is Yogos. They were so delicious, and now I feel nostalgic for the early/mid 2000s. I hope Weird History will do a video on the history of M&Ms [my favorite candy], as there's so much interesting history to talk about. Including the epic fail of them turning down the E.T movie, and the SMART decision they made by hiring Will Vinton and his animators to re-design the spokescandies. That Christmas ad with Red and Yellow is still played today, which goes to show how iconic the Vinton Spokescandies [as I call them to differentiate them from earlier M&M eras] still are. Honestly, there could be a whole separate video by Weird History on the rise and fall of Will Vinton Studios, the story is a rather bittersweet one.

Dunkaroos are actually BACK for sale again in the US! I see them at Walmart all the time, especially near the checkout isles.

Well butter my biscuit, we got the good narrator on a Thursday!

The 1990s were a magical time Especially for NASCAR

dude i still love string cheese. it's such a nice simple snack. and mozzarella is yummy

Man those 90s fruit rollups that would tattoo your tongue 🤯

Love the band Rush! I probably would of loved watching them while eating Dunkaroos 😊.

90s baby! These snacks are so iconic. As a matter of fact, I just ate some Fruit Gushers and Fruit by the Foot yesterday. Always loved the commercials too...that space-themed Gushers ad lives rent-free in my head to this day.

Bill Murry and Lorenzo Music both have something common. Both played/voiced Dr Peter Venkman and Garfield.

I remember having to buy these items to pack in my kid's lunches and for snacks. Now, the Ecto Cooler was a target of my hate. It replaced my favorite Citrus Cooler that I drank throughout my childhood and was enjoying in adulthood.

Gushers were my favorite for school lunches, but my parents would also pack some Fruit Roll-Ups. I liked the ones that were cut into various shapes, so you could peel specific pieces off the wrapping and pretend to be some sort of stencil artist. Also had plenty of handi-snacks, lunchables, capri-sun, and single-serve Sunny Delight.

Growing up in the late 80s/early 90s, my local independent grocery store had Handisnacks for sale as singles. The store hung them up in baskets in the cheese section. Mom would buy me one every time we went shopping. ❤

Nice list I definitely enjoyed many of these iconic snacks growing up

Am I the only one who didn’t peel my string cheese? 😂

I'm so excited that they brought back dunk-a-roo's!

I’m 64 but I’ve been known to eat string cheese with my grandchildren ❤

I would chew on that Handi snack red stick for hours after lunch period in grade school.

Baker's smoked string cheese is super delicious. The plain stuff is too. It's a little pricey for mozzarella but it's worth it. And I drank so damn much Ecto Cooler. SO much.

Handi snacks,Fruit rollups and fruit gushers were my all time favorites

As far as school snacks go these are all way before my time. I do like Fruit Roll-Ups though, and until my son finished school a couple years ago, Baby-bel was a lunch box staple.

Legend has it, Mr. Adams played that thing, until his fingers bled, that Summer of '69.

The Gushers commercials made me think of the old Bonkers Fruit Candy ads... and Mentos (the Freshmaker!) had particularly goofy ads too didn't they?

I was born in 83. The 90s were my decade

Just had an "adult caprisun" and it was FIRE. Just a goofy little water tight pouch they pour your mixed drink in with a straw. It was nice.

Back when the pizza lunchable tasted just like pizza 🍕 miss those days!!

A+ video! LOVE IT!

b. 1958, I could be y’all’s grandpa! Also love Capri Sun (and ALDI’s knock-off, ALDI Sun). You can’t recycle the little pouch so I don’t drink it as much as I once did.

Interesting video! Most of these I have heard of but others are new to me! Fun watching the commercial for these treats! Gushers, Fruit Roll Ups, Foot by the foot, Baby Belles are all favorites of mine! Yum! Next time I go the store I am going to buy a box of some of these treats! It has been like forever! 🤩🥳😉😳😲

6:12 Neil Young's album Harvest (1972) is THE BOMB.

There is NOTHING in human history that would make me nostalgic for school.

totally still eating babybell, last one yesterday ❤

Watching this while eating Gushers.🍓🍒

Surprised pop rocks weren't on this list, those are fun to eat lol. Also I remember the commercials for all of these, ah the nostalgia!!!

Thanks for giving my beloved ecto cooler the spotlight today 🤘

There used to be hot Warheads too and I swear I'm not dreaming that up like the Sinbad genie movie.

My son's lunchbox still occasionally has all this stuff in it.

Homemade mozz cheese sticks are the best, and easy to make since you just use string cheese. Pollyo is my fave to use

90s is my favorite decade FOREVER 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 🥳

Columbia Pictures was owned by Coca-Cola in the 1980s, which explains the fact that the Ghostbusters films had so much Coca-Cola soft drink product placement, plus a Hi-C juice flavor based on the Ghostbusters, Ecto Cooler.

yeah hook me up with one of those babybel maxis, haha. one of my favorite cheese snacks for sure.

I remember the box drink called Super Socco. Not sure if that’s the spelling but I loved it.

Everyone makes such a big deal about Dunkaroos. But I was a 90's kid and I never actually had them before until recently and only because my workplace started putting them out. They give away free snacks.

A local brewery makes "Ecto Kooler" seltzer and it tastes spot on.

I'm almost 40. I still thoroughly enjoy my stringed cheese!

Pudding roll-ups were short lived, but soooooo good.

🎉love it!

I had Lunchables almost every field trip in elementary and 6th grade we went to Washington DC and that was the last time I had Jello chocolate pudding as now those puddings are expensive. I had Fun Fuel in middle school on a field trip and it was really good. I also had Capri Sun as a kid at my family reunions until the mold thingy happened, and then, I avoided drinking them the rest of my reunions. Then, I recently had one, I was glad nothing happened to me or my cousins. I can't eat Fruit By The Foot or Froot Roll Ups because one time in the late 90's, a piece of roll up got stuck in my throat and it made me choke, errrr, stupid candy and stupid Gob Stoppers too, I choked on that too in the summer of 2005 😢. I too had Dunkaroos recently and I also had the Dunkaroo cereal which I thought was a snack. I asked my aunt if I could have some Dunkaroos because I thought she bought the cereal for my cousins but my mom bought it for me. The last time I had HandiSnacks was in 2002 the weekend of my grandfather's birthday party and I visited my nana first and she had them. Lol, the red stick hit itself in the Handisnacks commercial, lol, 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😃. Also, when did Spongebob Dunkaroos come out?

What freakin good is a Handy Snack without a red stick!?!

Ecto Cooler was always my favorite juice drink! 🎉❤

We had great snacks in the 90s when I was in school, Dunkaroos were the best. The formula today is not the same. WHY?

Capri sun is still in my fridge at 40 lol.

2:31 LOVE IT!

Video idea, looking at the '90s school lunch box items in UK lunchboxes

WAHOOO the great narrator is baaack!

String cheese and Babybel are still on sale, you’re going on as if they can only be found in a museum or something in fact I’m munching a Babybel right now

5:33 The film Uncle Buck is on Netflix...but I think only until October 31st. So funny, such a classic!

I love gushers and fruit by the foot and fruit roll ups.

I miss Sour Gushers, and PB Crisps 😢

Lunch boxes are cool back in the day. Those who don't have one are usually the hungriest kid in the class...me.

All I remember from my lunches in the '80s is that I got so used to one slice of bread on every sandwich was always soaking wet. The '90s kids had it easy!

Babybels were my favorite as a kid. I’d eat a whole bag in one sitting 🙃

You should do the history of Mexican coca cola

Thanks for this! 🧀 #WeirdHistoryFood #LunchBoxItems #1990s

Getting Ecto Cooler in my lunch was almost as good as getting a Capri Sun.

When Hot School Dinners were withdrawn by the British Government in the 1970s, we were sent off to school with nothing more than a Bag of Sandwiches. Parents tortured their children with fillings such as: Tongue & Piccalilli, or Marmite, or SPAM & Chutney, or Jam & Cheese. The concept of Crisps (Potato Chips), Biscuits (Cookies), Fizzy Drinks, Fresh Fruit, Yoghurt, Stringy Cheese and all the wonderful things seen in North American Lunch Boxes was not yet a thing in the UK. You lucky sods.

SUPER COOL

The snacks being the best part of school means that school was terrible.

Babybels and string cheese are very much part of my little granddaughter's lunch boxes today.

You know what I find off putting? I was a 90's kid who ate a lot of 90's snacks, and I have absolutely no recollection of Dunk-a-Roos. I don't remember eating them, seeing other people eat them, or even seeing them on store shelves. I wasn't even aware of them until they'd been discontinued for a while. They came back out and I got some, just to see if the taste would jog my memory, and nothing. I'm certain I never had them before the 2010's.

You can get individual side dunkaroos now in America

To all the red stick Handi snack petitioners: *Petitions don't work*

I'm 40 and my diet hasn't changed since my childhood.......... Take that medical professionals.

My Fav is: Capri-sun and dunkaroos

My brain can still taste Slimer toothpaste.

At my middle school we usually bet our lunchbox contents on games of Pokemon and YuGiOh TCG, especially rare cards amonst the little desserts that came in our lunchables and other tasty snack foods that wore a movie/cartoon tie-in skin

Can you do an episode on freeze pops? Frozen flavored sugar water in plastic tubes. The flavors didn't bind to the ice so you would suck all of the sugar water out and throw the ice away. What was the point? Do they still make these? If so has freeze pop technology improved at all?

Glad they still sell gushers to this day I should go buy some

9:50 ecto cooler for life!

Sunkist Fun Fruits!!!!!!!