Kid’s party food in mid 1990s onwards - what have a missed!

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So we are looking to do a typical late 1990s/early 2000s “kids party buffet” to celebrate adult DC’s birthdays (think 24 years+)

This is their ask not me being weird!

Obviously we did shopping and catering then but blowed if I can remember beyond obvious what was in the menu - so what have I missed (obviously generic here!)?

Colin the Caterpillar cake (Obvs)
Sandwiches - egg, ham, chicken, cheese
Pineapple on sticks (why?)
Sausage rolls
Salad (to look good)
Crisps/tortillas
Hummus, dips and olives (exotic at time!)
Crisps - no idea what they had (pombears?)

Any other nostalgic suggestions?

Party rings
Jam tarts

Hula hoops for crisps
Squash
Animal biscuits?

Cocktail sausages, jelly and ice cream

Hedgehog cake!

Cheese and pineapple on sticks.

Cocktail sausages

Iced gems.

Cocktail sausages on sticks.
Chocolate truffles.
Skips crisps
Garlic bread

Iced gems! Don’t know if you can still get them!

Party rings!! How could I forget them?

Oh god now remembering crafting sausage/pineapple/cheese hedgehog with a grapefruit half covered in foil!

Thanks!

It was always cubes of cheese with the pineapple on sticks. Not just pineapple by itself!

I don't think there was salad. Crisps would just be your bog standard Asda multipack of flavours emptied into bowls. Maybe Walkers if you were really posh. Probably just plain, salt and vinegar and cheese and onion.

Hula hoops though!! To put on your fingers. And Skips. OK maybe these are more exciting than Walkers.

Jelly in a mould. Blancmange. Rice crispie cakes.

Cocktail sausages defo. Either the purchased cold ones, or a load cooked in the oven and left to go cold before the party.

Cold pizza slices.

Maybe I'm too early 90s in period.... possibly by the 2000s we wanted salad, I can't remember :o

You'll have to get giant hula hoops so giant adult DC can fit them on their fingers :)

Pink wafer biscuits / party rings

Sliced Swiss roll

Cheese and small pickled onion on sticks

Quiche Lorraine

Sliced French bread baguettes (posh at the time!)

Chocolate finger biscuits, jammy Dodgers

Pink wafers
Party rings
Iced Gems
Twiglets
Hula Hoops
Marmite sandwiches
Chicken drumsticks
Cheese and pineapple on sticks

And then Parma violets, love hearts and refreshers with a pencil in the party bag

Also, whole grapes. Or had the MN obsession with cut grapes already happened by then?

Pom Bears

Pink wafers, but we’ve never stopped having them at parties!

Isn't this what kids eat now? My dc are little and this is standard party food, apart from cheese and pineapple on sticks. I don't think party food has moved on!

Bagel snake. You news the Annabel Karmel children's party food book!

Potato smiles
Umbongo
Sunny D
Turkey dinosaurs
Pink panther wafers
Findus crispy pancakes
Top hats
Rice cripsy cakes

Cocktail stick hedgehog (cheese cocktail sausages and pcikes on sticks stick into a melon wrapped in foil)

NEED ,not news

Responses really interesting - were you the party child/guest or the parent/cater prepping party (so with throwback to your childhood parties)?

Memories must differ depending I guess - am fully signed up to ice gems!!

Mini sausage rolls
Pickled onion/pineapple and cheese on stick
Chicken drumsticks
Breadsticks
Salt and vinegar chipsticks

Quiche, cold pizza, mini scotch eggs.

Those little cheesy cracker biscuit shapes - in hearts and diamonds and spades. What were they called? Cheese savories... perhaps?

Tiny pretzel shapes too.

I was a 90s kid. Umbongo cartons were the absolute epitome of posh kids party food.

A red jelly rabbit (from a special mould) on a bed of mushed up green jelly grass.
I remember thinking it was the most sophisticated thing I had ever seen