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

[Cloudtraffic]

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?

[LadyMonicaBaddingham]

Marshmallow Top Hats! A classic from the back of the cooking chocolate packet... Basically just sugar, though 😂

[Cloudtraffic]

@Callybrid I absolutely love marmite but even I WTF’d there :)

Umbongo cartons it is!

[CostaCosta]

Potato salad
Dip selection
Rainbow puff things
Candy stick
Fake cigarettes. We used to have these a lot! The choc was delicious, the paper too!

[CostaCosta]

Ohhh chicken and mushroom crispy pancakes

[MsSquiz]

Capri sun
Generic luminous squash
Panda or Barrs fizzy pop

Tuna sandwiches
Ham and cheese sandwiches
Egg and tomato sandwiches (DM's favourite!)

Pink wafers
Cadbury finger biscuits
Party rings
Iced gems

Chipsticks
Quavers or Wotsits

Sausage rolls
Cut up hot dogs, cheese cube & pineapple on cocktails sticks, stabbed into half a grapefruit wrapped in tin foil (the only time my DM ever bought grapefruit!)

Jam tarts
Butterfly cakes
Danish cookies (in the blue tin)
Krispy cakes

Born in 86, so a fully fledged 90's party kid and my DM always did the full buffet herself

[jelly79]

Wham bars

[GreenGoldRed]

Capri Sun
Cadbury Chocolate Fingers
Golden Wander Crisps
Hula Hoops
Party Rings

[LemonadeFromLemons]

Space Raiders crisps
BN BN...do...do...dododo.

[Levatrice]

Yea to S&V chipsticks, chocolate animal shapes and choc fingers!

Frazzles crisps.
Cubes of cheddar on sticks
Those cheap drinks that were square cartons With a straw.

[Callybrid]

Sorry OP I realised I misread your OP - my list would have been late 80s/early 90s. By the late 90s I would have been going to parties where the ‘catering’ mostly involved Malibu, Bacardi and Benson and Hedges... that’s a whole other thread

[Violetroselily]

I am a 90s child. Things I remember from parties (as well as most things mentioned already in the thread)

Tip top (?) drink cartons
Strawberry jelly and ice cream
Iced gems
Cold pizza slices
Chocolate fingers
Cartoonies
Choc dips

[Leeds2]

Jam sandwiches.

Angel Delight, with a piece of fruit on the top. I think Dream Topping may have featured too!

[CoconutLassi]

Rainbow drops and panda pops

[BornInAThunderstorm]

Just joining to say how jealous I am of this nostalgic feast. I remember so many 90s birthday parties with the cheese and pineapple sticks, massive bowl of jelly and of course the party rings!

[abitoflight]

I got a caterer - god knows what I was thinking and got mini Thai bites for that DP's at pick up and drop off. My friend around the same time had mummy lemonade in 2 litre bottles which was G&T

[CremeEggThief]

Where's the egg mayo sandwiches and chocolate cornflake/ rice krispy 'cakes'?

[Lyricallie]

Marshmallow top hats. Marshmallows dipped in chocolate with a smartie on top. Also rice crispy cakes!

[Graffitiqueen]

Cheese, pineapple and pickled onion on cocktail sticks is my favourite party food ever!

Also marshmallow top hats.

[Palavah]

By that time I think we'd have been on pizzas/mini pizzas, dips and carrot/cucumber sticks.
Twiglets
Popcorn
Viennetta

Earlier:
Swimming pool cake (sponge topped with jelly and surrounded by chocolate fingers, with playmobil swimmers

[MissPoldark]

Vol au vents ?

[HilaryBriss]

No kids party round my way would ever have featured hummus, dips or olives!

[Spanielmadness]

Wagon wheels and the lollies that are also whistles in the party bag. They had a stick you could move up and down to create different sounds while blowing sticky spit from the bottom of the slowly disintegrating lolly.

[thefishthatcouldwish]

Around these parts it had to be pineapple and cheese on a stick.

Tea cakes

Jelly and ice cream

[user32723]

This is still kids party food. These days you usually get a token fruit platter too, but otherwise the same.

I haven't seen anyone say Party Rings though, and those are essential.

[Ilovesausages]

I’m feeling very nostalgic! And hungry!