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?

those cheap pizzas cold and cut in 4
multi jelly different flavours melted one at a time then layered rainbow jelly
chip sticks
quiche lorraine
chocolate fingers

2001 here:
Colin caterpillar
Cream cheese chocolate spread and tuna sandwiches
Bag of crisps on each plate either s&v or ready salted
Carton of apple juice
Squeezy yogurt
Bowls of tomato / carrot and cucumber
Plates of Cadbury’s fun size chocolates handed out after the rest

Occasionally a slice of dominos pizza and a fruit shoot

You need cherry tomatoes, carrot and cucumber batons to look good.

chipolata sausages
It was pineapple and cheese on sticks (or teensy plastic swords)
Home made biscuits with those rock hard silver ball decorations
Bags of crisps
Orange squash
Matchsticks

I think no child's party is complete without jelly and ice cream. We were not posh enough for Colin the caterpillar cakes, but did make a pirate cake one year

Mum once went mad and had a birthday cake baked with a bloody ring in it when I was about 7. I almost lost a tooth. I was wailing - but why would you bake a hard ring inside a cake????? I still don’t know why you’d put a ring in a bloody cake.

Parent since early 2000s. Cornflake cakes and onion ring crisps always featured at my kids' parties. Have a big age gap between my kids - if I'm honest I'm still serving up the same sorts of things now as I did years ago 😂

How could I forget- Rice Krispie and chocolate cornflake cakes. And fairy cakes (pre muffin days)

Panda pops, chocolate fingers and jam tarts.

I was born in 84 so definitely a 90s child.
Jelly in a mould
Cheese and pineapple sticks
Wagon wheels
Chipsticks/Skips/Wotsits
Rainbow drops
Cornfkake/rice crispy cakes
Iced gems
Ham/cheese/egg mayo sandwiches
Cheese and pineapple sticks.
Enjoying this thread

Vol-au-vents, egg mayo, prawn mayo or chicken and mushroom 😉