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Your favourite crap food from the 90s and 00s

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ThisCraftyHelper · 30/05/2025 20:01

What’s your favourite crap food from 90s and 00s? Utterly UPF and would not dare eat now?
Mine:
Findus crispy pancakes
Bernard Matthew’s Turkey dinosaurs
Frufoo yogurts
Sunny D
Virgin cola
Campino sweets
Freddy bar that were 10p
pop tarts
fish Fingers, beans and microwave chips

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Laurensorrenson · 30/05/2025 20:02

This is all from way before the nineties.

rabbitwoman · 30/05/2025 20:03

Pot noodle!!!

In fact, i still love them.....

hopes2409 · 30/05/2025 20:03

Heinz baked bean pizza
vice versus

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Laurensorrenson · 30/05/2025 20:05

None of this stuff is from the nineties, what are you lot on about,?

LogicalBlodge · 30/05/2025 20:06

Tropical fruit juice from Tesco - it was luminous and I doubt it came near a mango.

I definitely ate my body weight in Skips - I swear in my mind they were actually food as they were were based on prawns. Except they aren't, it's prawn flavouring 😆

ThisCraftyHelper · 30/05/2025 20:08

Laurensorrenson · 30/05/2025 20:02

This is all from way before the nineties.

Ok. Not sure why you felt the need to comment that. But okay.

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Laurensorrenson · 30/05/2025 20:09

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fairgame84 · 30/05/2025 20:09

Sunny D and C-vit.
20p mix from the shop.

Purplesphere11 · 30/05/2025 20:09

rabbitwoman · 30/05/2025 20:03

Pot noodle!!!

In fact, i still love them.....

Bombay bad boy and bread? Oh mamma 🤣

ThisCraftyHelper · 30/05/2025 20:10

hopes2409 · 30/05/2025 20:03

Heinz baked bean pizza
vice versus

Forgot about them! Loved Spirals

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ThisCraftyHelper · 30/05/2025 20:11

LogicalBlodge · 30/05/2025 20:06

Tropical fruit juice from Tesco - it was luminous and I doubt it came near a mango.

I definitely ate my body weight in Skips - I swear in my mind they were actually food as they were were based on prawns. Except they aren't, it's prawn flavouring 😆

Skips!! Haven’t had them for at least 20 years I’d say

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FortyFacedFuckers · 30/05/2025 20:12

Before I get the not from the 90’s comment - i wasn’t born in the 70’s so i had them in the 90’s 🤣

Vol au vents

MarshaMarshaMarsha · 30/05/2025 20:13

Why are people getting so angry?!? I ate most of those things in the late 80s/early 90s?! OP didn’t say they had to have been “invented” then!

Other things:
Iced magic
Space raider crisps
Screwballs
Those little pots of mousse with raspberry sauce in from bejams.

Kittybelle123 · 30/05/2025 20:13

@Laurensorrenson erm, what? Are you UK based? Sunny D - late 90s at best? Pop tarts early / mid 90s? Some of the others I’ve never heard of (Frufoo yoghurts and campino sweets). The others I’ll give you may be pre 90s, but no need for the sarky comment.

To be honest, I miss the joy and clarity of life that we had in the 90s (I’m a 70s kid). Food wise, I miss the “celebrity chefs” finding new foods - olive oil, sun dried tomatoes, goats cheese 😂

ThisCraftyHelper · 30/05/2025 20:13

FortyFacedFuckers · 30/05/2025 20:12

Before I get the not from the 90’s comment - i wasn’t born in the 70’s so i had them in the 90’s 🤣

Vol au vents

Yes I remember them. But yes I had them in the 90s, no idea why that poster is irate. But they were considered posh party food down my end

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IKnowAristotle · 30/05/2025 20:14

Hopefully this is going to be a thread about crap food and not a debate about the exact date each food debuted...

Mini Kiev's
Hamwich
Turkey Drummers

Fray bentos Steak and 3 Veg pie.

Vesta crispy noodles. I think the meal was a beef curry of some sort but it came with the crispy noodles and I was obsessed.

Birdseye Chicken Burgers. Used to have them with a massive onion ring on top, slice of tomato and mayonnaise.

My mum was and still is a terrible cook if you hadn't guessed.

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FlappyFish · 30/05/2025 20:15

Cheese and ham toast toppers.

fairgame84 · 30/05/2025 20:15

Sunny D is definitely 90s, I remember all the hype and tv adverts when it came out.
California was better than Florida!

Arsehooooole · 30/05/2025 20:15

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Nasty cow

Mailys · 30/05/2025 20:15

Five alive!
And sainsburys used to sell some bacon like rashers called breakfast slices. LOVED them!
Toast toppers from a tin

IKnowAristotle · 30/05/2025 20:16

Oh salmon paste sandwiches!

ThisCraftyHelper · 30/05/2025 20:16

Apparently one poster is very upset that these are not 90s food… So I’ll reframe the title to be clear. Food that you ate during the 90s and 00s 😁

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Laurensorrenson · 30/05/2025 20:16

Kittybelle123 · 30/05/2025 20:13

@Laurensorrenson erm, what? Are you UK based? Sunny D - late 90s at best? Pop tarts early / mid 90s? Some of the others I’ve never heard of (Frufoo yoghurts and campino sweets). The others I’ll give you may be pre 90s, but no need for the sarky comment.

To be honest, I miss the joy and clarity of life that we had in the 90s (I’m a 70s kid). Food wise, I miss the “celebrity chefs” finding new foods - olive oil, sun dried tomatoes, goats cheese 😂

Sunny D - 1963.

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