Your favourite crap food from the 90s and 00s

[ThisCraftyHelper]

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

Fiendish Feet!

No...it says "favourite crap food from the 90's"
FROM...FROM ...the nineties. None of these foods are from the nineties. Learn to read @feelingbleh .

You can get rice paper money in my local poundland at the moment. DC8 loves the stuff!

The original Pasta N’Sauce, where the cheese one was still luminous yellow/green tinged

Alphabites
chewits
bubbalicious
lunchables (particularly the ones that came with a daim bar)

I think Iceland still make them!

That bagel was my absolute favourite breakfast thing. I even contacted them about it to ask them when it was coming back, and they said never. It was only supposed to be a temporary thing as it was harder to make during the pandemic.

Bastards. I'm going to email them again and ask for it back. It'll get me nowhere but might make me feel better.

Hamwiches - they tasted amazing but horrified now that I use to eat them!

I remember a lot of pasta and cook in sauces too.

Pilsbury Toaster Pockets! For those who don’t remember, they were basically savoury Pop Tarts. A staple student lunch for me.

Peach Melba yoghurt. There was always a Peach Melba in every pack of four, but it appears to have vanished into the mists of time. Also, am I the only one who remembers when there was an orchard fruits flavour Fruit Corner, that was basically the same as tinned fruit cocktail?

Twizzlers
Findus crispy pancakes
Fray bentos steak pie
Chips 😭 (my mum would buy loads and just fry them when we were hungry, in the deep fat fryer)
(Showing my w/c roots) curry sauce that would come frozen in a packet, from icelands, on top of rice

Viscounts (can still buy them)

Oo chicken tonight 🙌

Chicken and mushroom pot noodles
chicken super noodles
microwave pizza baguettes
potted meat 🤮 sandwiches
findus crispy pancakes
pop tarts
smokey bacon crisps
orangeade
jaw breakers
candy floss
sugar dummies

My twitter inbox is just me asking brands to bring stuff back 😭😭😭

Since when does 'from' mean 'not invented until'? The OP remembers these foods FROM the 90s because she was eating them... IN the 90s.

In the early 90s my mum discovered hummus which soon became ubiquitous and we would eat it with pita breads that we didn’t know had to be toasted.

She also found jarred pesto which was always quite fusty, I remember, so that became a staple dinner for me as I was veggie.

Garlic bread (GAAAAAAIC BREAD !!!) also made an appearance with a vengeance and once she put it on the side of sausage n mash which was bizarre.

After watching ready steady cook we also put balsamic vinegar on everything including mixing it with sunflower oil and dipping white sliced sandwich bread in it

salad cream got replaced by mayonnaise, in the fridge which was a sad sad day..

Luxury Ready meals took off and I remember a random stack in the fridge on a Friday night to help yourself on a first come first served basis. My favourite one was a sweet potato, spinach and chickpea curry - the first time I had ever seen both chick peas and sweet potato.

Melon and ham (wafer thin not parma) also made an appearance on my mums dinner party repertoire as well breaded cheese.

The Linda Macartney veggie range was a game changer for me in the early 90s after a solid diet of chips, jacket potatoes and pesto pasta ( wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole now tho lol)

Well that could be ANYTHING then , couldn't it ? Why even mention the 90s , it's got nothing to do with the nineties, just because she is unaware of the existence of stuff before she ate it does not mean it didn't exist... yeah, pot noodle and jelly was invented just for you.

I can't believe how annoyed some people are getting that some of us remember things that were invented pre 1990 from our 90s childhoods. Ffs.
Just because something was invented in the 60s doesn't mean I didn't have it in the 90s.

Sheesh. I clicked on this thinking it would be a nice, lighthearted reminisce.

Cartoonies!! They do very similar ones now called hello panda

She also found jarred pesto which was always quite fusty, I remember, so that became a staple dinner for me as I was veggie.
Unless it's specifically a Vegan/veggie one, most jarred pesto isn't veggie. As I realised after id been feeding it to my veggie child for years

Pot Noodles

Tinned meatballs in gravy.
Billy Bear 'ham'
Mcdonalds pizza.

‘Chicken tonight’ and Dolmio sauces factored at least once a week in our house, as well as ‘posh’ chicken Kiev’s.

I’m not a child of the 90s, I was in my twenties in that decade, but I loved Walkers Poppadom crisps. Used to really like Potato Fritters too, can’t think if they were by Birds Eye or Findus. Pretty sure they were around before the 90s but that was when I enjoyed eating them.

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@HaddyAbrams you got that right it should be a bit of light-hearted reminiscing.

Oo Sara Lee double chocolate gateau
Also crispy pancakes. My mum was a traditional meat and veg lady so the pancakes were a real treat.