What Was the Food of the 90s?

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i'm drawing a blank here!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

when did wraps come along and blow everyone's minds?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The nineties, I think.
The nineties is the decade of asking for lemon in your beverage.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

grunge

― amon (eman), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Sun dried tomatoes

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 4 September 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Nutrigrain (and other breakfast cereal) bars, Red Bull drinks, McDonalds McFlurries.

So, junk food mostly.

― C J (C J), Sunday, 4 September 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Thai.

― didier bouyer (didier), Sunday, 4 September 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

chipotle everything

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Sunday, 4 September 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ecstacy

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the decade sushi broke!

― Aaron A, Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

ecstasy

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

naw sushi was the 80s

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

lemongrass

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The first time I ever saw CAPPUCCINO & ESPRESSO HERE on a flashing "arrow" sign in the rural south, I realized that the nineties had changed America.

Coffee's not "food", I guess though. I can't think of anything that matches the fondue hit of the seventies.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Mango salsa.

Thai.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Mac.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

anything "diet" made with Nutrasweet.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the 2000's is the SPLENDECADE

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't "fusion" cooking big in the 90s?

― lemongrass ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Pizza with cheese in the crust.

(It looked so good on paper.)

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The Arch Deluxe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Deluxe

― naus (Robert T), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Foccacia bread
Sun dried tomatoes
Avocado
Lots of chicken
Microbrews
Pita bread
Nachos

― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Calamari

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Tiramisu
Grilled Tuna
Skinny Lattes

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

See, now this is one area where Australia comes out ahead instead of behind. Sun dried tomatoes, foccacias and avocado with chicken were late 80's foods over here. The 90s were all about the laksa.

― moley, Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

salsa!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Alfalfa Sprouts
Alfalfa and Radish Sprouts
Alfalfa and Onion Sprouts
etc

also Linda McCartney Sausages

― foodnut, Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess Pop Tarts were 80's?

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Pop tarts were the 70s

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the 90s were when I first became aware of Hot Pockets, even if the jingle was totally 70s.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i was going to say boboli but apparently it was out in 1988, maybe frozen yogurt.
pop tarts were introduced in 1964.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think we had pop tarts, in the UK, until the '90s

do we still have them?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope not.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Alfalfa and other sprouts were the food of the 70s.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

moley very otm! I was also going to say tiramisu, Beth beat me to it. In fact I remember my italian ex's mum sayin "this newfangled dessert they have over in italy, I saw it in a magazine and made some, try it!" in like, '91.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Asian fusion.

Also, jalapeno poppers.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Deep fried turkeys.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Surge

― internet comedy novice (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Deep fried turkeys.

So good.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Power soft drinks, like Red Bull and V!

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

In terms of mass ubiquity, bagels were the early 90s, but over by 95, and insta-burrito/wraps were the late 90s. Anything low Carb was the early 00s.

In terms of like, actual cuisine, it was "pan-Asian."

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Power soft drinks, like Red Bull and V!

Also Powerbars and similar bars.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the answer is clearly salsa! i don't remember how i know this but the 90s saw salsa sales overtake ketchup.

― geoff (gcannon), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Very, very strong candidate, and one that has endured, but there weren't chains of salsa stores on every corner. There were two places in Denver to buy almost real bagels in Denver in 1990. By 1993, there were thousands of places to buy really bad, airy imitations of bagels. Brueggers (the best of the lot, IMHO), Chesapeake, Einsteins, a zillion "New York xxxxx Bagels" variants, and many I've forgotten. And then, like locusts, they were almost all gone. This mass extinction is the factor that makes bagels so a distinctly 90s to me. As the late 80s were to Frozen Yogurt, and the early 80's were to super-premium ice cream (Fruzen Glaadje, where have you gone?).

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

OH Fruzen Glaadje! How I miss it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

so, 70s = west coast, 80s=east coast, 90s=west coast.

00s=?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

deep-fried mars bar.

― haitch online poker (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

big beat souffle

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 5 September 2005 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Smoothies were pretty 90s, right?

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 5 September 2005 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

definitely asian fusion. so many variations on seared tuna with sides like wasabi mash or ginger-soy something-or-another.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the "balti" sold as such
sausages and mash in a gastropub
focaccia
FUCKING HORRIBLE PASTA SALADS EUW EUW EUW GO AWAY FOREVER
European/Seattle style coffee
soya and rice dairy substitutes
Thai takeaways

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Snapple

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

yes! and arizona iced green tea.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

roasted vegetables (courgette/aubergine/sweet potato/onion)
thai risotto

― bham, Monday, 5 September 2005 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

grilled vegetables
gummy store-bought "fresh" pasta
turkeyburgers

Alfalfa Sprouts = so totally 70s

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 5 September 2005 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Snapple

yeah all the seinfeld foods. muffins, big salads, calzones, jumbalaya, canteloupe, all jewish food

and caffe latte was the coffee of the 90s, replacing the cappuccinos of the 80s.

SEMI dried tomatoes = 90s

fuji apples, and nashi pears

fruitopia

that grassy stuff that they put in juices, was that 90s or early 00s? and 'smart drinks' were they 90s? they seem more 80s, like oxygen bars and tomato juice

pink grapefruit juice = 90s

― minna (minna), Monday, 5 September 2005 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

sticky date pudding

― minna (minna), Monday, 5 September 2005 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Prozac (said with slacker-like layers of heavy cynicism).

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 5 September 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Crystal Pepsi
Zima
Snackwells
kiwifruit
Ben & Jerry's
fajita skillets

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 5 September 2005 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jakehowlett.com/tuckshop/wrappers/chocolate/filled/fuse.jpg

i was addicted to these during my second year at univ.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god... snackwells! so nasty, but they were a huge hit. i remember local news coverage of snackwell riots at grocery stores.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn you Steve I want a Fuse.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

YEAH YOU KNOW I SNACK WELL

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I never notice Fuse on sale anywhere now, whereas it was once omnipresent it seemed (see also Boddingtons and Hooch).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You can usually get them in the student union shop here, unfortunately for my waistline. I miss Spira though, they really ARE gone aren't they?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

When were Push Pops?

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

oooh Spira.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Walla Feastwich!!

It was like chocoloate icecream between 2 soft chocolatechip cookies. Truly the food of kings

― bham, Monday, 5 September 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hooch. Duh.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I wound up at some dude's house with a bunch of people one night, and he was all like "Red Dog's in the fridge, help yourself." Someone there said, "Red Dog?" and the dude replied, "Yeah, man. It's like only five bucks a six pack." And the one guy replied, "No, no, no. Like where the fuck can you buy Red Dog anymore?"

That, or Miller beer.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

hummus!

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

muffins, big salads, calzones, jumbalaya, canteloupe, all jewish food

How are calzones, jamabalaya, and canteloupe "Seinfeld" or Jewish?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with j.lu, i.e. "Power Bars"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i.e. they can be consumed in minutes and are virtually share-proof.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

of course, there were no 90s, everyone knows this, right?? the seventies started in 1966 and went through 1977, the eighties took up there and went through 1991, at which point the 21st century began. no 90s.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

chicken tonight.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha chicken tonight!

and red dog! i loved the commercial jingle. "red dog malt liquor, and paint the town red. paint the town red. red dog malt liquor.

also, st.ides special brew. cotton candy flavored malt liquor!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

phish food

― rio natsume, Monday, 5 September 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

french bread pizzas

― rio natsume, Monday, 5 September 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

findus crispy pancakes

― rio natsume, Monday, 5 September 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

brevel toasted sandwiches

― rio natsume, Monday, 5 September 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

golden nuggets

― rio natsume, Monday, 5 September 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

chomps

― rio natsume, Monday, 5 September 2005 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

starmix

― rio natsume, Monday, 5 September 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Crack sandwiches.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Monday, 5 September 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCKING HORRIBLE PASTA SALADS EUW EUW EUW GO AWAY FOREVER
Thank you! There has never been an improvement over classic white trash macaroni salad with mayo & relish. I hate hate hate that tricolor pasta, with the green and red ones that are the texture of wet cardboard. Almost as bad as whole wheat (puking sounds) pasta.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

muffins, big salads, calzones, jumbalaya, canteloupe, all jewish food
How are calzones, jamabalaya, and canteloupe "Seinfeld" or Jewish?

they were all consumed on seinfeld. and no they are not jewish food, despite being eaten by jews sometimes. jewish food is a seperate category which i didnt go into mainly because i cant spell it.

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The latter half of the '90s is all about mussels and chips with mayo.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

The 90s was when Starbucks decided that Americans everywhere needed designer, coffee-flavored sugar.

― Cockfighting v. Drunkfighting (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Saturday, 10 February 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.saleshound.com/broadreach/dyn_li/200.0.75.0/Retailers/MarshSupermarkets/040829_3_hotpockets.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 10 February 2007 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Orbitz. In 2000, I knew a band that bribed people into coming to a show by promising free bottles of Orbitz. Someone had a few cases lying around and they just wanted to get rid of it. Nasty stuff, but it made a lovely pseudo lava lamp for my dorm room.

― lindseykai (lindseykai), Saturday, 10 February 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Snapple OTM

I've never had OK Cola, but it sounds funny.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 11 February 2007 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

I hate hate hate that tricolor pasta, with the green and red ones that are the texture of wet cardboard. Almost as bad as whole wheat (puking sounds) pasta.

waah, i like tricolore & whole wheat pasta. and i've always found mayo-free pasta salads a vast improvement after the barftastic picnic-grade macaroni salad.

― the louvin spoonful (get bent), Sunday, 11 February 2007 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

the food of the '90s was clearly ranch dressing, btw. and buffalo wings.

― the louvin spoonful (get bent), Sunday, 11 February 2007 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

Clear how? Buffalo wings so totally '80s, ranch dressing '70s.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 11 February 2007 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

my 90s were clearly ranch dressing.

― datam of flyingsaucers (fauxhemian), Sunday, 11 February 2007 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

My grandmother's fallback family visitors meal for the whole of the '70s was roast chicken with stuffing made from rice/mushrooms/giblets, French beans, potatoes au gratin and a garden salad with ranch (pronounced Locust Valley Lockjaw style eg. "raaahnch") dressing enlivened by fresh chives.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 11 February 2007 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sun dried tomatoes

Orbit totally OTM. That to me is the signature 90's trend. Because it's ok, ya know, but it's not GREAT, and certainly there's no reason to put it in everything. Pizza, for instance, does not require more sweetness or more tomato. But then suddenly, in the 90's, you could order a pizza with sun dried tomato.

This trend has died. I couldn't be happier. When are anchovies coming back?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, will not eat a sun-dried tomato ever, now.

Catalonian style tapas very NOW and that is all about the anchovies.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 11 February 2007 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

snapple was so EIGHTIES, not 90s -- or at least it was in the northeast.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 11 February 2007 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Snapple is a grunge era/dotcommers' drink in the UK, where Anna lives. So '90s for those of us living there. I kind of associate it with food available at college bookstores and the like; the stuff that wouldn't be consumed at all unless charged from the campus shop. See also Smartfood popcorn.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 11 February 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Another vote for bagels.

And other than that, drinks: smoothies; cocktails (Snoop to Swingers, liquor industry worked hard to appeal to Gen-X); coffee.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 11 February 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

I have eaten so much food and lived for so many decades I cannot keep it all straight in my mind any more.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:36 (fourteen years ago)

I say pizza, cos of TMNT and that one Seinfeld where Jerry goes "Wanna get some pizza?" when he's at a loss for something to say.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:00 (fourteen years ago)

I do think of that almost every time I suggest eating pizza, but, uh, I'm pretty sure pizza was doing just fine before 1990.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:11 (fourteen years ago)

TMNT was definitely the 80s, btw.

and i say the advent of 'easy-go' snacks that should never have been made into 'easy-go' snacks. voila! GO-GURT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-XOhlwdRks

― for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:13 (fourteen years ago)

the decade sushi broke!
― Aaron A, Sunday, September 4, 2005 5:03 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
naw sushi was the 80s
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, September 4, 2005 5:11 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd go with the 90s for this one. The proliferation of sushi restaurants in the 90s was nuts.

― the same dope water as you (how's life), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 14:08 (fourteen years ago)

Zima and Mentos.

― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 14:49 (fourteen years ago)

if you mix zima and mentos you explode like mikey from the life cereal commercial.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 14:58 (fourteen years ago)

mall chains and casual dinner chains exploded in the 90's too. a sbarro and an outback steakhouse wherever you looked. casual and on the go in general kinda the theme. get in your sweats and pick up a french toast flavored gogurt and only eat in restaurants that are sweat pants friendly. which, in turn, enraged rich people and college educated men and women SO much that they had to invent babbo where you pay a premium to eat way too much comfort food.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:03 (fourteen years ago)

cappuccino

― Balinese sound killers (Pangangge Tengenan) (clouds), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:05 (fourteen years ago)

for L.A. and NYC $$ people and 'yuppies', sushi was the 80s
for quick & easy, fast-food sushi, the 90s for sure

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:05 (fourteen years ago)

I was under the impression that there was a decade (the 50s?) where pizza parlours rose to such a level of ubiquity that they were the subject of comedy routines

― nedless summer (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:14 (fourteen years ago)

Impressed upthread that Australia had a laksa boom in the 90s but Australia will always be ahead of the curve re: food

― nedless summer (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:14 (fourteen years ago)

Arugula, cilantro, mizuno, etc...

― ça GLIS aux pays de merveilles; châteaux de loirs (Michael White), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:54 (fourteen years ago)

cilantro up the ass

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:01 (fourteen years ago)

sushi otm

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:06 (fourteen years ago)

sushi up the ass

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:06 (fourteen years ago)

I say pizza, cos of TMNT and that one Seinfeld where Jerry goes "Wanna get some pizza?" when he's at a loss for something to say.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:00 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was thinking pesto cause of Seinfeld.

GEORGE: Why do I get pesto? Why do I think I’ll like it? I keep trying to like it, like I have to like it.

JERRY: Who said you have to like it?

GEORGE: Everybody likes pesto. You walk into a restaurant, that’s all you hear – pesto, pesto, pesto.

JERRY: I don’t like pesto.

GEORGE: Where was pesto 10 years ago?

― mizzell, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:16 (fourteen years ago)

Hawaiian or California Pizza with pineapple topping

also, drinkable yogurt

― Lee626, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:20 (fourteen years ago)

Kellogs Raisin Splitz

― Here's that tenner I owe you, asshole (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:36 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.perezfox.com/images/homegirls_1000.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

90's started the whole dipping something sweet into something else sweet, right? it was all about synergy.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mWqRnJGHxME/S9kP372q-4I/AAAAAAAAACk/CFgNBJGAKmM/s1600/IMG_0345.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:56 (fourteen years ago)

Oh, dip.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7fvt1dnsV1qarfgyo1_500.jpg

― the same dope water as you (how's life), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:58 (fourteen years ago)

snapple was so EIGHTIES, not 90s -- or at least it was in the northeast. --Eisbär (llamasfur)

The MTV News report on Snapple being a hip cool thing was tied around that Digable Planets song, so early 90s

― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:59 (fourteen years ago)

Also the answer is Crystal Pepsi or Surge

― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:59 (fourteen years ago)

Surge had carbos.

― the same dope water as you (how's life), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

I drank a fuckton of this

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Jostalogo.gif

― the same dope water as you (how's life), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:01 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPvyq_KmXhc

this weirdly would fit also in the "what's that awful facebook thing people keep posting" and "bands sell out" threads.
congrats on trifecta, pepsi and van halen!

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:01 (fourteen years ago)

The MTV News report on Snapple being a hip cool thing was tied around that Digable Planets song, so early 90s

I still associate it with Howard Stern. (90s)

― pplains, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:13 (fourteen years ago)

Chain delis taking on McDonalds/Wendys

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:20 (fourteen years ago)

RIP

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/79XNWFu13CE/0.jpg

― pplains, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:22 (fourteen years ago)

90's kinda the dawn of endless varieties of colorful sugarful shit on a stick. maybe big sugar was pissed that gen xers just wanted pbr and cheap tacos so they took it out on gen y brothers and sisters. seems to have worked!

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:42 (fourteen years ago)

xp otm

― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:43 (fourteen years ago)

is hummus 00s??

― jack chick-fil-A (dayo), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:50 (fourteen years ago)

My mom regularly bought hummus in the 1990s. I don't know if it had blown up yet.

― the same dope water as you (how's life), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:51 (fourteen years ago)

hummus is 00s like krispy kreme is 00s

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

hm.. maybe donut-hummus dippers could be the salvation of krispy kreme.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

i can't believe there are no krispy kremes in massachusetts. i just checked. if one opened in greenfield it would be the most successful store in town x 1000000.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:01 (fourteen years ago)

portabella burgers
oat bran

― °™ (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:20 (fourteen years ago)

Pizza pops
Cheesstrings
Yogurt in long thin tubes
Lunchables

Basically anything w/ a skateboard in its commercial

― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:21 (fourteen years ago)

er.. portobello, u kno?

― °™ (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:23 (fourteen years ago)

is turducken an invention of the 90s?

also that thing where they take chicken and inject cheese in it?

― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:26 (fourteen years ago)

re turducken
A November 2005 National Geographic article by Calvin Trillin traced the American origins of the dish to "Hebert's Specialty Meats" in Maurice, Louisiana, although readers immediately noted that the concept for the dish itself is centuries old. Hebert's has been commercially producing turduckens since 1985, when an unknown local farmer brought in his own birds and asked Hebert's to prepare them in that manner. The company prepares around 5,000 turduckens per week around Thanksgiving time.

― mizzell, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:29 (fourteen years ago)

they should ALWAYS inject cheese into chicken. imho.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

yeah turducken wasn't really a thing until y2k.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

it was a stretch, i was basing that on when i became aware of john madden (which is when he started having video games with his name on them) (which was the 90s).

xxp Do you know what I am talking about? Oh mna I remembered. I was thinking of chicken cordon bleu. Apparently it's existed for far longer than "since the 90s."

― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:32 (fourteen years ago)

udon noodle soups up the wazoo
sweet potato fries
microbrews
"decadent" desserts with abstract expressionist chocolate splatter on top
grilled chicken breast sandwiches with pesto spreads
scratch that, any kind of sandwich with goddamn pesto spread

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:37 (fourteen years ago)

but yes, the quintessence: sun dried tomatoes

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

Not just bagels, but bagel sandwiches.

― kate78, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

oh yeah the microbrew/craftbrew explosion! forgot about that. you never forget your first thomas hardy ale. mmmmmm....

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:39 (fourteen years ago)

bagelwiches i have eaten: a historical study of food in the 1990s

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:40 (fourteen years ago)

Sun dried tomatoes, doritos, pesto, a capri sun and a skateboard all between two halves of one bagel. That's a sandwich I could get down w/ while watching one of Will Smith's fine movie-as-rap-single vehicles.

― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:44 (fourteen years ago)

also: proliferation of bagel options to absurd infinity, to the point where ordering a mere "poppy seed" became a self-consciously retro gesture.

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:45 (fourteen years ago)

chinese chicken salad
criss cross fries
seared ahi
martinis or food served in martini glasses
sauce plating via squeeze bottle
substituting "aioli" for when you mean "flavored mayonnaise"

― queequeg (peter grasswich), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:45 (fourteen years ago)

chilean sea bass

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:47 (fourteen years ago)

hot ham and swiss with mustard on a toasted bagel still a fine fine thing. if you ask me.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:48 (fourteen years ago)

'tis indeed.

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:51 (fourteen years ago)

oh man bagel sandwiches! my high school had a shop across the street just for bagel sandwiches. i haven't eaten one since i graduated ~2000.

― deist mountain dew (reddening), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:52 (fourteen years ago)

the 90s were kind of the decade of the upscaling of casual food generally, no?

― bert yansh (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:53 (fourteen years ago)

I don't know if it was because I was 16-26 for this decade, but everything I can think of from the 90s was complete crap.

In a good way.

― pplains, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:57 (fourteen years ago)

I used to keep the empty bottles from these in a windowsill, for when the hot chicks would drop by.

http://www.positioningmag.com/vaf/pictures/435/43578n_1l.jpg

― pplains, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:57 (fourteen years ago)

that pretty much nails it. health-conscious upscaling, with a penchant for quirky juxtapositions . xposts

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:58 (fourteen years ago)

i never ever eat at the wrap places or the panini places. panini the 21st century bagelwich.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:59 (fourteen years ago)

the novelty mix & match thing, yeah. which i still don't care for. it's a peanut butter bagel!! no way!!?? way!!!

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:00 (fourteen years ago)

haha i loathe panini and focaccia

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:00 (fourteen years ago)

(one of those loathings i childishly cherish)

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:01 (fourteen years ago)

americans almost seem invented to invent those kinds of things though. the peanut butter and bacon bagel or whatever.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:01 (fourteen years ago)

omg clearly canadian was the hottest shit when i was in 6th grade. that and hypercolor shirts

― mizzell, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:02 (fourteen years ago)

Future generations aren't going to judge us for consuming coal or criminalizing gay marriage, btw:

http://pzrservices.typepad.com/vintageadvertising/images/2008/09/25/1990_cheese_ad_2.jpg

― pplains, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:03 (fourteen years ago)

re mix & match: my son won't eat anything vaguely heterogenous (like peas amidst the rice) which makes dinner preparation into a demanding Bauhaus project, but I think he's onto something

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:04 (fourteen years ago)

we had hamburger helper for dinner last night! yum! cyrus wouldn't eat that until recently because of the mixed upness of the meat and sauce and all that. now he's as american as the rest of us.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:08 (fourteen years ago)

i will never get over my fondness for hamburger helper and manwiches as long as i live. its all the opiates they put in there. opiates + salt. i'm convinced.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:09 (fourteen years ago)

that gloved hamburger helper mascot was scarier than marilyn manson and had more cogent thoughts on columbine.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:11 (fourteen years ago)

the 90s were kind of the decade of the upscaling of casual food generally, no?

this is otm. Comparing Disney World fast food menu restaurants in the eighties and today, every place offered fried horrors or shit like egg salad.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:11 (fourteen years ago)

My mom regularly bought hummus in the 1990s. I don't know if it had blown up yet.

Read this as "My mom regularly bought humans in the 1990s."

― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:12 (fourteen years ago)

I mean

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/7175927834/in/pool-97769629@N00/

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/7175927834/in/pool-97769629@N00/

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

gotta check out those opiates

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

EW EW EW EW EW EW

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbcurio/6892951108/in/pool-97769629@N00/

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

These have already been mentioned, but OTM : Smoothies, Starbucks coffee.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

Odwalla juices

― o. nate, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

This photo also appears in
Vintage Meat (Group: 1,108)

― deist mountain dew (reddening), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbcurio/6953572853/in/pool-97769629@N00/

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

raspberry vinaigrette

― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:20 (fourteen years ago)

oh, good one

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:23 (fourteen years ago)

I know someone said Snapple upthread but generally the replacing of iced tea for soft drinks.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:23 (fourteen years ago)

i remember when tom & tom personally came to install the nantucket nectar cooler in the corner coffee/cafe i worked at in philly. a new day had dawned. they were assholes.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:26 (fourteen years ago)

ha really? did the top of the cooler have one of those fun nantuckety facts stickered on it?

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:53 (fourteen years ago)

there once was a drink from nantucket..

― °™ (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

whatever it is, it's flavored with truffle oil

― Josefa, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:15 (fourteen years ago)

haven't read this thread, did anyone say salsa?

― goole, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:31 (fourteen years ago)

here's one: multicolored martinis.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:32 (fourteen years ago)

That or zima.

― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:50 (fourteen years ago)

So are we ready to face down the Foods of the 00s, or is it Too Soon?

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:51 (fourteen years ago)

i thought truffle oil was a '00s thing but that may be M.I.A.'s truffle fries skewing the timeline in my memory

― a swarm of sentient bees (reddening), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:00 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PoZHG60DXA

― Choogle Image Search (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

bottled water

― contenderizer, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:24 (fourteen years ago)

craisins?

― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:45 (fourteen years ago)

the food of the 10s is BACON right?

― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:52 (fourteen years ago)

bacon was food of the always. coconut water on the other hand...

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:10 (fourteen years ago)

Packaged coconut water products are pretty damned delicious and GREAT for a hangover. Unfortunately the convenience store near me has stopped carrying them. So maybe they were the food of the 2011s only.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:11 (fourteen years ago)

I was at cvs yesterday and saw coconut water, so I think it's still popular.

― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:14 (fourteen years ago)

I thought the bacon obsession started in the 00s

was the Cinnabon a 90s thing?

― jbn, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:16 (fourteen years ago)

i keep reading this thread title as "what was the fool of the 90s?"

so i will post this picture of fool.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wdgaJNRnYls/TfcXFFL_oGI/AAAAAAAABbk/SG58UaRWM44/s640/fool2.jpg

― ezra kleine nachtmusik (get bent), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:16 (fourteen years ago)

cinnabon is an I-90 thing

― collardio gelatinous, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:18 (fourteen years ago)

Salsa. Salsa really broke out in the 90s, and its never looked back...
Then again, it was also the first totally HFCS decade...

― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:49 (fourteen years ago)

But I guess that's more of a "food product" than a food.

― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:50 (fourteen years ago)

i thought truffle oil was a '00s thing but that may be M.I.A.'s truffle fries skewing the timeline in my memory

Yeah, I paused to reflect on this before posting... it's probably fair to say truffle oil is a turn-of-the-millennium thing more than just a '90s thing.

― Josefa, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:11 (fourteen years ago)

food of the 10s:

http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/01/mcdonalds-pink-slime.jpeg

― contenderizer, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:25 (fourteen years ago)

if you'd told me that was strawberry froyo i'd believe you.

― ezra kleine nachtmusik (get bent), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/travel/wow_chips.jpg

WOW! I had no idea I'd have violent diarrhea within 10 minutes of eating these!

― queequeg (peter grasswich), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:24 (fourteen years ago)

i don't know about the *entire* 90's but '92 was owned by blackened catfish.

― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 07:14 (fourteen years ago)

fine dining: big stacks of things (food network advises u to use a piece of pvc) + dabs of balsamic reduction + microgreens (?)

― dylannn, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 07:22 (fourteen years ago)

I didn't eat any fine dining in the 90s but don't they always describe "foam" and "mousse" as 90s on Top Chef

― nedless summer (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 11:43 (fourteen years ago)

haha, kind of hilarious if so, wasn't one of the contestants circa 2007 a huge liquid nitrogen foam guy, and it was always like "You have all these great, cutting-edge techniques but you also need to learn your fundamentals..."

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:08 (fourteen years ago)

I was trying to remember the details and tell sunny about the days when potato chip bags contained warnings about anal leakage, but couldn't finish because I was laughing so hard.

― pplains, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:24 (fourteen years ago)

GISing for that actual warning was not smart at work.

― the same dope water as you (how's life), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:30 (fourteen years ago)

P&G is marketing its sucrose ester products under the brand "Sefose" for use as an industrial lubricant and paint additive.[23] Because olestra is made by chemically combining sugar and vegetable oil, it releases no toxic fumes and could potentially become a safe and environmentally friendly replacement for petrochemicals in these applications.[24] It is currently used as a base for deck stains and a lubricant for small power tools, and there are plans to use it on larger machinery.[25]

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:31 (fourteen years ago)

I anticipate we'll look back on nose-to-tail with a "ha ha what were we thinking? Ears are gross"

― nedless summer (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:33 (fourteen years ago)

I was trying to remember the details and tell sunny about the days when potato chip bags contained warnings about anal leakage, but couldn't finish because I was laughing so hard.

'This Product Contains Olestra. Olestra may cause abdominal cramping and loose stools. Olestra inhibits the absorption of some vitamins and other nutrients. Vitamins A, D, E, and K have been added.'

― °™ (Pillbox), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:35 (fourteen years ago)

http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/11/20/56/2427779/3/628x471.jpg

― pplains, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:46 (fourteen years ago)

i can't believe there are no krispy kremes in massachusetts. i just checked. if one opened in greenfield it would be the most successful store in town x 1000000.

― scott seward, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

im pretty sure there used to be KKs in MA and they were rejected & run out of business by hardcore dunkins partisans

― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:12 (fourteen years ago)

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