20 snack items from the '90s you probably forgot about

Kid Cuisine was technically more of a meal than a snack, but it offered such little amounts of food that it should have been considered a snack. These babies came in dozens of flavors, each less exciting than the last. 

The '90s had a unique ability to take something typically considered healthy (fruit) and turn it into an unhealthy candy (Fruit Roll-Ups). This snack is still available today, but unless you have kids, you probably aren't purchasing them anymore. 

Both the idea and the execution of Pop Rocks were confounding, and the idea and execution of Pop Rocks were excellent. We can all still imagine that strange feeling of Pop Rocks doing their … thing in our mouths. 

Little Hugs Fruit Barrels were the perfect-sized drink. There was something so satisfying about finishing one of those flavorful little offerings. More drinks should come in bottles shaped like other items that hold beverages. 

One thing that snacks of today lack is a fun name. There are plenty of snacks in existence today that offer a main item and something to dip it in, but none of them are nearly as fun to say as Dunkaroos. 

The '90s and early 2000s were chock-full of cereal versions of cookies and candies, just like Oreo O's. These days, we don't have enough cereals that simply don't need to exist, and it's a travesty. To any cereal developers, we implore you to create more options like Oreo O's.

If a snack item has the word "bites" in it, it's infinitely more likely to sell. We're not sure about the science on that, but we’re willing to bet it’s true, given the success of Bagel Bites in the '90s. There could've been other reasons they were popular, but their name had to have been part of it. 

Objectively speaking, there's nothing special about Planters Cheez Balls. They're just puffy little balls of cheese, no different than any other puffy little ball of cheese for sale today. But those things had people in a proverbial chokehold a couple of decades ago.

Technically speaking, all Doritos are three-dimensional, but from a marketing standpoint, 3D Doritos are going to sell much better than Puffy Doritos or any other name the snack could've been given. These funny little chips are still available in some stores. 

If you haven't forgotten about any snack item on this list, it's likely Gushers. These are still in existence, and they're still just as good. Little sugary morsels that literally burst with flavor when biting into them? Of course, they've stood the test of time. 

Capri Sun tastes good and is a blast to drink. There's nothing more satisfying than punching that inexplicably hard straw through the Capri Sun pouch, and there's nothing more fun than inflating and deflating the pouch with air after you've finished it. 

Snack Pack Pudding is proof that you can take any food that's existed for centuries and market it as a snack, and you can make money. There's nothing special about what's inside Snack Pack Pudding because it's just regular old pudding. But it's popular nevertheless. 

Fruit Roll-Ups were simply not enough. Kids in the '90s needed an entire foot of dehydrated fruit candy. Did anyone ever measure Fruit by the Foot to see just how honest those marketers were? We should've checked, but we were too distracted. 

Cinnamon Toast Crunch is still one of the tastiest breakfast cereals available, but we won’t soon forget its funny sibling, French Toast Crunch. And we don’t have to because, in 2014, this cereal came back into circulation. If the general public wants something bad enough, it has the power to get it. 

We'll never know why snack developers thought kids were missing diamond-shaped lumps of hard sugar to sit on their fingers, but we're glad those developers had the vision no one else had. Ring Pops are a veritable rite of passage. 

Like all lollipops, Push Pops are quite sticky, but they’re great in theory. And no matter how sticky they are, they're fun to eat. More food should be able to be pushed up and down. 

No homemade brownie will ever compare to a Cosmic Brownie. The bizarre texture, strange frosting, and tasteless candy topping make for one delicious little snack. You probably haven't eaten one for years, but you still know exactly what it tastes like. 

Gogurt is a hilarious concept. The makers of this snack thought that kids were so desperate to eat yogurt but simply didn't have the time to sit down and have some, so they put it in a tube and thought it would sell. Turns out, it did.

Ritz was right to make Ritz Bits. Pretty much every snack is better when it's in a mini form, and Ritz Bits is the epitome of that phenomenon. If you forgot that Ritz Bits exist, you need to go to the nearest convenience store and purchase a bag immediately. 

Some might've seen Bubble Tape when it first came out and asked why. To those people, we say, why not? Why shouldn’t our gum be packaged as if it were a roll of tape? The one thing that’s missing from most food is whimsy, and Bubble Tape isn't going to be victim to that.