Powdered juices of acidic shades, diluted tea in granules, exploding chewing gum in the mouth … Today it sounds like a nightmare for a healthy person. And 20 years ago, these were the favorite children’s sweets.
We live in an era when it has become fashionable to eat right and take care of our health. Take, for example, me: once in a supermarket, I would never put a product in a basket without thoroughly studying its composition. At the same time, I am not at all a healthy person and have never been to a nutritionist. Nevertheless, my 5-year-old daughter has never tasted chocolates, and if her little hand reaches for the counter with colored gummy candies, then I immediately tug at her with the words: “Put it back, it’s chemistry!”
My husband takes the situation easier. “And how did we eat these candies in kilograms in childhood, washed down with soda? And nothing, survived! ” – says the spouse. What is true is true – absolutely all children ate “hellish snacks” from the 90s and in such quantities that modern mothers would grab their heads!
Remember powdered juices “Yupi”, “Invite” and “Zuko”? They were diluted in water, and received a sweet drink with a rich acidic hue. I don’t know about the others, but my friends and I loved to eat this powder just like that – right from the bag. After that, the tongue remained bright yellow or bright orange for a long time, and it was very funny.
Or chewing gum like “Turbo”, “Bombibom”, “Boomer” – they were so hard that it was completely impossible to chew them. But we, children of the 90s, loved them, because there were stickers or inserts inside! Personally, I adored “Love is” and collected legendary boy and girl earbuds. And closer to adolescence, we began to like gum with tattoos.
Probably many people remember the words from the advertisement: “Bread and ‘Rama’ are made for each other!” Yes, yes, this margarine was in almost every home, in every refrigerator. And no one thought about whether it was harmful or not. As well as various brands of chocolate spread.
At the same time, in the 90s, eastern noodles appeared in Russia. Moreover, it was possible to eat it even in dry form, without brewing, which was what my classmates did at school breaks. Once, having seen enough of this, I decided to try it too. And she was so poisoned that she lay at home all week. I still remember these days with a shudder! Do I need to explain why since then I have never touched these noodles?
Bouillon cubes cause no less nostalgia. Our mothers and grandmothers generously added them to the soup, and they were not at all frightened by the phrases on the packaging: “flavor and aroma enhancer”, “flavorings”, “vegetable fat” and “flavorings”.
Indeed, how did we survive eating a ton of all this chemistry ?!
– I do not agree that we ate all these products in tons. There was no such financial opportunity for most people in the early 90s. And they begged for chewing gum from my mother, and the money that was given out for breakfast at school was saved for the sake of buying sweets. And they exchanged candy wrappers if they came across the same. I personally remember how dad brought Maxim from a business trip a couple of boxes of Kuku-Ruku waffles and a block of Snickers and Mars chocolates. And my mother gave us sweets only for good behavior. We also ate “Doshirak”, but then these noodles were different, more natural. I loved the Rama margarine, because it was a delicious addition to breakfast. Why did we “survive”? Not everyone survived, or rather, not everyone survived to their 30-40 years as healthy people! I, too, am not a ZOZhnik, and my children know what Snickers is. But “Yupi”, “Galina Blanca” are prohibited in our family. Yes, the child’s body is able to cope with many harmful products. But if in the 90s there was simply no other entertainment, how to indulge ourselves with foreign sweets, now we have something to please children without “Yupi” and “Fanta”.