19 Yellow Kids Meals We Wish We Could Still Eat Every Day

Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 19:42

One day, as you sit around the dinner table eating fresh vegetables and meat, one of your 2.3 children will ask: “Mother, what was dinner like when you were a girl?”

And as you put your forkful of chia-sprinkled yam back upon your plate, you’ll begin to tell them of better times. Of times when e-numbers were plentiful, when garlic butter ran freely from miniature balls of processed chicken. When potatoes were shaped to look like things, and turkey meat was also shaped to look like things.

If you spent the majority of your childhood in the 1990s, these are all of the delicious oven foods that you will tell them about. And sure, some may still exist, but are they really the same?

19 Foods From The 90s We Wish We Could Still Eat Every Day

Do you dream of Heinz Baked Beans Pizza cheesing up your taste buds once again?

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The magical garlic butter geyser that was chicken kievs

Jason Lam/Flickr

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Or mini chicken kievs, the chicken kiev of the nouveau riche

Bernard Matthews

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Crispy Pancakes, shortening your lifespan with every crumb

Findus

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Chicken, BACON and SWEETCORN Crispy Pancakes

Findus

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MINCED BEEF CRISPY PANCAKES

Findus

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The humble potato croquette

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Golden Drummers weren't even given the dignity of being actual drumsticks

Bernard Matthews

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Potato alphabet letters, spelling out alternative words for 'bum' since 1993

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Micro Chips: Also available in crinkle cut for those that don't live by 'rules'

McCain/YouTube/Mark Rodgers

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Turkey Twizzlers can alternatively be used as the blade in power drills

Bernard Matthews

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Putting a Pizza Pocket in your mouth fresh out of the oven or putting a hot coal in your mouth = interchangable

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Humanity hasn't found a more efficient way to spread this much fat and carb across a surface area since oven rosti

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Bagel Bites, because miniature pizzas just won't do

YouTube/Bootsy's Commercials

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Trapped in each Potato Smiley is the lost soul of someone who once smiled halfheartedly about something

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Potato Waffles; disappointingly un-anthropomorphic

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Unlike Turkey Dinosaurs, whose natural habitat was mashed potato volcanoes

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This counted

Trolli

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Fine; these didn't exist in the 90s. But they exist now. We'll leave you to think about that for a while

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Are you kept up at night wondering what Forrest Gump's Bubba Gump Shrimp really tastes like?

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Any bento box in My Neighbour Totoro (or any Studio Ghibli film, for that matter)

Studio Ghibli

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Were South Park's Cheesy Poofs as cheesy as they promised?

Braniff Productions

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Those cherries in The Land Before Time

Sullivan Bluth Studios/Amblin Entertainment/Lucasfilm Ltd

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That delicious custardy mess in the Teletubbies

Ragdoll Productions

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Dexter's Big Bad Burrito made our burritos look like bleh-ritos

Cartoon Network Studios

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Every doughnut in The Simpsons

Fox

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Willy Wonka's suspiciously un-spherical everlasting gobstopper

Wolper Pictures, Ltd/The Quaker Oats Company

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The deliciously e-numbery imaginary food in Hook

Amblin Entertainment

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Krabby. Patties.

Nickelodeon Animation Studios

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Garfield's many lasagnes

Jim Davis

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The grubs in The Lion King (admit it)

Disney

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*That* cake in Matilda

Jersey Films

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Chabuddy G's Peanut Dust

Wasteman TV/Roughcut TV

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Any pizza from Toy Story's Pizza Planet

Pixar

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Reptar Cereal from The Rugrats

Klasky Csupo

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Scooby Snax - the hype must have been about something

Cartoon Network

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Slurm. Or, actually, maybe not

The Curiosity Company/Fox

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The entire feast in Spirited Away

Studio Ghibli

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Squishees - specifically Bart's version

Fox

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Oh, and the steamed buns from Spirited Away

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Tree stars, making sycamore leaves look tasty since 1988

Sullivan Bluth Studios/Amblin Entertainment/Lucasfilm Ltd

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Anything, absolutely anything from Willy Wonka's 1971 garden

Wolper Pictures, Ltd/The Quaker Oats Company

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