Generation Gap in the 90s

Episode 2: Snackin’ Like it’s 1999!

Season 1 Episode 2

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Snacks from the 90s were basically edible happiness wrapped in neon packaging and questionable nutrition. Gen X kids ate them at a stop at their locker or in their concrete-walled dorms. Meanwhile, millennials proudly flaunted their plastic lunch boxes like they were carrying solid gold. If your mom packed you just the right snack , you were basically cafeteria royalty. It wasn’t just lunch—it was snack-based social currency, and if you didn’t guard your snacks, someone would trade you a carrot stick for your high fructose-filled, red#5 snack and call it “a good deal.”

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