What junk food items did you eat when you were a kid?

My parents’ cooking.
I would consider that junk food. As in, really horrible.

I loved red salted pistachios. I also loved pop tarts but can’t eat them anymore. I still love zesty Doritos and lays plain potato chips.

^^ I loved those red-dyed pistachios too : )

Mom didn’t have junk food around the house. The only thing she had were Hostess Ding Dongs for us to munch on after school. We didn’t do snacks in between meals, either.

I liked the mixed nuts in shells with the nut crackers. I liked walnuts and pecans.

Now, as for me, when I got old enough, 6 or so, so be catting around the neighborhood with my friends, we’d dig up change and buy candy necklaces and candy cigarettes at the Shopeze. Also Icees. We weren’t really into the sugar as much as the novelty. Also, we collected the Shopeeze Icee stickers like crazy.

Hostess blackberry pies, usually. I ate lots of Three Musketeers chocolate bars, too.

Pop Tarts and i still love em.

@anniereborn I switched from pop tarts to toaster strudels. They come with icing packets. Have you experienced them?

As funny as it sounds now, popcorn was considered my family’s junk food. Even funnier, my Dad was a Nabisco cookie salesman. My Mom thought the Devil had created sugar; so the only real sugar we were allowed to eat at will were her homemade cooked desserts.If Mother cooked it, it had to be healthy because it was cooked with love!!!

@RedDeerGuy1 Yes I have tried those. They taste really good. But you can’t beat the convenience of a Pop Tart on the go.

OMG, I thought I was the only one who had a Pop Tart fetish!!!

We were lucky that Mom bought Kool-Ade!

We used to have that fat Kool-Ade pitcher….

^^ We had the cups, but not the pitcher. Wish I still had those cups.

We also drank Funny Face.

Red and black Twizzlers , Luden’s and Smith Brothers Wild Cherry or Licorice cough drops, Milky Way candy bars and I can’t remember the rest. And I was a teenager when I ate those.
When as a child I ate candy cigarettes, Double Bouble bouble gum and little wax bottles filled with sugary water of different flavors. Oh; and Charm’s suckers. Spent time at the dentist’s getting cavities filled with ineffective lidocaine shots.

Charm suckers? I think I remember those. Grape or cherry, I think, and, if the sucker had a certain sticker inside the main wrapper, you got another sucker free!

Cracker Jacks!

OMG, I still love Cracker Jacks even with the crappy prizes that they put in them now!!!

They were pretty crappy then too. Tiny little pages of joke books.

I must be older than you, I used to get plastic diamond rings in mine. At 4–10, it was the prettiest ring that I had!!!

DIAMOND RINGS??!! Wow.

made from plastic

At 4, plastic was the best diamond ring I was going to get!!! ;)
Same at 10!!!

@kritiper I got the orange or limes ones at the movie theater.

Duh, @ragingloli. They were in Cracker Jacks.

Sweettarts and those hot red candies at the movie theater. Also, Jr. Mints.

Red Hots are still on the top of my list especially since I don’t have to go to the movie theater to buy them now!!!

Red hots! That’s them.

@Aster I never saw those, if we’re talking about the same thing…

Red Hots are a cinnamon candy that grows hot as it melts in your mouth. Movie theaters usually sold them hoping to increase their fountain drink sales. Most of the ones I bought were heart shaped. I was an adult before retail stores (mainly convenience stores) started selling them OTC.

We didn’t have junk food when I was a kid. We didn’t keep snack foods around and I have never done that either. We had fruit and melba toast. I don’t know why but my mother kept melba toast and we could always get a piece if we wanted it. I’m not a big fan.

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PDQ.