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Remembering the Baby Bottle Pop and other outlandish novelty treats
- Thread starter Finale Fireworker
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Fun Dip and Baby Bottle Pops share common ancestors. They're similar concepts with different executions. I was never a big fan of the Fun Dip stick itself. I would often put it back in the package and throw it out.
I would lick them and suck on the sides until I could just barely fit it in my mouth lol
Bonkers
Not identical, but Hi-Chew are pretty close to what I remember Bonkers being like.
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Oh these were DEFINITELY in America as well.
I think you lucked out, because the mouth feel was nasty. It was like drinking a vaguely fruit flavoured carbonated soda with some Cottage cheese consistency chews in there. Bubble tea with the LARGE pearls are fine, but these tiny orbs were nasty.
They were so visually interesting, but absolutely terrible to drink.
We ran experiments on Orbitz bottles in my high school Advanced Chemistry course in the late 90s. If you added enough salt you'd see the matrix that held the orbs in place.
While it isn't a jingle as such, I do want to just take this opportunity to pay tribute to the classic Wrigleys gum advert from 1990/1991 which features the song "All Right Now" by Free and is set on some kind of coach ride through the US desert - for some reason this one has remained firmly lodged in my brain for 30 years.
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Oh damn, I forgot all about this one. Seeing it brought it all back. This one has so much plastic!
We did love putting plastic with our candy, look at all of that waste.
This song is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. I hope you're happy!!!!!!
I always loved how with the ring pops you end up with the top of your hand coated in saliva.
I always loved how with the ring pops you end up with the top of your hand coated in saliva.
They're still delicious. I stopped buying them whenever they put codes on a paper in the powder. Not sure if they stopped that.
Yep, my eldest who is now 5 loves the push pops and other versions.
Not seen a ring pop at the local sweet shop so need to keep an eye out.
My mom kind of went crazy for this stuff back in the day and ordered a crate of them. We were drinking these for a very long time. The taste wasn't bad from what I recall, but I could never quite get over slurping down those little globules.
I remember being a dumbass kid and lighting my candy cigarettes thinking it made me look cool (wouldnt stay lit, but would burn the tip). Somehow I managed to avoid becoming a smoker, but it's weird to look back on those being a thing.
What you needed was the bubblegum cigarettes with the powdered surgar "smoke" (but not these, because I can't find a pic of the kind I'm talking about)
I'm 30
I quite literally sing the baby bottle pop jingle to my cat everyday of my life, just changing the lyrics to whatever my relevant task is
🎵 Baby kitty food 🎵
I quite literally sing the baby bottle pop jingle to my cat everyday of my life, just changing the lyrics to whatever my relevant task is
🎵 Baby kitty food 🎵
I hadn't thought about Baby Bottle Pops since the 90s but somehow instantly remembered the jingle by looking at this thread title. (I have a poor memory as well)
That is the sign of a good jingle!
That is the sign of a good jingle!
I still can't believe it was a thing as recent as 20-25 years ago.
I remember being a dumbass kid and lighting my candy cigarettes thinking it made me look cool (wouldnt stay lit, but would burn the tip). Somehow I managed to avoid becoming a smoker, but it's weird to look back on those being a thing.
I loved those and the bubblegum ones as a kid...
funny thing is I thought they were cool but despised actual cigarettes all my life.
They still make these too. I've seen them at candy stores and I know they have them in a section of this specialty grocer.
A lot of this candy still exists, especially the ones pictured in the OP.
Also candy cigarettes still exist, they were just rebranded.
Also liked the soda flavored gums.
Also candy cigarettes still exist, they were just rebranded.
Bonkers was one of my favorites a kid.
Gummy Rats
Bonkers
Wax Bottle Candy too!
Also liked the soda flavored gums.
I very much enjoyed this needlessly thorough deep dive into Baby Bottle Pops and their adjacent sugary variants. Thank you OP.
I remember the actual candy being especially chalky with these (but the garbage can made for a fun accessory for TMNT toys and the like). Apparently you can still get them online.
These mofo's were only 10cents a box. $1 dollar in candy money lasted a few days when I was a kid.
I think there's little more 90s than:
Orbitz did turn up in the UK, too.
Orbitz did turn up in the UK, too.
Yeah they were like SweeTarts in garbage shapes. Nothing special but I must have bought like a hundred of those little cans over the years.
The baby bottle pop jingle/theme is forever seared into my brain. Dementia alone could strip the memory of that thing from me.
