Teddy Grahams Dizzy Grizzlies

In 1995 Nabisco gave Teddy Grahams a younger, cooler sibling: Dizzy Grizzlies, graham bears with one side slathered in chocolate or vanilla frosting and studded with crunchy candy sprinkles. Where the original bears just stood there with their arms up, Dizzy Grizzlies were molded mid-action — skateboarding, biking, skiing, rollerskating, windsurfing — a snack aimed squarely at the decade's conviction that everything, including crackers, should be extreme.

Newspaper taste-testers that fall sized up the new arrival — a 10-ounce box ran about $2.09 — and reported what every kid already knew: the frosted side made them moist, the chocolate ones made a mess, and they were, in one tester's words, tasty enough to keep you munching way beyond the number you should. The box called them "a bearageous delicious snack" and even carried a Magic Eye-style puzzle on the back, a perfectly 1995 touch.

And then, like most 90s line extensions, they were simply gone — no press release, no farewell, just an empty spot on the shelf sometime before the decade ended. Nobody reliably recorded when. That quiet exit is the whole nostalgia of the thing: Teddy Grahams survived to remind everyone they existed, but Dizzy Grizzlies live only in the memories of kids who dug through the box for the ones with the most sprinkles.