#Alcohol

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A bottle of Absolut Vodka standing on a wood table (used as a stand-in for the ad-collecting hobby, since the Absolut ads themselves are copyrighted)
Trends 1981–2000s

Absolut Ad Collecting

The phenomenon wasn't about drinking — it was about collecting the ads. Absolut's iconic bottle-silhouette campaign generated hundreds of witty one-word variations ('Absolut L.A.', 'Absolut Warhol'), which teens and adults tore from magazines, traded, and wallpapered across bedroom walls and school lockers throughout the 1990s.

Video thumbnail — Zima Commercial 1994 Zomething Different
Food 1993–2008

Zima

The clear, faintly citrus malt beverage Coors pushed as "Zomething different." Part of the '90s clear craze, it was briefly everywhere before late-night jokes turned it into a punchline.