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The swirled hard candy that paired fruit with cream — and ruled checkout lanes and grandmas' purses from the late '90s into the 2000s. Strawberries & Creme was the icon, its red-and-cream spiral instantly recognizable. Discontinued in 2011, mourned for a decade, and back on shelves since 2021.
The cardboard book that opened like a storybook to reveal two pages of Life Savers rolls, the one stocking stuffer that was there every single Christmas. It has been around since 1935, but the 90s book, fat with Butter Rum and Wild Cherry beside the Five Flavor rolls, is the one most people picture.
The tart candy discs that came rattling out of every bowling-alley and skating-rink vending machine in the 90s — a roll of fruit-shelled dots that outlasted a few games or a few laps around the rink. A mid-1960s invention that a later generation claimed completely.
TasteTations were Hershey's answer to Werther's Originals — creamy hard candies that arrived in the mid-1990s with a lineup of chocolate-inspired flavors: Chocolate, Chocolate Mint, Chocolate Raspberry, Chocolate Caramel, Caramel, Peppermint, and Butterscotch. Heavily promoted with TV spots and in-store samples, they were the candy that felt sophisticated and indulgent. Yet despite the hype, they couldn't survive the early 2000s and faded from shelves, leaving a devoted nostalgic following.