#Hard Candy

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Video thumbnail — 1996 - Hershey's TasteTations - We're the TasteTations Commercial
Food 1996–early 2000s

TasteTations

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.

Video thumbnail — Chewy Spree "It's a kick in the mouth" Commercial from 1999
Food 1960s–present

Spree

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.