#Junk Food

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Video thumbnail — 1980s Planters Cheez Balls Commercial
Food 1990s–2006 (revived 2018)

Planters Cheez Balls

Planters' bright-blue canister of neon-orange puffed cheese balls — the road-trip and after-school snack that dyed your fingertips a shameless shade of orange. Discontinued in 2006, mourned for over a decade, and briefly resurrected by popular demand.

A can of Nabisco Easy Cheese in Sharp Cheddar, the aerosol-style spray cheese
Food 1965–present

Easy Cheese

Cheese in an aerosol-style can — squirt it onto a cracker in a squiggle, or straight into your mouth if no one was watching. Shelf-stable, faintly artificial, and weirdly satisfying, Easy Cheese was the ultimate lazy snack.

Video thumbnail — Early 90s Cherry Pop-Tarts Commercial
Food 1964–present

Pop-Tarts

Frosted, sprinkled rectangles of fruit or fudge that you toasted (or, honestly, ate straight from the foil). Kellogg's toaster pastry was a lunchbox and after-school staple — and in the '90s it even jumped into the cereal bowl.

Video thumbnail — 1996 Pringles "Once you pop, you can't stop" TV Commercial
Food 1968–present

Pringles

The saddle-shaped chips stacked in a tall cardboard tube, guarded by the mustachioed face of Mr. P. Technically not even a "potato chip," Pringles were engineered to stack perfectly — and the 90s "Once you pop, you can't stop" campaign made the can a snack-aisle icon.