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The little circus-wagon box of animal-shaped cookies with the string handle — worn around the neck like a tiny snack pendant by generations of kids. Nabisco's Barnum's Animals date to 1902, when the string was added so the box could hang on a Christmas tree, and they never left the grocery shelf.
Chewy rectangular fruit candies with a tangy center, sold on the back of some of the most surreal commercials of the era — a giant piece of fruit dropping out of the sky to flatten some unsuspecting bystander. 'Bonkers! Bonks you out!'
Teddy Grahams' extreme-sports cousins: little bears frosted on one side in chocolate or vanilla, showered in candy sprinkles, and posed mid-skateboard-trick. Nabisco's 1995 spinoff lived fast, sold hard on TV, and disappeared quietly — the kind of snack only the kids who ate it remember.
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.
The soft, squishy lunchbox Oreo — two chocolate snack cakes around the familiar white creme — that lasted five years, vanished in 2012, and got mourned so hard Nabisco finally brought it back a decade later.
Tiny bear-shaped graham crackers, arms up or arms down, shaken out of the box by the fistful. Nabisco launched Teddy Grahams in 1988 in honey, cinnamon, and chocolate, and they immediately colonized every lunchbox, snack cup, and church-nursery cracker bowl in America — the rare 80s launch that feels completely 90s.