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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.
Ritz, Wheat Thins and Cheese Nips puffed full of air pockets into something between a chip and a cracker, Nabisco's 1995 answer to the low-fat decade. A box of them vanished in one sitting and left you unsure what you had just eaten. They were gone from shelves by the early 2000s.
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.
Miniature Ritz crackers glued together with cheese or peanut butter, the snack pack that rattled in every lunchbox and starred in a run of outer-space commercials. Nabisco's bite-sized spin on a cracker from 1934.
The green box of fat-free Devil's Food Cookie Cakes your mom bought because they were healthy, and the sleeve you ate in one sitting because they were fat-free. Nabisco's SnackWell's launched in 1992 into the low-fat panic, sold out so hard the company printed its own SOLD OUT signs, and gave the language a phrase for eating more of something because it is supposedly better for you.
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.