October 17, 2011

Chronicles of Nostalgia

I was just thinking how I wanted to journal/blog about random memories that come to mind that I don't want to forget. I felt like today's experience was a good place to start this new project, "Chronicles of Nostalgia"...man I'm creative.

Today in class, we discussed what were the oldest commercials we could remember. Considering the age group in college right now, most are 90's kids. I came home to look up some of the ones we talked about, and good ol' YouTube brings up other stuff you might like. I forgot about sooo many things, and I had a huge feeling of nostalgia today. These are mostly food or toy ads.








  • Nestle: Wonder Balls, Pocahontas chocolate bars, Cool Creations icecream (usually with Disney characters). I always sing the wonder ball song.
  • Dizzy Grizzlies. These were Teddy Grahams with chocolate and sprinkles on one side.Todd used to make fun of me for trying to spin mine just like on the commercial.
  • Skip It. Catchy "skiiip it, skiip it" jingle. I remember ours was bright pink, and the counter broke, but I still skipped it all the time.
  • Bagel Bites, true these are still around, but they don't sing the "pizza in the mornin', pizza in the evenin', pizza at supper time!" anymore.
  • Old Reese's commercials, "This is how____eats a reese's. Remember there's no wrong way, to eat a Reese's"
  • Uh Oh, Spaghetti-o's
  • Ring Pop's, Push Pops, Baby Bottle Pops
  • Electronic diaries. there were a couple of different ones, but I totally got one one year for Christmas and loved it, but I could never remember my password.
  • Gooze, anything slime related was a huge hit
  • Zoobooks, but call now and get the exclusive tiger poster!
  • "Nickolodean magazine please!" I remember thinking it would be so cool to mow messages into the lawn after that.
  • Pizza head from the Pizza Hut commercials
  • Bop It. Obviously I loved these commercials cause I asked for Bop It one year, and Bop It Extreme the next.
  • Kool-Aid man always busting through the walls, "Oh Yeah!"
  • Creepy Crawlers
  • Loreal Kids shampoo. I always had kids at school tease me calling me Loreal Kids Shampoo.
  • 3-D Doritos chips, even mini ones!
  • Huurrayy for Chef Boyardee!
  • Pepsi girl
  • Giga-pets

1 comment:

I Study Sticks said...

Ya, you'd spin 'em and expect the eyes to get all swirly and stuff just like on the commercial. It's ok, you were really young... like 14 or so.