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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 153 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Summer, 1998. Where sweets were sold as sour syrups in a squeeze tube and had flavors like Radical Blue Razz.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

Radical Blue Razz

Which also happened to be my stripper name.

I was fired pretty quickly from "Dudes! Dudes! Dudes!"

[-] Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

It's not supposed to be blue, the guests were getting concerned

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

That's what Vicarious Vince, the manager of Dudes! Dudes! Dudes! said, but I still say he just couldn't handle my Razzmatazz.

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[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 12 points 1 month ago

♪ Kiss me beneath the milky twilight ♪ then.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago

It's a baby bottle pop!

[-] mosspiglet@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Back when everything was inexplicably EXTREME!!

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

Back when Pokémon was still in black and white

[-] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 month ago

Dark green and light green

[-] cattywampas@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

And you had to hold it juuuust right to get the ambient light to illuminate the screen because they weren't backlit.

[-] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

And spamming the A button DID make the Pokeball capture at a higher rate

[-] lokalhorst@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago

I hate to tell you, but actually you had to spam the B button.

[-] cattywampas@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I thought it was A+down

[-] bless@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Red and blue ;)

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 month ago
[-] Rato@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

Thanks for posting the reference, it was new to me.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

You're very welcome!

makes mocking gestures at ExLisper 😁

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 4 points 1 month ago

Everyone knows the reference, no need to post it.

[-] f314@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago
[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 4 points 1 month ago

Surprisingly few people get jokes in shitpost community.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 1 month ago

I know, good for you!

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

I have literally never heard of Portlandia before, no need to post saying no need to post

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 6 points 1 month ago

I don't believe you. You're just saying that to make me look bad.

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[-] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 36 points 1 month ago

I'm team "let the youth have their fun" but also 1998 was peak lunchables.

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[-] mlatu@moist.catsweat.com 34 points 1 month ago

i mean.... to be fair......... when i visited my hometown in poland in 1998....... it really still looked very much like 1980 was still looming around the corner... it wasnt the 18th hundred but i loved it for its gritty "you want sweets? how about a nice refreshing glass of last summers compote from gramps allotment?". silly nostalgia of course but yeah...

[-] Signtist@bookwyr.me 23 points 1 month ago

What I remember most from 1998 were commercials for flavored sugar water where kids turned into metallic early-CGI goop and rocketed through the air toward a woman carrying a tray of pouches so they could get there faster to consume.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago
[-] jade52@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

This is also what I remember. Spot on.

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[-] realitista@lemmus.org 7 points 1 month ago

Having moved to Czechia in the '90s from the US, there was a pretty huge difference back then, especially in the countryside.

[-] Klear@piefed.world 5 points 1 month ago

40 years of corrupt authoritarian government does that.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

I mean we still make marmelades and compots and such here.

[-] Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah I make all my own jams, and fruit spreads. More expensive than the walmart brand, but like half the cost of the brands that come anywhere close to the quality.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I mean we use pur own fruit so they are quite cheap. You only really need to buy sugar then

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[-] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I make jams most years, pickles regularly, and at my old house we had an extremely productive orange tree, so I made a lot of marmalade. My current house has a lemon tree, but it needs to be seen by an arborist. Then I’ll probably get into making lemon curd.

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[-] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 month ago

This is exactly how Boomers talk about the 1950s.

[-] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 19 points 1 month ago

You can still cook things in 2026.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Big if true

[-] megrania@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

I summer 2026, at least in Europe, a lot of people try to stay away from heat sources as much as they can though 🥵

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

Take a hot plate outside. Cook your jam under a tree like they did in 1998

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[-] mosspiglet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

My mom was upset when they stopped making Olestra chips. She would eat them instead of taking laxatives to make herself poop.

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[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

It's the late 1900's

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah, the Gay 90s!

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My mother still makes jams and preserves, and I may follow in her footsteps, cause the trees in my yard will likely outlive her.

[-] not_IO 4 points 1 month ago

maybe some parts of the former Soviet Union

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Summer of 98 was a fuck face joke for a while too

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[-] farmgineer@nord.pub 2 points 1 month ago

We made Jam two days ago (blueberry from our own bushes). We have some ume (plum) from last season as well.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Spring 1998 vibes frfr no cap

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