Yes, friends- Remember This? turns out to be the feature that keeps on giving here at Meri-Goes-Round. I can’t seem to get enough nostalgia lately, and it seems the more of these posts that I do, the more and more I want to do.
Thus, here is Remember This? episode 8:
1. Blossom hats- Okay, so I have to admit that I never actually watched the show, “Blossom,” but somehow I managed to cull the necessary pop culture info from it anyway; they had weird names (Blossom, Six?), Joey Lawrence liked to say, “Whoa,” and Blossom had a really cool floppy hat adorned with flowers. I proceeded to buy one of these hats and cover my 9 year old head for the entirety of a trip to the Caymans and then most of third grade afterwards. I’m not ashamed- I looked good, man… actually, come to think of it, my haircut was quite similar to this as well.
2. “As if!”- Surey I’ve already extolled the virtues of Cher Horowitz in some part of the Remember This? catalog, but I don’t think I’ve discussed her slang yet. “As if!” gave my seventh grade self all the sass I needed and more to dis the boys I wasn’t yet even actually really dating or even talking to…
3. Fruitopia- Forget Snapple, I was crazy about Fruitopia. I can’t remember anything about it except that I thought it was super cool and that this beverage would deliver me to the ultimate sugar high while possibly deceiving my mother into thinking, for a second, that it was fruit/ juice and not sugar water.
I think Lisa Simpson said it best, “And to cool off, nothing beats Fruitopia! The iced tea brewed by hippies but distributed by a heartless, multi-national corporation!”
4. Devon Sawa- Okay, so he’s still around, probably, somewhere, but he sure isn’t the hot commodity he was back in the 90s. Think Now and Then. Me and every chick I knew (and probably some of the dudes too) were crushin’ on this guy.
5. Fruit Stripe gum- Forget that this gum had flavor for less than 3 seconds, it rocked because a) it had crappy tattoos in the wrappers that didn’t work b) it had a cool name c) it was really colorful. I’d probably still buy it even though now I know there is Stride gum which lasts almost too long…
Which of the latest “Remember This?” items do you remember? Did you waste your money on Fruit Stripe and Fruitopia too?
Meri
I had a red Blossom hat. SO stylish!
haha- I would love to see a resurrection on your blog!
I must be just a few years older than you, and I’m the youngest in the family, so I remember a lot of these, but I was too old for Blossom and the dude at the end. Fruit Stripes, however, well, I definitely loved to score some of that gum, but you could only chew each piece for like two minutes and then you’d need a new one because the flavor was gone. Yummy stuff, though. I love that Fruitopia description, too. I’m afraid the tea I drink has the the same problem…
juicy fruit was a similar gum that had great marketing but I never thought it lasted more than a second, so in the end fruit stripe had more of a gimmick going for it for kids to want
Honestly, I think my brothers and I stuck to Nickelodeon until about 1999 or 2000. So I never really heard about Blossom until years ago on either one of those “decade” shows or just online articles. I do remember using “As if!” and I still buy Fruit Stripe gum from time to time. Not sure about Fruitopia. Devon Sawa is actually still around. I think he’s on a show on the CW but I’m not sure which one
haha- is he still hot?
I think so because just about all the female online TV journalists who I follow on Twitter talk about how hot he is whenever he or his show are mentioned. And they’re all about my age.
The COUNTLESS packs of fruit stripe gum I had when I was young! I still will buy it if I see it, even though I haven’t in a while! It’s so good the couple of seconds it lasts, but the tattoos are crap! xo
haha- its one gum that is almost all gimmick and no quality!
Oh, Blossom hats! Yes! I wore those all the time. I should dig up some old (ie embarrassing) photos from my childhood and post them, haha. For shame. Pretty sure I had a similar hair style too!
Devon Sawa has a twitter account (https://twitter.com/DevonESawa/)!
x Jasmine
PS. Thank you for the offer to talk about my surgery! If I come across anything scary or unexpected, expect a tweet!!
the bob with bangs was the haircut to have!
oh I do remember those blossom hats! I never was brave enough to wear one myself but loved seeing those fun styles!
it would be really funny to see someone wearing one of those hats these days
I thought Devon Sawa was SO hot! haha. I drank the SH-T out of Frutopia. hehe
its funny how it can be everywhere, and then just disappear!
My friends had the biggest crush on Devon Sawa, but I was always more of a Jonathan Taylor Thomas girl.
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oh boy, did I love JTT too. He was a vegetarian like me, after all…
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thank you!
Fruit Stripe and Frutopia would probably make me hurl today, but I loved them then, along with Devon Sawa…he was a babe!
It makes me feel like such a creep to post a picture of a “hottie” who was about 12 at the time haha
Hi,
I have a quick question about your blog, do you think you could e-mail me?
Jillian
will do
Wow! I had completely forgotten about Frutopia. I used to love that stuff. Do you remember OK Soda? They had a number you could call (1-800-I-FEEL-OK) and they’d tell you jokes and stories. So weird.
haha that is really funny. I remember the name but never heard of that number or called it!
I used to call it all the time! I must have been around 8 or 9.
I used to love blossom! Made me think of that when I recently saw the show Melissa and Joey!
I still buy fruit stripe gum for mini-he!
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Haha I remember ALL of them. I also somehow had a Blossom hat although I did not really watch Blossom… and I also loved Fruitopia. I adored Fruit Stripe Gum, largely because my mom only allowed my sister and I to buy non-sugar-free gum once a year or something, and Fruit Stripe was always my choice
I had completely forgotten about fruitopia until I saw machine in an old episode of something on Netflix, and then I remembered how crazy popular it was.