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.

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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!”

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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.

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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…

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Which of the latest “Remember This?” items do you remember? Did you waste your money on Fruit Stripe and Fruitopia too?

Meri