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Portlandia was spot on

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Radical Blue Razz

      Which also happened to be my stripper name.

      I was fired pretty quickly from “Dudes! Dudes! Dudes!”

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      • Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      ♪ Kiss me beneath the milky twilight ♪ then.

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    • socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s a baby bottle pop!

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    • mosspiglet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Back when everything was inexplicably EXTREME!!

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      • nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Image

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  • Maultasche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Back when Pokémon was still in black and white

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    • __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Dark green and light green

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      • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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    • bless@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Red and blue ;)

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Portlandia clip referenced in the title

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    • Rato@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You’re very welcome!

        makes mocking gestures at ExLisper 😁

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Everyone knows the reference, no need to post it.

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      • f314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I didn’t.

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      • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • djmikeale@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I didn’t know the reference

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      • lmuel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No

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  • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m team “let the youth have their fun” but also 1998 was peak lunchables.

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Even as a child, I realized Lunchables were a horribly overpriced baby-sized deli platter. Gimme a sandwich! I don’t need crackers and 1oz of ham.

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  • mlatu@moist.catsweat.com ⁨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...

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    • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨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.

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      • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Capri Sun

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      • jade52@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        This is also what I remember. Spot on.

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Pouches?

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      • BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Speaking of, would you be interested in trying some liquid slam?

        youtu.be/eyd51lvu3xw

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    • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨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.

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      • Klear@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        40 years of corrupt authoritarian government does that.

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I was going to acid techno raves and getting completely mullered, and seeing some cracking sets at Ozzfest UK.

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    • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ozzfest UK in ’98 was my first gig with bands anyone had heard of. Hell of a way to start.

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      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        My first Ozzfest was 2001. I was 13 years old. It was a lot of fun. I was there for SoaD, but left liking so many more bands.

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    • Hoimo@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But were you a sweet and were you getting baked?

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au ⁨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.

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      • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨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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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And you know where it’s from (to the meter) and whats inside.

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    • BartyDeCanter@piefed.social ⁨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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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Recently mate a lemon curd for my birthday :)
        As a twist I also made one with yuzu.

        Love me some curd :D

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  • abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is exactly how Boomers talk about the 1950s.

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  • Yeller_king@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You can still cook things in 2026.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Big if true

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    • megrania@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨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 🥵

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      • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The summer is snack time until the cold weather shows up again.

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  • pewpew@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Most of my childhood was in the early 2010s but for me it was like I was living in the 90s because I was always at my grandparent’s. They had all sorts of retro tech I played with as a kid. My first exposure to a PC was with a mid 80s PC clone running Windows 1.0. So it’s probably something like this

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    • Pipas66@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What a difference in time perception we have, it’s wild, cause the early 2010’s was full on PS3 and late-early YouTube era for me. I think everyone I knew around me already was pretty connected to the internet. But yeah 10 years before that, I could see your grandparents’ situation being commonplace. Glad you had that time to discover all this awesome technology !

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      • pewpew@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        My brother had internet access over 3G but he wouldn’t let me use it, but sometimes he gave me some new games to play. That’s how I got to play Minecraft and that’s how I learned programming with Game Maker. But yes, I also had a Wii and a DSi but I had just a handful of games, so I played Pokémon White all day and almost finished it three times

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  • TIEPilot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Can I put a bird on it?

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean my mother made preserves and canned things, and was good at baking, and that was in the '80s. But there were also grocery stores with cookies. Because it was the 1980s lol

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  • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s the late 1900’s

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  • not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    maybe some parts of the former Soviet Union

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah, the Gay 90’s!

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  • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Spring 1998 vibes free no cap

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