Have you ever wanted to drink enough high fructose corn syrup to guarantee morbid obesity and enough caffeine to induce a tachycardic episode? Then Surge is the soda for you! Originally created in 1996, Surge was created as Coca-Cola's response to the popularity of Mountain Dew. It was advertised as being much more hardcore and … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Surge

In case you've missed the overly saccharine heart and candy displays in stores or the commercials pressuring you into spending exorbitant amounts of money on jewelry, Valentine's Day is on Sunday. While some of us are bracing ourselves for the onslaught of unnecessarily public declarations of love on social media, others are wading through post … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: 90s Mixtape for Valentine’s Day

Something about the blending of CGI and commercials made ad execs in the 90s want to mutate children. I'm not sure what we ever did to them. Was it the Jellies? The body glitter? The inflatable furniture? Whatever the reason, they wanted to turn us into some sort of freak show. One of the most … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Snack Food Freaks

The 90s were a time of opposites. For every Cher Horowitz, there was a Daria. For every yin, there was a yang. Seemingly in response to the grunge trend, the non-Cobain tribe decided to make everything as sparkly as possible with copious amounts of glitter because apparently we all wanted to look like baby strippers. Glitter … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Body Glitter

The Grape Escape is a board game, released in 1992, that allowed children to live out their psychotic fantasies of torture and murder. Each player created a little anthropomorphic grape out of "Grape Goop" (Play-doh) and would have to navigate their grape around the board and through various death traps. The object of the game … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: The Grape Escape