My 90s and 2000s Experience: Oreos

 Hey everyone, how's it going? I'm doing pretty well for a Friday. I've got a quick little post for you today. I don't talk about food at all on my blog. Especially not in this series, because most of the food I ate as a kid (pre-1993) is the same as it is now. Yogurt is still yogurt, sandwiches are still sandwiches, etc. But, there is one food that I want to talk about and that food is Oreos. Specifically the Oreos Summer Fun Pack, which came out sometime between 1990 and 1993 (Wikipedia doesn't list these in the list of Oreo varieties), since they don't exist anymore. So let's get into it.

Like I said, I don't have an exact year these cookies were in stores in, I just have my own memories of when these cookies were out. There were very few foods that I could eat before I had the operation that led me to be completely fed through my feeding tube. But, one thing I could do was lick the Oreo cookie filling off the bottom part of the cookie because it was soft. Someone else would eat the cookie parts for me. 

These particular Oreos had colourful filling. The colours were red, green, orange, and yellow. One of the dieticians at CHEO always brought a package of them for me whenever I was in the hospital for however long. As a dessert to go with the soup broth, strained yogurt, juice or milk, applesauce, and whatever else was brought up for me on my lunch or dinner tray since I was on a strictly soft food diet at the time due to the problems I was having at the time with my original esophagus. I also had regular Oreos too, but these colourful ones really stand out to me as something I had as a treat. 

One of the reasons I wanted to talk about this today is because these Oreos haven't been available, at least not here in Canada, in about 32 or 33 years and I really wanted to eat them after my esophagial graft was done in 2003, alas I have never found them. I was also curious to know if anyone else my age or slightly older had these cookies. They were from the early 90s for sure because, like I said, I never saw them again after 1992 or 1993. But, they also could've come out in the late 80s and were just released in the summertime until 1992 or 1993. I just know I was introduced to them sometime between 1991 and 1993.

Aside from eating them in the hospital, I don't have any really specific memory of eating them while watching a particular show or movie, or reading comic books or anything like that. Not like eating strained yogurt for breakfast while watching The Care Bears Family on Global or having a juice box while watching reruns of Batman on YTV (before Power Rangers started airing), or eating soup broth for lunch while watching The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends and The Flintstones on YTV. Things like that. 

I think that's going to be it for me for today. Like I said, I just wanted to talk about these briefly because I was curious to know whether other people who were kids in the late 80s and early 90s ate these cookies. Plus they were part of my 90s experience and that's what this blog is all about. Alright my friends, that's it for me for today. I'll be back soon with another post next week. So until then have a great rest of the day, a great weekend, and I will talk to you all later. Take care.