15 Blue Snacks You Definitely Went Crazy For As ’90s Kid
The ’90s were a kaleidoscope of wild colors, and food manufacturers knew exactly how to catch our attention. Blue snacks weren’t just treats; they were status symbols in the lunchroom and playground currency among friends.
These azure-colored munchies defined our childhood taste buds and created memories that still make us smile today.
1. Blue Raspberry Airheads
Taffy-like strips of blue magnificence that stretched for days before melting in your mouth. The wrapper alone was enough to make your friends jealous during snack time.
Remember trading these babies for practically anything on the playground? The tangy, sweet flavor was supposedly raspberry, but let’s be honest—it tasted like pure childhood happiness with a side of artificial coloring.
2. Blue Moon Ice Cream
Mysteriously delicious blue ice cream that nobody could quite describe the flavor of. Was it almond? Vanilla? Some secret fruit extract? The debate continues to this day. Each scoop looked like a piece of the sky had fallen into your cone.
Midwest kids especially treasured this rare treat, bragging about it to confused coastal friends who’d never experienced the enigmatic blue goodness.
3. Berry Blue Squeeze-It
Plastic bottles with twist-off tops that unleashed chaos in the form of intensely blue sugar water. These magical containers featured cartoon characters that seemed to encourage maximum messiness.
The ritual of squeezing too hard and getting that first blast all over your shirt was practically a ’90s childhood rite of passage.
Parents hated them. We adored them. The blue variety reigned supreme in every lunchbox hierarchy.
4. Blue Raspberry Slush Puppies
Heaven in a paper cup, delivered by that magical churning machine at the convenience store. The semi-frozen blue slush was worth the inevitable brain freeze and stained tongue. My local 7-Eleven guy knew me by name because I’d beg my mom to stop every Friday after school.
“The usual blue?” he’d ask, already reaching for the largest cup size while I nodded enthusiastically, allowance money clutched in my sticky hand.
5. Blue Bubblegum Hubba Bubba
The ultimate playground currency—squares of chewy blue goodness that promised bubble-blowing glory. Each piece was wrapped in that crinkly paper that made a satisfying sound when unwrapped.
The flavor lasted approximately 47 seconds before turning into tasteless rubber, but those were 47 seconds of pure bliss.
The blue variety somehow convinced us all it would produce bigger bubbles than any other color.
6. Berry Blue Kool-Aid
The powdered nectar of childhood that turned ordinary pitchers into vessels of joy. One packet could transform two quarts of water into a swimming pool for Smurfs. Remember that moment when you stirred the powder and watched the water magically change color?
I once drank so much at my friend’s birthday party that my mom thought I’d eaten blue crayons when I smiled at her during pickup.
7. Blue M&M’s
The newcomers that changed candy history when they replaced tan M&M’s in 1995. Their arrival was such a big deal that it made national news, proving that candy color changes were serious business in the ’90s.
Blue quickly became the favorite—the one everyone fought over despite tasting exactly the same as all the others. Finding a pack with extra blues felt like winning a tiny lottery.
8. Berry Blue Fruit Roll-Ups
Sheets of sticky, tongue-dyeing fruit leather that were less about nutrition and more about how creatively you could eat them. The blue variety left evidence of your snacking all over your face. Some kids ate them normally. The cool kids punched out the shapes first.
The legends wore them as tongues or wrapped their fingers before slowly nibbling them off. No matter your technique, the blue ones always disappeared first.
9. Blue Raspberry Ring Pops
Jewelry you could eat! These gem-like lollipops on plastic rings turned your finger blue while giving you approximately 37 minutes of sugar-fueled bliss. The blue variety was universally acknowledged as the superior flavor, though nobody could explain why.
Walking around with your hand raised to show off your blue candy bling was the height of elementary school fashion.
10. Blue Raspberry Blow Pops
The perfect candy hybrid—part lollipop, part gum, all blue magic. That moment when you finally crunched through to the gum center felt like achieving a major life milestone. During swim meets, we’d have contests to see who could keep their tongue blue the longest.
My record was three hours and seventeen minutes, a personal achievement that sadly never made it onto my college applications despite showing real commitment.
11. Blue Raspberry Jolly Ranchers
Hard candy perfection that could simultaneously delight your taste buds and cement your dental work. The blue ones were worth the potential trip to the orthodontist. These transparent blue gems lasted forever if you just let them dissolve.
Of course, patience wasn’t a ’90s kid virtue, so most of us crunched them within minutes. Finding multiple blues in one package was like hitting the candy jackpot.
12. Blue Raspberry Laffy Taffy
Stretchy, chewy rectangles that required serious jaw commitment and provided entertainment via terrible jokes printed on the wrappers. The blue variety somehow seemed extra stretchy. Opening your lunch to find one of these was like receiving a tiny gift from the snack gods.
If you were really dedicated, you’d warm it in your hands first to achieve maximum stretchability before the first delicious bite.
13. Blue Raspberry Slurpee
The frozen convenience store concoction that turned millions of children’s tongues blue throughout the decade. The brain freeze was a small price to pay for this icy blue ecstasy. I still remember begging my dad to stop at 7-Eleven after little league games.
“But it’s blue Gatorade,” I’d lie, knowing full well the difference between electrolytes and liquid sugar. Dad always knew but pretended not to notice as I slurped my way to hyperactivity.
14. Blue Raspberry Warheads
Face-contorting sour bombs that were as much about the challenge as the flavor. The initial sour blast was like licking a battery before giving way to sweet blue relief. Elementary school status was directly tied to how many you could eat without making a face. Nobody succeeded.
The playground was full of kids with watering eyes and puckered expressions, all insisting, “I’m not even making a face right now!”
15. Blue Cotton Candy
The carnival classic that dissolved instantly on your tongue, leaving behind nothing but blue evidence around your mouth and sticky fingers. This spun sugar cloud was pure magic. The best part was watching it being made—that hypnotic spinning machine transforming white sugar into blue fluff.
I once convinced my younger sister it was actually harvested from special clouds that only appeared over state fairs and baseball stadiums.