I Bought Discontinued TREATS From Our Childhood

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The video opens with Safiya Nygaard explaining that she has scoured eBay, Etsy, and specialty resale sites to track down a haul of long-lost snacks from the late ’90s and early 2000s. Her goal is to recreate the feeling of grocery-store nostalgia by unboxing, taste-testing, and ranking a dozen discontinued treats that many viewers remember from childhood but haven’t seen on shelves in years.

She starts with Dunkaroos and Oreo O’s cereal, two of the most requested throwbacks. Despite being well past their printed dates, both items look surprisingly intact; the frosting in the Dunkaroos is a bit dry, but the graham cookies still snap, and the Oreo O’s smell exactly as she remembers. Next up are Butterfinger BB’s, Altoids Sours, and Planters Cheez Balls. The candy coating on the Butterfinger BB’s has melted into one giant cluster, while the Altoids Sours have fused together into a chalky puck. The Cheez Balls taste slightly stale but still deliver that neon-orange finger dust that defined so many school lunches.

Moving into drinks, Safiya cracks open a can of Surge soda and a box of Hi-C Ecto Cooler. The Surge has gone flat and developed a faint metallic aftertaste, but the Ecto Cooler is shockingly close to its original citrus flavor. She balances the sugary sips with a bag of 3D Doritos and a packet of Fruit String Thing; both snacks have lost much of their crunch and chew, but the iconic shapes spark an instant wave of nostalgia.

As the tasting continues, Safiya and Tyler rank each item on a simple scale: “Still Great,” “Edible but Different,” or “Completely Cursed.” Dunkaroos, Oreo O’s, and Surge land in the “Still Great” tier for flavor accuracy, while Altoids Sours and Fruit String Thing slide into “Completely Cursed” because of texture changes. Everything else falls somewhere in the middle, mostly because age has dulled the original taste or made the snacks borderline unchewable.

Safiya wraps up by reflecting on why discontinued treats hold such power: they’re time capsules that transport people back to school cafeterias, summer road trips, and birthday party goodie bags. She advises viewers to satisfy their curiosity through re-released versions whenever possible rather than eating decades-old food, but she also admits that the experiment was a fun (if slightly stomach-churning) way to relive childhood memories. The video closes with a reminder that nostalgia sells—and sometimes tastes just as sweet, even when the snacks are technically past their prime.

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