Food and Drink

The ’90s were a magical time for snacking. It felt like every grocery store aisle was bursting with neon-colored treats, bizarre flavor experiments, and cartoon mascots trying to sell you sugar in increasingly creative forms. But sadly, these snacks live on only in our memories and old lunchbox phot...

From sketchy health claims to full-blown public health nightmares, the FDA has had its hands full with companies and products that forgot the whole “safety” part of the equation. Here are 17 times the agency had to step in and say a very firm, “Absolutely not.”

If you’ve ever stood there wondering, “Can I microwave this?”—well, these 15 items are here to tell you: probably not.

Some of these were sold with celebrity endorsements, while others featured late-night infomercials that promised magical results in few days.

Let’s take a nostalgic (slightly nauseating) walk down memory lane and revisit 13 lunchroom legends that would never fly in 2025.

Whether it was clever marketing, questionable science, or collective delusion, these so-called “healthy” foods were nothing but.

Nobody asked questions, nobody read labels. We just cracked open a can or twisted off a cap and hoped for the best.

Let’s be honest—half the cereals we grew up loving were more like dessert than anything remotely nutritious. Bright colors, marshmallow bits, chocolate swirls. Here are 15 breakfast cereals that are basically just candy pretending to be a morning meal.

Here are 25 grocery store products that are almost always a bad deal—and more innovative ways to save without sacrificing quality.

Whether declining sales or just weird ideas that didn’t stick, these cereals quietly disappeared without so much a goodbye.