• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    …does anyone else remember that kit that was kind of the easy-bake-oven but marketed to little boys; it was this mad scientist kinda thing around when Goosebumps was popular, and you’d make your own candies by mixing little packets together, then mold them into spiders and brains and shit like that.

    The brain stuff in particular was this fruity foamy gunk that I swear was the best tasting junk food that has ever or will ever hit the market. I was also probably like 5 y/o, so grain of salt.

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      6 hours ago

      DOCTOR DREADFUL’S FOOD LAB!

      I had an EZbake and all of the Doctor Dreadful kits! Monster warts, insect gummies, the brain, the microscope, oh I loved those so much!

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        6 hours ago

        Not quite—they’re definitely talking about Doctor Dreadful’s Food Lab. Creepy Crawlers were amazing though—the old ones my parent bought me were just open-air hot plates with zero protections.

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        21 hours ago

        Aight so what the fuck, for the first half of that video I could have sworn you nailed it, but I remember it being more than just bugs, so something seemed off. BUT! Related videos had the fucking thing!!

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FxyNP6SLsI

        …never realized just how much marketing went into glamorizing ‘ick’ to little dudes lol.

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          7 hours ago

          Woah wait I thought you were talking a out the queasy bake oven where it had a brain on top and baked easy bake oven concoctions with sour flavors. The good one being dog bones and drool which was sugar cookies with like strawberry foam.

          https://youtu.be/NCxbE85h7Gk

          It was all ick factor still running off of garbage pail kids and that doesn’t even include the fart gun I had.