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This achievement belongs to the tail end of GENX... The folks that brought us grunge.
- Im a geriatric millennial
  
  Close enough. You can come in the club. There’s dunkaroos in the back if you’re hungry.
  
  Looks like there's a box of YoYo Balls and Pogs. Can I have a go?
  
  Oh for sure, those are a communal resource.
  
  Fuck. I played so much with both of those things.
  
  I thought they discontinued dunkaroos, but then my wife came home with a box of them for my kids.
  I tried one (disgusting); I remember them being a lot better.
  
  Hard to tell if it is actually worse or a false memory, because they originally came out when garbage sugar-laced food science was really taking off targeting the younger demographic.
  
  I remember the birthday cake ones being amazing
  
  They have 100% gotten worse. The quality of everything has dropped in the last 20+ years.
  
  I keep having this argument with my mom. She keeps trying to tell me it's because I'm older and my taste bus have changed. I'll admit my preference in flavor may have broadened but all my favorite snacks and candy from the late 80s and early 90s have been terribly inshitafide. My absolute favorite was skittles. The apple ruined them but then they finally caved and put lime back in only to change the receipt altogether which ruined them a second time. At least one of the ingredients is illegal in most countries at this point.
  
  Here is a fun fact. All skittles taste the same. They just add different scents to them to trick you into thinking there is a different flavor. That being said the lime ones were my favorite too.
  
  This is silly semantics. If you can close your eyes and tell which color you are eating then the flavors are different enough. Scent is also linked to taste.
  
  Close your eyes and plug your nose and see how they taste. Regardless it was just ment to be a fun fact.
  
  I have and I 100% can tell you which color skittle I'm eating.
  Edit: This only includes the original flavors. I'm not familiar enough with the various versions.
- I remember always wearing wrinkled shirts back then because I didn't care about ironing or society.
  
  I did that in the military. They were less keen and some shit hit some fans or whatever. So I got me some safety pins for my neckline and they shut the fuck up and my millennial self rejoiced.
  
  How does this safety pin trick work?
  
  Anyone who said shit, he poked them with it.
- We are considered a micro-generation they have dubbed Xennials 1977-1983
  Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood.
  
  I feel like a lot of people from different countries would fit that description after the fact since technology was more expensive and it took us longer to be able to afford the new and trendy items.

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