"Nickelodeon still pays homage to the beginnings of the brand with a lasting love for slime," Green shares, "even in food." It never seemed to make a mess either, which is honestly surprising."īut, while play putties seemed to be a natural way to give kids a chance to bring messy slime and Nick into their homes, the creative products didn't end with toys. "It was like the perfect combination of slime and silly putty and it was endlessly entertaining," he says. Jeremy Yamaguchi also remembers a plethora of Nickelodeon Gak products throughout his childhood. Kraft's Rugrats-themed macaroni and cheese was a hit for kids who grew up watching the cartoon. "Slime products flooded the shelves of toy stores in the ’80s and ’90s and, for devilish little boys, they were the perfect thing to gross out siblings and friends with." "The borrowed the infamous slime from You Can't Do That on Television and made it even more mainstream," says Green. Green remembers products like Gak Splat and Floam were some of the most coveted playthings of the time. "I was also a big fan of Gak Splat and Floam, along with their many variations over the years." At the time there was very little merchandise featuring Hey Arnold!, so owning it felt incredibly special," Barrett recalls. "I owned many Nickelodeon products over the years, but the one that I loved most was a Hey Arnold! bobblehead I got from their online store. Lucky for him, as a young boy, he was able to snag many themed products he still fondly remembers to this day.
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"That love of Nick and its series meant I wanted to get my hands on every toy, clothing item and food featuring the brand," says Barrett. "I always joke I was raised by a television, and Nickelodeon was a staple in my house growing up," shares Spencer Barrett, a Lexington, Ky.-based senior writer at TVSource Magazine and the content creator behind an account that chronicles popular ’90s and ’00s pop culture moments. Like Green, many feel Nickelodeon was an incredibly integral part of their formative years - from the television shows to the merchandise that followed. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. For some of us, those gross challenges were the reason to want to be on the show." "We all secretly wished to be contestants on Double Dare, in spite of some of the grossest challenges the world had ever seen. "I'm in the generation that witnessed the rise of Nickelodeon in the late ’80s and early ’90s," he tells Yahoo Life. James Green vividly remembers watching Nickelodeon throughout his early years. Over twenty years later, kids raised on Nick believe the ’90s to be the golden years of children's television programming. Buckets of bright green slime were the cornerstone of Nickelodeon, seen across its programming in shows like Double Dare and Figure it Out and on the memorable splatter logo seen along the bottom of the television screen. While many remember the ’90s and early ’00s as a time filled with grunge music, body glitter and the World Wide Web, those who grew up in the era believe the real icons were NickToons and slime. (Photos: Kellogg's, Popsicle, Kraft designed by Nathalie Cruz) Nickelodeon food collaborations shaped many ’90s kids' childhoods.
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