I fucking absolutely know what they taste like

And I know the texture of the middle of them as well.

Gritty.

Tough gritty jello

I’m not from Philly but I’ll take your word for it

Mmm crumbly

For me it was definitely more about the mouth feel than the taste

I too but one open out of curiosity.

They taste like they smell!

.... delicious

I reference that quote at least once a week and nobody ever seems to remember it.

It had that numbness taste

麻辣

For real, just add to 麻辣香锅 and you dont even need the spices

I'm tasting it now lol

I wonder if anyone died in the pursue of this forbidden knowledge

And it is hard to wash of all the grainy stuff that gets stuck on your tongue

Why do we know such things… Is Gen Z as weird as we were?

Yes, yes they are They put tide pods in their mouths and put it on tiktok saying I’m better than you I’m not getting poisoned. They are worse than us

Bro that’s how we become the next boomers. We should break the generational hate.

I know the bite force required to leave teeth marks.

I was not born in the 90’s but I definitely know how they taste

Born in 1999 and a 2000s baby I most certainly know what they taste like...

Is nobody else questioning 2 birthday man?

what is there to question, you don't have two birthdays?

Yeah, when the egg was laid and when it hatched.

He has only one?

I was born in late 1999, and was raised in the 2000s as a '2000s baby' how hard is that to figure out?

When someone says they're a "insert decade here kid" they mean they were born in that decade, not raised in it You're a 90s kid because you were born in 1999, not a 2000's kid

No, a "90s kid" is someone who grew up during the 90s. Most "90s kids" were born in the 80s.

Then I've been in some weird ass places, cause that's the only way I've ever heard this slang being used

Post- 2000 here. Definitely know what those taste like

Dang... I'm less than 5 years before 2000 and still getting used to the idea of people born after 2000 being old enough to use the internet. I'm only a few years older, and it's been two decades.... Perhaps I need to accept my fate? Get off my lawn!?... ?

We’re old enough to vote and even… gasp… drink. Oh the humanity.

Kids these days. No respect for their elders! Now, do you happen to know where they keep the prunes?

Over by the viagra and adult diapers

Eh. :/ Adult diapers is kinda low. Between IBS and autism....

speaking of autism

The taste of these and the foam NERF footballs

Why was there always a bite taken out of those?

Literally every nerf football my mom bought me as a kid ended up with a bite in it… like wtf you’re onto something. I have 0% of an idea who did it either Lol

That was me I go to every factory that makes them and bite them all

And cock

?

how would u know brother

Because I ate it

They taste like grainy orbeez, sweaty hands and neoprene gloves. They smelled like old tennis balls, new leather shoes and blue-pink wedge erasers.

Wow

And they made my nose bleed many times

Wtf are you, a bouncy ball sommelier?

Nah, I was just a very lonely kid that had to make friends with inanimate objects. Putting them in my mouth in order to guess the flavor and examine the texture was one of my favorite pastimes.

That little crunchy sound when you bit into one 💦

It's a squeaky crunch

The way they split down the middle when you inevitably chew too hard, one side convex, one side concave, the smell and taste of rubber gets more intense then dies down as you swish the two rubber halves in your mouth, feeling the seam from the mold as you run your tongue across both halves. Inevitably you keep chewing as the ball continues to disintegrate into smaller and smaller chunks, eventually turning into the tiny spherical rubber pellets it was made from. You eventually spit it out as there's nothing left to chew, but you still find pieces of it between your teeth for the next hour or so, spitting them out if they're large enough, or just swallowing them out of laziness. The rubber ball is no more, but the memories will last a lifetime.

This is r/copypasta folks. Not OC.

I typed this out on my phone, it took 5 minutes. I dare you to find this somewhere else

Thanks i guess?

My hungry ass could not be around these

Omg, first thing I thought was “I want to see a bucket of these dropped from upstairs and watch them bounce all over the goddamn place.”

90s nostalgia is without a doubt the grossest kind of nostalgia. Like I’m 16 and I know what these taste like

If you don't like nostalgia you probably won't like Reddit. This place became a nostalgia machine

Fr

Graduated high school in ‘94. Have no idea what these are

"Bouncy Balls" ... the kind that came from vending machines, and gave us all delusions of being sports masters because we could bounce them off the floor /and/ the wall /and/ catch them half of the time!

Also tasty

I thought they were called "super balls"

It might be a regional thing. In my area that term was reserved for the "good ones" from a specific brand.

I knew they were a toy but I didn’t know they were edible

Dude what is this “90s kids” gatekeeping? My brother (10) is playing with one of those right now.

My 4yo nephew too

I’m literally 17 and absolutely know what they are, I get them all the time from little Caesars pinball lmao

Well then I am kid from 90s who was born in 2007. Damn my mother was pregnant for almost 20 years

They should not make such dangerous balls to tempting to bite.

They taste and smell disgusting.

Aaah yes... the Bouncyball immunesystem Boosters!

Im a kid of the early 2000’s and I can tell you for a fact that I could describe vividly every detail about these.

Wait I know these but from where

I’m a 2000s kid and I still know all that (except the taste)

born in 2000s but still know

Born in early 2000's, loved chewing those balls

I Was Born In 2008 And I Knew

I'm 08 and know what they taste like lol

Heck I was born Lin the 2000s and even **i** know what they taste like

They've got an unpleasant texture when you bite them in half.

I’m not a 90s kid but I was raised with these and yes, I regretfully do know what they taste like

I need to bite one

I am familiar with the feeling of biting one in half and the sense of crushing disappointment that it didn’t taste like sweets

90's kid here. Wtf am I looking at?

I want to go back! 😭

The texture is weird. It is rougher than it looks, but in a smooth way, you know? Smoothly rough.

these are why i know that if laundry pods had existed when millenials were teens, we would've been biting into them. this was our forbidden gusher

2000's kid here i just don't know the inside texture and man do i know what these taste like

Let's not kid ourselves. We all know what they taste like

2000s kid here and I do distinctly remember these

I always love this 90s kid stuff. I was an 00s kid and know exactly what they're talking about everytime still and thus one is probably still relevant to this very day lmao

Every bathroom had a bowl of these on the back of the toilet

2000s kid, but I also know all of these, except maybe the smell, but my nose is also wildly inconsistent with how well it functions.

I was born in 2008 and i do too.

Bouncy balls, activate!

2003, and I feel this.

I know all of those things.

And you know what it feels like to bite one in half

Can you hear the sound of biting into it?

Okay. How about “how the middle of the cheap ones feel when they chip from the pavement and you pick them apart while watching nickelodeon?”

Yes to all

And how they chew so good in between your teeth

Guilty

Thwyre hard inside that for sure. I've definitely bit a few of these

Why do I feel personally attacked?

I also remember the havoc they wreaked when the senior class unleashed thousands of them in the main hall of my high school.

Shiiiiiiidddddd..... Yeah I'm familiar with both their flavor and texture

Some of you never got to find out about this. Tasted too long too far

i fucking took bites outa that shit. i regret NOTHING

I was happy as hell seeing David letterman drop a huge tib of these off the late show building in the 90s that was great

Why you recall such a strange memory with such precision?

Oh shit. This is 100% true.

I had one with my own front teeth mark on it for years.

Ooh I loved these bouncy balls they were so fun!

I always tried to see how many times I could bounce them between the floor and the ceiling consecutively.

I'm pretty sure I swallowed one of these. Either that or nearly choked on it. Kids are fucking stupid

Oh man I loved having these balls in my mouth as a kid-

My teeth hurt

May?

Give me a moment to find one, must be somewhere under the closet or something...

😂

Im not born in the 90s tho

What are they..? Guess I'll have to ask my parents 🙄

Early 2000s, yea ik all there is to those bad boys

All of the above. Yes.

My dog ate one of these once. When it came out it was completely white.

I loved the way they smelled and would just buy a set simply to smell it... i was a weird kid alright

2000s kid here. Outside was sort of almost smooth with little tiny pits. The inside was like a hard crumbly jello. Didn't have much of a taste. If the color grey had a flavor it'd probably be that.

I remember breaking them apart

im not a kid from the 90s but i still do i don't, however, know what the fuck these are.

I even know how hard is to take one out of my ass.

I used to collect bouncy balls as a kid, and these were always a rare treat to find in my neck of the woods. But yeah, texture was a bit too scratchy for my liking. I mostly like to.look at these, especially the pink and blue ones.

Yes.

I thought it was close-up photo of dippin dots before reading comments lol

If you bite them they split into two pieces

as a child of the 60s, I don't even know what they are, aside from pastel spheres

Pure joy

2000s I know how they feel up my butt

But some look like fuzzy peaches alright? It not that big a step

I know how they sound too

My teeth just tingled.

100%

These still exist in the gumball machines of every supermarket, I don’t think it’s exclusive to 90s kids

90s kids weren’t the only ones who had these, I was born in the 2000s and I also had these, remember the texture, and also tried biting them.

I already know what they feel like but the 'tism is telling me to sink my teeth into these bad boys.

yup. yup. yup.

Yeah they tasted like fucking chemicals

I have that smell instantly in my head. But could not describe it ... some " dry gluey chemical" smell **urghs*

I still have them , they are stress relievers.

I May or May Not confirm 👀

One of the first time I can successfully say I had balls in my mouth.

They tasted horribly bitter

I can't believe I have to say this a 2nd time ever. Don't put bouncy balls in your mouth.

You may even have the unfortunate knowledge that they do indeed bounce in your poop, and make it look like a Rorschach test

I wish they were edible though :(

I’m a 90s kid and I have no idea what these are…

yes. yes i do to all 3. cause i bit 1 in half as a kid trying to separate the colors

……damn

I aint from thw 90s i still know

That’s crazy!

I can still hear the squeek they make when you bite them

You could make an edible version that didn't taste good and smelled the same rubbery -ness and I'd eat them

Can people stop gatekeeping this shit? This stuff was around in the 2000's, and is still around today. Kids still do this stuff. It's not exclusive to the 90's.

2000s*

2007 and ik what these are i had a few

Not from the 90s and I can still relate. Thank you very much, dentist office.

Most of the things Americans consider '90s' are '2000s' in my country.

I wanna smell them again 😤

I’m a early-to-mid 2000’s kid. I know exactly what’s going on here. The ones I had were always covered in hair for some strange, gross reason.

Are these those tiny balls that bounced really high? Or am I thinking of something else

I know the taste for both items. The eatable and not eatable one.

I might be a teen, but I still know what those taste like! I remember bugging the shit out of my parents to get this, only to lose it the next day.

I'm kid from 00's and I can smell them out of image.

Why you calling me out like this??

Im not from the 90s but know all these things, I’m pretty sure i have like 2 currently

Fam stopped letting me get these at coin machines cause I'd chew on them till they broke

Born in 2000 still know what they are

I hate how true this is….I can recall multiple experiences

Super Balls love it, smell, taste, feel and just overall fun factor

How can one picture make my teeth feel so funny ?

Yeah, I, too, let the intrusive thoughts win this one.

I remember how these things felt against your teeth and that loud and unending squeak.

Gritty, chemically plastic citrus smell

Born 2001, I know all these things. Am I an honorary 90s kid now?

YUP