Everyone knows the reference, no need to post it.
I didn’t.
I know, good for you!
Surprisingly few people get jokes in shitpost community.
No
I have literally never heard of Portlandia before, no need to post saying no need to post
I don’t believe you. You’re just saying that to make me look bad.
Nah you got that covered
😠
I didn’t know the reference
Thanks for posting the reference, it was new to me.
You’re very welcome!
makes mocking gestures at ExLisper 😁
My mother still makes jams and preserves, and I may follow in her footsteps, cause the trees in my yard will likely outlive her.
Can I put a bird on it?
i mean… to be fair… when i visited my hometown in poland in 1998… it really still looked very much like 1980 was still looming around the corner… it wasnt the 18th hundred but i loved it for its gritty “you want sweets? how about a nice refreshing glass of last summers compote from gramps allotment?”. silly nostalgia of course but yeah…
Having moved to Czechia in the '90s from the US, there was a pretty huge difference back then, especially in the countryside.
40 years of corrupt authoritarian government does that.
What I remember most from 1998 were commercials for flavored sugar water where kids turned into metallic early-CGI goop and rocketed through the air toward a woman carrying a tray of pouches so they could get there faster to consume.
Capri Sun
This is also what I remember. Spot on.
I mean we still make marmelades and compots and such here.
Yeah I make all my own jams, and fruit spreads. More expensive than the walmart brand, but like half the cost of the brands that come anywhere close to the quality.
I mean we use pur own fruit so they are quite cheap. You only really need to buy sugar then
Yeah, I make jams most years, pickles regularly, and at my old house we had an extremely productive orange tree, so I made a lot of marmalade. My current house has a lemon tree, but it needs to be seen by an arborist. Then I’ll probably get into making lemon curd.
I’m team “let the youth have their fun” but also 1998 was peak lunchables.
Even as a child, I realized Lunchables were a horribly overpriced baby-sized deli platter. Gimme a sandwich! I don’t need crackers and 1oz of ham.
It’s the late 1900’s
Back when Pokémon was still in black and white
Dark green and light green
And you had to hold it juuuust right to get the ambient light to illuminate the screen because they weren’t backlit.
And spamming the A button DID make the Pokeball capture at a higher rate
I hate to tell you, but actually you had to spam the B button.
I thought it was A+down
Red and blue ;)
This is exactly how Boomers talk about the 1950s.
I mean my mother made preserves and canned things, and was good at baking, and that was in the '80s. But there were also grocery stores with cookies. Because it was the 1980s lol
We made Jam two days ago (blueberry from our own bushes). We have some ume (plum) from last season as well.
Spring 1998 vibes frfr no cap
Ah, the Gay 90s!
Also 1998: Olestra
The old diarrhea pandemics are new again!!!
My mom was upset when they stopped making Olestra chips. She would eat them instead of taking laxatives to make herself poop.
You can still cook things in 2026.
Big if true
I summer 2026, at least in Europe, a lot of people try to stay away from heat sources as much as they can though 🥵
Take a hot plate outside. Cook your jam under a tree like they did in 1998
Most of my childhood was in the early 2010s but for me it was like I was living in the 90s because I was always at my grandparent’s. They had all sorts of retro tech I played with as a kid. I burned CDs, I listened to cassettes and I had no internet, ever. My first exposure to a PC was with a mid 80s PC clone running Windows 1.0. So it’s probably something like this
What a difference in time perception we have, it’s wild, cause the early 2010’s was full on PS3 and late-early YouTube era for me. I think everyone I knew around me already was pretty connected to the internet. But yeah 10 years before that, I could see your grandparents’ situation being commonplace. Glad you had that time to discover all this awesome technology !
