It happens to all of us. Your parents get older, you get older, you go to visit home, look through the pantry, and you find some truly unexplainable stuff. I’m talking about something no one has seen in decades. Something that doesn’t even resemble what it’s supposed to be. Something that might kill a small Victorian child. Or a medium-sized Edwardian child. Or even a full-sized Stuart period boy.
Here are some of the strangest and wildest things people have found in their parents’ and grandparents’ homes:
1.
20 year old Gushers that have had the light go out of their eyes:
2.
Fresh-baked brownies from 1986:
3.
Pudding from the Obama era:
4.
Perhaps the first box of Goldfish ever created:
5.
Pickles that are suspiciously orange:
6.
An extremely random bottle of ferret shampoo:
7.
Finely aged Miracle Whip from 1997:
8.
Perfectly good baby food from 1994:
9.
A literal smallpox vaccine:
10.
A bottle of well-aged grape wine:
11.
The world’s oldest box of food dye:
12.
40 year old Superman peanut butter:
13.
A pack of Starburst from the ’90s:
14.
A special goth-edition bottle of ketchup from the ’90s:
15.
Caffeine pills that will keep you awake for days on end:
16.
The Soup Man’s strange soup:
17.
Literally a container of reusable snail shells:
18.
Shake ‘N Bake prominently featuring Aaron Carter:
19.
Whole mushrooms from 1983:
20.
A big ol’ jug of Coke:
21.
Peanut butter from 1983:
22.
A once in a lifetime box of Cheerios:
23.
Canned peaches aged to perfection from 1976:
24.
A juice box featuring the Backstreet Boys official fan hotline:
25.
A jar of mayonnaise from 24 years ago:
26.
A sandwich from the Coolidge administration:
27.
A bag of caramel that’s simply taunting you with how delicious it looks:
28.
Almond extract from the ’70s that seems to have evaporated:
29.
The world’s oldest can of Slim Fast:
30.
The most beautiful toothpaste in existence:
31.
A big bag of Lays from 1994:
32.
A literal bottle of arsenic:
33.
A casual tray of meat from 1999:
34.
A box of Tide from the ’60s:
35.
Razors from way, way, way, way back in the day:
37.
A roll of toilet paper from the literal 1940s:
39.
A bottle of Orbitz that has seen much, much better days:
40.
Twinkies just in time for the new millennium:
41.
Pop-tarts containing a free movie rental:
42.
A literal bottle of cocaine:
43.
A box of 50 year old condoms:
44.
A can of NEW COKE tucked away in the vegetable drawer:
45.
A box of Barbie breakfast:
46.
Egg nog old enough that Gerald Ford himself could have sipped it:
47.
Some suspiciously good looking glass Gatorades:
48.
Crackers older than your parents:
50.
Cleansing radiation straight to your skin:
51.
And something called “chocolate coated POISON:”