41. You have had endless packets of Parle Gluco G biscuits, and of Brittania Little Hearts biscuits.
42. You loved licking off the cream from the centre of Bourbon biscuits.
43. There were no Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Puma- Bata and Liberty was the way to go for your sports shoes.
44. You have probably consumed more Frooti in your lifetime than there is oil in Iraq.
45. You watched Baywatch on Star World even though (or because. your parents said you shouldn’t watch it)
46. You bought packets of potato chips for the specific purpose of collecting Tazos. And you had Tazos depicting everyone from Confucius to Daffy Duck to Daffy Duck dressed as Confucius.
47. For the longest time, the Maruti 800, the Premier Padmini, THE Fiat, and THE Ambassador were the only cars you saw on the road, and the Contessa was cool because it was bigger.
48. You would literally jump up in excitement if you ever chanced upon an imported car (Oh my gosh, is that really a MERCEDES?)!
49. You spent a good part of 1998 drooling over the Hyundai Santro and the Daewoo Matiz , debating which one was better.
50. You used to Fuzen gum. You also chewed Big (big. Babool and/or Boom Boom Boomer) chewing gum. They were bright pink and disgusting tasting, but you loved them for the temporary tattoos.
51. Talking of temporary tattoos, you sometimes had contests with your classmates about who had more tattoos on their arm, leg, knee, hand, forehead, wherever.
52. You thought Mario and Tetris were the coolest things ever invented, especially if you were a boy.
53. You knew that having the latest Hero or Atlas bicycle would make you the coolest kid on the block.
54. You can imitate Sushmita Sen’s winning gasp to perfection.
55. You have, at some point of time, worn GAP clothes (real or fake. like SRK in KKHH)
56. Seemingly senseless acronyms like SRK, DDLJ, KKHH actually make sense to you.
57. You have at some point debated who was more beautiful- Aishwarya or Sushmita.
58. If you lived in Delhi, you went bowling at Essex Farms, or Go-Karting at 32nd Milestone and couldn’t think how you could get any cooler than that.
59. Baskin Robbins ice-cream was THE thing to have!
60. You know what Campa Cola is. And you also knew that Coca Cola was THE drink.
61. When you would watch WWF keenly every evening/afternoon and really think that Undertaker had 7 lives and he made an “actual” appearance in the Akshay Kumar- starrer Khiladiyon ka Khiladi.
62. When all backpacks (or ‘schoolbags’) and water bottles and tiffin boxes had strange cartoon characters that were hybrid versions of seven or eight different characters, and you still bought them, because a green man wih a water pistol, boots, a jet-pack, Johnny bravo hair, a rajasthani mustache, gloves, and underwear (long johns) over his pants, called ‘Mr. X’ was OBVIOUSLY a status symbol.
63. You remember the Nirma tikia jingle.
64. You remember the Nirma girl.
65. You remember the ‘doodh doodh’ ad and also the ‘roz khao andey’ ads.
66. You grew up reading, if you read at all, some or all of Nancy Drews, Enid Blyton books, Hardy Boys, Babysitters Club, Animorphs, Goosebumps, Sweet Valley series, Judy Blumes, and Tintin, or Archie comics. Because naturally, reading foreign authors made you much cooler than reading Tinkle.
67. Towards the late 90s (1998-99) at least some of us started our Harry Potter obsessions!
68. You absolutely HAD to go to Essel World if you wnet to Mumbai! “Essel World mein rahoonga main, ghar nahin nahin jaaonga main!”
69. You watched the Bournvita Quiz contest on TV pretty religiously. The smarter ones amongst you actually took part in it and had your entire school and your entire extended families watch you on it!
70. “Jungle jungle baat chali hai, pata chala hai. Chaddi pehen ke phool khila hai, phool khila!”
71. Maggi 2 Minute Noodles = ultimate snack (and tiffin, lunch, dinner)!
72. If you grew up in the early 90s, you recall the nation’s obsession with Mahabharata on TV
73. In the later 90s, you religiously followed Hip Hip Hooray on Zee. Maybe Just Mohabbat on Sony too.
74. You eagerly awaited Friendship Day, so you could give friendship bands to all your friends, and get bands from them in return. Then, of course, those with the most bands loved to show them off (and on Rakhi, boys with the most Rakhis loved showing those off too!)
75. You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3……..and tried to pull the pranks on “intruders”
76. Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show.
This list made you smile!
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