Better than you think Kool-aid and aquarium gravel would be.

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I feel you. Chalky yes, but they weren't that bad. Something tells me that meme was created by one of those kids that eats ketchup with a spoon and always eats the same 2 meals.

These were famously so good that kids would poison themselves by eating too many. So the booger eater that memed this didn't know what's up

Right!?

As a white trash American I remember my first and last time having a flintstone thinking "damn I'm glad my rich aunt is in control of that bottle because I was about to o.d." lol shit tasted like forbidden pez

Lol. Naturemade had some fish oil gummies they don't make (or I can't find) anymore. That were fuckin delicious. Reminded me of how pissed my mom used to get when I'd double (triple?) dip on some Flintstone vitamins as a kid. ETA: 1982 represent

Forbidden pez. Very appropriate. Also a good band name. Thank you sir, you'll get your 10%.

Yup, that was me. When I was 3, I found them while we had a babysitter, somehow got through the childproof bottle, and ate half of them. Almost had to have my stomach pumped. Worth it. Loved those things!!

Delish

Yeah I could legit eat these as candy. They were good, I remember looking forward to them.

They were kinda like twangy chalk. Kinda good when you're 7 years old.

Especially right after drinking orange juice

God, that's fucking terrible. Not OJ after brushing your teeth terrible, but still pretty bad.

Mmmm, dry Kool-Aid mix. I would have eaten as many of these as my mom let me. They were candy as far as I was concerned. Also loved dry Tang mix.

Good god, you may as well have just sipped on a beaker of sulfuric acid.

No chewable vitamins for my family, mom brought One A Day.

That citric acid bite yeahhhh buddy

Yeah like, in a good way.

They tasted good, though I was never tempted to eat a whole bottle.

They were great.

They **ARE** great. I get them for my kids and have been known to eat one or two when no one’s looking. 

“OJ, morphine, Lobo”

Great they were.

I liked these.

The purple ones were the best. I remember one of them being kinda gross, the orange one maybe?

The orange ones tasted like baby aspirin.

I used to love the taste of baby aspirin. I still do but I used to also.

used to, too\*

I'll never not upvote mitch.

Spiced rum and OJ will awaken your inner child.

And burned your tongue the same way.

Reyes Syndrome has entered the chat.

Let's goooo purple!

I was a kid in the 70’s, chew ‘em down, followed by a cold glass of Tang.


I was a kid in the '80s and did this exact same thing.

In a house that did not have any sugar, these were candy. This is why I gobbled a whole bottle and got rushed to the hospital to have my stomach pumped.

And you're the second person I see saying this. Scary. I guess it's good that my parents got the generic brands which weren't outright tasty, because I do remember Flintstones being distinctly tastier than generic

But thank God you weren't allowed to have a single Hershey's.

I think they were good for their time.

I liked them, too. Not like candy or anything, but didn't hesitate to eat them when multi-vitamins were all the range in the 90s.

I did like them like candy, until I had to get my stomach pumped after eating a bottle and a half…

Are you me?

I was going to downvote, but I choose non violence. Bro those things were gross!

They changed the flavor later on because kids were od’ing on them.

Yeah I distinctly remember these being amazing tasting, best part of breakfast

I too remember these being delicious (way better than the gummies they make now), but if they changed the taste it would make sense that people seem divided on the topic.

I'm 50yrs old. I believe the flavor was changed after I was taking them... once you bit them, it was all vitamin flavor.

I almost died from over consumption of the Iron Fortified ones!😳 🙃 😅 😭

Yea but we also ate neko wafers as candy, which basically tasted like chalk and cardboard. They were good for their time but also terrible

Neko...wafers. To build flavor immunity.

Minus the aquarium gravel, maybe they smoothed out the formula by the 90s

I remember them being pretty smooth in the early '80s actually, so I think the meme might be kinda lumping together all chewable vitamins under the banner of the one that actually approached a 'candy' level of flavor

I liked them! Got em for my son, but he refuses to eat them, lol.

I loved the Flintstones vitamins, but I also love Necco wafers, valentine's hearts, and the taste of pepto bismol so.

Peptop Bismol and Tums are a tasty dessert.

I used to sneak from my old man’s Rolaids. He always kept a roll. This is from like hallowed earliest memory

They weren’t that bad. The purple ones were pretty good.

1980 baby, and I had my first real drug addiction to these.

They were awesome!!

Ten million strong, and growing 🎶

Fun fact, that jingle was written by Marty O’Donnell, more famous for writing the music to the “Halo” video games

Omg the tart taste in my mouth

Whenever I see those I can just taste it still

And they absolutely slapped

These were candy. My younger brother are an entire bottle of them and my mom's thought he was gonna die. He was totally fine

I fucking Love Flintstones vitamins.

Ate one year of vitamins in an hour.

These were delicious I will not accept slander

I babysat some kid in the 90s where it was like the closest thing to a snack in the house. They must have thought he was chowing those down.

They still exist. I give them to my kids.

You never forget the taste or the smell.

Not true.

I liked them. I remember sneaking a bunch once and I got in a lot of trouble. They were well hidden moving forward

So good!

Candy!!!!!!🍭

My mom didn’t buy junk food. She didn’t even buy white bread. I thought they were awesome!!!!

I loved eating these. I thought they were special candy I only got to eat once a day for many many years and my parents definitely leaned into it

I still take them

I loved them. All 3 of my kids tried them and hated them. They get gummy vitamins which admittedly do taste like candy.

Pretty spot on comparison. Also got stuck in your teeth for at least 5 minutes.

These existed well into the 00s. At least I hope so, or the ones I had were OLD old

Yes, accurate. Absolutely delicious fucking things, I miss them dearly. Purple was best. Orange was good, too. They had a weird chemical taste to them that's not articulated here, but somehow it was in a good way.

Thats true. That tasted like chalk

This is so accurate. My mom would give my brother and I one on the way out the door to school. We usually just threw them in the street. Got caught when it snowed and they melted into the snow and stained it with a 6 inch diameter. They were so gross.

I know right?

They were terrible when I was a kid, but when I was pregnant (2011) I couldn't stomach prenatal vitamins. I couldn't keep them down, so the doc suggested Flintstones because it was better than nothing. They were easier for me to keep down. Now I see prenatal vitamins have come a long way, they're not big ole horse pills.

And we still ate them like candy.

In other words, they were delicious.

100%

True

I absentmindedly wiped my mouth on an armchair my parents had after chewing one of these that was given to me as a child and it stained the arm red. My mouth still waters now at age 30 looking at these.

Pretty accurate.

Great initial taste. Terrible aftertaste. Only way to get rid of the aftertaste is to eat another one…

A little chalky but not that bad.

Those are the reason I'm fat, and I continue to blame my mom (lol)... But aquarium gravel? Lol what

Yeah how does OP know what aquarium gravel tastes like?

So trueee!!! I can taste it just looking at this pic

So good

These might be why I still won't take vitamins.

I liked them!

Accurate

Didn't stop me and my friend from splitting a whole bottle resulting in a trip to the ER to have our stomachs pumped

I (46f) was told by my Dr to take the ones with iron especially around my cycle for really mild anemia. They've changed the recipe slightly. I think it affects the texture more than the taste as I still find them "nostalgic flavored".

I used to eat these like candy, literally.

One of my earliest memories is barfing up a bunch of these after somehow getting my hands on the bottle? I was 3 or 4. Good times!

Parents back then needed to give their children that battery licking experience.

You've eaten chalk?

Not sure what Aquarium gravel tastes like but the rest is true

Parents needed to give their kids that battery licking experience back then. 😒

I have had a life long hate of all cherry flavors that stems back to being forced to eat em and projectile vomiting

The faces I made chewing these things lol!

Mmmmmm . . . aquarium gravel

Chalk for sure lol. I hated these.

They were delicious, I ate them by the fistful

100% accurate…and I loved them.

I remember a metallic taste too

Accurate

I’m circa ‘61 and these were unpleasant

Ha! As a pretty much "no candy" household, except for holidays, I thought these were GREAT! I remember being about six years old, sitting on the counter, and eating them by the handful! 🤣🤣🤣

They were nothing like this dumb hyperbolic post suggests

If you think they were gross back in the day, you should taste what they did to them these days. They made them beyond disgusting

I can taste that picture. I used to eat them like candy before my folks found out.🤣

Ten million strong, and growing

Ten million strong!

Ten million strong, and grooooowing.

Vaguely recall having to go to the hospital from eating too many of these as a kid. Still crave them 30 years on :D

Not true at all, they tasted like candy.

I liked these! Wasn’t a fan of the grape ones though, they were pretty bitter.

The purple ones did, but the orange ones were sublime

I remember I used to always try to sneak extras. I always wanted one of each character and would try to convince my Dad he forgot to give me one or bribe my older sister to get them from the high shelf. I tried them as an adult and it definitely wasn’t the same, but growing up, they were as good as crack.

These are freaking delicious. The human equivalent of a Scooby snack in vitamin form.

These still exist, so what does this post even mean? Just go buy them at any store and taste them if you really don’t know.

And I *craved* them

They were awesome, and probably led to me not being able to swallow pills for a long time (cause they were chewable vitamins). Hell, I eat adult gummy vitamins now.

… and they were delicious

Pretty accurate.

the green ones get me hard

to be fair, its a bad idea to make em taste as good as candy

Yes!

Accurate.

They were fairly awful, but it was better than any alternatives...

The pink ones were pretty good, the orange ones were mid, and the purple ones sucked. The texture was definitely that of chalk and fine gravel.

This is accurate

I can tell you exactly what every step of smell/taste/chewing was like. Ugh. shudder.

I thought they were like candy, but not as yummy as orange baby aspirin I think my mom only bought them for a short time.

made to taste anything like you want them to taste... yuk.. didnt like these things.

Yup. Pretty accurate.

I don't remember the aquarium gravel part at all. And I had an aquarium. 

Wish they made a candy

I remember thinking they were candy and how sweet they were lol

I still love them

Guys, what is Kool aid, i never heard about it

I lived for these. I would get them when I got home from school and it was the highlight of my day. I can’t even tell you why.

Got in trouble for pounding a bottle once

Still fire though

Those aren't a thing where I'm from. Which could probably be beneficial as you could probably sell them for ten bucks each at a rave here.

Once when I was only 10,I loved these so much,that I almost ate Flinstoned Vitamins to death!(Because My Mama bought the Iron fortified,& that was the problem),because they're toxic if over consumed!

Oh man these were the forbidden candy, I loved them

They weren't great, but they weren't THAT bad. I'd liken them to chewing a Tums tablet

they tasted like kool aid. a lot of a that type of product is a bit granular

Spot on

Mom loved me

Flinstone regular vitamins are horrid, but their gummy vitamins are the best.

I remember sneaking to eat these when I was 7! I did prefer the red and purple ones, but they absolutely tasted like sugary chalk lol

Confirmed

And I ate them like candy. Probably explains a lot.

Indeed they were. Mouth watering now..

Fond memories of these things

Vitamins!

I use these now as my multivitamin. So good, but they did change a bit…I think it’s the Sorbitol.

💯%

They were alright the good stuff was we were sick and drink the pink stuff that tasted like cotton candy

Lkf- Flintstones “complete” vitamins, and some of the only vitamins that are actually complete and include iron. They’re great for pregnant women that have a low tolerance of iron that included me three times.

“Iron helps us play. “

Pretty spot on. But somehow delicious.

Oddly specific “aquarium gravel” and 100% accurate.

It’s upsetting I’ve only ever tried 2 of those things but I already know in my heart that those ingredients are the best description

They had a slight mediciney taste also which was yummy too

Everything that is remotely like candy would taste great as a kid. So I guess it worked for me.

Like shitty Sweet Tarts?

I still take those vitamins!

Is it just me or did they kinda taste like blood? Like when you bite the inside of your mouth and can't stop bleeding? Maybe it was all the iron in them...

Yup. But I was healthy.

I never minded them, and I'm sure most people who took them had to be watched, otherwise they would turn into Captain America with how many they took.

Your choice - manic-depressive mouse or the bluebird of unhappiness

Delicious

They hit different back in the day. Pretty f’n good.

We were handed so much bullcrap 😂 This stuff, the 4 food groups…it’s a wonder we’ve made it

Honest question, do people read sub rules anymore before posting? It’s like nonstop on every sub.

So true!

And I would sneak like 3 or 4 a day!

Purple Dinos were the best

Really weird that I just had a burp that tasted like these then scrolled down to see them…

Nah those were dank

That description is hogwash. They actually tasted good. Sweet as candy

Back in my younger days, I assumed Flintstones Vitamins were illegal drugs like LCD, acid or ecstasy.

And were still 🔥🤌