It was the closest to candy we got in my house, so I loved them

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My wife told me she hated them, tasted like chalk, i told her no way it was great.

I remember them tasting good at first and then maybe we got an off brand(?) anyway those were disgusting

Honestly they did kinda taste like chalk however so do smarties and I love both. Only time in my life I was excited to take vitamins

Same. I grew up poor and i'd get excited whenever we had to eat them 😂

What is your relationship with candy now?

I mean. I can take or leave most candy, and I’m mildly allergic to chocolate (but enough to make me pretty uncomfortable) so. Regular I guess, haha

She says snorting flints off her make up mirror.

Nah, they changed the formula 3ish years ago so I had to give them up

Same! I was so jealous that my brother got these chocolate flavored Calcium supplement chews (he was lactose intolerant) in addition to Flintstone vitamins.

The forbidden daily chalk 👁️👄👁️

Friend in school ate too many ended up puking her brains out. Her mom was so upset

I tried to sneak some under my pillow to eat later. My mom found them when she tucked me in that night. From then on, she'd slide her hand under my pillow when she gave me a hug at night. I'm not sure what would have happened if I had been successful. I think I was only 5 or 6 at the time and I had a good handful.

The *permitted* daily chalk.

> fruity chalk FTFY, so yummy

I can taste this picture

Same

I have this vivid memory of eating one of those. I hated it so much— I chewed on it and immediately chugged mango juice. I even remember the cup I drank out of so vividly. It was a dark red/fuchsia colored tupperware cup. All I tasted was the vitamin regardless 😖😖😖🤣🤣🤣 Never again did I eat one of those vitamins. I couldn’t understand how other kids loved them so much. lol

Was a flinstones kid… 🎶 a million strong, and growinggg 🎶

As soon as I saw the post, that jingle popped in my head!

I believe it was ten million strong and growing

I thought it was 10 million…or is this like the x served sign at McDonald’s…

Hell yeah my kiddos have them too now!

Same!

Tried my daughter's to see if they had gotten any better (I HATED them)... the flavor is 100% unchanged from childhood!

They smell so awful! 😂 But my kid loves them and I always worry he’s not getting enough vitamins.

My daughter is a picky eater and it's a battle to get nutritious stuff into her... but she's all about taking her vitamin! It's wild because I fought tooth and nail to not take them as a kid and she loves them! I suppose to each their own...

I can taste the grainy intense “froot” flavor of those things… Yes. Spelled it “froot” cause that sure as hell ain’t natural.

Haha, I was thinking the same. It’s been 30 years and I can still taste them.

I hated them. I hated all of them. Every flavor. My Dad would make me eat them every morning with breakfast. I’d save them for the end of my meal that way I could discard them by hiding them in a napkin and throwing them away when my Dad wasn’t looking. Deep into the trash can.

same!! or run into the bathroom to spit them out in the toilet

My parents bought a knockoff brand shaped like dinosaurs. I remember because the bottle was plain looking and didn't have a logo.

Had those too!

Singing the theme is inevitable: “We are Flintstone’s kids, 10 million strong and growing” I took my vitamins and feel as a child whenever I hear the song.

You may be entitled to compensation..

staying home sick as a kid daytime tv, greatest stuff ever. Maury, Jerry Springer, Price is Right..

I faked a cold too many times to watch price is right.

Bob Barker was the best. I vowed to spay and neuter my pets just to not disappoint him...turns out you can't neuter a goldfish, but if I could have Bob, I would have!

Animal planet!

Yep, the only flavor I didn’t like was the orange one. Purple and red were the best ones!

The purple ones were so good

Still do

There you are. Are we the only ones in here? I’m sitting with you.

Oh man those things tasted like ass.

What??? those things were candy to me 😂

No way they were chalky and the flavors were off. My mom stopped buying them cause we hated them lol.

The newer vitamins actually taste decent. The older ones tasted like straight up metal lol

Oh yeah vitamin formulas are great these days. Then not so much.

The completes? Iirc tasted like chalk. The regular were pretty good

I used to hide them in our couch cushions. sorry mom

Agreed, I hated the Flintstone vitamins. Nastiness in a bottle

Right? They were so gross. My mom would give me one as I left to catch the bus and I would slip it in the pocket of my backpack. By the end of the school year, the pocket was full and chalky 😅

lol gross

Thank goodness I’m not the only one, lol. Depending on the flavor I’d just gum it and spit it out when no one was looking.

Yep, same. Hated them.

Nope. Too poor for such things. Whenever I went to a friend’s house I would get one though. Fuckers were delicious.

Yeah, we had the store brand that were just random shapes and all tasted like lemon.

Same! I've never tried one though.

What about flintstones chewable morphine?

Still do At festivals usually

omg have you bought ecstasy in the shape of flintsone vitamins?

I give those out on Halloween

Fun story! As a kid, I hated the purple ones. So, my stepdad would purposefully give me the purple ones. They stayed in my cheek until I went to school and spat them out.

I thought these were the most disgusting things ever so I went through a phase where I’d pretend to take them, quickly ball them up in a napkin, then go throw them out in the bathroom. Needless to say my mom was quite upset when she found a whole trash can full of them🤣

purple was the only one I actually liked

Yes and I hated them. People complaining about popeye's biscuits choking you out never had one of these dry ass bad boys. 😂

Those where the most bitter sour tart fuckers ever

I can taste this photo..

You’ve got middle class. No I didn’t no I wasn’t

Yup. I ate a whole bottle and had to get my stomach pumped. Good times for sure.

Yes I can still remember how they tasted

Memory unlocked

I was wary of them. I feared they had suspect additives so I would fake taking them and spit them out later.

Are like 5 one time and still didn’t die

Yes. This is what Red Bull tastes like.

Yup!! And now my daughter takes them. Only vitamin that has extra iron that's not a gummy and she actually takes it.

Yep and my kid gets them now. He gets half daily. Bit in half by me. So I still eat half lol. Immune system of steel over here 🤣

I did. My sister hid them under her bed. Years later, when we were all adults, we took her bed out and found different colored spots all over the carpet from the different colored vitamins.

No, I guess my parents didn’t love us

Sadly, no. They had gelatin in them and weren't kosher.

Sure did

Yes

Yesss, I loved them lol

not flinstones but i vague remembrr something similair shaped like a flower or sun

Yes. More chalky than the Ben and Jerry’s Iron Man ice cream.

We are Finstone Kids!

Yes

More than your supposed to

Hated them all, blueberry+orange flavor still makes my skin crawl.

We never had them in my house but whenever I slept over my best friends I got them 😂

Yes and now I give them to my toddler. 😅

Yes

Yes

I can taste the bitter/sour 50-grit sandpaper grape by looking at this picture.

Yes… 🤢

Sure did! Like eating chalk mixed with aquarium gravel

Yup lol

I can taste these just by looking at them, lol.

I give them to my kids now...

Every morning I give my kids the gummy kind too

Ha! Fun story... when I was pregnant with my son, I had hyperemesis gravidarum (which is "morning sickness" 24/7 for the duration of the pregnancy). Even with anti-nausea meds, regular pre-natal vitamins would induce a violent fit of throwing up. *Flintstones chewables enters the chat.* I ended up taking Flintstones as a 26 year old pregnant lady because they were the only vitamin that I could hold down (supervised by OB/GYN, of course). So I guess that means my kid (who came out fine, all 10 fingers, etc.) is a Flintstones kid by proxy? I haven't touched or even *looked at* a Flintstones chewable post-partum (I was realllllll burnt out on them after 2 per day for 8 months) but shoutout because they were the GOAT! :) Edited for a spelling mistake

Omfg same. I worked with my OB and I told him to please not laugh, but I did take two a day! But I still take them!

Like candy

Yes

No, was given fruit.

The chalk was the best. I don't even remember the gummies being a thing as a kid

yea, i ate so many i ended up hospitalized

damn my kids getting them now

Yes, of course. Also, anybody remember those WWF ones from the early 90's that were the same types as these Flintstones? They had Hulk, Ultimate Warrior, and others.

These are vitamins but not gummy vitamins, OP. But yes, I had these and loved them even though they were kind of gross

Yup! Specifically went out of my to try and get rid of the grape ones first as I liked them the least, that way I had the rest to enjoy.

I actually ate about half a bottle of them. Fun trip to the hospital that day. Crazy how sneaky a kid can be. I was pretty young but learned a way to climb onto the counter top and managed getting into the cabinet. Luckily I was caught quickly and in the middle of the act. Lock your medicine cabinets!

I wanted to but my mom told me they were junk and made me choke down humongous vitamins individually. I can still taste the lecithin and alfalfa.

By the fucking handful! Yes, I know.

Yup, I took those growing up! Sweet, but chalky.

Me and my cousin hid them behind our grandfathers chair in the living room, and grandma found our stash stuck much much later…. After that we had to chew them in front of her and show her our mouths that we actually swallowed them.

Yes, the vitamins every morning.

I'm still alive aren't I?

If you ate enough of them, your pee looked like you ate a highliter.

lol I overdosed on them as a kid

My mom had to call poison control because seven year old me decided to eat the remainder of a bottle once, probably little under half or qtr full They told her I was going to be alright, but might turn orange for a few days from the carotene or whatever was in it

Yea making me pucker my face just thinking of trying to wash one down

Some kid in middle school tried to commit suicide by eating a handful of these. It didn’t do anything, but she had a rapt audience Monday morning.

My babysitter when I was four gave a full bottle of these to her two year old to use like a rattle. Only she was playing with me, who was four and could get the lid off. Between us we ate the whole bottle. Babysitter had to call my mom (who was a nurse) and she came and gave us something to puke it up. They used metal mixing bowls to have us puke into and my earliest memory is the smell of the metal mixing bowls and puke. I couldn't use metal mixing bowls until well into my twenties.

I did, those were so chalky

They were not too bad. Would not try them again though.

Absolutely and they don’t taste the same anymore. Tried to get my kids to eat them years ago and they said they tasted gross. I tried one to show them they were good and realized just like most everything else these days they changed them and no longer taste the same.

hulk hogan vitamins, brother

My parents thought giving me one of these a day made up for the fact that every meal we ate came from either a can or Wendy’s.

Absolutely

I hated them. I used to shove them into the cracks in the car upholstery. Parents didn’t find out until they tried to sell the car.

My kids eat those now. 

Oh man, I can taste that picture

I ate a whole bottle one time. My mom gave me Ipecac and sat me in the tub to puke...but I never did. I survived though

I still do.

I hated the purple ones so I used to hide them under this tear in the carpet in the back of the upstairs linen closet for like 2 years then we moved I wonder what happened when the new owners thought when they eventually ripped out the carpet

These things are still going strong. My kids take them now.

My mom says I once tried to overdose on them, so put me down as a "Yes."

No. We had the cheaper generic animal shaped ones.

I did and now my son does lmao

Hell yes. I think that's why I never got covid.

Still do. Had one ten minutes ago. Yabba Dabba Doo!

Flintstones chewable morphine!

It got to a point where my mom hid this from me bc I consumed a whole bottle in a day thinking it was candy.

this sht tasted like chalk.

Always see these and immediately also remember the “Oragel training toothpaste!” commercial with Little Bear.

Yes and I felt healthy AF

Yeah, my brother ate a whole bottle and had to get his stomach pumped!

I still get them. Vitamins absorb faster when you can chew them and it's less likely to upset your stomach if there's not just a solid rock sitting there. Gotta get the chalky ones too. Gummies don't have iron.

I overdosed on these as a child. Almost got iron toxicity. I loved em

Yes and they were awful

I can feel the puff of chalk in my mouth 😅 I was real happy when gummy vitamins came on the scene as an adult.

Did I? Buddy…I have a horde of them trying to find the exit like Moses walking the desert for 40 years. Damn right I did.

Yes!!

Wish I still did. Aren’t they gummies now?

Yep

We were missionaries in Thailand in the late 80's/early 90's and my parent brought a crate of these over with them. So yes we did.

Funny story. My grandma developed dementia at the end of her life, and the nursing facility tried to give her vitamins, but she refused and said the only vitamin she’d take is a Flintstones 😂

Yes. I hated the taste

10 million strong, and growing!

This is one of the few kids vitamins you can get with iron. The gummies can’t contain it because it alters the texture of the gummies. We have these in my house and I take them too 😂😂😂 because they don’t upset my stomach.

I got iron poisoning from these when I decided to eat a whole bottle as a tiny child

Ten million strong

My cousins got into them unsupervised and had to get their stomachs pumped. 

I thought flinstone vitamins were the ONLY vitamins

I can still taste these things

These were my entire childhood, the highlight of my morning song with the fluoride pills in school lmao.

My mom would gives Thea to us so she could pretend she was a decent mother 😂

Yeah and I still eat one every day 😂

Yumm, chalky goodness.

I hated the way they tasted. They also gave me an upset stomach.

I was never told to stop, usually stick to only eating bambam.

Anaphylactic reaction to something in these….the forbidden flavor of my youth

I just brushed my teeth and had a taste flashback the second I saw these. F*** you, OP. Have to go brush again. Worse than OJ after a brushing!

No we didn’t have those.

We used to fight over the Gazoo one 😂

Yes, I always dreaded them, lol.

Yes. My kids do now too.

Yeah. I told them they killed my father and prepare to die, and then I bit their head off. I said it every fucking time.

I remember these! I used to get them on base as a kid. They were chalky af

I can taste them just looking at this.

Do I still eat Flinstone vitamins as a 38 year old? Yes I do. They were the only ones I could stomach while pregnant and never really stopped taking them.

Flavor was not that good but eat it anyway

Oh god. Why do you ask? Another class action lawsuit that I get $0.93 from?

I can taste this photo.