Funny to think how many options there are now, but in the 80s…

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jennifer_m13@reddit

My other favorites were the vitamin C that were round orange chewable.

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Pearl-Internal81@reddit

Anyone else immediately have the jingle start going through their head when you saw those things?

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Mike__O@reddit

Tums needs to know their target market and start selling Flintstones shaped antacids

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Pearl-Internal81@reddit

Anyone else immediately have the jingle start going through their head when you saw those things?

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Thereminz@reddit

thanks,... thanks for ruining the last bit of childhood

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elektrik_noise@reddit

Flinstones Lipitor.

And Flinstones Prozac/Lamictal depending on how some others of us are doing these days lol.

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SurviveDaddy@reddit

I can still remember exactly what these things taste like.

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Ok_Neighborhood2032@reddit

I just ate one an hour ago. You can still take these. You are a grown up. You have the power!

It's even better when you are an adult.

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she-dont-use-jellyyy@reddit

They still exist and they're exactly the same

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Secret_Assistant_232@reddit

So delicious!!!!! When I was a young adult I popped a handful and got real sick. Oh yeah, too much iron dipshit. Didn’t die. Was worth it.

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

People will shit on you for saying it, but you're completely right. Those things were nasty.

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TamarindSweets@reddit

Its funny af to get downvoted for expressing the same exact sentiment of OP, the person they reposted, and most people in the comments. The people in the minority just latched on lol.

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smcivor1982@reddit

I loved them! I would hoard them in my room and then eat a bunch at a time (I was little). My parents never knew.

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Sanguine-Penguin711@reddit

My cousin and I pocketed about 15 or 20 each and walked around munching them like candy until we got busted.

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TamarindSweets@reddit

Did the ones you have taste like candy chalk with a drop of sugarless kool-aid? Bc it may have been a different version.

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Foxtrot_Supatwat@reddit

I hated them so much, I tried hiding one up my nose one time and it got stuck.

Wasn't a very bright kid. Also pushed a golf tee cleanly thru my eardrum one time, and nearly went deaf in that ear..

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BloggerCurious@reddit

Oh hey, I get a piece of candy at the end of my meal. Thanks mom

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wheatgivesmeshits@reddit

You can still buy them, I give them to my kids. I think the formulation has changed, but it's pretty close.

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Rdubya291@reddit

That's how you knew they were working!

Oh, and the added citric acid...

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bakedinsandiego@reddit

My sister used to chuck them under the table instead of eating them 😂

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DVRCD@reddit

Every time I smell iron, I get a flashback of these things.

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HumanContract@reddit

Oo me, too. Especially when I got the orange one stuck in my tooth crevice.

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heresperkins@reddit

Wilma flavor was were the rocks turned to stones

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Ashlynne42@reddit

My father had a friend named Bubba that ate these like candy.

Bubba. . .Bubba wasn't quite right.

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trainwreckhappening@reddit

And we all begged for them. My family wasn't "rich enough" to afford those so I just was defficient.

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screamingcatfish@reddit

I still remember getting sick one morning as I was being dropped off at daycare. Puked on the poor daycare lady’s doormat and it tasted like Flintstone vitamin.

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Sensitive_Pianist777@reddit

They for rid of the "car" vitamin. That one was my favorite.

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WatersEdge50@reddit

I one time ate almost a whole bottle, and my pee turned neon green

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ngless13@reddit

A friend of mine did eat the whole bottle. When his mom found out, he blamed it on his brother who was taken to the ER and had his stomach pumped. He laughs every time I bring it up

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BuffaloRedshark@reddit

modern "one a day" adult vitamins do that. taking just one doesn't quite get it to neon but there is definitely a noticeable color change

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CheetahOfDeath@reddit

I always went for the car. Would have ‘races’ before eating them.

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nightblue888@reddit

They tasted like pennies, berries, soap! 😝.

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bradfo83@reddit

Still a thing. I have these for my kids 😂

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8last@reddit

2nded. Flintstones kids still exist in 2026

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team_lloyd@reddit

I used to beg for these like a full blown addict

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drfinale@reddit

My favorite was the one that was shaped like the car. I would always drive it around the table a bit before eating it

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59apache01@reddit

Tried those once and they made me really nauseous.

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Truth_Seeker963@reddit

Because they don’t taste like what is posted. That kid probably couldn’t breathe through his nose.

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pearmaster@reddit

These (and generic equivalents) are some of the only multi-vitamins out there with iron, which is particular important for several demographics. My pediatrician recommends them.

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Aiku1337@reddit

I make my kids eat this. They hate it. I thought they were fine as a kid and they’re still fine as an adult.

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what's kinda odd is that the flintstones were not even current when we were kids, they only showed reruns from the 60s... and they didn't start making the vitamins until after the end of the series, it would be like trying to make vitamins from some shit in the early 2000s

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WaterAirSoil@reddit

Loved these…

One day when I was like 12 I saw something on TV about the benefits of vitamins. So I thought to myself “I haven’t taken a vitamin in years. I’m gonna start again. Let me get one now”…

I found out that day that not all vitamins are chewable. Good life lesson for me.

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TIRACS@reddit

Boy was my mom mad when she found my stash of not taken vitamins. “EVERY ONE OF THESE IS A LIE!!!”

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Cameront9@reddit

They still make them. When I give them to my kids I sneak one occasionally. Taste great.

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ildarathedruid@reddit

I still take these, the ones with iron. The blood bank I donate to recommended it, they're the only thing I've tried that has actually kept my hemoglobin up.

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n10w4@reddit

They still sell em and, unlike the gummies have iron, so better for the kiddos.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit

Good to know! I take prescription strength ferrous sulfate and still give around 11.5. I don't remember what it was when I started taking it but it was so low my doctor sent me for a blood transfusion. I wanna say 6.something but that sounds crazy so I feel like I'm remembering wrong.

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mmm_unprocessed_fish@reddit

Yes! I kept getting rejected from donating blood, and the phlebotomist dropped that little tip on me. It’s been several years, and I’ve been good ever since.

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balding_git@reddit

totally off topic but every time i get blood drawn i want to make a joke like “ok, phlebotomize me” but i figure they probably hear that one a lot

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit

Cause don't lie. Most of you know what chalk, aquarium gravel, and Kool Aid tastes like.

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bikeonychus@reddit

They still make this kind! They are the only kids vitamin i can find in Canada that has iron in it, so I get them for my daughter.

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mikegarb0126@reddit

10 million strong.....

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Silentlaughter84@reddit

And we still ate them because we 10 miilion strong...... and growing.

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Cryptic1911@reddit

It was the 80's. You had to take them with garden hose water to mask the taste

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No-Banana247@reddit

I can taste this picture, and I like it 🫣

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Violet_Walls@reddit

Does anyone remember the Looney Tunes ones as well? I thought I’d was a Mandela effect for a second but I looked it up and they were definitely real and were around in the 80s/90s!

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Attic-Music@reddit

The Sesame Street ones were better

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

did they do anything?

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GreenZebra23@reddit

I mean, probably. You know what the food was like back then. The only foods that had any micronutrients in them were cooked so poorly our parents couldn't get us to eat them

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PackageNorth8984@reddit

I used to dislike so many veggies until I tried they roasted with oil and seasoned.

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mmm_unprocessed_fish@reddit

Ha! I thought I only liked a couple vegetables and not much meat as a kid. Turns out, shit tastes better when you cook it properly and use spices.

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Mike__O@reddit

I think swimming in Lake Erie in the 80s did more for me than these vitamins ever did

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actionerror@reddit

And actually playing with/in dirt

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SpinsterSyl@reddit

And drinking from the hose!!!

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someguyfromsk@reddit

How many plagues and world-ending events have we survived?

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

dont jinx it!

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Fuckin_Hipster@reddit

I'm not dead.

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fullthrottletomboy@reddit

Pruple and orange all day.

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Popular-Ad1537@reddit

mom "take a vitamin. only 1"

me "ok mom" proceeds to eat about 6 or 8 flintstone vitamins

every day

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Popular-Ad1537@reddit

that and the ludens cherry throat lozenges. would get my grandma to give me like i was eating candy haha

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jonathantg35@reddit

10,000,000 strong and growing…

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ZeldaHylia@reddit

Me and my sisters ate an entire bottle like it was candy so our mom didn’t buy them anymore 😭

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walter_grimsley@reddit

I laugh now because no kid in the target demo for these things today has the slightest idea who these characters are or where they came from.

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TheMeticulousNinja@reddit

I loved those. I wanted to eat them like candy but was told not to

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Fast_Soil1376@reddit

I just popped two this morning!

And I gifted a bottle to a friend a few weeks ago as a silly little gift.

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RunAwayBeerTruk@reddit

Memories of fighting with my sister over color and character and which one was better, lol. They all tasted like chalk.

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mmm_unprocessed_fish@reddit

I used to give my sister orange on purpose and she would lose her shit.

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RunAwayBeerTruk@reddit

It was the worst.

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SpaceAdventures3D@reddit

I take these. Purple is my favorite.

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sleigh_all_day@reddit

My mom wouldn’t buy these for us. I was convinced she didn’t care about our health.

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_TalkingIsHard_@reddit

Mine either. Too expensive, apparently.

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

My mom refused to buy them and instead had us take Shaklee vitamins. They all came in a boring brown bottle, very appropriate for the 80s. And they all smelled funny.

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mmm_unprocessed_fish@reddit

Oh, wow. I took a generic Flintstone’s chewable (circus animals) and a Shaklee chewable vitamin C every day. I was rarely sick.

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MmmSteaky@reddit

They legit tasted like when you burp and throw up in your mouth a little. Not saying they tasted bad—just that they tasted like, you know, vomit. (My kids eat them pulverized in milk because they don’t like the taste. I’ve tried them, and there’s no discernible difference from when I was a kid.)

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Balthierlives@reddit

Flinstones chewable morphine!

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Ersh777@reddit

I can taste this picture.

And remember the time I OD'd on these.

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