TikTok Food Trends
This TikTok trend describes a low-effort meal made up of random snacks—like cheese, crackers, fruit, or leftovers—thrown together and enjoyed instead of cooking a full dinner
Girl Dinner
This colorful sticker and stationery brand was known for neon rainbows, unicorns, and everything your middle-school trapper keeper needed
Lisa Frank
This shipwreck inspired much of Walter Lord’s nonfiction book A Night to Remember
Titanic
This ultra-viral dessert combines chocolate, pistachio filling, and crispy shredded pastry, and it became one of the biggest internet sweets of 2025 and 2026
Dubai Chocolate
This catchy dance song by Los del Río sparked a global craze in the mid‑1990s, with simple moves performed at weddings, parties, and even political events
The Macarena
This historical event provides the backdrop for Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities
The French Revolution
Rooted in Utah soda-shop culture, this drink gained national attention by blending carbonation with cream and syrups to create endlessly customizable, TikTok-ready beverages
Dirty Soda
This music television channel reached a cultural peak in the 1990s, using visually innovative music videos to help launch artists to superstardom
MTV
This ancient city was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and has been the subject of many historical books and novels
Pompeii
Often described as the chaotic cousin of charcuterie it involves spreading a soft base across a flat surface and topping it with ingredients like herbs, honey, or flaky salt, turning a traditional condiment into a shared centerpiece
Butter Board
Before cloud storage, this plastic-encased magnetic medium was essential for transferring files and installing software, often holding just 1.44 MB of data
Floppy Disk
This French military leader’s 1812 invasion of Russia serves as the major historical backdrop of Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Napoleon Bonaparte
This TikTok-famous high school English teacher went viral for her unconventional “teacher lunch” videos, including a baked sweet potato stuffed with cheese, dumplings in onion cups and creative British-inspired meals
Courtney Cook (Courtney Cook Bales)
This early internet service popularized phrases like “You’ve got mail!” and became a cultural gateway online, often distributed via CDs in mailboxes across the country
AOL (America Online)
This century is the setting of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, with its monastery, murder mystery, and medieval intrigue
14th Century