This Is What Happens When You Force Lance Bass To Guess '90s Foods, Blindfolded

Spear Bass may have spent the last piece of the '90s wearing puffy coats, opening for Janet Jackson — later featuring his own particular visits — and tearin' up tweens' souls as a major aspect of super boyband *NSYNC, yet that doesn't mean he didn't thump back modest bunches of Gushers and drink Capri Suns like whatever remains of us. (He just got mobbed in markets when he attempted to get them. You know, much the same as whatever is left of us.)

As one-fifth of the band that held a 15-year-record for offering the most collections in a solitary week (that is, until the point when Adele joined 25), you may anticipate that Bass will run HAM with his initially real paycheck. What might he go for? A $100,000 supper? A dinosaur skull, as Nic Cage? A 20-foot-tall statue of himself made out of Pringles?! Nah, he gets much more stunning than that.

"I longed for a Toyota 4Runner. To start with, it was the Explorer, yet at that point, when the 4Runner turned out, gracious better believe it," he said. "I needed a silver one, and kid, did I get one with that first paycheck — that at long last came following 10 years. Much appreciated, Lou Pearlman." (He is, obviously, alluding to the band's previous director, who had been condemned to 25 years in prison in the wake of being indicted running a $500 million Ponzi plot, Bass has no deficiency of astonishing fan experiences, however the one that truly found him napping was the point at which the band made its initially visit to Madrid, Spain. "We got off the plane, and we needed to experience a horde of individuals, and they were recently ripping everything off of you," he stated, signaling to his face and ears. "On the off chance that you had a stud, it was no more. And after that, when we got onto the plane, kids were bouncing onto the gear belts to get to the opposite side, where the plane was. Insane."

Now that he's the host of '90s House on MTV, we put Bass under a magnifying glass: How well does he truly know the time that brought us such ponders like Crystal Pepsi and Dunkaroos? The vocalist happily rose to the test, taking a blindfold trial of a portion of the decade's most smoking tidbits and beverages. For each inquiry he got right, he scored boasting rights forever. For each one he got wrong, well, we constrained him to stand up to the more ungainly side of sentimentality, noting an inquiry each TRL-venerating, '90s fangirl (or fanboy) needed to think about the singer.Over Pizza Lunchables and Capri Suns, the star got open about the one *NSYNC melody he wishes he'd never need to hear again, the eating routine that got him through his starving-craftsman years, and the cardinal sin you ought to never confer against a Pop-Tart."So numerous recollections are returning with these sustenances," he stated, nibbling on an icing secured Dunkaroos treat. "When we initially got together with *NSYNC in 1995, we as a whole lived in a house together, and we had zero cash. I lived off of hash tans made in a little Fry Daddy, and Pizza Bagel Bites. That is all I lived on for the initial two years of our career."These days, Bass has gone gourmand, featuring in Fox's My Kitchen Rules prior this year and making arrangements to open eateries around the world. As his cooking aptitudes have developed, so has his tastes: The star and his better half, Michael Turchin, had been holding fast to a pescatarian count calories for three months — until this shoot.