{"id":2813,"date":"2026-04-08T16:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:01:38","slug":"tatyana-ali-alfonso-ribeiro-used-to-fight-about-this-snack-on-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"Tatyana Ali &#038; Alfonso Ribeiro Used To Fight About This Snack On Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<div class=\"css-hl6xtf e1wzc3k51\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.delish.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/clock-regular.4ddebeb.svg\" alt=\"Estimated read time\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span class=\"css-1rzbsk9 e1wzc3k50\">2 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1jx1kps etlajd3\">\n<div data-theme-key=\"collapsible-section\" class=\"css-p1fz9n e1q3dcg6\">\n<h3 data-theme-key=\"collapsible-header\" class=\"css-1fv4nwp e1q3dcg5\"><button aria-label=\"Hide Key Points section\" aria-expanded=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-header-button\" class=\"css-ec8vqf e1q3dcg4\"><\/p>\n<div data-theme-key=\"collapsible-icon-wrapper\" data-collapsible-open=\"true\" class=\"css-lhm19 e1q3dcg0\"><span data-testid=\"iconRight\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-icon-right\" class=\"css-1ep4808 e1q3dcg1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.delish.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/caret-right-regular.a6ec664.svg\" alt=\"Caret Right\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/h3>\n<div aria-hidden=\"false\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-section-text\" class=\"css-nzvxqj e1q3dcg3\">\n<div class=\"css-ex91la etlajd2\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air <\/em>star Tatyana Ali shares the reason she would fight with costar Carlton (played by Alfonso Ribeiro).<\/li>\n<li>She just couldn\u2019t resist the craft services snacks\u2014despite the fact that they worked on a hot set where you weren\u2019t supposed to eat.<\/li>\n<li>She also reminisced over the best \u201890s snacks, including Fruit Roll-Ups, astronaut ice cream, and Tang!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">S<em data-node-id=\"0.1\">ure<\/em>, your office might have a snack table of sorts\u2014with stale granola bars and those tiny single-serve Doritos bags\u2014but your corporate spread could never compete with craft services. The on-set catering really is as over-the-top as you\u2019d expect. Maybe even more so.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Just ask <em data-node-id=\"1.1\">The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air <\/em>star Tatyana Ali, who was so passionate about the snack station that it would spark fights with her on-screen brother Carlton (played by Alfonso Ribeiro).<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201c[Craft services had] everything you could ever want,\u201d she reveals on the latest episode of <em data-node-id=\"2.1.0\">SNACKS!<\/em>. \u201cBagels and cream cheese, and sweets [like] M&amp;M\u2019s. Coca-Cola, ginger ale, ginger beer, water. Anything you want at any time during the day\u2026everything was so excessive.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-22\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cI remember Alfonso and I\u2014he played Carlton on the show\u2014having fights over M&amp;M\u2019s on the set,\u201d Tatyana says. \u201c[It was a] hot set, you\u2019re not supposed to eat anything, and the prop guys would be like, \u2018You can have them! Go ahead, it\u2019s fine!\u2019 They looked up at my mom, who was in the bleachers. \u2018She\u2019s good, she can have the M&amp;M\u2019s.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-23\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-1fm2v8u e94w1mj13\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1xumt3f e94w1mj11\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-before\" class=\"css-0 e68yk9k0\"\/><span class=\"css-0 e94w1mj10\">Related Story<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-after\" class=\"css-0 e68yk9k1\"\/><\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">But Ribeiro wasn\u2019t as supportive as the prop guys. \u201cAlf and I got into a huge fight,\u201d she laughs. \u201cHe\u2019s like \u2018It\u2019s a hot set!\u2019 Total big brother. \u2018You can\u2019t eat those! That\u2019s so unprofessional.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cI was like \u2018They told me I could!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">While Tatyana was clearly a fan of the staple snack, it wasn\u2019t the only fave from her <em data-node-id=\"8.1\">Fresh Prince <\/em>days. \u201cFruit roll-ups,\u201d she names, when asked about her go-to treats from the \u201890s. \u201cThe rainbow milk at the end of <em data-node-id=\"8.3\">The Flintstones<\/em> [cereal] was my jam. Tang! Tang! I used to love Tang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cAnd astronaut ice cream. I don\u2019t know where my friend\u2019s mom worked, but she always had astronaut ice cream, and she would bring it to school for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"10.0\"><strong data-node-id=\"10.0.0\">You can listen to full episodes of <\/strong><\/em><strong data-node-id=\"10.1\">SNACKS! <\/strong><em data-node-id=\"10.2\"><strong data-node-id=\"10.2.0\">on <\/strong><\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6gCfss7E7xYN36yixvsYzP\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6gCfss7E7xYN36yixvsYzP\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Spotify\" data-node-id=\"10.3\" class=\"body-link css-8bav6j emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"10.3.0\"><strong data-node-id=\"10.3.0.0\">Spotify<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em data-node-id=\"10.4\"><strong data-node-id=\"10.4.0\"> and <\/strong><\/em><em data-node-id=\"10.5.0\"><strong data-node-id=\"10.5.0.0\">Apple<\/strong><\/em><em data-node-id=\"10.6\"><strong data-node-id=\"10.6.0\"> or watch them on <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@delish\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@delish\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"YouTube\" data-node-id=\"10.7\" class=\"body-link css-8bav6j emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"10.7.0\"><strong data-node-id=\"10.7.0.0\">YouTube<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em data-node-id=\"10.8\"><strong data-node-id=\"10.8.0\">. 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She just couldn\u2019t resist the craft services snacks\u2014despite the fact that they worked on a hot set where you weren\u2019t supposed to eat. She also reminisced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}