Favorite TMNT Food Product?

[PizzaPower1985]

This one goes out primarily to older fans that were around during Turtlemania, but can also be for anyone who has eaten any TMNT food product, recent or otherwise. What is your favorite and do you have any memories associated with TMNT foods? Which foods did you hate/despise?

My favorite was the Chef Boyardee pasta... I carried cans of that $hit with me in grade school and once got the crap kicked out of me for pulling a can of it out of my ninja turtle backpack. It was the backpack that got me bullied, not the canned pasta. The can was stolen and thrown behind the bleachers in the school gym, if I remember correctly. *Damn, Raph. Coulda used your help there, buddy.*

Anyway, I also devoured the cereals most often as a kid. Loved it. I hated those nasty green moon pie things they made with cream filling. Gross!

What about you guys?

[oldmanwinters]

Pudding Pies

[neatoman]

Food that gets a famous kids' brand (that what TMNT is in this case) slapped onto it, is typically the worst food imaginable, the branding is literally the only selling point. I never have and will never ever buy food or snacks with the TMNT on the package unless I'm desperate, or they sell it for such a cheap price that nearly my entire food budget can be used for something else that month.

I am more likely to order one of the bizarre pizza variants mentioned in FW, at least the pizzeria sell themselves on the quality of their food. Rather a quality pizza ruined by bad toppings than some crap that is crap all the way through.

[mikey0]

McCain Ellio?s Microwavable Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza from 1990. The ultimate TMNT food product from the Turtlemania days that rarely gets a mention nowadays.

[Leo656]

Probably the pasta, which was exactly the same as every other Chef Boyardee product so even if it wasn't high-end cuisine it was at least "fine".

I got the cereal a few times out of brand loyalty but lord it was terrible. I gave up on that sh*t pretty quickly. I get why they probably wanted to be "different" since every other licensed kids' cereal from Batman to Mr. T to WWF cereal mostly just ripped off Captain Crunch, but they probably should've just done that instead of... whatever that sticky mess was. Blech.

[ABrown]

Definitely the ice cream bars. I think the first time I ever had one was in like the summer of 1990. And then I remember I think it was the year 2005, an ice cream truck came down the street. And I was shocked that they were still being made. Do they still make these today?

[ToSte]

I loved those nasty ass slime fried pies when I was a tyke. I dunno if I could stomach the thought these days.

[Leo656]

I had 'em a couple'a times but I was never a big pudding pie guy. Not really big on sweets in general, and those things were like diabetes in a wrapper. :lol: Not too bad but I could only handle them very rarely, even back then.

I had the ice cream bars a couple of times but likewise, not a huge obsession for me.

[Andrew NDB]

I think I had the cereal once as a kid. Or maybe I wanted the cereal and my parents never got it for me and I imagined what it tasted like. Not sure.

[sdp]

I don't remember eating anything tmnt related ever, perhaps as a kid but maybe it was too late for TMNT to still have food products when I was old enough to ask for tmnt food :lol: Though I guess I did eat the cereal twice since I had two TMNT bowls.

[neatoman]

I think I had the cereal once as a kid. Or maybe I wanted the cereal and my parents never got it for me and I imagined what it tasted like. Not sure.

Well you can probably buy [INSERT NAME OF CURRENT CHILDREN'S CARTOON] cereal and it'll probably be the same ****.

[PizzaPower1985]

If I remember correctly there were 2 cereals...

1 was a dyed green Captain Crunch clone with Leo, Mikey, Donnie, Raph and Shredder marshmallows.

The 2nd (The good one) was more like sweetened Rice Chex with Leo, Mikey, Donnie and Raph marshmallows.

They did the same with the pasta... Chef Boyardee had 2 variants... meatballs and pasta shapes without Shredder noodles and meatballs and pasta shapes with Shredder noodles.

[Leo656]

I don't exactly keep up but I doubt I've ever in my life before or since ever had anything like the TMNT cereal. Thank God.

I guess it was basically just Chex with way too much honey on it, but I think that cereal's unique "formula" has wisely never been replicated since. At least I've never seen it attempted.

[PizzaPower1985]

I don't exactly keep up but I doubt I've ever in my life before or since ever had anything like the TMNT cereal. Thank God.

I guess it was basically just Chex with way too much honey on it, but I think that cereal's unique "formula" has wisely never been replicated since. At least I've never seen it attempted.

Yeah, It's so weird, funny and a little tragic that anybody would market such culinary poison to kids just because of the old mantra "kids will eat anything with a cartoon on it." I mean the Chef Boyardee, as you already said, was passable as a food product, but everything else? I mean there should be child endangerment laws or something... Gross!

[Leo656]

Man, back then you didn't really "make it" unless you had a Chef Boyardee line. Some of the lesser franchises like Sonic got stuck with Spaghetti-Os but anyone with actual clout had a Chef Boyardee. It wasn't even a contest.

I do remember seeing the TMNT bars advertised on ice cream trucks until the late-90s, at least, and maybe later, but I never thought to ask if they still carried them. I kinda doubt it; probably cheaper to not change the sticker on the truck and just say you're "all out" in the unlikely event anyone in the year 2000 asked for a Turtle Pop. :lol: I guess it's possible that by then they still carried them, but... odds are they were unsold stock from 4-5 years earlier, if they even did. The thought of it was partly why I never bothered to ask.

Let's see, we did the cereal, the ice cream, the pudding pies, the Chef Boyardee... what else was there? I'm drawing a blank but I feel like there had to be more.

[mikey0]

Let's see, we did the cereal, the ice cream, the pudding pies, the Chef Boyardee... what else was there? I'm drawing a blank but I feel like there had to be more.

- 1990 Ellio?s Microwavable Pizza
- 1991 Crunchabungas
- 1990 Cheddar Cheese Snack Crackers
- 1991 Candy Suckers
- 1990/1991 TMNT Soft Gummi Candy
- 1990/1991 TMNT Tarts Fruit Candy
- 1990 Pizza Candy
- 1991 Jelly Beans
- 1991 Farley?s TMNT Eggs
- 1991 TMNT Shaped Candy Turtles
- 1990 Mutagen candy bar
- 1990 Farley?s Fruit Snacks
- 1991 TMNT and Cheese Pasta Dinner
- 1990 Lollipops sold at Nordstrom?s
- Late 1990/Early 1991 Mini candy with the toy candy toppers
- 1990 Topps Primo Bubble Gum with the candy dispensers
- 1991 Topps Candy with Candy Filled Dispensers
- 1991 TMNT Secret of the Ooze Squeeze and Lick Lollipop
- Late 1990/Early 1991 Popcorn that came in the tin
- 1991 Royal Ooze Gelatin Desserts


LONG LIVE THE EARLY 1990S!

[wpugh2424]

Pudding Pies

Pudding pies easy

[Leo656]

Well, it definitely goes a long way to explain why so many TMNT fans are so goddamn fat now, growing up with all'a that sh*t. :lol:

[Darth Knuckles]

I tried everything food related that had TMNT anything on it back during Turtlemania. It was such a fun time. But my top ones would have to be: TMNT Gummie Candy, Ice Cream Bars, Crunchabungas, & the Popcorn Tin.

Since we're on this topic, I have a few questions for my fellow TMNT fans. I had the popcorn tin that had the turtles on a surfboard riding a wave that said Cowabunga on it. In my memory, the tin had butter popcorn, white cheddar popcorn, and cheddar popcorn in it divided in three ways. Does anyone else remember it that way? Because every Christmas I remember my TMNT popcorn tin from back in the day and I remember it as having those three flavors in it. Does anyone remember if that was the three flavors it had in it?

My other question is about my favorite gummie candy ever. The TMNT gummies I'm talking about were ones that came in a plastic "blister bubble" (if you're a toy fan) where you could see the gummie and it had a thin cellophane backing to it that you peeled off to get to the gummie. I think the cellophane part was green and had the TMNT logo of the 1990's on it. The gummie itself was a random blend of green, red, yellow, and (the rare) blue colors. They were also around 2-2.5 inches all the way around so they weren't small little gummies.

I can't remember many of the gummie's shapes that they came in but I'm pretty sure one was in the shape of the back of a turtle shell. Maybe with the logo in the middle of the shell? I'd assume the four turtles each had a shape. I feel like Shredder was a shape too. And then if I had to guess maybe Krang, Bebop, Rocksteady, or Splinter could have also been shapes of them.

Lastly I remember that they came as individual purchases. I remember getting them straight out of the box and being able to tear as many of them off at a time as I wanted. So when they got to the store in their box they were all attached to one another slightly. So if you wanted to buy three, you could just pull out three and tear it off at that point. Did they also come in six packs? I feel like that was also a completely different way to buy these gummies too. Maybe if you bought the six-pack (if that was actually a thing) you got all of the shapes too?

Anyway, I apologize for the ramble. I've just tried to learn more about the TMNT gummie candy in particular, and I can't find much about it online. So if anyone has any information or pictures about them I'd be extremely grateful.

[sleeplessknight]

Hands down those TMNT ice cream bars with the bubble gum eyes were the absolute best thing ever. I never saw them at retail, I've only ever seen them available from ice cream trucks. I would RUN for the ice cream truck whenever I heard that jingle.

[Wildcat]

I liked those green slime pies. I think they are still made. Werent they just traditional custard? Just not green or branded anymore.

I had the cereal bowl that came packaged on the box. Dont remember what the cereal tasted like though.

Always liked the truck-only face pops too. Have not bought any for awhile. Truck still goes around here but have not noticed since the virus.

[mikey0]

I liked those green slime pies. I think they are still made. Werent they just traditional custard? Just not green or branded anymore.

I had the cereal bowl that came packaged on the box. Dont remember what the cereal tasted like though.

Always liked the truck-only face pops too. Have not bought any for awhile. Truck still goes around here but have not noticed since the virus.

There are Hostess apple and cherry pies, but the TMNT pudding pies have been discontinued since late 1991.

TMNT cereal was honey Chex (ninja nets), marshmallows (in the shape of the signature weapons of the turtles), and marshmallow dust all blended together. TMNT Cereal was discontinued in the Super Nintendo age as well.

Rise of the TMNT Tropical Punch Bars are in stores, but they are missing bubble gum eyes. You can buy them at department stores and some grocery stores. Unfortunately, Blue Bunny TMNT Bars are a thing of the past.

Also, it?s too bad that the candy toppers from 1990 (four turtles and Casey) did not take off. I would have loved to see Shredder, April, Splinter, and a Foot Soldier candy toppers. Here?s a picture to refresh your memory of what I?m talking about: https://tmnt-ninjaturtles.com/memorabilia/candy-food-tmnt-upper-torso-candy-topper-donatello/#1

[The Turtle Terminator]

I remember that Heinz in the UK had some pasta shapes for the 2003 series. They were horrible, but taste < branding. There aren?t any pictures according to the Internet, so I was wondering if anyone here has any?

[mikey0]

I remember that Heinz in the UK had some pasta shapes for the 2003 series. They were horrible, but taste < branding. There aren?t any pictures according to the Internet, so I was wondering if anyone here has any?

I do not believe we had those over here, only the 2k3 fruit snacks, cereal, and Blue Bunny face bars.

[PizzaPower1985]

I do not believe we had those over here, only the 2k3 fruit snacks, cereal, and Blue Bunny face bars.

FRUIT SNACKS

I am 35 in less than 2 months and... these kinds of things will be with me forever. I ADORE fruit snacks. :P

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ca/f3/a1/caf3a134c828d8debb111ee4622669e3.jpg

https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_10eec078-edfb-4c03-b72a-945ee4bb6e85?wid=488&hei=488&fmt=pjpeg

[Zulithe]

lol... first reply nailed it. For me it was definitely pudding pies. I ate so many of those back then. By far the most memorable for me. To this day I still have a weird craving for pudding pies and buy them occasionally at safeway (they don't compare to the vintage ones, but what can!)_

Runner up would be the turtle head ice creams but as we all know, most of those came out of the packing being hilariously awful looking which made them more funny than cool.

Lastly, special mention to the TMNT cereal bowls which you could get free, wrapped to a box of cereal. The ultimate TMNT kid's "mooom we have to get this" item in the cereal isle for that time :lol:

[mikey0]

I am 35 in less than 2 months and... these kinds of things will be with me forever. I ADORE fruit snacks. :P

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ca/f3/a1/caf3a134c828d8debb111ee4622669e3.jpg

https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_10eec078-edfb-4c03-b72a-945ee4bb6e85?wid=488&hei=488&fmt=pjpeg[/QUOTE]

The late 80s and early 90s were the best time for fruit snacks:

https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/images/9/9f/The_Adventure_of_Link_Fruit_Snacks_Box_-_Front.jpg

https://tmnt-ninjaturtles.com/assets/TMNT-Fruit-Snacks-box_portrait.jpg

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/garfield/images/2/26/20190422_132305.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190422172941

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Man, back then you didn't really "make it" unless you had a Chef Boyardee line. Some of the lesser franchises like Sonic got stuck with Spaghetti-Os but anyone with actual clout had a Chef Boyardee. It wasn't even a contest.

I do remember seeing the TMNT bars advertised on ice cream trucks until the late-90s, at least, and maybe later, but I never thought to ask if they still carried them. I kinda doubt it; probably cheaper to not change the sticker on the truck and just say you're "all out" in the unlikely event anyone in the year 2000 asked for a Turtle Pop. :lol: I guess it's possible that by then they still carried them, but... odds are they were unsold stock from 4-5 years earlier, if they even did. The thought of it was partly why I never bothered to ask.

Let's see, we did the cereal, the ice cream, the pudding pies, the Chef Boyardee... what else was there? I'm drawing a blank but I feel like there had to be more.


Lol, Spaghettios are made by Chef Boyardee.... Just an fyi....

On topic, I had the icecream bars once or twice, and YES, they DO still make them! We get an icecream truck that comes through our complex parking lot on occasion in summer, and the last time I got something from it, I noticed they had the TMNT bars! They had the pasta as recently as the Nick toon was airing, as well, and I think those still sell fairly well.

[PizzaPower1985]

I am 35 in less than 2 months and... these kinds of things will be with me forever. I ADORE fruit snacks. :P

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ca/f3/a1/caf3a134c828d8debb111ee4622669e3.jpg

https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_10eec078-edfb-4c03-b72a-945ee4bb6e85?wid=488&hei=488&fmt=pjpeg

The late 80s and early 90s were the best time for fruit snacks:

https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/images/9/9f/The_Adventure_of_Link_Fruit_Snacks_Box_-_Front.jpg

https://tmnt-ninjaturtles.com/assets/TMNT-Fruit-Snacks-box_portrait.jpg

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/garfield/images/2/26/20190422_132305.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190422172941[/QUOTE]

:o:o:o:o OMG! I'm going to the store to get some fruit snacks! :o:o:o

[gdawz]

The first Bay movie had a Crush soda tie-in. I'm not a collector of all TMNT ephemera by any means, and not a fan of the first Bay movie, but for whatever reason... I wanted to own versions of all of these, and elicited the few people I know to scavenge shops in their neighborhoods for them, as there was a unique flavor for each turtle. I never found a Raphael can.

But to answer the original question: The Farley fruit snacks got the most play in my house, because they were the thing that fit into my parents' food buying habits easily enough. They bought me the cereal (the one with the hologram on the box) several times, and the fruit pies, and the ice cream bars when the truck ring-a-ding-dinged by, but those were "treats," whereas we usually had a box of fruit snacks that went in with lunches or whatnot. Sugar, either way, which I consumed more out of fandom than appeal - I don't recall really liking the pies, and the cereal was beyond my sweets tolerance for that type of thing.

I'm also probably applying this thought retroactively, but I feel like the cereal made me moderately aware of branding as a kid - like I recognized that there was nothing particularly unique about the cereal beyond the box; it could've been anything.

[Leo656]

Lol, Spaghettios are made by Chef Boyardee.... Just an fyi.... .

Irrelevant, as kids nobody cared. The rule was, "Boyardee is the Good Sh*t, Spaghetti-Os are for poor people." Nobody thought too hard about it, or whether it even made sense, but that was indeed the rule. I'm just reporting on it.

[mikey0]

I always loved the layout to the package for these:

http://igrewupinthe90s.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/81hpeQrjHIL._SL1500__11.jpg

You would get one turtle or all four turtles against a yellow (the color of April?s jumpsuit) background.

I wish there had been more characters on the stickers. The Bonkers candy TMNT stickers were heaps better than the regular and holographic stickers that came in the pudding pies. The Secret of the Ooze trading cards from the vanilla filled pudding pies were great nonetheless.

[Wildcat]

There are Hostess apple and cherry pies, but the TMNT pudding pies have been discontinued since late 1991.

Rise of the TMNT Tropical Punch Bars are in stores, but they are missing bubble gum eyes. You can buy them at department stores and some grocery stores?Ive tried the Rise pops. Theyre good but not the same kind from the trucks. I dont think.

So no company makes a standard vanilla pie? I thought it would be a common product even if it was not exactly the same.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Food that gets a famous kids' brand (that what TMNT is in this case) slapped onto it, is typically the worst food imaginable, the branding is literally the only selling point. I never have and will never ever buy food or snacks with the TMNT on the package unless I'm desperate, or they sell it for such a cheap price that nearly my entire food budget can be used for something else that month.

I am more likely to order one of the bizarre pizza variants mentioned in FW, at least the pizzeria sell themselves on the quality of their food. Rather a quality pizza ruined by bad toppings than some crap that is crap all the way through.

The only TMNT-related food and snacks products in Sweden I've seen are:

TMNT pizzas ("Turtlespizza")

TMNT tablets ("Turtlesgodis") and chewing gums ("Turtlestuggummi")

Some choccolate (I think) during the early Nickelodeon cartoon seasons or before the release of the 2014 movie (It must have been during mid or late 2013 or early-mid 2014)

I ate the tablets sometimes. Nothing else.

[mikey0]

Ive tried the Rise pops. Theyre good but not the same kind from the trucks. I dont think.

So no company makes a standard vanilla pie? I thought it would be a common product even if it was not exactly the same.

The Rise face pops from the ice cream truck have black bubble gum eyeballs, whereas the ones from the grocery store do not.

I have not seen vanilla pudding pies in stores since the early 90s. There are many recipes for vanilla pudding pies online. There have been chocolate pudding pies by Hostess in this century so far, but we will have to sign a petition to get the vanilla pudding pies back. Anything is possible. Hi-C Ecto Cooler was brought back in the summer of 2016, so hopefully, the new TMNT CGI does better than the first live action film so we can get new TMNT pies.

[PizzaPower1985]

Not food items, but merch related so... Did anyone ever use these?

Bath soaps? And there was a whole range of toiletry related items... toothpastes, shampoo etc.

https://i.etsystatic.com/16445651/r/il/895c5e/1563464370/il_794xN.1563464370_s80v.jpg

[Leo656]

Nah bruh but I had one'a them Leonardo shampoo bottles. Pretty spiffy. I had a He-Man and Hulk Hogan one, too, but somehow I only still have the Hogan.

[PizzaPower1985]

Nah bruh but I had one'a them Leonardo shampoo bottles. Pretty spiffy. I had a He-Man and Hulk Hogan one, too, but somehow I only still have the Hogan.

Why am I not surprised, or should anyone be surprised? Given your preoccupations with wrestling.

[Leo656]

Well t'were it up to me I'd still have all of 'em but I'm pretty sure my Mom threw those other ones out when I was at school one day. She was never as sentimental as I am.

Probably worth a damn small fortune now. :tgrumble:

[mikey0]

Not food items, but merch related so... Did anyone ever use these?

Bath soaps? And there was a whole range of toiletry related items... toothpastes, shampoo etc.

https://i.etsystatic.com/16445651/r/il/895c5e/1563464370/il_794xN.1563464370_s80v.jpg

I?ve never seen those before. I remember the Kid Care bubble bath bottles from the early to mid 90s. I did not like the second series of Kid Care bubble bath bottles because Raphael was dressed like Mike, The Sewer Surfer (sans the sunglasses). I always felt there should have been a Shredder trophy like bubble bath bottle based on the 1988 action figure. Instead, we got stuck with the Shredder OOZE bubble bath topper. It was cool that the Shredder OOZE bubble bath had a small resemblance to Slice ?N Dice Shredder at the time.

The bubble bath crystals from the very early 90s came in a nice tin like the popcorn.

[Wildcat]

The Rise face pops from the ice cream truck have black bubble gum eyeballs, whereas the ones from the grocery store do not.

I have not seen vanilla pudding pies in stores since the early 90s. There are many recipes for vanilla pudding pies online. There have been chocolate pudding pies by Hostess in this century so far, but we will have to sign a petition to get the vanilla pudding pies back. Anything is possible. Hi-C Ecto Cooler was brought back in the summer of 2016, so hopefully, the new TMNT CGI does better than the first live action film so we can get new TMNT pies.Well I meant the flavor of the ice cream. I know the gum ball eyes are only on the truck ones.

Anyway I do not think I had those soaps but I have this. I kept it after it was empty. Pretty cute.

https://i.postimg.cc/DynrQk0z/C63-FA559-6000-414-B-BB61-DEE18-C1-CD290.jpg

[mikey0]

Well I meant the flavor of the ice cream. I know the gum ball eyes are only on the truck ones.

Anyway I do not think I had those soaps but I have this. I kept it after it was empty. Pretty cute.

https://i.postimg.cc/DynrQk0z/C63-FA559-6000-414-B-BB61-DEE18-C1-CD290.jpg

The face pops are tropical punch flavored.

These are great to collect:

https://i.redd.it/wts259necre41.jpg

Kid Care did not need to give Michelangelo double straps, though.

[Leo656]

That's exactly the one I used to have. Dag nabbit. :tgrumble: