how come tmnt like pizza
 

how come the creators made it pizza? i mean its cool and all im lover of pizza myself but why is the question i ask, they could have made it like pie... lol can you imagin that the boys fav food pie well any hoo.

I'm thinking it has to do with accessibility. There are plenty of pizza joints in the City; the Turtles would never go hungry. Pie on the other hand... well I don't know how many pies get thrown away, and I'd imagine if the Turtles came across one, it wouldn't be fit to eat (being smashed or mushy, etc).

Also... eating pie all the time might've resulted in some seriously diabetic turtles...:ohwell:

Maybe some subconscious association between their Italian names and a food from Italy.

or it could just be that they're teenagers and they can order it without having to go out or make it themselves.

Good they didn't choose spaghetti as their brand food, then.

Actually, they did sometimes make it themselves (hence, all their "unique" recipes) and they also went out; them being teenagers is simply enough reason.

Was pizza in the original eastman and laird comic? Because my opinion is because it was aimed at children and as a child, I LOVED pizza! Pizza and ice cream are hot with youngsters. Pizza adds to the appeal of the boys.

eating all the pizza should have made him turtles with high blood pressure and obsese. They probably ate a salt block's worth of pizza in a year!

Mine sounds smarter.


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In the Mirage story, they didn't eat pizza as a rule. In different stories they ate Chinese food, beef stew, sub sandwiches, pita pocket bread filled with tabouleh, sweet and sour turkey with plenty of veggies... (well, they were planning on eating it but then the Foot broke into their apartment and caught the place on fire)

Don't forget sushi! They're Japanese in ancestry; the must eat sushi. :roll:

They are? jee I thought they were Chrysemys Scripta Elegans....Not Maremys Japonica:lol::P:D


sorry couldn't resist....bad me bad me

Just out of curiosity, Buslady, how do you know they're Red Ear Sliders? I've never really seen stripes or red ears on the boys ...

And I meant they were of Japanese ancestry by adoption. ;)

Donnie said he was a red ear slider in one of the Tales issues... :D Really now they're their own species. Chrysemys Scripta Ninjemys hehehe or something silly like that. (Ninjemys is a real name put onto a prehistory horned turtle ancester...they really did name it after TMNT)
Aaannnddd going by the often repeated "Typical Pet Store Turtles" which is the red ear slider, they are.

They get a lot of exercise. Fighting bad guys really melts off the pounds.

Don mentions it on page 91 of the Tales of the TMNT Collected Books, Vol. 1.

"I was a red slider once, too... but that was a very long time ago." -- Don.

Haha, Buslady you're right about the blood pressure thing...

And hey, when did they get their hands on tabouleh pita pockets, Aig?

hmmm i just realised....them being Scripta they're related toooo MAP TURTLES! ^.^

Okay I will shut up now ..... off to work BYE BYE

Online shopping adressed to 1-22 and an 8th.

Woah, I've been told. ;)

Cool that they named a turtle species after our boys, too!

"Where the heck's 1-22 and an 8th?!"

I know this is ontopic...but offtopic...but...

-everyone loves pizza! :D

"You're standin' on it, dude." :)

"Hey! This is a ten! The tabs thirteen!"

"You're two minutes late, dude!"

"C'mon, I couldn't find the place!"

"Wise men say, forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza."

"And I thought I deliver everywhere..."

In the comics they really liked guzzling beer,( i assume cause no matter where they were, they drank or asked for beer...) of coarse ya can'y put that on a kiddie show so pizza is the next teen fave!

Also, beer and pizza go great together.

Does it? I guess for me it would have ta be ROOTbeer and pizza.8)

really? That is cool. I can't believe that in the miage comics Splinter let the turtles have alcohol when they where only teenagers. I would have thought that Splinter would be against drunkedness for obvious reasons. Did the turtles drink to the point of drunkness or did they just have a few cold ones just to wash down what they ate?

I'm thinking it's the latter scenario...

Okay, maybe a little more for ol' Raph... :evilgrin:

I wondered the same. Splinter never scolded them for drinking (then again when they drank he wasn't around :lol: ) but he does on a couple of occassions ask them to watch their language. My theory is he didn't know. Parents should know better...:roll:

They never drink to the point of being drunk (most of the time cause a fight breaks out and they go into action) except for (ya guessed right)... Raphiel. In the new TMNT comics, A drunk Raph gets ambushed by vampires as he is walking home from an alien bar and is nearly drained of blood. Fortunately, the fugitoid rescues him but the bite transforms him into a huge monster that resemble Gamera Don!

In the older mirage issues, Casey did get wasted once and tried to fight Donny! Of coarse he got his butt kicked!

The firsttime I think they had alchol was during the space arc. They ended up in the bar looking for a way off the planet, and one of them took a sip of something. I think it was Mike. Anyway the results can be seen in one of the Mirage avatars. I think I had that for a while, but then Deadpool conquered all once again.

Anyway, I think that's the one time any of them have been drunk.

Actually tell a lie. There is a back up story where Raph is walking home one night anbsoluetly out of his skull, somehow winds up in a medievil dimension, rescues a princess from being sacrificed, gets knocked unconcious, stripped, trussed up in weird viking gear, then offered up as a replacement sacrfice by the same princess, breaks free, runs for his life, and somehow winds up back in the sewer in front of Leo and Don. After trying to explain where he's been all night, he decides "I guess you had to be there."

And he probably did have a problem with them getting drunk, just not being totally against ocassionaly enjoying one.

O yeah! I have that comic book "Shell Shock" .Correction...it was our party dude Mikey who was wasted (The only reason I know cause he's holding his chuck) He is accused of actually attacking and violating a viking princess and is nearly sacrificed in the name of Nexus...but he escapes into a drain pipe and winds up back in the sewer where Don and Leo scold him for being out all night, smellin of beer and attacking them... weird

In the same comic, Splinter helps an alcoholic see the need to get his life in order. He does comment saying," I don't know why people need alcohol.."

Now that I recall, in issue 2 or 3, after Splinter goes missin, April picks them up in her van. After a long car chase, they make it to her place. She asks them if they wanted anyting to drink and Raph is quick to say, "Got any beer?" To my shock she says, "ok thats one beer..." but they all fall asleep from exhaustion before she gets the others orders. What a cool big sister...:o

i'm just wondering how the hell the turtles even got ahold of some beer to begin with. I mean i know from personal experience that beer is an aquired taste that you develop over having it a few times. So how exactly was beer even intoduced to them? And even if Splinter did know about them drinking beer, why did he let them have any even if it was just to drink at with their meal, there still just teenagers so I would have thought he would have nipped that in the bud as soon as he found out about it.

oh wow cool sh*t, he has? Are the turtles real potty mouths in the comics? I know that its a bit dumb for me to be so supriced that the turtles guzzel bear and probably cuss, but in every incarnation that i've seen of them the turtles have always been portrayed as these squeaky clean up standing role models that are always moral :roll: So when I hear that they participate in under aged drinking and its alluded to that they get a bit foul mouthed I get all: "really? no sh*t". Have the turtles ever been put in a situation where they have been high as well? Some how mutant turtles high on something sounds like it would be freakin' funny. :lol:

In the 4 issue Leonado comic, to help Leo recover from his blindness Splinter gives him a drink called infini-tea. Leo asks him directly if he was giving him drugs but he doesn't answer. Leo drinks it and has visions of him being in feudal japan with a human wife and daughter. he realizes that the reason he hasn't recovered was the guilt he was feeling for killing an innocent homeless man. He discovers the truth that the foot ninja tricked Leo and he didn't kill anyone. he recovers his sight and thanks Splinter.

i tihnk its just popular culture in the late 80's and early 90's, everyone ate pizza back then, it also might explain the skateboard and skates they used at times also, they where teenages who did what was popular at the time

or why they wore bandannas, since bandannas where a insanely popular during the 80's. Man styles where strange back then, Glad I issed most of the eightes. :ohwell:

Raph's an alcaholic. In the 1st issue he asked April if he could have a beer (despite being like 15). In volume 4 he was coming from a bar he frequents and was too fraking drunk to fight off some "vampires"...he was bitten which caused the mutagen in his bloodstream to activate and poof became Gameraph.

There was a recent issue of Tales of the TMNT where Raph and Cha Ocho became bar hopping buddies. :lol: