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12/31/2003: New Article: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cereal!

Here’s a new article that expands on something touched on in a previous one — the full tribute to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cereal! I love the fact that it existed, and bought it several times, but I don’t care what anyone says — this stuff just wasn’t tasty. Especially when you open up a box that’s been sitting around for fourteen years, which I do in this article. Commercial download is included, along with a short story about Michaelangelo’s trip to the grocery store. New design is alllmost finished, so I’ll link this one off the main page once it’s done.

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I remember the cereal pretty well. The ninja nets were gross, but the marshmellows were pretty good. Looking back on eating this stuff makes me wonder if we’ll all develop some kind of gulf war syndrome kind of condition. It couldn’t have been good for us.

Ghosted by elvee @ 01/08/2004 4:10 PM EST

nice article, I always enjoy the edge you put into these

Ghosted by Prometheus @ 01/10/2004 1:42 AM EST

the ninja turtles atre the most excelent cartoon in the world. no one understands the turtle like me. i need someone to tell me where i can get some of that fuckin cerial!

Ghosted by michael roberts @ 01/10/2004 5:06 PM EST

Oh… my god. I have like 2 or 3 of each color of those turtle bowls. And I have like these cups of the turtles that change the color when you put cold stuff in it. I’m shocked and amazed…

Ghosted by Theremin @ 01/10/2004 11:51 PM EST

I remember liking that cereal. Strange…

Ghosted by Gerry @ 01/11/2004 12:34 PM EST

Does anyone remember Crunchabungas?? Pizza flavored crunch… things. They were great. Also, a few people have mentioned the ice-cream pops with the gumballs for eyes. Yeah, I almost died eating one of those things. Don’t try to pop the eyes into your mouth with a toothpick.

I was 11… gimme a break.

Ghosted by G'Noose McJailbait @ 01/14/2004 3:18 PM EST

Hey, Turtle cereal was GOOD! I loved that stuff. I considered myself to old to be into collecting Turtles stuff, but I watched the cartoon and ate the cereal. I was my favorite cereal for a while. It wasn’t to sweat, had good rice chex, and the turtle and weapon shaped bits balanced it a bit. I actually miss this cereal, to bad it didn’t have a bigger box.

Ghosted by pecosdave @ 01/16/2004 1:54 PM EST

Man alive, I remember that stuff…. it was sort of like an UBER-SWEET lucky charms…the best part about it was that I used to take a dry bowl of the stuff while watching Saturday morning cartoons, pick all the marshmallowy bits out, and using only the power of my prepubescent hands, compress them into a giant multicolored jawbreaker-ish thing. After cartoons were over and the saturday morning educational crap came on, I’d run around outside sucking on the marshmallowy wad for hours. Good times.

Ghosted by ShadowStitch @ 01/22/2004 8:55 AM EST

You guys are the bomb. Holla~

Ghosted by Mackintosh @ 01/24/2004 6:08 PM EST

what cereal out nowadays is just like tmnt cereal? there was the spiderman one a couple years ago…there has to be one out now. the cereal is so damn tastey

Ghosted by rey @ 01/29/2004 5:01 PM EST

Just wanted to say that i remember those time when i woke up in the morning to eat those ninja turtles cereals and right after that i went to my friends house and play ninja turtles outside thinking that those cereals gave me power to do more moves! Why don’t they give out those cereals no more? And i remember i was in that fan club ( The ninja turtles club in Tecoma, Washington when i was small in the 1989 when i recieve picture cards like those playing cards. If i can get any information on how i can join back in the club please mail me at:
153 cerezo
p.o.box 422081
Del Rio, Texas 78840

Ghosted by robert lee morales @ 02/23/2004 3:34 PM EST

It’s really funny that I came across this. Back in the day the Turtles cereal had a contest where all you had to do was buy the box and open it to see if you won. What did you win? 6 large Fedex boxes of the oldest, latest, and exclusive Ninja Turtle toys. Well I never win anything, but I kept bothering my mom to get me box after box. And one day, I won. My mom never believed me until I showed her the certificate. To this day I still love the Turtles and that was the only thing I won in my life.

Ghosted by Scott @ 02/28/2004 2:08 PM EST

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~schapira/tmntnet2.mov

Ghosted by Mr P @ 03/29/2004 5:18 PM EST

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~schapira/tmntnet2.mov

Ghosted by Mr P @ 03/29/2004 5:18 PM EST

dude, what the hell. How dare you say this stuff tastes like sandpaper. I actually LIKED this cereal. I was eating lucky charms today and got reminded of my dear ninja turtles cereal… that stuff was GOOD.

Ghosted by bob @ 04/07/2004 12:24 PM EDT

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Ghosted by andre @ 04/11/2004 1:56 AM EDT

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Ghosted by andre @ 04/11/2004 1:56 AM EDT

Dude, I don’t know what you were talking about. Ninja Turtles cereal was awesome. I remember eating that and watching Rambo. Next to Count Chocula it’s the one of the best cereals ever. Those rice chex things were pretty tasty. Oh yeah those pies were da’ shit. I think I still have one of those cards some where.

Ghosted by Jeremy @ 05/26/2004 11:16 PM EDT

I nevered had any Turtle Pies before. But have made a recipe for it. As for the cereal, I’ve had the Candaian TMNT Edtion. Pretty good, which reminds me, I was pretyy messy when I ate. On my ketchen self I found like 1 or 2 peices of the cereal lol. Green and shapped like a turtle head. ha ha ha.

Ghosted by Mike @ 09/05/2004 3:39 PM EDT

I bought a sales sample box (on the back instead of being able to send away for TMNT 2 collector cards, it has a promotion schedule for ads about the cereal) from a comic store. I’ve been tempted to open it to see if the cereal had legs or not…but I’ve refrained….man it’s old…1989.

Ghosted by Kevin McGill @ 01/08/2007 1:33 AM EST

Man, what is up with this article. I fondly remember my two younger brothers and me the oldest and only girl eating the TMNT cereal. To this day it is the best tasting cereal I have ever had and I would pay a good bit of money for them to bring it back. We ate that cereal every morning for breakfast until they stopped making it which was a total dissappointment. The same goes for the TMNT pies. When we were given our allowance the corner store was the first place we ran to buy our TMNT pies. That is the best dessert ever and it sucks that this stuff isn’t available anymore. I was a die hard TMNT fan and the arcade video game not the one you played at home was something else that took my allowance. Playing with my brothers because 4 people could play at once and a TMNT pie in one hand was the perfect day for me. Growing up sucks!

P.S. Yea, the green pie filling took me awhile to eat. I didn’t try it until I watched one of my brothers eat it and then there was no going back for me. The cereal and pies were like crack for me too. I would dream about eating the stuff the next day.

Ghosted by Candice Mofla @ 07/15/2007 7:49 AM EDT

This article is a travesty and I take it as a personal offense. The time you have invested in trashing something you clearly know nothing about is appalling. Go back to taste school. No, I take that back. Go back to the womb. Go back to the twinkle in your drunken mother’s lazy lidded, slutty eye on prom night. Go back to your parents’ first awkward conversation after your mom knocked your dad’s books out of his hands after fourth period but didn’t have time to help him pick them up. Because she had to go see the P.E. teacher. For Extra Help. It was sexual.

This was the first hit on a google search for “teenage mutant ninja turtles cereal” and I couldn’t give a shit if you saved a nursery of babies from a fire or if this shithouse masquerading as a website did a single goddamn thing for anyone… You have sullied the name of a nearly legendary cash-in cereal and insulted both my family and a Shaolin Temple.

Go fuck yourself,
yellowjournalism

p.s. I don’t understand why someone hasn’t just made sweetened chex + marshmellows. I can understand the cost of licensing the Turtles name but for christ’s sake sweetened chex and marshmellows costs nothing to produce and produces everything in the world of taste.

p.p.s. why the fuck are you eating 14 year old boxes of cereal

Ghosted by yellowjournalism @ 04/26/2009 10:53 PM EDT

A few days ago, I actually had a hankering for this stuff. Sorry, but this was a huge part of my childhood, and although I had the cereal only a few times, it left a huge impact on me. I had a couple bowls and was hooked (hoho).
I’m glad I noticed this article linked from a few blog posts ago, as I was going back TWENTY PAGES OF BLOG POSTS.
Yeah I’m becoming a bit of a fan.

Oh wait, nevermind. I was really hankering Honeycomb. Nevermind.

Ghosted by Blunder @ 09/21/2009 12:22 AM EDT

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