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05/20/2004: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pudding Pies!

This is a really short article, but I wanted to get the ball rolling on the quest to find Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pudding Pies. Made by Hostess in the early 1990s, these vanilla goo-filled green-dyed pastries changed the lives of every grade schooler who knew what a “sai” was. After a year of hunting, I’ve located three of the original wrappers and some of the cards, and this has excited me enough to pay tribute even if I don’t have anything too worthwhile to show you. Oh well. They’re great wrappers, though. I love the wrappers. When will the pie search end? Soon, I hope. This is making me feel like such a loser.


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Chia Pies?

Ghosted by kingklash @ 05/22/2004 11:20 AM EDT

What is Blue Raspberry soda?

We Australians know nothing of blue raspberry brand soda

Ghosted by Troy @ 05/22/2004 1:19 PM EDT

Can’t say that I ever endulged in a turtle pie…I was wondering if you ever found out who hacked your shit. That has to suck hardcore. When you find out send ‘em my way and I’ll break their kneecaps.

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 05/22/2004 1:32 PM EDT

Choco Taco, Turtle pie,
Chocodiles up to the sky.
Pac-Man pops, Hulk on a stick,
A ton of Glyburide so I won’t get sick.
Krueger Kandy, GameBoy Gum,
If you’re not X-E, you can’t get some.
Photog, Photog, where are you?
Yabba-dabba fruitylicious stew!
All-new wrappers for the same old crap,
My head hurts, time for my nap.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 05/22/2004 2:47 PM EDT

i love those. the had them in the vending machine when i was in 7th grade. i wish i had one now.

Ghosted by djmfnk @ 05/22/2004 3:40 PM EDT

I remember these things in every detail. The ones I always ate (and I ALWAYS got one of these every oppurtunity possible) had a normal sugar/icing-hybrid coated crust but the inside was green-colored vanilla pudding. Made yer teeth and tongue green. That of course was part of fun. Especially if you were a kid. Finding one of these days must be impossible. I highly doubt any one of those could’ve survived a shelf life at all none the less be edible. IF you could find one in a wrapper now, it’d probably be of the same consistency as one of those "Gladiator Energy Cubes" of nastiness that we’ve seen showcased here. I’d go crazy with excitement if they re-released these things based on the new cartoon. Which if you havent seen isnt that bad really. Its about the same only darker. Of course it IS based on the actual Dark Horse comic and not a goofy 90’s re-hash. Enjoy!

Ghosted by Jason @ 05/22/2004 4:15 PM EDT

I was one of those sad pitiful children that for the year or two that Turtle Pies existed lived off the gooey goodness pushing away all other foods and going into a rampage if my lunchbox at school lacked the Turtle Pie. Sure, Mom may have packed a Cherry Pie, but damn it that was a CHERRY PIE! And who wants to eat a cherry pie when you can eat a Green Pie oozing a white liquid that easily could have come from Mars or the Sewer.

Luckily for me, an hour away in Middletown, New York was my savior, something so unholy, so wrong, and so lower middle class it is still etched in my memory for the Turtle Pies. There in that run down post industrial town next to the old dilapidated Playtogs building where anything from the 70s was still sold at 25% off was a HOSTESS OUTLET!!!! Not any outlet either, but one stocked with only the best hostess things that could not or would not be sold ANYWHERE else on the planet, usually all dated to expire last week as well… and in that Mecca of about to expire sweets, cakes, and cookies was an entire section devoteds to my beloved Turtle Pies… often at insane prices such as 10 for $5 or even less if they were already expired… to my young eyes 10 of anything for an amount I could count on one hand was unbelievable!!! even more so when that ment 10 Turtles pies… that was 10 pies to eat on the car ride home, which I often did necessitating my mom buy 20 pies!!!! 10 for the trip home and 10 for the school week till we went back to Hostess the week after to restock…. yes those were the good old days, the Hostess store is still there, the pies are not I am sad to say, but they were my blissful food calming all my young worries away knowing I ate the same power foods as my beloved Turtles!

Cheers All!
~Greg

Ghosted by Greg @ 05/22/2004 6:04 PM EDT

I think I vaguely remember the Crunchabunga commercial… I would love to see it.

Ghosted by Piscez @ 05/22/2004 6:09 PM EDT

Those pies certainly would have changed the ebb and flow of the "American Pie" movies. I just wanted to say ebb and flow.

Ghosted by Bait Masterson @ 05/22/2004 6:18 PM EDT

I defintiely remember pouring my hard earned quarters into the TMNT arcade game. It was released at a time in Konami’s coin-op history that they were making tons of 4-player side scrollers. Other than TMNT I was hooked on X-Men(especially the 6 player version that had 2 monitors connected to each other because it was so huge) and the Simpsons 4 player game. Its great that I can play them all now for free on M.A.M.E.
I was always wondering about this, and maybe you could answer this Matt being the TMNT enthusist that you are. Why are they called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the U.K. ? Are ninjas just a no-no in england? Do they think the word ninja didn’t describe their line of duty since ninjas are really assassins and maybe they didn’t want kids to think of assassins as heroes? ANSWER PLEASE!!!

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 05/22/2004 6:32 PM EDT

I loved thoes things. Ate them all the time as a kid. If I remember correctly, they were just standard bavarian pudding pies with a green stripe of frosting. I don’t believe ANYONE makes pudding pies anymore…I live in the mid-west and can not find any. Any time I go to another city I ALWAYS look at any gas station we stop at. Never found anything. Hell, I’d just settle for a standard pudding Pie.

And Matt, Get a Life now has two volumes available on DVD, I’d love to see another Get a Life article sometime…

Ghosted by Garner @ 05/22/2004 6:32 PM EDT

Heh heh, turtle "pie"

Ghosted by SuperStar @ 05/22/2004 10:22 PM EDT

I definatly remember these pies as having green pudding inside. I guess they changed the color to boost sales. I also guess that doing so didn’t work at all or else we’d be swimming in the things.

Ghosted by billionsknivez @ 05/23/2004 1:37 AM EDT

The turtle in the bonus story looks like Leonardo on my screen. :-P

But nice article. :)

Ghosted by Starflyer @ 05/23/2004 1:42 AM EDT

I used to get Beano comics when I was a kid and they used to advertise all kinds of crap(remember Max The Lion?), INCLUDING those Turtle pizzas mentioned a little while ago. The slogan was something like: "You’ve read their comics, you’ve seen their movies – now eat their lunch!" Mmmm. Although weirdly enough, I’m sure the ones in the ad were of the ordinary tomato-and-cheese variety – no wacky green slime toppings that I can recall.

Yes, the reason the series was renamed over here was that someone decided ninjas were not a suitable role model for young children, so they became "Hero" instead. I’m sure that made all the difference. Haven’t checked the current reruns to see if they’ve changed it back again…

Ghosted by Phil A @ 05/23/2004 1:33 PM EDT

Thanks for the scoop Phil. Mad props to my jiggy fly homie mack daddy g-funkalcious friend. I always wanted to go to England mostly because British people are weird and the music. Being weird myself i think i would fit in well and besides most of my heritage is based in Wales. Long live Britain…

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 05/23/2004 1:51 PM EDT

I know about a bottle of pepsi blue

Ghosted by ha0000 @ 05/23/2004 2:10 PM EDT

I must say that Matt shouldn’t be so quick to say that TMNT pudding pies will never come back. They brough back the ice cream pops. And I say that if that can happen, then so can the return of TMNT pudding pies.

Ghosted by Nate @ 05/23/2004 5:05 PM EDT

Spam…BOO!

Ghosted by Garner @ 05/23/2004 5:28 PM EDT

Wait, somebody lives in the Midwest and can’t find pudding pies at any gas station? Something is wrong with those stations then. They’ve been taken over by aliens or something, call the police.

Turtle Pies and Choco-Tacos. XE is on a roll. Choco-Tacos are one of the only good things about summer. After you fill up on enough of them you just sit back and wait for fall/winter to roll around so we can get back to the good shit like horror movies, thanksgiving feasts and lots of presents under multicolored lights hanging from trees that can barely stand because of all the junk weighing them down. And snow, lots of snow.

That was a mouthful.

Ghosted by Matt (#2?) @ 05/23/2004 7:09 PM EDT

Hostess still makes a bavarian(sp?) creme pie, which is about as close to pudding as they get. I will make a run to the Hostess outlet store in Madison to see if they have any other types of pudding pies.

Ghosted by SuperCalo666 @ 05/23/2004 7:13 PM EDT

I can’t remember much about these pies…but they were damn good! I bet they could bring me to orgasm these days…

Oh, and I beleive that Matt DID use Leonardo in the pics, not Donatello.

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 05/23/2004 8:15 PM EDT

This article rings true in my heart.

In other words, my dresser is covered in stickers from these wretched pies.

Ghosted by boneyjellyfish @ 05/23/2004 9:04 PM EDT

OH YEAH, I REMEMBER THOSE! Actually they wasn’t so bad.

Ghosted by Startrekman @ 05/23/2004 9:10 PM EDT

yeah i remember those things, they were pure sugar and they had a slick green coating

Ghosted by not second @ 05/23/2004 9:33 PM EDT

I’ve just watched a three hour marathon on Discovery Health about obesity, gastrointestinal surgery and flaccid skin-fold removal. Then I came here and read about TMNT pudding pies. All I can say is that I really, really wish I hadn’t done those two things on the night before my gym closes for a national holiday. Eep. 8^O

Ghosted by Molten @ 05/23/2004 11:16 PM EDT

Optical illusion — I assure you, it’s Don.

Ghosted by Matt @ 05/23/2004 11:18 PM EDT

I never frequented gas stations as a child, so I never got in on this thing.

But pudding PIES aside, the Pudding POP is back!!!

Ghosted by Ashayne @ 05/23/2004 11:36 PM EDT

Dang, I had forgotten all about these, and now here they come back to haunt me! I remember these pies being delicious–I think my favorite turtle-related candy was something called ‘Turtle Eggs,’ though. In retrospect, that’s kinda bizarre, since all the turtles were male and non-egg-laying, unless the mutation process somehow induced the production of tiny, speckled, jelly-bean-like eggs.

Ghosted by Shiamir @ 05/23/2004 11:57 PM EDT

"What is Blue Raspberry soda?
We Australians know nothing of blue raspberry brand soda"

Ooh, that may be a problem.. I’m not sure if they have it in australia or not.
If there are safeways there, go to one and see if they have it there, it’s a very inexpensive blue soda.

Ghosted by Zeekay @ 05/24/2004 1:27 AM EDT

Mmm… Turtle Pies. If memory serves, the ones I had always had the white custard filling and the crust covered in the green frosting. Got weird looks at school when I ate them. In any case, now you guys got me wanting the pudding filled pies. I read about the new TMNT game coming out on the consoles, the main game is just like the current console games, same look and everything, but different levels and you can have 4 player games with a multitap. The arcade games are hidden. Now off to find the emu of Turtles In Time.

P.S. I’m so freakin’ glad that the pudding pops are back! I saw them in the grocery store, and couldn’t resist buying them!

Ghosted by SKiTZo from stupid5pin.com @ 05/24/2004 2:36 AM EDT

you have no idea how appetiing this article is to me!!! I’m drooling like a river, and im wanting those pies! So great but all the carbs! why carbs why! must have puddin’ pie!! *passes out*

Ghosted by heeloyd @ 05/24/2004 4:18 AM EDT

finish the freakin chia plot!

Ghosted by ANdrew @ 05/24/2004 9:58 AM EDT

I definitely remember the TMNT Pudding Pies. All of the ones that I ever had came with a green frosting on the outside, like a frosted donut, and then had regular yellow vanilla pudding inside. I hated the crust, so I would always rip them in two and suck out all the puddingy goodness. I remember collecting all of the cards, and probably have them in a box somewhere at my parents, but I definitely don’t care enough to search through all that crap to find them.

I haven’t had a chance to see much of the new TMNT cartoon, cause I’m usually in an alcoholic coma until 3:00 or so on Saturdays. I have seen a couple though, and it seems like they have the same villain as in the last 4 unaired episodes of the old series that just came out on DVD. Am I right?

Ghosted by Beerstalker @ 05/24/2004 12:41 PM EDT

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Ghosted by internet gambling casinos @ 05/24/2004 4:25 PM EDT

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Ghosted by Matt @ 05/24/2004 4:26 PM EDT

I thought the new TMNT is on Cartoon Network weekdays now? Watched a couple of episodes a few weeks back. It was on in the evening.

Ghosted by Richard @ 05/24/2004 4:36 PM EDT

The historical aspects of internet gambling should make for some good entertainment. I anxiously await for its debut on The History Channel

Ghosted by Nachokhaki @ 05/24/2004 5:25 PM EDT

Cheeeee-Yaaaaaaahh!

Ghosted by kingklash @ 05/24/2004 5:28 PM EDT

Ewwwww, something about pies with green stuff in them just doesn’t appeal to me in the slightest. Good thing I never had them even though I love TMNT as a kid. I doubt that my mom would have let me have anything like that anyway. Hell I couldn’t even get fruit wrinkles when I was a good. Something about sugar making me crazy or something….I dunno.

Off Topic: I have the entire series (all 13 episodes that is) of Visionaries on my computer. I don’t know if you would be interested in them or now Matt but I thought I would throw the idea out there. The would fit on a DVD without a problem.

Ghosted by Ronald McTurdburgler @ 05/24/2004 6:46 PM EDT

to SuperCalo666, wow!! someone else from Rapids/Point!! holy shit dude, i live in Plover!! Lincoln or SPASH??

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 05/24/2004 7:15 PM EDT

Ugh, turtle pies. I can’t believe I used to actually EAT those. It’s amazing what we’ll do for loyalty. I think i’m still digesting them.

Ghosted by The Dragonrider @ 05/24/2004 7:29 PM EDT

Visionaries is out on Region 2 DVD in the UK!!!!!!!

Asda (now owened by Wal Mart) in the UK made cheese and marshmellow Turtles Pizzas!

Those apple Pizzas were strange, but my little brother loved em!

where can i find out about the new games? where can i get good mame files?

Ghosted by Soapdish @ 05/24/2004 9:01 PM EDT

wanna talk crazy… for some reason the word JOSTA just popped up in my head.

Ghosted by hipnotyk @ 05/24/2004 9:42 PM EDT

Originally Posted by Beerstalker :
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I haven’t had a chance to see much of the new TMNT cartoon, cause I’m usually in an alcoholic coma until 3:00 or so on Saturdays. I have seen a couple though, and it seems like they have the same villain as in the last 4 unaired episodes of the old series that just came out on DVD. Am I right?
———————————–

Dregg, the villian from the final two (crappy) seasons of the old cartoon does not exist in the new cartoon. They only use original villains or villians from the underground comic-book that TMNT originally came from. Sorry

Ghosted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 05/24/2004 9:42 PM EDT

It’s now playing at 6 pm on cartoon network. BTW the final seasons weren’t that crappy.

Ghosted by Dan @ 05/24/2004 9:55 PM EDT

I’m sorry that this isn’t TMNT related and most of you have probably seen this but it greatly disturbs me if its true. http://www.thedigitalbits.com/rumormill.html

scroll down and see the horror….THE HORROR!!!!!! If this is genuine George Lucas is out of his frickin mind…

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 05/24/2004 10:38 PM EDT

Ahh, Turtle Puddin’ Pies. A Fat-kid’s dream (and a fat-kid mom’s nightmare). Loved ‘em. I bet you can find a recipe out there somewhere to make ‘em – but without the free Turtle cards/stickers that came with ‘em, who needs the hassle!

Oop, Eep, Ork, Ahh-ahh!

Ghosted by Mugzy. . . @ 05/24/2004 11:19 PM EDT

my mouth watered when i read about the pies, GODDAMNIT!! I WANT THEM NOW!!!

Ghosted by KOMP @ 05/25/2004 12:31 PM EDT

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