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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.

Posted by Matt on 05/20/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 241 comments

I don’t know about in NY Matt, but the last gig my band played was across the street from a Hostess thrift shop here in CT, and they had pudding pies. I know because I bought two, ate them in the span of about 10 minutes, and then felt like my stomach was on the verge of tearing open for the next 6 hours.

Chestnuts roasted by BaronVonHotPants @ 05/21/2004 10:18 AM

I so remember those pies. I even ate quite a few myself. They used to sell them in the vending machine at school.

I’m sure someone out there still has an un-used one stashed away somewhere. Hell people still have full un-used bottles for Crystal Pepsi.

Chestnuts roasted by Kevin @ 05/21/2004 10:21 AM

Joker’s flying wing crashes and explodes.
Harley: PUDDIN’!
Batman: Probably.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/21/2004 11:30 AM

I remember these things. I never tried one though. I always liked the hostess pies though. I munched on those things all the time in college, which explains why I’m going to the gym regularly now, hehe.

Oh, Matt, you should find the ad for another TMNT treat I remember from about the same time period. These little round crunchy snacks called "TMNT Pizzerias". The ad was in claymation, and the turtles were doing this funny song where they were saying lines like "A snack attack! A snack attack, jack!" and other little bits of craziness. The snack itself wasn’t even that good, but what did I care? I was a kid, and I loved the turtles.

Chestnuts roasted by Number5 @ 05/21/2004 11:39 AM

Damn you Kevin, now I really want a bottle of crystal clear Pepsi. I loved that stuff, but I swear it was formulated to come out you nose.

Chestnuts roasted by Jonas @ 05/21/2004 12:45 PM

Sadly I remember eating a vanilla pudding pie for lunch just about every day of my freshman year of high school. I couldn’t get enough chocolate coated pie crust with crappy vanilla pudding vomit inards. I think I must of needed a good smacking around or something. Don’t like to think of eating those diarrhea pies now. BLLLEEEAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHRREETTCCHHH…RROOOWWWWLLLFFFFF

Chestnuts roasted by Blah...blah @ 05/21/2004 12:48 PM

Number5: Those were called "Crunchabungas." I’m looking. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/21/2004 12:50 PM

Ahhh yes Crunchabungas.

The one biscuit I hated more than Barbeque flavored.

I’m on a quest as well. To find the last bottle of Pepsi Blue on this damn planet :P

I would KILL for Pepsi Blue

Chestnuts roasted by Troy @ 05/21/2004 1:12 PM

I have to admit, and this won’t be popular. even though I was at the target age group for tmnt, I hated the show. I hated the toys. I hated the merchandising. I remember the tmnt pies, and I despised them with me little not-yet-punkness. now I’m older, I saw the new tmnt for the first time yesterday while at a friends house, and I still hate them. though, I did like the first 2 movies. I don’t know why. oh yea, now I remember why I was posting…is this gonna be the next major search for x-e, ABONDON BITNER AND LOOK FOR TMNT PIES! They still sell chocodiles, and other pies around here, maybe I’ll go check out the hostess store on my lunch break, find some expired tmnt pies?

Chestnuts roasted by brandon @ 05/21/2004 1:16 PM

Hell yeah, Turtle Pie!

Chestnuts roasted by Don't Touch, Willy. @ 05/21/2004 1:41 PM

Who put the dogs out?
Woof! Woof woof! Woof-woof!
Who put the dogs out?
Burn! Crackle singe! Hose, ahhh!

Any luck getting the pies sent yet, Matt? If you’re interested, here are the numbers for the local (Eastern Massachusetts) Hostess Bakery Outlets. I’d call them myself, but I don’t want to explain the long distance calls to Mr. Trajeal. He just doesn’t get it.

Mass
Abington: 781-878-6077
Braintree: 781-848-0670
Fitchburg: 978-343-3113
Malden: 781-324-3800
Medford: 781-395-7450
Taunton: 508-822-4876
W. Boylston: 508-835-4464
Worcester: 508-368-3200, 508-754-1959

You probably already have these, but just in case.

OT: Did anyone watch Helter Skelter on the 16th? I am so ticked that I missed it. Does anyone know if they’ll be replaying it at all?

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 05/21/2004 1:48 PM

Well since "everyone’s" coming out…

I HATED the TMNT as realized in the popular children’s cartoon too. By far one of the crappiest cartoon shows of my childhood, ranks right up there with Super Mario Bros.

I guess I was spoiled on MOTU and Transformers, but I’ll never understand how the TMNT and Super Mario cartoons got so popular in spite of themselves. I mean, I get the whole merchandising thing, in particular in connections to video games, but those shows sucked the big one and still do in retrospect.

Chestnuts roasted by Rattus @ 05/21/2004 1:59 PM

Troy- My boyfriend is on the same quest. He was succesful around christmas in finding some, but no luck recently. I think you can buy some on ebay, if you don’t mind drinking expired pop.
But one thing we found that sort of tastes like it is mixing safeway brand blue raspberry soda with pepsi. I mix it about half and half, it turns green.

Chestnuts roasted by Zeekay @ 05/21/2004 2:30 PM

Why do we, as kids, like anything? I still can’t properly explain to my 14-year old nephew what we saw in Krofft shows in the 70′s. If you were to show him a old-school Sleestack, he might find it amusing, where somebody ’round my age probably got nightmares from the unblinking, jewel-eyed crab lizard. SSSSSSsssss! An old magazine article I read once summed up just about all saturday-morning programming this way: "Sure, a lot of the shows were cheesy, and we knew it. But we loved them in spite, and in some cases BECAUSE of thier cheesiness." Rave on, my Holy Fool. The Super Show was silliness, pure and simple.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/21/2004 2:36 PM

I have nothing to add to the turtle pies cause my mom wouldn’t let me buy any stuff like that when I was a kid. I was wondering though if any of you, or Matt, have seen or played the new Atari Plug and Play things that came out recently. It has the origional(?) ms. Pac Man and Pitfall and a bunch of others I think. I saw a commercial for them but I was half asleep. They sound cool though.

Chestnuts roasted by Stacey @ 05/21/2004 2:39 PM

I’ve got one. To be honest, the novelty wore off pretty quick. Every game is available via emulation (in fact, most are available in 10,000 places in simply loading flash pieces), so the appeal is more in having that swank controller-shaped slice of home decor. I’d still say to grab one since they’re so cheap, but don’t expect a life-changing gaming experience.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/21/2004 2:42 PM

I’ve played the atari games, they’re pretty good, except for the actual input themselves, I swear I used to be able to beat dig dug for at least 6 levels, on this thing you’re lucky to get level 3.

Chestnuts roasted by brandon @ 05/21/2004 2:46 PM

Oh yeah. Those WERE called crunchabungas. Damn my feeble memory. :P

Anyway, I looked it up, and the guy who did the crunchabungas commercial I mentioned was Will Vinton, the guy who did all those ads and TV shows with the california raisins.

Chestnuts roasted by Number5 @ 05/21/2004 2:51 PM

The thing that annoyed me about the original TMNT was when they started using fourth-wall humor,i.e knowing they’re in a cartoon show and making comments to that fact. There was also the time the Technodrome was going to destroy the faces on Mount Rushmore,but didn’t make any mention they lived in New York City and thus had a long ways to go there and back.

But what do I know? I enjoy an occansial episode of Superfriends,a show just full of seventies cartoon cheesiness.

Chestnuts roasted by Overlord @ 05/21/2004 3:16 PM

With He-Man, you kinda had to be there. I wouldn’t tell people to start watching the old series now if they hadn’t grown up with it. The nostalgia thing just plays too big of a part.

Transformers a bit different; I think new fans can be created, but the motif of the original series has seen so many revamps since.

But I think the first few seasons of TMNT are strongly underrated. The writers had specific and very basic goals of course, but they were pretty creative in just about everything else. I’m a huge fan of continuity in these kinds of shows, and TMNT had it all over the place.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/21/2004 3:28 PM

The marshmellows in Sponge Bob cereal taste exactly like the marshies in TMNT cereal. It is amazing to eat and right now I am digging through teh box and just easting marshmellows. Mmmmm, TMNT…

Chestnuts roasted by Mindsuckr @ 05/21/2004 3:35 PM

This may not be to do with TMNT Pies, but I have found some British Shrek Crap which I want to tell of.

I was in the supermarket today looking around until I saw some Ribena (the brand). Now this ribena was a special Shrek ribena. No it does not turn green or anything, it is a special prize. It seemed like a joke when I first saw it, but the prize was……….a Donkey.

Yes, folks. They were giving away an real life donkey for adoption. All you had to do was open the lid to see if you have won.

I did not buy it, but when I found it, you guys were the first people I would tell.

Chestnuts roasted by eJm @ 05/21/2004 3:35 PM

I gots the Atari, Activision, and Namco TV Games. Next up from Jakks is Atari Paddle (yay, Night Driver!), a second Namco with Ms. Pac-Man, Capcom, Pinball, and Spider-Man. Unlike those NES clones you can buy at flea markets, all text is in English, and the controller design matches the games. But there’s nothing like firing up my 7800, plugging up a 2600 stick, and playing Yar’s Revenge until my eyes melt. Take that, Qotile!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/21/2004 3:39 PM

King… did the 2600 sticks work on the 7800 system? I’ve read how the 7800 controllers were pieces of crap… Anyways, I’ve got two 2600 systems and about 60 games… the best is definitely Ms PacMan… it makes you wonder… if they could get a very good port of Ms PacMan for the Atari, how the hell did they screw up regular ol’ PacMan so much?

You want grrl power? Look no further than Ms PacMan… even "Ms" screams LIB!… she was my first love…

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 05/21/2004 4:03 PM

Yeah, 2600 sticks work, for 2600 games. Also, if one has lost or brokened their 2600 sticks, a genesis controller works right spiffy. Pac-Man was a story in and of itself in the history of Atari. Basically, they had one of their top programmers on the case, but he was suffering from a case of big-head syndrome and refused to do it without conditions. By the time the biz suits agreed, time was short, and he just threw something together, and it became a big seller and bigger failure in one fell swoop. I own a copy of 2600 Pac-Man and ET, because they are both so horrible. They must never get into the wrong hands!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/21/2004 4:24 PM

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