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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

Really, Nacho? I had always heard that the controllers for the the Atari 5200 were the worst of the Atari systems.

As for the 2600 Pac-Man sucking so much, it had a lot to do with the pressure Atari had to release it, in order to capitalize on the Pac-Man craze. When all the complaints came in, they obviously decided to work a little harder on the port of Ms Pac Man.

Chestnuts roasted by Number5 @ 05/21/2004 4:27 PM

Number5, .. you’re right… it was the 5200… 7600 was the console that was "too little too late" and couldn’t compete with Nintendo… the 5200 controllers were hall effect (is that the correct term?) and the calibration would get f’ed up in no time on those babies…

king… true enough on the ET game… one of the many omens of the video game bust of 83/84… how many millions of the ET cartridges did they pile up, bulldoze over, and bury? (un)fortunately, I have two copies each of both ET and PacMan… though as a kid, I had no idea how terrible they were. And I had no idea about the genesis controllers! too cool… do the genesis controllers work for the 2600 system as well? (Of course, I could always try it when I get home…)

Word… Atari talks are always my favorite…

Ok, to keep it to topic… how about that Frogger? You could hop on the backs of turtles… maybe they were of the mutant ninja variety?

Word.

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 05/21/2004 4:35 PM

Yikes! While searching around for turtle pies I came across this in regards to the flavor in pudding pies—The "vanilla" flavor in the pies probably came from a 42-year-old south Seattle plant that made over three million pounds of vanillin a year. According to the Times, the chemical flavoring was extracted from sulfite-waste liquor from wood pulp, processed with sodium hydroxide. One pound of vanillin was taken from 140 pounds of pulp, used for important drugs as well as flavoring; the remaining pulp was sent on to paper mills. Now, the plant’s closing, replaced by a Sunbelt plant that will make a synthetic substitute — an imitation imitation. Hmmm, that explains alot.

Chestnuts roasted by Blah...blah @ 05/21/2004 4:59 PM

Genesis pads work only for 2600 consoles or 2600 games on the 7800. Mapping is off for 7800 games. I recently bought a buch of carts for my 7800, all 2600 games. Not too many duplicates. Bonus! I now have M*A*S*H and MegaForce! All most people remember from MegaForce is the flying motorcycle. Someday I’ll list my tie-in games. Meanwhile, I’m still hunting down paddle controllers.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/21/2004 5:02 PM

That sh*t is so awasome it almost makes me cry. Ok, not really. But awesome it is.

Chestnuts roasted by Thijs S. @ 05/21/2004 5:14 PM

Thanks king, Now I’m going to have nightmares of hissing, slowly trodding sleestacks. I’ll never know why they were so scary, they are so slow, they could never catch anyone and the arrows they shot only traveled about 3 feet. Did they ever show what the monster that was in the pit that the sleestacks always put the kids into ( yet they always got out ) ?

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 05/21/2004 7:08 PM

Pudding pies must be the one TMNT thing I don’t remember from the 90′s. I was never a Barbie girl, I was always into the Turtles. I must have had nearly every action figure manufactured. And I also remember having a TMNT hamper and even a snazzy red jacket. Anyway, I just can’t remember ever having a pudding pie. Damn. Keep up the search though, Matt! :)

Chestnuts roasted by Mandie J. @ 05/21/2004 7:26 PM

I ate SO many of these things! I’m so glad someone else ate them…

Chestnuts roasted by Lady Yate-xel @ 05/21/2004 9:07 PM

I dont know if any of my british chums have raised this before, but for now, lets forget vanilla pies, and think pizza pies. At the height of turtle mania, here in the UK (it may have been available to my american cousins too, but not that i’ve heard of), some bright spark thought fit to produce official TMNT GREEN Custard and APPLE pizzas. Needless to say they tasted as disgusting as my mothers previous attempt at macaroni custard (british mothers arent cut out for italian pasta as it stands, without introducing non-savoury ingredients). If you could find someone with a surviving example of said pizza i would relish in your description of such a monstrosity. take that as the gauntlet being thrown down. Matt you have the power! find that 15 year old pizza!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by shortround_wsm @ 05/21/2004 9:37 PM

Hey, speaking of TMNT merchandise, did anybody ever play the old TMNT arcade game put out by Konami in the late 80′s? God that was just the best in pure arcade bliss as far as i was concerned. There were very few other arcade experiences like it for me. It’s still one of my all time favorite’s on good old MAME. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Number5 @ 05/21/2004 9:37 PM

Ugh. I remember being thoroughly repulsed by these things so much that I never begged my grandmother to buy me another one again. The thing is, she bought like 3 or 4 of them, then after the first one sucked so bad, the others kind of sat around for a while until she yelled at me to eat them. I became suspicious of any food-related TMNT product from that day forward…as if the cereal wasn’t bad enough…

Chestnuts roasted by wang_dangler @ 05/21/2004 9:51 PM

I REMEMBER THOSE THINGS!!! Those things tasted great. Awww…I miss them.

Chestnuts roasted by Joshua @ 05/21/2004 10:16 PM

They are putting out a new Tutles game on the consoles in the next 6 months, it will have both original arcade games on it! Matt bless you for acknowledging the pies, I would kill to get may hands on some. Seriously I ate like 3 or 4 one afternoon in like a 3 hour period. I was addicted to them. The real question was how long was there run? It couldn’t have been all that long. I think like half a year at most.

Chestnuts roasted by jerry @ 05/21/2004 10:36 PM

jerry…are you serious!? BOTH of the original Arcade games, TMNT and Turtles in time??? You’ve got this avid retro-gamer drooling over his keyboard now. That would be so awesome!

Chestnuts roasted by Number5 @ 05/21/2004 10:41 PM

dude, I totally macked these things. I don’t believe that hostess still makes the pudding pies, not sure why…I mean all the supermarkets have thier crappy versions.

Chestnuts roasted by jason @ 05/21/2004 11:08 PM

My GOD I loved those things, I wish they still made them, suprised they don’t, they could’ve just attached the color to a new cultural icon, like for the Hulk movie or something. Damn Hostess bastards, I want "Gamma-Radiated!" pudding pies!

Chestnuts roasted by Black Zarak @ 05/21/2004 11:27 PM

Yeah, you’ve got a point. I’m surprised they haven’t brought back these green pies as yet another promotion for Shrek 2. They’ve plastered that movie on every other frickin item at the grocery store.

Chestnuts roasted by Number5 @ 05/21/2004 11:34 PM

I will say, however: I saw Shrek 2 tonight, and IMO, it lives up to the hype. Great movie, full of great laughs.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron @ 05/22/2004 12:13 PM

Ditto Cameron on the coolness of Shrek 2, and to those who are questing for Pepsi Blue: May I join you on your quest? We’re probably the only four people in the world who liked that stuff, but oh well.

Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 05/22/2004 1:53 AM

Check out the ORIGINAL TMNT on dvd now. The original 5 part mini plus 4 other eps now on dvd! Pretty sweet! Hope they make more!

Chestnuts roasted by faroniousd @ 05/22/2004 2:24 AM

So is that guy going to sell you a pie Matt? I hope so, and if you do get one, I hope you write us up a fresh article with tons of pics. Where is Nathan Bitner?

Chestnuts roasted by wack0 @ 05/22/2004 3:02 AM

Matt, please consider adding the Photog blog and Wack0′s info/petition site to the main page’s explorer bar (or what ever the proper name is for that thing that links your site sections to the main page).
http://x-entertainment.com/updates/entries/archives/00000153.html
http://savephotog.tk

Chestnuts roasted by microfiche @ 05/22/2004 4:05 AM

With this new Teenage Mutant "Ninja" Turtles fad comming out it’s hard to find any TMHT memorabilia. You have to wade through 90% of the crap on e-bay to actually find any stuff from the original series.

Chestnuts roasted by ThomYorke @ 05/22/2004 7:15 AM

I used to eat those things all the time, and i can still remember the taste (pretty good). Also i think i may still have a few of those trading cards….i used to have literally hundreds of them.

Chestnuts roasted by icp_maniak @ 05/22/2004 8:17 AM

jeez, dude. thos pies were so disgusting, yet somehow so wonderfull. man…

Chestnuts roasted by kyle @ 05/22/2004 9:58 AM

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