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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!



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Chia Pies?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/22/2004 11:20 AM

What is Blue Raspberry soda?

We Australians know nothing of blue raspberry brand soda

Chestnuts roasted by Troy @ 05/22/2004 1:19 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 05/22/2004 1:32 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/22/2004 2:47 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by djmfnk @ 05/22/2004 3:40 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 05/22/2004 4:15 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Greg @ 05/22/2004 6:04 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Piscez @ 05/22/2004 6:09 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Bait Masterson @ 05/22/2004 6:18 PM

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!!!

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 05/22/2004 6:32 PM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by Garner @ 05/22/2004 6:32 PM

Heh heh, turtle "pie"

Chestnuts roasted by SuperStar @ 05/22/2004 10:22 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by billionsknivez @ 05/23/2004 1:37 AM

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

But nice article. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Starflyer @ 05/23/2004 1:42 AM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by Phil A @ 05/23/2004 1:33 PM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 05/23/2004 1:51 PM

I know about a bottle of pepsi blue

Chestnuts roasted by ha0000 @ 05/23/2004 2:10 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 05/23/2004 5:05 PM

Spam…BOO!

Chestnuts roasted by Garner @ 05/23/2004 5:28 PM

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.

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

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.

Chestnuts roasted by SuperCalo666 @ 05/23/2004 7:13 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 05/23/2004 8:15 PM

This article rings true in my heart.

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

Chestnuts roasted by boneyjellyfish @ 05/23/2004 9:04 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Startrekman @ 05/23/2004 9:10 PM

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