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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Popsicles!

It was all so sudden, I barely had time to react. Walking quickly back to work after a break, spotted was the mysterious truck. The closer I got, the clearer the form of a Ninja Turtle head became. Soon it was for certain: either the truck had TMNT ice pops, or they hadn't changed their window stickers for over a decade. Both were plausible, but only one would afford me the natural high necessary to lift a house over my head and make it sing about being a house that can fly.

We've seen the Super Mario ice pops before, but what of the Turtles? The gentleman running the truck, a bit annoyed by my picture taking but not enough to skip doing business with me, grunted a bare "yes" when asked if they had any Turtle Pops. Two dollars and a requited stare of hatred later, and thar be a cherry-flavored melting Ninja Turtles in my hand.

The wrapper marked it as part of the neoclassic TMNT line; it's not a stale throwback to the original run. But! There were TMNT ice pops nearly if not perfectly identical to these several years back. Even if you hate all the new Turtle shit, you've gotta appreciate it's power to bring back the lost pop. The eyes are gumballs, and in that we've developed the perfect way to determine if someone's really a true NInja Turtle fan:

If they refuse to eat the gumball eyes until the entire cherry ice pop is finished out of misfired loyalty toward their heroes, they're true Ninja Turtle fans.

If they eat the gum long before, then they like gum better than Ninja Turtles.

Science. Personally, standing for even two minutes in public taking pictures of a Ninja Turtle ice pop seemed far worse than being branded an untrue fan, so I offered it to the gods. Others offered them used cigarettes. I think I scored a brownie point today.

Posted by Matt on 08/09/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 54 comments

By gum! I’d forgotten ’bout them there ice-creams. Although to fit the new manga stylings of the toitles that smiled should be turned upside down into a frown. The new breed don’t seem all that cheerful. Must’ve been Raph’s constant sarcasm wearing them down over the years…

Chestnuts roasted by Cliche-Man @ 08/09/2004 9:34 PM

Look tasty – most likely better than the turtles I ate in the past.

Chestnuts roasted by Garp @ 08/09/2004 9:35 PM

An ice cream guy driving around my block had WWF ice cream bars. the WWF has been WWE for several years now. So I bought one. The undertaker, not bad except it was the old school "dead man" charecter from the mid 90′s. So I ate it. Then I felt like the dead man. If a child with a weaker immune system were to eat this, they would be meeting the undertaker personally. ice cream guys are evil.

Chestnuts roasted by naturekid @ 08/09/2004 9:43 PM

Wow. Just realized I haven’t seen an ice cream truck in a couple years. They don’t come around my neighborhood. I was always a screwball guy, myself.

PS-Target had two Unicron figures on sale for, get this, $13.98 ea!!! Now I have my own little planet-eating planet.

Chestnuts roasted by jokun @ 08/09/2004 9:51 PM

I always loved to eat the eyeballs first to blind my turtle, and make my teeth blue. WOW nice to know they are still around somewhere.

Chestnuts roasted by rimmie @ 08/09/2004 10:02 PM

Wait a second, how long has that new logo been up? Bumblebee’s faceless metal head no longer stares eyelessly at us…

Chestnuts roasted by G'Tron @ 08/09/2004 10:20 PM

About a day. It’s kinda temporary. Just wanted to look at something different for a while. And the new X-E logo was literally made from this past Sunday’s newspaper.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/09/2004 10:22 PM

Matt, I’ll never understand why you always throw away perfectly good food instead of eating it!

Chestnuts roasted by KMC @ 08/09/2004 10:25 PM

can’t say i have ever eaten a turtle ice cream thingee. it doesn’t really look too appealing as i don’t find flourecent green ice cream very tempting. Over the weekend i visited my friend and we watched the 3 part "headmasters" episodes from the 3rd season of transformers. I really wanted to vomit…its funny how alot of shows i thought were sweet as a kid just suck now. A prime example would be thundercats. If it isn’t the extremely horrible voice acting that gets me its the horrible animation. I don’t know, maybe I have become a bitter old man in a 23 year old body. blah blah blah….

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 08/09/2004 10:27 PM

Man, I haven’t had ice-cream from an ice-cream truck in YEARS….And only rarely before that. I surprised that they still have that Mario ice-cream bar; that’s the only one I remember eating.

BTW, Matt, how hot is it there? I know that here in Texas, that Ninja Turtle bar wouldn’t have lasted half a second–much less long enough to take pictures of it…

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 08/09/2004 10:28 PM

So, you’ll eat stale candy that been stored in giant Slimer heads for ten years, cereal promoting the first Batman movie, and expired Jurrasic Park cookies, but you won’t eat a simple TMNT pop?

Matt, for shame. ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 08/09/2004 10:46 PM

There wasn’t time. It was either that or a cigarette.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/09/2004 10:47 PM

man, I loved those wwf bars

Chestnuts roasted by E @ 08/09/2004 10:48 PM

I’ve heard that ice cream men in the neighborhood sell drugs from the truck.

I myself have always prefered the Loony Tunes push-up pops.

Chestnuts roasted by Jimmy Putty @ 08/09/2004 10:49 PM

God I love this site. Don’t ever quit.

Chestnuts roasted by Shredder @ 08/09/2004 11:21 PM

WHAT? You didn’t even take a bite!

I remember those. I didn’t remember the pudding things, but I remember those.

Chestnuts roasted by Piscez @ 08/09/2004 11:55 PM

Hm…we have an ice cream man around town. His cart is bike-drivin and he never really stops. So maybe it’s just his means of transport.

Chestnuts roasted by Walks @ 08/10/2004 1:35 AM

Yes! Special Brownies! hehe ho ho hoo hoo hoo ha ha ha.

Chestnuts roasted by fdssdfdsf @ 08/10/2004 4:13 AM

The ice cream truck that goes through my neighborhood has had TMNT pops every summer for 10 years.

Chestnuts roasted by Gunder Wing @ 08/10/2004 7:22 AM

Is that supposed to be Michelangelo?

Chestnuts roasted by Blah...blah @ 08/10/2004 9:30 AM

I live in the uk where ninja’s were once banned and replaced by heros. I would have gladly eaten a turtle ice cream, so in future post them to me at the usual address.

Chestnuts roasted by gaz @ 08/10/2004 9:39 AM

Matt, does that mean you like cigarettes more than TMNT?

:o

Chestnuts roasted by Snot Man @ 08/10/2004 9:54 AM

I’ve only ever had one Ninja Turtle bar like that….ONE. But I remember it….oh yes, how could I forget? It was AWESOME.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 08/10/2004 10:54 AM

Now, if you had found a ice-cream man selling Pac-Man pops, imagine what passers-by would have thought then.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/10/2004 11:40 AM

An ice cream truck showed up unexpectly in my neighborhood about a month ago. No novelties though, just the simple ice cream/rocket pops. Hasn’t been here since.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 08/10/2004 12:28 PM

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