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TMNT: Snacks From The Sewer! (And snow.)

New Article Alert! I've been on a Ninja Turtles kick ever since finding that weird "Movie Action" figure/DVD set as seen in a previous entry, so it was time to go find my empty bag of TMNT Crunchabungas and a big pile of other junk for a huge tribute to Ninja Turtles food products, covering everything from gum-eyed popsicles to Royal Ooze gelatin. The incredible thing is that I still have enough stuff leftover to do a Part 2, but in the interest of variety, that won't happen until 2015. And I just might be dead by then. Article includes a short recipe section detailing how you can make and drink your own retromutagen. It's what you've all been waiting for.

We had one hell of a snowstorm last night, and it looks like it's still coming down a bit. Over a foot here and closer to sixteen inches in many places nearby. Gonna be fun commuting in tomorrow. On the upside, two kids knocked on the door offering to dig my car out for 20 bucks, and though that's on the high side of snow shoveling rates, I just couldn't stomach the idea that Sunday night would be spent cursing God for giving clouds a mean streak. Paid 'em, and though they of course left just enough to make me still have to go out there and finish up at some point today, at least I won't feel like the Chinese inmate those filthy Klingons made an example of in Star Trek VI.

Posted by Matt on 02/12/2006. E-mail me!



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Ninja Turtles stuff is always a sure-fire winner, Matt.

First!

Chestnuts roasted by hiyo @ 02/12/2006 5:04 PM

Damn I loved those pies. Wasn’t there a chocolate?

Chestnuts roasted by Kidd Video @ 02/12/2006 5:12 PM

I’m playing with my Foot Soldiers right now. Yay Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 02/12/2006 5:18 PM

Some extreme weather there Matt. Wish we had real snow where I live. All we get is hard thick frost. sniff….

Chestnuts roasted by Pete @ 02/12/2006 5:18 PM

Here’s a TMNT related question. My friend claims that in the TMNT game, he didn’t specify which one; there was a villain with a shell. I have no idea what the hell he is talking about. Anyone out there know?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 02/12/2006 5:34 PM

Villains with a shell? Tokka? Slash?

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/12/2006 5:36 PM

Snow seems like fun sometimes but I’m grateful for my sunshiney days.
I spent many summer afternoons with the gum eyed turtles…yummy.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/12/2006 5:44 PM

Thanks Matt. You guys ever notice the little white dots all over the Movie Star Foot Soldier? I don’t know why but those dots have always bothered me.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 02/12/2006 5:51 PM

Matt- Both links under the Delicious Ninja Turtles Cookies don’t work.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 02/12/2006 6:35 PM

I dug out my own car. :(

On the upside, the mall I work in was closed. Work snow day woo!

Chestnuts roasted by Denise @ 02/12/2006 6:47 PM

Thanks Matt. I didn’t know how badly I needed to see those fruit snack packages again until I scrolled down to them…

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 02/12/2006 7:00 PM

We didn’t have snow until sometime in the middle of the night here. I live @ the Jersey shore, and we had rain long into the middle of the night–I woke up at six am to check the weather, and lo and behold, SNOW (don’t worry, I went back to bed right away). I’m not a fan of snow. I’d say we had around 6-9 inches–my boyfriend lives in West Jersey, out near Philly, and his dad said this morning that they had 9 inches–and counting.

Needless to say, it was bad, but it cleaned up nicely–my brother, dad, and boyfriend shoveled up today, and my brother did somersaults over the snow covered plants that line out driveway. My boyfriend took pictures. Our driveway is nice and clean, though slightly wet, and my street (a dead-end sideroad) is plowed.

How did you guys do, in terms of snow.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 02/12/2006 7:02 PM

I am so bummed–no SNL this weekend. I hate the winter Olympics! Sure, its ok during the summer, but no SNL makes me extremely depressed. Oh well. Seeing my boyfriend and SNL are the highlights of my week.

I was forced to watch CBS-3 Eyewitness News in lieu of SNL (the news was on later b/c of a movie). Nothing beats Weekend Update.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 02/12/2006 7:08 PM

Stellar article as always! I was never too found of the the Farley fruit snacks, no matter what shape they took. Since you mentioned the possibility of a second article, I can’t help but wonder if you had a hand in the sudden disappearance of a good 20 food products that I know were listed on a certain http://myteefinestuff.com/">TMNT Store no 24 hours ago. ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 02/12/2006 7:08 PM

Darth Poop: In Turtles in Time, you had to fight Tokka and Metalhead, both of whom have shells. That’s about all I can recall.

I wonder if I still have my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles album laying around. I have a MIGHTY NEED to listen to "Pizza Power." And "No Treaty After the War," which always choked me up for reasons I could not quite define, so I couldn’t listen to it when my friends were around. That was the first album I ever purchased.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 02/12/2006 7:17 PM

I just was looking at the article again, and I saw the pic of those little cookies. Oh my god, I used to LOVE those cookies!! My mom got them in a large plastic ninja turtle shaped container that doubled as a bank once the cookies were done. My mom just refilled the container every time is was empty. Yeah, now that’s what it is like to be a kid.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 02/12/2006 7:19 PM

Oh and LOL at the new main site title.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 02/12/2006 7:26 PM

I do always enjoy these green-themed walks down memory lane.

Again, Matt, you have succeeded in reminding me of something I didn’t even know I missed–the Crunchabungas, a word which I resolve to use in conversation from now on whenever possible. Like Cheetos Paws, I now have a hopeless desire to taste a cheesy snack food from times past. Unlike Paws, there is no taste equivalent to suffice.

Also, the Turtles macaroni & cheese was a fave, and while I remembered that, I forgot about the letter system. I didn’t think about it too much at the time, but you’re right, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

And though I remember your earlier article, I STILL crave Turtles Pies (I actually did like the taste). With my greater capacity for food at this age, I bet I could eat 10 in one day. I’d throw up, but I could still force them down.

Chestnuts roasted by Frostor @ 02/12/2006 7:30 PM

TMNT Cookies!!! Wow, I forgot those even existed. My best friend and I devored those things back in the day.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 02/12/2006 7:33 PM

Out of curiosity, about how much is "a bunch" of cornstartch?

Chestnuts roasted by JDavis @ 02/12/2006 7:35 PM

I think that somebody is planning to make some ooze.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 02/12/2006 7:48 PM

We got 12 inches here, and for the first time since I moved two weeks ago, I was actually happy the Acme’s gotten my transfer so screwed up. I wouldn’t have been able to ride to work today anyway. I don’t think it rained at all. It started flurrying yesterday afternoon around quarter of 2. The flurries stopped…but then, sometime between 2 and 4 (I was in a mall at that point, so I don’t know when), it started snowing big, fat flakes…and sticking to the ground, though not the streets. It didn’t stick to the streets until late last night.

Like Matt, I was kind of old for TMNT by the time they debuted in the late 80s. I loved the cartoons and went to see the first movie three times in the theater (the first movie I ever saw in the theater more than once) but never had any of the toys. Most of the food either never made it to South Jersey or it just wasn’t something my mom would buy. I do remember having the fruit snacks a lot (I saw boxes of the TMNT Farley’s fruit snacks in disreputable dollar stores well into the 90s), and I have vague memories of the cookies and the pies. We may have had the cereal, too, though I don’t remember eating any myself unless I felt like picking out the marshmallows. I HATE cereal with marshmallows.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 02/12/2006 9:14 PM

1) Loved the article – I love how your writing can be nostalgic and funny while bringing up some really intersting ideas about why we all get nostalgic about something as silly as TMNT.
2) Wait… Splinter was a human at first and turned into a rat after the ooze hit? I’m so ashamed – maybe I’m getting rusty on my Turtles lore.
3) I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – that TMNT cereal was awesome. You’re right – you wouldn’t think that Chex and marshmellows would go well together, but as a wise philosopher once said, "opposites attract".
D) Anyone listen to this week’s Ricky Gervais podcast yet? Comedy gold.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 02/12/2006 9:44 PM

(By the way, now that the pointsettias have been replaced by little crustaceans, maybe you should replace "Chestnuts roasted by" with "[insert name here] was a rock lobster!").

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 02/12/2006 10:00 PM

I like TMNT excessively. I think that those it was motive force of the present culture which we possess. But as for me you did not understand concept of turtle. I that am between turtle personal, it presumes that that is magnitude

Chestnuts roasted by YanChau @ 02/12/2006 10:15 PM

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